The problem with Islam is just "a few nuts?"
Must be blissful in Denialtown.
Philippines, Indonesia, Timor, India, Chechnya, Israel, Sudan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Nigeria, Algeria, I could go on and on and on.
What is the common denominator? Adherents of a religion, which when taken seriously, leads to bombing and slaughtering women and children in the name of their death-loving god.
Sure, smoking and drinking "slacker" Muslims like most Turks today can be rational, but when they start to REALLY study their Koran: watch out! The car bombs will follow like mushrooms follow rain.
Anyway, what kind of sick twisted "religion" promises an eternal orgy in paradise with 72 virgins, and rivers of wine, as a reward for blowing up infidel women and children?
Find me five mullahs who condemn terror for Allah, and I will find you 50 who demand it.
>> Sure, smoking and drinking "slacker" Muslims like most Turks today can be rational
Why not.. That's what made you so rational, after all, and soon we'll be offering our tube steaks to each other's sisters and become fully civilized just like you..
LOL!
The problem with Islam is simple. There's no good leadership. There are a few bad leaders like those in Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi, or Libya. It's the effect of a vacuum left by the abolished Caliphate in post WW1.
You're a sucker for believing this version of events as told by these anti-Turk bastards. The Turks liberated Izmir after 3 years of occupation by a massacering Greek military. That's not invasion, that's liberation. There's a lot there you don't know about. Superflu lists a few things in a few posts above.
Musa dagh (Moses Mountain in Turkish) was Turkish territory. Think about Waco and what happened there on a much smaller scale. The davidians hadn't even murdered any non-Davidians like the Armenians did to all non Armenians on Musa Dagh and surrounding towns and villages. Were the women and children in either place to blame? but they suffered for it anyway.
The Greeks and Armenians of the day used the British, the Russians and the French to further their causes. They themselves were too weak. They're still doing it. Go ahead, be their sucker. They won't succeed regardless. But it will add another broken feather to your cap.