Destruktive Narrative

“Khomeini, in his sermons and writing both before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, spoke with great anger of the inevitable immorality that, he said, would result from women teaching adolescent boys.

Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, took exactly the opposite view. In a series of speeches delivered in the early twenties, he argued eloquently for the full emancipation of women in the Turkish state and society. … We shall not catch up with the modern world if we only modernize half the population.”

Lewis, What went wrong, 2010, S. 72

Heute steuert Erdogan zurück ins Mittelalter.

Foto: Lewis, S. 68