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2003-04-11 Europe

Happy is the one who calls himself a Kurd

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Posted by ----------<<<<-- 2003-04-11 09:26 am|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 C'mon, Murat, here's a fat, juicy one for you. Let's hear it!

Posted by Dar 2003-04-11 09:51:32|| 2003-04-11 09:51:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah. Hey Murat! Oi, Murat! C'mover here, we want a comment please....

Posted by Bulldog 2003-04-11 09:58:16|| 2003-04-11 09:58:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Amazing. He says he is happy to be a Kurd. As far as I can tell, he didn't denigrate Turks by that innocuous statement. The teacher turns around, calls him an ingrate like so many other Kurds (ethnic slur), and the KID gets five years?
Ok, Murat, explain this, please....he didn't call for revolution, didn't say he loves the PKK, all he did was change a word.

Posted by Former Russian Major 2003-04-11 11:25:22|| 2003-04-11 11:25:22|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd say Kurdistan(TM) has a new poster boy...

Hey kid, want to be famous?

Posted by -----------<<<<- 2003-04-11 11:58:53|| 2003-04-11 11:58:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Jim Crow's still alive in Turkey.I think Bush should now support the resolution in Congress acknowledging The Armenian Genocide.Clinton blocked it in 2000 so as not to annoy an important ally.Since Turkey isn't one anymore,why not go ahead?

Posted by El Id 2003-04-11 13:01:16|| 2003-04-11 13:01:16|| Front Page Top

Bayram now stands accused of "inciting hatred and enmity on the basis of religion, race, language or regional differences,"

Hey!
Only American lawmakers are allowed to ratify oppressive hate speech laws.
I'm suing!

Posted by Celissa 2003-04-11 15:39:58|| [www.celissasblog.com/weblog.php] 2003-04-11 15:39:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I am surprised by these posts regarding someone refusing to say the Turkish pledge. Suppose someone had tried the same stunt in the US. I know there wouldn't be penal time involved but wouldn't you be upset? The Turks have spent the past ten years dealing with a communist led Kurd insurgency. While I also like the Kurds, I'll have no truck with communists. If the US were dealing with the same sort insurgency would you still condemn the Turks?

Posted by TJ Jackson 2003-04-12 00:06:45|| 2003-04-12 00:06:45|| Front Page Top

#8 We can all sympathize with the plight of the Kurds. Certainly more than the Palestinians. But they are not pure and angel-like either. There has been Kurdish terrorism too, although less recently. But I don't like the idea of balkanizing Mesopatamia and central Asia. Giving the Kurds cultural freedom and political integration into Turkey, Iraq and Iran is much more preferable. Nobody wins if the world is constantly breaking down into little Ethnic-a-stans. It's a recepie for un-ending war.

Posted by Tokyo Taro 2003-04-12 01:37:43|| 2003-04-12 01:37:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Tj,
If a teacher in the U.S. tried this crap,they would be firied.Jahova's Witness due not Pledge Alegience to the Flag,but they are not vilified,much less imprisioned.

"Happy is the one who calls himself an Apache."

Should my nieghbor's child have to put-up with a bigot for a teacher,should that child face
5-years in prision for being proud and happy at being an Apache.We (White America)virtually destroyed Native American culture,fortunaltly we had some wise leaders who put an end to this deplroable practice.

One of my favorite fishing spots is School House Point,Roosevelt Lake,Arizona.You know one of those reservation school's where children couldn't even talk among themselves in thier native lanquage.

Posted by raptor 2003-04-12 07:44:26|| 2003-04-12 07:44:26|| Front Page Top

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