I just read about the two Irish women who were murdered in Izmir this week, and the viewers comments in the Daily Mail totally shocked me. The general theme was that all Turks/Kurds are capable of murder, and therefore Turkey should not be allowed to join the EU. I do wonder if the fact that people from all walks of life can comment on articles in any newspaper, attracts the ignorant, stupid and bigoted.
I don't know if anyone else has read the article, but it certainly shows an undercurrent of racism in this country.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027860/Two-Northern-Irish-women-stabbed-death-Turkey-marriage-row.html
What I can't understand is how people can make sweeping assumptions about a whole nation, on account of one,lone psychopath. The man who murdered these women is obviously psychopathic, and the killings were clearly premeditated. From reading the newspaper reports it's obvious that he planned the murders, and only a psychopath could do that. Even if he were to plead insanity, he would still be psychopathic to be capable of slitting two women's throats, in the mad belief he would get rid of the 'obstacle' preventing him from marrying the girl he so wanted.
There are psychopaths all over the world, and tragically this family stumbled upon him. But that was just geographical : he would be a psychopath wherever he lived in the world. So how can these ignorant bigots start tarring all Turks and Kurds with the same brush, and start saying all Turks are a murderous race?
Of course, we all know about the loverat syndrome, but I've never heard of anyone being murdered by a rat. This is a unique and tragic case.
I suppose I'm just really astonished that some of the people in this country are more blinkered, backward and ignorant than the very people they are denigrating and accusing of being cold-hearted mudererers - simply because they happened to be born in Turkey!
Strawbs
I don't know if anyone else has read the article, but it certainly shows an undercurrent of racism in this country.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027860/Two-Northern-Irish-women-stabbed-death-Turkey-marriage-row.html
What I can't understand is how people can make sweeping assumptions about a whole nation, on account of one,lone psychopath. The man who murdered these women is obviously psychopathic, and the killings were clearly premeditated. From reading the newspaper reports it's obvious that he planned the murders, and only a psychopath could do that. Even if he were to plead insanity, he would still be psychopathic to be capable of slitting two women's throats, in the mad belief he would get rid of the 'obstacle' preventing him from marrying the girl he so wanted.
There are psychopaths all over the world, and tragically this family stumbled upon him. But that was just geographical : he would be a psychopath wherever he lived in the world. So how can these ignorant bigots start tarring all Turks and Kurds with the same brush, and start saying all Turks are a murderous race?
Of course, we all know about the loverat syndrome, but I've never heard of anyone being murdered by a rat. This is a unique and tragic case.
I suppose I'm just really astonished that some of the people in this country are more blinkered, backward and ignorant than the very people they are denigrating and accusing of being cold-hearted mudererers - simply because they happened to be born in Turkey!
Strawbs