This is an issue the liberal left is wholly ignorant of and they presume that any attacks against Islam are racist or ‘phobic’. They're enabling their own destruction. All the liberalizing in the Muslim world occurs at the hands of dictators.
Wherever there has been ‘liberty’ there is a dictatorship willing to protect secularism and minorities. As soon as the Muslim street is allowed to decide they return to barbarism. I believe the Persians and Turks could be exceptions, but the next election in Turkey will decide that and Iran has little chance of seeing any change.
Concurring bump. The Ataturk didn't secularize Turkish society just because he got up on that side of the bed one day.
The Kemalists are hard-pressed now, and this stirring-up-Hamas stuff is part of Erdogan's plan to put them away for good. If he wins, they'll wind up political exiles in Europe and America.
Keeping in mind that they went to us in Korea, and that it was Erdogan's crowd that gave us a last-minute shoetop tackle on the eve of the Iraq War.