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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Turkey: "Our only goal is an Islamic state"




Turkish PM Erdogan Describes Constitution As 'A Huge Lie':  'Sovereignty Belongs Unconditionally and Always To Allah'; 'One Cannot Be a Muslim, and Secular'
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose political origins are with the Milli Gorus – the radical and political Islamist movement founded by the former Islamist PM Erbakan - often attacked Turkey's secular regime and its constitution.

A video clip of one of PM Erdogan's speeches, delivered during his term as Istanbul’s mayor (1994-1998), can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3hkWCnA8c

The following are excerpts from the speech:


PM Erdogan on Secularism:

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"If the people want it, of course secularism will go away. You cannot rule this people by force; you don't have the power to do that. This [i.e. secularism] cannot work in spite of the people.

"And anyway, for the love of Allah, what is this secularism? You ask them to define it. They can't. They say that it varies from place to place. So what sort of a strange thing is this [secularism]?

"But the fact is that 99% of the people of this country are Muslims. You cannot be both secular and a Muslim! You will either be a Muslim, or secular! When both are together, they create reverse magnetism [i.e. 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!"

"Our reference [guide] is Islam. Our only goal is an Islamic state. They can never intimidate us. If the skies and the earth open up, if storms blow on us, if the lava of volcanoes flow on us, we will never change our way. My guide is Islam. If I cannot live according to Islam, why live at all? [Turk], Kurd, Arab, Caucasian cannot be differentiated; because these peoples are united under the roof of Islam." [from his Dec. 6, 1997 speech], [Hurriyet, Sep. 24, 1998].

Read more at Atlas Shrugs.


Turkey witnesses fiercest anti-government protests in years




Secular protesters in Ankara, Turkey.



Turkey’s "Arab Spring" shakes its Islamist rulers


Turkey’s deputy prime minister offered an apology for a violent crackdown on an environmental protest, in a bid to appease days of anti-government rallies across Turkey as hundreds of riot police deployed around the prime minister’s office in the capital Tuesday.

Bulent Arinc, who is standing in for the prime minister while he is out of the country, said the crackdown was “wrong and unjust,” reports the Washington Post.

Protesters objected to the trees being felled to turn one of Istanbul’s last open parks into a mall. But after police attacked a peaceful sit-in with tear gas and water cannon last week, protests quickly morphed into a full-scale riot and spawned copy-cat demonstrations across the country. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out to express their disapproval of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies.

They are fed up with the actions of their increasingly authoritarian and Islamist prime minister.

Turkey is technically a secular Muslim republic and a democracy — and perennial supplicant for European Union membership. It is also a NATO member and key U.S. ally in the Syrian civil war.

But Erdogan has a track record of riding roughshod over opponents’ rights and freedoms: prosecuting the military on the flimsiest of charges (and ignoring due process); jailing more than 40 journalists for coverage deemed critical of the government; and introducing Islamic-friendly legislation, from restricting alcohol sales to changing the rules about women wearing headscarves in public institutions, such as universities — banned by the revered founder of the republic, the resolutely secularist Kemal Ataturk.

The force of the uprising caught Erdogan by surprise. His response was an autocrat’s classic: he blamed provocateurs and foreign powers who wanted to attack Turkishness. Protesters were a few “looters” deceived by opposition parties and irresponsible social media. In response, the crowds that had been thinning out out regrouped. They could be joined Tuesday by thousands of public servants striking in solidarity.


RAW FOOTAGE of the Turbulence in Turkey MASSIVE PROTESTS








No burqas for us!

Protesters wave the flag of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
who created the modern secular Turkey.





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