'Turks killing fellow Muslims. What could be worse?'

The Independent (U.K.) ^ | 11/22/03 | Peter Popham

[Nick Thimmesch]

'Turks killing fellow Muslims. What could be worse?'

Nonsense: what could be better...enough said.

[LibKill]

I work with some Turks.

They want the guilty perps punished.

They are a little 'wobbly' on execution, but from what I have read, life imprisonment in a Turkish prison is no picnic.

The Turks called the bombers "monsters". I'm not sure how much that means in turkish, but it was not a statement of support.

The Turks I work with are total computer geeks, they can make any computer sit up and beg. They ain't stupid.

By the way, every last one of them came to me on 09/11/01 and told me how wrong it was. One of them (the Kurdish Turk) asked me if I was to be alright. I was leaking big tears at that time.

My reply; "Not now, but I will be alright later."

[Pedantic_Lady]

This is a British man injured in the blast; he was queueing outside the Embassy with his Turkish fiancee, who was found alive in the rubble today with severe head and chest injuries.

Horrifying.

[Cacophonous]

It's not really new. The Turks and Arabs - in spite of both being Muslim, to some degree or another - have neither liked either.

[Maceman]

'Turks killing fellow Muslims. What could be worse?'

Uh . . . Muslims killing Americans?

[livius]

Terrible. I noticed several pictures of women (who appeared to my eye to be Turkish) being lifted out of the rubble. They were dressed just like any modern young office worker anywhere, no chadors, burqas or whatever. I suppose this makes the neighboring Mad Mullahs see red.

[Pedantic_Lady]

Terrible. I noticed several pictures of women (who appeared to my eye to be Turkish) being lifted out of the rubble. They were dressed just like any modern young office worker anywhere, no chadors, burqas or whatever. I suppose this makes the neighboring Mad Mullahs see red.

Islamic dress is positively discouraged in Turkey, I'm told. I've heard that it's banned in schools.

[LibKill]

The Turks that I work with are now in a serious state of contradiction.

I hope they come out of it on the side of right.

[rabidralph]

'Turks killing fellow Muslims. What could be worse?'

It could be raining.

[Post Toasties]

'Turks killing fellow Muslims. What could be worse?'

Credit must go to the organized secular nature of Turkish society that more of this hasn't occurred in the past. For very many Muslims of certain types, Sharia, for example, is quintessentially both Islamic and bloody.

[Arpege92]

These terrorists are beginning to become very un-popular...perhaps that will work to our benifit. If they are killing Arabs and Muslims, then the support they had from these groups has turned into anger and revenge.

[mathurine]

Not to would be a bit worse; not to kill every fellow mohammedan who is a terrorist would be much worse.

[tubavil]

Horrifying.

Yes, to you and me. To muslims, this is a victory for which allah should be praised.

ramadan 2003.

[sheik yerbouty]

Eid la mubarak ibn swharmuta.

[TJFLSTRAT]

"And we will turn them, one against the other"; George Bush, post 9-11 address.

[SevenDaysInMay]

The Koran commands devout muslims to kill peaceful muslims even before the "spawn of pigs and monkeys" and other infedels. Such is their holy scripture.

[mel]

do muslims like anyone

[Travis McGee]

Ping.

[oyez]

The al- Qa'ida dosn't give a damn about public relations. They want to be feared by one and all. I'd also also think that fear is an element of ther recruitment. "Join us and you won't get bombed, unless you're the trigger man."