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What is a "Islamic party"? Turkey is something like 96% Muslim population, so chances are, any particular cross section of society might just be called "Islami
by prefect42 10y ago
What is a "Islamic party"? Turkey is something like 96% Muslim population, so chances are, any particular cross section of society might just be called "Islamic" something, including the government.
- pjc50 10y agoConfusion between "Islamic" and "Islamist" here I think; the first simply has Islam as a religion and the second uses it as a hammer. Compare Germany's Christian Democrats (the former) and, say, Pat Buchanan (the latter).
- gkya 10y agoThat 96% is the amount of people registered as Muslims, and the religion status are registered at birth as parents declare. Further, who's not a registered Christian or Jewish is considered a Muslim by default. So that 96% includes: atheists, converts to religions other than those of book (Islam, Christianity, Judaism), Alawites (10 million of them, and Turkey's population is 70million), secularists and the non practising Muslims (edit: i.e. who are only nominally Muslim because parents are).