Modern, moderate, secular Turkey: Pianist goes on trial for offending Muslims and insulting Islam

"Why such haste? Have you got a mistress waiting or a raki on the table?"

No sir, he's got a demon ... farting!!!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/07/satanic-fart.html

This Islamic trial will have no effect on the West's political class and
its obliging role for Islamizing Turkey to get its 80 million Muslims
into the European Union, so as to speed up the Islamization of Europe.

Japan? It is Japan's turn to feel the heat. My Japanese lodger said her Pakistani classmate asked how how he could get a visa for Japan; he wants to move there to get away from the dangers in Pakistan - and of course, if successful, he will tell the Japanese how benign Islam is, and he and his Muslim friends in Japan will be followed by Saudi money and new mosques and watched to make sure they toe the line.
My lodger laughs. She doesn't think there is a problem; those Pakistani boys are "very nice".

This is what we can expect if the West bows to muslim demands for blasphemy laws ...

And those demands *have not* gone away. They're just waiting for a more propitious time to step up the demands again.

From the article - "Say has since closed his Twitter account and has said he plans to leave Turkey for Japan...".

I would advise him to apostasise, as soon as he steps onto Japanese soil.

Shuck off Islam and embrace Zen. Take up the shakuhachi.

And take ninja training, just in case any sharia assassins come sneaking around.

And memo to the Japanese: *demand* that he publicly renounce Islam, before you grant him that residency visa.

Insulting islame? How do you like this:

Q Why is it so hard to circumcise a muslime?
A Because there's no end to those pricks.

There, choke on that you bunch of big babies!

Modern, moderate, secular Turkey: Pianist goes on trial for offending Muslims and insulting Islam
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"Insulting Turkishness" was often a euphemism for "insulting Islam"—now, often, they just drop the mask on the Anatolian peninsula and go for the real thing. Somehow, I doubt we should see that as an improvement, since the cases are coming thicker and faster all the time.

And yet, all too many in the West still trot out Turkey as an example of a "secular" Muslim state. This, of course, is less true all the time under Erdogan.

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ISTANBUL – A top Turkish pianist and composer appeared in court on Thursday to defend himself against charges of offending Muslims and insulting Islam in comments he made on Twitter.
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Artists will be among the first to suffer from such "Blasphemy" laws—along with women and Infidels, of course.

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Fazil Say, who has played with the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and others, is on trial for sending tweets that included one in April that joked about a call to prayer that lasted only 22 seconds.
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Ah—he's actually an *accomplished* artist! He's got to go down...

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Say tweeted: "Why such haste? Have you got a mistress waiting or a raki on the table?" Raki is a traditional alcoholic drink made with aniseed. Islam forbids alcohol and many Islamists consider the remarks unacceptable.

Prosecutors in June charged Say with inciting hatred and public enmity, and with insulting "religious values." He faces a maximum 18 months prison term, although any sentence is likely to be suspended.
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Utter madness. From everything I have heard, large numbers of Turkish Muslims swill Raki on a regular basis. I guess it's just one of those many things in Islam where hypocrisy is preferable to speaking openly.

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Say, who has served as a cultural ambassador for the European Union...
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In other words, Turkey has not shied at using Fazil Say to show how modern and sophisticated Turkey is—but this is only a sham to lull the foolish European Kaffir into a false states of security.

After all, if he had tweeted the same thing in Berlin or Paris—perhaps substituting "brandy" for "raki"—who there would have batted an eye?

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Say, 42, is a strong critic of the Islamic-rooted government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a devout Muslim who has preached conservative values, alarming some secular Turks who fear the government plans to make religion part of their lifestyle....
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And they are already far down that road, as this persecution of Say proves. Erdogan has spent the last decade dismantling Kemalism.

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In a report on Turkey's progress toward membership issued last week, the EU criticized Turkey for "recurring infringements of the right to liberty and security and to a fair trial, as well as of the freedom of expression." It said restrictions on media freedoms and an increasing number of court cases against writers and journalists remained "serious issues."...
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And yet, the foolish EU has taken up the issue again, even though it had seemed settled that barbaric Turkey would *not* gain entry to civilized Europe. Why is the issue on the table again? It's not as though things have improved in Turkey—quite the opposite, in fact...

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The charges against Say also cite other tweets he sent, including one — based on a verse attributed to famous medieval poet and wine-lover Omar Khayyam — which questioned whether heaven was a tavern or a brothel, because of the promises that wine will flow and each believer will be greeted by virgins.
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Muslim apologists in the West often trot out Omar Khayyam—along with Rumi—as proof that Islam is really tolerant and open. Yet, is it possible that either poet could exist in any Islamic country today? Even if they lived in the West, they would probably be under a death Fatwa for their irreverent work.

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Say has since closed his Twitter account and has said he plans to leave Turkey for Japan. His lawyer said Say has received some death threats....

What a surprise.
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And will Say continue as an "ambassador" for Turkey in civilized Japan, despite his terrible experiences here? I wouldn't be surprised...