Mehmet Y. Yilmaz: You need to silence your voices in shame now!
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Oluşturulma Tarihi: Nisan 20, 2007 12:41
It is no secret that Turkey is full of people who create false threats, and then try to make political gains from these threats.
And it is also no secret that these fake "monsters" are responsible for a series of murders we have witnessed! Deaths like those of Priest Santoro from Trabzon, or journalist Hrant Dink, and now the murders in Malataya, are all actions that stem from this problem. One of the people at the forefront of making out the missionary activities in Turkey to be more widespread and greater in size than they really were is one of our oldest politicians. I won't write his name, because he is not alone in this business of creating bogeymen. There are so many people, from the right and the left, who didn't hestitate a moment before joining in this chorus.
It was in this very column that I once queried of that politician: "The missionary activities which you allege have put Turkey at such risk, what is their actual result?" How many Muslims have, up until, actually switched their religions as a result of missionary activity? I recalled a statement, in that same column, from the Ministry of Religious Affairs: "In Turkey, the number of Christians who have switched to Islam is many times that of the number of Muslims who have chosen Christianity." To wit, we even learned yesterday the "results of the missionary activity" in Malatya. It turns out that the entire congregation of their church was 25 people. But despite the naked truth here, the chorus of voices still hasn't quieted down. The fire lit by those who decry Pontus, who disparage the Byzantines, who scream that their religion is slipping away, fell two days ago on Malatya. They should be ashamed though of what they have created, and finally fall into some silence.
It was in this very column that I once queried of that politician: "The missionary activities which you allege have put Turkey at such risk, what is their actual result?" How many Muslims have, up until, actually switched their religions as a result of missionary activity? I recalled a statement, in that same column, from the Ministry of Religious Affairs: "In Turkey, the number of Christians who have switched to Islam is many times that of the number of Muslims who have chosen Christianity." To wit, we even learned yesterday the "results of the missionary activity" in Malatya. It turns out that the entire congregation of their church was 25 people. But despite the naked truth here, the chorus of voices still hasn't quieted down. The fire lit by those who decry Pontus, who disparage the Byzantines, who scream that their religion is slipping away, fell two days ago on Malatya. They should be ashamed though of what they have created, and finally fall into some silence.