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It is not possible for those who belong to the Muslim faith to carry out genocide
2009-11-09
Turkey said Sunday it will welcome Sudan's leader even though he has been indicted for orchestrating crimes against humanity in Darfur.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is free to join an Istanbul summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The 57-nation group holds its main meetings Monday.

Erdogan said Turkey respects human rights and would not hesitate to challenge al-Bashir if it believed he had committed atrocities. But Erdogan said he doesn't believe that Sudanese paramilitary forces committed acts of genocide against African residents of Darfur.

"It is not possible for those who belong to the Muslim faith to carry out genocide," Erdogan told ruling party members.

Turkey does not recognize the International Criminal Court, the Netherlands-based body that in March issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir. The court accused Sudan's leaders of orchestrating a campaign of murder, torture, rape and forced expulsions in Darfur.

"If there were such a thing in Darfur, we would be chasing this to the end," Erdogan said.

Erdogan accused Israel of committing much greater crimes versus Palestinians during Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip in January. He said it would be easier to discuss state killings of civilians with al-Bashir than with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"I cannot discuss this with Netanyahu but I can easily discuss such issues with Omar al-Bashir. I can say to his face: What you are doing is wrong," Erdogan said.
Posted by: Anonymoose

#9  What a tool.
Posted by: Apostate   2009-11-09 17:33  

#8  Damn. 3dc beat me to it.

Well, maybe he meant "to complete genocide". After all, the Armenians are still here.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-11-09 14:58  

#7  It's double-think, anonymous5089. The definition is that Muslims cannot do such a thing. Therefore anything that looks like that thing must, by definition, be something else.

Shades of Muhammad. In Medina he wiped out one Jewish tribe, killing some 900 boys and men. Then selling off the women and girls.

Thus having killed off precisely half of the population, not all of it. Technically not genocide, although all involved considered the end of the male line to be the same thing.
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-11-09 08:39  

#6  Amazing levels of hyporcrisy. Or, is it double-think? He actually might be sincere, at least in some way.

I really think people should shed that notion that all humans are equal.
They sure are equal in RIGHTS (not to be killed, not to be oppressed, to freedom of speech, thoughts, religion,..., hell, even the bigot I am fully agree with that), equal in basic functions and needs, biological differences not-whistanding...

But they are not equal in "BUILD", IE they are not hardwired the same way, and this leads to gaping differences in behavior, that may be finely grained at the individual level, but get larger and deeper as the lens focuse to a more collective level.

And, the positivist idea to 'force' everyone into the same "Enlightened Westerner" mold (thanks for nothing, auguste comte!!!) just is wrong, and even poisonous.

We are not them, and they are not us, deal with it, liberalism/progressivism to the contrary.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-11-09 07:22  

#5  Shades of Muhammad. In Medina he wiped out one Jewish tribe, killing some 900 boys and men. Then selling off the women and girls.

By example we know them.
Posted by: Icerigger   2009-11-09 07:06  

#4  Well, if you don't consider non-Muslims human...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-11-09 03:21  

#3  He doesn't want the Armenian Genocide brought up.
Posted by: 3dc   2009-11-09 00:37  

#2  That's not necessarily an either-or proposition ...
Posted by: Steve White   2009-11-09 00:28  

#1  "It is not possible for those who belong to the Muslim faith to carry out genocide,"

I realize their culture has not quite caught up to the Age of Enlightenment, but there appears to be something in Islam that renders its adherents impervious to logic and reason. Either that, or there is something in the water over there.
Posted by: SteveS   2009-11-09 00:21  

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