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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/11/erdogan-muslims-turkish-sudan-gaza
Erdogan's Blind Faith in Muslims
[Guardian-UK] Seth Freedman - Despite glaring evidence to the contrary, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, believes "it is not possible for those who belong to the Muslim faith to carry out genocide." Accordingly, he refuses to accept that Sudanese paramilitaries committed genocidal acts against the population of Darfur. Furthermore, says Erdogan, Israeli "war crimes" in Gaza are worse than anything that has taken place in Sudan. Whatever one's take on Israel's actions in Gaza, to make such absurd comparisons is both futile and false, and has no place being uttered by a statesman who sees himself as a suitable mediator between Israel and the Palestinians. His collective exculpation of every last Muslim from the charge of genocide flies in the face of bloody wars the world over.