RE: For being religious, Muslims sure lie a lot!
October 20, 2018 at 8:24 am
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2018 at 8:30 am by WinterHold.)
(October 20, 2018 at 8:03 am)Jehanne Wrote: Turkey is a secular country, just for the record.
Quote:Erdoğan's political agenda of Islamization[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism_in_Turkey#cite_note-16][/url]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan promotes the Islamization in Turkey, which allow women can choose to wear hijabs in the public, abandon the secular principles.
According to at least one observer (Mustafa Akyol), under the Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, starting in 2007, "hundreds of secularist officers and their civilian allies" were jailed, and by 2012 the "old secularist guard" in positions of authority was replaced by members/supporters of the AKP party and the Islamic Gülen movement.[6] On 25 April 2016, the Turkish Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman told a conference of Islamic scholars and writers in Istanbul that "secularism would not have a place in a new constitution”, as Turkey is “a Muslim country and so we should have a religious constitution". (One of the duties of Parliament Speaker is to pen a new draft constitution for Turkey.)[7]
Some have also complained (see cite) that under Erdoğan, the old role of the Diyanet—maintaining control over the religious sphere of Islam in Turkey—has "largely been turned on its head".[8] Now greatly increased in size, the Diyanet promotes a certain type of conservative (Hanafi Sunni) Islam inside Turkey, issuing fatawa forbidding such activities as "feeding dogs at home, celebrating the western New Year, lotteries, and tattoos";[9] and projecting this "Turkish Islam"[8] abroad.[10]
The government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) pursue the explicit policy agenda of Islamization of education to "raise a devout generation" against secular resistance,[11][12] in the process causing lost jobs and school for many non-religious citizens of Turkey.[13] Following the July Coup, which President Erdoğan called “a gift from God",[14] thousands were purged by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government—primarily followers of the Gülen movement, which is alleged to have launched the coup—but also remaining secularists.[15] One explanation for the end of secularism in Turkey is that socialism was seen as a threat from the left to "capitalist supremacy", and Islamic values were restored in the education system because they "appeared best suited to neutralize any challenges from the left to capitalist supremacy."[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism...lamization
I don't quite think so.