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In article <92365.163655U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>, U19807@uicvm.uic.edu
wrote as follows:
>
>> This century has tried several experiments in explicitly
>> anti-religious statecraft - and the body count has been stupendous.
>
> It depends,of course,on what you call "anti-religious statecraft".
> Since Kemal Ataturk was responsible for overturning the remnants of
> the Muslim Ottoman Empire when he founded the Republic of Turkey in
> the 1920's,he outlawed many Muslim religious restrictions on everyday
> life (such as women wearing veils,etc.) and imported many European
> legal traditions (such as the codification of law _a_la_ France,etc.)
> which went against the traditional Islam-based Ottoman system. Like
> it or not,he effectively dragged Turkey into the 20th Century. Care
> to tell us how this-or any other-form of "anti-religious statecraft"
> was so horrible?

Provided you weren't Armenian, not bad at all.

Cheers,
Rick M.
moen@blyth.com

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