OT: Ignorance + Left and Islamic Fundamentalist Attitudes + Misinformation Creates Havoc

January 9, 2004

These cats are dangerous .. to themselves .. and to us. Turkey has

changed a lot in the last 2-3 years .. some for the better and some

not so good .. here is an example of some of the idiocy. And know

you that Yeni Safak is an Islamic Propaganda Newspaper. They knew

what she was saying .. they twisted it to their ends. Of course, her

story has few facts .. the connection between training for 11 Sep and

Saddam is well established now .. supported by documents turned over by

the Iraqi Government themselves. Nothing I can do to remove sexually

oriented ads to the left of the URL pertaining to her story .. Butch

American sexual metaphor leads to suicide bombing in Turkey.

Fanned by the Islamist press, Turkey is up in arms over the rape of

thousands of Iraqi women and young girls by American troops. The outrage

even led a man with a prosperous shop, two homes, 5 children and 2

grandchildren to blow himself up, along with a truck filled with

explosives, in front of a Turkish bank -- killing 12 people.

There's only one problem. The whole crisis is based on a

misunderstanding. Sex therapist and sex entertainer Dr. Susan Block of

Los Angeles published a political opinion piece on her Web site

entitled, " The Rape of Iraq. " In it she used the sexual metaphor to

describe the U.S. invasion of Iraq. She wasn't writing about actual

rapes. Enter Turkey's leading Islamist journal Yeni Safak, which quoted

Block's column in an October 22 front-page story reporting over 4,000

" known " rapes by U.S. soldiers.

The U.S. Embassy in Ankara has strongly denounced the story. And Dr.

Block's response is, " I am a sex therapist and I use sexual terminology

for political commentary. I did not say American troops are literally

raping Iraqi women . . . I am appalled to be misquoted and even more

appalled that the story inspired someone to such violence. "

Read the full story on the Boston Globe:

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A statement from the U.S. Embassy:

Dr. Block's essay, " Rape of Iraq " , part of her " Terror Journals " :

Dr. Block's Web site:

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