>implying it's thanksgiving

>implying turkey is a country

Haha, lol, implying there is a nationality called 'Turkish people', that they are a majority in a country called Turkey, and that they don't let the Kurdish people (which are another, different nationality), their rights because they conquered them during the Ottoman empire 400 years ago.
>implying you should inform yourself before writing comments
>implying the comment raid of the two of you impones me. :)

The Turks have a savage history denying rights to christians, jews and Armenia people. The ottomans enslaved christian boys into their military and the Turks attempted genocide on the Armenian people, slaughtering even women and children. Early christianity began in turkey, but like in almost every muslim country in history, they kill or drive out christians. Islam shows little to no tolerance of other religions. It is a fact, that muslims are safe in western countries, but christians and jews are not safe in muslim countries.

That is mostly true, but in your historical comparison it is not. Muslims were proven to be more tolerant than christians through history. When Arabs conquered Spain they didn't kill the Christians or forced them out. They did put them under sharia law, they did have some of christian children taken to the army, but they didn't kill them all or forced them all out. When Castilian Spain reconquered the territory, they killed the muslims and forced them all out. The ottoman empire did discriminate christians, but it didn't systematically kill them. Christians remained living in the muslim world and they still live there. They have problems that's true, but they weren't systematically killed by any muslim state, before ISIS now. During the Ottoman empire there were periods when christians made majority of the population in the empire. And in Arabic countries the number of christians was actually increasing at some periods. While, in British and Spanish empire at that period, we all know what happened. You know what happened with the native americans, I don't need to tell you that. Christians were much bigger savages than muslims through history, and in fact, if we would put it in numbers, christians killed more people through history than any other religion.

But we do agree that Turkey denies it's crimes and glorifies the Ottoman empire. And that Kurds should have their own state. But Turkey is no exception in that case, in fact, they treat Kurds much better than Israelis treat Palestinians for example.

the Turks did enslave 10 ' s of thousands of Christian boys into the miltary,.. they were called Janissaries. The Janissaries were mostly slaughtered when the Sultan Felt they Were Becoming Too powerful. Friend.. i spent a lot of time in Adana Turkey.. i am very familiar with their history.

They did, my country was colonised by the Ottomans. They were far from being fair, I just wanted to say that in that historical context, that was better than the christian countries treated other religious groups. It is still bad, but it's much better than the church and christian countries at that time.

Let's jump from history. . To today. Do you feel Muslims are more tolerant of Christians today.. or are Christians more tolerant of muslims? I look at the news and see Christians being killed and their churches burned, girls raped etc all the time. . In Africa and the Mideast. Is this the fault of the US or west? Muslims are not executed in America.. their mosque are being built, not burned or destroyed. Muslim girls do not have acid thrown in their faces in America,.. and christian men do not abduct, rape or enslave Muslim girls in America either. This is a regular occurrence in Africa and parts of the ME.

Christians are more tolerant than muslims at this time. That's true. But it is not about christianity or islam, it is about the people and conditions they live in. You don't hear christians getting killed in Turkey or Indonesia. It happens in places that are either wrecked by war, like the middle east of in the places that have strong tribal tensions and conflicts, like some african countries. You didn't have muslims killing christians in the North African countries either. Actually, you should read about the Jews in Morocco in the world war two, Moroccan king refused to send them to the Nazis and protected them. And also, muslims are getting killed in some countries. Buddhists are killing and persecuting muslims in Myanmar and Sri Lanka at this very moment. But you never hear about it, because no one cares and, because that would show that muslims are not always persecuting others, they're being persecuted too. And even by Buddhists! They should be the most non violent religion of all, and yet they do it. That show clearly that it is not about the religion, it is about the people.

I personally think it's about education, and tyrannical governments. People are taught hate because they are ignorant of the truth by lack of education. Children are taught to hate at an early age. This is wrong. If you and I had young sons, and we respected each other and did not teach hate, our children would be friends and look for similarities and not differences. They would play together innocently. But now they are taught to throw stones at each other and not play together. Shiite against Sunni, against jews,.. Christian Baptist against Catholics etc. This passes on hate. When will it end?

Heh... Heh... I doubt that we're gonna see it's end. Because the hate is fueled by the people in power. They manipulate people's hate and ignorance to create more hate and ignorance. I don't know, it is very hard to see it's end. In my country, we have three nationalities, Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks. We had a war 20 years ago, and it is just the last war of the many we had. It was more or less, everybody vs everybody. We have the same language, speak the same, look the same, have similar mentalities... And yet people hate each others. We have three school programs and each are taught lies by their history professors, and the hate is being supported by politicians and institutions. It's hard to see it's end. Don't know, but yet, some people like me for example realise this, and some don't. I guess some people just don't have the guts to face the truth.

You see, I come from a Croatian background. I come from a predominantly Croatian town, most of the people from my town don't go to study in Sarajevo, our capital, because Sarajevo is populated mostly by Bosniaks. Some parents don't allow their children to go to study in Sarajevo, I know people with those experiences, a lot of people actually. People from my town sometimes ask me questions about Sarajevo, like it's a city on another continent and not our capital. Most of them have never been in it. It is hate, insecurity, prejudices and ignorance. And lack of curiosity and critical mind. And from what I see, it will take much, much more time for it to change. Centuries maybe.