SOMETHING CURIOUS IS HAPPENING WITH LINDSAY LOHAN.
LINDSAY LOHAN USUALLY ISN'T IN THE NEWS WHEN IT COMES TO
POLITICAL ISSUES, BUT MORE RECENTLY, SHE HAS BEEN MAKING
SOME STRONG STATEMENTS IN FAVOR OF RUSSIA'S LEADER, TURKEYíS
LEADER ERDOGAN, WE TALKED ABOUT RUSSIA SO MUCH THAT I
HAVE RUSSIA ON MY MIND.
SHE SAID A LOT OF FAVORABLE THINGS ABOUT ERDOGAN IN
ADDITION TO A LOT OF FAVORABLE THINGS ABOUT ISLAM.
LET ME GIVE YOU SOME DETAILS ON THAT.
THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF PHOTO OPS THAT SHE HAS DONE
IN PLACES LIKE TURKEY WHERE SHE IS WEARING THE HEADDRESS,
BUT THAT IS NOT RARE FOR CELEBRITIES.
A LOT OF CELEBRITIES POSE LIKE THAT HOWEVER OVER THE WEEKEND,
THIS IS ACCORDING TO THE DAILY BEAST, THE CONVERT FORMALLY
KNOWN AS LILO CHANGED HER INSTAGRAM BIO TO ALAIKUM SALAM, AN ARABIC
GREETING THAT TRANSLATES TO AND UNTO YOU PEACE.
SHE DELETED ALL OF HER PHOTOS POSSIBLY BECAUSE SHE HAD
SOME BIKINI PHOTOS AND THINGS LIKE THAT MAYBE IT DOESN'T
BODE WELL FOR ISLAM IF SHE GENUINELY DID CONVERT.
SHE WAS ALSO IS QUOTED SAYING THIS: MY VERY CLOSE FRIENDS WHO
HAVE BEEN THERE FOR ME IN LONDON ARE SAUDI AND THEY GAVE
ME THE QURAN AND I BROUGHT IT TO NEW YORK
BECAUSE I WAS LEARNING.
IT OPENED DOORS FOR ME TO EXPERIENCE SPIRITUALITY, TO
FIND ANOTHER TRUE MEANING.
THIS IS WHO I AM.
THEN SHE SAID, I WAS A BAD PERSON FOR HOLDING THAT QURAN.
I WAS SO HAPPY TO LEAVE THE UNITED STATES AND GO BACK
TO LONDON AFTER THAT.
BECAUSE I FELT SO UNSAFE IN MY OWN COUNTRY AFTER THIS.
I MEAN PEOPLE WERE, LIKE, HORRIBLE TO ME.
THIS STORY IS AMAZING AND I AM A LITTLE CONFLICTED ABOUT IT.
FIRST OFF, IF SHE REALLY CONVERTED TO ISLAM, AN INTERESTING CHOICE.
DID SHE REALLY?
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW UNTIL SHE FLAT OUT SAYS IT.
TAKING DOWN PICTURES AND HER BIO WAS SOME INDICATION.
SHE WEARS A HEADSCARF IN TURKEY BUT IN TURKEY YOU DON'T HAVE TO
WEAR A HEADSCARF, THATíS IN SAUDI ARABIA SO THAT'S MORE
OF A CHOICE SHE IS MAKING BUT LIKE YOU SAID, OTHER
CELEBRITIES DO IT TO AND THERE ARE MORE RELIGIOUS PARTS OF
TURKEY WHERE IT MIGHT BE MORE COMMON.
THAT IS JUST BEING RESPECTFUL SO IT'S NO BIG DEAL.
LAURA BUSH HAS WORN THE HEADSCARF TO BE RESPECTFUL OF
OTHER COUNTRIES.
NOT NECESSARY IN TURKEY BUT THAT IS FINE.
THE REALITY IS PROBABLY WHAT HAPPENED, SHE SPENT A LOT
OF TIME IN LONDON, SHE'S GONE TO REHAB OVER SIX TIMES THAT
SHE HAS ISSUES.
SHE FOUND SOME PEOPLE, HER SAUDI FRIENDS WHO OF COURSE
WANTED TO HANG OUT WITH A CELEBRITY LINDSAY LOHAN AND
THEY WERE PROBABLY DECENT TO HER.
THEY PROBABLY TOLD HER ALL OF THESE GREAT THINGS ABOUT
THEIR CULTURE.
WHEN SHE IS BESIEGED AT ALL TIMES, SHE FOUND SOME SANCTUARY
APPARENTLY AMONG HER SAUDI FRIENDS AND APPARENTLY IN TURKEY
AND WITH SOME TURKISH FRIENDS AS WELL.
THERE ARE A LOT OF WEALTHY TURKS AND SAUDIS RUNNING AROUND
AND THATíS HER LITTLE BUBBLE NOW.
SHE BEING FUNDED BY THE SAUDIS?
IS THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING?
LINDSAY LOHAN IS BEING FUNDED BY THE SAUDIS.
THIS IS HOW THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY.
THE REASON I'M CONFLICTED ON IT IS I AM NOT RELIGIOUS.
I LEFT RELIGION.
ANYTIME ANYONE CONVERTS TO ANYTHING, YOU ARE LIKE, REALLY?
TO ME IT SEEMS SUPER WEIRD.
ON THE OTHER HAND, SO WHAT.
SHE HOLDS HER QURAN.
AND?
I'M NOT WITH THE PEOPLE ATTACKING HER FOR THAT.
IF SHE CONVERTED TO ISLAM, PEOPLE ARE FLIPPING OUT.
I GET IT, IT SOUNDS AMAZING AND INTERESTING TO BE TOO BUT NOBODY
FLIPS OUT WHEN MADONNA BECOMES JEWISH AND DOES KABBALAH.
IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD.
WHEN OTHER PEOPLE CONVERT, IT IS LIKE OKAY, THAT IS
INTERESTING AND WEIRD AND DIFFERENT BUT WHEN YOU
CONVERT TO ISLAM IT IS LIKE, OH NO.
WHEN IS THE BOMB GOING OFF.
WHEN IS SHE DONE.
SHE HAS BETRAYED US ALL.
JUST CALM DOWN.
SHE IS HAVING HER OWN ISSUES, SO WHAT?
I DON'T CARE WHAT RELIGION SHE WANTS TO CONVERT TO.
I THINK IT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE OFTEN TIMES WHEN
CELEBRITIES OR JUST PRIVATE CITIZENS GO THROUGH A VERY
TUMULTUOUS TIME IN THEIR LIVES AND THEY HAVE GOTTEN CAUGHT
UP IN DRUGS OR BEEN ARRESTED MULTIPLE TIMES OR GONE TO
REHAB MULTIPLE TIMES WHICH HAS HAPPENED TO LINDSAY LOHAN,
THEY USUALLY DO TURN TO RELIGION AND I THINK IT IS MORE
ABOUT REDEEMING THEMSELVES TO SOCIETY AND CHANGING THEIR
IMAGE MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE TO BE QUITE HONEST WITH YOU.
I'M NOT BUYING THE SPIRITUALITY THING.
THAT IS WHY A LOT OF TIMES YOU WILL SEE PUBLIC FIGURES OR
PRIVATE CITIZENS TURN TO BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIAN STATUS.
ITíS ALL ABOUT I HAD SUCH A DARK PAST I AM SO GOOD NOW.
I AM A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN.
I AM SUPER FUNDAMENTALIST.
IN A LOT OF CASES THEY ARE, IN
THIS CASE, NO WAY SHE'S GOING TO BE A FUNDAMENTALIST MUSLIM.
I DOUBT IT ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE LIFESTYLE THAT SHE'S
HAD FOR SUCH A LONG TIME, BUT REGARDLESS.
THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT RARE.
I THINK IT MIGHT BE RARE FOR THEM TO TURN TO ISLAM, BUT
OFTEN TIMES CELEBRITIES HAVE GONE THROUGH SOME SERIOUS
CRAP WILL TURN TO RELIGION AS A WAY OF REDREEMING THEMSELVES.
THAT IS WHY, I'M GIVING HER MORE CREDIT IN THAT THIS IS GENUINE.
THIS IS NOT FOR PR.
DEFINITELY NOT PR IN THE UNITED STATES.
THAT IS WHAT I'M SAYING.
IF YOU WANTED TO BE LIKE, I BECAME SPIRITUAL AND
FORGIVE ALL MY PAST SINS, THAT IS A LAYUP.
YOU GO TO CHRISTIANITY.
THE LORD JESUS.
I FOUND LORD JESUS ON MY WAY TO REHAB AND I'M FINE NOW.
THAT IS THE OLDEST PR TRICK IN THE BOOK.
IN AMERICA YOU DON'T GO DON'T WORRY, I FOUND THE QURAN
AND NOW PEACE ONTO YOU.
ITíS NOT A PR MOVE, RIGHT OR WRONG
IT IS GENUINE.
I WANT TO GET TO THE ERDOGAN COMPONENT OF THIS
BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS PROBABLY THE MOST INTERESTING.
ERDOGAN IS A SUPER QUESTIONABLE GUY.
WE ALL KNOW
THAT.
THERE WAS THE COUP IN TURKEY AND ERDOGAN
RESPONDED TO THAT IN SOME OF THE MOST PUERILE WAYS.
PEOPLE WERE MURDERED, JOURNALISTS WERE DETAINED
AND STILL REMAIN IN PRISON AS A RESULT.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS NO LONGER REALLY A THING IN TURKEY.
PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF HIM.
LINDSAY LOHAN THINKS HE'S A STANDUP GUY.
LOHAN PROCEEDED TO UTTER THE PHRASE THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN
FIVE, A SLOGAN COINED BY TURKISH PRESIDENT ERDOGAN.
ERDOGAN REFERS TO HIS OPINION THAT THE
U.N. SECURITY STANDARD NEEDS TO EXPAND ITS PERMANENT
MEMBERSHIP BEYOND ITS CURRENT FIVE STATES WHICH INCLUDES
CHINA, FRANCE, RUSSIA, UNITED KINGDOM, AND THE UNITED STATES.
OBVIOUSLY HE WANTS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE SECURITY COUNSEL.
IT IS INTERESTING TO HEAR HER UTTER THAT PHRASE THAT WAS
COINED BY HIM.
ALSO SHE SAID, IN REGARD TO ERDOGANíS RESPONSE TO THE
COUP, EVERYONE DID REALLY WELL AND HIS PEOPLE REALLY
ADMIRING HIM AND RESPECTING HIM AS THE FIRST ELECTED PRESIDENT.
THIS IS A BIG DEAL.
I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE IS SPEAKING LIKE SARAH PALIN IN THAT
SENTENCE BUT THAT IS FASCINATING.
SHE APPARENTLY HAS PICKED UP AN ACCENT TOO.
NOT SURE WHAT KIND.
EVERYONE WOULD SAY THE PEOPLE THAT WERE KILLED BY THE
COUP ARE BY THE PEOPLE WHO DID IT BUT HE CERTAINLY IMPRISONED
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AFTER THE COUP, SOME OF WHOM IT
DESERVE TO BE IN PRISON BECAUSE THEY DID A COUP AGAINST
THEM AND TRIED TO MURDER HIM AND SOME OF THEM WERE
CONVENIENTLY HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS.
HARD TO TELL WHICH IS WHICH AND HE JUST LOCKS EVERYONE UP
AND IT WAS A POWER GRAB.
ALTHOUGH, THINK ABOUT HIS REACTION TO HIS OPPONENTS, PROTESTERS WHO
HAVE TAKEN TO THE STREETS, WHAT HAS HIS REACTION BEEN TO THAT?
THEY HAVE BEEN MET WITH SEVERE FORCE AND REALITY AND VIOLENCE.
ERDOGAN IS NOT AN EXAMPLE OF A STANDUP GUY WHO DOES RIGHT
BY HIS CITIZENS.
EVEN IF YOU DISAGREE AND YOU THINK HE IS OKAY, WHICH NOT A LOT
OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF TURKEY DO.
APPARENTLY SLIM MAJORITY IN TURKEY DO BUT EVEN SO,
REPEATING INTERNAL POLITICAL SLOGANS THAT APPLY TO
TURKEY, THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN FIVE, WHAT?
WHAT A RANDOM THING TO REPEAT IF YOU ARE LINDSAY LOHAN.
THAT IS JUST INTERNAL DOMESTIC TURKISH POLITICS.
SHE IS SPREADING WEIRD PROPAGANDA AND I DON'T
UNDERSTAND WHY SHE IS DOING IT.
I WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE BECAUSE I THOUGHT THIS WAS
A VERY FASCINATING QUOTE.
SHE SAYS IN TURKEY YOU HAVE FREE WILL AS A WOMAN, IT'S AMAZING
HERE, YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT AND IT'S ACCEPTED WHEREAS I
AM IN AMERICA AND I AM HOLDING THE QURAN AND I'M THE DEVIL.
THAT IS NOT TRUE.
THE GLOBAL GENDER GAP INDEX HAS DATA ON THIS AND WHAT THEY
DO IS THEY LOOK AT 140 COUNTRIES AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHERE
EACH COUNTRY RANKS BASED ON THE WAY THAT THEY TREAT THEIR WOMEN.
OOPS, TURKEY IS ACTUALLY RATED AS 125 OUT OF 140.
THE UNITED STATES SURPRISINGLY, NUMBER 20.
THIS IS ACCORDING TO NUMBERS IN 2014.
WOMEN IN TURKEY DON'T HAVE AS MUCH FREE WILL IS WOMEN IN
THE UNITED STATES.
I AM SURPRISED BY THAT TO BE HONEST.
I'M NOT SURPRISED THAT TURKEY DIDN'T DO WELL IN THAT
CONTEXT, BUT I AM SURPRISED AT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE US
AND TURKEY BECAUSE FOR EXAMPLE, THE TURKS HAVE ELECTED A FEMALE
PRIME MINISTER AND WE HAVE NEVER HAD A FEMALE LEADER IN AMERICA.
THAT'S TRUE, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE TREND OVERALL IN
TERMS OF WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS IN TURKEY, THE
UNITED STATES HAS DONE MUCH BETTER THAN TURKEY HAS.
THEY'RE NOT JUST NOTICING ON THE LEADER, THEY ARE FOCUSING
ON POLITICIANS IN GENERAL BUT ALSO THE THING THAT MADE
TURKEY RANKS SO LOW IS THEY SHOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
OKAY, THAT'S MORE BELIEVABLE.
TURKEY IS NOT AS FUNDAMENTALIST AS SOME OF THE OTHER MUSLIM
COUNTRIES LIKE SAUDI ARABIA AND THE GULF COUNTRIES.
THAT IS WHY AM SURPRISED THEY CAME IN THAT LOW BUT THE
BOTTOM LINE IS IT IS RELEVANT.
LINDSAY LOHAN HAS SOME SORT OF TURKISH PROPAGANDA IN HER
HEAD AND SHE SPOUTING THESE THINGS.
MY BEST GUESS IS LIKE I SAID, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THERE
FOR HER WHEN SHE NEEDED THEM, WHEN SHE WAS DONE AFTER
THOSE REHABS WERE PROBABLY RICH TURKS AND SAUDIS.
NOW SHE IS QUOTING WHATEVER SHE HEARS ALL OF THE TIME BECAUSE IT
IS HARD TO ESCAPE YOUR OWN PERSPECTIVE AND HER PERSPECTIVE,
SHE DOESN'T NECESSARILY WATCH CNN OR TYT OR ANYTHING LIKE
THAT, SHE JUST SITS THERE AND TALKS TO A BUNCH OF
RICH MIDDLE EASTERNERS AND THEYíRE TELLING HER THAT IS ISLAM
IS GREAT AND EVERYONE IS GREAT IN THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN 5.
IF SHE EVER GETS TO THAT OLD QUOTE THAT WE USED TO CHANT
IN THE TURKISH AMERICAN PARADES THEN WE KNOW SHE IS DONE FOR.
THAT TURKEY IS THE BIGGEST AND THERE IS NO COUNTRY
THAT IS EVEN BIG.
THAT'S RIGHT.
THEY USED TO MAKE US CHANT THAT WHEN
WE WERE KIDS.
AFTERWARDS I WAS LIKE THAT IS NOT REMOTELY TRUE.
WHEN DO YOU MEAN THERE IS NOT EVEN ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT IS
EVEN BIG?
WE MOVED TO AMERICA BECAUSE AMERICA IS AWESOME.
MY PARENTS WERE LIKE, THAT IS A GOOD POINT.
LET'S MOVE ON.
IF YOU HEAR LINDSAY LOHAN CHANTING THAT YOU KNOW WE
HAVE A REAL ISSUE.