Grendel wrote on Jan 27
th, 2009 at 3:15pm:
.....A nation is not a religion.
A race is not a religion.
Only in Islam do nation and religion exist as one. Only Islam have "religious" states.
They do not have secularism in most Islamic states.
Turkey
has been semi-secular for many decades.
But Turkey has recently acquired a new PM,
......who is an avowed ISLAMIST.
Will Turkey remain secular for much longer???
Who knows.
But some old quotes, attributed to Turkey's present PM are revealing.
Turkish PM Erdogan in 1990s said,
TURKEY'S CONSTITUTION "A HUGE LIE";
"ONE CANNOT BE A MUSLIM AND SECULAR"
I think that last quote clearly says it all really.
MEMRI = Middle East news service [translated to English]
May 23, 2007
Turkish PM Erdogan in Speech During Term As Istanbul Mayor Attacks Turkey's Constitution, Describing it As ‘A Huge Lie':
‘Sovereignty Belongs Unconditionally and Always To Allah'; ‘One Cannot Be a Muslim, and Secular'http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD159607Would Wafa Sultan be safe in Turkey today?