Monday, July 18, 2016

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ERDOGAN USING COUP TO FURTHER ISLAMIZATION? - NO, ERDOGAN IS ABOUT AUTHORITARIANISM AND STATE TERROR - ISLAM IS A CHARADE FOR THIS MEGALOMANIAC - THE WAY REPUBLICANS USED THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PATRICK COCKBURN IN THE INDEPENDENT


"President Erdogan could be using the coup against him to turn Turkey towards full-scale Islamisation"


Patrick Cockburn, I believe you really do have it wrong here.

The error you make is a common one in the press.

Erdogan is using (manipulating) the coup for sure.

But not for the purposes of Islamization, our present world's favorite demon word, endlessly chanted by press and politicians.

Erdogan uses (manipulates) Islam for his own political ambitions.

In this he much resembles the right wing of the Republican Party a couple of decades ago when they were exploiting Christian fundamentalists and "family values."

The danger from Erdogan is authoritarianism and state terror.

The authoritarianism is already there. So are elements of terror including his treatment of Kurds, opponents, Syrians, and others.

The man is a genuine megalomaniac, as we can plainly see from his recently completed 1000-room palace, an unbelievably ugly and graceless monument to himself.

I do not believe a man of his mental state has much room for Muhammad or any other figure.