Turkey bans Richard Dawkins website
In a brilliant show-off of what religion does whenever it can wield its ugly face and aquire enough power, some imbicile fucktards in turkey has decided that its best to prevent people from reading certain things.
Turkey has banned www.richarddawkins.net , on the basis of Dawkins' not-so-flattering comments about som creationist idiot's biology book:
To those of you who are in turkey, here is the general outline of the story
http://sciencereligionnews.blogspot.com/2008/07/dawkins-on-harun-yahyas-atlas-of.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/18/turkey
Once again, be warned, this is what the true hipocritical and totalitarian face of religion ultimately looks like, a monopoly on ideas, an infringement on your most personal thing of all, your own thoughts. It is why I call my blog "The Memory Hole" after Orwells brilliant book, 1984, which is to me a perfect description of religion and its totalitarian core of submitting your own will to a fictional authority.
4 Comments
Farhad2000Erm... Turkey is a secular state... They dismantle the last party just because it's leader's wife wore a hijab... You aren't even allowed into universities if you wear a headdress...
BicycleRepairMan>> ^Farhad2000:
Erm... Turkey is a secular state... They dismantle the last party just because it's leader's wife wore a hijab... You aren't even allowed into universities if you wear a headdress...
The state of Turkey itself is secular, but flaws in the justice system allows this kind of bullying from people with a totalitarian mindset.
gorillamanDoesn't seem to be a problem with religion as much as retarded defamation laws in Turkey.
gwiz665"His press assistant, Seda Aral, said: "We are not against freedom of speech or expression but you cannot insult people.
"We found the comments hurtful. It was not a scientific discussion. There was a line and the limit has been passed.
"We have used all the legal means to stop this site. We asked them to remove the comments but they did not.""
Sure you can. YOU ARE AN IDIOT! How's that?
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