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TURKEY'S CREEPING ISLAMIZATION
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/20/turkey-creeping-islamization/
Michael Rubin | @mrubin1971
05.20.2012 - 9:31 AM While Western diplomats persist in calling
Turkey a "model," Recep Tayyip Erdošan's Islamist-leaning Justice
and Development Party (AKP) continues to tweak relatively minor
rules to change Turkish society fundamentally. He makes no secret
of this. "Do you expect the conservative democrat AK Party to raise
atheist generations? This may be your business and objective but not
ours," he declared last February.
Previously, the Turkish parliament tightened licensing on alcohol
sales, and has increased taxes more than 700 percent on beer. The
ban on alcohol advertisements forced Efes Pilsen, one of Turkey's
most popular basketball teams, to change its name.
Now, the Turkish parliament is pushing along its crusade against
alcohol to new levels. The Islamist-dominated parliament (the AKP
holds 326 out of 550 seats) will reportedly change a labor law to
enable employers to fire without severance any employer who shows up
at work having drunk alcohol, as opposed to being drunk with alcohol.
Accordingly, if a businessman consumes a single glass of wine or beer
at a business lunch, he can be terminated immediately.
Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute conference in Gdansk,
Poland, in August 2005, senior State Department official Daniel Fried
once commented that Erdošan's AKP was simply the Islamic equivalent
of a European Christian Democratic party. Alas, it increasingly
appears that the State Department has sacrificed the ideal of a
Western-oriented Turkey upon the altar of political correctness.
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/20/turkey-creeping-islamization/
Michael Rubin | @mrubin1971
05.20.2012 - 9:31 AM While Western diplomats persist in calling
Turkey a "model," Recep Tayyip Erdošan's Islamist-leaning Justice
and Development Party (AKP) continues to tweak relatively minor
rules to change Turkish society fundamentally. He makes no secret
of this. "Do you expect the conservative democrat AK Party to raise
atheist generations? This may be your business and objective but not
ours," he declared last February.
Previously, the Turkish parliament tightened licensing on alcohol
sales, and has increased taxes more than 700 percent on beer. The
ban on alcohol advertisements forced Efes Pilsen, one of Turkey's
most popular basketball teams, to change its name.
Now, the Turkish parliament is pushing along its crusade against
alcohol to new levels. The Islamist-dominated parliament (the AKP
holds 326 out of 550 seats) will reportedly change a labor law to
enable employers to fire without severance any employer who shows up
at work having drunk alcohol, as opposed to being drunk with alcohol.
Accordingly, if a businessman consumes a single glass of wine or beer
at a business lunch, he can be terminated immediately.
Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute conference in Gdansk,
Poland, in August 2005, senior State Department official Daniel Fried
once commented that Erdošan's AKP was simply the Islamic equivalent
of a European Christian Democratic party. Alas, it increasingly
appears that the State Department has sacrificed the ideal of a
Western-oriented Turkey upon the altar of political correctness.
From: Baghdasarian