Turkey’s Christians Fear Possible Hate Campaign

In the days surrounding Christmas, a number of organizations staged protests throughout Istanbul denouncing the celebration of Christmas and New Year’s as unislamic and furthering drawing people away from their faith and making them susceptible to missionary activities. What became more disturbing was that the demonstrations contained the stabbing and attacking of effigies symbolizing Christianity. In a country that has ...
seen violent attacks on Christians within the past decade, largely motivated by campaigns similar to this, it is extremely worrisome. It also highlights the double standard present in Turkish society when people have charges regularly brought against them for “insulting religious feelings” for things such as retweeting a 13th C. poem, yet a staged public protest actively encouraging violent opposition against Christianity goes unaddressed.