Erdogan chides Obama's silence on Chapel Hill killings

[Toramana]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/erdogan-chides-obama-silence-chapel-hill-killings-150213052501374.html

Erdogan chides Obama's silence on Chapel Hill killings
Turkish leader criticises US President for his silence after the killings of three Muslim students in North Carolina.



Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised US President Barack Obama for his silence after the killings of three young Muslims in North Carolina this week.
Speaking alongside Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto during a state visit to Mexico on Thursday, Erdogan said the silence of Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry was "telling" and they should take a position following such acts.
"If you stay silent when faced with an incident like this, and don't make a statement, the world will stay silent towards you," Erdogan said, in the latest sign relations between him and the White House have become strained.
The three Muslims were shot dead on Tuesday near the University of North Carolina campus in an incident police said was possibly a hate crime.
Police investigation
The White House said on Wednesday it would await the results of the police investigation before commenting.
Newlywed Deah Barakat, 23, a University of North Carolina dental student, his wife Yusor Mohammad, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, a student at North Carolina State University, were gunned down on Tuesday in a condominium about three kilometres from the UNC campus in Chapel Hill.
Police charged the couple's neighbour, Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, with murder.
Investigators said initial findings indicated a dispute over parking prompted the shooting but they were looking into whether Hicks was motivated by hatred towards the victims because they were Muslim.
Turkey, a European Union candidate nation and member of the NATO military alliance, is a key US ally in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
But Erdogan has become increasingly outspoken about what he sees as rising Islamophobia in the West.
Last year, Erdogan said his relations with Obama had become strained and that he no longer spoke directly with him as he was disappointed by a lack of US action over the war in neighbouring Syria.
Erdogan said he instead spoke with Biden over issues such as Iraq.
Despite working together to combat ISIL, differences have arisen between the US and Turkey over how best to tackle the rebels.
Turkey has been an opponent of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, backing rebels fighting to oust him and allowing the political opposition to organise on Turkish soil.
It long lobbied for international intervention in the war.

[Toramana]

Now Erdegan will earn himself more enemies.

[Toramana]

I can't understand why do Muslims flaunt their religion so much.

[Badlun]

Obama spoke against the incidence. Erdogan is a Mullah king.

[Yousufzai]

Obama spoke against the incidence. Erdogan is a Mullah king.

I hate Erdogan as much as the next guy but to be fair, he said that before Obama reacted.

The murders took place on Tuesday and Obama made a tepid little statement today. This was after the White House initially stated he had no "specific response" to the incidence. And most Americans are still deluding themselves into believing that this was all over a parking dispute.

[Azmal]

I hate Erdogan as much as the next guy but to be fair, he said that before Obama reacted.

The murders took place on Tuesday and Obama made a tepid little statement today. This was after the White House initially stated he had no "specific response" to the incidence. And most Americans are still deluding themselves into believing that this was all over a parking dispute.

Erdogan need to pay more attention to killing of muslims by muslims--see below...seriouslly how can we muslim claim moral high groud is simply laughable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJV9uPQ1WIc

[DSM0305]

Erdogan need to pay more attention to killing of muslims by muslims--see below...seriouslly how can we muslim claim moral high groud is simply laughable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJV9uPQ1WIc

Be my guest and explain how your video is even remotely related to Muslims. It is like me saying all the gang wars in USA represents Christians/Atheists etc.
Erdogan was in his right to address the hypocrisy of the west. Whether it was a jewish, racism, homosexuals who were under attack/discriminated, the president himself would address those issues, but a widely known phenomenon of discrimination of Muslims have never been addressed.
Erdogan is no Mullah or some extremist in any way. He have granted his people more freedom, helped minorities in his country, gave his country an economic boom and have protected his countries national interest. To top it all of, he have helped address issues of Muslim around the world.

[Azmal]

Be my guest and explain how your video is even remotely related to Muslims. It is like me saying all the gang wars in USA represents Christians/Atheists etc.
Erdogan was in his right to address the hypocrisy of the west. Whether it was a jewish, racism, homosexuals who were under attack/discriminated, the president himself would address those issues, but a widely known phenomenon of discrimination of Muslims have never been addressed.
Erdogan is no Mullah or some extremist in any way. He have granted his people more freedom, helped minorities in his country, gave his country an economic boom and have protected his countries national interest. To top it all of, he have helped address issues of Muslim around the world.

How it is not related? In both case innocent civilians were murdered because of their religion believes, yet one is not even notice or reported by most Muslims countries and other is used as political tool against west.
What I find truly absurd however is Erdogan and other Muslims leaders ability to call the west “irresponsible and hypocrite”, while they make no mention of the Muslim behavior. Do we as a Muslims ever ask ourselves about OUR sense of responsibility? I guess it’s perfectly ok for Muslim leaders to deny their citizens their liberties and for Muslims in Islam’s name to engage in the heinous crimes around the globe, but if Obama does not mention a hate crime against Muslims in US, it is HE who is being irresponsible. Way to go chump. It is so easy to seek blame on others, while we engage in collective amnesia to atrocities taking place in our name, right?

[Toramana]

How it is not related? In both case innocent civilians were murdered because of their religion believes, yet one is not even notice or reported by most Muslims countries and other is used as political tool against west.
What I find truly absurd however is Erdogan and other Muslims leaders ability to call the west “irresponsible and hypocrite”, while they make no mention of the Muslim behavior. Do we as a Muslims ever ask ourselves about OUR sense of responsibility? I guess it’s perfectly ok for Muslim leaders to deny their citizens their liberties and for Muslims in Islam’s name to engage in the heinous crimes around the globe, but if Obama does not mention a hate crime against Muslims in US, it is HE who is being irresponsible. Way to go chump. It is so easy to seek blame on others, while we engage in collective amnesia to atrocities taking place in our name, right?

Muslims killing Muslims doesn't justify the killings of Muslims by others; otherwise as Afghans are killing Afghans so Americans, Pakis, etc. are justified to kill Afghans.

Have some sense before throwing out that lame argument.

[Badlun]

3 Muslims killed and such complaints but 300 killed daily in Muslim World and no reaction. Azmal is 100% right.

[Loy Afghanistan]

3 Muslims killed and such complaints but 300 killed daily in Muslim World and no reaction. Azmal is 100% right.

In this sick world fat americunts life is worth at nr 1 place, then comes Europeans, Rich Arabs, wahabi/jihadist terrorist ****s, etc. Last comes all poor people.

For some jihadi arab mix raced apes on this forum. a life of a arab muslim is more than a life of a Afghan Muslim.

[Azmal]

Muslims killing Muslims doesn't justify the killings of Muslims by others; otherwise as Afghans are killing Afghans so Americans, Pakis, etc. are justified to kill Afghans.

Have some sense before throwing out that lame argument.

Killing innocent people because of their race, religion, gender and etc must be condemned by anyone with small sense of humanity. However what are we to make of Erdegan blaming American for action of one crazy American against another American of diff faith while it was him and his buddies in Saudi that created ISIS in order to weaken Kurds. Seriously, what and why an old Kommie like you would cheer for Islamist Erdegan. Lets face it, we wear the mass-produced clothing fashioned by machines produced in the west, we drive cars invented by liberal minds, our struggle for a longer life is assisted by technological innovations in non-Muslim countries, we get rich by selling the oil once exploited and then demanded by liberal industrialized nations, our best schools borrow from the knowledge gained from liberal Democracies, and now WE are the ones dictating how they ought to live “responsibly”? Hell man, we even fu.ck up our own nations and then run to these people for a better deal in life! Sorry buddy, but I just don’t share your absurd belief in telling a duck how to quack…specially not from Mullah Erdegan.

[Kushan Prince]

3 Muslims killed and such complaints but 300 killed daily in Muslim World and no reaction. Azmal is 100% right.

The 300 muslims aren't being killed in America daily though.

[Azmal]

The 300 muslims aren't being killed in America daily though.

That’s the thing, Muslims killing Muslims in the name of Islam is all ok, as if blood of those savagely murdered does not matter and those killed were not even human. Let’s face it nobody knows how to **** a Muslim then follow Muslims.