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Several Muslim-majority countries have condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran at a protest in the Swedish capital
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- Title
- Sweden Quran burning sparks anger across Muslim world
- Published
- Jun 29 2023
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- 32 words
Well I guess this keeps Sweden out of NATO for a few more months at minimum, but I doubt anything really significant will come of it, nobody is going to be invading Sweden regardless.
This just shows that Turkey isn't a secular country like they claim.
They haven't seriously tried to pretend they are a secular country for a while now, really ever since that one failed coup a few years back.
I'm just glad I got to visit and see the Hagia Sophia while it was still a museum, because I don't think that's going to be possible again for a while.
I believe people are still allowed to visit outside of prayer times.
Yeah, but when I was there they were trying to restore several paintings on the walls from before it was converted to a mosque. Plus there will just be more restrictions about where you can go.
I did tour the Blue Mosque as well so obviously you can get into real mosques, but nonetheless converting the Hagia Sophia into one is going to be a step back
Don't know if "step back" is the right way to put it - it might not be as nice for visitors but I'm sure many of that faith view it as a mosque first and would like to use it for it's actual purpose of worship rather than a museum.
Fake coup, it was complete planned to be utilized as a way to imprison progressives/liberal leaning people who rejected the religious direction the country was headed.
The EU in general needs to be careful, mass immigration with people who have of ideals that do not match yours can quickly flip the script.
There's a lot of reasons why Turkey isn't a fully secular country (and even arguments as to whether "secularism" is even a sensical concept outside the West/Christianity), but in this case it's not unusual for secular countries to weigh in on the interests of the powerful religious institutions in their countries. The United States has always played handmaiden to the various Evangelical missionary organizations that operate out of here in Asia and Africa, including weighing in on efforts by the target countries to curtail missionaries from fomenting internal political unrest or interfering in their domestic politics. But we still characterize it as a secular country. It's kind of a gray area, states are obligated to protect their citizenry and organizations that operate under them. So they're functionally operating as safeguarding their citizens' interests in the same way we'd say they ought to be involved to protect environmental or labor activists.
They are just like other countries. Muslims make up a good chunk of votes there. It's all ultimately for winning elections. You can see same thing happening in Canada with Sikh community. If something happens in India, Canadian PM will make sure to make a comment to support the Sikh community.
Erdogan will flex his muscles about this for sure. He would have done it regardless, but it certainly gives him more ammunition