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TURKS, ARMENIANS, GAYS, CATHOLICS AND SATANISTS: WHAT GEORGIANS FEAR
epress.am
01.20.2012
Intensified in recent years, Georgian Russophiles entertain a variety
of phobias, which often conflict with one another, writes columnist
Tengiz Ablotiya in Gruzya Online ("Georgia Online").
"One of the fears is that the West, in the face of Catholics,
Satanists, Jehovah's Witnesses and other agents at work behind the
scenes of the world, dreams to turn original Georgia into an appendage
of the decaying West, which is a huge gay pride parade for the whole
of Western civilization.
"They are also intimidated by an Armenian threat: that the
Armenians are conquering Georgia's coastal lands, they prowl the
country's supreme governing structures, they have seized lucrative
establishments, they purchase Georgian fruits and vegetables in large
quantities, and in no time they will open a Akhalkalaki-Batumi corridor
and it's goodbye, Georgia.
"But the most popular is the story spun of a Turkish threat, which
arose in the early 90s. Allegedly, the Turks will gradually seize the
commanding heights of Georgia's economy; but the worst thing is that
today or tomorrow they will tear off Adjara. In addition, arguments
are raised that allegedly Turks everywhere (I wonder where?) state that
Batumi is their city and that soon they will return it to themselves.
"If you listen to them, then today in Batumi, mosques are being built
at every turn, Wahhabism is in full bloom in the mountainous regions of
the autonomous republic, and most of the economically active population
in Batumi are Turks,... and they ruthlessly exploit and humiliate the
unfortunate Georgians whose rights have been violated," writes Ablotia.
In fact, notes the columnist, all these horror stories that contradict
each other are nonsense. "Georgia cannot simultaneously be forced
into Europeanization, Armenianization and Turkification - either one
or the other, or a third," he writes.
epress.am
01.20.2012
Intensified in recent years, Georgian Russophiles entertain a variety
of phobias, which often conflict with one another, writes columnist
Tengiz Ablotiya in Gruzya Online ("Georgia Online").
"One of the fears is that the West, in the face of Catholics,
Satanists, Jehovah's Witnesses and other agents at work behind the
scenes of the world, dreams to turn original Georgia into an appendage
of the decaying West, which is a huge gay pride parade for the whole
of Western civilization.
"They are also intimidated by an Armenian threat: that the
Armenians are conquering Georgia's coastal lands, they prowl the
country's supreme governing structures, they have seized lucrative
establishments, they purchase Georgian fruits and vegetables in large
quantities, and in no time they will open a Akhalkalaki-Batumi corridor
and it's goodbye, Georgia.
"But the most popular is the story spun of a Turkish threat, which
arose in the early 90s. Allegedly, the Turks will gradually seize the
commanding heights of Georgia's economy; but the worst thing is that
today or tomorrow they will tear off Adjara. In addition, arguments
are raised that allegedly Turks everywhere (I wonder where?) state that
Batumi is their city and that soon they will return it to themselves.
"If you listen to them, then today in Batumi, mosques are being built
at every turn, Wahhabism is in full bloom in the mountainous regions of
the autonomous republic, and most of the economically active population
in Batumi are Turks,... and they ruthlessly exploit and humiliate the
unfortunate Georgians whose rights have been violated," writes Ablotia.
In fact, notes the columnist, all these horror stories that contradict
each other are nonsense. "Georgia cannot simultaneously be forced
into Europeanization, Armenianization and Turkification - either one
or the other, or a third," he writes.