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Bassam Tibi: [AKP] A Covert Totalitarian Ideology
AKP Watch August 27th, 2007
Bassam Tibi, an influential Syrian-German scholar of Islam
and modernity who coined Euro-Islam term, published
second edition of his controversal book "Mit dem Kopftuch nach Europa?
Die Türkei auf dem Weg in die Europäische Union"
("With the headscarf to Europe? Turkey on the way into the European
Union").
Tibi argues that the AKP is not to be trusted and that its strategy
of democratization and Europeanization is only a subterfuge.
AKP's project of joining the European Union, are only diversionary
tactical moves by "pseudo-democrat" Islamists to reach their
real strategic goal of imposing an Islamist sharia state.
The adaptation of Turkey's constitutional and legal system
to European standards, would serve the instrumental purpose
of dismantling the secularist elements as guardians of the
Kemalist order, which is the only thing that stands in the way
of their conquest of absolute state power.
The hidden agenda which the Islamists adopted after the
experience of the 1997 military coup, parallels with the Fascist
democratic road to power in the 1930s, the communist strategies
of the 1940s, or the Algerian FIS in the 1990s.
Tibi told to daily newspaper Cumhuriyet: "Today Turkey defined by
political Islam,
but only a secular Turkey belongs to Europe, not headscarfed Turkey."
Tibi also mentioned that The importance of Kemalism and Secularism
for Turkey is underestimated by Europe and European policies toward
Turkey paved the way for Political Islam.
Tibi said: "The headscarf is not a simple clothe, it's a sharria law and
Turkey is governed by a party which uses headscarf as a political symbol"
Tibi concludes that the AK Party's "headscarf Islam" is not compatible
with universal values of European enlightment.
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