Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Jan 1, 2009 at 07:06
Hi, kman !
"same belief system and same tactics."
Tactics is a bit different, I presume. The Turks export Islam and wage their jihad under the veil of "secularism". They have become a 99,8%Moslem monoculture thanks to this so called "secularism". The Arabs do the same but without this veil which makes their task a bit harder. But otherwise you're absolutely right.
The naive and/or corrupt Westerners take Turkish veils and lies for reality. And yet had the Saudis and not the "secular" Turkish army conquered Northern Cyprus in 1974, the result would be exactly the same - thousands of desecrated and demolished -or changed into moques or stables - Christian churches, chapels, monasteries. New mosques proudly decorating every Turkish village, fanatical imams, calls for prayers, korans, thousands of backward Moslems brought from Central and Eastern Anatolia to reinforce the army of Allah on this newly reconquered kafiri land... It looks familiar, doesn't it?
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