Can the Islamization of Turkey and the destruction of its secular system be halted?
An update on this story from AFP, June 6 (thanks to Sam):
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold an emergency meeting with senior aides Friday after Turkey's top court upheld a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities, dampening his party's hopes of surviving a pending closure case.Erdogan cancelled his programmes in Istanbul and was to return to Ankara to chair the meeting of his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) at 3 p.m. (1200 GMT).
He also scrapped a trip to Switzerland on Saturday where he was to have watched Turkey's first Euro 2008 match against Portugal.
The Constitutional Court Thursday annulled an AKP-sponsored law allowing women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities on grounds it violated Turkey's secular system, enshrined in an unchangable constitutional article.
The law was a principal argument advanced by Turkey's chief prosecutor when he asked the Constitutional Court in March to ban the AKP on charges that it is seeking to install an Islamist regime in the mainly Muslim country.
The ruling was largely seen as strengthening the prosecutor's hand in his bid to outlaw the party and bar 71 party officials, among them Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul, from politics. The verdict is expected later this year.
Since the court "sees the headscarf amendment as a breach of the republic's basic principles, it will give the gravest punishment to the party which is responsible for this act," the Vatan newspaper wrote....
Yes the democratically elected parliament passes a law which is squashed but a secular elite never elected by the people. Spencer likes to talk about democracy and Islam vs democracy - but in turkey its Islamophobia vs democracy -and Spencer is against democracry!!
istanbulnotconstantinople
huh? The judiciary is just upholding the constitution in Turkey. You know, a constitution? No democratic country should be without one unless you want a anarchic mobopia.
The Rule of Law--don't leave home without it!
"Islamic Democracy" is a one-way ticket to cleric-ridden, shari'a-bound tyranny, inequality, and fundamental injustice.
Is- no- bull.
I've always thought that Constantinople sounded better.
Once again we see that women -- women's dress, their behavior, their sphere of allowed activity -- are the edge of the blade of Islamization. Now we'll see how strong is the rock of Turkish secularism.
I've always thought "Particle Man" was a better song.
Yes the democratically elected parliament passes a law which is squashed but a secular elite never elected by the people. Spencer likes to talk about democracy and Islam vs democracy - but in turkey its Islamophobia vs democracy -and Spencer is against democracry!!
Posted by: istanbulnotconstantinople at June 7, 2008 9:25 AM
This is incoherent gibberish. Care to try it again?
Islamic imperialism and invasions destroyed Jewish and CHristian Syria, Jordan, Turkey and North Africa. Islamic colonialism destroyed large parts of the civilised world, bringing chaos, poverty and suffering to eveyone, particularly Muslim women -- who still suffer terribly. (Even Aisha noticed this)
"Democracy" is a meaningless and suicidal idol if it does not first rest upon a secure foundation of the Constitutional secular rule of law and an ironclad Bill of Rights that guarantees freedom of thought, the press, movement, and the right to defend yourself by owning and bearing arms.
The "demos" (mob) has no more native "intelligence" than whatever the local lowest-common-denominator of ideas has allowed it to gain. And, when this is Islamic ideological brainwashing, all you then accomplish by naively idealizing the rule of such a tragically-misinformed majority, is to encourage a theocratic tyranny.
That then destroys freedom.
A democratic republic, based on the secular rule of Law, is the only safe course to liberty.
This is a basic issue of religious freedom -women are being denied an education because they choose to wear their religious clothes.
If this were Christians being denied it you'd be screaming even more so if it were in a Muslim country.
Your hypocrisy and sheer hatred is astonishing.
"huh? The judiciary is just upholding the constitution in Turkey. You know, a constitution? No democratic country should be without one unless you want a anarchic mobopia."
ausinfidel
Depends on the constitution-the Turkish one denies basic rights (heard the one about "insulting Turkishness"-attacked by Spencer). Turkey isnt a democracy. Such discrimination wouldnt be allowed in democracies.
"Depends on the constitution-the Turkish one denies basic rights (heard the one about "insulting Turkishness"-attacked by Spencer). Turkey isnt a democracy. Such discrimination wouldnt be allowed in democracies."
istanbulnotconstantinople
They ban headscrarfs and all other religous sympbols in French schools too. France is a democracy the last time I heard and good luck to them. If I was a woman I wouldn't want a raving loony muslim cleric telling me/threatening me what to wear in a school either. Seperation of mosque and state, a democratic princple you seem to like very much.
Correction. My post should read...."Separation of mosque and state, a democratic principle you don't seem to like very much." Turkey isn't my idea of a model democracy but at least the muslim cleric hasn't got the secular Turk by the throat....yet.
Step by step
headscarfs
the burqa
sharia law
Wake up you turkeys!