One Thousand and One Nights of Turkish Secularism

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Dec 30, 2012 at 18:21

> ...since when does Secularism have any meaning in a Nation becoming controlled by Islamists who "World Wide" will kill their own to purify the voting?<

I would ask this question in a different way :

Since when are we supposed to believe that a purely Mahometan nation like Turkey with its 99,8% Islamization rate will act for ever as if it were its own opposite, namely 99,8% secular?

" One can only ask ' What exactly are secular Turks are smoking in their Hooka's" that leaves then so blind to Islamization of the Turkish Government?"

Turks are all Moslems and if you have any respect for semantics, then maybe you will agree that believing in Allah, Mahomet, the Koran and all that nonsensical stuff and having 1000 years of bloody jihadist history and nothing else are by any rational criteria incompatible with being secular. The Turks have been asserting the opposite for 90 years. But they have had their own good reasons to hide and lie to us, first to please their bloody tyrant settling personal scores with Islam and then to please their Western saviors who were just told not the truth what merely they wanted to hear - a good story that sells well in the West, sort of "A Thousand and one Nights of Turkish secularism".

In short, what all Turks are smoking in their hookas is what they have always smoked and tasted most - Islam. After decades of both Turkish and Western hiding and lying about "secularism" in a Moslem monoculture, seeing now Islam where one was told to see "secularism" must be very 'shocking'. Well, wherever common sense has been deactivated for some time, facing reality afterwards is inevitably fraught with shocks and surprises.

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