A sad state of affairs - Milli Görüş and Zionism, with random pass at Bedri Baykam

Ever wonder where the authentic Islamists really are? Since securing the votes of all of the 820.299 (that's 2%) old school electorate (that are called milli görüşçüler, as in adherents of the milli görüş/national vision ideology) in 2007, they have been pretty much bitching about two things: the AKP and Zionists. Incidentally, this website they run, called "The AKP Reality", came in pretty handy before the elections to explain why AK Parti was the only viable option. Basically, they are wrong about everything, which makes Erdoğan look like the best thing that ever happened to Turkey. It kinda still rules:

http://www.akpgercegi.com/

My absolute favorite thing about it is that virtually every ground they criticize AK Parti on overlaps with Cumhuriyet's line, from foreign investment to "bowing to America's imperial mission". The difference is that these guys drink their dark Turkish tea and fall asleep around 10 pm when Bedri Baykam is enjoying his late dinner with a glass of red wine, and that Cumhuriyet people are shitscared of them. Meaning, while the Kemalists hate AKP for lifting the ban on the headscarf, these dudes hate them for not getting rid of it completely. It's so hard to please people.

They also like to play with indecent and too liberal newspaper ads, as Radikal reported today:

This is the original picture for the ad, made for Mother's Day (which I personally forgot by the way, did you remember?)



This is the version deemed more appropriate by the Milli Görüş newspaper:



I'm not gonna go into the legal repercussions of playing with an ad paid for by one of the largest Turkish corporations, and the shitty job they did with Photoshop. The point here is that these people exist. They are quite retarded and impossible to talk to (well, all ultra-religious people are, even though I don't want to offend anyone. Actually, I don't mind offending any fundamentalists on either side), albeit not more than the secularism-worshippers in my opinion. (Representatives of Arcelik who avidly follow our blog should not for one second think that I buy their "modern Turkish woman who can afford to wear nice-modern-short sleeved clothes because Arcelik makes housework easier for her" capitalist bullshit. Mothers in Turkey do look more like in the second picture. But that's not our point.) Fuckeries like the example above do a great deal to aggravate the already tender emotional and mental state of the regular/moderate (oh yeah, most people are. weird..) Turkish citizen who is now even scared to look towards Iran on a map. And frankly, long skirts make one's mom look fat and old.

The other interestingbutsad fact is that Milli Görüş seems to be the only ideological front that gives a fuck about Palestine. It's often obviously anti-Semitic (Jews run the world kinda thing), Muslim solidarity oriented (rather than caring for human suffering in general) and sometimes ill-informed, but frankly, and ironically, they are the only ones to say it like it is.

Another First from the AKP: Murderer Shimon Peres Talks for Peace in the Turkish Parliament

More on this article and why it's ironic later. I'm about to faint.