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yes, thank you, plk, for your informative remarks.

I think is was clear from what I wrote in the first place that I was referring to a Kemalist approach to the worldwide phenomenon of Islam.

News / Polish engineer beheaded in Pakistan. [347]


I was referring to


and "the like" do have the oil, and that's a big prob.

News / Polish engineer beheaded in Pakistan. [347]


Might be the answer, but apart from practical problems of feasibility, how would you react to the conceptual criticism of Kemalism? Presidential adviser and scholar Samuel Huntington argues that Kemalist Westernization always results in "torn" countries doomed to failure, because the cultural values (enlightenment, decalogue, democracy, tolerance, freedom of thought, etc.) imposed on them are alien to them. "Western intervention in the affairs of other civilizations is probably the single most dangerous source of instability and potential global conflict." (Clash of Civilizations) The problem is Islam itself. An enlightened Islam is a contradiction in terms and not doable, because (unlike the bible) the Quran is God's original command and not interpretable. Perhaps the best solution really is cultural relativism? We are we and the others are the others?

p.s. Gee, I forget the crude oil ;)