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Gary Sack is 100% right

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Submitted by Prashant (United States), Jun 5, 2013 at 00:28

Dear Dr Pipes,

Reader Gary Sack outlined it absolutely correctly. He said that what is happening in Turkey is the opposite of Arab spring. Sack is right because in Turkey people are challenging the Islamists. I believe that what is happening in Turkey is the harbinger of what will happen in EVERY islamic society in a few years (say 2 decades). The social, religious, and political doctrines that fundamentalist Islams recommends are anti non-muslims but, even more so, they are anti progress. With these backward policies Islamic world will fail to compete against the free world.

In non-Islamic democracies (like Western Europe and India) fundamentalist Muslims blame majority communities for their plight. In Islamic-majority nations, they blame the United States and the West for their plight. They never blame themselves. But the truth will catch up with them. Truth will catch up with them not because I say so or you say so; it will catch up with them because these countries will not be able to sustain their economies just as communist countries could not sustain theirs.

If oil-wealth had not helped them, the entire Islamic world would have looked like Somalia and Sudan (hard truth but a truth nevertehless). So the best thing for our planet is if Islamists come to power in every Islamic country and fail. The sooner they fail, the sooner good times will come. On the other hand if they do not come to power, they will keep blaming everyone else.

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6from a Turk. [356 words]FlowJun 20, 2013 08:42207134
5Here is another word of advise from young Egyptian to young Turks [59 words]dhimmi no moreJun 8, 2013 11:14206831
5Great advice from a secular Egyptian to young Turks [130 words]dhimmi no moreJun 8, 2013 10:49206830
13Erdogan's track record---Over-Islamic- [101 words]Michael Hanni MorcosJun 6, 2013 14:21206778
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15A Great News in Turkey [120 words]Michael Hanni MorcosJun 5, 2013 18:35206730
9Erdogan's days are numbered [36 words]Michael Hanni MorcosJun 5, 2013 15:33206721
3Including what others edit out [21 words]David W. LincolnJun 5, 2013 11:47206711
4Just a few comments [225 words]AlexandrosJun 5, 2013 11:39206710
1Excellent overview [27 words]Ahmed TahirJun 5, 2013 05:45206697
2World's Conjecture is changing. Next Elections votes might be altered by electronic election system company [86 words]
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Triple CrescentJun 5, 2013 01:43206695
3Loose Cannon [204 words]
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MozereJun 4, 2013 23:48206692
2Lets hope for the best [138 words]
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Peter KikareasJun 4, 2013 23:16206691
2integration of Muslims into western society's concept of government, [59 words]rodney allsworthJun 4, 2013 15:57206685
1interesting thoughts [47 words]
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Gary SackJun 4, 2013 14:57206684
3Gary Sack is 100% right [247 words]PrashantJun 5, 2013 00:28206684
1Oil wealth [56 words]XYZJun 6, 2013 12:07206684
A clarification [79 words]XYZJun 7, 2013 23:41206684
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Nazim CairoJun 4, 2013 14:52206683
Agree [51 words]Nazim CairoJun 5, 2013 12:25206683
2events are continuing. [147 words]Nazim CairoJun 7, 2013 08:59206683
1pulse [84 words]jeromeJun 4, 2013 13:46206680
2Young Turks and All That [142 words]SoloviewJun 4, 2013 13:06206677
Well said, agree wholeheartedly [92 words]saraJun 4, 2013 19:24206677
3At least there's only one Turkey. [206 words]Ted GruenJun 4, 2013 12:45206676
8"Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." ~ Proverbs 16:18 KJV [71 words]Chaz MartelJun 4, 2013 12:13206675
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BALARABE ABBAJun 4, 2013 11:56206674
7agree with you [165 words]
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havasJun 4, 2013 11:44206673
2no respect to people [161 words]havasJun 5, 2013 06:12206673
4I cannot believe it!! [80 words]dhimmi no moreJun 5, 2013 18:49206673
2Correct [149 words]Peter HallJun 16, 2013 03:01206673
5Morsi and Erdogan [75 words]
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dhimmi no moreJun 4, 2013 07:58206671
12The End of Egypt [86 words]Michael Hanni MorcosJun 5, 2013 15:22206671
3Another less known conflict Halayeb and the Shlateen [258 words]
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dhimmi no moreJun 5, 2013 18:24206671
1Islam's history chokes Turkey [124 words]PAUL JEFFERYJun 4, 2013 07:54206670
6Obama or Erdogan [23 words]
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Sam DeakinsJun 4, 2013 07:21206669
1no longer a father [94 words]mythJun 4, 2013 07:16206668
6The truth about the credit bubble nature of the Turkish economy that Erdogan created [214 words]Guzel AnkaraJun 4, 2013 06:57206667
Daniel Goldman [32 words]FilizJun 8, 2013 09:23206667
Show me an unbiased analysis or article please - even most holy books are biased. [76 words]Guzel AnkaraJun 19, 2013 07:05206667
6Implications for Western capitals [79 words]
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Anders UlsteinJun 4, 2013 05:51206665

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