The Evolution Deceit The Good News of the Turkish Islamic Union
This book was written in the summer of 2003. It would have been
very difficult to speak about a Turkish Islamic Union 20, 30,
40, or 50 years ago, because neither the world in general nor
the Islamic world in particular fulfilled the necessary criteria
for forming such a union. To the contrary, many conditions would
have prevented it. However, after a series of changes from 1980
onward, the idea of such a union was no longer unrealistic.
Let's examine these changes one by one. Muslims Have Become
Freer The last "Turkish Islamic Union" was the great Ottoman
Empire. Since its collapse, the Islamic world has been divided
into many nation states that remained, some for a prolonged
period of time, under colonial rule. From 1920 onward, most of
the Middle East, North Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and the
Muslims of Southeast Asia came under the rule of European
colonial powers, in particular France and Britain. Muslims of
Central Asia and the Caucas