İn response to Scott Ryan

Submitted by SULTAN (Turkey), Jul 29, 2005 at 01:17

Dear Ryan,

I regret that you think I celebrate terrorist attacks.I also never thought that these are organised by Jews.On the contrary Jews and Turks together are the most hurt victims.I know when they bomb İstanbul it doesnt hurt you but when it is London....

Also you say İslamic mind. No you must say Turkish mind. Yes with my Turkish mind I can say that although unfortunately most of the other muslims understands and practices Kuran rather strangely, I love it. İt makes me happy.I will never ever change my religion. İf you dont use your brain and try to understand the main messege of İslam and talk about 1300 years ago's life and dress styles of Arabs than you also live in the history. Those words you read from Kuran was the orders for those days under very different circumstances. Allah didn't order to live in the past, never develop, be jealous and bomb and kill the civilians of rich countries: allah ordered us to read the Kuran and use our brains to interpret it. My mother never told me that god ordered us to kill anybody. İn no friday praying I heard anything like this.

Anyway I will not insist to you to understand it since it is impossible to do so. Also with regimes in İran and Saudi how can I defend İslam. İf İslam was really so I would rather be an atheist. İn my country traditional muslims,modern muslims (like me) and atheists live together in peace. Even in ramadan you can drink alcohol openly. Only Allah can punish them,not people. Even if there are some İslamic radicals they are very minority.

Lets come to the real subject. All these attacks started after Bush came in to power. Did you ever think why?I am not %100 sure but I really think that USA is trying to invent an enemy to run its arm industry. And this is İslam. May be to think this way is strange. But no more strange than İslamic radicals are trying to İslimize the world. Even many Europeans think this way.

Coming to the Kurd issue. 10 million Kurds live in the west of Turkey. And 5 lives in the east. We are mixed very much. So it is not possible to seperate. We have nothing to learn from northern Irak. We are far more developed in every aspect from them. But after attacking to Irak, Americans created an unbelievable chaos there. Because of this now we have to fight against Kurd terrorists. According to your Christian mind the ones attack to you are terrorists,the ones attack to us are freedom fightors of course. When somebody bombs London all the west is reacting,but every single day tens of people are dying in Irak no body cares. Saddam was terrible but I can say Bush is 100 times more terrible. İf America continues to promote its arms industry like this I am afraid the end of the world will come. Also finally I want to say BRAVO to American people for choosing Bush for the second time.They showed to all the world their real face.

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