Blacken the angle said:
Kemal Attatork has banned the "Adhan"
Turkey Has it's own porn industry (channels , movies , etc..)
Turkey produces (wine , Alcholic beverages )
I am asking those questions because turkey was the heart of the muslim empire (during the ottomans rule )
but now its seems that it's not related to the Islam , Well officialy ..
I just want to know if the turkish were muslims how did they accept kemal attaturk as a Ruler ?
Do they really choose him ?
and btw early ottomans made their best to spread their faith into europ
I'll try to answer these questions so that other people reading this topic won't be confused by your biased questions.
First of all, Atatürk didn't ban the Ezan. It was the second president, İsmet İnönü who banned it. In fact it wasn't even banned, it was just translated into Turkish. Then the 3rd government made it Arabic again. So today we still have the original Ezan. It can be heard from all mosques.
About porn and wine... You say we are not muslims because we have porn and wine? So you say Iran for example doesn't have porn and wine? :Smug:
Turkey has secular democracy, meaning that the state itself doesn't have a religion. It is logical since a state is not a human and not even a living thing, just a symbol therefore it cannot be muslim. Claiming that a country is muslim is not logical. It is the people who have religions. Therefore the government cannot control anything about religion. The government cannot say "Hey we are muslims and we don't allow alcohol in here!" because the state cannot be muslim as it cannot be christian, buddhist or whatever either. So the government thought that allowing alcohol and porn officialy makes sure that you can control it
Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) was the hero of the war of independence (and before that, the war at Gallipoli) and he made us unite and beat the imperialist invaders. So the people had great respect for him, and complete trust in him. Since when the Ottoman Empire began to collapse, religous and monarchic governing brought nothing but trouble. So we had to have a democratic republic and Atatürk helped found democracy. And it was all in legal ways. First a parliament was assembled, consisting people chosen by a big election, and it decided on the war of independence. Then, after the war the parliament chose Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as president. So yes, mostly Turkish people are muslims and yes, they have chosen Atatürk as president. He hasn't done anything against Islam. He just wanted us to keep up with the modern world. I am pretty honoured to have had such a great leader, and most of the muslim or nonmuslim Turks feel the same way.
