Erdogan Tells Europe - Handle Your Islamophobia Before You Criticize Turkey

Europe criticised Turkey (rightfully so) for its tanking freedom of the press, so the delusional President Recep Tayyip Erdogan countered by claiming Turkey has the world's "freest" press (not!)   and that Europe should tackle the rise in Islamophobia before it starts criticizing his country.

The European Union, which Turkey has been seeking to join for decades, said the media raids ran counter to European values, a criticism already dismissed by Erdogan. On Friday, the President repeated his discontent, with a visibly harsher tone.

"We are not Europe's scapegoat," Erdogan told a symposium of civil servants. "We are definitely not a country that Europe can point its finger at and scold. Instead of criticising us, Europe should find a solution to increasing racism and Islamophobia."

He made reference to an incident in the German city of Dormagen, where ultra nationalists drew Nazi signs on the walls of a mosque construction, according to reports in Turkish local media earlier this week.

First of all, any anti-Muslim rancor that exists today has been birthed by Islamic supremacy and Muslim entitlement. There were no problems with Muslims in the West until the conservative ones started with their demands, and then the violence. Prior to 9/11 hijabs were some exotic garb worn by some Middle Eastern women. Even back in the 1960s many Afghan women wore western clothing, same thing in Egypt, and Iran.  All that has changed. As they immigrated to the West and became more religious, the demands started and the refusal to integrate and assimilate.

So, you only have yourselves to blame Mr. Erdogan.

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Maliki Wants E.U. To Stop "Encouraging Iraqi Christians To Emigrate"

For some bizarre reason the Iraqi Prime Minister wants the few Christians that still reside in that country to stay put, so he is appealing to the European Union (EU) to encourage Christians to do just that. Apparently he blames the EU for the mass exodus, not the fact that they are major targets of Muslim extremists and might be better off elsewhere.

Nouri al-Maliki was at the Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad to celebrate the re-opening of the church that was bombed on October 31, 2010, killing 58 or so congregants and wounding 100 or so.

“I urge the EU countries to refrain from encouraging Iraqi Christians to emigrate…we lived side by side in harmony and enjoyed good relations without any conflicts.”

It's nice that unlike many other Muslim majority countries Iraq allows churches, but he's obviously in major denial about the lack of harmony in his country. If the Muslims can't even get along in the land of Baghdad, and his police force can't stem the sectarian violence that occurs all too frequently, how does he expect the Christians to fare well.

He has even written to the Pope to help keep his Christians, and apparently received a positive response.

“I have asked Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican to issue a statement urging Christians to remain in Iraq, so the East will not be emptied from Christians just as the West is not emptied from Muslims.”

Good luck trying to persuade other countries  to respect their religious minorities so that the East isn't "emptied from Christians."  And maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea for Christians and followers of other tolerant religions to live exclusively in the West, while non-secular West-hating Muslims remain in their Shariah-compliant lands.