It’s almost like Amanpour is biased in favor of Islam.
Via Mediaite:
CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour, anchoring the coverage of the ongoing Turkish protests for her network, delved into analysis on Tuesday in an effort to isolate why the young, secular Turks had taken to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the government in Ankara. She noted that the nation had just recently curtailed the use of images of alcohol in public, but found that move roughly equivalent to the restrictions on alcohol imagery in the West. Oddly, Amanpour did not find it worth mentioning that those restrictions are made for public health reasons in the West but for religious reasons in Turkey.
“The Turkish government has said over and over again that it is not an Islamic government as you might find in Iran,” Amanpour began. “You can see that. We know that it has no plans to make Turkey into an Islamic Republic in the way that you see in places like Iran or elsewhere.”
She added that there has been some concern over Turkey’s shift towards “political Islam” among Western powers, but mentioned that many of the West’s democratic leaders are comfortable with the leadership of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.