The stupidity of Turkey's Islamists.

[KrazyHorse]

and certainly the proposal didn't proscribe execution

So the proposal was in favour of the death penalty?

[Spiffor]

Ancynean, great informative post, like always

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Ancynean, great informative post, like always

ditto.

[RGBVideo]

Consider the Islamist newspaper Yeni Safak, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's favorite. A Jan. 9 story claimed that U.S. forces were tossing so many Iraqi bodies into the Euphrates that mullahs there had issued a fatwa prohibiting residents from eating its fish. Yeni Safak has also repeatedly claimed that U.S. forces used chemical weapons in Fallujah. One of its columnists has alleged that U.S. soldiers raped women and children there and left their bodies in the streets to be eaten by dogs. Among the paper's "scoops" have been the 1,000 Israeli soldiers deployed alongside U.S. forces in Iraq, and that U.S. forces have been harvesting the innards of dead Iraqis for sale on the U.S. "organ market."

I stopped reading here. The writer basically just writes a great deal about of evil deeds done by random stupid ppl, then links them with Turkish goverment by nothing but face value (look above: communist newspaper with loony articles which nobody of you knows anything about is PM's favourite -- because I say so) .This is repeat-until-true propaganda, plain and simple

[Ancyrean]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Ancynean, great informative post, like always

Originally posted by lord of the mark
ditto.

Thanks guys!

On a side note, Pollock's article also is being quoted by the Turkish press, it has apparently even been brought to the attention of Erdogan himself. He probably didn't appreciate tone and content of the article .

A columnist that I follow from the Turkish daily 'Milliyet' recommends an article from Foreign Affairs magazine, by John Lewis Gaddis, for a sober reflection of the situation US faces in the world now and how it should proceed under the circumstances. It also makes references to why anti-Americanism rose in the world and what to do about it. I found that article quite informative and useful, so I post the link:

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/200501...cond-term.html