Do Turks generally view the Islamicization of Turkey as a good thing or a bad thing?

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crazygirl158

Well, that is a very questionable matter.
In my opinion, it did change our history and still is changing our future in a bad way because it slows us down. I'm not saying Islam is bad , but somewhere along the way some people got lost and changed their priorities. It is a hard matter to explain. I still would not change my religion though, in any curcumstances...

Totally Blunt

It isn't Islamization. It would be hard to Islamize a state founded on the ruins of the Ottoman empire, an Islamic state.

It is using holy values for wordly gains. This must be a sin in every religion. Not to mention violation of belief or the lack of it as a personal thing between god and man/woman.

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Of course it's a bad thing.

Why?

Do I really need to explain it? I can write pages and pages and I have no taste for tiring my fingers right now.

Aussie Joe

Modern Turkey is built on the foundations that everyone is free and equal, and the government doesn't favour any religion.

Most Turks want it keep it that way.

Joannah

Bad.

The church and the state should always be separate and should remain separate.

Islamicization movements in the sense of culture, spirituality and identity is not bad per se, lukewarm Muslims might even find themselves closer to God in the process. But having religion impossed on state affairs is an altogether different matter because it is not only about Muslims now. Different ethnicities with different belief systems are there and if that was the case, I would like to be fair to everybody.

Take the Philippines for example, contraception is banned by the church as well as divorce. The church holds sway over greedy and power hungry politicians that bow to their dictates. The end result is an incredible birth rate for families who make less than a dollar a day. They average about four kids per family and as for the latter, women are being battared, abused and killed because there can never be divorce as marriage as told by the Catholics is sacred.

istanbul bogazi in the Queendom

Turkey's and Turk culture are far more dominant than any religion. So we can not talk about neither Islamicization nor another religionization( i know this word doesn't exist:)
You can not resume and old culture like Turkish culture into one religion or into one belief. Besides there are not only muslim Turks. There are Turks who are Christian,Jewish,Buddhist,Atheist,Deist.... etc.
No matter the religion Turks always had their own way of living and their own customs and their first priority was never a religion. (Although sometimes in the history politically it seemed like that)

Bix

For most of the Turkish people a good thing, I'm afraid. Otherwise the majority of the Turkish people wouldn't have voted for the ruling Islamist party AKP.

However, the Kemalist elite would answer that this is a bad thing.

In my personal opinion, it's a bad thing. I have never accepted religious rules in my daily life and besides that, I could never be in favor of rules which were made for a backward Arabic society of the 7th Century.

Bored

The answer to your question lies in statistics, that is count the number of dead Turks (All Turks such as Cerkez, Laz, Kurds, Tatars etc etc) that died to protect what was left of the Old Ottoman Empire when the Empire surrendered to the Allies, count the hundreds of thousands if not millions that died for the Vision of Ataturk, which was modern day Turkey, count the millions that protested against the AK Party prior to the last elections, count the millions (and I mean millions) of men and women in the Turkish armed forces that would readily lay down their own lives to keep Modern Day Turkey secular.

Then ask the question just how far do you think Turkey could possibly be Islamicized ?

the brave

bad thing because, turkey general view of politics and citizens are oriented by a deep ancestral culture. the term islamization itself cannot be used for what the sitting power is trying to do.Let say that this is "their" turn....

Buket D

A bad thing.

Mehmet K

It is a bad thing for sure..
And it can not be offerable or discussable according to Turkish constitution..

If they thought it was a bad thing then they would have all converted to some other religion by now

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