Reader comment on item: Is Turkey's Government Starting a Muslim Reformation?
in response to reader comment: Barbarian Turk here again!
Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Jun 6, 2008 at 15:08
sims1 wrote : "I think this is getting pretty futile as you really have only a superficial understanding of Turkish politics back then and now. First, Ataturk was not a jihadist. He did everything he could to push religion away from public life later in his career."
Of course , he was a jihadist and a major one at that! The Kemalist war of 1919-1922 was essentially an Islamic war of religion to exterminate the Christians in which he succeeded more than any of his Ottoman or Seljuk predecessors. Or what does his title "ghazi" stand for? "A holy secularist" perhaps? Anyway, the crucial point in your reply is "later" as what he did later had little to do with his earlier acts and words. Kemal himself LATER did much to suppress the overwhelming evidence of his jihadist past and exploits.
Beside being a bloody military dictator he was also the bossy head of the 'Turkish Historical Society' and so he could manipulate not just the present but also to a large extent the past. So now something which is obvious and historically irrefutable looks paradoxical, incredible and overstretched. "No, it's impossible! How could this "staunch father and prophet of Turkishness and of Turkish secularism be denigrated as a pure Moslem and a bloody warrior in Allah's path?" -someone may exclaim.
And yet, he did save the Turkish dar-al-Islam from the kafiri threat. He entered the path of Allah that made him "gazi"- a proud arch-jihadist, the Destroyer of Christians , the one who conducts "gazw" - the prophet's war" (="jihad"). Even a superficial analysis of the extant materials shows that the cheap slogans so eagerly bought and spread by some gullible Western "experts" on his innate secularism just mislead the historical lineage of Kemalism. a/ The whole Kemalist movement started as a strictly Islamic movement.
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