In Turkey, the "moderate Islamist" AKP (Justice and Development Party) government of President Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for nearly twenty years and worked assiduously to cultivate a new “pious generation.” Yet a report by a local branch Turkey’s Ministry of Education recently warned of a “spread of deism among the youth” even in state sponsored religious schools.[1] (Akyol does not include Erdogan or his AKP party in any post-Islamist configuration.)