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Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google
oxide7 and a number of other readers sent word (from mostly non-authoritative sources as yet) that Turkey had imposed an indefinite ban on some Google properties. "Turkey's Telecommunications Presidency said it has banned access to many of Google IP addresses without assigning clear reasons. The statement did not confirm if the ban is temporary or permanent. Google's translation and document sharing sites have also been banned indefinitely along with YouTube and Facebook in the country. Other services such as AppEngine, FeedBurner, Analytics, etc., have also been reportedly banned." Some real-time commentary (much of it in Turkish) can be found at Twitter hashtag #TurkeyCensoringGoogle. We have noted in past years the censorious ways of Turkish courts.
It's about time that Turkey was expelled from NATO. It's turning into a fascist religiously controlled state at an alarming rate.
Not only is Ataturk dead, the Turks are turning Jihadist, so now we'll have Taliban with a taste for dead Kurd (erm, "Mountain Turks").
The veneer of modern civilization is peeling off (granted, the glue never dried) and they are revealing their true Muslim character.
Add it to the list of countries Israel should nuke when götterdämmerung comes.
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founded by Jews.
Why aren't they allowed to have a democratic country implementing Sharia law? If it's a liberal reading of Sharia law it might even be better than the "pay lip service to people's rights while trampling on them and making yourself billions of dollars" that the US has spawned and is exporting.
If anyone wants to know how screwed up that country is, just ask any Greek, as they've been enslaved by them for 300+ years. They're trying to join Europe to gain the Euro, but Greece won't let them. Turkey was a country that cut off your hand for stealing. That was their version of a mistermeaner.
They haven't gone a long way from their past. In my book they're just as bad as North Korea, but America doesn't mind because Turkey helps them out in the middle east.
Irony.
All Hail Grandma Natzi.
I think they're saying it with a soft G... Calling it Jewgle, which might explain lot.
My utter contempt for _all_ superstition and for all religious people doesn't exclude the fact Islam is the most currently toxic superstition. History is worthy of study, but the current problem is the current problem. Fortunately, Muslims kill more of each other in schismatic squabbles than they do of anyone else.
There is no need to be religious (though there is plenty of convenience in professing faith so the religious don't kill you).
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Turkey is a bizarre case which I've never understood, and perhaps someone could explain it to me. You have a country which has traditionally been fiercely secular (even most average voters, not just the military) thanks to Ataturk's reforms... yet 99% of them claim to be Muslims. Now, how can those 'Muslims' possible support a non-Islamic, secular state? Either they're lying about wanting a secular state or they're confused about what being a Muslim entails. Which is it?
It's kind of depressing that so many of them seem unable to escape the cycle of dumb Islamic indoctrination, despite not living in a religious state (yet).
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And frankly, I'd take their word of it over yours because they have the natural right to define their own religious practices.
What they don't have the right to do is define what it means to be a Muslim when they say that the Quran is their most holy, infallible book. Only the book has the right to define what it means, that's the whole point of religion. And I know enough to know that they sure as hell don't practice everything in that book. I'm simply taking them to task for not practicing what they claim to believe is the most important thing in life. How is that unfair?
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LOL.
You are somehow comfortable with the notion that the only 'true' interpretation is a fundamentalist one.
Yes. Religion is, by nature, fundamentalist. I consider those who cherrypick from religious texts to be utterly hypocritical, and not properly religious - choosing, as they do, what morals to follow based on the contemporary moral zeitgeist (basically humanism).
So you admit, then, that people adapt what the (any) book says to what is relevant to them at the time they need it.
Only if they're utterly hypocritical, especially Muslims, who claim to revere every last word of the Quran.
People are the 'whole point' of religion. Specifically how these people live their lives, what their moral code winds up being, etc. You're somehow expecting your reader to believe that an inanimate object sprung into being all on its own and decided by itself what would be contained in the pages.
To the best of my knowledge, no one reads a religious tome in this manner. Or at least no one who would be even remotely interested in what you expect of them.
We are in agreement. That's why I find it sad that people lower themselves to giving a shit what the Quran says and calling themselves Muslims.
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