Turkey - two madnesses instead of one

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Oct 31, 2009 at 15:29

Erol, wrote :

> 1. The nationlism tought in Turkish schools is no different in level to any other proud state/nation.

Wrong. This Turkish jingoism and racism (Turkic as superrace and Anatolian Turks are the superior type within this supreme race) is much worse than anything taught in other nationalist-oriented schools because it is combined with Islam which produces an extremely explosive, poisonous and stinking mixture. Religious jihad is reinforced by nationalist jihad. In short, instead of one madness we have two in one brain.

>2. 1000 years of history- what are you saying other 1000 year old empires have been better behaved !

It sounds like a serial murderer pointing to another with a reproach and saying "But look at him! He was a notorious killer too. So what's wrong with me?Come on! " ... Well, in every library in the civilized world we have plenty of volumes on crimes committed by other empires. In our university we have even departments that do research on that. Now will you kindly quote a single book issued in Turkey where the crimes and genocides committed by your nationalistic/jihadist Turkish empire are admitted, described and exposed? ... Crime is bad but lies and denials only aggravate the guilt, you know.

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