I gotta agree to actually - Edit 1
Before modification by Aisha at 07/04/2010 03:51:37 AM
I friggin hate turkish people that claim they are European, uhh sorry babe but no matter how much you bleach your and eyebrows it wont change what you are. I think it all boils down to an inferiority complex. but I say they should get an E for effort, they have changed so much about their culture to try to be more European like changing their alpahbet.Losers.
I don't think every Muslim expansion into Europe was for the sake of destroying Christianity, mind, but certainly they set the stage for religious as well as ethnic conflicts that fester even now. I think of Turkey as a thoroughly Asian country, but not all Europeans see it that way, and being at the crossroads does give some legitimacy to the idea it's equal parts European and Asian while being wholly neither. But the fact remains that until/unless Turkeys government conducts itself as a 21st Century democratic state, or its people compel the government to do so, it really has no place among such states. Making Turkey an EU member while it continues to ignore rather than reform its past does nothing to alleviate the Balkan problem that arrived from there centuries ago, and a great deal to exacerbate it.
They have like 100 km of Europe, with none of the culture, language, or religion. Not to mention it spent most of the last 500 years as the seat of the Ottoman Empire, from which hundreds of invasions into Europe were launched, with the objective of conquering Europe and destroying Christianity. If Turkey is let in, we might as well let in Cambodia as well, it makes about as much sense.
I don't think every Muslim expansion into Europe was for the sake of destroying Christianity, mind, but certainly they set the stage for religious as well as ethnic conflicts that fester even now. I think of Turkey as a thoroughly Asian country, but not all Europeans see it that way, and being at the crossroads does give some legitimacy to the idea it's equal parts European and Asian while being wholly neither. But the fact remains that until/unless Turkeys government conducts itself as a 21st Century democratic state, or its people compel the government to do so, it really has no place among such states. Making Turkey an EU member while it continues to ignore rather than reform its past does nothing to alleviate the Balkan problem that arrived from there centuries ago, and a great deal to exacerbate it.