Hate Crime in Turkey

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- Zaephon
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Hate Crime in Turkey
OP - January 08, 2009, 08:47 PM

The accompanying image of an article published in Radikal, a leftist newspaper in Turkey. The two placards to the right read "Jews and Armenians cannot pass this door" whereas the placard to the left reads "[But] dogs are allowed."

A similar incident was also reported --an Israeli sports team were forced out of the match by some zealous pro-Hamas spectators. Both events apparently denounced Israel's attacks to Gaza.
What are your opinions? They strongly remind me the KKK.

The article --in Turkish:
http://www.radikal.com.tr/Radikal.aspx?aType=RadikalDetay&ArticleID=915950&Date=08.01.2009&CategoryID=77

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Re: Hate Crime in Turkey
Reply #1 - January 08, 2009, 09:24 PM

If you are in any doubt, Zaephon that I despise all bigots, hate-mongers and xenophobes then let me reassure you that I do and I agree they are similar to the KKK scum - or any other flavour of racist, bigoted scum that sadly blight us. (us being the human race)
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Re: Hate Crime in Turkey
Reply #2 - January 08, 2009, 09:52 PM

Whoops, misread that one. I can't imagine what these people hope to accomplish by this... how often does this thing really go on there?
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Re: Hate Crime in Turkey
Reply #3 - January 08, 2009, 09:57 PM

Quote from: Hassan on January 08, 2009, 09:24 PM
If you are in any doubt, Zaephon that I despise all bigots, hate-mongers and xenophobes then let me reassure you that I do and I agree they are similar to the KKK scum - or any other flavour of racist, bigoted scum that sadly blight us. (us being the human race)

No, I don't have any doubts. I just want people to know what kind of idiotic hate crimes are going on in Turkey. But what really pisses me off is that despite relevant legislation, these parasites are seldom punished. People who have criticised Islam or "Turkishness" have been jailed, tortured, and murdered in our recent turbulent past. Even today, despite a cloudy article in Turkish Law which is supposed to prosecute all libels against all ethnic/religious/social groups, hatred against minority groups is very common. The greatest irony is that the laws are convoked only when Islamists/nationalists want to suppress criticism.

The reference to Armenians deals with a recent Turkish campaign of apology for the Armenian Genocide, which I also signed. I cannot express my contempt for these half-animals who are blaming victims for the crime, and who get violent when confronted about their violent past.

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Re: Hate Crime in Turkey
Reply #4 - January 16, 2009, 02:17 AM

Quote from: Buster on January 08, 2009, 09:52 PM
Whoops, misread that one. I can't imagine what these people hope to accomplish by this... how often does this thing really go on there?

To prove the world how hateful and how petty they are? I guess they have been successful at that. I'm sure Allah will entertain her valiant soldiers with pearly boys and transparent virgins in her empyreal brothel when they suffer "martyrdom," where no Infidel will dare to question their beliefs --which is probably the greatest award for them.

Ultra-nationalists and Islamists rally around the same flag in such matters. These lunatics are not treated as cultural outcasts but heroes and champions. And well, the supposedly moderate Islamists who run the country adhere to the same ideology, in some lighter shade of idiocy and self-worship.

I am living in a country where people are so touchy about the Palestinian issue that they burn Israeli flags and they rant about how evil Jews control the planet and oppress virtuous Muslims. I am living in a country where people who call for violence against "the Infidel enemies in our midst" are tolerated, but people who put their signature under a mere petitition that shows some empathy for the victims of the Armenian Genocide can be threatened with legal action.

"My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to and the denial of the Great Catastrophe that the Ottoman Armenians were subjected to in 1915. I reject this injustice and for my share, I empathize with the feelings and pain of my Armenian brothers and sisters. I apologize to them."

http://www.ozurdiliyoruz.com/foreign.aspx

Yes, I signed the petition and I'm proud of it. I am going to visit the Holocaust memorial in Armenia and weep there, if I ever visit the country. I feel their pain in my bones, and I hope the wall of ignorance about the Armenian Genocide crumbles down in the future.

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