It’s so predictable to anyone with common sense. Obama’s “Arab Spring” is radicalizing the entire Middle East (I mean, compared to before). Moderate ones like Turkey will become increasingly strict and fanatical. The Muslim Brotherhood is benefitting and either Obama doesn’t know it, or he does.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. [Robert A. Heinlein, Postscript to Revolt in 2100]
6. They are NOT about some locals getting P.O.-ed at Erdogan for taking away their favorite park to build a mall (as was widely reported in the Low Information Media)
On the home front, DOJ has warned us that criticism of Islam or Muslims on social media may a punishable offense, yet we don’t riot.
It seems to me that the ME is fast becoming what we used to call a TARGET-RICH environment.
Very informative article. I didn’t know what these protest were about but I do now.
The author is Claire Berlinski, a brave American journalist who lives in Istanbul.
Her writing is vividly detailed and paints a realistic picture of what the protestors have faced over the last few days in particular.
Gut wrenching.
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