to the pure, pure european

Submitted by esin (Turkey), Dec 6, 2007 at 20:55

dear tom,

first of all, about that ps of yours. do you consider yourself/and your country under some kind of threat? ending your comment about why turkey should be out of europe with a note like that brings questions. if that's what you think; that after turkey is accepted into europe turks will load into your cities and enslave you and destroy your life, then get real. that's not world of warcraft.

"Raping is a horrible and serious crime. currently in my town there is a gang of several males from Midde-Eastern countries raping women every weekend. People demand that all immigrants committing crimes should get a mail stamp in their arses and send back where they came from. This really does not promise any good for 70 millions of Turks' Union membership."

Nice point there. Do you want me to bring statistics about how many rapes took place during the war in Iraq, a Middle-Eastern country, committed by the Americans, a very Western country? If it's about the inhuman and barbaric act of rape, it's everywhere. blaming one group of people (in your case this is the entire turkish population) is stupid. the reasons for raping incidents must be looked in elsewhere: antagonism, dissatisfaction, xenophobia... and maybe for other personal problems? mark the word personal, for it is personal. not the distinguishing property of a group as you pointed out.

"The major religion in Turkey is obviously Islam, which has been in really negative light for past decades."

what light? the light of the die hard movies? the light of the "axis of evil"? i'm not a muslim, but i know that the interpretation of islam that you see in the jihad movements is just one of the several - and misleaded interpretations. islam can be interpretated as a peaceful, humanistic religion that embraces the whole world. like the difference between the holy crusades and the red cross, remember? the reason of the shift in past decades you mention is nothing but a action-reaction thing. the same governments who pumped islamic fundamentalism against the arab-nationalist movements for conserving their profits in the middle-east region are now finding it hard to deal with it.

i tried my best to keep my language polite. and i found it very, very hard responding to you... please read something rather than holy bible or local tabloid.

sincerely yours,
turkish girl,
whose brother is in jail for attacking a finnish chick and eating her insides after he's finished with her. (at least that was what you'd like to imagine.)

ps: by the way, did you know of all the european nations you finnish has the most similar DNA to the turkic one? (not because i'm interested in people's genes, but appearently you are.) i suppose this nasty fact will bring you nightmares.

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