There is no avoiding Providence. There is no escape from history. Destiny does not obey the orders of Generals. The Turkish military and those of its protégés whom secularism has been a religion ever since Mustafa Kamal Pasha banished Islam from Turkey’s public life, have failed to reverse the turning tide of history. Abdullah Gul whose wife wears a scarf, and observes Hejab, has ended an eight-decade ban on the entry of “Islamic credentials” into the presidential palace whose first occupant had founded the modern Turkey. Only recently a Turkish General had scornfully remarked: “No scarf-wearing woman can desecrate the sanctity of Ata Turk’s legacy. She will earn only our displeasure and wrath if she is allowed to set her foot into that sacred palace.” Such has been the elite’s state of mind in Turkey for decades! A state of mind created by continuous brainwashing and autosuggestion to the effect that Turkey owes all its past setbacks to Islam, and all its recent resurgence to anti-Islamic secularism. But what the preachers and the practitioners of ideological and moral looseness in the name of secularism fail to take into account is the undeniable fact that Turkey’s history goes beyond Ata Turk – even beyond the century of Turkish decadence and decline (before the present republic was formed on the ruins of the old caliphate). Turkey remained the symbol and center of Islamic glory and power for four centuries. And at one point of history Turks were practically breathing down on Europe’s neck. August 29, 2007 is likely to go down into history as the day Turkey rediscovered its destiny. Turkey and Islam are two wheels of a single vehicle. The people of Turkey in overwhelming defiance of its corrupt and misguided secular elite and oligarchy have voted for the renaissance of Muslim power in the neighbourhood of the Christian Europe.
Long Live Turkey.
(This Column was first published on 31-08-2007)
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