Project on Middle East Democracy

Project on Middle East Democracy
The POMED Wire


Can Religion and Democracy Go Hand-In-Hand?

June 17th, 2008 by Sarah

George Wittman of the American Spectator discusses the AKP’s legal controversy in Turkey and questions the motivations behind the country’s secular party. “Which is more democratic? Restricting religious costuming in the name of secular-demanded separation of state and religion, or allowing limited emblems of religious cultural belief to exist as a symbol of democratic process?”


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