WSJ.com: In its early phases, Mr. Akyol says, Islam was a religion “driven by merchants and their rational, vibrant and cosmopolitan mindset.” But ultimately “the more powerful classes of the Orient—the landlords, the soldiers and the peasants—became dominant, and a less rational and more static mindset began to shape the religion. The more trade declined, the more the Muslim mind stagnated.” Applying this historical lesson today, Mr. Akyol claims that “socioeconomic progress in Muslim societies” may change Islam itself—leading to progress in “religious attitudes, ideas, and even doctrines.”
- Posted: 08/12/2011
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- Category: Global: Religious Freedom
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- Source: online.wsj.com
- Tags: Country: Turkey, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Culture, Topic: Islam
EU-Info-Thek (translation by Google): Currently, according to a recently published GfK survey in favor, half of the Turkish population to their country joining the EU. When, in October 2005, the EU decided to open negotiations with Turkey, there were almost 75 percent. In the meantime, the Turks have become visibly skeptical. This is particularly evident in the cities, where accession to the EU of less than 50 percent are considered positive.
- Posted: 04/11/2011
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- Category: Global: Miscellaneous
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Turkey, Global: Miscellaneous, Topic: Polls
Daniel Pipes: “As the secular Turkey founded by Atatürk threatens to disappear under a wave of Islamism, the Islamist Iranian state founded by Khomeini apparently teeters, on the brink of secularism. Turks wish to live like Iranians, ironically, and Iranians like Turks.”
- Posted: 11/30/2010
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- Category: Global: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.danielpipes.org
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Iran, Country: Turkey, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Culture, Topic: Islam, Topic: Politics
David P. Goldman writing at First Things / On The Square: “Today, [Merkel's] party offered a position paper stating that while Germany had benefited from immigrants, it had problems ‘with a minority which will not integrate itself, doesn’t learn our language and shields its children from participation and advancement in our society.’ Germany should offer ‘no tolerance’ to those who refuse to integrate into German society, including consequences for residency’ . . . The facts the global press failed to mention, however, include the fact that an important motivation for the Chancellor’s remarks lies in Germany’s profound disillusionment at the radical Islamist tendencies in Turkey’s government, led by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, and Germany’s alarm at Turkey’s drift towards Islamism.”
- Posted: 10/22/2010
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- Category: Global: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.firstthings.com
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Germany, Country: Turkey, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Culture, Topic: Demographics, Topic: Islam
Armenia News: “‘September 26-28, I accompanied a small group of Diaspora Armenians to Ani, Bayazet, Van, Bitlis, Mush and Kars. On September 26, Sunday, just a week after the September 19 Mass, Armenians were not allowed to say the “Lords Prayer” inside the Akhtamar Church of the Holy Cross.’”
- Posted: 09/30/2010
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- Category: Global: Religious Freedom
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- Source: news.am
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Turkey, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Islam
Srdja Trifkovic writing at Chronicles: “Over the past eight years, Prime Minister Rejep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist government and his AKP (Justice and Development Party) have been successful in undermining Mustafa Kemal’s legacy and the character of the state founded upon that legacy. What remained, until last Sunday’s referendum, was an increasingly empty shell of constitutional secularism . . . [O]n September 12 . . . Turkey’s voters approved, by a large margin, a 26-article package which will end the Army’s role as the guardian of secularism. On current form, there is but little doubt that Erdoğan will be reelected with a simple majority when he calls the general election next spring.”
- Posted: 09/17/2010
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- Category: Global: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.chroniclesmagazine.org
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Turkey, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Islam
The Globe and Mail: “With a double victory in Sunday’s constitutional referendum, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is poised to make sweeping changes in his officially secular, but predominantly Muslim country. The package of changes was supported by 58 per cent of the 39 million people who voted, paving the way for the government to appoint a large number of high-court judges more in tune with the government’s Islamic tendencies . . . the government can, in short order, usher in a panel of judges that are likely to approve legislation extending religious practices and policies in the country.”
- Posted: 09/13/2010
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- Category: Global: Bench and Bar
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- Source: www.theglobeandmail.com
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Turkey, Global: Bench and Bar, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Elections, Topic: Islam, Topic: Politics
Washington Post: “Sarrazin, a board member of the German Central Bank, has divided the nation by postulating the theory that Germany is being ‘dumbed down’ by Muslim immigrants and their children. Wielding statistics and scientific arguments both in his book and in public comments, he delves into territory largely taboo here since the Holocaust, suggesting that ‘hereditary factors’ are at least partly to blame. Turks and Kurdish immigrants, he asserts, are genetically predisposed to lower intelligence than Germans and other ethnic groups, including Jews.”
- Posted: 09/09/2010
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- Category: Global: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.washingtonpost.com
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Germany, Country: Turkey, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Demographics, Topic: Islam
Soeren Kern writing at Hudson New York: “During his recent two-day state visit to Italy, Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi declared that ‘Islam should become the religion of the whole of Europe.’ He also said that Europe’s conversion would become a fait accompli ‘when Turkey becomes a member of the European Union.’ Europeans mostly dismissed Gaddafi’s proselytizing as ‘Islamic propaganda,’ and as a ‘non-solicited provocation lacking seriousness’ . . . Gaddafi’s vision of an Islamicized Europe is closer to becoming a reality than many Europeans are willing to admit . . . ”
- Posted: 09/09/2010
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- Category: Global: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.hudson-ny.org
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: European Union, Country: Turkey, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Islam
Eurasianet: “For all their fear, however, the pair embarked on a radical experiment, launching the first-ever magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) Kurds this July. Called ‘Hevjin’, meaning ‘intercommunity’ in Kurdish, the first issue of the free publication is available online and in a few bookshops and cafés in Diyarbakir, a city with a large Kurdish population.”
- Posted: 08/31/2010
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- Category: Global: Marriage and Family
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- Source: www.eurasianet.org
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Turkey, Global: Marriage and Family, Topic: Culture, Topic: Islam
Eurasianet.org: “The legal hurdles still threatening the Patriarchate’s existence are formidable, and in an interview last December, the church’s leader, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, told the Milliyet newspaper: ‘We are without oxygen. The Patriarchate is dying.’ Bartholomew is regarded as the spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians, and his church has existed in Istanbul, formerly know as Constantinople, for more than 1,700 years.”
- Posted: 07/14/2010
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- Category: Global: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.eurasianet.org
- Tags: Country: Turkey, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Islam
John F. Cullinan writing at National Review Online: “There are fewer than 60 Catholic priests in all of Turkey, and yet Bishop Luigi Padovese was the fifth of them to be shot or stabbed in the last four years, starting with the murder of Fr. Andrea Santoro in 2006, also by an assailant shouting, ‘Allahu Akbar!’ … What’s going on? Why has traditionally secularist Turkey, with its minuscule Christian community (less than 0.2 percent of the population), lately become nearly as dangerous for Christians as neighboring Iraq? And why has this disturbing pattern of events so far escaped notice in the West? In a nutshell, all these violent acts reflect a popular culture increasingly shaped by Turkish media accounts deliberately promoting hatred of Christians and Jews.”
- Posted: 07/08/2010
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- Category: Global: Religious Freedom
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- Source: article.nationalreview.com
- Tags: Category: Global, Country: Turkey, Global: Religious Freedom, Topic: Islam
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