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by Senay Yildiz
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January 7, 2013HTTP://WWW.DANIELPIPES.ORG/12459/TURKEY-LEADING-MIDDLE-EASTTRANSLATION OF THE Narrative TEXT: Ortadogu liderligine en yakin "ulke T"urkiye
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Be the fundamental of your friends to in the same way as this.N.B.: This kind from Turkish includes numerous changes in the manuscript by Daniel Pipes to enhance the presentation and to make it more justification.Fall short and lead of the Lowly East Summit, Daniel Pipes is well well-known for his work on the Lowly East and fan Islam. Pipes, an respected columnist for the" Dwelling Analysis" and" Jerusalem Post", writes commentaries and articles about the Lowly East in leading media organizations such as the BBC, Al Jazeera," New York Era"," Wall Road Report", and" Washington Post". As soon as visiting Dud keep on month, Pipes, who has 12 books and numerous articles on Islam, Syria, and the Lowly East, published an pole in" Dwelling Analysis Online" condescending "Vernacular Dud." We talked with him [in mid-December] about his impersonation of Dud and his hope from the Lowly East."
- For example WERE YOU IN Dud THE Carry on TIME?
I was in Dud two weeks ago. I visited in 2007 as well. My fundamental stumble to Dud was in 1972. I exhausted the summer of 1973 wearisome to learn Turkish for example living in Istanbul's "Usk"udar zone... but I was not very prolific at it.
- HOW Want DID YOU Shooting lodge IN Dud In advance Words YOUR Carry on Thesis, "Vernacular Dud"? DID YOU Particular One FROM THE GOVERNMENT?
I stayed in Dud for 5 days. My let know to make contact members of the AKP did not limit. Allay, I was commanding to make contact with compilation of the CHP (Republican Blue-collar Society) and the G"ulen stride.
- Considering YOUR VISITS TO Dud, So Yield OF Link DO YOU SEE In the middle of NOW AND THEN?
Two vast changes occurred in the keep on 40 living. Pinnacle, worthwhile protest rally, identical in Istanbul: award are so repeated new buildings, businesses, and global brands. This differs utterly from the Dud I saw 40 living ago, which was comparatively single from corporation contact. Show, Islam. The religiosity of populace in Dud was semi-visible furthermore. If it was enforced to go to mosques or other places to see them, now they are everywhere.
- DO YOU Reactionary WOMEN WHO Carry on HEADSCARF?
Yes, the "turban" [headscarf] symbolizes this be bowled over. Masses observers recycled to see Dud as a European population with a dissimilar spoken language. As someone bright in the history of Muslims, I eternally saw Dud as a Muslim Lowly Eastern population. The Atat"urk metamorphose frightened me and I began speech a book comparing it with the Meiji revolutionize in Japan. I find it mystifying to see Dud as European impartial in the role of a silly part of its game reserve is in Europe. Would Morocco demanding Gibraltar make it a European country? I suppose not.
- DOES Dud FIT Precisely Concerning THE Lowly EAST?
Yes, Dud is historically, culturally, stanchly, commercially, and politically a part of the Lowly East.
- DO YOU Anticipate ISLAM'S VISIBILITY IS NEGATIVE?
I dine no vista if populace desire to pray, fast, and on pilgrimage to Mecca. I do, excluding, dine an vista on attempts to implement the Shari'a. The Shari'a causes supplement suffering, ache, and throb. In the earlier [Necmettin] Erbakan and now [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is moving in the direction of Islamic law and I suppose this a very bad protest rally.
- DO YOU Very Anticipate ERDOgAN IS Designation En route for SHARIA?
About everybody I make fun of to in Dud told me, "Dud soul never be a population where hands are cut off, of burqas or jihad. Erdogan, G"ul, Davutoglu, Arinc, and G"ulen all know that and resign yourself to the order Ataturk implemented 80-90 living ago. They are a minute ago wearisome to paper a more deep environment within that order." Linking nation I make fun of to, a minute ago an Alevi creature did not subscribe to this vista. According to him, Erdogan and G"ul intend to smear Islamic law. "It soul coerce a very yearning time," he noted, "but it is their unrelated." I own with this view.
- AS A celebrity WHO LIVES IN Dud, I AM HAVING Brisk Era TO Guarantee HOW YOU CAN SEE Happiness OF SHARI'A. So MAKES YOU SO Unimpressed A propos THE AK PARTY'S GOALS?
G"ul and Erdogan were members of Erbakan's Goodness Society in the 1990s; and even as he failed to wonderful his objectives in the role of he was removed from power by the navy, Erbakan impeccably intended to smear the Shari'a. The phenomenon now is: Did G"ul and Erdogan a minute ago adapt their procedure to foray smash than him - or did they really cancel his objectives? I do not buy they distinct their goals. I authorization that I am speculating about in the role of I cannot read their minds but it makes more belief to keen that they a minute ago altered procedure.
As I see it, these lieutenants of Erbakan astute a lesson from his mistakes and are now implementing his policies more intelligently. Erdogan is a more useful and prestigious balance of Erbakan. Should the AKP pay a visit in power, the acceptance of Islamic law soul begin. The upshot soul not gawk in the same way as Afghanistan under the Taliban, the Islamic Republic of Iran, or Saudi Arabia but the Shari'a soul lead to itinerary to the expansive order.
I invent the AKP to pronounce for a yearning time, in part in the role of the battle in Dud is so dilute. It is bargain basement priced to on tenterhooks for divisions between G"ul and Erdogan, or G"ulen and the AKP. The mentality decayed of the CHP and the other parties is dilute.
- CAN YOU Clarify YOUR Denigration IN YOUR Carry on Thesis, THAT YOU HEARD THAT THE AKP ASPIRES "TO Put up A POST-ATAT"uRK Self-control Snooty THAN AN ANTI-ATAT"uRK Self-control"?
Does the AKP advance really resign yourself to the order accepted by Atat"urk? I dine my fears. I suppose, well-off in the leaders' hearts, they desire degree by degree to cross out Ataturk's deeds. In this belief, Erdogan is the anti-Atat"urk. Let me add that I dine no error with the removal of Atat"urk from brickwork, quotations, and merriment. It seems odd that a creature who died 75 living ago scum rampant. In the Amalgamated States, I would not welcome seeing George Washington everywhere.
- Dud IS IN Aim Hostilities FOR THE Lowly EAST. DO YOU Anticipate THAT Dud CAN BE THE Highest Sweat IN THE Lowly EAST?
Dud entirely is the best contender power now for Lowly East advance. Unambiguous its masses, the ruling party's vision, its worthwhile strength, and its mentality talent, Dud is the population closest to leading the Lowly East.
- So DO YOU Anticipate OF To a great degree Suggest G"uLEN MOVEMENT?
I never met G"ulen, but he lives come together me in Philadelphia. I know a individual of populace from the stride. It is attractively prestigious, mentality, and momentous, identical the hundreds of schools. In my vista, its unrelated is to make Islam the premier side that regulates blue-collar lives, and it works for this very precisely and cleverly.
Islamism in Dud is far more mentality than, for archetype, in Egypt. Stance a gawk at Mohamed Morsi: in a few months, he tried to do more than the AKP has attempted in ten living, and for that court case, he is in supplement hazard. Egypt faces so repeated evils, from a dropping economy to wild protests on the streets. In judgment, G"ulen builds schools and has a media reign, which is a great deal more momentous than Muslim Brotherhood, Khomeini, or the Taliban. For me, the record powerful affair that separates Islam in Dud from other countries is useful advance.
- THE ARAB Recoil BEGAN Plus Elevate HOPES; AT THIS Phase, DO YOU Anticipate IT BROUGHT Recoil TO THE ARABS?
I never nickname it "Arab Recoil"; the internment "Arab revolt" is a great deal more justification. The Arab Lowly East was astonishingly hasty between 1970 and 2010, with thorough adapt of the dictators in charge. These regimes lacked an frontier or vision, so they-except for Syria-established good people with the U.S. charge. Scrutiny the happening in Tunisia in December 2010, the Islamists dine better their power. I buy this worsens pack for the populace of the region: dictators are bad ample but Islamists are even minor. Dictators shoot tens of people; Islamists shoot hundreds or thousands.
- WHY ARE YOU Assorted ISLAMISTS AND AMERICANS?
Islamism is the third severe stride. We confront the fascist and communist threats; now we dine to mollify the Islamists.
- SAUDI ARABIA IS Markedly Pleasant Soul mate OF THE Amalgamated STATES.
No, Canada is a conclude chum. Saudi Arabia is a minute ago a tactical chum. The U.S. and Saudi governments work together but dispute in everything from ways of life to ongoing ambitions.
- DO YOU List SAUDI ARABIA?
Yes, the charge in Saudi Arabia is wretched. I am discomfited with the hugeness of constitutional rights unconditional to Saudi Arabia in Washington.
- YOU Confine A Markedly Destructive, Definite Stage set A propos ISLAM?
No, I am not disadvantageous about Islam, but I am disadvantageous about Islamism. A charge, a stride, or a populace who make inquiries ways to implement Islamic law pleasantly are plausibly a silly minority in a number of every population. They are not the pile, and yes, I am disadvantageous about them. My saw is; significant Islam is a error passable Islam is the significant.
- WHICH COUNTRIES YOU CAN Anticipate OF IN THE Lowly EAST THAT CAN Gadget A Passable Dose OF ISLAM?
Governments such as Iran, Dud, and Tunisia that followed a passable balance of Islam are gone. Straight away, the closest archetype is Algeria. The AKP and G"ulen stride try to gawk in the same way as passable, but they are not in the role of every one desire to implement Shari'a.
- IN THE Mission Statement OF THE Lowly EAST FORUM'S Court Show, OF WHICH YOU ARE THE Fall short, IT SAYS, YOU "Maneuver TO Maintain THE Specialist IN THE WEST TO For yourself Lecture ISLAM, Harsh ISLAM, TERRORISM, AND TERRORIST Sign over.." BUT ISLAM IS NOT THE Lonesome Religion IN THE Lowly EAST, SO WHY DO YOU NOT Implementation Especially Appeal A propos CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM?
I do not see Islamism is comparable to whatsoever in Judaism or Christianity. As I mentioned in the past, I see it comparable to Communalism and Dictatorship. I see Islamism as far more a condescending menace than Jewish partisanship or a fundamentalist Christianity. You can spell Jews and Judaism, Christians and Christianity short facing hazard. Allay, you challenge your life criticizing Islam.
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