A Highjacked Religion Indeed
Speaking at Kanal D TV’s Arena program, Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan commented on the term “moderate Islam”, often used in the West to describe AKP [Turkey’s Justice and Development Party]and said, “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”
“Islam is Islam. Will this be discussed in the Western media? Will American and European analysts publicly take up the question of whether or not Erdogan is right, and what the implications might be if he is?
Or will they ignore this and continue to assume in all their analyses that the opposite is true, and to dismiss as “ideologues” or “Islamophobes” those who point out that influential Muslims like Erdogan are saying things like this?
Which course do you think they’ll choose?
Will Western leaders then begin discussing political Islam and its implications openly?
Or will they ignore this and continue to pretend that Islam has no inherent or traditional political character, or if it does, it is infinitely malleable anyway, and can be massaged without difficulty into something completely benign?
Which course do you think they’ll choose?”
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