There is a strong social cohesion technique that is being used here. In fact Narenda Modi’s Populist, Hindu nationalist party in India is using exactly the same technique. The first step is always social media and the Internet. They send their armies of trolls to create the impression that “Everybody in India believes in the homogenous Hindu society as promoted by Narenda Modi and his Hindu nationalist party”, next step (or the prior step) is the media. Once you have political power it is more than easy in developing democracies into saying only what you want them to say. Very much like the republican, Donnald Trump supporting media in the U.S. Than you start using more tools of social cohesion. You keep pumping nationalism and religious ideals to you people even if they are increasingly poor and even if every policy undertaken by the government is either robbery of complete failure.
I will have to give some details on that: There is an inflation of popular series in Turkey today. And many of them are historical series on earlier Turkish History. 90% of them are based on lies. Meaning, that they are simply not true. But people are watching these series because they have been already surrounded in every front: Education, Social media, usual media, television and finally entertainment. This technique is not Indian but Russian. Putin uses the exact same technique on his people. It comes probably from soviet perhaps even Tsarist times. An ingenious method of authoritarianism.
Finally the headscarf comes as a Italian style / medieval Arab technique of social cohesion. Fascists during the ascent of Benitto Mussolini to political power in the 1930’s used to wear black shirts. In fact black shirt was synonymous with fascist. There is this idea of homogeneity. The message is “we are here, we are all the same and we are an army”. The more middle-eastern style usage of the headscarf is more middle-eastern in nature. The idea here is “erase women, control women, control 50 % of society”. The idea here is medieval in nature. And therefore it is a very strong political symbol also. In fact, it is the pillar of the ideology of political Islam which, as I said before, is nothing but religious dictatorship. It’s Bashar Al-Assad (Syrian Ruler) without the secular-looking aspects of government.
Conlusion:
In my culture, the headscarf is some sort of cultural element. Many women in the country wear it (and they should wear it because anyone working in the outside in our climate needs to have some simple and adapted type of clothing). No one has ever had anything against it. It used to be banned in public institutions and public bodies until this Modi-style populist government legalized it hoping to gain more support from conservative people. Than starting from the 90’s there started to be these “islamists” who hate the republic, hate laicity and hate the Turkish nation as a whole. I believe them to be backed respectively by Iran, the Arab world and Russia in many ways. From that period on, the headscarf became a political symbol. In the 1990’s it used to mean “I am an Islamist, pro-theocracy person”. Today the meaning is “I am a Supporter of the AK political party, I believe in (lies about) earlier Turkish states like the Ottoman Empire, I am a strong nationalist and defender of traditional national values (another lie), and I am an Islamist (another lie and misunderstanding, I already said that Islam has nothing to do with it)”. The aim being to constantly convey a certain political message, to show their unity (which is also another lie because different religious sects and nationalist groups are in fierce competition for their own personal interests. Nationalist were mixed into scandals involving the leader of a mafia boss who – for some reason – has even started to post youtube videos about the scandals of the current government. And one prominent islamist sect has even attempted a military coup against the ruling islamists party. So it looks as if they like one another, basically there are very strong rivalries. Just like the Entourage of Vladimir Putin and his Oligarchs who are murdering one another and then putting the blame on ukranians – who have said they have nothing to do with it -).
So they want cohesion and uniformity, they want to give a very strong political message through a very strong symbol that is being used since centuries in the middle-east and above all they are talking to me; I mean to Turks who still believe in Democracy and Laicity. What they are saying is: “See, we took your country, my headscarf was forbidden and now it is not, we are going to subvert this country and turn it into Saudi Arabia” while keeping the phony rhetoric “Oh I am wearing the Arabic Hijab but I am a Nationalistic / republic-loving even –secular- person” (Just like MAGA Americans, their basic nature is lie, self-deception, phoniness, superiority complex and even more lies).
The truth is, unlike the traditional Turkish women, which has and has always had the right to choose on the way she dresses. (In ancient times there was a whole fashion industry with so many types of head coverings dresses that were so carefully designed and, yes so beautiful in many ways. That was of course, before the polarization of the female dress and the female body in general.) But these guys, they have been put in Islamic schools from the age of 7. They have been indoctrinated. So of course, If you ask them they will tell you “Oh I fell free being covered all over the place, I am doing this because I believe I am not a decadent western woman but a pious Ottoman woman”. An I am not making fun of them saying this. This is sad. Education should be free, secular, scientific and unbiased. 1) Who sends his/her daughter to a school like this? Who wants to indoctrinate them from the very beginning of their lives? And 2) This is what I call a Narrenda Modi style of governance. Yes there were some religious schools in Turkey before, “secular” putchist military leaders opened them. But this ruling Ak Party even opened exclusive male and female religious schools 20 years ago. Now they have armies of brainless zombies basically in every university. So this is the reward of being “patriotic”, conservative, and “religious” for AK party voter and the crown of their victory is the Hijab. Because basically they have nothing else. The economy has collapsed, the army is gone, the EU membership bid has been frozen, the country is isolated and is increasingly turning to China and Russia for foreign support (By the way, Imperial Russia was the enemy of the Ottoman Empire. And China, 1) They are currently murdering and assimilating their Turkic Uygur Minority, and 2) Early Turkish States were in constant war with China. In fact, even the Great Wall was built to deter the Turkic and Mongol tribes of the north from entering China).
And one last anecdote: If you believe in a religion that criticizes everything that is good and wants to punish basically everything you want to do in your life (which is not the way I understand Islam and the Kuran) you have to learn to be a good liar and you have to learn how to fake it. See, there was this 2018 movie with Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman called “Boy Erased” about a Homosexual boy (Jared Edmons) who was put in a school to “correct himself”. The solution Jared Edmonds and his friends had in this re-education center was to pretend and to “fake it until they make it”. Well, this is the main current in misinterpreted monotheistic religions, even in dogmatic forms of Judaism. Since everything is a sin, and you are bad and disgusting and a sinner and detestable because of you original sin (etc. etc. etc.) the only solution is to lie. You have to be a lier from the very first day of your life and you have to be damn good at it.
So this is why, like everything that comes out of their mouth is totally not true and even the ideal society that they want to create (which is nothing short of an Adolf Hitler style heaven-on-earth style society) is a complete fiction and a lie. These people are liars. Any deeply conservative, deeply nationalistic and deeply religious or religious oriented person in this world is a liar. We have to see this. I am a moderately conservative, moderately patriotic and moderately religious person. What I am saying is: Anyone who is going really deep into these things is a fake. They are fakes and they are liars. All of them.
So one aspect of the issue is this: We have to look whether the headscarf is cultural or sincerely religious, or if it is politicized. If it is politicized, I don’t see why anybody, even in the West should tolerate it.
I will have to give some details on that: There is an inflation of popular series in Turkey today. And many of them are historical series on earlier Turkish History. 90% of them are based on lies. Meaning, that they are simply not true. But people are watching these series because they have been already surrounded in every front: Education, Social media, usual media, television and finally entertainment. This technique is not Indian but Russian. Putin uses the exact same technique on his people. It comes probably from soviet perhaps even Tsarist times. An ingenious method of authoritarianism.
Finally the headscarf comes as a Italian style / medieval Arab technique of social cohesion. Fascists during the ascent of Benitto Mussolini to political power in the 1930’s used to wear black shirts. In fact black shirt was synonymous with fascist. There is this idea of homogeneity. The message is “we are here, we are all the same and we are an army”. The more middle-eastern style usage of the headscarf is more middle-eastern in nature. The idea here is “erase women, control women, control 50 % of society”. The idea here is medieval in nature. And therefore it is a very strong political symbol also. In fact, it is the pillar of the ideology of political Islam which, as I said before, is nothing but religious dictatorship. It’s Bashar Al-Assad (Syrian Ruler) without the secular-looking aspects of government.
Conlusion:
In my culture, the headscarf is some sort of cultural element. Many women in the country wear it (and they should wear it because anyone working in the outside in our climate needs to have some simple and adapted type of clothing). No one has ever had anything against it. It used to be banned in public institutions and public bodies until this Modi-style populist government legalized it hoping to gain more support from conservative people. Than starting from the 90’s there started to be these “islamists” who hate the republic, hate laicity and hate the Turkish nation as a whole. I believe them to be backed respectively by Iran, the Arab world and Russia in many ways. From that period on, the headscarf became a political symbol. In the 1990’s it used to mean “I am an Islamist, pro-theocracy person”. Today the meaning is “I am a Supporter of the AK political party, I believe in (lies about) earlier Turkish states like the Ottoman Empire, I am a strong nationalist and defender of traditional national values (another lie), and I am an Islamist (another lie and misunderstanding, I already said that Islam has nothing to do with it)”. The aim being to constantly convey a certain political message, to show their unity (which is also another lie because different religious sects and nationalist groups are in fierce competition for their own personal interests. Nationalist were mixed into scandals involving the leader of a mafia boss who – for some reason – has even started to post youtube videos about the scandals of the current government. And one prominent islamist sect has even attempted a military coup against the ruling islamists party. So it looks as if they like one another, basically there are very strong rivalries. Just like the Entourage of Vladimir Putin and his Oligarchs who are murdering one another and then putting the blame on ukranians – who have said they have nothing to do with it -).
So they want cohesion and uniformity, they want to give a very strong political message through a very strong symbol that is being used since centuries in the middle-east and above all they are talking to me; I mean to Turks who still believe in Democracy and Laicity. What they are saying is: “See, we took your country, my headscarf was forbidden and now it is not, we are going to subvert this country and turn it into Saudi Arabia” while keeping the phony rhetoric “Oh I am wearing the Arabic Hijab but I am a Nationalistic / republic-loving even –secular- person” (Just like MAGA Americans, their basic nature is lie, self-deception, phoniness, superiority complex and even more lies).
The truth is, unlike the traditional Turkish women, which has and has always had the right to choose on the way she dresses. (In ancient times there was a whole fashion industry with so many types of head coverings dresses that were so carefully designed and, yes so beautiful in many ways. That was of course, before the polarization of the female dress and the female body in general.) But these guys, they have been put in Islamic schools from the age of 7. They have been indoctrinated. So of course, If you ask them they will tell you “Oh I fell free being covered all over the place, I am doing this because I believe I am not a decadent western woman but a pious Ottoman woman”. An I am not making fun of them saying this. This is sad. Education should be free, secular, scientific and unbiased. 1) Who sends his/her daughter to a school like this? Who wants to indoctrinate them from the very beginning of their lives? And 2) This is what I call a Narrenda Modi style of governance. Yes there were some religious schools in Turkey before, “secular” putchist military leaders opened them. But this ruling Ak Party even opened exclusive male and female religious schools 20 years ago. Now they have armies of brainless zombies basically in every university. So this is the reward of being “patriotic”, conservative, and “religious” for AK party voter and the crown of their victory is the Hijab. Because basically they have nothing else. The economy has collapsed, the army is gone, the EU membership bid has been frozen, the country is isolated and is increasingly turning to China and Russia for foreign support (By the way, Imperial Russia was the enemy of the Ottoman Empire. And China, 1) They are currently murdering and assimilating their Turkic Uygur Minority, and 2) Early Turkish States were in constant war with China. In fact, even the Great Wall was built to deter the Turkic and Mongol tribes of the north from entering China).
And one last anecdote: If you believe in a religion that criticizes everything that is good and wants to punish basically everything you want to do in your life (which is not the way I understand Islam and the Kuran) you have to learn to be a good liar and you have to learn how to fake it. See, there was this 2018 movie with Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman called “Boy Erased” about a Homosexual boy (Jared Edmons) who was put in a school to “correct himself”. The solution Jared Edmonds and his friends had in this re-education center was to pretend and to “fake it until they make it”. Well, this is the main current in misinterpreted monotheistic religions, even in dogmatic forms of Judaism. Since everything is a sin, and you are bad and disgusting and a sinner and detestable because of you original sin (etc. etc. etc.) the only solution is to lie. You have to be a lier from the very first day of your life and you have to be damn good at it.
So this is why, like everything that comes out of their mouth is totally not true and even the ideal society that they want to create (which is nothing short of an Adolf Hitler style heaven-on-earth style society) is a complete fiction and a lie. These people are liars. Any deeply conservative, deeply nationalistic and deeply religious or religious oriented person in this world is a liar. We have to see this. I am a moderately conservative, moderately patriotic and moderately religious person. What I am saying is: Anyone who is going really deep into these things is a fake. They are fakes and they are liars. All of them.
So one aspect of the issue is this: We have to look whether the headscarf is cultural or sincerely religious, or if it is politicized. If it is politicized, I don’t see why anybody, even in the West should tolerate it.
