Turkish Timebomb

via Gateway Pundit

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Up to a million people rallied in a sea of red Turkish flags on Sunday, accusing the government of planning an Islamist state and demanding it withdraw its presidential candidate.

But despite the Istanbul protests and a threat from the powerful army to intervene in the election, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, architect of Turkey's EU membership drive, said he would remain the ruling AK Party's candidate for head of state.

Also noted at lgf. Perhaps we should abandon Turkey and throw that over to the Islamists, too. Why people don't understand the importance of drawing a line in Iraq amazes me. That they think some accommodation of newly carved states in Iraq will work is just as puzzling. The Islamists are on the march wherever they aren't being pro-actively held in check.

In the 1920s, with the Ottoman Empire in ruins, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk imposed Western laws, replaced Arabic script with the Latin alphabet, banned Islamic dress and granted women the right to vote.

The ruling party, however, has supported religious schools and tried to lift the ban on Islamic head scarves in public offices and schools. Secularists are also uncomfortable with the idea of Gul’s wife, Hayrunisa, being in the presidential palace because she wears the traditional Muslim head scarf.

Comments

[Fred Beloit]

Don't anyone be concerned. We can talk with them and give them some bucks and everything will be jake.

[Fight4TheRight]

LOL Fred, touche'.

Course, our biggest problem is going to be the "Charles Warrens" of the Country who one day in the not-so-distant future will be stomping their feet, little hands curled up into fists, faces all red, screaming...."How did this happen to our Country??!!! It was Bush! He didn't do enough to stop it!"

[Fred Beloit]

I think "Mr" C Warren is none other than Ms yyy, and Ms nowinger. I recognize the technique. Start off reasonable and then quickly get wacky and nasty. The following is from Rablais: "...-say that the difference between the two lies in this: that when the good and consoling angel appears to man, he alarms him at first, but comforts him in the end, and leaves him happy and contented; whereas the wicked and corrupting angel rejoices a man at the beginning, but in the end leaves him troubled, angry, and perplexed." (The Third Book, Chapter 15 of Pantagruel) This is what happened to me yesterday with said Warren,yyy,nowinger. I think the best course is ignoring this good lady. She will of course adopt a new moniker, but will be again identified.

[bloodrage bob]

another wise & clever thing that ataturk did - guaranteeing his country the freest political system of any islamic nation - was to **hang hundreds of the noisiest and most troublesome wahabbi imams.**

kept them and their followers quiet and trouble-free for *decades*. hmmmm. is there a lesson we can learn from this?