WHY ERDOGAN AND HIS AKP PARTY MUST BE BANNED FROM POLITICS
Quotes of Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose party AKP
fears to be closed by the constitutional court due to such anti-secular,
anti-democratic and anti-constitutional remarks he made,
and due to his massive misuse of religion in politics,
which is against the law in secular Turkey.
Translated some passages (ie. excerpts) from a public speech
of this SOB Erdogan taken on video (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3hkWCnA8c
)
Original:
http://mvdg.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/erdogan-on-secularism-and-the-role-of-islam-in-politics/
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"If the people want it, of course secularism will go away.
You cannot rule this people by force; you don't have the power to do that.
This [i.e. secularism] cannot work in spite of the people."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"And anyway, for the love of Allah, what is this secularism?
You ask them to define it. They can't. They say that it varies
from place to place. So what sort of a strange thing is this
[secularism]?"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"So what sort of a strange thing is this [secularism]?
Today, for every concept there is a definition in the dictionary.
Every concept must have a definition [.]. The interior minister comes
and says that the state can interfere with religion.
What about the rest? Why don't you say the rest?
No! He does not say that the religion can interfere with the state."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"Yesterday I was at the Bosphorus University; and some of the
- probably impressionable - young people there asked me, 'Mr. Mayor,
what do you think about secularism? There are concerns that secularism
is disappearing. What will happen?'
This is what I said to those young friends: 'In the West they say,
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God
the things that are God's'. But this country's interior minister says
that Caesar has rights but God does not!"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"But the fact is that 99% of the people of this country are Muslims.
You cannot be both secular and a Muslim! You will either be a Muslim,
or secular! When both are together, they create reverse magnetism
[i.e. they repel one another]. For them to exist together is not a
possibility!
Therefore, it is not possible for a person who says 'I am a Muslim' to go
on
and say 'I am secular too.' And why is that? Because Allah,
the creator of the Muslim, has absolute power and rule!"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"As for [the motto of Turkish democracy] 'Sovereignty belongs
unconditionally to the people.' Now, look here. This is a lie!
And it's a huge lie! We [former PM Erbakan's Islamist RP (Welfare) Party]
suggested this to them for their constitution: We said 'Let's put
brackets next to 'sovereignty belongs unconditionally to the people'
and write within the brackets, 'once every five years.'"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
"They began to laugh. I asked them why they were laughing.
Do the people have such a privilege, other than once every five years?
Then what's-his-name says - and where does he say this? -
it is in 1985 and we are having a discussion on the constitution
in a meeting in the Marmara Hotel. He gets up and says 'No, this is not
right.'
At that moment, the former finance minister, who was completely drunk,
also joins in to give advice. I told them that they must have prepared
this constitution at the same table [at which they together consume
alcohol].
Why? Because they do not prepare these constitutions with sober heads,
but with drunken heads! That is why their constitutions last no more than
two years."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"There is no need to stand up to honor Ataturk"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"They [secular Turks] make such a big fuss every November 10th
[the anniversary of Ataturk's death]"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"We will turn Istanbul into Madina"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"I am the Imam of Istanbul"
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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"Our reference [guide] is Islam. Our only goal is an Islamic state.
They can never intimidate us. If the skies and the earth open up,
if storms blow on us, if the lava of volcanoes flow on us, we will
never change our way. My guide is Islam. If I cannot live according
to Islam, why live at all?
[Turk], Kurd, Arab, Caucasian cannot be differentiated; because these
peoples are united under the roof of Islam."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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See also:
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.turkish/msg/72344718ac1a7250
Notes:
- video link updated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3hkWCnA8c
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