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Even the Muslims are afraid of Islam

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 »

To veil or not to veil

Americans have gone exercising their democratic right to vote on Super Tuesday, to elect the respective presidential candidates in the Republican and Democratic parties. While who becomes the final contenders to unseat George Bush at the White House is still anybody’s guess, elsewhere in the world, the Turkish parliament has voted with a massive majority to relax the ban on Islamic headscarves in universities. more »