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Mustafa Domanic

Istanbul, Turkey

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Mustafa Domanic

Istanbul, Turkey

Mustafa Domanic is an online activist and blogger. He contributes to several blogs on Turkish current affairs as well as global political issues including foreignsight.blogspot.com. more »

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Internet Alone Won't Change Politics

Without grass-roots action on the field, online political activism is useless. If you want to start a revolution, you cannot do it from your laptop.

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Buraki:

You want to look at the so-called "democratic" Turkey. Just take a look at how former prime minister Nejmuddin Erbakan is being treated in his old age!

The Turks are keeping him in house arrest while he moves on a wheel chair.

The problem is that Turks talk about their Islam being moderate and that they are the only democracy in the Moslem World and the that good and dandy crap any American or European wants to hear.

Anonymous:

This question has no importance in places like egypt or saudi arabia. the internet may helped in putting pressure on small stuff, like a corrupt minister or a corrupt governmental institution, but it didn't challenge the huge red headlines.

in turkey, it has absolutely no importance. most of the turks are programmed to hate Islam and its symbols. this thing has been going on since the ataturk, a crypto-jew, made this republic.the existence of akp with its islamic roots didn't change this mentality because of the existecne of 1.5 million crypto-jews in the government, army, media posing as moslem turks.

some of these people call themselves moslem writers defending the akp and others are fighting it by posing as athiest or hardline seculars. then control the mind of young turks, who lost most of their islamic morals and culture, by implanting words like regressive,progressiv, modern, reactionary,desert islam,...etc.

these words are used by the crypto-jews, or shabattians,to differentiate between conservative moslems and the sort of moslems they want to see.

the "deep state" which is the government that runs the republic still exist.

I wonder what would Turks who connect to face book think about or what difference would they make if the mission which was defined by their god , shabattian ataturk, is to keep islam away from life in turkey and to defile it in the name of modernity and westernization!!???

SMS:

I’m 55, and have been following politics for quite a while, and I’ve never been so disappointed with a politician I’ve admired and respected. Yesterday’s tactics weren’t just wrong, they were offensive. For that matter, they seem to be part of a deliberate strategy to tear Democrats apart and ensure a defeat in November.

For several weeks, I’ve appreciated the fact that Clinton considers herself the superior candidate, and has kept her campaign going in the hopes, from her perspective, of saving the party from itself. But after yesterday, it’s become impossible for me to consider Clinton’s intentions honorable. Her conduct is not that of a leader.

Instead of trying to help bring the party together — Election Day is 24 weeks away — Clinton went to Florida to argue that if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, his nomination will be illegitimate. And if the DNC plays by the rules Clinton used to support, it’s guilty of vote-suppression — comparable to slavery, Jim Crow, and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe.

It is disgusting for HRC to co-opt the Civil Rights struggle after weeks of transparent appeals that whites won’t vote for the black guy which JUST SO COINCIDENTALLY took form during the Appalachian primaries (which conveniently occurred after North Carolina, the last state with a large black population)

It really is disgusting, and yet another nail in the coffin of what used to be Bill and Hillary's positive legacy to the party. She is now being openly mocked across the media and political spectrum. But I'm sure mentioning that is "sexist", and that everyone criticizing the joke her campaign has become is sexist as well.

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