My point was not against this one statue, but against the line "Good news but we want all other ones return to Turkey as well.."

That is not realistic and not fair. There are enough foreign objects in Turkey too! You can´t have a big worldwide swap, giving back "all the other ones" to their original countries.

So when are you going to give that obelix in Istanbul back to Egypt?

So we went back to the games... crazy... The mindset of racists and any other extremists is the danger here, not video games. No WoW character ever had to go to an island and kill people who couldn´t defend themselves. I have never seen a bomb made of fertilizer in Halo. Real life has enough violence that influences people, which doesn´t even come close to the violence you see in videogames. I´m sure the victims on that island played videogames too. 

I keep hoping that this action shows the dangers of racism, and will mean a shift away from the racists inspired parties that I see springing up every where around the world. He mentioned Wilders, the Dutch politician in his manifest... I hope people can see the link between Wilders and the uprising of crazy people like this. THAT link is much clearer than the link between his actions and videogames. Racism has no place in any modern society, and I hope people will start to understand this... it is the only positive thing that can come from a disaster like this.

Ah well, people also say "Europeans" like it´s one thing... there are only two countries in the world... "my country" and "everything outside of the borders"

I for one get a bit creeped out by the Turkish pledge and how nationalist Turkish schools are. As a Dutch person it seems a bit militant. I guess I can never fully understand it as an outsider.

By the way, I don´t think Italian American and being for example a Kurd in Turkey can be compared. Italians were immigrants that moved to America in search of fortune. The Kurds were already in Turkey before it was Turkey.

I am not sure if I think the whole speech in the morning should be banned or not. I wouldn´t want my child to have to stand up like that every morning, since I think it would make her feel superior to other people, simply because she is from a certain country. But that feeling comes from my own culture. Dutch people are only proud of our nation when there is a football match on tv

Come on, videogames have NOTHING to do with this mental person´s actions. I play WoW and Halo, and I never felt the need to shoot somebody. Just like Sim-city has not turned me into a real city planner. People were killed by crazy gunmen before videogames existed!

We need to focus on what is important here, and that is the crazy racist ideas that he has. Blame racist ideologies and abuse of religion. Don´t take away any of the attention we need to give that problem, by bringing in video games. It has been researched for so many years. First is was rock music that would make people more sexual active. Than it was metal music that had hidden killing-messages. Now video games and violence. The number of psycho killers amongst game players is just as high as under non-gamers.

The Illuminati thing doesn´t convince me. I think he WANTED to be a sort of secret society member, to feel important. The whole "templar" group he was a part of is a bunch of crazy religious fanatics who have lost any contact with the real idea behind their religion. I think it´s good that they have held the court-hearing closed for media today, so this crazy person cannot give messages to his "friends" through the media. Lock him up and throw away the key.

Laws are not made in that way. Laws are written and set up by specialists. It´s never a single minister or something who writes a law. But I guess you didn´t really look into that system, and basically have no clue what so ever it takes to write a law. Come on... you can disagree with the law, but don´t pretend like law makers are idiots because they have a different idea than you do.

I think it´s not a cultural miss-step of Tulip in the first place. What kind of man says bad things about his wife to another woman? I agree that he sounds like a jerk.

I don´t really get the point of preferential trade between native Americans and Turkey. And also, I don´t think the amount of money involved in this can ever be that big that it is news worthy.

Any local phone shop. Just ask anybody in a bar, hotel, shop, wherever when you can have this done. Everybody knows a shop where you can do that.