To Ianus:forum losing steam

Submitted by plato (India), Mar 30, 2007 at 04:07

To be frank I did not think of Turkey as a Muslim country, but just a country with an overwhelmingly Muslim population. You have disabused me of that.

"But history had a different agenda for his "secularized" Moslem monoculture.."

From your argument it seems to me that Mustafa Kemal was a reluctant Muslim. Reverting to your flag symbolism the colour red is considered the opposite of green, the favourite colour of Islamists.

My response has been as usual scrambled and some of the sense of what I was trying to say has been lost. The stuff about Hitler I got out of googling 'hitler religion'. The ones I have referred to have sourced their article. My intention was to show that Hitler considered himslef a Christian and he was fighting for the Christian cause. So bringing up the atrocities of Ataturk and Turkey of the early twentieth century as essentially Islamic will inevitably lead to Muslims exhuming Hitler to expose his Christian beliefs and 'agenda'. Of course I understand your contention that whereas Ataturk was a success Hitler was a failure in historical terms. But that does not matter to Islamists who see the world as composed of Muslims and kafirs.

This blog seems to be losing steam and some of the posts are looking a bit tired with just three or four of us posting seriously. Even Michel and Moderate Muslim seems to have lost their enthusiasm. I wish there were more Muslims reading this blog and responding. The Muslims who read it either have nothing to say or have no answers to the questions raised here. We will have to wait till Daniel :Pipes posts an article that can arouse as much interest as this one did.

I hope we will continue to be able to read each other on this or other blogs.

warm regards

Plato

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