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Thread ID: 19595 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-08-12
2005-08-12 19:26 | User Profile
[I]Posted on Henry Makow's website:[/I]
[url]http://www.savethemales.ca/[/url]
[SIZE=5] Attack on Tradition: Feminism & Sexuality in Turkey[/SIZE] [SIZE=3] [B]by Murat Ayvaz[/B][/SIZE]
[B] August 02, 2005[/B][FONT=Times New Roman] [SIZE=3]
Turkey is a country whose population is %99 Muslim.
Islam is the religion, which not only forbids adultery, but also equates adultery with disbelief in God, the Almighty.
[B]On Sunday, July 31st, 2005 I bought three Turkish mainstream newspapers in Istanbul: Vatan, Milliyet and Hurriyet. I couldn't bear indexing the obscene material I found.[/B]
[B]When you take the ongoing nature of such publications into account, it comes as no surprise that the yearly divorce rates have multiplied by 1,5 (by 2 in some parts of the country), whereas the number of people getting married is on the decline since 1999.[/B]
[B][U]Consequently birth rates are declining too. In an effort as if to support the trend in the birth rate, Vatan newspaper had a full page article in last week's Sunday edition (July 24th, 2005), titled "Is it compulsory to love children?[/U]"[/B] It tells the story of a rich, career-minded woman who accidentally gets pregnant and feels no connection with her son. The article basically rationalizes this unusual stance, supported with an expert view.
[B]According to a recent international survey, Turkey has the second highest TV watching rates per person per day, the rate, being around 4 hours. The USA is the first in this category.[/B]
The most popular production genre in today's Turkish prime time television is the soap opera. In one production, 4 young women are at the leading roles: One as a divorcee, one as a single person in between oscillating relationships, one as a dominant wife and finally another in an indecisive character. The production is titled: "Shoulder to Shoulder".
It is easy in today's soap operas to find women characters being disproportionately oppressed and humiliated; or on the other hand standing up to, scorning the passive, weak or tyrant male character. Please do take a moment to be informed about the hypnotic effects of TV watching. ([url]http://www.mackwhite.com/tv.html[/url])
Feminism also finds other means of expression in today's Turkish media. In one of the above-mentioned newspapers (Vatan) again on JUly 31st, there was another a full page article which detailed the World Bank grant for the women of the city of Mardin. Mardin is located in the impoverished southeast region of Turkey, whose population mostly consists of traditional, conservative villagers. Women's role in these families is deeply engraved as all embracing, religious housewife and mother. I know it well because both my maternal and paternal grandmothers are from the eastern region of Turkey with almost exact characteristics. They would never be able to give birth to and raise 8 children each if they weren't housewives and strong, loving mothers while living in very poor conditions.
The World Bank grant apparently aims to fund the entrepreneurship of the women of Mardin, who live in exactly same conditions as my parents lived during their childhood.
A couple months ago the biggest mobile phone operator in Turkey, Turkcell, which boosts more than 20 million subscribers in Turkey, was spearheading a widely publicized campaign called "Dad, Send Me To School". The ad campaigns featured a little girl from the same south-eastern and eastern part of Turkey, where there is a great virtual barrier between the concepts of the modern day and a typical day in the regions. The campaign was aiming to send thousands of school-aged girls from poor families to school. The achievement, if reached, without doubt will be more supplies to the population who read newspapers like the ones above and end of the women like my grandmothers. [About the devastating effects of any compulsory state schooling, John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of American Education" is a must read.]
[B]The underlying "empowering of women" theme was accompanied by an unusual personality in an article of a weekly Turkish far-left magazine called, Aydinlik (translation of the magazine name: Illumination) on March 6, 2005, titled "Soros's women, Name By Name".[/B]
[B]This article details funding of women's foundations in Turkey not only by Soros' Open Society Institute but also by other international organizations like National Endowment for Democracy, National Democratic Institute, World Democracy Movement, World Bank, The Ford Foundation, International Women's Health Coalition, Global Fund for Women, Caritas Fund, Women's Learning Partnership and many more with similar names.[/B] (For a detailed insight about these foundations, the reader is referred to Eustace Mullins' World Order) The "Illumination" article interestingly notes that most of these Turkish Women's foundations consist of a rather small number of members and/or directors, usually in order to provide the minimum number required by the law. The main theme is certainly the advancement of women's causes in the Turkish society, like the increased attendance to school by women, sexual integration, empowering women in politics and in business, etc.
A short note about George Soros would be apt at this point: Contact Magazine dated December 1st, 1998 detailed Soros' Rothschild connection. It shouldn't come as a surprise because great dynasties like JP Morgan, Rockefellers or fortunes like Warren Buffet's are merely fronts for mammoth Rothschild possessions. It can be traced back to Mayer Amschel (Rothschild) Bauer's will to his five sons forbidding them to have "any public inventory".
All these efforts, which are blueprints of similar operations around the world, will have the certain consequence of depriving the individual of a loving family environment, of a stable, reliable character and relationship; depriving women of a fulfilling role of motherhood and man of fatherhood; emasculating women while forcing the obedience and submittal of the male role. Perhaps, the friendly, hospitable Turkish nature will be a thing of the past.
[B]Murat Ayvaz, aged 28, is a part-time writer living in Istanbul, Turkey.[/B][/SIZE][/FONT]
2005-08-12 19:36 | User Profile
According to CIA Factbook, Turkey's fertility has indeed fallen below the replacement level:
[url]http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/tu.html#People[/url]
[FONT=Arial][B]Total fertility rate:
1.94 children born/woman (2005 est.)[/B][/FONT]
As a way of comparison: until the 1970s (when Franco's rule ended and socialists took over), Spain was a macho Mediterranean country much like Turkey, and its fertility was high. In few decades, it has slumped among the lowest in Europe, and I predict that Turkey will follow the same pattern.
Petr
2005-08-12 19:55 | User Profile
Interesting article. Like multiculturalism, feminism is something you want your enemies to embrace.
2005-08-12 20:05 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Bardamu]Interesting article. Like multiculturalism, feminism is something you want your enemies to embrace.[/QUOTE]
Which is why the Iraqi freedom fighters are fiercely resisting American designs-at-the-point-of-a-gun to emasculate them and deracinate them and enslave them.
2005-08-12 21:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]Which is why the Iraqi freedom fighters are fiercely resisting American designs-at-the-point-of-a-gun to emasculate them and deracinate them and enslave them.[/QUOTE]
Well, a little Arab (and Turkic) zero population growth would take the pressure off Europe. As invaders, I can't feel overly sypathetic toward them.