Taylan (Kemalist Turkish Cat) on Nostr: That's probably a fake quote to be honest. He was a strategic mastermind. He wouldn't ...
That's probably a fake quote to be honest.
He was a strategic mastermind. He wouldn't have criticised Islam so openly and crudely, because it would have drawn the ire of the uneducated masses. He needed everyone's support to unite the nation, and the nation was not exactly made up of enlightened individuals.
His actions were clearly anti-Islamic, but he paid Islam some lip service if I'm not mistaken, just so as not to upset the masses.
I can imagine that the quote is how he really felt about it though. There seem to be debates and disputes about its origin:
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/38007/did-ataturk-say-that-islam-is-an-absurd-theology-and-a-rotting-corpse-which-p
He was a strategic mastermind. He wouldn't have criticised Islam so openly and crudely, because it would have drawn the ire of the uneducated masses. He needed everyone's support to unite the nation, and the nation was not exactly made up of enlightened individuals.
His actions were clearly anti-Islamic, but he paid Islam some lip service if I'm not mistaken, just so as not to upset the masses.
I can imagine that the quote is how he really felt about it though. There seem to be debates and disputes about its origin:
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/38007/did-ataturk-say-that-islam-is-an-absurd-theology-and-a-rotting-corpse-which-p