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Reader comment on item: Turkey's Last Free Election
in response to reader comment: some respect to our choice
Submitted by Mike (Netherlands), Jun 15, 2011 at 04:09
"We made our choice and have no fear of being an islamic country.. "
Since when do countries have religions? Religion/belief is something individual, countries should have nothing to do with it. But then, yes, Turkey is turning into an islamic country: individuals who want to break away from islam are in great danger in Turkey. Individual religious freedom, in particular the freedom to leave islam and speak openly about why you left it, was lost a long time ago in Turkey.
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| Islam is the religion of the Arabs only [74 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | edmond michaels | Dec 22, 2015 00:54 | 227212 | ||
| Kurdistan [72 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 25, 2015 20:35 | 223517 | ||
| 1 | Blame Bush [70 words] | Dave | Apr 24, 2014 16:03 | 214605 | |
| Turkey [192 words] | Katie | Jun 14, 2011 00:44 | 186303 | ||
| I hope you are wrong [14 words] | Manny Matamoros | Jun 13, 2011 13:42 | 186276 | ||
| 6 | Right to choose [41 words] | AbuSaad Khan | Jun 13, 2011 12:45 | 186274 | |
| 2 |  Regular elections? [80 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 18, 2011 11:50 | 186274 | |
| 2 | A democracy is a step in the right direction but not enough. [222 words] | Prashant | Jun 21, 2011 00:11 | 186274 | |
| 5 | ME expert... [74 words] | aozturk | Jun 13, 2011 10:04 | 186265 | |
| 6 | Also concerned [154 words] | Ann | Jun 13, 2011 08:59 | 186264 | |
| 9 | Welcome to Turkey ? [723 words] | Ianus | Jun 15, 2011 18:16 | 186264 | |
| 2 | Why not look at the mirror [51 words] | Bazoonah | Jun 16, 2011 13:54 | 186264 | |
| 4 | Not a little story at all ! [282 words] | Ianus | Jun 18, 2011 04:26 | 186264 | |
| 2 | Armenian genocide [35 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 18, 2011 11:59 | 186264 | |
| 1 | an Addon [181 words] | Bazoonah | Jun 20, 2011 04:17 | 186264 | |
| 8 | Ask Allah.He knows best why Israel is so successful and Moslems such a failure, doesn't he ? [238 words] | Ianus | Jun 29, 2011 13:15 | 186264 | |
| 4 | Ignorance and Greed - Turkey's two eternal allies in the West [537 words] | Ianus | Jun 29, 2011 14:21 | 186264 | |
| 8 | Alert for Turksih propagandists: Our dear Naushad is saying that there was really an Armenian Genocide! [138 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 30, 2011 05:55 | 186264 | |
| The coming Islamic empire. [102 words] | Naushad Omar | Jul 9, 2011 18:58 | 186264 | ||
| Arab Superiority? [105 words] | Naushad Omar | Jul 9, 2011 19:04 | 186264 | ||
| 3 | Dictatorship and Islamism go hand in hand [232 words] | Prashant | Jul 10, 2011 18:20 | 186264 | |
| 6 | Islam is the religion of the arabs only [291 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 12, 2011 07:39 | 186264 | |
| 2 | freedom was their right [28 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | Jul 21, 2011 14:28 | 186264 | |
| 4 | Turkey IS gone from the western orbit, if it has ever really been a part of it to begin with.... [114 words] | Adina Kutnicki, Israel | Jun 13, 2011 06:12 | 186262 | |
| 10 | some respect to our choice [100 words] | ahmet | Jun 14, 2011 02:28 | 186262 | |
| 1 |  the freedom to leave islam [82 words] | Mike | Jun 15, 2011 04:09 | 186262 | |
| 5 | Imam Edrogan's party [194 words] | Ianus | Jun 15, 2011 18:45 | 186262 | |
| 7 | Turkey is a 99,8% Islamic monoculture.Let's face it at last ! [305 words] | Ianus | Jun 15, 2011 20:01 | 186262 | |
| 3 | Islamic tolerance and christian love. [82 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 18, 2011 12:12 | 186262 | |
| 6 | What is really a Genocide as per UN and the crimes of Turkey and its bloody past [170 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 18, 2011 16:38 | 186262 | |
| 5 | Do kafirs have a right to self-defence against Moslem aggression ? [552 words] | Ianus | Jun 19, 2011 18:51 | 186262 | |
| 3 | Another victim Arabian imperialism and of Islam [553 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 20, 2011 07:25 | 186262 | |
| 1 | 10% of the middle east is still Christian [126 words] | Prashant | Jun 20, 2011 23:53 | 186262 | |
| 1 | Christian conversion in midlle east was incremental and slow. [118 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 22, 2011 12:49 | 186262 | |
| 2 | al-wali wa al-mawali and what a disgrace [76 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 22, 2011 19:05 | 186262 | |
| No blame [56 words] | sephardi | Jun 24, 2011 19:19 | 186262 | ||
| 1 | Islam, the beautiful religion [135 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 25, 2011 14:38 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Muslims killed 90 M hindus? True or false. [682 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 25, 2011 15:16 | 186262 | |
| 3 | Monotheism is a "much ado about nothing" [526 words] | Prashant | Jun 26, 2011 00:43 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Another Turkish propagandist [194 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 26, 2011 05:31 | 186262 | |
| 2 | el-komidyya el-islamiyya goes on and on [679 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 26, 2011 06:49 | 186262 | |
| 1 | el-komidyya el-islamiyya goes on and on revisited [226 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 26, 2011 08:17 | 186262 | |
| 19 | 90M Hindus were killed by muslims during jihad in India [1447 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 26, 2011 13:56 | 186262 | |
| 1 | Reponse to dhimmi no more [131 words] | sephardi | Jun 26, 2011 22:00 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Hatred and prejudice only lead to bitterness and blindness [389 words] | Mehmet | Jun 27, 2011 21:03 | 186262 | |
| 4 | The Turkish crimes against humanity [717 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 28, 2011 06:27 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Turkey and its crimes against humanity [634 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 28, 2011 07:22 | 186262 | |
| 2 | individualized middle classes replacing monolithic ethnic blocks [317 words] | Mehmet | Jun 29, 2011 02:33 | 186262 | |
| 4 | The ugliness of Islam [119 words] | Ianus | Jun 29, 2011 13:38 | 186262 | |
| You don't have any government documentation that proves Turks did genocide [217 words] | sephardi | Jun 29, 2011 14:01 | 186262 | ||
| 2 | we are all Armenians and get used to it [774 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 29, 2011 18:00 | 186262 | |
| 6 | we are all Armenians and get used to it and the Armenian Genoicde and those that deny it and shame on them [732 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 1, 2011 05:57 | 186262 | |
| You don't even know what makes something official for a government [168 words] | sephardi | Jul 1, 2011 18:45 | 186262 | ||
| 5 | Confession of the criminal is not needed to establish the authorship of a crime [1789 words] | Ianus | Jul 2, 2011 11:01 | 186262 | |
| 1 | Armenian Genocide does not exist [243 words] | sephardi | Jul 2, 2011 19:54 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Poor Turks! They are so allergic to the truth. [453 words] | Ianus | Jul 5, 2011 02:20 | 186262 | |
| 3 | Our dear Sephardi has nothing to say and shame on anyone who denies the Armenian Genocide [725 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 5, 2011 08:04 | 186262 | |
| 5 | Jalal ad-Din Rumi on Turks [1116 words] | Ianus | Jul 6, 2011 14:44 | 186262 | |
| Turks won't accept imaginary Armenian Genocide [139 words] | sephardi | Jul 6, 2011 22:22 | 186262 | ||
| 2 | Republic Of Turkey, MInistry Of Foreign Affairs: The Armenian Allegation Of Genocide The Issue And The Facts [3684 words] | sephardi | Jul 7, 2011 23:31 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Our dear Sephardi is unable to refute the legal case against Turkey in regard to the Armenian Genocide. Shame on Turkey [809 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 8, 2011 06:55 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Our dear Sephardi the Turkish Propagandist tells us that he has government documents! Where are they? Propaganda does not count [277 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 9, 2011 06:04 | 186262 | |
| Sephrdi - A Typical Genocide Denier [51 words] | Young MC | Jul 10, 2011 19:23 | 186262 | ||
| 1 | The Armenian Genocide and those that deny it! Shame on them! [694 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 20, 2011 07:16 | 186262 | |
| 5 | The barbarian and the civilized [188 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 20, 2011 13:43 | 186262 | |
| Turkey's Predicament - How to Have a Future in Spite of Its Past [384 words] | M. Tovey | Jul 29, 2011 18:19 | 186262 | ||
| Hijrath appeal will help to evacuate bad Muslims from India [387 words] | Islamic Ahimsa | Sep 11, 2011 00:45 | 186262 | ||
| Do you have any proof to support your claims? [26 words] | Adil | Oct 20, 2014 14:38 | 186262 | ||
| 4 | The Hindu Genocide revisited [514 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 22, 2014 17:14 | 186262 | |
| Real proof [55 words] | Adil | Oct 25, 2014 15:12 | 186262 | ||
| And what about the Christian Imperialism in India [99 words] | Adil | Oct 26, 2014 17:40 | 186262 | ||
| 1 | Our dear Adil admits that millions of Hindus were murdered by the Muslim invaders of India! [476 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 28, 2014 07:54 | 186262 | |
| 1 | Why do you live among kuffar our dear Adil and not in Saudi Arabia? Social benefits? No? [138 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 28, 2014 17:31 | 186262 | |
| 1 | It is a spectrum Adil [159 words] | Prashant | Oct 28, 2014 17:41 | 186262 | |
| 2 | My evidence that Islam is the religion of the Arabs only? For the nth time Q14:4 and 10:47 and 13:8 and 35:24 and 28:75 [482 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 29, 2014 07:25 | 186262 | |
| Where does it say in any history textbooks that 90,000,000 Hindus died because of Islam? [16 words] | Adil | Oct 31, 2014 12:20 | 186262 | ||
| That is what I find bad.......... [28 words] | Adil | Oct 31, 2014 12:22 | 186262 | ||
| 2 | You still did not answer my question why do you live among Christian "imperialists"? [76 words] | dhimmi no more | Nov 2, 2014 08:31 | 186262 | |
| 3 | The Hindu Genocide revisited again [52 words] | dhimmi no more | Nov 2, 2014 08:35 | 186262 | |
| 1 | What of Turkey's Foreign Relations? [55 words] | Peter Herz | Jun 13, 2011 05:42 | 186261 | |
| 1 | Expert Accountability [150 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | kzndr | Jun 12, 2011 22:38 | 186257 | |
| Islamist Parties Abroad [109 words] | Sir Daniel M. J. Tobin | Jun 12, 2011 17:37 | 186247 | ||
| 5 | Election results did not meet PM Erdoğan's expectations [32 words] | soma | Jun 12, 2011 16:44 | 186242 | |
| This is a wrongheaded analysis [117 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Jeff H. | Jun 12, 2011 14:02 | 186235 | ||
| 11 | When was the first "fair and free election" in Turkey,I wonder ? [928 words] | Ianus | Jun 13, 2011 17:03 | 186235 | |
| 17 | Turkey the land of delusions [104 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 14, 2011 06:57 | 186235 | |
| 1 | You seem to know what you are talking about but you dont have a clue actually [418 words] | John | Jun 14, 2011 10:39 | 186235 | |
| 5 | Freedom of speech in Turkey would mean the end of Kemal's personality cult [1857 words] | Ianus | Jun 15, 2011 05:15 | 186235 | |
| 5 | "He insults Turkishness.Let's hire an underage murderer to kill him!" [537 words] | Ianus | Jun 16, 2011 17:00 | 186235 | |
| 11 | Turkey the land of delusions part deux [1059 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 17, 2011 07:21 | 186235 | |
| 5 | Turkey - the land of paranoia (Armenian separatism without Armenians and Jewish land grab in Turkey without Jews) [767 words] | Ianus | Jun 17, 2011 15:59 | 186235 | |
| 2 | What is true of Turkey is true to all Islamic countries and societies [276 words] | Prashant | Jun 17, 2011 18:04 | 186235 | |
| 3 | The wikileak and Turkey is indeed the land of delusions [62 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 19, 2011 18:21 | 186235 | |
| 1 | 99 new names for Islam [154 words] | Ianus | Jun 20, 2011 07:58 | 186235 |
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