Good luck trying to explain Enes Kanter and his affiliation with a dude in PA to the poor writer assigned to the story @espn
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Vice Sports has given it a go https://sports.vice.com/en_us/highlight/why-enes-kanter-has-a-new-name-and-why-his-family-disowned-him … (haven't read it myself yet). Via
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They obviously have not tried to translate or understand the statement though. It is... well. Wow. Well.
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What are we missing?
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Intensity is striking. "God take my life and give every second to to My Brave Teacher [Gulen]"...
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That he won't be deterred because of "Jewish Armenians"—fave insult phrase of movement's leader.
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The decision to actually take Gülen's last name as his own: is that as strange as it looks?
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His family disowned him; so he's making a point. But that's like the lightest part of that statement.
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Fire and brimstone... Intense devotion to "His Teacher". Death be not afraid.. Armenian/Jewish used as slur...
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