Comments on: Not your father’s “Stamboul Train”

By: tolga

tolga — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:00:02 +0000

well i am a person from Turkey. i dont think these pict re from Turkey because it is not a general appearance of Turkish women. They wear somethink like westenrn type. There re women like that wearing such black clothes but it is too rare, uncommon here.

But the second photo can be from Turkey. it is something of festive seromony by small religious minority i dont know the name of their culture.

I was surprised to hear that Kuran promote hatret against Jews. I dont understand it. I havent found something like that in my religion. May be some of you confuse politic and religious issues. May be historical Turkish and Jewish relationship can be good example to you.

i love jews partly because of my religion partly because of my hearht..

By: david72

david72 — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:11:35 +0000

I don’t understand the reference to STAMBOUL TRAIN (ORIENT EXPRESS in the American edition). Greene’s book, as I recall wasn’t exactly philoSemetic. I always assumed he must have taken a great deal of heat for it, too. His fiction from there on–and this was early in his career–was judenrein. No Jewish characters whatsoever.

Greene’s only published references to Jews after STAMBOUL TRAIN were in letters to British papers bitching about Zion and Zionists.

His equally talented friend, Brian Moore, followed the same judenrein policy in his novels. Even in THE STATEMENT which dealt with a Nazi butcher on the run, Moore managed to avoid Jewish characters.

For all their considerable talents, both Greene and moore were ugly Papist antiSemites.

If it is relevant, Turkey under the Grand Turk was, of course, a better place for Jews than Christian Europe.

By: pst314

pst314 — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:34:07 +0000

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion can be easily found at Turkish bookstores.

I have read that the publication of Mein Kampf is subsidized.

Anti-Semitic hate-mongering is a stable of Turkish journalism.

By: Rhod

Rhod — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:59:50 +0000

At the moment, these people are standing on the frontier between Europe and the Middle East. Within thirty years time it will just be the midpoint between northern and southeastern Eurabia.

By: Carl Spackler

Carl Spackler — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:42:03 +0000

The Koran and Mien Kampf. Both about crazy men. One is submit the other struggle. Both hate and blame Jews and others for their problems. One guy had many wives, attracted to young girls, the other his niece who killed herself. Both required expansionist policies for success. Both advocated any means for success. Both books a babble fest and barely readable and rarely read by followers.

By: Mike G in Corvallis

Mike G in Corvallis — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:10:34 +0000

Y’know, those huge crowds of Islamists are going to be very interesting in the near future, when avian flu is ramping up to epidemic levels …

By: dsmtoday

dsmtoday — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 05:22:59 +0000

The images show people protesting peacefully, not burning embassies. That’s a positive step – learning how to protest peacefully. If these pictures are truly representative, the people in them provide a good role model.

What actually scares me more are some of the nutjobs that show up to A.N.S.W.E.R. protests in San Francisco.

By: lindenen

lindenen — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:43:33 +0000

Am I the only one who’s forgotten reading how Mein Kampf was on the best seller list in Turkey recently?

By: Luther McLeod

Luther McLeod — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:09:42 +0000

Not really new, these pictures, except for the fact that they originate from Turkey.

Until and unless, we get serious, that may be our future. How do we connect (if possible, and I doubt) with those that see these images as a desired state. Talk about black and white.

By: promoguy

promoguy — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:41:30 +0000

Turkey, trying to get into the EU, kills their chances with these type of photos. I hope.