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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It's crazy. I remember when I went to Turkey and a few locals I talked to bragged and were proud that they were a "western secular Islamic" country and they really tried to separate themselves from the religious wing nuts. Looking back now, it seems it may have been more insecurity than confidence.
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Yeah, the Turks I met were always quick to denounce their 'backwards' fellow Turks in the interior. I think one of the problems is the secularized Turks in the cities and the coasts have European birth rates, while the conservatives have been cranking out three to five kids a family. The Muslim parts of the world are about the only countries that haven't seen big drops in birth rates in the last 50 years. That's a huge problem.