.... “Surely religion should have a public role,” he said, a view that flies in the face of Turkey’s 87 years of secularism. “Not only in Turkey, but throughout the world.”
Sitting among glass-walled cloisters, he warmed to the theme of Turkey’s suppression of the imam-hatip network, and by extension of its alumni, saying his country needed men like him to stand up for religion and traditional values.
“We want Turkish society to feel that it is right to fear us,” he said. Over their tea, his fellow pupils murmured in approval. [Todays Zaman] Read more [via National Secular Society]
