|
by Burak Bekdil
• April 27, 2015 at 4:00 am
- "The
Mastermind" is not the product of a bunch of crazy fanatics. It
is a calculated move by a bunch of smart politicians who want to win
votes from an inherently anti-Semitic, religiously devout Muslim
population.
- It is an ugly
but clever move, reminiscent of the various methods applied by the
Nazi propaganda machine in the 1930s, to abuse millions of minds.
|
The title screen from the new anti-Semitic Turkish
documentary, "The Mastermind."
|
Turkey's biggest enemy, according to its Islamist rulers, is not the
fanatical jihadists who now neighbor their country in large swathes of
land in Syria and Iraq; nor is it the thousands of "sleepers"
at home -- the same jihadists who have not staged a sensational act of
terror, but might yet. The enemy is not the political and military
advance of Shiite radicals in the region, or a nuclear Iran. It is not
extreme left-wing terrorists who only recently murdered a state
prosecutor. It is not Russia, China or Western civilization. It is what
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says is "the mastermind" that
tirelessly plots against Turkey.
In a December 2014 speech, Erdogan said:
|
No comments:
Post a Comment