Posted on 09/15/2011 6:18:09 AM PDT by bayouranger
“Europe will have to put up with the arrival of more immigrants and accept diversity.” This is the message of Turkish President Abdullah Gul. Speaking to the Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum, Gul also expressed concern at the rise of anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe, and suggested that more needed to be done to combat it. Turkey has a long history of institutionalized discrimination of minorities, although this is a sensitive subject. President Gul himself “ reacted angrily” in 2009 when institutional discrimination in Turkey was exposed.
According to the Huffington Post, the Turkish Government had “carried out a deliberate policy of harassment and intimidation to force thousands of Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and Jews to abandon their homes and businesses and relocate overseas.”
Russia Today is reporting that Gul told the Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum, ”it requires greater effort to treat and overcome recurring ailments such as racism and xenophobia in the West than address the problems in the East, which are mostly due to underdevelopment.”
The Turkish President believes that, in the West, “the threshold of tolerance should be continually raised.”
Although most analysts believe that Turkey has drifted toward Islamism and away from Western-style liberal democracy, Gul says that his country is developing multiculturalism. He says “The task of the state is to secure for all its citizens, regardless of religion, language and race, equal constitutional rights and…equal opportunities.”
Approximately 1.5 million out of 2.5 million Armenians were murdered in a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing in Turkey, mostly between 1915 and 1916. The current Turkish Government denies that it committed genocide against the Armenians.
The Turks, who brought modern genocide to the world with the slaughter of millions of Armenians and Greeks, lectures Europe on tolerance.
Hitler and Attaturk must be laughing in hell.
And exactly why does Europe have to accept any pre-determined amount of immigration?
It almost sounds like the beginning of the argument that Europe must accept the Jews who will supposedly be expelled from Israel.
I think that is what he’s driving at.
Ask the Kurds how this works in Turkey.
Riiiiight.
Says who????
S. Central, S. Eastern Europe and Asia Minor is to western Europe as Mexico is to the United States.
They will not be nearly as generous to indiginous populations as the western imperialists of the past.
And unfortunately, there will probably be no shortage of guilt-ridden, self-loathing Eurocrats who will accommodate this Islamic bigot. The European people better find a way to get control of their governments or they won't have much of a future.
Fixed it to match actual intent.
You’re on to something there. Thats probably one of their goals.
We better prepare ourselves in this country for that possibility.
I’m not saying it will happen. I realize it seems like a remote possibility at this point. But in a worst case scenario, it could happen.
yep, tell him to go pound on a camel, to hell with Islam..
Yup!!
How can we negotiate with people who’s religion tells them to lie, cheat and murder infidels? The “religious leaders” of these countries are not interested in negotiating, they are interested in dominance. We can no longer be push-overs. If strength is what they understand, strength is what is needed to get results. period.
Oklahoma (and I believe some other states) HAVE been trying to prepare against Islamic encroachment by passing not only legislation, but actual state constitutional amendments barring the use of Sharia Law in our court system.
The hand wringers have been fighting the People’s intention and decision at every turn, and it is still an ongoing court battle.
Not to mention the Armenians. This kind of thing is Alinsky-ism on the national scale. The Islamists wave the word "diversity" at Europe like a talisman, demanding that the Europeans live up to their ideals. Meanwhile in the lands they control the Islamists tolerate no diversity at all.
I didn’t know that Islam celebrated diversity. So we can build a nice big Catholic Church in Mecca now right?/sarc
Actually what he means is that Western Civilization must accept its demise.
Turkey out of NATO.
Constantinople out of Turkey.
Muslims out of Constantinople.
Events are moving so quickly that it will be interesting to see if you complete this next book in time for it to still be speculative fiction, or an historical chronicle... /g
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