Comments on: Time for fundamental change in Turkey

By: Ahmet

Ahmet — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:07:29 +0000

Many mistakes in your article:
1- Turkey is not an Islamic country. Half of the nation have read the Koran in Arabic without understanding it, the other half have not read it at all. Is this Islam?
2- Corruption, injustice, violence, theft and robberies, crimes of all sorts abound the country. Is this Islam?
3- There is no such thing as the Islamic head scarf. Koran is not a fashion book.
The “turban” (the so-called Islamic head scarf) does not serve Islam, nor the individual wearing it. It only serves a gigantic, false, religious textile industry.
It is good that turban and all religious symbols are forbidden in state institutions.
4-AKP is said to have 46&. It was the first time Turkey had elections by a computerized system. One wonders if something went wrong in the computer system.

By: Judas Priest

Judas Priest — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:46:26 +0000

John Nebi, I agree with you hundred percent. Parties like Turkey’s AKP is using democracy wagon as a tool to achieve their final dream life form which in no way tolerates different ideas. No ideology can tolerate ideologies that try to destruct itself, therefore democracy should not let itself be abused by any such islamist agendas. In brief, Christianity took 2000 years for its believers to dilute its undemocratic mind set on their societies. It is a long evolution process. Islam still needs more time as it came 600+ years after Christianity. It is inevitably transition to a more modern state as Turkey’s AKP is in a way in the workings of that route, however, the line is thin and dangerous as there may be short terms delays or back-stepping thanx to unnecessary insistence in removing turban ban in educational institutions. Religions are after all not democratic, they are dogmas and there is punishment enacted on those who choose not to believe. There is no choice given, disbelievers would burn in hell. Anyways, It is so unfortunate and pity that humanity is plagued by these so-called religions in which all of them surprisingly only came to one tribe the sons of Israel’s and in one particular location, not to Scandinavians, not to Japanese not to Spaniards, not to British, not to Turks, not to Afghans, but just for the people of Jerusalem. Amazing blunder of human logic and millions of deaths and still counting…

By: John Nebi

John Nebi — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:14:43 +0000

The answer to your question “But why the almost fundamentalist vehemence to the preservation of the secular?” lies in the very fundamentals of Islam. Secularists who live in moslem countries perhaps understand this at the gut level in a way that inhabitants of non-moslem counties do not. This is not about fashion statements. The whole concept of a nation-state is a foreign concept to the Islamists, and that is what scares secularists. And, in my view, it should. They simply do not feel that they can afford to trust Islamists, because to them, the secularists believe, democracy is simply a means to an end.