Turns out that Turkey's foreign minister's Phd thesis was on how the political cultures of the West and Islam are incompatible, in that Islam's institutions are inextricably informed by the stultifying homogeneity of religious considerations while the West's are inextricably rooted in the liberating dynamics of secularism - which certainly validates and further explains my cynicism viz Turkey's recent actions and gestures towards Israel and Iran - but also I think in large part, as regards my views concerning the problems of Islamic culture and Sharia, relieves me of the charge of racism leveled at me by naive liberals who in the cloistered darkness of their political correctness can see no motive for culture based criticism other than that of racial prejudice inspired by fear and hatred. It reminds one that liberals tend to feel first, then think - their 'ideas' must first pass through this emotional filter that has more to do with delusional notions of identity than it has to do with reality. [likewise, it was this abject foolishness of liberal sentiment that caused them to characterize as racist me and others like me who early on predicted that an Obama presidency would bring more bad than good and could very well end up a disaster - liberals simply could not even conceive of the idea that someone might reject the great man for reasons not vitiated by gross ignorance and racism - they couldn't conceive of it because in their ever narrowing minds it amounted to a revealed truth that electing a black man who so eloquently espoused their philosophy to the presidency of the United States was a glorious affirmation of their world view and therefore a glorious affirmation of the enlightened creatures they imagined themselves to be].
addendum: related, also turns out EU has recently passed 'anti-hate' legislation that now makes it illegal to say anything negative about Islam - so if you were to quote something from the Koran or something an Islamic leader had said and in the course of a critical analysis of this something were to extrapolate an opinion deemed negative you would potentially be breaking the law - although apparently if you were to quote something from Exodus or from a Papal cyclical and after critical analysis were to extrapolate something negative that would be just fine. And needless to say what I wrote in the above paragraph would classify me as an irredeemably hateful person in the EU. What Gertrude Stein once said of the dissolute Parisian arts scene of the 20's I now say of Europe as a whole: you are all a lost generation.
