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Despite the huge battle over the teaching of “intelligent design” creationism in 2005, a new survey shows that the majority of the people of Kansas are still in favor of teaching creationism in public school science classes: FHSU Learns ‘What Kansans Really Think’. A majority of respondents, 53 percent, ...
Evolution, Creationism, Science, Kansas, Intelligent Design, Turkey, Education
Another eruption of antisemitism from Turkey. JERUSALEM, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A Turkish television drama series which depicts an Israeli soldier shooting dead a Palestinian baby, strained already tense relations on Thursday between Israel and Turkey, a strategic Muslim ally. Previously close ties between the Jewish state and Turkey, ...
“Intelligent design” creationist Denyse O’Leary interviews Islamic creationist Adnan Oktar (aka Harun Yahya); bug-eyed insanity ensues: Interview with Turkish Darwin doubter Adnan Oktar. O’Leary calls Oktar’s book The Evolution Deceit: “the most succinct and comprehensive of the critiques of overblown claims for Darwinian evolution that I have ever read.” ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Harun Yahya, adnan oktar, Turkey, Denyse O'Leary
I got this 18th century map of the New World in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1994. Photographed with a Canon Powershot G10; click the picture for a larger version.
Turkish authorities claim to have foiled a plot to assassinate Barack Obama, by a man carrying a press card for JihadTV. Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian descent who was planning to assassinate US President Barack Obama during his current trip to Turkey, the Saudi daily ...
Barack Obama’s speech in Turkey: Obama backs Palestinian state, conciliatory to Muslims. ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama told Turkey’s largely Muslim but secular democracy on Monday the United States was not at war with Islam and that it wanted to reinvigorate efforts toward creating a Palestinian state. ...
The Wall Street Journal has an article on wacko Islamic creationist Harun Yahya, aka Adnan Oktar, and his disturbing progress in promoting his anti-science nonsense in Turkey: An Islamic Creationist Stirs a New Kind of Darwinian Struggle. ISTANBUL — As scientists around the world celebrate the 150th anniversary of ...
Robert Spencer has now graduated to making empty legal threats, sending angry email to a blogger who removed Spencer’s site from his blogroll: Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud » Changes to the Blog Roll. Everything I wrote in this post was purely factual, and easily proven—and Spencer himself has already admitted ...
Facebook, Turkey, Islam, Genocide, Hate Speech, Ethnic Cleansing, Robert Spencer
Over the weekend, more than 200 of the top clerics and scholars of the Religion of Peace™ met in “moderate” Istanbul to call for murdering lots more Jews, and to promise their support to the terrorist gang Hamas. At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious scholars and clerics ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Rockets, Terrorism, Israel, Militant Islam, Istanbul, Turkey
Long-time LGF lizard “guftafs” has a cogent summary of the issues surrounding Robert Spencer. And for more background information: Robert Spencer’s Connections: The James Jatras File.
Facebook, Turkey, Islam, Genocide, Hate Speech, Ethnic Cleansing, Robert Spencer
At Facebook, we find this group: white nationalists who advocate conquering Turkey and expelling/slaughtering the entire Muslim population—150 million people: Facebook | CAMPAIGN FOR THE ‘RECONQUISTA’ IN ANATOLIA! Once the former East Roman capital is recaptured every single brick, pavingstone, copper wire, bolt nut & screw, piece of ceramic, ...
Facebook, Turkey, Islam, Genocide, Hate Speech, Ethnic Cleansing, Robert Spencer
For his hateful outburst at Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was given a hero’s welcome on his return to Istanbul. Turkey is slipping back into the pre-Ataturk Dark Ages, with an Islamist prime minister at the helm. UPDATE at 1/30/09 10:34:43 am: Meanwhile, ...
Israel, Palestinians, Middle East, Turkey, Davos, World Economic Forum
At about 39:20 into this video from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Shimon Peres launches into an impassioned defense of Israel’s actions against Hamas—provoking an angry outburst from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who then stalks off stage as Washington Post moderator David Ignatius sputters and the ...
Israel, Palestinians, Middle East, Turkey, Davos, World Economic Forum
More evidence of a cosmic convergence of idiocies: Before he was an anti-evolution crackpot, Turkey’s Harun Yahya (aka Adnan Oktar) traded in conspiracy theories about Global Freemasonry. Also see: And Now, the International Anti-Darwin Essay Contest Islamic Creationist: ‘All Terrorists Are Darwinists’ When Disco Dudes Attack
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Turkey, Harun Yahya, Islam, freemasonry
Here’s an interesting interview with Salman Hameed, an assistant professor of Integrated Science and Humanities at Massachusett’s Hampshire College: How to stop creationism gaining a hold in Islam. Unfortunately, it’s a little late to stop creationism from “gaining a hold.” It already has one. How is evolution perceived in ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Turkey, Harun Yahya, Islam
We do have some LGF readers who are creationists, so we would be remiss if we didn’t bring to your attention a chance to win a prize of 100,000 new Turkish lira (about $63,191.14 US at current exchange rates), in a scientific essay contest being held by Turkish creationist Harun ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Turkey, Harun Yahya, Islam
Turkish Islamic creationist Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) is interviewed by Spiegel Online, and says that “All Terrorists Are Darwinists.” Oktar: Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler’s and Mussolini’s fascism and Stalin’s communism. And when we look at the present day, we see that all the members of terrorist ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, Turkey, Harun Yahya, Islam
The Turkish crackpot creationist known as Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) has actually succeeded in getting a court order to block Turkey’s access to the web site of British biologist Richard Dawkins. Ankara - Turkish internet users have been blocked via a court order from accessing the site of prominent ...
Turkey, Evolution, Creationism, Harun Yahya, adnan oktar, richard dawkins, Internet
A setback for the Islamist ruling party of Turkey: Turkish Rulers Backtrack on Head Scarves. ANKARA, Turkey, July 31 — Turkey’s ruling party has dropped for now its attempts to lift a decades-old ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in universities, a campaign that infuriated defenders of the country’s ...
LGF, Turkey, Islamic Supremacism, Women's Rights, Hijab, Headscarf
Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute says I made false claims about them, but he doesn’t actually dispute a single fact in my LGF article. I was going to ignore this post at their anti-evolution blog, but on second reading it struck me as a pretty good example of the ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Institute for Creation Research, Harun Yahya, discovery institute, Turkey, AKP
The Islamist government of Turkey continues marginalizing the Kemalist secularists, and although no one has claimed responsibility this is probably an Islamist attack to further intimidate the secularists: Istanbul rocked by bomb attacks. Turkey’s political landscape was plunged further into turmoil last night when two bombs exploded in a ...
LGF, Turkey, Islamic Supremacism, Middle East, Terrorism, Bombings
Jerry Pournelle has some interesting (if not very reassuring) comments on the dangerous situation in Turkey. (Hat tip: Insta P.)
LGF, Turkey, Islamic Supremacism, Middle East, Jerry Pournelle, Pournelle
Last year CBC radio had a segment devoted to Islamic creationism in Turkey, with some amazing revelations: * The Institute for Creation Research has been heavily involved with Turkish creationists for years, supplying propaganda and teaching materials and DVDs, to the point where Turkey’s school system has purged the teaching ...
Turkey, discovery institute, Harun Yahya, Institute for Creation Research, Creationism, Religion, Science, Intelligent Design, Evolution, LGF
A terrorist attack on the US embassy in Istanbul. ISTANBUL (AFP) - Three gunmen and three Turkish policemen were killed Wednesday in an attack on a guard post outside the well-fortified US consulate here that the United States and Turkey both labelled a “terrorist” act. The assailants, armed with ...
In the showcase “moderate” Islamic state of Turkey, Islamist agents of Hamas and Hizballah organize events calling for the destruction of Israel and America: Pro-Hizbullah, Pro-Hamas Islamists Organize “Free al Quds, World Without Israel” Events. Radical Turkish Islamists organize nights in many Turkish cities under the slogan, “A free ...
LGF, Turkey, Islamic Supremacism, Hamas, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Militant Islam