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Quote of the Day - September 16, 2010

by FSM: QUOTE OF THE DAY September 16, 2010
 
"It is claimed that religious unity is also a factor in the formation of nations. Whereas, we see the contrary in the Turkish nation.
 
Turks were a great nation even before they adopted Islam. This religion did not help the Arabs, Iranians, Egyptians and others to unite with Turks to form a nation. Conversely, it weakened the Turks’ national relations; it numbed Turkish national feelings and enthusiasm. This was natural, because Mohammedanism was based on Arab nationalism above all nationalities.”
 
- Ataturk (born Kemal Mostafa) (1881 – 1938), who founded modern Turkey, throwing off the veil and hijab, Arabic script and other Ottoman affectations, introduced a constitution based firmly upon secularism.
 
Quote cited here, from his book on Citizenship. (Ataturk, Yurttaslik Bilgileri, Yenigun Haber Ajansi, June 1997, pp. 18.)
 
 
“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.”
 
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan, now prime minister of Turkey, was briefly jailed in 1998 for publicly reciting a poem that contained these lines.
 
Erdogan is an Islamist, whose wife Emine wears a hijab on all occasions, and who has done all in his power to erode the secular state introduced in 1923. Erdogan is now – under the guise of democracy - moving Turkey away from secularism and further into the orbit of Iran and the Islamic world.
 
 
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