World events

A Greek expressing dislike for Turks.
Imagine my shock.

So yeah, the easy racist card again. While nobody is sure what's worse because we have to choose between two possibly equal bads: A dictator with civil clothing, Erdogan on one side, an egomaniac prick who's proven countless times that accounts and cares for nobody in the world (country or leader) or even inside his country than himself, ego and ideas, or a dictator with a military uniform, i.e. the military portion against him taking over the country. That's a given, 'cause none of the solutions is ideal for the rest of the world. We all follow with patience and we'll see where it will take us.

But we largely and mostly recognize the cancer of the world that is Islam and we mostly all agree something has to be done about it, but when a dictator with an ego bigger than the world itself, who has largely islamized his country and constantly pushes his own Islamic state basically, during the years of his stubborn and un-democratic reign so far, gets such a support from the vast majority of his people and the social media he himself so often shuts down, fights, controls and censors all the time, people who blindly go out on his call and get killed in the streets for him, and kill stupid young boy-soldiers who blindly follow the army's idiotic notion and orders, then it's a no touchy subject eh?

So yeah we all see each day that Islam and dictators are the cancer of the modern world, but with the exception of our dear Turks then. People who basically support such a dictator and the rest of the future movement and freedoms restrictions he will further place on them, the clearing up and killing of all of his enemies and people who disagree with him, further blows on democracy that will surely follow from Erdogan after all of this. He moved the strings and the mindless puppets danced for him and his biggest show and ego-revalidation to date. So we shall put an asterisk for the exception each time we talk about the evils of Islam then

That Erdogan is a human shitstain and that people are idiots to support him is beyond a doubt; this does not, however, make an entire nation of 80 million people "scum of the earth".

Edmund, the hatred (yes, it's on that level) between Greeks and Turks (and it's completely mutual!) goes back hundreds of years and is based on a military and political enmosity that stretches centuries. While I think there's very little in it that is actually constructive or makes sense, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with 'racism'.

If you compare it to anything, compare it to the German-French relation in the 19th century.

Edmund, to Martijn's argument I can only add that Demetris is a Cypriot Greek. This makes it even more edgy.

It's indeed EXACTLY like that.

EDIT: no, wait. It isn't.
Because the Germans don't hate the Jews in return.

The historic hatred between the Greeks and the Turks is completely mutual.

That would be kinda awesome, really.

So much for that theory.
Looks like a cell after all.

As i said when it broke out: Muslim Love over France.

(Some of the specificities I should say. Islam is very specific on how to treat kafirs.)

You're not alone in seeing the parallels.
It was quite disconcerting to see how many MINUTES it took him to come up with the list of THOUSANDS of apparently 'dissident' judges....

No chance. Our politicians, both here and Cyprus, during the last 10 years or so are the worst of a kind. Completely weak, non-decisive, always skip taking hard decisions, complete pussies. They are just in for the fat checks and to feed their own on expense of the state funds and the people. Complete corruption and lies. And of course we, keep accepting this. But as proven, with the recent rise of populism and mass manipulation with Brexit campaign etc, we are not the only ones sadly.

Well, I've basically been living in a bubble for the last few weeks (with little to no internet at various locations), getting tidbits about the Nice and Turkey events sometimes days after it happened -- and basically just headlines without any detail. Read up a bit now that I've returned home. Horrible stuff (well, Nice was horrible, Turkey was more of a dramatic surprise). I will not condemn Islam as a religion like so many of you do with seeming ease, but I will condemn extremism in any form or shape.

Did I say that Islam was immune to reform? Of course not. There are many parts of that religion that would need some serious re-evaluation and updating.