Tag: ATATURK

Asia Current Affairs Europe Featured Opinion Politics Turkey 13 Min Read

Turkey Votes to Redraw History

The new system will “make Turkey stronger and more stable. This is what frightens Europe.”

Education Featured History Opinion Propagation 11 Min Read

The Teaching Revolution

92 years have passed since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Modern day Turkey. In a very short space of time Kamal Atatürk, the founding father of modern Turkey, was able to secularise an entire nation. Central to his policies was a drive to so-called ‘modernisation’

Featured History Propagation 15 Min Read

Secularism: the Caliphate’s Final Blow

Throughout history the disease of nationalism is a consistent cause of the downfall of nations. In a startling display of this Abū Jahl cited that his aversion to becoming a Muslim, despite knowing that the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) was indeed a Prophet, was tribal competitiveness. He says:

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