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ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY DON'T MIX
Reader comment on item: Is Turkey Going Islamist?
Submitted by Bill Sweeney (United States), Jun 8, 2005 at 11:27
I respect President Bush's goal of bringing, some might say forcing, democracy on the Middle East, but for anyone who has studied history and Islam I think we can conclude that democracy and Islam mix about as well as oil and water. Number one, Islam means "Submit," they say that's submitting to their god Allah, however Allah usually takes the form of Self-righteous tyrants who demand complete and total submission. Democracy means, "the people rule," Islamic rulers and pampered princes will never allow this!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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| Turkey and Islamism [107 words] | SFauvis | May 21, 2012 22:43 | 195770 | ||
| Yes, Turkey is going islamist ! ..Each country that has islam is not "moderate" forever, the more agressive forms take over. [119 words] | Phil Greend | Sep 3, 2010 19:54 | 177650 | ||
| Turkey and Shariat [454 words] | David Mac Artain | May 27, 2006 23:32 | 46544 | ||
| Response to Balikesirli and Zubair & Gotlieb [127 words] | Bige Vona | Feb 13, 2006 19:43 | 35467 | ||
| Wow [179 words] | Balikesirli | Feb 10, 2006 21:39 | 34854 | ||
 to the 'WOW' comment [46 words] | Muglali | Nov 21, 2007 05:22 | 34854 | ||
| Ignorance or American Plans? [388 words] | Deniz Bülent Tolga | Dec 24, 2005 09:10 | 30489 | ||
| what is perception is not always the truth [416 words] | Bige vona | Feb 12, 2006 20:58 | 30489 | ||
| No one can defeat Islam [81 words] | Zubair Khan | Nov 30, 2005 07:07 | 29125 | ||
| 1 | Response to Zubair Khan [262 words] | Gadget Gottlier | Jan 16, 2006 13:35 | 29125 | |
| 1 | You have to think deeply about what you are talking about :) [315 words] | Mary smith | Oct 17, 2006 16:13 | 29125 | |
| 1 | Violence Assisted Religion [419 words] | Alan Greer | Dec 22, 2006 18:20 | 29125 | |
| America is number 1 and will defeat islam [11 words] | Born In The USA | Oct 6, 2009 14:46 | 29125 | ||
| how to defeat islamism [263 words] | Al Dunn | Dec 28, 2009 06:46 | 29125 | ||
| Yes, Islam Can Be Defeated [86 words] | John Q. Patriot | May 2, 2010 20:28 | 29125 | ||
| Answer this? [36 words] | John Doe | Jun 26, 2010 21:32 | 29125 | ||
| 1 | The Ultimate Defeat of Islam is Certain [247 words] | Mark | May 8, 2013 10:36 | 29125 | |
| Sadly, America is Asleep Concerning the Islamo-Non Islamo Culture Clash [290 words] | Mike Conlon | Mar 16, 2016 23:42 | 29125 | ||
| Bad news for my people [116 words] | Johnny Carpati | Nov 13, 2005 16:15 | 28333 | ||
| How can a Muslim go Islamist? [103 words] | Fahri Sahin | Nov 7, 2005 16:03 | 27902 | ||
| "Going" Fundemantalist [60 words] | Alan Greer | Dec 22, 2006 18:27 | 27902 | ||
| The land of love and tolerance [148 words] | Fahri Şahin | Oct 30, 2005 07:47 | 27510 | ||
| Turkish Headscarves [8 words] | Sophie | Oct 25, 2005 13:25 | 27295 | ||
| What if the conventional wisdom of our leaders is wrong on Turkey? [96 words] | alan | Oct 18, 2005 08:38 | 27039 | ||
| Response to Alan [436 words] | SULTAN | Oct 19, 2005 10:54 | 27039 | ||
| EU is not deserving the TURKISH presence [112 words] | HUSEYIN YILMAZ | Oct 6, 2005 15:17 | 26644 | ||
| No! [521 words] | SULTAN | Sep 22, 2005 15:30 | 26174 | ||
| So Sadly True [71 words] | Hannah Whalen | Sep 15, 2005 21:21 | 25881 | ||
| YES, IT IS ON the WAY to SHERI'A.. [74 words] | Mr.Dincer Kisoglu | Sep 4, 2005 08:04 | 25468 | ||
| 1 | NO to Turkey [279 words] | Christos | Aug 27, 2005 10:51 | 25144 | |
| HOW DARE THEY! [153 words] | h.koisser | Sep 26, 2006 10:37 | 25144 | ||
| WHY SHOULDN'T TURKEY ENTER THE EU [55 words] | Mihailidis | May 29, 2009 03:12 | 25144 | ||
| what about 150.000 turkish people in Greece ? [275 words] | Can Bayar | Feb 12, 2010 11:21 | 25144 | ||
| what about Turks in Greece'? [71 words] | Jhon larsson | Sep 2, 2013 17:01 | 25144 | ||
| 1 | Come on, people! [272 words] | Selin gur | May 1, 2014 02:23 | 25144 | |
| It depends on what do you mean by islamist [48 words] | Guclucer | Jul 6, 2005 05:38 | 23140 | ||
| 1 | Let's have some empathy and less prejudice [263 words] | Ayesha | Jul 2, 2005 14:35 | 23073 | |
| Raise your hand if you think Turkey is going Islamist [22 words] | Angelo Guida | Jun 15, 2005 21:02 | 22680 | ||
| Who would be surprised? [34 words] | Glenn Klotz | Jun 14, 2005 16:54 | 22666 | ||
| Let them have a Khilafah [67 words] | Stuart Middleton | Jun 13, 2005 17:43 | 22655 | ||
| 1 | Turkey [362 words] | Werner | Jun 12, 2005 12:40 | 22648 | |
| Turkey In The EU / Have Babies, Allah Wants Them [53 words] | Eric Vanhove | Jun 12, 2005 08:58 | 22647 | ||
| What does the military have to say? [31 words] | Eric Vanhove | Jun 12, 2005 08:49 | 22646 | ||
| IS TURKEY GOING ISLAMIST? [9 words] | Fred Keller | Jun 10, 2005 18:30 | 22632 | ||
| Bravo Dr. Pipes [55 words] | Bruno | Jun 10, 2005 14:41 | 22630 | ||
| Erdoğhas been there, done that [91 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Howard Veit | Jun 10, 2005 10:58 | 22627 | ||
| Can't agree more [126 words] | Pavel | Jun 10, 2005 10:14 | 22626 | ||
| Turkophobia does not exist [305 words] | Octavio Johanson | Jun 10, 2005 05:14 | 22624 | ||
| TURKPOHOBIA exists !!! [89 words] | Anton Rangelov | May 15, 2007 16:41 | 22624 | ||
| 1 | We do not want any European immigration [156 words] | mehmet | May 30, 2008 02:36 | 22624 | |
| 4 | Turkophobia doesn't exist ? is this a joke ? [407 words] | Can Bayar | Feb 10, 2010 17:02 | 22624 | |
| Turkey and the European Union [153 words] | Octavio Johanson | Jun 10, 2005 02:36 | 22621 | ||
| It is time to get nasty.... [423 words] | David Mac Artain | May 27, 2006 22:28 | 22621 | ||
| Erdogans gamble [415 words] | Werner | Jun 9, 2005 02:19 | 22614 | ||
| Benefit or liability? Response to Werner. [297 words] | David | Jun 9, 2005 23:20 | 22614 | ||
| Is ARI credible? [51 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Pat | Jun 8, 2005 17:57 | 22609 | ||
| Turkish AntiSemitism and the Islamist Agenda [75 words] | Robert Corman | Jun 8, 2005 11:39 | 22606 | ||
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| Winning by Infiltration [177 words] | Darwin Barrett | Jun 7, 2005 17:39 | 22601 | ||
| Turkey [101 words] | Donald W. Bales | Jun 7, 2005 15:43 | 22600 | ||
| This is inevitable [45 words] | Arvind Madhavan | Jun 7, 2005 13:43 | 22599 | ||
| Bias against DoD subcontractors in Turkey [367 words] | 'James' | Jun 7, 2005 12:28 | 22598 | ||
| Turkey in the EU [70 words] | concerned citizen of EU | Jun 7, 2005 11:35 | 22597 | ||
| Turkey [133 words] | Paul Rinderle | Jun 7, 2005 11:15 | 22596 | ||
| Muslim - Christian populations [447 words] | Irem | Feb 9, 2006 11:26 | 22596 | ||
| 2 | A response to dear Paul [195 words] | haci sanli | Oct 29, 2007 17:38 | 22596 | |
| Could not agree with you more [95 words] | Harun Hassouni | Jun 7, 2005 10:48 | 22595 | ||
| 1 | I've been making the same observations about Turkey [113 words] | Madhur Sharma | Jun 7, 2005 09:15 | 22593 | |
| Some of the basics on Turkey... [283 words] | Barin Kayaoglu | Jan 15, 2006 02:54 | 22593 | ||
| turkophobia [14 words] | chris | May 10, 2011 16:57 | 22593 | ||
| Affermative: Turkey is going Islamist [193 words] | Octavio Johanson | Jun 7, 2005 08:16 | 22592 | ||
| Reply to commenter Octavio Johanson [81 words] | Guclucer | Jul 6, 2005 05:51 | 22592 | ||
| Response to Armanien Genocide remark [72 words] | Bige Vona | Feb 13, 2006 20:48 | 22592 |
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