Yeah, if anything Turkey's a damning argument against Islam-influenced governance. Ataturk dragged Turkey into the 20th century with his secular "reforms". I pu

Yeah, if anything Turkey's a damning argument against Islam-influenced governance. Ataturk dragged Turkey into the 20th century with his secular "reforms". I put quotes there because the word seems like an understatement. For a US audience, imagine if George Washington had declared that we were abandoning Latin script for Cyrillic (Ataturk brought in Latin script to replace Arabic), abolished common law for civil law (islamic law to civil law), banned people from wearing crucifixes in public (banning the fez, headscarves, veils), made the weekend a Sunday-Tuesday affair (thursday-saturday became the European friday-sunday), gave women the right to vote, gave us all an additional name (introduction of surnames), and put us on the Chinese calendar (Gregorian).