Enes Kanter Freedom struggles against hypocritical elites

It’s generally believed that the richer and more famous you are, the more power and influence you yield. Enes Kanter Freedom has proven that premise false.

For years, the NBA star has been desperately trying to draw attention to human rights abuses committed in China as well as his motherland of Turkey under the Islamist Erdogan regime. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has banned him from Turkey and is reportedly harassing his family.

Freedom himself identifies with the heterodox Gulenist movement of Turkey, an admittedly concerning and peculiar sect of Islam tied to the personality of Fethullah Gulen, who has been the subject of a number of investigations during his exile in Pennsylvania. That being said, Gulenist adherents in no way deserve the persecution they have endured at the hands of the Turkish government, which includes Erdogan’s official designation of them as a “terror” organization.

Last month, Freedom called out another Democrat, this time a Silicon Valley billionaire and part-owner of the Golden State Warriors, for dismissing human rights abuses in China. While the Celtics player may not be likely be characterized as a conservative, he is, to be sure, pro-freedom, pro-Western, and anti-Islamist (at least of the highly problematic Sunni Muslim Brotherhood and Shia Khomeinist varieties). The persecution of heterodox sects of Islam, from the Ahmadiya to the Ismailis to the Gulenists, reveals the deep-seated oppressive forces that dominate the global Islamist establishment and its autocratic facilitators that heroes such as Freedom have the courage to expose.

While these domestic and global Muslim communities and organizations have been tellingly silent about his protests, Freedom, inspired by his family history, continues to speak out against Erdogan. This is a righteous pursuit any way you slice it. And yet, instead of being embraced by the liberal community and his fellow social justice warriors on the court, Freedom can’t seem to get significant mainstream traction. Contrast this with the widespread support received by LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick, whose anti-racist activism and messages of solidarity with Black Lives Matter have been celebrated and echoed by Hollywood, by the media, and in the halls of Congress. The disparity is revolting and nauseating. So, why isn’t Freedom being held up as a champion of human rights by the liberal media or, at the very least, by the NBA?

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