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To be honest, this is probably the scariest and least discussed aspect of the literalist/fundamentalist/Islamist threat.
Why?
The supposed evolutionary path of a Muslim country from hostile literalist Islamic poverty to friendly secular progressive Muslim wealth has been shattered.
Turkey was THE role model for liberal progressive belief in co-existence.
If economically diversified, educated, engaged, and consistently successful Turkey is slipping significantly backwards in terms of secularism then what actual hope is there for any other relatively homogenous(bar the Kurds) Muslim country further down the development food chain to make the transition to sustainable, long-term co-existence with western systems that are incongruent with rigidly adhered to Islamic political-religious-cultural competitive systems?
"Canary, this is coal mine over. You are broken and unreadable."
I write this as an interested follower of Turkey(my paternal grandfather I never met served in the Turkish military as an Orthodox conscript, and became a 1st gen legal immigrant).
Kamal Ataturk must be spinning in his grave.
And the Turkish senior chain of command that didn't hit the reboot button(Sledgehammer) on Erdogon before he emasculated that long entrenched capability and started turning the country into a dodgy Islamic fireworks factory should be haunted for all eternity.
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