Erdogan's Theological Justification for His Dictatorial Stance.HT: GatestoneInstitute.By Timon Dias.
What is surprising is that so many Western politicians, including EU-minded ones, apparently still ignore what the consequences could be of such an ideology. Do they really assume it could never happen to them?
Once again, Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, is – although ineffectively – cracking down on social
media, most notably Twitter, which public outrage forced him to reinstate,
and the latest municipal elections were again ridden with intimidation
and fraud.
On September 12, 1980, the Turkish military
cracked down on religious opposition movements that challenged the secular
state, and took power over the country. What stood out during these events was
that Western nations, with political structures vigorously opposed to military
involvement in civil politics, were actually relieved by the military’s action[1]. After all, one year earlier the secular and allied state
of Iran had transformed into a theocratic and hostile nation.
Over time, however, a worrying dynamic revealed
itself: The Western view of Islamic religious political movements changed, while
the core ideology and intentions of these movements did not. This phenomenon
coincided with the “New Left” consolidating its “March through the
institutions,” referring to its takeover of the academy and journalism.[2]
The West stopped seeing political Islam as an
expansionist, possibly antagonistic, ideology, and started actively to aid the
consolidation of Islamist power, particularly in Turkey.
The EU stated that if
Turkey were ever going to join it, the country would have to abolish the
influence the Turkish military had over civil politics. It is reasonable that
the EU did not want a member state with a military that could undo a democracy
at will.
But it was unreasonable of the EU to think that the only way a
democracy could be undone was by a military, or, in the instance of Turkey, that
of the then-secular Turkish
military. The EU may also have been naïve to dismiss out of hand the claims of
the Turkish military that Islamist doctrine was inherently anti-Western.
On video[6], Erdogan was saying: "You cannot be both secular and a Muslim. You will either be a Muslim, or secular. When both are together, they create reverse magnetism [they repel one another]. For them to exist together is not a possibility. Therefore, it is not possible for a person who says, 'I am a Muslim' to go on and say, 'I am secular, too.' And why is that? Because Allah, the creator of the Muslim, has absolute power and rule.... When [does the sovereignty belong to the people]? It is only when they go to the polls [every five years] that sovereignty belongs to the people. But both materially, and in essence, sovereignty unconditionally and always belongs to Allah."Hmmm.......Democracy Stipulates that Man Is Above Allah – Which Is Blatant Heresy.Read the full story here.
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