Comments on: (Un)Holy Alliance: Creationism in Turkey

By: None

None — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:11:53 +0000

This is quite humourous. The left have been doing the very same thing in the US public school system and we don’t hear you people complaining but no no no, not creationism. Too funny. Hypocrisy abounds.

By: Toedancer

Toedancer — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:46:38 +0000

Intrinsic commitment comes from within, from people’s unadulterated humanity; not from some ideological concept or interpreted translations of ancient texts to which one becomes attached. Fundamentalism is running amock in the world as we frantically seek answers to questions we never thought we’d be asking about human relationships. It is time to call on our intrinsic strengths having human experience, not to lean on extrinsic doctrines and translations from the past.
Raptures and Virgins, ugh! Thanks Fern, lots I didn’t know, but suspected.

By: fern hill

fern hill — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:27:30 +0000

Thank you. It was all news to me, too. Turkey is a fascinating place. Dragged by Ataturk into the modern era (and the West’s pockets). Now it wants to join the EU, which is leery. We should keep an eye on how the current madness plays out there.

By: skdadl

skdadl — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:31:16 +0000

Superb article, fern hill.

This is entirely news to me, but it fits a pattern, American power-brokers up to their old tricks in strategic and sensitive areas of the world. I scanned through the Wikipedia entry on Johnson to see how well anyone has tracked his political connections — he obviously has some (Santorum, eg), and then of course there is the question of where all that money is coming from.

Both the Americans and the Israelis have been happy in the past to fund and otherwise supply local fundamentalists (what eventually became al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Hamas in Palestine) as an opposition to secular regimes of which they disapprove. Not working out so well for them, that strategy, is it.

And Turkey is so promising, and yet so delicately balanced. Damn the U.S. meddlers.