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Reader comment on item: [The RAND Corporation and] Fixing Islam
Submitted by Megan (United States), Apr 6, 2004 at 17:21
I'm confused about how Ms. Benard can say the secularists are too anti-western, and choose the modernists over them, when the examples are Ataturk and Gadhafi. Maybe Ataturk was anti-Western, though it seems unlikely, as Turkey today is the least anti-Western. How can she say Turkey is more anti-Western than Libya under Gadhafi? Was she referring to the the radical communist secularists? Does she consider Hussein a secularist (I would think he'd be a modernist) and thats why she says they're too anti-Western?Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".
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