Turkey. It’s a democracy, and it’s Islamic.
The observation seems simplistic.
There are many in Turkey, as we speak, who want Ataturk’s version of a Turkish secularism/democracy to meet a timely demise. There are women who are agitating to wear the headscarf as they attend university classes, where the headscarf has been disallowed.
Islam is hugely dismissive of “democracy” and the notion that personal, individual freedoms attach to an individual, any individual. You do not have free will, you have only submission to God’s prescribed and proscribed laws. There is great pressure to turn Turkey into an Islamic Republic, a la Iran.
It does not wash to compare the fact that Christianity has been violent in the past and that the Bible contains bellicose passages to the agenda of worldwide ummah/radical Islam in the here and now.
An individual caught up in such thinking can say…what’s the big deal ? It’s all the same.
It’s not…all the same. Some reading of bin laden screeds or Mohammed Atta’s diary could bring home the point that it’s not…all the same.
