Posts Tagged ‘democracy’
Even the Muslims are afraid of Islam
by Abang Hazrul on Friday, June 6th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Category: Jurnal
Tags: democracy, headscarf, islam, muslim, secularism, Singapore, turkey, xenophobia
Category: Jurnal
Tags: democracy, headscarf, islam, muslim, secularism, Singapore, turkey, xenophobia
In breaking news today, the Turkish Constitutional Court has annulled a parliamentary reform to lax the ban on wearing headscarves for female students attending university, on the basis that the reformation was against the nature of the secular state. Turkey is 98% Muslim, yet the observance of the religion, or the lack of it, doesn’t bring justice to the enormous Islamic heritage which the former capital of the Ottoman Empire upheld for hundreds of years. more »
