Actually to translate the turkish you gave:

What importance has a name? Even if we do not call a rose a rose, it is still a rose and it will still smell sweetly.

 ofcourse they call his father, and no he doesn´t own him, but he is still his father. He lives in his house and he must respect family rules

 I was wondering what you understand from ´crime´, my dear.

 But how can you know that these ulema handle out of religiosity or for power?

And think of the Iranian-shia system, where everybody is entitled to ´taqlid´ and choose their own mujtahid. That makes that many people in the same society follow different views of explanation of Quran and Sunna, because every mujtahid can explain it differently because of the existence of ijtihad.  Ofcourse, the system in itself seems good: instead of makign everybody follow a muqallad, everybody can choose the mujtahid that is closest to your own thoughts, and because people change through the ages, the fetwas and opinions of the new mujtahids will be very different from those of the muqallad. But isn´t it very dangerous that a religion is made so difficult that it can only be explained to the people by ulema?

 I think that must be a typo because that comma doesn´t make any sense!

And you are welcome

 Nearly correct, well done!

Today a prayer...

There is no connection between ´bugün´ and ´dua´ so there is no need for ´today´s prayer´.

Actually yes. I think that some people´s hair can actually take away all of their attractiveness, they should be allowed to unveil because they only make themselves more attractive putting it on

 It is taken care of.

Members, please be aware of forum rules. We may all have different opinions (like CANLI and I ) but there is no need to call each other names. You may find someones thoughts to be very disturbing and ofcourse you are entitled to respond to it, but please refrain from personal comments.

Mhsn Supertitiz, you modified your post at the moment I deleted it. However since your new post is not much different and your reason for edit still shows the same words.. I see no point in restoring your comment.

I never thought of my friends in terms of gender, till I was exposed to ´too much Turkish culture´. Sometimes when I realise I now do, I am rather ashamed of myself!

Actually I have more close male friends than female friends, but I never really thought of them as ´male friend´ and ´female friend´. They are all just FRIENDS. And yeah, some of them understand nailpolish better than others, but seriously, we discuss the same things over the same wine. Sexual tension has never been an issue, simply because we never saw eachother in terms of gender, but in terms of friends.