Since when are humans intelligent & rational?

No country or religion has is devoid of total stupidity & jerkiness.

Turkey is being inundated with refugees, partly the result of civil unrest caused by global warming causing food shortages in the area. If Erdogan's urging is followed, Turkey would have many more refugees crowding int it, the world, including Muslims, would have many more people dying from floods, heat, and starvation.

I am really mad that some of my tax dollars go to help Turkey.

https://www.rt.com/news/344843-erdogan-muslim-birth-control/

May 30, 2016

Devout Muslim families ought to thrive without considering population planning and birth control, says Turkey’s president. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is known for previously equating birth control to treason and harshly opposing gender equality.

“We will multiply our descendants. They talk about population planning, birth control. No Muslim family can have such an approach,” Reuters cited Erdogan as saying in a live-broadcast speech in Istanbul on Monday. “Nobody can interfere in God's work. The first duty here belongs to mothers.”

On the International Women’s Day, March 8, the president said he believes that “a woman is above all else a mother,” stressing that women cannot be freed “by destroying the notion of family,” in a speech full of quotes from Koran on the virtues of motherhood.

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While urging his compatriots to protect the family, the president also insisted that “women are not equal to men.”

“Our religion [Islam] has defined a position for women: motherhood,” the Guardian cited Erdogan as saying at a summit on justice for women in Istanbul.

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Women and men are not equal “because it goes against the laws of nature” and differences in their “characters, habits and physiques,” believes the Turkish leader.

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Erdogan’s stance found the full support of then-Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who said that gender equality in developed countries leads to higher suicide rates.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
Life expectancy

Rank State/territory Overall Male Female

43 United States 78.88 76.47 81.25

78 Turkey 74.84 71.53 78.12

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http://www.eucom.mil/mission/the-region/turkey

As part of the cooperative effort to further Turkish economic and military self-reliance, the United States has loaned and granted Turkey more than $12.5 billion in economic aid and more than $14 billion in military assistance.