May 17, 2011

Amazing readiness to believe lies

Kerim Balcı

I have been observing an amazing readiness among Western intellectuals -- be they journalists or academics -- to believe in smear campaigns against the religious people of Turkey.

The religious-democratic sources inform them about the coup plans of fundamentalist secularists with all kinds of evidence and yet they prefer to believe the secularist sources. The secularists lie to them about the alleged secret agendas and intentions of religious people without any evidence at all, and yet they spare a place in their columns, articles, speeches and documentaries for those allegations.