Is there a Moderate Form of Political Islam?

[Leonardo17]

The main idea here is that populist leaders are usually too smart for us normal people.
 

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For those who do not know the issue: Ordinary Turks do not have any problem with ordinary Greeks. We are neighboring nations whose cultures have been influenced by one another and we kind of like one another too. Still in strategic terms, we are rivals in terms of our military. Right wing Greeks are expansionists who have sovereignty claims on Cyprus and on almost all the islands in the Aegean Sea. We even had a military confrontation with them in 1974 over the control of the Island of Cyprus. From our point of view, we had the intervene when the British retreated because the military junta that was ruling Greece at the time was planning an ethnic cleansing of the Turks in the Island. Another main issue is that according to a treaty dating from 1923, the Aegean islands that are close to our coastline have to remain demilitarized as these are “Greek Islands in practice, but Turkish islands in terms of administration”. So it’s still their territory but they cannot deploy troops / missiles / aircrafts on these islands nor can they block our ships who are navigating through these waterways (as much as I understand it).
 

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So for the reason I explained above, Greece is our main rival in terms of its military. So the fact that Greece is getting upgrades to its 40 or so F-35’s while we were able to upgrade our old F-16’s in return for letting Finland join NATO (which was nothing short of a blackmail actually) should give us an idea of how inadequate these people are in terms of governance in general.
 
   And that works for all sorts of populism (and this example is about religious-populism / Political Islam). They so like to talk about grandiosity and power and domination and know how to appeal to our basic ego-identifications. Yet in practice Greece (a country that is 1/8th of us in terms of population) has now defense capabilities that are better than ours in many way.
 
Here is the full article:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nato-ally-gre...25548.html