Barry Rubin frets in his latest article in PAJAMAS MEDIA,
Turkish Election: Islamism Triumphant
[..] What all this means is that the AKP is entrenched in power and can now proceed with the fundamental transformation of Turkey.
The AKP has become famous for the subtlty of its Islamism, disguised as a “center-right” reform party. Some people in the Arab world are starting to talk about this as a model. Notably the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is fascinated by the strategy. Yet as the Islamist party gains more and more power and support–Turkey has demonstrated this–it becomes more ambitious, daring, and extreme.
This would include:
- A constitution that would take the country far down the road to a more Islamist state and society.
- A more presidential style of government empowering the mercurial (a nice word for personally unstable and frighteningly arrogant) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to become the chief executive.
- The government can now infiltrate, take over, and transform the remaining hold out institutions, especially the armed forces and courts, along with the reemainder of the media that has not yet been bought up or intimidated by the Islamists.
- A government whose policy is to align with Islamists like iran, Syria (not Islamist but part of the Tehran-led alliance), Hamas, Hizballah, and perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood.
- A government against U.S. and Western interests.
- A government that, to put it bluntly, hates Israel and many of whose members hate Jews.
This is a disastrous day for the United States and for Europe; for the prospects of stability and peace in the Middle East. And it isn’t great news for the relatively moderate Arab states either.
It is the end of the republic as established by Kemal Ataturk in the 1920s and modified into a multi-party democracy in the 1950s.
Yet how many people in the West actually appreciate what is happening? How many journalists will celebrate the election as a victory for democracy? Lenin once reportedly remarked that he would get the capitalists to sell him the rope with which to hang them. The AKP has gotten the West to provide that rope as a gift.
Just an observation: Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia, “Palestine” and to some extent, Iraq, all have this in common: At one time, they were solidly Christian countries. Turkey alone, in fact, once contained the vast majority of the world’s Christians (around 100 CE) — as well as a substantial proportion of the world’s Jews. They are not just Moslems: They are apostates, who have sold their souls to avoid paying the jizra. There are some good Turks today, who have a heart to seek after God; but they have a terrible legacy. I think they are dangerous enemies of Israel.
The fault is the MSM that closes their eyes, ears and mouths to islamic fascism. Erdogan, when he was mayor of Istanbul, was quoted as saying:
“Mosques are our barracks, domes our helmets, minarets our bayonets, believers our soldiers.”
What do you think he meant. In light of the recent survey by Dr Kadir of US mosques, theses are the recruiting centers. Why not start get a court order to remove the violence from their preaching and literature or close them down as subversive, treasonous centers.