[353FMG]

>>Although Turkey is nearly 100 percent Muslim, he insisted on a purely secular state.<<

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Sadam Hussein, too, imposed secularism in Iraq. Not that we should compare Saddam with Attaturk but there is a parallelism between the two.

We should ask ourselves, under whose regime were the Christians better of — Saddam’s or the present one? Do not expect Iraq to become a democracy because democracy and Islam are total opposites. Their Koran prevents them from ever becoming democratized.

[ZULU]

True.

Saddam’s Islamic beliefs were cosmetic. He was basically a secularist Fascist thug with a military force and used Islam as a veil to cover his personal drive for power.
Not being a true Islamist, he made things for non-Islamic Christians there much better. But he financed and aided international terrorism against Israel and Jews for personal political reasons.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Sadam Hussein, too, imposed secularism in Iraq."

Secularism not based on Democracy, but based on Fascism. However, if the Turkish people do not throw these Islamists out, then we know where their sentiments lie. I would say that the Kurds in Iraq yearn for Democracy and in fact are one of the few Moslem oriented people to have sympathy for the Israelis...