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2010-07-23 Europe

Turkish/German cabinet minister demands 'culturally sensitive news reporting'

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Posted by Sletle Gleregum9717 2010-07-23 12:49|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Cultuerally sensitive language? Ok for me!

-Mad arab (Muhammad)
-Filthy, ignorant mullahs
-Absurd superstition (islam) who holds country backward and prevent it from integrating cilized (aka non-Muslim) countries

In case you ask these are excerpts from the "Nutuk" aka Mustafa Kemal's self biography (a 16 hours speech in fact).

Posted by JFM 2010-07-23 14:58|| 2010-07-23 14:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Things are progressing quickly in EUrabia.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-07-23 16:24|| 2010-07-23 16:24|| Front Page Top

#3 To be fair to her, she's likely much closer to the traditional Kemalist elites than to Erdogan.

The ugly parts of Kemalism, i.e. ethnic hyperchauvinism, statism, authoritarian government which are on display here are not compatible with Western political culture, hence the kerfuffle.

Posted by Sletle Gleregum9717 2010-07-23 17:24|| 2010-07-23 17:24|| Front Page Top

#4 It's important to distinguish the national subclasses found within Islam. The Turks see themselves as at the peak of Islamic-secular culture, and as European, compared to "Arabs", who they look at with disdain.

Even their Islamists are far more oriented to reestablishing the Sultanate, in which the Turks would again rule over the Arabs.

This is one of the reasons Germany is so much quieter than France or England. The Turks are in Germany to work, with far less inclination to welfare, unlike the North Africans in France and the Pakistanis in England.

The Turks are also much more familiar with Germany, because of their WWI alliance. They like Germans a whole lot more than Russians, their traditional enemy.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-23 18:59|| 2010-07-23 18:59|| Front Page Top

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