Excellent: Turkey's E.U. Membership Is Dead

The Guardian reports that

Turkey's campaign to join the EU suffered a blow yesterday when a survey found that only just over a third of Europeans back its membership. As foreign ministers from the EU clashed over Turkey at their last meeting before the summer break, the Eurobarometer poll found that 35% of the EU's citizens supported Ankara's bid to join.

Good. Only a tiny part of Turkey is situated in Europe — the vast bulk of its land mass lies in Asia. At the risk of sounding churlish, that alone should disqualify the country from joining the European Union. And if you'd rather have a non-geographical reason, how about this: A predominantly Muslim country with an atrocious human-rights record has no business joining a political alliance that's largely built on notions of liberty.

Allow me to repeat what I wrote in November of last year.

Turkey's free-speech record of the last decade — when the country is said to have improved its human-rights compliance — contains hundreds of government attacks on the press, including wholesale newspaper shutdowns. Being critical of Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founding father, can land you in jail. In 1996, the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists revealed that Turkey held more journalists behind bars than any other nation. Think all of that's changed? Actually, according to Amnesty International, not fundamentally. In February of [last] year, Amnesty's head honcho Irene Kahn, while politely acknowledging that Turkey had made progress, said  that the Turkish people can still not "exercise their human rights without fear of harassment, intimidation, or prosecution." For instance, it's a crime to say or write anything that is deemed to "insult or deride" the state. ... The country doesn't fare much better when it comes to freedom of religion. Thousands of mosques have sprung up all over Western Europe in the past thirty years. By contrast, Turkey does what it can to thwart the opening of Christian churches within its borders.

Whole thing, with various links, here.

Turkey's lack of principled commitment to freedom, to put it mildly, goes all the way to the top. Let's not forget that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan thought nothing of siccing his prosecutors on a local cartoonist who'd committed the terrible crime of depicting Turkey's leader as a helpless kitten entangled in a ball of yarn. As I pointed out back in March, Mr. Erdogan believed that such terrible lèse majesté could not be tolerated, so he sued the artist, Musa Kart. Mr. Kart was fined 4,000 dollars by a Turkish judge.

Nuff said. George Bush was a damn fool for telling the Europeans they should embrace Turkey's E.U. membership. If there's anything Europe doesn't need right now, it's tens of millions more Muslims who are free to roam from the Mediterranean to the North Sea; free to treat women as cattle (or worse); and free to demand that European taxpayers hand over large sums of money so that the newcomers may build mosques and Islamic cultural centers where imams and teachers denounce the host country's humanistic values.

Though it took decades, Europe's voters have stopped being cowed by the multi-culti Pollyannas in their midst, and now soundly reject the idea of Turkey joining their club.

Good for them.

Comments

[Grinna]

As an Aussie I deal with heaps of Mozzies (Aussie Moslems) & most are good to deal with. However there ARE some assimmilation problems. We have just had a couple of notorious rape cases where mozzie gangs have pack raped white chicks, because they were white. One set of brothers were Pakis, their father, a friggin' DOCTOR, swore that on the night in question he was kneeling on a prayer mat outside their rooms, praying all night! Incidentally they copped like 20 years. My mother once asked a mozzie lady at work why they have SO MANY children. She said that Allah wanted them to FILL Australia with moslems and that they were DESTINED to have a Moslem country, under Sharia! Now I ain't no racist but I kinda like my own culture and I would be reaching for my Luger if that shit went down. We have an Anti-Discrimination Board here, with quite a bit of power, the only people who CAN NOT use it's powers? White, hetero, christian males!!! Go figure.

[Grinna]

see here.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/in-the-open-rapists-campaign-of-vicious-assaults/2005/07/21/1121539094208.html?oneclick=true

[Grinna]

Also
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-brothers-grim/2005/07/21/1121539094247.html