Posted on 04/30/2018 1:32:53 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Given Turkey's inhospitable treatment of non-Muslims throughout the ages, it is the height of hypocrisy for its foreign minister to complain about Europe's attitude towards Muslims, which has been the opposite of Islamophobic.
To refresh Çavuşoğlu's memory, a review of Turkey's record is in order.
By proposing to block all criticism of Islam on the grounds that it is "extremist, anti-immigrant, xenophobic and Islamophobic," Çavuşoğlu is revealing that he would welcome banning free speech to protect a religious ideology.
At an event held in on April 11 to unveil the 2017 European Islamophobia Report -- released by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research -- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu called on EU governments to criminalize Islamophobia.
"There is no ideology or terminology called 'Islamism'; There is only one Islam and it means 'peace,'" he declared -- incorrectly: salaam means peace; Islam means submission. He also claimed that populist politicians are "increasingly engaging in extremist, anti-immigrant, xenophobic, and Islamophobic rhetoric to get a few more votes," and that "centrist politicians are... using a similar rhetoric to get back the votes they have lost."
Urging all politicians to recognize Islamophobia as "a hate crime and a form of racism" in their constitutions, Çavuşoğlu accused European judiciaries of applying a double standard by not paying as much attention to Islamophobia as they do to anti-Semitism. Using the Holocaust as an analogy, he continued: "There is no need to relive Auschwitz or wait for Muslims to be burned in gas chambers like Jewish people." ...
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This is not about freedom of speech, it is about freedom in general.
Battle lines?
Truth vs Lies
Good vs Evil
Daylight vs Darkness
Kindness vs Cruelty
Freedom vs Slavery
Life vs Death
And if criticism of the evil the Islamists preach is made a crime, they will enslave the entire free world.
Islam does not mean "peace", Islam means "subjection". Nothing Erdogan the Islamist says changes that.
Criminalize Islam.
Filthy low life mussie scum alert
Why not just say it , make Islam the law of The Land
Tuck Furkey!
Criticism of Islam is already illegal in Western Europe.
Is Merkel really this foolish and arrogant? Does she really think a Western country can survive if its Muslim population doesn’t have to follow established Christian and Western standards?
Europe to Criminalize “Islam”
The right thing to do…
…There fixed it
It does not mean peace. Islam means submission. Only when you have submitted will you know peace. And, it will be the peace of slavery. I am not phonic, which is an irrational fear. They say they will kill us if we don’t submit. My frears are based on their statements.
Torah is very concerned for the “stranger”, as the Jews were strangers in Egypt. In the quran, this concept applies applies only between muslims, as one cannot ultimately be kind to the non-muslim the quran has ordered its followers to slaughter.
The country that wants Islamophobia criminalized also will not acknowledge the Armenian aka Christian, Genocide.
Cue up the massacre of Turks in “Lawrence of Arabia”, starting with “No prisoners!! No prisoners!!!”
Kemal Ataturk’s West-leaning secular state is finished. And Erdogan is the new Sultan.
Ask the Germans if Turks make good neighbors.
Criminalize Erdogan and Islam. Problem of 1400 years and a bad leader solved in one fell swoop.
Turkey is a danger to Europe.
Don’t count on the Turks criminalizing criticism of Christianity or any other religion competing with Islam.
And soon!
Only after Islamic countries stop Persecution and Murder of Christians and Jews.
Oh NO, that is not going to happen. But they want to use Western Rule of Law to impose Islam on all of the Free Nations.
Taqiyya (deception & lies)
We are still very much armed. I do not fear them. Nor do my neighbors.
It will remain so.
Yes, it is understood in the ME.
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