Contraversial Turkish Schools Bill

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17571131

A new Turkish school bill has been passed that allows children to be put into "specialist" schools at a younger age. Specialist in this case means Islam schools.

Well, these schools were actually designed to produce İmams.
As you might know, imams are people who lead prayers in mosques, and give sermons. After their graduation, they might seek higher education in theology in a university, however until now, these were barred from seeking higher education in any other academic branch, as their branches are, as you said it, "specialist" branches.
The thing is here. These schools were founded by our founding fathers to quell the many sheikhs and rogue mollas and other sects, who were primarily anti-secularists, these schools aimed to raise imams who would be loyal to the state, and receive their salaries from the state.
But for some time, the neo-islamists have been sending their children to these schools, and expect them to be more than imams, even girls who cannot become imams, go to these schools, and expect to go to the university from there. It's not only unfair towards people like me, who have no other *job* than with what I'll graduate from this university, for them to have two jobs at their graduation, it's also a way for the neo-islamists to raise their own elite cadre of people....

It doesn't really matter if this will start eariler on, really. What matters is if they will be able to go to the university without facing barriers.


I personally view these schools as very dangerous. The neo-islamists in league with the liberals in our country will probably push for even more stupid shit in the future, but I don't think their aims are to build a theocratic country-not that they can anyways, but they are doing nothing but creating unnecessary controversies to blind the people, and lure public attention away from where it's needed the most.
The one behind all of this is a puppet of sorts, Fetullah Gülen, who is the mastermind of the whole scheme. He was stopped in the past by nationalistic army and police commanders, by nationalistic intelligence officers, nationalists like myself and...*cosmopolitan* living people who considered the "conservatisation", a falsely used term, of the urban places to be distasteful.