Islamic Antisemitism Alert from modern, enlightened, secular Turkey: "Turkey: Protestors burn Israeli flag," by Daniel Edelson for Ynet, October 5 (thanks to Neil):
A mass anti-Israel rally was held in Istanbul Monday. The demonstrators, who rallied in support of the riots in east Jerusalem, carried Palestinian Authority flags and posters of the al-Aqsa Mosque, and set Israeli flags on fire."Turkey has two facets - the modern European one, which is rational and tolerant, and the Islamist one, which is sometimes hostile to Israel," a Foreign Ministry source told Ynet.
No kidding, really? But don't the Islamists read the Koran and know that in it Allah refers to the Jews as "People of the Book" and calls upon Muslims to respect them? Have the Turks who attended this anti-Israel rally been reading Islamophobic hate literature?
Have the Turks who attended this anti-Israel rally been reading Islamophobic hate literature?
Yeah. It's called the Koran. :-/
Hmm. I guess Turkey isn't so moderate after all, loveverybody? Strike that one off your list.
This is a very good sign. Just what the EU likes to see. Perhaps now they'll let them in...
The Return of Islam, despite the heroic efforts of Turkish secularists (journalists, writers, university rectors, Western-oriented businessmen), continues in Turkey. And a natural effect if this is the rise of antisemitism. And since crazed conspiracy theories are always to be found in abundance among those addled by Islam, many of the Turks who find Erdogan so appealing also like the idea of seeing "secret Jews" -- the Donme -- everywhere, and indeed, for some, Ataturk himself must have been among those Donme. The Western tourist who dutifully visits Topkapi, and the Cistern, and the Hippodrome, and possibly goes as far afield as the Kara Djami, and takes a ride on the Bosporus, and has left back on his bedside, back in the hotel, a slightly-thumbed guide to Istanbul (by John Freeley) and a translation (by Maureen Freeley) of Orhan Pamuk's "My Name Is Red," and meets all kinds of friendly people, many of them the threatened beneficiaries of Kemalism (not all of them quite realizing it) is unlikelly to recognize or realize what is going on below the surface of life, and certainly not to know about the amazing conspiracy theories involving the Donme. But eventually, even back in the still-safe West, he will. He will be made to understand what the Return of Islam, and the Undoing of Kemalism, means to him.