Ataturk and Mohammed - friends for ever ?

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Jul 30, 2010 at 15:50

arthur smith wrote:

"the cult of ataturk is similar to the cult of mohammed inspite of appearing to be opposed - both worship a man, both are above criticism and both create a schism of them and us ( muslim and non-muslim and turk and yabanci )"

Absolutely! And both lead to bloody absurdities like riots and beheadings for a picture of one or persecutions for chewing a gum near the effigy of the other. And in principle both are based on a big lie of alleged moral superiority of these two criminals.

Be as it may , an interesting question would be if these two nonsensical personality cults can be combined and reinforce each other instead of inhibiting each other as the Turkish official story tells us? It seems they can and there are cases which demonstrate how smoothly it works ! In Northern Cyprus it is the army that officially confesses the cult of Ataturk that has helped impose the cult of Mohammed on the entire part of the island under its control. There is also the interesting case of Ibrahim Akyol from Istabul. Last year by broad daylight he stabbed a German going out of a church . What motivated him? Both Islam and Kemalism as it is clear from the reports :

" Akyol reportedly confessed that he woke up that morning and decided he would kill a Christian. He took a kitchen knife with him and went to Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian and commercial road where some of the main traditional churches are located, looking for a victim.

"I wanted to kill a Christian that day and was visiting churches for this reason. I saw the person and killed him," Akyol allegedly told the prosecutor. A picture of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, bearing the handwritten words "I hate foreigners" was also reportedly found on Akyol.
Earlier that morning at St. Anthony church, one of Turkey's best known and visible churches, at around 9:30 a.m. Akyol tried to pick a fight with a door guard by refusing to take off his cap, saying he couldn't remove it because he was a Muslim.

In his confession to the prosecutor, Akyol said he looked into the eyes of the door guard and tried to decide whether to kill him, reported the daily Sabah. The guard had asked him to come out of the church with him, and Akyol followed him to the front steps where he attempted to open a debate about Islam and Christianity.

In the end, he reportedly said he decided not to kill the guard because "there was no light in his eyes." "

So here we go. A Turkish Moslem brought up in the cult of Ataturk as everyone in Turkey is wakes up one morning, sees a light from Mohammed's god , takes a picture of Ataturk , writes on its back "I hate foreigners " and goes to a nearby church, starts an argument about the superiority of Islam over Christianity and then stabs a Christian to keep his promise made to Islam and Ataturk.

Visibly , Ataturk and Mohammed has already made friends, haven't they ?

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