“It should be understood that the AKP is quite different from the Islamists in Iran or the Arab world. They are far more cautious and accept a lot more Westernization and modernization.”
Turkey’s participation with the West has been the exception, not the rule, and something which primarily emerged in the 20th Century due to the complicated geopolitical tensions between Communism and the West.
Before that Islamic Turkey was an avowed enemy of the West — and fought against the interests of the West at nearly every opportunity.
Turkish Muslims are not somehow inherently different from all their fellow terror loving, Jihad loving, Islam loving Muslim brethren, and it’s self-deluding for us to assume that they are different.
We have no real idea what the Islamists will do once in they consolidate their gains and marginalize all those who aren’t Islamic enough in this non-secular (but always propagandized as secular) nation. But if history is any guide, we do have evidence from virtually every other Islamic society on earth: Turkey is on a path to become more primitive, more corrupt, more intolerant, more violent, and more aligned with fellow Muslim societies.
Rather than arguing by assertion that Turkey’s Muslims “are different” — it seems to me that we should assume that Turkey will follow the same trajectory as every other Islamic trend across the planet.
The Islamic world has enjoyed an unprecedented inflow of wealth (mostly due to the accident of oil — though this has not been the case with Turkey). This unprecedented wealth is the main fuel powering the engine of Islam today. Worse, our Muslim enemies now live in their millions within our homelands in the West — and as Turkey’s descent into the Islamic sewer continues apace, the West will be confronted with an existential dilemma: Are we willing to fight and kill sufficient numbers of our enemy in order to blunt and reverse his Islamization of the World? Are we strong enough to endure the violence they will unleash as their Jihad gains more land and more wealth? Or will we succumb to their various projects of subversion, violence, terrorism, and outbreeding? Muslims have successfully waged this exact same war against other great societies and nations — think Byzantium, think Persia, think India.
The primitive violence of Islam has humbled other great nations before ours — Turkey was once the greatest and wealthiest Christian nation on earth — but Muslims reduced it to a sewer of degradation over 500 years ago.
