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In this mailing:
- Uzay Bulut: Turkey: Torture,
Sexual Abuse Rampant in Prisons
- Alan M. Dershowitz: Why Did the
Clintons Share the Stage with Farrakhan?
by Uzay Bulut • September 10, 2018
at 5:00 am
- Inmates in a jail in
Şanlıurfa in southeast Turkey tell of the plight of 27-year-old
Uğur Yeloğlu, who they say has been isolated and tortured so
badly since his imprisonment seven months ago that his level of
functioning is like that of a baby.
- Yeloğlu was arrested
in Istanbul in January for allegedly "aiding a terrorist
organization." His lawyer, Abdülkadir Aslan, said that in
spite of the many months his client has been in jail, his
indictment has not yet been prepared by prosecutors: "The
investigation file is also marked 'confidential,' so we do not
know what it contains."
- "Prisoners are
beaten up and sometimes killed, when they refuse to roll-call
standing up, give military salute, reject strip searches, or ask
to see a doctor." — Report by the opposition Peoples'
Democratic Party (HDP).
Torture and
other forms of unlawful abuse are increasingly widespread in Turkish
jails and prisons, under the rule of Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan. (Photo by Getty Images)
In the early 2000s, after the Justice and Development
Party (AKP) first came to power in Turkey, its leader, then Prime
Minister (now President) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, proclaimed a policy of
"zero tolerance" for torture.
In June of this year, Turkish Justice Minister
Abdulhamit Gül repeated the same mantra. "We -- as the AKP
government -- are implementing a policy of zero tolerance for
torture," he said.
by Alan M. Dershowitz • September
10, 2018 at 4:00 am
- But the "shoe on
the other foot" question remains: would he [Former
President William Jefferson Clinton] have acted similarly if it
had been [David] Duke rather than [Louis] Farrakhan?
- Farrakhan is at least
as bigoted as Duke. This is a man who only last year called Jews
members of the "Synagogue of Satan" and claimed that
Jesus called the Jews "the children of the devil."
Farrakhan is also a homophobe, claiming that "Jews [are]
responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that
Hollywood is putting out turning men into women and women into
men."
- There are not
"good people" on the side of anti-Semitism, any more
than there are "good people" on the side of white
supremacy. There is no place for a double standard when it comes
to anti-Semitism. Black anti-Semitism should not get a pass on
account of the oppression suffered by so many Black people; neither
should "progressive" tolerance of anti-Semitism of the
kind shown by Bernie Sanders' support for Jeremy Corbyn, the
anti-Semite who heads the British Labour Party and may well
become the next prime minister of America's closest ally.
Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The minister with whom the Clintons
shared the stage at Aretha Franklin's memorial service is at least as
bigoted and anti-Semitic as white supremacist David Duke. Photo:
Wikipedia.
Imagine President Trump being invited to speak at the
funeral of a white singer whom he admired (say Ted Nugent, if he were
to pass) and seeing that David Duke was on stage in a place of honor.
Imagine the reaction of the media if President Trump actually gave a
speech in the presence of David Duke. Well, President Clinton gave a
speech in the presence of Louis Farrakhan. (Hillary Clinton was
sitting off to the right, but did not speak.)
Why would President Clinton, a good man and a friend
of the Jewish people, do this? There are several possible answers:
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