Thursday, May 18, 2006

Turks just say no

Ankara streets were flooded with protesters today over the 'Allah Akbar' headscarf murderer who shot a high ranking Turkish judge Wednesday:
Broadcast pictures showed the police shielding the ministers as they forced their way up to the praying platform, showered by slogans of thousands chanting, "Murderers out," "Murderer prime minister," "Murderer government" and "Turkey is secular and will remain secular."
If you missed it, the judge was shot in court (along with four others) by a Turkish lawyer shouting the Islamofascist rebel yell death cry, presumably because the judge recently refused to rule in favor a teacher who wanted to wear his head scarf. Turk lawyers were none too happy with their colleague.

Now, despite what you might think about the validity of Turkish rules regarding the wearing of religious hats, ripping bullets into innocent people while praising the Lord just can't become an accepted way of problem solving. The good thing about this rally is the fact Turkey is 99 percent Muslim.

Hopefully today's gathering can be an example to the Europeans. Similar rallies should have occurred across the continent after the Van Gogh killing and cartoon riots, yet this is the more typical response. And yet Turkey is having trouble getting into the EU.

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