All I know is this: Went to Turkey this summer - sat and spoke w/ a Turkish diplomat that was working on behalf of Turkey to try and get them into the EU - Turkey has almost given up hope of joining the EU and this guy told me they are upset and feel discrimated against - he feels the US is more accepting and integrated - I think they are really offended and POed. Right, Wrong or Indifferent - it is what it is and there are two sides to every story - the EU has apparently told them that they need to modernize their views in regards to Women etc. - The diplomat does not think it would matter - it’s because Turkey is over 95% Muslim.
It goes beyond being 95% Muslim. Turkey is still a third world country and membership in the EU would open the floodgates into Europe of Turkish labor. Under the Maastricht Treaty and other EU treaties, there is the free flow of labor within the EU.
Muslims are so easily offended. The men kill their wives and daughters over some perverted sense of honor. They feel a duty to kill all who don't believe as they do, or at least make them subservient to them. They don't seek to become part of the modern civilized world. They are determined to drag the world back to the seventh century.