Sweden Imports Jew-hatred

Swedes now tend to view all immigrants as victims of totalitarianism and refuse to acknowledge that not all immigrants think like Swedes. They cannot comprehend that people would flee if they were not hated and threatened. Most Swedes have never realized that one minority group may expose another minority group to violence and intimidation.

Unfortunately, one of the worst offenders trying to hide the truth is a Jewish organization, the Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism [SKMA]. What seems to have upset supporters of the SKMA was that Carlqvist compared them to the Organization of German Nationalist Jews, who in the 1930s supported Hitler and claimed that Jews were treated fairly in Nazi Germany.

Instead of breaking up the anti-Israel demonstration, which took place without police permission, the police chose to revoke the Jews' right to assemble. Malmö's former mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, surely must have been aware that the perpetrators of anti-Semitic excesses were his own voters. Not one of the many complaints to the police by the city's Jews has led to indictments, not to speak of convictions.

If anyone had thought that the slaughter of four Jews in a Paris supermarket -- for the reason that they were Jews -- would have caused the Swedish mainstream press and the government to explain who is behind Europe's growing anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish violence, he would be sadly mistaken. With the exception of one television program, the connection between anti-Semitism, Islam and Muslim mass immigration remains a mental no-go area in Sweden.
Sweden's history when it comes to Jews is not a pretty one. It was not until 1870 that Jews were permitted to settle wherever they wanted in the country. Sweden was behind the proposal to stamp a big "J" in the passports of German Jews, to prevent Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany from entering. And now the Swedish authorities close their eyes to the new Jew-hatred that is imported in the wake Muslim immigration.
Unfortunately, one of the worst offenders trying to hide the truth is a Jewish organization, the Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism [SKMA].

J for Jew

By the end of the 1930s, there was a growing stream of Jewish refugees from Germany to other European countries. Few countries wanted them, but how might one determine who were Jews and who were not? In 1938, Sweden and Switzerland approached Germany with the proposal to furnish Jews with special passports, and on October 5 that year the Germans complied. All passports belonging to Jews were declared null and void, and Jews who wanted to travel had to get new ones -- stamped with a big red "J" on the first page.
In 1943, when is became clear that Hitler would lose the war, Sweden hurried to restore some of its reputation. In Nazi-occupied Denmark, about 8,000 Jews had escaped deportation to Nazi concentration camps because they were under the protection of the Danish government, and were never forced to wear the yellow Star of David.
But on August 23, 1943, all cooperation between the Danish government and the occupation authorities broke down. The government resigned and the Germans imposed a state of emergency. After that, Danish Jews had no other protection than the Danish resistance, including remnants of the state administration and a largely sympathetic population. As Denmark's former Chief Rabbi Bent Melchior told Danish television some years ago, not a single Jew knocked on the door of his gentile neighbor without getting help.

The flight of the Jews

The Danish resistance got wind that the Germans planned to round up all 8,000 Danish Jews in the night between October 1 and 2, 1943, to deport them to German camps. In no time, the resistance, with the aid of a great many civilians, managed to thwart the operation. Fishing boats were mobilized to smuggle more than 7,000 Jews across the Øresund Sound to Sweden. Others were able to hide in Denmark. The 1500 German soldiers that took part in the operation only managed to catch 284 Jews on the night of the round-up. Unfortunately, more were apprehended later; altogether 474 Danish Jews ended up in the German concentration camp Theresienstadt, which was not an extermination camp. Most of them returned to Denmark after the liberation, but 53 died in German captivity, most of them old or sick.
The Danish Jews and a number of Danish resistance fighters were housed in Swedish boarding houses, youth hostels, hotels and private homes. (Among the resistance fighters was a gentleman, Leif Larsen, who had taken part in a shoot-out in Copenhagen. He found refuge in the home of one of the authors of this piece, the grandmother of Ingrid Carlqvist, and eventually married her aunt Solveig.)

Sweden's new self-image

After war's end, most of the Jews in Sweden returned to Denmark, but Sweden's self-image was forever changed. Finally, Sweden had something to be proud of after its highly dubious behavior at the time when it appeared that Hitler was on a winning streak.
Unfortunately, the Swedes drew an erroneous conclusion from their rescue of the Jews. Many Swedes are now firmly convinced that everyone seeking shelter in Sweden is in the same desperate predicament as the Jews were in 1943. One reason Swedes are more welcoming to asylum seekers than the inhabitants of most other European countries, is that they are distancing themselves from their despicable treatment of Jews before World War II, until 1943.
But this is precisely what has paved the way for a new Jew-hatred in Sweden. Swedes know nothing of the Jew-hatred in the Koran and the hadiths, so they just don't understand why Muslims attack Jews. If they even manage to hear about the attacks (the Swedish media seldom write about them), they will believe it has something to do with the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Maybe the Arabs have a reason to be angry at Jews? And since the influential Jewish organization SKMA keeps saying that Jew-hatred and "Islamophobia" are birds of a feather, why should ordinary Swedes think anything else?
Swedes now tend to view all immigrants as victims of totalitarianism and refuse to acknowledge that not all immigrants think like Swedes. They cannot comprehend that people would flee unless they were hated and threatened.
Swedes have a minimal knowledge of the Jew-hatred that is part and parcel of Islam, and the authorities and politicians refuse to acknowledge that Jews are now fleeing the southern city of Malmö due to its steadily growing Muslim population. Quite simply, most Swedes have never realized that one minority group may expose another minority group to violence and intimidation.
There are other reasons Malmö's politicians turn a blind eye to Jew-hatred. Malmö is Sweden's third-largest city and probably has the greatest proportion of Muslims. (It is hard to give exact figures because Swedish law forbids registration based on religion.) It is normally assumed that approximately one-third of Malmö's 300,000 inhabitants have a foreign background and that their number is steadily increasing. Currently, most refugees come from Syria and Somalia, and most are Muslims.

Malmö's Socialist-Muslim connection

Malmö has nearly always been governed by Social Democrats -- a party that has every reason to keep on the good side of Muslims. In municipal elections, the Social Democrats can normally count on 30% of the general vote, and on 70% of the Muslim vote.
This circumstance was undoubtedly the most important reason the city's former Social Democratic Mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, refused to do anything about rampant Jew-hatred. He surely must have been aware that the perpetrators of anti-Semitic excesses were his own voters.
For many years, Malmö's Jews have reported a growing number of hate crimes against their synagogue and themselves, but nobody has taken their complaints seriously. Eventually, a journalist by the name of Andreas Lovén from the local newspaper Skånska Dagbladet wrote in a series of articles that Jew-hatred was causing more and more Jews to move to other Swedish cities or to Israel.
For the first time, it was openly said who was behind the anti-Semitism -- the city's Muslim population. Many Jews told the paper that they dared not let their children grow up in Malmö -- the town where, on January 25, 2009, a Muslim mob was allowed to pelt a peaceful Jewish demonstration in support of Israel with bottles, eggs and smoke bombs (see video).
Instead of breaking up the anti-Israel demonstration, which took place without a police permission and which seriously threatened the Jews and friends of Israel assembled at Malmö's Great Square (Stortorget), the police chose to revoke the Jews' right to assemble.

As a Muslim mob in Malmö pelts a peaceful Jewish demonstration with bottles, eggs and smoke bombs, police push the Jews, who had a permit for their gathering, into an alley.

This decision was harshly criticized by Parliament's judicial ombudsman, who wrote: "To permit counter-demonstrators to more or less systematically prevent their opponents from voicing their opinions at public gatherings is unacceptable in a democracy."

Obama sends his envoy

Despite criticism by the judicial ombudsman, very little has happened. Not one of the many complaints to the police by the city's Jews has led to indictments, not to speak of convictions. Eventually, the situation got so bad that in April 2012, President Barack Obama sent his special envoy and head of the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Hannah Rosenthal, to Malmö to read the riot act to Mayor Ilmar Reepalu. She pointed out that the problem is not only the many hate attacks on Jews but also the fact that the mayor has exacerbated the situation by statements such as: "Jews have themselves to blame as long as they don't distance themselves from Israel's abuse of Palestinians."
Last month, Swedish television aired a program on Jew-hatred in Malmö, which clearly documented that the hate emanates from the city's Muslim population. The reporter had donned a Jewish skullcap and a Star of David and went around town to see what happened. He was immediately met with verbal abuse and was spat on.
A later program dealt with the claim of anti-Muslim hatred in Sweden. A female reporter walked the streets of Södertälje with a veil. Most of the town's immigrants are Christian Syrians and Assyrians, with Muslims in a clear minority, and she was not accosted a single time.
So far, the team behind the program has been unable to motivate other mainstream media to look into Muslim Jew-hatred. It simple does not fit into their picture that all immigrants are victims.

Attacking the messenger

Regrettably, Sweden's biggest Jewish organizations are as blind as the media when it comes to the origins of Jew-hatred. The SKMA (Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism), equates Jew-hatred with hatred of Muslims, and attacks everyone who will speak out about the true genesis of "Swedish" anti-Semitism. The SKMA refuses to talk about Muslim Jew-hatred, and gladly walks side by side with imams to protest against "growing xenophobia". Whether they do this out of fear of the growing Muslim population or from sheer ignorance is hard to tell.
In December 2013, the SKMA criticized the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, an Israeli organization, for having "in articles dealing with anti-Semitism in Sweden spread Islamophobic messages" and thus "given legitimacy to the Swedish Muslim-hater Ingrid Carlqvist." SKMA accuses Carlqvist of equating Muslims with Nazis, which is a lie. What Carlqvist has written many times is that Islam, that is the ideology, can be compared to Nazism with its Jew-hatred, supremacist ideology and hunger for world domination.
The SKMA wrote:

"Carlqvist says that the media during several years refused to write about the anti-Semitism, and when they finally did they refused 'to write about the real problem – the big Muslim group in Malmö.' That led to people in other parts of Sweden 'got the impression that blond Swedes were behind the harassment of the Jews', Carlqvist explains."

Carlqvist, the SKMA claimed, likes to "pose as an opponent of anti-Semitism when it serves her political agenda."
What actually seems to have upset the supporters of the SKMA was that Carlqvist, writing in Dispatch International, compared them to the Verband nationaldeutscher Juden [Organization of German Nationalist Jews] who, in the 1930s, supported Hitler and claimed that Jews were treated fairly in Nazi Germany.
The question is how Swedish Jews will fare in an increasingly Islamic Sweden, when not even their own organizations will point out where the Jew-hatred comes from, but would rather attack Swedes who speak the truth about why Sweden went from a safe haven for Jews to a country Jews are fleeing from. As long as the SKMA refuses to acknowledge that the vast majority of the Swedish Jew-hatred comes from Muslim immigrants, how can one expect ordinary Swedes to understand what kind of threat the Islamization of Sweden is to all of us who live here?
The first to go down the road of extermination are the Saturday People; then come the Sunday People.

The American Washer:

 

Many of the simple lessons of life are such that they hold foundation principles that have application across the spectrum of our lives. My Mother was a practical woman who would not hold back in offering me her sometimes seemingly simple observations of the reality around me. I discovered that if I did not pay attention I would reap the benefits of my own ignorance and pay a price.

 

The summer of 1969 was the great "summer of love" and I, a budding hippie, desperate to experience all the "in and happening" things, grew a little goatee, and let my hair get a little shabby (nothing like the long hair and bear that I have today). My parents were not amused but I was off on my summer of adventure no matter that "the squares" thought that I looked like a bum who just might come from a bad background, and a family that was "low class". These were the sorts of messages that in my parents mind sent a message to all who would observe me on the street and in "the wilds of America". Other peoples opinions counted and their judgements were important to my parents because they reflected on "the upbringing" that they provided me. Nothing could be worse than being judged as "unkempt" and "ill mannered", like Kanye West ( I digress), or coming from a bad background.

 

 

But on to the purpose of this little missive. I bought a great T-shirt with a really great picture of Mahareeshi Mahesh Yogi on it. It was red and I just had to wear it immediately. Mum's quitet observation was "wash it now and let the color set", but don't put anything else in with it. You can guess what I did. I threw it in with my whites, T-shirts, underwear, shirts and went off to play stick ball in the school yard across the street. A couple of hours later I came back and moved my wash load out to the clothes line in our back yard (we didn't have a dryer yet). Needless to say all the load were a collective pinkish hue. Everything had taken on the color of that T-shirt. My Mother gave me the silent Scottish look. That is a mix of mirth and disdain. She said nothing. I lived with pink underwear for a long time.

 

The lesson learned that can be passed on is this: be careful what you add to the mix because all can be colored by the overwhelming and superordinate power of the bleed of ideas. The President of the United States is a clear example of how his world view is colored by his muslim marxist influences as a youth and commitment to them as an adult. We are living with the stain of it and wondering how things were so easily changed. We allowed it to happen. We put a muslim marxist T-shirt into the mix and wondered how we got a totally pink load? Your Mother could tell you the lesson of that in a heart beat. Don't ignore that lesson, embrace it and "go and sin no more".

 

- Dr. Jim Garrow -

Being Pushed in a Dangerous Direction:

 

The rush is on to see that the wise creation of the Founding Fathers, inspired by the Scriptures, a deep knowledge of history, and a commitment to the cooperative rule by We The People, is dismantled so that a new referent can be inbedded as the new Rule of Law. This is a staged undermining of what works and what We The People understand and hold in common by way of adherence to. The Constitution in its brilliance provided for the common good and respected all parties who respected the Rule of Law. Freedom and Liberty are to be protected at all costs and it is these very principles that the left, Obama, the elites, those clamouring for a New World Order and those whose cries for fairness and equity actually mask the exact opposite. It is the desire of "our betters" to rise up as the leaders of this New World Order and have the rest of us knuckling under to their wisdom and their rule. They will show us the way and we better be glad that they are doing their best for us and while we are at it "shut up". Don't question, to do so is racist or unpatriotic. And while you are at it give us your guns, you must be paranoid or untrustworthy if you feel the need of weapons. These past few sentences are the sorts of things that will be said to you to facilitate your surrender.

 

 

So folks the great lie has yet to be spun but it is coming. Whether it is catastrophic climate change or the intervention of space aliens (the government will make it believable no matter how harebrained it is, but the time is growing short, it is nearly upon us. But know this, the fraud will demand the surrendering of our Constitutional rights for "the common good". It will demand the surrender of our weapons. It will see the temporary suspension of civil liberties and the new adherence to very stringent and restrictive limits to our mobility and freedom to assemble, to communicate, or to protest. FEMA camps will be used only to house those who will be allowed to live. The common punishment for non-cooperation or interference will be the death penalty. The Nazis and the Communists have already shown the way that it can happen in the modern era.

 

Provision yourself for the long haul (two years food and necessities), a self powered access to a source of water (wells are best), solar panels that will need to be hidden from plain sight. But most important will be the arms, armament and armor to withstand attack from government forces or roving bands of lawless or desperate people. 2015 is the year of preparation, 2016 is the beginning of the War of the American People. We will need all of Gods wisdom and favor to survive.

 

May God bless each and every one of you and may he protect you and yours.

 

- Dr. Jim Garrow -

Born Liberal, Raised Right: How to Rescue America from Moral Decline -- One Family at a Time.

 Rewarding Bad Behavior

 

“Crime does not pay.”

---The Shadow

 

 This land -- the United States of America -- is our home. We as the homeowner have the right to make rules about how everyone is to enter our home. We insist that our neighbors not sneak or barge in, but knock on the front door. If they enter without our permission, we will view them as trespassers. If they take what is not theirs, we will regard them as thieves. If they move into our guest room, we will evict them as squatters. We don’t ask much—just that neighbors knock and secure permission before entering our home.

 An illegal alien is someone who has defied American border laws and deceitfully entered this country. That type of entry is no different than someone who climbs in a window of a home with a room-for-rent and begins living there without permission of the owner. Just as there are legal ways of gaining permission to enter a home and rent a room, there are legal ways of entering this country. And just as those who sneak into a home are trespassers and squatters, so also are those who sneak into this country.

 As heads of our home, it is important that our children see we mean what we say. If rules are broken and we fail to bring consequences, the children learn that wrongdoing can be rewarded—that is, we teach them that crime does indeed pay. If it is the neighbors who have broken the rules by sneaking in a window, and we fail to hold them accountable, the neighbors will learn to disrespect us and our authority. In fact, if we tolerate their trespassing, and fail to evict them from the guest room, they will eventually come to think they have a right to be there. In time they will complain about the food and insist that we grant them the same rights as our children. The children will witness our lack of disciplinary action, and have one of two reactions. They will disrespect us for being wimpy in our leadership, or if the neighbors help them with their chores, they may despise us for wanting them gone. One thing is certain—in such a home social chaos will increase as disrespect for authority grows in the children and the uninvited guests.

 Insistence upon amnesty or citizenship for trespassers makes no sense at all. Why would we even think of granting “family” status to people who have already demonstrated a severe disrespect for our house rules when they violated them to enter our home in the first place? Do we reward bank robbers by allowing them to keep what they steal? If we advertise a room for rent, will we lease it to the prowler who continually breaks into our home and sleeps on our sofa? Will we not search for a tenant with more character than a proven trespasser?

 Even more bizarre is that some think we are obligated to provide education and healthcare to the children of those who trespassed. If someone commits a crime and breaks into my home, I am not responsible to feed or care for the children they bring with them while they commit the crime. The criminals are responsible for putting their children at risk—not me, the homeowner. Border trespassers put their families at risk by sneaking them into a country where they are not legally permitted to work. It is a foolish man who takes his children into a place where he cannot legally provide for them. It is a cruel man who brings his family with him when he commits a crime—he puts them at risk, and by example teaches them to disregard the law.

 In the U.S. we forbid deceitful entry, but then we reward the trespassers. We see that they put their children at risk, but instead of sending them packing with a good scolding for endangering their children, we reward them by educating, feeding, and caring for their children. By no means are we obligated to care for children put at risk by their parents, especially if it encourages further irresponsibility in the parents. How blind can we be?

 Let’s place this scenario in your neighborhood.

 If you find out that your neighbor’s children have been sneaking into your yard and camping in your fruit orchard, wouldn’t it be natural to appeal to him to get control of his children? If you discover that the children have not only been camping, but picking your fruit and taking it home to sell at their father’s fruit stand, wouldn’t it be within your rights to build a fence and buy a guard dog?

 What would you say if, after building the fence, your neighbor threatens you with a lawsuit for putting barbed wire on the fence, since his children might get injured climbing over it? Wouldn’t you consider it his responsibility to provide for his children and keep them out of your yard? If he cannot control his children, would it be unreasonable to expect him to build a fence himself?

 Yet, here is the government of Mexico with a victim mentality! Rather than apologize for not securing their own border and keeping better control of their citizens, the Mexican government strangely believes that it is the duty of the U.S. to care for their people. They are even threatening lawsuits if we try too hard to protect our borders.

 Rather than making threats against us, Mexican officials should warn their own people about the consequences they will face if they trespass into their northern neighbor’s yard. Apparently, they are coddling parents and neglect their own duty, because they desire for their citizens a life not to be found under their own leadership. They then demand that their U.S. neighbor provide that which they are failing to provide themselves. But obviously, we won’t see them warn their people—they crave the millions of dollars sent back home into Mexico each year.

 As long as America tolerates the commission of border crimes, and rewards the criminals by caring for them and their children, we should not expect to see our nation grow in moral fiber. Such leadership is bad parenting and bad government. May we wake up and do the right thing before it is too late!

Turkey: Don't Get Mad, Take Over a Bank

Erdogan is raising the stakes, not just to hit Gulen. The way he fights Gulen has a message to present and potential enemies: if you dare to gain my enmity, this is what you, too, will face.

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names," John F. Kennedy apparently once said. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan follows a different practice: He neither forgives them, nor forgets their names -- not even those of his enemies' friends.
Until they openly declared war on each other at the end of 2013, Erdogan and Fethullah Gulen, an influential Muslim preacher who lives in self-exile in Pennsylvania, were best political allies. Everyone thought this was a "marriage made in heaven" between an ambitious Islamist politician and a preacher who, together with his millions of followers, ran a worldwide empire of schools, charity organizations, banks, media companies and businesses.
Surprisingly, the ideal partnership broke up over ideological differences and a struggle over sharing power.
Gulen's alleged network of senior police officers, judges and other bureaucrats were on the edge of hijacking the Turkish state from Erdogan; or so Erdogan and his men thought. The divorce was violent: Gulenists allegedly recorded and released hundreds of embarrassing audio and video files revealing a corrupt network of relationships among Erdogan, his family, four ministers, their sons and the ruling party's business cronies. Gulen was apparently hoping that Erdogan would lose the forthcoming elections (in March and August 2014).
But Erdogan won both elections -- and vowed revenge. To Erdogan, this was, it appears, an existential war.
Until last December, in what looked like a witch-hunt, Erdogan fought mainly by purging, reassigning or suspending thousands of police officers, prosecutors and judges who, according to intelligence agencies, were likely members of the Gulen movement.
In December, Erdogan stepped up the fight. On December 14, the police detained dozens of journalists, producers, scriptwriters, police officers and former police chiefs on charges of forming an illegal organization whose members "engage in forgery and slander." A few days later, a Turkish court issued an arrest warrant for Gulen on charges of "leading a criminal organization."
On Jan. 22, Erdogan geared up his offensive. In his sights were the hundreds of schools Gulenists operated in more than 140 countries, including more than a hundred charter schools in the United States. Erdogan called on foreign countries to shut down schools operated by Gulen, and proposed to replace them with state-run Turkish schools. He said the Turkish Education Ministry was working on a scheme to take over the charter schools operated by the Gulen movement.
But why would an Islamist president strive to close down hundreds of schools abroad run by another Islamist figure, especially when they have the same nationality? Erdogan claimed on January 31 that the Gulenists in the country, whom he dubs a "parallel structure," have joined forces with none other than the Israeli intelligence service: "The sincere [devoutly Muslim] people backing this parallel structure [the Gulenists] should see with whom this structure is cooperating... Shame on them if they still cannot see that this structure is cooperating with the Mossad."
Erdogan was bold, but not creative enough. It is the half-century-long tactic among the world's Islamists to accuse an enemy or a rival of cooperating with the Mossad -- supposedly the most evil organization in the world.
Unsurprisingly, the Turkish president did not offer any evidence for any kind of link between the Gulen movement and the Mossad. Apparently, the accusation's only aim was to position public diplomacy for Erdogan's next salvos.
On February 2, Turkey's state-run news agency, Anatolia, said that the government had cancelled Gulen's Turkish passport. Turkey informed U.S. officials on January 28 that it was revoking Gulen's passport because it was issued based on a "false statement."
It was not a secret that this was a carefully-planned legal move to force U.S. officials to extradite or deport Gulen. In a televised interview on January 29, Erdogan actually said it would be appropriate if the U.S. deported Gulen.
But Erdogan's biggest blow ever came on February 3, when Turkey's banking watchdog, BDDK in its Turkish acronym, decided to take over 63% of Bank Asya, Turkey's biggest Islamic lender and allegedly the principal financier of Gulenist activity in Turkey. BDDK said it transferred 63% of Bank Asya's shares to a government-controlled fund and appointed a new board of directors. It said it took over the shares of the bank because "it violated banking laws regarding transparency of partnership structure and organizational scheme."

Customers of a Bank Asya branch in Izmir, Turkey, demonstrate their support for the bank, Feb. 4, 2014. (Image source: Cihan video screenshot)

This should come as no surprise. Last year, BDDK placed Bank Asya under watch, probably trying, since then, to find the best legal pretext to destroy the treasure room of President Erdogan's biggest enemy.
The fall of Bank Asya will not be the end of the war. It only signals further offensives by Erdogan on other Gulen targets, small and big. Erdogan is raising the stakes, not just to hit Gulen. The way he fights Gulen has a message to present and potential enemies: if you dare to gain my enmity, this is what you, too, will face.

Burak Bekdil, based in Ankara, is a Turkish columnist for the Hürriyet Daily and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum

Jews in Turkey: Unending Discrimination

The Jewish homes in Israel are not an obstacle to peace. The only obstacle to peace is the hatred of Israel's neighbors.
Many of us in other countries in the Middle East see Israel as the only light of freedom and democracy in the midst of darkness, terrorism and hatred in the region.
The concept of real freedom and democracy seems foreign to anti-Semites. From here, it looks as if many of these self-proclaimed liberals have a self-congratulatory concept of what is right and wrong as closed-minded, un-free and un-democratic as that of the most rigid tyrant.
When people show solidarity with the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas, or with those who jail, try or flog people for free speech, it just further proves Israel's rightfulness and legitimacy.
You would defend yourself against incoming rockets; why shouldn't they? Israel has nothing to apologize for.

It is really hard to please the Jew-haters.
When Jews cannot protect themselves because they do not have a military, they are "cowards" and are persecuted in Turkey and worldwide. When they do protect themselves, thanks to their military, they are "oppressors."
To anti-Semitic or anti-Israel people, Israel is the problem.
Many of us in other countries in the Middle East, on the contrary, see Israel as the only light of freedom and democracy in the midst of darkness, terrorism and hatred in the region.
Just recently, on January 12, Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust denier and terrorism glorifier, met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.
Before that, on December 29, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal spoke to the congress of the ruling AKP and said "Inshallah we will liberate Palestine and Jerusalem again in the future."
The crowd in the congress shouted slogans "Mujahid Mashaal," "Hamas, I [am ready to] lay down my life for you" and "Down with Israel!"
The problem is: the concept of real freedom and democracy seems foreign to anti-Semites. From here, it looks as if many of these self-proclaimed liberals have a self-congratulatory concept of what is right and wrong as closed-minded, un-free and un-democratic as that of the most rigid tyrant. When people refer to Israel as "the problem," they imply that the existence of Jews is the problem.
When people show solidarity with the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas, or with those jail, try or flog people for free speech, it just further proves Israel's rightfulness and legitimacy.
When people in this region say, "Down with Israel" it really means: We do not want democracy; we do not want equality. We want our own state to be supreme and we want Jews to be stateless and defenseless. We do not want the wisdom or knowledge of Jews. We just need more darkness, arrogance and enmity. We are as ignorant as can be and we are happy this way. And if possible, we want another Holocaust, just as Hamas calls for it. At the same time, we definitely want peace. And this is our understanding of peace.
Israel is where the ancestors of the Jews lived, learned and toiled. Jews need to be there not only to be safe from further massacres but also to learn in the light of their ancestors -- who brought what are among the first laws of social justice to the word after Hammurabi. It is right there, all you have to do is read it. Pay the day-laborer by sunset. Do not cook the lamb in the milk of its mother. Do not steal. Do not murder. There are books more of them. These are the genuine messages of freedom.
Jews are Israel's indigenous people and they have extended their hand in peace to both Palestinians and others many times -- and been rejected. You would defend yourself against incoming rockets; why shouldn't they? Israel has nothing to apologize for.
There is a popular belief that anti-Semitism had not been promoted in Turkey until the current Islamist Justice and Development Party [AKP] took power in 2002. However, taking a closer look at the lives of Jews in modern Turkey makes it clear that this was just a myth. The truth is that to be a Jew in Turkey seems to mean having been exposed to more than 90 years of systematic discrimination including pogroms, forced assimilation, and prohibitions against the use of their native language.
On November 21, 2014, MEMRI [Middle East Media Research Institute] published a must-read special dispatch entitled, "Anti-Semitism Hits New High In Turkey: Threats Against Turkish Jews, Expressions Of Admiration For Hitler, Calls For Jews To Be Sent To Concentration Camps; Jews Should Pay A 'Special Tax'."
"At the same time that President Erdogan was denying, in his September 22, 2014 speech at the Council of Foreign Relations, that he or his government were in any way anti-Semitic," the dispatch read, "members of his party back home were tweeting praise for Hitler, and shops in Istanbul were displaying signs reading "No Admittance To Jewish Dogs."
As MEMRI points out, it is obvious that under the AKP government, anti-Semitism in Turkey has been hitting new high. But these gruesome realities are not the product only of the Islamist AKP, nor are they first in Turkey's history.
Jews in Turkey were already sent to forced-labor battalions in 1941-1942, required to pay a special tax in 1942-1944, and exposed to forced assimilation in Turkey. They were systematically subjected to hate speech in the Turkish press, which also played a role in the 1934 anti-Jewish pogrom in Eastern Thrace. With the enforcement of the surname law, Jewish children had to change their names and surnames and adopt Turkish sounding names. Ladino, the language of Turkey's Jews, was also banned by the Turkish regime. Since 1923, when the Turkish Republic was established, Jews have systematically been discriminated against (as well as all other non-Muslim communities), and Jews have been deprived of their freedom of movement at least three times: in 1923, 1925 and 1927.
The Turkish republic had been founded by the so-called "secular" Republican People's Party [CHP], now the main opposition party in Turkey's parliament.
Although anti-Semitism during the AKP's rule has been widely reported by the media, anti-Semitism during and after the establishment period of the Turkish Republic has been largely overlooked.
In Turkey, anti-Semitism has a long history among state authorities, opinion shapers, political circles (both right- and left-wing), Islamist and non-Islamist groups, and particularly in the media. Not a single Turkish university has a Jewish- or Holocaust-studies department. The reestablishment of the Jewish state in 1948 just turned anti-Semitism into anti-Zionism, which seems to be an implicit, disingenuous kind of anti-Semitism.
From the time of the founded of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, until 1950, when the first national elections took place, these practices were carried out by the non-Islamist governments of the Republican People's Party [CHP], which established the Turkish state.
It is impossible to mention all the anti-Semitic incidents in Turkey in one article, but a short chronology of the most important developments relating to Jews would help one realize what kind of a life Jews were forced to live in Turkey for decades.

Traditional Anti-Semitism in Turkish Media

The historian Ayse Hur, based on the comprehensive writings of independent scholar Rifat Bali, recounted some of the anti-Semitic campaigns of the Turkish press during the first decades of the Turkish Republic.[1]
In January 1923, the Turkish Voice (Türk Sesi) and Burnt Land (Yanık Yurt) newspapers, published in the province of Izmir, called on Turkish traders to struggle against "the immoral and sordid Jewish threat." The pieces claimed that the Jews were the breeding ground for germs in Turkey and especially in Izmir. Then Akbaba, a satirical magazine, joined the chorus, publishing a series of pieces which featured titles such as "haven't you heard that you should not do business with the Jews," and "Shall we allow these germs to live with us?"
In December 1925, after the rumors were spread that at least 300 Jews sent a telegram to the celebrations of the 435th anniversary of Columbus' discovering America, an anti-Semitic campaign was started in mainstream newspapers. The published pieces referred to Jews as "ungrateful" and as "leeches who cling on the back of the country," and suggested that they be exiled as a solution. Some people provoked by those writings killed a young Jew and attacked the synagogue in the town of Kuzguncuk.[2] Whether such a telegram was ever sent remains unknown.
In January 1937, the fascistic and national-socialistic waves of Europe arrived in Turkey: A German Information Office was opened in Istanbul. Türkische Post and Cumhuriyet (The Republic) newspapers started to repeat Nazi propaganda.
In August 1938, the government issued decree No.# 2/9498, which read: "The Jews who are exposed to pressures in terms of living conditions and travelling in the states of which they are nationals are forbidden to enter and live in Turkey regardless of their current religion." Twenty six Jewish employees of the Anatolian News Agency, then the only official news agency of Turkey, were dismissed. There was a massive increase in the number of articles and cartoons in newspapers and magazines that held minorities, especially Jews, responsible for the problems that Turkey was going through.
On December 28,1939, a powerful earthquake hit the province of Erzincan in Turkey, killing tens of thousands of people. Upon hearing that, Jewish communities in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Buenos Aries, New York, Geneva, Cairo and Alexandria collected money and clothes among themselves and sent them to Turkey. Instead of appreciating this act, articles and cartoons ridiculed it and suggested bad intentions.
In 1948, when Jews wanted to go to the newly-founded State of Israel, Turkey's state and state-directed media, which had done everything in their power to make the Jews flee Turkey, now referred to those wanting to emigrate as "traitors."

Ancestry Codes of Armenians, Greeks and Jews

Research by the daily newspaper Radikal and interviews with officials has revealed a century-long saga of discrimination in Turkey. According to Radikal's findings, Turkey has been secretly assigning codes its Armenian, Greek, Jewish, Syriac and other non-Muslim minorities ever since the establishment of the Turkish Republic. The Population Directorate of Turkey codes Greeks using the number 1, Armenians 2 and Jews 3.
"This is obviously a scandal that should shake Turkey to its core, but the country is so busy with its own agenda," wrote Orhan Kemal Cengiz, a human rights lawyer and columnist in his column on Al Monitor.

"Given Turkey's history, which is full of unfair practices toward non-Muslims, perhaps the significance of this scandal can best be understood through comparison. For a moment, imagine that Jews in Germany today were secretly being identified through coding by the German government and that this was exposed. It would register as a political earthquake big enough to shake the German political system down to its roots. In contrast, the scandal in Turkey remained in the news only for a few days in a few newspapers."

Laws that excluded Jews and other non-‎Muslims from certain professions

Even in the beginning of 1923 and 1924, foreign companies and banks were required to employ only Turkish-Muslim citizens and to dismiss non-Muslims. Greeks, Jews and Armenians were dismissed in groups without being paid.
On January 24, 1924, "being Turkish" became the requirement for working as a pharmacist in accordance with a new law relating to pharmacists.[3]
On April 3, 1924, in accordance with the law of lawyers, 960 lawyers were evaluated as to whether they had good morals. As a result of the evaluation, work permits of 460 lawyers were cancelled. Thus, 57% of Jewish lawyers, and three out of four Greek and Armenian lawyers, lost their jobs.[4]
In the 4th article of the 1926 law on civil servants, it was stated that only "Turks" could work at public institutions. The law included all employees in public institutions, from tramway drivers to harbor workers. Due to this law, thousands of non-Muslims lost their jobs.
During 1928, new laws about requirements for carrying out certain jobs were enacted. According to these laws, only "Turkish" citizens could be doctors, dentists, midwives, nurses and so on.
The "Turkish citizens" in these laws referred only to "ethnic Turks." So to carry out these jobs, one had to be not only Muslim but an "ethnic Turk."
On April 22, 1926, after a law was enacted that made Turkish the only language of commercial correspondence, non-Muslims who were working in administrative bodies and did not have a full command of written Turkish, were dismissed.
On June 11, 1932, the Turkish parliament enacted law #2007, which prohibited foreigners from many jobs. The law read[5]:

The jobs and services mentioned below can be carried out by Turkish citizens alone. It is prohibited for those who are not Turkish citizens to carry out these jobs and services:
A.) being a peddler; musician; photographer; hairdresser; compositor; estate agent; dress, hat and shoe manufacturer; stock trader; seller of products which are under state monopoly; translator; guide; working in construction, iron and wooden works; working permanently or temporarily on public vehicles; working in the fields of water, lighting, central heating, mailing and telecommunication sectors; loading and commissioning [in ships];working as a driver and turnboy; doing assistant works in general; being a watchman, janitor or headwaiter at all kinds of companies, businesses, hotels and firms; working at hotels, motels, public baths, cafes; being a waiter at clubs, dance halls, or pubs, dancer or singer at pubs.
b.) Being a veterinarian and chemist.

This "law of occupations" was the most extreme law of the Kemalist government after the proclamation of the new Republic in 1923.
Employment bans were also big obstacle for refugees exiled from Germany. They were trying to find jobs that had not been banned, or to make use of legal loopholes. Some of them -- particularly women -- received residence permits for marriages with Turkish men. If Turkish authorities learned that the marriages were "fake," women were faced with the danger of being deported.[6]

"Citizen, Speak Turkish!" Campaign, Prohibitions against Ladino and Forced Assimilation

On January 13, 1928, the student union at the Law School in the Ottoman University (today's Istanbul University) launched a campaign to prohibit the use in public of all languages other than Turkish.
The campaigners placed posters in many cities across Turkey with the slogan "Citizen, speak Turkish!" Some other signs proclaimed, "We cannot call a Turk those who do not speak Turkish" or "Speak Turkish or leave the country!" Hundreds of people were harassed in public, given fines or arrested, with full support of the government.[7]
Isil Demirel, a Turkish anthropologist, examined the process by which Turkish replaced Ladino as the mother tongue of Sephardic Jews in Turkey.[8] "The Jews were exposed to great pressures during the attempts of spreading Turkish in 1920s," Demirel wrote. "Since Turkish was starting to be used among Jews instead of Ladino, cultural differences emerged between the old generation, who used Ladino as their mother tongue, and the young generation who were raised with Turkish. Ladino, which is a dying language in Turkey today, is used only by Jews older than 50, and embodies a rooted and long-running culture."
Demirel quoted a Sephardic Jew who experienced the "Citizen, Speak Turkish!" campaign: "When you spoke two words of Spanish (Ladino) back then, they immediately raised their hands. 'Heeeeyyy Madame, Monsieur! Citizen, speak Turkish!,' they shouted or they had sticks behind them and shook them at you."
In another forced-assimilation campaign, in November 1932, every Jew in the province of Izmir was made to sign an agreement in which they promised "to embrace the Turkish culture and speak the Turkish language." This was followed by the Jews in the provinces of Bursa, Kiklareli, Edirne, Adana, Diyarbakir and Ankara. Newspapers were filled with reports of Jewish (and Armenian) girls who were converting to Islam in groups.

1934 Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Thrace

The pogroms, in June 21- July 4, 1934, occurred in the provinces of Tekirdag, Edirne, Kirklareli, and Canakkale in Eastern Thrace, and were initiated by articles written by Pan-Turkic authors Cevat Rıfat Atilhan and Nihal Atsız. The pogroms began with a boycott of Jewish businesses, and were followed by physical attacks on Jewish-owned buildings, which were first looted, then set on fire. Jews were beaten, attacked and some Jewish women were reportedly raped.
In terror, more than 15,000 Jews fled the region. Anti-Semitic pressures on the Jewish communities at schools, markets and state institutions, even after the pogroms, lingered on. A "confidential" circular sent by the headquarters of the ruling CHP to its local branches in Eastern Thrace also revealed that the government had at least condoned the pogroms.

Turkey during the Holocaust

During the Holocaust, Turkey opened its doors to very few Jewish and political refugees. The attempts of many famous people or Jewish organizations to make Turkey accept more Jewish refugees bore no result. That is the reason Turkey is not in the statistics of countries to which Jewish refugees fled.[9]
In 1937, Turkey took measures to prevent Jewish immigration. When the number of Jewish refugees increased rapidly in 1938, Turkey enacted two laws that prohibited people with no passport or citizenship documents from entering and settling in Turkey. These laws were not openly related to Jews. But behind them was the reality that Germany and other countries had stripped Jews of their citizenship rights. On 29 August 1938, the Turkish government issued a policy letter preventing "Jews whose rights had been limited in their countries" from entering Turkey.[10]

Tragedies of Jewish Refugees

The historians Corry Guttstadt and Rifat Bali reported the tragedies of Jewish refugees who were trying to escape Nazi persecution and reach Israel, their historic homeland, during the Holocaust.[11]
On August 8, 1939, the ship, Parita, had to dock in the province of Izmir, due to some problems it had experienced while carrying 800 Jewish refugees from Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia to the land of Israel (then, under the British mandate, called Palestine). The Jewish refugees sat for a week off the coast of Izmir with no coal, water or food. The ship was denied a berth in the port and the captain was finally forced, after threats from the Turkish police, to sail on.
Turkish satirical magazines such as Karikatür and Akbaba ridiculed the Jewish refugees who sought refuge throughout the world in vain. The caricature on the cover of the Akbaba from August 24, 1939, referred to the Jewish refugees on the Parita. The caption had one of the Jews saying: "We are hungry and out of money. For God's sake, allow us to disembark for five minutes to get rich." After the ship had left the coast of Izmir, the semi-official daily Ulus wrote, "The Jews who have been roaming around here have finally left."
On December 6, 1940, a ship named Salvador, traveling to the land of Israel from Varna, in Bulgaria, arrived in Istanbul with 327 Czech and Bulgarian Jews aboard it. The Salvador was forced out to sea on December 12, despite bad weather, only to sink same day during a heavy storm off the coast of Silivri, on the Sea of Marmara. As a consequence, 204 people drowned, at least 70 of them children.
On December 15, 1941, the Struma ship, in an effort to save 769 Romanian Jews from the German extermination, had left Constanza harbor to carry them to the land of Israel, and tried to dock in Istanbul. Not only was the ship completely overloaded but it was also not seaworthy because of a defective engine. A banner which read "Save Us" was fastened to the ship. For 70 days during the winter months of 1941-1942, Turkey did not allow it to dock; those on the ship struggled against disease and deaths off the coast of Istanbul, near Sarayburnu. The ship's anchor finally was cut, and the ship fastened to a pilot boat, to be drawn away to the Black Sea.
With no motor, fuel, food, water or medicine, the Struma was abandoned to its fate and was towed into the open sea. On February 24, 1942, it was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine at 2:00 a.m. Only one person survived. After the incident, then Prime Minister Refik Saydam said: "Turkey cannot become the home of those who are not wanted by anyone else."

Labor Battalions of Non-Muslims (1941-1942)

On April 22, 1941, 12,000 non-Muslims, including Jewish men between the ages of 27 and 40, were sent in extreme hot weather as soldiers to camps with no infrastructure and a shortage of water, which were infested with mosquitoes, dampness, mud -- all of which spread malaria. Those soldiers, also known as "the Twenty Classes," were not given guns. They were forced to wear the clothes of garbagemen and to work endless hours, and were insulted and ridiculed as "infidel soldiers." Even blind and physically disabled persons were conscripted. They were made to work under terrible conditions at places such as tunnel constructions in Zonguldak and in the construction of the Youth Park in Ankara. There was hard labor, such as rock crushing and road construction in the provinces of Afyon, Karabuk, Konya, and Kutahya. The "Twenty Classes" were discharged on June 27,1942.[12]
"Due to the poor conditions during the service there were deaths and diseases among the conscripts," reported the Turkologist Ruben H. Melkonyan.
The prevailing and widespread point of view on the matter was that, wishing to participate in World War II, Turkey gathered in advance all unreliable non-Turkish men regarded as a potential "fifth column", wrote Melkonyan.

The Law of Wealth Tax (1942-1944)

On November 11, 1942, the government, led by then PM Sukru Saracoglu, enacted a Wealth Tax law, with the stated aim of overcoming the economic problems that had emerged during World War II. 87% of tax payers, however, were non-Muslims.
"The real reason for the Wealth Tax was the elimination of non-Muslims from the economy, wrote Basak Ince, an Assistant Professor of political science.[13]
Taxpayers were divided into four separate groups according to their religious background:

1. M, for Muslims,
2. G, for non-Muslims,
3. E, for foreigners,
4. D, for converts.

The amount of taxes to be paid by Armenian traders was 232%, by Jewish traders was 179%, by Greek traders was 156%. Only 4.94% of Turkish Muslims had to pay the wealth tax. So those who suffered most severely were non-Muslims such as the Jews, Greeks, Armenians, and Levantines; it was the Armenians who were most heavily taxed.
The Turkish researcher Ridvan Akar refers to the wealth tax as an economic genocide against minorities. [14]
The law was also imposed on poor non-Muslims, such as drivers, workers and even beggars, whereas their Muslim counterparts were not required to pay anything. Non-Muslims had to pay their taxes within 15 days, in cash. People unable to pay were sent to forced labor camps in eastern Anatolia.
"And those unable to pay were packed off to a camp at Askale, near Erzerum -- an area cooler than Moscow in the winter -- where they were put to work breaking stones," reported the author Sidney Nowill.[15]
The historian Corry Guttstadt, in her book Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust, wrote that "Although the law stipulated that people over 55 years old were exempt from labor service, 75 and 80 year old men and even sick people were dragged to the train station and deported."
These taxes ruined the lives and finances of many non-Muslim families; there were a number of suicides of non-Muslims in Istanbul. "Some people committed suicide in despair," Guttstadt wrote.
Of the people who were sent to the labor camps, 21 died there; the Turkish government confiscated their assets and sold them to Turkish Muslims at low prices.[16] "The Wealth Tax was withdrawn in March 1944, under the pressure of criticism from Britain and the United States," Ince reported.

Murders and Unjust Trials

On August 17, 1927, Elza Niyego, a 22-year-old Jewish woman, was stabbed to death by Osman Ratip Bey, a married man, age 42, who had proposed her but was rejected. The dead body of the young woman was left out for three hours in the street. Elza's mother was not allowed to cover her daughter's dead body, an order that aroused a great reaction among the Jewish community. Masses who joined the funeral on 18 August shouted, "We want justice!". After the funeral, attended by crowd whose number was estimated to range between 10 to 25 thousand, the Cumhuriyet (Republic) newspaper started an intense anti-Semitic campaign. The Cumhuriyet and other newspapers featured headlines which referred to Jews as "the ungrateful" or "the arrogant."
At the end of the trial, the murderer Osman Ratip Bey was sent to a mental asylum, but not to prison. Nine Jews and a Russian witness of the murder, however, were brought to court for "insulting Turkishness," and four were imprisoned. And once again, the freedom of movement of Jews across Anatolia was denied by the government, as of 29 August 1927.
On January 30, 1947, all members of a Jewish family, which consisted of seven people, were found dead in the Kendirli neighborhood of the province of Urfa. The Jewish community of Urfa was held responsible for the murder, and all Jewish men in the city were arrested. Throughout the trials, the people of Urfa boycotted Jews. The Jews who were arrested were released after three years but the Jews of Urfa had to leave the city.

Jews in Turkey Today

Jews in Turkey, even under Kemalist, non-Islamic governments, were exposed to severe and systematic discrimination for decades. Today, under an Islamist government, they are feeling unsafe and threatened again. Many people from Turkey's Jewish community are leaving the country or planning to, a prominent businessman from the community wrote in a December 2014 article for the Istanbul-based Jewish newspaper, Salom. Mois Gabay, a professional in the tourism industry, wrote, referring to the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink in 2007: "We face threats, attacks and harassment every day. Hope is fading. Is it necessary for a 'Hrant among us' to be shot in order for the government, the opposition, civil society, our neighbors and jurists to see this?"
Gabay added that increasing numbers of Turkish Jews are making plans to move abroad with their families: "Around 37 percent of high school graduates from the Jewish community in Turkey prefer to go abroad for higher education ... This number doubled this year compared to the previous years."
It is not only students who have begun to think about building a life abroad for their families and children, Gabay wrote, but also young business people: "Last week, when I was talking to two of my friends on separate occasions, the conversation turned to our search for another country to move to. That is to say, my generation is also thinking more about leaving this country."

When anti-Semitism turns into anti-Zionism

If there had been a Jewish state while all this persecution had been taking place, Jews could have gone there in time of need.
Had there been such a state before the Holocaust, European Jews could have sought refuge. Had they had a military, they could have defended themselves from the Nazis.
After all this persecution and discrimination against Jews, the anti-Semitic tradition of Turkey still continues. In 2005, Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler, became a best seller in Turkey after it was published by 13 publishing houses.
Jewish homes being built in Israel are not an obstacle to peace. The only obstacle to peace is the hatred from Israel's neighbors.

Uzay Bulut, born a Muslim, is a Turkish journalist based in Ankara.

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[1] Hur, Ayse , 8 February 2009, "Isolated (!) Incidents of Anti-Semitism." Taraf Newspaper.
Bali, Rifat (1999). Turkish Jews in the Republican Years - An Adventure of Turkification (1923-1945). Iletisim Publishing House.
Bali, Rifat (2001). The Children of Moses, The Citizens of the Republic. Iletisim.
Bali, Rifat (2004). The Jews of the State and the "Other" Jew. Iletisim.
[2] Ibid
[3] Hur, Ayse, 22 January 2012, "The 'minority report' of the Republic." Taraf Newspaper.
[4] Ibid
[5] Yabancılara Çalışma Yasağı
[6] Ibid
[7] Bali, Rifat (1999). Turkish Jews in the Republican Years - An Adventure of Turkification (1923-1945). Iletisim Publishing House. Ince, Basak (2012). Citizenship and Identity in Turkey: From Atatürk's Republic to the Present Day. I. B. Tauris.
[8] Demirel, Isil (2011). "Ladino: Turkey is Forgetting a Language." Atlas Magazine.
[9] Türkiye'de Sürgün http://www.annefrank.de/mensch/tr/dorothea-brander/schwerpunktthemen/exil-in-der-tuerkei/
[10] Ibid
[11] Guttstadt, Corry (2013). Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press. Bali, Rifat (2004). The Jews of the State and the "Other" Jew. Iletisim.
[12] Bali, Rifat (2008). The Twenty Classes: The Episode of Military Service of Non-Muslims during the Second World War. Kitabevi Publishing House.
[13] Ince, Basak (2012). Citizenship and Identity in Turkey: From Atatürk's Republic to the Present Day. I. B. Tauris.
[14] "Report: The law that coveted the 'wealth' of minorities," by Zeynep Ozakat, Milliyet newspaper, 15/12/2009.
[15] Nowill, Sidney E. P. (2011). Constantinople and Istanbul: 72 Years of Life in Turkey. Matador.
[16] Ince, Basak (2012). Citizenship and Identity in Turkey: From Atatürk's Republic to the Present Day. I. B. Tauris.

TO: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

 FROM: THE REV. DR. CHRISTOPHER HERSHMAN

 DATE: FEBRUARY 7, 2015

 RE: MEDIEVAL THREATS

 

 

Apparently you are not aware that the The Crusades were initiated by the Pope to keep Christians visiting the Holy Land safe from being murdered by Muslims. The first Crusade began in 1096 A.D. and the last Crusade ended in 1291 A.D. The Spanish Inquisition was organized in 1478 to rid Spain of Muslim murderers. It had its heyday in the 15th and 16th centuries, but was officially abolished in 1834.

 

Slavery in America ended in 1865. Some of my ancestors died in the Civil War freeing the slaves. The Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, was in the forefront for the emancipation of slavery.

 

Meanwhile, Jim Crow laws, the KKK, and lynchings of black people, as well as slavery itself, were solely the products of your own party, the Democratic Party. Republicans absolutely opposed such horrible things.

 

So why don't you write off all these events as ancient history and stop the Muslim slavery, the rapes of women and children, the crucifixions, beheadings, burnings and murders of men, women, and children today?

 

Millions more are being killed today by your Muslim buddies than were ever killed by the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.

 

Or are you only a pompous, hateful man with a big mouth?