"Dress the wound with flesh-generating powders. [YOU QUACK! ...žARLATAN HEKÄ degreesM!]
"Should the foreskin be cut away more than needed and the skin is wrinkled up that will do no great harm either. [AAAGH!!! LANET OLSUN!!! AHMAK! DANGALAK!!!!]
But perhaps I overreacted.
Nevertheless, this great leap backward by the AKP, typical as it is, should be thwarted on the grounds of defamation of the character of the Turkish people. We live in a dangerous, difficult age. And that's the point. We are not Ottomans who kept their women enslaved beneath the veil and behind the lattice, and all their people ignorant and illiterate. Our cultural reference is not their dark-mindedness. We, all of us, are modern, vital citizens of Turkey. Our cultural reference point is the Enlightenment not the corruptions of the Ottoman Empire. That's the message that should be conveyed to Europeans, and indeed, the world. But first we need to convey it to ourselves. It is far, far better thing to light a candle than continue to curse the darkness. And that is the one sure way to dispel the murk of AKP-ness.
Cem Ryan, Ph.D.
Ä degreesstanbul
http://forreasonsunknown-cem.blogspot.com/2009/10/k-p-ness-condition-of-being-akp.html
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http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=1078
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