Submitted by Afif Udin(Indonesia), Dec 10, 2007 at 22:50
I am Indonesian, I was muslim. I do understand about the islam based on their quran and hadis. Of course islam is fully of hatred and hostility towards the christian and jew, and also to the others like hindu, budha and zoroaster as they are called great pagan and infidel.
The other side islam countries like my country indonesia still needs help such as in technology, science, etc and also funds from the west, and especially from japan, but people of islam also judge the west and japan as infidel and pagan. That's hypocritical!
As same as turkish, how could turkey be secular? what kind of secular? I think the turkish seculars is the same in their hypocrisy towards the west, especially the EU and USA. Turkey just conceals their deep intention to be the great ottoman again, to reach the glory of islam into the europe continent.
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