Meanwhile, in Turkey
Reading Today's Zaman is all about the art of reading between the lines, much like reading the organs of the official Chinese press. Today, they've merged!
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Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Nov 19, 2011 at 10:00pm
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Dec '10
Re: Meanwhile, in Turkey
I wonder what the other 50% are doing. Not terror bombing we hope. Or to be more accurate the Chinese hope.
Sep '11
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Good for them.
I used to live next to some Chinese nationals finishing their studies. They also happened to be very faithful baptist.
I asked them what was going to happen to them when they went back home and they weren't real sure. They thought there was a real good chance it wouldn't be good though.
Oct '11
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Is this the gem ?
Do I get a cookie ?
Oct '10
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I suppose I should be offended that an allegedly objective non-state newspaper prints such blatant Chinese Communist propaganda. However, I'm numbed to that sort of thing since the New York Times publishes Tom Friedman's columns all the time.
Maybe we'll get an article next week telling us how Falun Gong are happy with their freedom of religion in China.
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Oh, I guess you have to be a Turkey-watcher to get the joke. TZ is not an allegedly objective non-state newspaper. It's--well, as one journalist here put it, TZ is the Center for Excellence in Plot Reporting. You pretty much read it to figure out who will be arrested next.
Oct '10
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Excuse me for bringing up the trivial off-topic, but do the Chinese really use the term 'bends over backwards'?
Oct '10
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Okay, Claire, you've managed to both amuse and horrify me with this joke. I read the "about" page for the website and it didn't set off any of my spider senses. I suppose that's a sort of public service in a way for at risk political activists and other state undesirables.
Would someone please pay Claire an obscene amount of money to write a book about modern Turkish politics? Anyone with even a passing interest in world history knows that this area (regardless of what it's called at any given time in global history) is one of the key drivers of the course of history. I hate being this ignorant about something this important.
Dec '10
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Samuel Amaral: Is this the gem ?
Do I get a cookie ? · Nov 20 at 4:40am
Oh, I thought the joke was that the Imam's name is NOT something like Mohammed Mohammed.
Re: Meanwhile, in Turkey
Something's definitely up, because TZ just published another paean to Sino-Turkish ties.
Here's a discussion of TZ that might give you a sense of the role they play. (Jenny White's blog is great, by the way--you'll get a much more interesting discussion of Turkey in the comments section than you will in TZ.) TZ publishes some good stuff, sometimes, and they publish things I agree with, sometimes. But basically, they're the Gülen movement's English-language arm.
Publius, you'll get the spider sense if you read it enough.
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Publius:
Would someone please pay Claire an obscene amount of money to write a book about modern Turkish politics?
Indeed! Thumbs up!
Mar '11
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The Babylonian Jews who lived, mainly in Kaifeng on the Yellow River, for 1000 years had a synagogue in the Han style. On behalf of the remnant the Chinese government was petitioned to recognize Judaism as a permitted religion. They did not agree.
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The Kaifeng Jews have enough problems with keeping Judaism -- many Jews don't consider them Jewish for, among other things, their matrilineal heritage. But the current head of the community is viewed by some as nothing more than a government plant.
No religious freedom there, for anyone.
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Spider senses alert yet?