Turkish Digest
 
ISSN No 1554-8414
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Prospects of Extremist Secularism in a Democratic World
"Prospects of Extremist Secularism in a Democratic World

A de facto phenomena in world politics since the early twentieth century till our present day has been the constant conflict between an Extremist Secularist political current and a Moderate Islamist one. Turkey and Egypt have simultaneously witnessed the conflict in question, each in his own way. Secularist powers in both countries have led a violent struggle to eradicate an ever-growing Islamist trend, in Turkey to preserve the principles of the so-called laïcité (Atatürk’s version of Secularism), and in Egypt to smother the Muslim Brotherhood, thus preventing a moderate Islamist movement from approaching political life. While doing this, Secularists have openly declared their complete disengagement with the mainstay of democracy and human freedoms– the once-avowed tenets of Secularism."

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