Good news fromTurkey - hundreds of thousands demonstrate against conservative Muslims

Reuters

This is at least promising when hundreds of thousands hit the road today to protest against islamic conservative candidate GUL. The demonstration calls also for the seperation of religion and state, which the islamic conservative canditates want to change.

A coup could be possible.

this girl is holding a picture from founder of Turkey, Kemal Atatürk, the man who seperated religion from the state.

 

Saw this this morning (you have to be able to read French):

http://http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/20070429.WWW000000077_un_million_de_turcs_manifestent_pour_la_laicite.html

I think it is a great thing when ALL religious sensibilities are removed from governance.

 

I saw you checked out, so I altered the link from double http:// to the right link.

 

In turkey, doesn't the military strictly enforce the secular government?

 

Atatürk founded Turkey in 1923. He removed lots of islamic influence from power. The military is probably trying to protect the changes he made.

They removed the Islamic fundamentalist Erbakan and his coalition ten years ago.

Istanbul is one of the most secular cities in Turkey, so it's no surprice that there was such big demonstration there.

 

Ataturk removed the mis-interpreters and religionic extremists from the government system, not the religion itself from the whole country.

Also it is estimated that near half of the participants were coming from other cities.

 

I am not sure why they are doing this anyway. Turkey is as liberal a Muslim country as there is. In fact, some would say, they are a nation that is in the midst of losing its identity. It does not quite know whether to be a Muslim country or assimiliate with Europe.

 

In fact it' EU's claimed concern to lose it's identity by our participation, we have no such concern. We will get rid of the extremists as we did before, eventually. Being Muslim and being in Europe are not two different things, unless EU is meant to be a huge church.

 

Well, it would probably be more accurate to say the the EU is a big "lack of Church" and they are worried about letting a church into the club.

 

Every good Muslim is against extremists. Attaturk was nothing special.

 

That's a good point of view. I wish that it was shared by more people.

 

This is not good for America.
We need more countries to follow the lastest and greatest prophet.