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05 October 2019

Turkey: Secularism, Nationalism, and Democracy (2)

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, c. 1016 (1881-1938)
In the first installment of this post I showed how the extreme secularism imposed on his nation by Kemal Attatürk, borrowed from the French ideology of laïcité, could not hold forever. The world dramatically became more religious starting in the 1970s (see my blog post on this) and social science scholars began to describe a wave of “fundamentalism” sweeping over…
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09 September 2019

Turkey: Secularism, Nationalism, and Democracy (1)

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A helpful article in the Russian press, days after the failed coup: “President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the uprising on Fethullah Gulen, a retired Islamic cleric and former political ally, who once had a sizeable following in the Turkish police, judiciary and military.”
I begin here a two-part blog post on Turkey. What has captured the headlines is the Trump administration love affair with Saudi Arabia (apparently uninterrupted by the grisly murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggji) and its support of its proxy war against Iran in Yemen, now in its fifth year. But it is not just the Kingdom of Saudi…
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07 May 2019

The Fight for Justice in Palestine

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In an article by The Thirdside, “March of Hope: How Israeli-Palestinian Women Wage Peace." Photo caption: “Israeli, Druse and Israeli Arab women of ‘Women Wage Peace’ protest outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resident in Jerusalem, Israel, October 19, 2016. The women’s march is to urge lawmakers to act to bring a secure future for their children by making peace.” Source: Debbie Hill/UPI
I confess to being surprised that I haven’t touched this topic more than once, and that back in January 2012 (though I do have a ten-page paper on Christian Zionism and the I/P conflict in Resources, the ideology without which President Trump could not do what is doing with this issue). We lived there for three years as a family…
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05 February 2019

America's Original Sin and White Privilege

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“Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968 … King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered each year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday since 1986.”
In reaction to remarks made by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), which questioned the offensiveness of white nationalism or white supremacy, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution (424-1) on January 15, 2019, condemning that ideology. Specifically, the House “once again rejects White nationalism and White supremacy as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that…
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