Report: Israel attacks flotilla, 10 die

tater · 06-07-10, 10:30 AM

For those reflexive leftists here, don't you hate fundamentalists? Say Jerry Falwell (sp?) and his ilk?

I sure do. They are regressive, and against everything positive and humanist accomplished by western civilization.

Hamas, and this "aid group" are Islamists. They, like all other sects of Islam with more than a handful of members are fundamentalists (biblical or in this case koranic literalists). All. The shining light of Islamic secularism is...

Turkey.

Now run by, you guessed it, Islamists.

Why always side with fundamentalist Islamists? They are against everything the political left stands for socially.

The real issue is one of geopolitics. We need the destabilizing force of Israel in the Eastern Med and Western Middle East. An ascendant Turkey is showing itself to be a Bad Thing™. As the more traditional Easterners have outbred the more secular West, the demographics have changed, and I fear that Turkey is going to be a powerful, Islamist state. This is bad. Period.

If they get truly powerful, and Europe starts having problems, will the Poles come down and save civilization again? I hope so.

06-07-10, 10:30 AM	#11
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	For those reflexive leftists here, don't you hate fundamentalists? Say Jerry Falwell (sp?) and his ilk? I sure do. They are regressive, and against everything positive and humanist accomplished by western civilization. Hamas, and this "aid group" are Islamists. They, like all other sects of Islam with more than a handful of members are fundamentalists (biblical or in this case koranic literalists). All. The shining light of Islamic secularism is... Turkey. Now run by, you guessed it, Islamists. Why always side with fundamentalist Islamists? They are against everything the political left stands for socially. The real issue is one of geopolitics. We need the destabilizing force of Israel in the Eastern Med and Western Middle East. An ascendant Turkey is showing itself to be a Bad Thing™. As the more traditional Easterners have outbred the more secular West, the demographics have changed, and I fear that Turkey is going to be a powerful, Islamist state. This is bad. Period. If they get truly powerful, and Europe starts having problems, will the Poles come down and save civilization again? I hope so.