Barbarity and civilization and the past

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Jan 28, 2010 at 15:08

>We had the greatest Jewish community starting from the middle ages. Our king Casimir the Great invited Jews to come and settle here. There are still some Moslem villages near Bialystok. These Moslems had fled from recurrent massacres and feuds inside the Crimean Khanate to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and to Poland . But go deny on "moral" grounds what I have said ! e.g.

> Casimir was way ahead of his era.<

Not he. Esther, the king's Jewish 'girlfriend'.

> Sad to see that he is replaced by broken and prejudiced people from immigrated from Balkan soil like you trying to make a career out of hatred.<

I see. We need more Pan-Turkic activists in our few Tatar villages. They might do for Ataturkistan what the Turks in Germany are doing - acting as the Fifth Column of Global Pan-Turkism, what?

> Anyhow , there were signs of your kind approaching into the history scene;<

You mean you believe Allah has heard your last Friday prayer at last? I agree Allah should support at least the Turkish fatwa against me.

"A U.S. historian has threatened to publicly reveal alleged Polish atrocities against Jews in the aftermath of World War II, if the Polish State Prosecution tries him for "insulting the nation."

The Polish State Prosecution said last week that it would consider pressing charges against historian Jan Tomasz Gross for "insulting the nation" in his book "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944917.html - Sunday , January 2010..

Polish State Prosecution threatens a historian with trial for 'insulting the nation' if he reveals Pole atrocities against Jews ?

Article 301 in Polland ? Freedom of Speech ? A free counrty ? No revisionist history ?<

I understand that you as a Turk have never heard of our president publicly admitting and apologizing for the crime in Jedwabne and other places where many Jews were brutally killed by nationalist Poles.

Now, the head of state thinks exactly as Jan Tomasz Gross does and is still in office! Strange and incomprehensible, if one relies on your in-depth experitise in the field, isn't it ? What is more, plenty of people in Poland agree with both. And they are all whole and healthy and none is waiting for a show trial. What a contrast to Turkey! Can you imagine Imam Erdogan or Abdullah Gul or even you agreeing with Armenian historians and apologizing for the 1915-1923 genocides in public ? Unthinkable! Yes, I agree. But this is the difference between your barbarity and our civilization. We admit our crimes and repent. You deny aggressively yours and so pave the way for more crimes.

> Come on Janus .. Tell us more jokes, especially small ones , like you...<

No, I prefer grotesque jokes like you. For if you had cared to read your source to the end , you would have been puzzled by the following :

"The legality of the law is currently being debated in the country's high court and is expected to be rescinded, Gross said. I expect that the prosecutor general will give up the prosecution," Gross said. "I am confident nothing will come out of this.[...]There are people in Poland who are already willing to deal with this subject, and there are people who don't. There is a debate now, and I hope it continues."

But you don't care to read sources and one can expect critical thinking from all possible places except those in Turkey.

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