It's so fascinating how we were told by a small crowd of extreme anti-Iran/pro-Turkey voices that we are supposed to support Turkey against poor Armenia because "Armenia is allied with Iran"...when Iran again and again says it supports Azerbaijan retaking Nagorna-Karabakh.
There is a small little group of people who believe in the myth that Turkey is "against Iran" and "allied with the US and Israel" (it isn't), the fact is Turkey and Iran are often on the same side, such as with Hamas, or Nagorna-Karabkah issue, or on Jerusalem issue, France etc
The fact is that a few in the US who supported Ankara without question have empowered Iran and Russia...oddly, they have got the exact opposite of what they claimed...Their support of Turkey never weakened Iran or Russia...in the opposite.
There is no evidence that Turkey is "against Iran"...you can read Turkey's pro-government media every day, as I do...and you'll almost never see critique of Iran...but you'll see critique of Israel, France, US...so it's clear who Ankara's regime prefers.
In general Ankara, Tehran and Moscow are on the same side on some issues, and on others they partition countries or areas, and they compartmentalize issues. They generally all oppose the US and pro-US countries in the Middle East and seek to erode the US role and allies.
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If you see analysis of the Middle East that talks about authoritarian states and only mentions Saudi Arabia and Egypt, what you’re reading is an information op that purposely ignores a whole series of other countries from Turkey to Qatar, Iran etc; it’s purposeful.
No one can do an analysis of the Middle East and pretend that “authoritarianism” is a problem in Egypt and Saudi Arabia and not mention the rest of the region...totally ignoring Hamas in Gaza, Assad’s regime...and most of the other countries.
And you can’t go this route of “well this is a criticism of US allies”...because Turkey and Qatar are allies and they are authoritarian...and you can’t pretend it’s only those with a “growing” authoritarianism...because they doesn’t work either.
So according to politico any country that wants to be secular and critique religion somehow deserves to be targeted? Odd. So one is allowed to have countries with extreme enforced religious theocracy... not “extreme secularism”...secularists don’t carry our attacks the other way
There is no such thing as “blasphemy”...the second you use this term you accept its terms. Some places used to burn people at the stake and carry out witch trials. Claiming that this is acceptable because of “blasphemy” means one accepts it
What if one day some religion claims smiling is “blasphemy” will we all have to stop smiling or we will be told it “offended” people and they have a “right to terror”?
When Turkey, Iran, Malaysian regimes seek to use the Holocaust every time they are "offended" by something in Europe about religion...how come people don't dare to ask these horrid regimes "why would you insult Jewish victims of the Shoah to get back at Europe"?
You notice that horrid former leader of Malaysia was invited to all these major western Universities to push Holocaust denial, calling it "free speech"...same person says he is against free speech regarding religion...so how come he insults the memory of the Holocaust?
That horrid regime in Tehran held a Holocaust mocking cartoon contest...as if that would "retaliate" against European cartoons mocking religion...how come Jewish victims always have to pay the price for this...as if denying the Shoah "gets back" at Europe?
Oh look the horrid antisemite and Holocaust denying leader who was invited by Oxford, Cambridge and Columbia not so long ago has advocated attacks on France now...odd how every western university seemed to give him a red carpet to spout antisemitism france24.com/en/live-news/2…
A mass murder purposeful targeted terror attack on a mosque in Pakistan is once again called a "blast" by Orwellian media...why...because of the need to hide what actually happened. That's like calling a lynching a "rope happened"...no...it's not a "blast"...it's an attack
See it's not a "blast"...blast is the word used to obscure explosion...bomb...and the attack on children; reports say "At least seven children were killed and 70 others wounded on Tuesday in an explosion at a religious seminary attached to a mosque"
The way in which targeted attacks are turned into generalized language is fascinating. Imagine turning Kristallnacht into "glass was broken"...to obscure the fact that someone did this...it's not just random "blasts"...
It’s fascinating to see people whose countries all have relations with all the states in the Middle East, whine that Israel and Gulf countries are having relations as if it is “authoritarian”....ummm your country has relations with the same countries...look in mirror
Israel already has relations with the democracies, it is lacking relations with a handful of countries in the world, most of which are authoritarian...
Notice how the commentators who whine about Israel having relations with “authoritarians” NEVER advocate their own country should break relations with authoritarian regimes, rather they preach “engagement”....because they are hypocrites