The feeling is mutual, kthxbye

[mahnmut]

"The Constitution of Turkey establishes the Republic of Turkey as a secular state and provides for freedom of conscience, religious belief, and conviction, as well as freedom of expression and dissemination of thought".

Does freedom from religion count too, I wonder? Um, guess not:

In a nutshell: "Atheists are animals".

That's nice, you know.

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[underlankers]

WorldNetDaily writes articles like this entirely seriously:

http://www.wnd.com/2007/03/40476/

"People have been coming back from the dead by the hundreds during the past 15-20 years. All over the world, stone-cold-dead people are being resurrected by the fervent, focused prayers of Christians praying in the name of Jesus.

By now, the totals are likely over a thousand. No exaggeration, no joke. My own book “Megashift: Igniting Spiritual Power” documents 52 countries where at least one person has been raised from the dead - with named eyewitnesses … who have street addresses … and phone numbers … and fax numbers … and e-mail addresses. I even throw in a few photographs. In other words, my little shoestring-budget book clobbers the nonexistent scholarship of James (“Titanic”) Cameron. What he doesn’t know about resurrections could fill a book - and it does: mine!

So now that Cameron has been trashed by, umm, pretty much everybody who ever got past the eighth grade and has access to a computer, it’s time to state a monumental fact that even our better-informed intelligentsia have failed to notice"

That in and of itself makes it basically a Weekly World News written by people who actually BELIEVE shit like this and Chemtrails kill angels.

Sun Myung Moon http://www.perkel.com/politics/moonies/ <-bankrolls a scary amount of the Religious Right.

Citing these two in critiquing Islamist fanatics is like taking the opinion of hyenas on the predatory methods of lions.

The other sources like Reuters and the Beeb are infinitely better because they have standards and don't sincerely believe "Booga Booga Jesus sez so" is all it takes to reanimate a corpse!

[mahnmut]

Well, sorry for not meeting your expectations in terms of source reliability.

So do you have a list of sources that you consider reliable or not?

[underlankers]

I already told you, Reuters, the BBC, the Huffington Post. Any site that has actual editing standards and doesn't employ fascist nutjobs like Michael Savage.

Reuters
BBC
Der Spiegel
Al Jazeera English
CBS
MSNBC
Associated Press

^All of these are better than WND

[mahnmut]

I'll keep that in mind the next time I search for links. Can't afford to let underlankers down, can I.

[underlankers]

So, about the rest of that comment, the bit that said that this is a deplorable pattern that ultimately meant the people who warned these people were dangerous that were right. There will eventually be some reference to the rest of that post, and to my attempts to keep the topic specifically to denouncing the kind of conduct the Islamists (and Erdogan) have relative to democracy, yes? Maybe?

[mahnmut]

Yes: Kudos.

[mahnmut]

Same question here, by the way.