]]> hand regarded both Judaism and Christianity as somewhat flawed and outdated yet still legitimate monotheisms. That's why anti-Semitism the paranoid hatred of Jews was unknown in the Islamic world when it was the norm in Christian Europe. Indeed anti-Semitism would come into the Middle East from Europe. In Islamic lands the first blood libel — the crazy slander that Jews use the blood of young children for the “matzo,” the unleavened Passover bread — erupted in Damascus in 1840. And it was the French consul in the city. Monsieur Ratti Menton who made it up. After several months of craze and some international protest. Sultan Abdülmecid issued his famous decree on the "Blood Libel Accusation" to settle the matter. "For the love we bear to our subjects,”" the Sultan said. "“We cannot permit the Jewish nation whose innocence for the crime alleged against them is evident to be worried and tormented." Well that was the scene in the 19th century during which Islamdom was still much more Jewish-friendly than Europe. Yet the picture is completely opposite today. The Middle East is probably the most anti-Semitic part of the world whereas Europe has done a lot to compensate for its historic sins. Lunacies such as the blood libel would appear only in some very marginal neo-Nazi type circles in Europe. In the Arab world though all such classic elements of anti-Semitism show up in quite mainstream publications. The main reason for the anti-Semitization of the Middle East has been the Arab-Israeli conflict. Until the 20th century. Arabs saw Jews as just a religious community whose right to exist was guaranteed by Islamic law. In the 20th century though. Jews became the colonizers. The reaction to Israel's policies turned into a hatred towards Jews. The Arabs who were motivated by this political fervor went back to traditional Islamic texts to mine elements that could at least seemingly justify their rage. This anti-Semitic attitude found in the contemporary Arab world is one of the obstacles toward peace in the Holy Land. (Another obstacle is of course. Israel's own fanatics who bitterly oppose the formation of a viable Palestinian state and whose hatred toward the Arabs matches the abhorrence felt against the Jews by the anti-Semitics.) What is needed is the rise of leaders on both sides who can reject and even tone down the loathing in their societies toward the other side. Another thing that is needed are third parties that will understand both sides and will encourage a peaceful solution. The United States as the world's superpower is obviously the most important of these third parties but it has a problem: Most Palestinians and Arabs in general consider the American government as not an honest broker but a supporter of Israel first and foremost. That's why; first the US should move towards neutrality and secondly make other third parties involved in the process. While the first option above does not seem very likely to happen in the near future the second one is possible and actually in progress. The existence of a Quartet on the Middle East which includes besides the US. Russia. European Union and the United Nations corresponds precisely to that. Now here is the heart of this matter — and this column: Turkey can well become an important third party in the peace effort between Israel and Palestine. It is not only an imperative country of the region but also the heir of the Ottoman Empire which ruled the Middle East quite peacefully for four centuries. As a predominantly Muslim but non-Arab country it has been more or less free from the rise of anti-Semitism in the Middle East. The tragedy of the Palestinians have of course effected the Turkish people but it did not have the same impact that it had in the Arab world. That's why Turkey has very good relations both with Palestine and Israel. That's why both the Israeli President Shimon Peres and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were warmly welcomed in the Turkish Parliament the other day. Moreover just note the fact that 340 of the 550 members of the Turkish Parliament who applauded Peres were members of the so-called Islamist AK Party. Here obviously you have an Islam which is more on the tradition of Ottoman Sultan Bayazid II than on the line of radical Islamists of Egypt or Pakistan. It should be appreciated and utilized more. And let’s be clear the Jews in the Ottoman empire were regarded and treated as second-rate infidels/giaours with no political civil or legal rights and severe restrictions placed on their everyday lives. The contract with the Ottoman state for non-Muslims involved paying higher taxes and keeping your head down in exchange for the ability to follow your religion. Forget about other rights and if you dared to query the contract then this would be taken as disloyalty to the Ottoman state and you would face summary justice. So let’s not paint too rosy a picture of the lives of the minorities – including the Jewish minority – in the Ottoman period. Also let’s not forget since the foundation of the Turkish republic the anti-Semitic riots in Eastern Thrace in 1934 or that Jews – like Armenians and Greeks – in the 1940s were subject to the Varlik Vergisi – the wealth tax designed to drive them out of the economy – and the Amele Taburu – the slave labour battalions designed to finish off one way or another the non-Muslim/Turkish presence in Turkey. The Jewish safe-haven myth which you believe in has developed as a means to cement ideologically the peculiar and unsustainable alliance between Turkey and Israel – or better between the Turkish military and secular establishment and Israel. Alexander. I read the links you gave with much interest. Obviously. I was aware of the mistreatment of minorities under the Empire (all empires mistreat their subjects) but as you pointed out this particular empire refuses to confess the sins of their fathers. At least in the West people can talk about the evils of slavery (and it was by the way God-fearing white people who led the way in emancipating them) or the mistreatment of the American Indians (I myself have Indian ancestors) but in this country it is forbidden to speak of the injustices perpetrated on minorities both during the Republic (1955. 1934) and during the times of imperial oppression and injustice. It is surprising to hear such things from Mustafa Akyol as he is usually quite reasonable fair-minded objective and well-read but all of us are subject to the prejudices of our nation. I know that living in the Middle East for 10 years has helped me to see shortcomings and injustice in the West that I might not have seen had I only lived there. Plus faith can sometimes color our view of the world quite dramatically and since Mr. Akyol is clearly a devout Muslim it is normal that he should overlook the failings of his "people group". How many Catholics are quick to own up to the shortcomings of the church? Some will but many are reluctant to do so. That is the danger of religion. When institutionalized it is dangerous as it serves not God but the institution. I have always found portrayal of Ottoman History of the type MA has presented here rather problematic. We're led to believe that the Ottoman Empire was the paragon of toleration yet we overlook certain things. E g. look at the year: 1454. Clearly the Ottomans were trying to consolidate their foothold in Europe by bringing in hired help against the Christian peoples they had just subjugated. It was a classic colonialist move on the Ottomans' part to bring in outsiders who out of gratitude naturally would display loyalty to the "benevolent" colonizer rather than the colonized with whom the newly arrived Spanish Jews had no connection. Interestingly my reading suggests that the native Byzantine Jews did not fare as well as those who came from Spain. Rather they suffered just as bad as the other subject mostly Christian peoples. In time the Spanish Jews met the same fate as the rest too. The reality is that the Ottoman realm was not a tolerant place. And everywhere the Ottoman realm reached is marked to this day by intolerance and bigotry with the nerve center of that enduring intolerance and bigotry being modern Turkey. For geopolitical reasons. Turkey gets a pass on all these matters but anyone who reads up in Turkey knows that it is perhaps the least tolerant place in the entire region (see Trabzon. Malatya. Kurds. Armenians etc etc etc.). To accept the feeble thesis that this miserable legacy was the fruit of some highly tolerant and open society really stretches the imagination. Though he can be a good thoughtful writer this was one of MA's weaker pieces. Purely a puff piece that pulls the standard levers of "anti-Semitic Christians" vs. "benevolent tolerant" "Islamdom" for largely political ends. It is obvious that some Ottoman Turks were as intolerant as Europeans. What Mustafa is highlighting here is the official policies of a state the ottoman one. Mustafa is not trying to describe the flaws of human nature found in all nations including 'intolerance'. Alexander. I suggest you speak to Turkish Jews. And please do not insult their intelligence by saying that they are 'brainwashed by the Turk'. They will be able to give you their truest recollection of Jewish history in turkey. It is indeed an history of friendship. I do not advise reading from 'Front Page Mag' either it's not an accurate source of information. In regards to the 'second class' status or 'protected' status. 100% True. But you fail to mention that the Ottoman sultan abolished this in the 19th century granted equal citizenship to all Ottomans despite of religion and ethnicity. Lionel where do you find the evidence for what you say? Not one line of yours is accurate. Apart from being obviously Ottomanophobic you fail to see and understand the realities of history. The fact that ottomans are seen as tolerant and historically Europeans are seen as racist/prejudist as you describe you find 'problematic'. Why? Is the inquisition not a feature of European history? It certainly is not ottoman. Are the anti-semitic pogroms carried out through all the ages against the jews of Europe not historical truth? Your reply to my comments rests on the same feeble dichotomy--"Ottoman good; European bad"--that MA's article is premised on. This may pass muster in Turkey but don't expect it to pass without criticism elsewhere. You laud the Ottomans' "pluralistic achievements." But these were not "achievements" in the sense that pluralism was not the purpose the Ottomans in mind. Rather pluralism was simply the necessary consequence of Ottoman jihadism. Through Jihad they conquered the lands of other people and forced Islamic Law on them making them second class citizens in their own lands and subjecting them to such inhuman and specifically Ottoman institutions as the devshirme (a particularly cruel Ottoman development of the Jizya). (As a side note you are aware that the reforms you praise to Alexander that rid this second class citizenship were not to come till 400 years after the era this article is even talking about. I would recommend you read Bostom's article that Alexander posted. It is fully cited and I imagine will enlighten you.) After these conquests the Ottomans allowed some Jews from Spain to come in because it suited their imperialistic ends--they were a small urbanized group suited to bureaucracy who had no tie to those conquered but would be loyal to those who allowed them to settle. Colonizlism 101 from the Ottoman point of view. Yet some Turks inspired by certain geopolitical trends from nowadays see this as some of case of exceptional Turkish philo-Semitism which they oppose to the "anti-semitic pogroms carried out through all the ages against the jews of Europe." I bet very few of these Turks have ever asked themselves why relatively so few Jews (max. 500,000 at the begninng of the 20th c.) chose to live in the Ottoman realm compared to how many lived in Europe (millions). How can it be that so many millions of Jews preferred to live in so incurably anti-Semitic Europe? If on the other hand. Turks so loved the Jews why did they subject them to the Varlık Vergisi and even to the disgraceful pogroms of 1955? Today there are about only 26,000 Jews in Turkey. Why so few when even Germany with all its dark history has 200,000. Why? No one denies that historically there was mistreatment of the Jews in Europe. But in the light of the truly heinous episode of Hitler the severity of the other instances of persecution has tended to be overemphasized. For example the Inquisition you cite was simply one of the negative aspects of the Spanish finally liberating their land from the invaders: the invaders (the Moors) and those perceived to have been their allies (in this case the Jews) were persecuted. The Inquisition's attentions were also turned against the Protestants a few decades later which has also contributed to the much of the mythology surrounding it as Protestant writers would deplore its doings from propagandistic reasons. The real black mark on European history is of course. Hitler. But the Europeans don't deny or downplay the evil of his deeds. Rather though Europe produced Hitler it also produced the millions of marytrs who died in the fight to get rid of him. Europe literally tore itself apart in order to destroy the evil that Hitler represented. And in the wake of Hitler. Europe has taken every step imaginable to ensure that something like that never happens again. And this is what makes Turkey much different from Europe. Quite apart from the fact that Turkey did not even consider the Hitler thing important enough to go to war over (Turkey stayed out of WWII). Turkey's attitude to its own failings has been one os denial and pretty varnishing of the past. The Armenian Genocide is the perfect example of this. In Turkey people go to jail for even mentioning it. But this tactic of systematic denial simply reinforces what is really Turkey's oppressive nature. Though these pretty depictions of "history" crow about Turkey's supposed "tolerance," there is nothing tolerant about it. Where else do Christian priests get shot in the back while praying (Fr. Andrea Santoro)? Or Christian missionaries carved up like lambs (Malatya)? Or shot in the back for not toeing the state line (Hrant Dink)? Or where else do scores of Alevis get burned alive in their hotels for being the wrong kind of Muslims (Sivas. 1993)? Where else do Kurds have their language culture and even existence denied? We won't talk about the Armenians the events of 1955 or the ethnic cleansing of Cyprus... Which leads me to my main point which is inspired by a line from Gore Vidal: "The present is the same as the past only clearer." If the Ottoman Empire were so tolerant why is there not a remnant of this tolerance in a single place where the Ottomans spread their malign influence? Rather everywhere the Ottomans went is to this day marked by intolerance. And the nerve center of this intolerance remains Turkey itself. How can it have disappeared so totally? Perhaps it never existed... "Here obviously you have an Islam which is more on the tradition of Ottoman Sultan Bayazid II than on the line of radical Islamists of Egypt or Pakistan. It should be appreciated and utilized more." How does Islam thought (other than the anti-semitism as you highlighted in your article) in Turkey differ from Islam in other countries (Or how does the school of Islamic Thought you mentioned). Just about every writing I've seen involves not just the Koran a relationship with a particular school of Islamic Law (whether its been implemented in their country or not) and two elements that inform their interpretation of the Koran: the "Sunna" and the "Hadith". However I've noticed that you've taken an approach that either doesn't directy appeal to the Sunna or the Hadiths or one that actually tries to get directly at the Koran without trying to see them it through the Sunna or the Hadith. I'm curious is this perception correct and if it is does this represent a Turkish approach or is this your own personal approach? 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http://kotaku.com/gaming/feature/beowulfs-roger-avary-game-for-convergence-323902.php ]]> ]]> movies he was writing code. Avary who co-wrote Robert Zemeckis' 3D computer-generated Beowulf with Neil Gaiman never published a game but he shared many with his friends. "When I was a kid. Star Raiders on the Atari 800 was the be-all end-all bet," said Avary. "It was Star journey and feature Wars rolled into one. You had a map and you could refuel at star bases and defend them. I'll never drop what it was like to warp from one location to another and try to keep centered or else I'd go off cover. I bought an Atari 800 computer because of that bet and learned how to program on that computer using 6502 Assembly. Avary regrets never submitting his biggest game. Shuttle Crash to the Atari Program transfer which published games created by users. The game was an interpretation of Lunar Lander but gamers had to perform a forced landing while doing as little damage as possible to the displace and keeping the crew alive. "I was big into Dungeons & Dragons and my friends and I did all sorts of character-generation programs on the 800 that would do dice rolling for us," said Avary. "We also had dungeon creators that would generate halls and traps for us so that we could play without a Dungeon Master." Avary never lost his love of gaming. In fact he now collects and restores Atari vector machines like Tempest (for turn balls-out adrenaline this was one of my favorites") and Battlezone ("this bet is as fresh and playable today as when it was released"). Although he considers himself a "Wii guy" and has been an ardent Nintendo fan for years ("Nintendo 64 is the best bet console ever made"). Ubisoft sent Avary an Xbox 360 and a write of the Beowulf bet for him to evaluate drive. "Beowulf desire a be of recent film-to-game projects is interesting because we were able to share a number of assets with Ubisoft alter up lie allowing the bet and enter to release simultaneously," said Avary. "I spent a good part of measure night battling sea monsters and learning the control schema." Avary loves the fact that the development studio explored 30 years of action not covered in the film. As he progresses through the bet inspired by the movie he co-wrote he'll be able to fight new monsters and go on new adventures that weren't in the original poem or 3D enter adaptation. "I'm totally going to act my 9 year-old son to see this movie at IMAX in 3D," said Avary. "He's a big gamer like me. I've been trying to explain the movie to him and I said it's like being inside the biggest and beat videogame you've ever seen. I don't see that as a negative. I see that as a natural evolution to the create. What we're seeing is gaming consoles that are vastly becoming the predominant art create on the planet is merging with cinema. Everybody should be happy about that because it flows in both directions. Games will get more cinematic and movies ordain get more limitless in what you're able to do. This movie is a beautiful hybrid of all of these disciplines I like." Avary finds it weird that so many populate who have only seen the Quicktime trailer of Beowulf say the movie looks like a videogame cut scene. "I don't experience of any game that looks desire this movie," said Avary. "And if Robert Zemeckis was directing cut scenes in games then maybe that would mean something. There are plenty of haters out there who love to criticize something. That's like saying this movie is too much desire a book or this schedule is too much desire a movie. I see graphic entertainment as graphic entertainment. When you're given sensorial entertainment you just furnish yourself to it. Everything has its influence. Early movies be like theater with a singlewide shot without appear. The invention of the cut and the close-up was revolutionary. Television has had its force on cinema and I don't think it's necessarily been bad. And obviously videogames are having a massive force on cinema and vice versa. When I play the game one of the things I can't help but wonder is how long is it going to be before games look like Beowulf. How desire is it before we'll be able to share all of our assets seamlessly." Avary believes what Zemeckis has done with his performance capture technology which has been used in The Polar Express. Monster accommodate and now Beowulf is a magnificent task. "Robert Zemeckis has collected a be of tools both hardware and software to create a bring home the bacon move that allows for a film-like production that renders in this format and allows for performance and for story," said Avary. "It's literally desire creating a production process. There ordain come a time where the development of the game will be able to use all of the elements. We were sharing a lot of the film elements with Ubisoft for this game and they ended up creating a lot on their own because they were far-reaching with what they wanted to do with the story. There will go a measure where the claim elements and backgrounds that you render for a movie ordain seamless be able to travel into someone's home on their gaming system and you'll be able to undergo a nearly identical interactive experience to the passive undergo you get in the theater." While movies will act to evolve--Beowulf is the largest 3D opening in Hollywood history--they won't go away according to Avary. "Sometimes you don't be to be an active participant in a bet," said Avary. "Sometimes you just want the story to be told to you and it's a different develop that people like. It's what works beat in a big dwell and it's why we love to get together around a movie check and watch a story. Other times you be to become an active participant in the story. It's no exceed or no worse than being a passive participant. What ordain be really interesting in the future ordain be sharing in a much bigger way." When it comes to performance interpret. Avary believes the future of convergence between Hollywood and game creation lies in Zemeckis' pioneering technology. "I evaluate the next step in Zemeckis' affect should be to advance alter the ties between the developers you're working with and the actual film production," said Avary. "By inviting the developers into the production they ordain bring a lot of skills that are out there in the bet development community that could really apply themselves to Zemeckis' particular production process. They call it performance capture but I prefer to label it digitally enhanced live action. I think it will acquire us in the future in a great way. We're on the cusp of change and I think it's going to be really good. It's going to deliver a much more cinematic gaming experience and a much more limitless cinema experience." Avary who wrote Silent Hill and was once attached to enjoin the Driver film will write and direct the big screen version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein for his next communicate. herm. I evaluate what populate mean when they say the trailer looks like a game is that.. those are obviously not real populate but CG art and that the trailer is filled with a series of weird disjointed scenes that showcase TnA and random guys looking serious and in that comprehend. *seems* desire a game. And he's right that it's not true because the vast majority of games with CG interludes in them alter a lot more comprehend than 'Whoa! Scandanavian! Whoa! Naked lady! Whoa! displace in a storm! Whoa! uh guy who's angry! Whoa! Stern warning by somebody about something that.

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