Posted by
Lady Logician on Friday, October 13, 2006 6:39:19 PM
I really don't mean to appear like I am "bashing" Islam as a whole, but there are certain aspects of it that really do deserve to be bashed. It just seems like a large number of those aspects are rearing their respective heads this week. Today's aspect comes from Turkey.
"Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan, in an interview on Monday with The Washington Post, scolded those who link Islam to the terrorism of al-Qaeda and other extremist groups that perpetrate violence in the name of Islam.
“The coinage of such terms as ‘Islamic terrorism' or ‘Islamo-fascism,' these have injured the Muslim people in the world, and it is best to avoid such characterizations,” Erdoðan said."
With all due respect Mr. Prime Minister, what would you call them then? The West is told, day in and day out, that the terrorists don't speak for all practicioners of Islam, but I have yet to hear people like you calling for the jihad against the west to stop! Why is that?
Another question, again with all due respect...if Islamophobia is a "crime against humanity" what would you call flying a jumbo jet into a highrise office building? An act of love?????