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To: Texas Fossil

Turkey is an example of how demographics creates destiny. After Ataturk’s victory, people were attracted to the cities and secularism for prosperity; thus they became a majority. But the Islamic fundamentalists retained cultural enclaves and higher reproductive rate, leading to them winning via sheer numbers a few generations later.


9 posted on 05/10/2017 8:30:52 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Actually, for a while, there has not been much policy difference between the Islamist and the Kemalists.

Islamist are openly against pluralism. Kemalists are privately against pluralism, but project secularism but don’t practice it.

They both have been practicing cultural genocide from the time of WWI. Giving lipservice to secularism.

One is as bad as the other.


10 posted on 05/10/2017 9:47:31 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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