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Double standard alert!
When a Kurdish person commits an honour killing it´s "those Kurds" who keep doing that stuff. When a crazy Muslim guy puts a bomb in his underwear its "not the Muslims, but a tiny portion of crazy Islamists." Let´s say that alllll the bad things that happen to women in Turkey is from the hand of a Kurd (like we never heard of a Turk hitting his daughter or wife or doing something bad...anyway, hypothetical here), does this mean that ALL Kurd are supporters of some kind of feudal system? NO!
One of my closest friends is a Kurd, and he is one of the most emancipated people I have ever met in Turkey. To put him in a box of feudal system nutts is unfair. Just like it is unfair to put any Muslim on this forum in the box of Muslim terrorists.... Just like it´s unfair to put me, as a Dutchy, in the box of those nuttcases who blame every bad part of their own sad lives on "immigration" of "dangerous Islamists into Holland." (Watch the link Trudy provided  ) They seem to forget that immigration is part of Dutch culture, and that even our national flower, the tulip, is the result of importing something from one of those "dangerous" countries 
Anyway, it seems people like to put others in boxes, but get very upset when they themselves are put into any box.
First of all; I am not claiming Turks are angels, we have murderers, rapists and thiefs amongst Turks as there are among every other nation out there. However; "honor killings" and "female circumsizion" are almost totally Kurdish phenomeons. These occur in the Kurdish populated regions of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria; but not amongst Turks, Arabs or Persians. Let´s get this straight please.
And please; not the "my Kurdish(Persian, Turkish, German) friend" argument again. We call this "benim Kürt arkadaşlarım da var" argument and it is far older and tired PC bs than you can ever imagine.
If there are some individuals within a society that have the feature "X"; this doesn´t mean every single one of them have it. But it for sure means that "X" occurs among this society, to some degree. I can´t really understand why you come up with your Kurdish friend at this point, because if a few bad individuals can not account for every Kurd out there, neither a good one does.
As for "double standards", I have none of it. There is nothing wrong with stating the obvious. E.g. . Ever-increasing radicalism among Muslims is becoming a threat for the whole world. E.g. Neverending feudal Kurd-Islamist culture is getting out of hand in Turkey.
Btw.; just as I mentioned this news seems to have found its way to global media. Here; quoting a fellow Turkish Class site member on another thread:
"Have you heard that a Turkish girl was buried alive because she chatted with guys? How could their male relatives so cruel?  "
http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_45500
Put yourself in my shoes, and you might be able to understand why I am so much agitated, and so ashamed of getting belittled in a site that is supposed to teach my language.
Edited (2/6/2010) by Yersu
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