-By Warner Todd Huston
The duly elected leader of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, seems to have survived a coup attempt spearheaded by members of his country’s own military that may have been alarmed by the Islamist direction their president is taking the country. But whatever caused it, the subsequent attacks on innocents at the hands of Turkish Muslims is a perfect example of why Islam is dangerous.
The coup didn’t appear to have lasted very long and some are even claiming that Erdoğan engineered it himself to steal even more power in an extralegal manner. But whatever caused the coup attempt, who ever was behind it, what occurred in the Kurdish and Alevis areas of Turkey shows how inhuman and untrustworthy Islamism is and why it is a danger to the world.
Firstly, if this was a legitimate coup attempt by the military, Erdoğan and his supporters had every right to oppose it. After all, as much as any westerner should oppose Erdoğan he was legally elected to lead the country.
Whatever the facts are around the coup, the world will find out soon enough as Erdoğan moves to purge officials, military leaders, members of the judiciary, and on and on.
But what happened during the coup, away from the battles with the military, apart from the attacks seen around government installations really shines the light on how evil Islam really is.
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Failed Coup in Turkey Again Exposes The Inhuman Ignorance That is Islam”