Because religion has always been traditional.
Modern and Traditional does not go together they clash with each other. Ever since the industrial revolution a lot of countries dropped religion in the name of capitalism.
Its always about making money. Nowadays you see the effects. Religion is...
They are under Mullah rule because both of those nations failed in their secularism.
They imposed it by force on a highly religious and traditional country which created a reaction to it.
Ataturk even once said the Afghan king Amatullah will be overthrown because his doing reforms the wrong...
In Turkey you have retarded leftists and liberals who want Diyanet abolished.
If Diyanet gets abolished that means giving power to local imams and mullahs who go by the religion which they preach rather than the mainstream. We see how that turns out when a lot of them become warlords or terrorists.
Honestly I do wish the Shah never went. Im not a fan of the Pahlavi dynasty rather have some Secular Iran than the Secrtarian piece of crap founded by khomeini.
Khomeini is the problem once he tookover Iran his like we are going to carry our Shia Islamic revolution to the world.
The problem is...
Us Turks have our own culture I doubt any iranisation or arabisation will happen.
Nowadays us Turks are at odds with Arabs even with we have cultural exchanges and share the same religion. We are both different in many ways possible. We are also also clashing in our geopolitical interests...
What difference does it make if we are secular or not???
Our enemies hate us will always hate us regardless if we are Muslim or not. Erdogan is diving down more towards Political Islamism because him being anti nationalist, democrat and a moderate has all but failed to appease the West...
Pakistan achieving unity with religion. I gotta say its impressive when us Turks failed to do it hence why we embraced ethnic nationalism.
Ottomans tried many times to unite the Muslims in the empire but it backfired. Because all the ethnic groups in the empire wanted their own country...
Well **** that means I hope Turkey does it independantly then. The long term and sacrifice will pay off.
Even in Australia we have not built a proper defence industry due to our constant buying not to mention we closed our factories.
Look at this China is knocking on our door and we just got...