Edip Yuksel True Colors
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Peace Everyone
Edip Yuksel true colors. You have to visit the link to see for yourself
http//www.freewebs.com/edipyukselexposed/edipexposed.htm
Peace
The author abviously has a beef with Edip, and im not buying into it. This idiot uses political corectness to target Edip with an blank loaded gun. To charicature people, always involve "boosting" their genetic differences. This means that in the world of humour drawing black people have big lips, jews and arabs always has big noses and beards, white folks are often target for our ability to change into several different colours like red, green , blue, ghastly white etc..
IMHO the writer is an idiot, and this is nothing but a low personal attack on edip yuksel, for a reason that is not apparent from the writ itself.
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I didnt even get to Edips own answer that is how lame i found the blog, but Edip has posted a fully sensible answer to which i agree.
Dear brother or sister Haqq
I never ever saw or think those as derogatory or racist remarks against black people. As it seems, racism too in the mind of the beholder.
Now, listen to me my dear sensitive friend
If you get out of your little box and study the universe of cartoons, you will see EXAGGERATION of physical features or ideas as the main style or tool for delivering the message. In the universe of cartoons, you will see people with unproportionally small or big noses or ears. Or Big heads on very small bodies, or small heads on very big bodies. In most of the cartoons, if you pay attention, you will see that the hands have four fingers, rather than five. Police officers are usually fat by donut stores, an the generic government is usually represented by a pointing guy with a goatee and piercing evil eyes.
Similarly, each race or group of people are depicted with some features stereotyped and exaggerated. Jews are depicted with big hooked noses, for instance. Chinese people with very elongated eyes and eyebrows. Mexicans are almost always depicted with big hats. Black people usually have bigger lips and depicting a typical black in cartoons with thin lips would not represent nor convey the immediate impression of an average black. Nothing inherently immoral or dehumanizing in those depictions.
Where in the world you got the idea that big lips are evil or bad? It seems that your mind is polluted by a preconceived idea that big lips are bad. Perhaps you have big lips and feel inferior to those who have slimmer lips. Well, I am now getting fatter and if Kurdish people are depicted fat, should I get upset. Then, you are the one who is racially or negatively discriminating against those black people who have bigger lips than the average person.
I do understand reasonable sensitivity against racism. But when I see this childish sensitivity self-righteously condemning people for their innocent remarks, yes, when I see this unreasonable sensitivity then I get sensitive. I find these extreme sensitivity unhelpful against racism, since crying wolves while there is no wolf ultimately will not protect the victim in the end.
The cartoon you are criticizing for committing racism, yes if you pay attention to that cartoon with intelligence rather than with raw emotions, you will see that it defends black people and condemn the cruel and racist policy of the Western world that plundered their natural resources and supported tyrants in Africa.
So, please go take a deep breath and make a change in your unjustified sensitivity.
Peace,
Edipanyone who would argue with something as obvious as this, is a screwball imo.
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The fact that you cannot provide a clear answer to this is evidence that you are a typical white racist Muslim.
Since when was Edip Yuksel white? Without wishing to cause further offence may I enquire as to whether you are black yourself and as Edip stated in his e-mail, you may have a complex that big lips are indeed inferior, as I really doubt Edip would be classed by any Western European/European American as being 'white'. To me, this disease, which exists in the minds of people today is the real front against any effort in defeating racism.
And please
Notice that he opened up the letter and said, ?Abdulhaqq?, for the reader?s information Edip does not know my name at all, he does not know who I am and he called me ?Abdulhaqq?. The ?haqq? is the name of my e-mail but the ?Abdul? part was his conjecture and stereotypical way of being ignorant.
I am not going to stand idly by and see another Muslim attacked for doing nothing wrong nay, doing the right thing in fact. For your information ABD-Al-HAQQ - for that is certainly what you are - Haqq is the Arabic word for truth. In Islamic context, it is also interpreted as righteousness, right and (certain) reality. Al-Haqq, the truth, is one of Allah's many names. (wiki)
So kudos to Edip for doing the right thing and not addressing you by the blasfemous name you have chosen in your email address and instead referring to you (which is what you really are) as a servant of the Truth, rather than (as we have found out) 'the Truth' itself.
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I am surprised that brother Abdulhaqq (as Al-Quraishi noted, I corrected his name deliberately) used our correspondance to portray me in a distorted way. I appreciate your objective reaction to the issue raised by brother Abdulhaqq. I was bold with him in our personal correspondance, hoping that it would shake him up a bit; unfortunately, it did not work. Before posting this announcement here, he emailed his blog's link to me about a week ago. I chose not to answer him, since I found him unreasonable and too emotional.
Though I appreciate your support and your standing for justice, somehow, I do not feel good his being criticized harshly in public. I feel that it might even further increase his paranoia and hurt his spirit. He is most likely a young black brother who has been subjected to racism and perception of racism in his life. It is difficult to be black in America and perhaps in many other countries.
In fact, those who would read his blog in its entirity will reach to a different conclusion regarding my position on this issue. Though, I find his perception of my position distorted and delusional, I command brother Abdulhaqq for his honesty, though a misguided one. He did not distort or hide my answers to him. Thus, unintentionally he served the truth.
Peace,
Edip -
He is most likely a young black brother who has been subjected to racism and perception of racism in his life. It is difficult to be black in America and perhaps in many other countries.
Indeed, we all have such personal demons that we must deal with, it is how you go about all the different kinds of bad treatment you have suffered in the past that counts. You can either lash out and hurt others uncontrollably as has happened to you, or go down a different path.
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He is most likely a young black brother who has been subjected to racism and perception of racism in his life. It is difficult to be black in America and perhaps in many other countries.
Indeed, we all have such personal demons that we must deal with, it is how you go about all the different kinds of bad treatment you have suffered in the past that counts. You can either lash out and hurt others uncontrollably as has happened to you, or go down a different path.
or do both, walk a different path and lash out at their blatant ignorance. ;D
peace
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Peace,
To make the person understand, Edip is kurdish, the kurdish people have been prosecuted and hated in turkey for ages. They are the black people of turkey and the middle east. Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of them just because of their origins. Edip knows racism first hand. But this is of course neglected by the writer. He probably never thought of other people being discriminated on earth next to black people, while writing this post.
Now that's a fact that has been ignored.
If you don't understand the difference anymore between real racism and not-racism, i feel sorry for you, as you then live in hate, just as the racist people.
Good post Arnold.
Edip, the way you responded to this shows what a great man you are.
peace
Heart
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I would consider removing that cartoon if many black people feel/perceive it to be insulting to them. They are the best judge about a cartoon intended to defend them. There is no point trying to defend a group of people if they consider the style of your defence offensive to them.
Thus, even if I disagree with brother Abdulhaq's perception and interpretation, I will respect his position if he shows that most ore a good number of black people consider it offensive. Again, the purpose of the cartoon was not to criticize black people but pull our attention to their plight and discrimination against them. If we decide to remove the cartoon, then I would also appreciate that brother Abdulhaq or his friends provide our cartoonist, Falco, with some samples of "proper" cartoons/depictions of black people.
As far as I know, brother Abdulhaq, has been so far the only person showing negative reaction to that cartoon.
PS The sad thing is that we are few people with important common convictions and values and we do not know each other personally. I wish we could meet each other face to face or get to know each other personally. It is imperative that peace activists, free people, monotheists unite their voices and create a united force.
Peace,
Edip -
Indeed