Sharia Law and Turkey

Submitted by M. Levi (United States), Jul 28, 2003 at 23:17

The very reason for which Turkey is a western style democracy today is because, back in late 20's Mr. Atta Turk, founder of Turkey, understood the restrictive and the backword tenets of the very sharia of which the respected Professor is defending as " to ensure social justice for all". He chose to reject , not only that brand of Islam as rendered by Arabs, but also reject their alpha-bet to which it was inferior to the western litrature.
That is why Turkey is the only true democracy with Islam as its dominant religion.
Had other muslim countried learned from Turkey, then they would not have been colonialized by the west, as much as they were. Nor would they have much reason to blame the west for their social and economical woes today.

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