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German opposition leader Edmund Stoiber pledges to oppose EU membership for Turkey. From the German-language Die Spiegel, as translated for Jihad Watch by Gero Bauser:
Berlin. Several days before the decisive meeting in Brussels, there has been a heated debate between Recep Tayyip Erdogan, PM of Turkey, and the governor of Bavaria, Mr. Edmund Stoiber.Mr. Stoiber denied Ankara’s accusations that Germany’s large conservative party (CDU/CSU) would discriminate against Turkey:
“Mr. Erdogan should know that Angela Merkel and I myself are going to undertake all efforts together to guarantee a resolution that will lead to open-ended negotiations, not only on the basis of lip-service,” Mr. Stoiber told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”.Admittedly, CDU/CSU would work against full membership for Turkey if elected in 2006 as Germany’s ruling party: “Turkey’s full membership will break down because of the free will of Europe’s women and men.” Mr. Stoiber said this in order to justify his negative mindset. “Our goal is a privileged partnership, because we do not want to make excessive demands of Europe”.
In order to achieve this plan, “we will proceed with our partners in Europe, such as France”.
Mr. Erdogan sharply attacked CDU/CSU in one of Germany’s largest tabloids, “Bild am Sonntag”. “Germany’s opposition party seems to believe that she can play domestic politics with Turkey’s desire for full membership. You can call this discrimination!”
Mr. Erdogan said Turkey’s membership would be problematic if Europe regarded herself as a “Club for Christians”.
“In a European community Turkey very well has a place,” Mr. Erdogan affirmed.
Posted by Robert at December 12, 2004 7:28 AM
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Go Stoiber go!
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at December 12, 2004 8:05 AM
Discrimination in of itself is not evil, it is necessary. Contrary to modern leftist word demonization.
Websters
Definition of Discriminate
Dis`crim´i`nate
a. 1. Having the difference marked; distinguished by certain tokens.
v. t. 1. To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
[imp. & p. p. Discriminated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Discriminating .]
To discriminate the goats from the sheep.
- Barrow.
v. i. 1. To make a difference or distinction; to distinguish accurately; as, in judging of evidence, we should be careful to discriminate between probability and slight presumption.
2. (Railroads) To treat unequally.
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at December 12, 2004 8:49 AM
Here is a link to German Embassies world wide, please write a letter in support of Mr Stoibers stand. Pleas keep the letters very polite, it is always important when writing to politicians.
a posted letter is always best, but if not there may be email links at the embassy websites.
Mr Stoiber needs all the support we can give a barrage of letters in his favour will be a strong influence among his peers. One letter is considered to count for a large number of citizens.
http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/germany1.htm
at December 12, 2004 11:16 AM
Thanks for the links Meredith.
Time to put our mail where our mouths are, I guess.
Posted by: voletti at December 12, 2004 12:43 PM
News from the EU and Germany:
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=661
Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands:
Germany:
http://www.dw-world.de/english/
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/english/
http://www.insideeurope.com/html/germany.html
http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/
at December 12, 2004 12:55 PM
A Turkey that big with 70 million potential Jihadists sounds the death knell of Europe! Ataboy
Stoiber!!
at December 12, 2004 1:14 PM
Okay for Europe we've got Stoiber, Geert Wilders, that guy in Norway who wants to ban Islam, and the Danes. It's not much, but it's a start.
Posted by: Suzan at December 12, 2004 1:26 PM
PS -- I want to say thanks to all the Europeans here who are taking the time to translate articles from their native languages into English and sending them to Mr. Spencer. It really gives us a better picture of what's going on. ..without you we'd be limited to the English language press, which in unfortunately in Europe means. . .the BBC! (Baghdad Biased Corp.)
Posted by: Suzan at December 12, 2004 2:11 PM
I wish to add my thanks to Suzan's.
at December 12, 2004 11:47 PM
Unfortunately Stoiber can not be elected before 2006.
In the meantime Germans have to put up with a gang of unspeakable parvenu's in silk suits: Shredder & Co., a bunch of half educated Commie-suckers, hoplessly lost in the wondrous world of politics...
Tragic...
Posted by: Terminator at December 13, 2004 6:42 PM
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