Death of Gay Activist Brings Turkey's Attitude Toward Gays Into Focus

VOA News ^ | January 21, 2010 | Dorian Jones

[myknowledge]

For 26-year-old Ahmet Yildiz, the choice to live openly as a gay man in Turkey proved deadly. Prosecutors say his father, charged with allegedly killing his son in what is being dubbed as the first gay honor killing, traveled more than 900 kilometers from his hometown to shoot his son in an old neighborhood of Istanbul. The case has drawn international attention and is putting the spotlight on Turkey's attitude towards homosexuality.

The young physics student, Ahmet Yildiz, was one of the few openly gay men in Turkey, a country in which the military, the guardian of Turkey's secular state, regards homosexuality as a disorder.

Yildiz represented his country at a gay meeting in San Francisco and wrote for gay publications in Turkey. Observers believe his activism is probably what got him killed.

[myknowledge]

Ahmet Yildiz was honor-killed by his homophobic dad, representing Turkey's stance against the vile sin of Sodom and Gomorrah.

But anyway, he killed his own son! Nothing new about Islamic honor killings.

[dsrtsage]

What’s the big deal with homo-sexuality in islam. Each and every single person I know from the military, that has ever served in the middle east, has told me that the attitude in that region is “Women are for babies, and men are for fun”

[Eagles6]

Denial is actually a river in the mideast.

[Tailback]

I had a Turkish friend while I was stationed in Turkey that thought for sure I was “getting some” with my male army buds. I had a very long sit down talk with him about American views on that behavior. Islam is one totally screwed up religion.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."
~Sir Winston Churchill

"It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing."
~General George S. Patton

[SatinDoll]

For some strange reason Muslims can completely believe two totally contradictory beliefs and not be embarrassed by the discrepancies.

[ari-freedom]

yeah the Left will reallly hate the muslims now! /sarc

[Eagles6]

"Denial is actually a river in the mideastmiddle east

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OOPS! We ain't in Kansas anymore Toto.

[eleni121]

And going back about 1300 years Saint John of Damascus who was living at the time these Ishmaelites were spreading said this - an excerpt:

“And there is also the up until now strong and people-deceiving superstition of the Ishmaelites, being the forerunner of Antichrist.”

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