Re: And these guys want to join the EU???
[quote=thesightless;437529]sad generalization i admit....
but pretty much every country dominated by that religion, to the point where it is involved in law and politics, will never progress. it cant happen and goes against nearly every edict of the religion. and its a shame too, because its only a minority of the people who fall under the title of "muslim" and the majortiy are normally very nice people. but alas, combine islam with anything and it eventually leads to violence and disagreement, and that cannot be argued. its a shame they would rather go down fighting than to concede some things to the majority of civilization, whom are willing to welcome them with open arms, but they wont/cant, because of hopes to one day have rule over everything.
just look at that shit about the mosques in the UK and aussie. its disgusting. they have to clean house or accept that we (the collective non middleeastern world) dont have to concede or accept anything in regards to them.[/quote]
Not really. Nations such as Singapore and Malaysia, which are predominantly Muslim, are doing very well and are running very well under Islamics. What's more is that Malaysia has gone more from progressive Islam to more fundamentalistic but still retaining capitalistic and modern values.
This is just a bad instance and is a really poor representation for Turkey. And you can't really compare locking up little girls and what not because there are sick fucks everywhere, more notably in the states.