This place just keeps getting weirder. First, the fundamentalist-friendly powers in government passed laws opening the way to lifting the headscarf ban in universities on the heels of getting their people into the Higher Education Board. This seemed to be the straw that finally got whatever pro-secularists in government to start playing hardball. (Sorry about the mixed metaphor. It was the only way I could think of the incorporate two links.)
This has sent the fundamentalist-friendly into a tizzy. The word on the street is that the “Ergenekon investigation” is now being used as an excuse to intimidate outspoken opponents of the ruling party. There’s also talk that this is part of a strategy to distract people from an attempt to implement a constitutional ammendment that would make it impossible to close the AKP.
This really reminds me of the destructive histrionics that pissed-off (and maybe a little frightened) children engage in when life doesn’t go their way. They don’t care what damage they do and whom they hurt. They can’t be bothered to be reflective. But I have no doubt that the tizzy-fitters don’t see it this way.
These people have a mission more important than man. It gives them strength. And strength with stupidity is a disasterous combination.
P.S. Youtube is unreachable again. Funny how these blockages start on the weekend. I wonder what it is this time and if it has anything to do with the above…
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