lefarkins.blogspot.com - 10/25/2009
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It's difficult to plow through the many layers of rank idiocy in the assertion that Turkey is "lost to the Islamists" ; I can identify at least a few... The insinuation that the oppression of the Kurds was launched by AKP, rather than by the secular Turkish Army. The odd definition of ...
liberalvaluesblog.com - 29 days ago
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liberalvaluesblog.com —
During the Bush years our foreign policy often
felt like a no win battle between Christian and...
Islamic fundamentalism. The Boston Globe shows one of the areas where the two are increasingly in agreement–belief in creationism: But there is another creationist movement whose influence is ...
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Creationism in the Muslim World
danielpipes.org - 10/27/2009
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"There is no doubt he is our friend,"
Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, says of Iran's...
president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These
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Turkey: An Ally No More
nytimes.com - 10/29/2009
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ISTANBUL With Turkey’s prospects for joining the
European Union growing more elusive and the country reaching...
out to predominantly Muslim countries with a vigor not seen in years, a longstanding question is vexing the United States and Europe: Is ...
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Tensions Grow Between Turkey and the West
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Leftist blog accuses Caroline Glick(!) of not being interested in Israel's survival
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... : ... If there is anyone on this earth who is pro-Israel and interested in Israel's survival, it is Caroline Glick. Yet for the crime of expressing a view which is not in sync with left-wing delusions about how best to promote human rights, Glick stands accused by Farley of not being interested in the survival of Israel due to her criticisms of Turkish conduct (emphasis mine): Here's the problem: Beating the bejeezus out of Gaza, whatever merits it may have had for Israeli security, also had costs. People, even in relatively friendly states, didn't think that the operation ...
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