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| The AKP Government's Attempt to Move Turkey From Secularism to Islamism (Part I) |
| 2005-11-01 |
| From MEMRI. It's good to see folks in that part of the world openly stand up to Islamists. It isn't so good to realize that these folks represent a small urban elite and not the conservative farmers and bazaaris that voted the AKP in. I see Askin's arrest as a real test case for secularism in the Muslim world. My gut tells me that he will go to jail and that the Islamists will win, but I still hope to be suprised. |
| Posted by:11A5S |
| #3 In mitigation, I suggest that Turkish secularists are not like their squishy liberal counterparts in the West. That being said, at a particular point, they will rise up and smite the Islamists, a reoccuring motif in Turkey. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-11-01 10:16 |
| #2 Turkey is no different than Pakland or Algeria or Indonesia - they all love to behead the infidel. The Saudis are doing today what they successfully did in numerous other countries: They funnel billions of petrodollars evry year into Turkey under the guise of "cheap capital for development" - the price that Turkey and the Turks will pay in 10 or 15 years is that they will become no different than Iran or Pakiland or the rest of the bloodthirsty Islamo-fashist world, thanks to AKP and their Saudi/Wahabi cronies & money. |
| Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929 2005-11-01 09:46 |
| #1 So a handful of Turks stand up to the Islamists while the rest vote them into office. What was that about a "small handful of extremists"? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-11-01 07:45 |