[ari-freedom]

why should we be so shocked that a muslim people will elect an islamic government? Just because it has a democracy doesn’t mean it can magically turns an islamic culture into a Western culture. It is their religious duty as muslims to form a government based on sharia law.

[amchugh]

This kind of ignores the betrayal Turkey felt when we initiated a war with Iraq, and the fear they felt that an independent Kurdistan would result. Turkey’s “betrayal” of the US was nothing more than self-interest at that point, and entirely predictable given the politics of the region.

I am saddened however at the downward slide to theocracy. The world owes a lot to Ataturk for creating Turkey as a secular state, and I wish it could last a little longer.

[Paladin2]

Required reading for ‘rats.

[Taichi]

Islamic thought destroys any and all moderb thought. Islam as it is constituted today can only exist in a medievil world.
Sadly, Turkey is finished.

[Taichi]

Islamic thought destroys any and all moderb thought. Islam as it is constituted today can only exist in a medievil world.
Sadly, Turkey is finished.

[Taichi]

Islamic thought destroys any and all moderb thought. Islam as it is constituted today can only exist in a medievil world.
Sadly, Turkey is finished.

[Taichi]

Islamic thought destroys any and all moderb thought. Islam as it is constituted today can only exist in a medievil world.
Sadly, Turkey is finished.