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Voltaire2

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33. You do not see any connection?

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #29)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 05:51 PM

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Muslim Influence is Declining in Turkey [View all] trotsky Feb 2019 OP

I love Turkey, where you can see topless Europeans and comradebillyboy Feb 2019 #1

It doesn't take all that many fundamentalists to inject fundamentalism into public policy Major Nikon Feb 2019 #2

Thanks to the support and cover they get from the religious moderates... trotsky Feb 2019 #3

That and not enough others calling bullshit Major Nikon Feb 2019 #4

And yet, look what the Christian Right has been able to do here, MineralMan Feb 2019 #5

Good to see that theists are becomg more tolerant. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #6

Increased secularism will have that effect. n/t trotsky Feb 2019 #7

Except in China. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #9

#Whataboutism trotsky Feb 2019 #10

Stay on topic? guillaumeb Feb 2019 #11

Judging and dispensing eye-for-an-eye justice. trotsky Feb 2019 #12

I did not force you to post there. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #13

So it's OK what I posted, then? trotsky Feb 2019 #23

Actually in Turkey theists have become less tolerant. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #14

Clearly that is exactly what you read. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #15

You do know that Edrogan is the head of Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #16

And you do know that: guillaumeb Feb 2019 #18

Yes sure whatever. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #20

Yes, the 2% decline. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #22

So in summary the Turkish state is sliding Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #26

Yes. That's what's happening. MineralMan Feb 2019 #27

We are addressing 2 issues. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #29

You do not see any connection? Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #33

Apparently not. MineralMan Feb 2019 #34

Color you decisively refuted by the article. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #39

Not so. MineralMan Feb 2019 #40

Do you see Erdogan as the conservative pushback? guillaumeb Feb 2019 #38

No it shows the number of conservative Muslims is lower. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #41

By a miniscule fraction. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #44

No poll can demonstrate that. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #43

Been to Turkey, have you? MineralMan Feb 2019 #17

Marvelous. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #19

Wow. trotsky Feb 2019 #24

Unintended irony at its best. eom guillaumeb Feb 2019 #30

You awesome Christian, you. trotsky Feb 2019 #31

...metaphorically Major Nikon Feb 2019 #35

I strongly suspect that you meant this.... guillaumeb Feb 2019 #36

No, really. trotsky Feb 2019 #42

And, speaking of the firm doing the survey, guillaumeb Feb 2019 #21

Free time while serving at that base in Turkey was easy to come by. MineralMan Feb 2019 #25

So your quarrel with the survey is based on nothing? guillaumeb Feb 2019 #28

And yours is based on a single article. MineralMan Feb 2019 #32

An article that contradicted your claim. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #37

Thank Gawd! 😉 Duppers Feb 2019 #8