Blinkered Western appeasers must face up to Turkey’s Sharia invasion force

Jan 31, 2018 by Jill

by Dr Campbell Campbell-Jack, TCW:

Whatever else you think of Turkish strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and he is a nasty piece of work, you have to admit that he knows what he wants and is determined to get it.

Under his rule Turkey has changed from a secular nation to an Islamist dictatorship. A modern, majority-Muslim nation of 80million has rejected its 90-year experiment in relative Western liberalism and has chosen the authoritarian rule of a man who describes himself as a ‘servant of Sharia’. In Erdogan’s view, democracy is merely a means to an end: ‘You ride it until you arrive at your destination, and then you step off’.

Reviving ‘Imam Hatip’, or ‘Imam and Preacher’, schools is an important part of Erdogan’s drive to put religion at the heart of national life after decades of secular dominance. Turkey is pouring billions of pounds into Islamic schools. According to Erdogan these schools will raise a ‘pious generation’ ready to ‘work for the construction of a new civilisation’.

Since 2012 total pupil numbers at Imam Hatip schools have risen fivefold to 1.3million in more than 4,000 schools. The Erdogan government has also increased religious education teaching at regular state schools, some of which have been converted into Imam Hatip schools. The government declines to say how many.

What is important is not that Islam is being taught in Islamic countries: the real question is what kind of Islam? Whilst Islamic apologists in the West speak of a distinction between ‘moderate’ Islam and fanatical Islam, Erdogan utterly rejects the concept of moderate Islam.

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