With the abandonment of modern secularism by Turkey - until recently the great hope that a Muslim nation could be compatible with liberal secular democracy - I don't know how anyone could fail to acknowledge that Islamic societies are experiencing agonizing trauma trying to adapt to the modern world.
And Turkey's backsliding cannot be blamed on the bogeyman of oil or imperialism. The Ottoman's ran much of the Middle East for centuries, and were never colonized. They produced their own secular reformers who looked to the West, and for a while looked as though they were an examplar that the rest of the countries in the region might hope to follow. That's finished. Now Turkey is another country turning its back on the 20th and 21st centuries, trying to wind back the clock, and looking to their faith to guide them in all matters of public policy.
So what is going on?
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Originally Posted by fotze
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