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To: Gritty
Are other religions actively persecuted or restricted in Turkey? If so, I'm not aware of it.

However, Turkey seems to be the main exception. Algeria might also qualify, although I'm not sure. It is notable, though, that in both countries the Islamic religious parties won control through elections in the past few years and the army immediately stepped in with a military coup to oust them.

There's something about Islam that wants to create a theocracy instead of a democracy, and that would be reason enough for us to oppose it. However, it gets worse, since they seem to want to create theocracies that would like to kill us.

74 posted on 08/22/2002 2:33:39 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
Although Turkey is considered rather secular and enlightened and religious freedom is "guaranteed" by their Constitution, practice does not follow always follow form.

Turkey is rated as A-3 by the group, International Christian Concern.

A = Government sanctioned

Severity of Persecution against Christians:

3 = Numerous violations that include fines, discrimination in education, employment or the electorate process, insufficient legal representation, and restrictions on places of worship.

If you need more information on Turkish persecution, just dial up turkey+christian+persecution on Google and you'll get over 20,000 hits.

And just think,... Turkey is the best of them!

Don't you remember that hillarious line from the movie "Airplane" when the trolling airline captain asked the innocent little boy (after he asked him if he liked to hang around men's locker rooms), "Peter, have you ever wanted to visit a Turkish Prison?"?

75 posted on 08/22/2002 3:07:47 PM PDT by Gritty
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