Atatrk Destroys Islam
No sooner had he assumed power than he made bold to declare that he would destroy every
vestige of Islam in the life of the Turkish nation. Only when the authority of Islam was
utterly eliminated could Turkey "progress" into a respected, modern nation . He made
speech after public speech, fearlessly and brazenly attacking Islam and all Islam stands for:
For nearly five hundred years, these rules and theories of an Arab Shaikh
and theinterpretations of generations of lazy and good-for-nothing priests
have decided the civil and criminal law of Turkey. They have decided the
form of the Constitution, the details of the lives of each Turk, his food, his
hours of rising and sleeping the shape of his clothes, the routine of the
midwife who produced his children, what he learned in his schools, his
customs, his thoughts-even his most intimate habits. Islam - this theology
of an immoral Arab - is a dead thing. Possibly it might have suited tribes in
the desert. It is no good for modern, progressive state. God's revelation!
There is no God! These are only the chains by which the priests and bad
rulers bound the people down. A ruler who needs religion is a weakling. No weaklings should rule! [SIZE=-2][3][/SIZE]
When Abdul Majid was elected as Caliphate, Mustafa Kemal Pasha refused to allow the full
traditional ceremony to be performed. When the Assembly met to discuss the matter,
Mustafa Kemal cut the debate short: "The Khalifa has no power or position except as a
nominal figurehead." When Abdul Majid wrote a petition for an increase in his allowance,
Mustafa Kemal replied thus:
The Khalifate, your office is no more than an historical relic. It has no justification forexistence. It is a piece of impertinence that you should dare
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On March 3, 1924, Mustafa Kemal presented a Bill to the Assembly to oust the Caliphate
permanently and establish the Turkish nation as a purely secular state. However, before this
Bill was even introduced and made known, he had prudently made certain to muzzle all
opposition by declaring it a capital offence to criticize anything he did:
At all costs, the Republic must be maintained...The Ottoman Empire was
a crazy structure based upon broken religious foundations. The Khalifa and
the remains of the House of Usman must go. The antiquated religious courts
and codes must be replaced by modern scientific civil law. The schools of the priests must give way to secular Government schools. State and religion must
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Consequently, the Bill was passed without debate and the former Khalifa and his family exiled to Switzerland. The new regime then enacted the following:
The preamble of the new (Turkish) Constitution speaks of full dedication to
the reforms of Atatrk and Article 153 prohibits any retrogression from these reforms. It said:
No provision of this Constitution shall be construed or interpreted as
rendering unconstitutional the following reform laws which aim at raising
Turkish society to the level of contemporary civilization and at safeguarding
the secular character of the republic which were in effect on the date this constitution was adopted by popular vote:
1. The law of the unification (and secularization) of education of March 3,
1924
2. The Hat Law of November 25, 1925
3. The law on the closing down of dervish convents and mausoleums and the abolition of the office of keepers of tombs and the law on the abolition and prohibition of certain titles of November 30, 1925
4. The conduct of the act of (civil) marriage of February 17, 1926
5. The law concerning the adoption of international numerals of May 20,
1928
6. The law concerning the adoption and application, of (the Latin letters for)
the Turkish alphabet (and the banning of the Arabic script) of November 1,
1928
7. The law on the abolition of titles and appellations such as Efendi, Bey or
Pasha, of November 26, 1934
8. The law concerning the prohibition against the wearing of (indigenous) garments ofDecember 3, 1934
Complete denial of Ataturkism remains impossible and inconceivable. It is impossible because the Constitution prohibits it and inconceivable because old and young have accepted many of the consequences of the reforms and Westernization retains its popular magic as the promise for a richer life. [SIZE=-2][6][/SIZE]
During the period these reforms were being enforced, Mustafa Kemal Pasha married a
beautiful, European-educated lady named Latifa, who, during the struggle for Turkey's
independence, was encouraged by him to dress like a man and demand for women absolute
equality. But the moment she grew self-assertive and insisted upon being treated as a
respectable wife instead of trampled upon like a doormat in his unfaithfulness, he furiously
divorced her, and sent her away. The irony was that earlier, Kemal was responsible for
annulling the Islamic form of divorce, and yet he pronounced the talaaq when he divorced
his wife. A few months after his divorce, the anullment of the Islamic divorce was lifted.
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After his divorce from Latifa, his shamelessness knew no limits. He drank so heavily that he
became a drunkard and a confirmed alcoholic. Venereal disease wrecked his health.
Handsome young boys became objects of his lust and so aggressive was his behaviour
toward the wives and daughters of his political supporters that they began sending their
womenfolk as far as possible out of his reach.
Indeed, a close associate of Atatrk, Riza Nur, observed that:
Our respected leader has one habit. He loves women. He has to change them rapidly. He must be the chief court-taster.[SIZE=-2][8][/SIZE]
In describing his character, H. C. Armstrong writes:
Mustafa Kemal Pasha had always been a lone man, a solitary, playing a lone hand. He had trusted no one. He would not listen to opinions that were contrary to his own. He would insult anyone who dared to disagree with him. He judged all actions by the meanest motives of self-interest. He was insanely jealous. A clever or capable man was a danger to be got rid of. He was bitterly critical of any other man's ability. He took a savage pleasure in tearing up the characters and sneering at the actions even of those who supported him. He rarely said a kind or generous thing and then only with a qualification that was a sneer. He confided in no one. He had no intimates. His friends were the evil little men who drank with him, pandered to his pleasures and fed his vanity. All the men of value, the men who had stood beside him in the black days of the War for Liberation were against him.[SIZE=+1][/SIZE]
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And since no dictator can tolerate any rivals, Mustafa Kemal Pasha lost no opportunity in
crushing all political opposition.
The secret police did their work. By torture, bastinado, by any means they liked, the police had to get enough evidence to incriminate the opposition leaders who were all arrested. A Tribunal of Independence was nominated to try them. Without bothering about procedure or evidence, the court sentenced them to be hanged. The death warrants were sent to Mustafa Kemal for his signature in his house at Khan Kaya.
Among the death warrants was one for Arif who, after a quarrel with Mustafa Kemal, had joined the opposition. Arif, his one friend, who had stood loyal beside him throughout all the black days of the War for Independence - the only man to whom he had opened his heart and shown himself intimately. One who was there reported that when he came to this warrant the Ghazi's gray mask of a face never changed; he made no remark; he did not hesitate. He was smoking. He laid the cigarette across the edge of the ash-tray, signed the death warrant of Arif as if it had been some ordinary routine paper and passed on to the next.... He would do the thing properly. He would give a ball at Khan Kaya that night also. Every one must come--the judges, the Cabinet, the Ambassadors, the Foreign Ministers, all the notables, all the beautiful ladies. All Ankara must celebrate.. .. The dance began quietly.
Dressed in immaculate evening dress cut for him by a London tailor, the Ghazi stood talking in a corner to a diplomat. The guests moved cautiously watching him. Until he showed his mood, they must step delicately and talk in subdued tones; very dangerous to be merry if he happened to be morose. But the Ghazi was in the best of spirits. This was to be no staid state function. It was to be a night of rollicking fun. "We must be gay! We must live, be alive!", he shouted as he caught hold of a strange woman and foxtrotted on to the dance floor with her. The guests one and all followed him. They danced - if they did not, the Ghazi made them. The Ghazi was at his best, tearing his partners around at a great pace and giving them drinks in between the dance...
Four miles away in Ankara the great square was lit up with the white light of a dozen arc-lamps. Round it and into the streets had collected a vast crowd. Under the arclamps below the stone walls of the prison, stood eleven giant triangles of wood. Under each was a man, his hands pinioned behind him and a noose around his neck-the political opponents of Mustafa Kemal about to die. In the great silence each of the condemned men spoke in turn to the people. One recited a poem, another said a prayer and still another cried out that he was a loyal son of Turkey...
At Khan Kaya most of the guests had gone. The rooms were stale with the stench of tobacco smoke, of spilt liquor and the foul breaths of the intoxicated. The floors were littered with cigarette butts and the tables strewn with cards and money. Mustafa Kemal walked across the room and looked out of a window. His face was set and gray; the pale eyes expressionless; he showed no signs of fatigue, his evening clothes as immaculate as ever. The Commissioner of Police had reported that the executions were finished. The bodies below the triangles had ceased to twitch. At last he was supreme. His enemies were banished, broken or dead. [SIZE=-2][10][/SIZE]
Meanwhile the rumble of opposition from the Turkish people became a roar. The volcano
finally erupted in 1926 when the Kurdish tribes in the mountains staged an open revolt
against the Kemalist regime and all that it stood for. Mustafa Kemal lost no time in taking
action. Ruthlessly all Turkish Kurdistan was laid to waste; villages were burned, animals
and crops destroyed, women and children raped and murdered. Forty-six of the Kurdish
chiefs were sentenced to be publicly hanged. The last to die was Shaikh Said, the leader. He
turned to the executioner and said: "I have no hatred for you. You and your master, Mustafa
Kemal, are hateful to God! We shall settle our account before God on the Day of
Judgment!"
Mustafa Kemal was now absolute Dictator. The Turkish people accepted such anti-Islamic
reforms as the banning of the fez and turban, compulsory wearing of Western clothing, the
Latin alphabet, the Christian calendar and Sunday as legal holiday, only at a dagger's point.
Thousands of ulema and those who sympathized with them sacrificed their lives rather than
submit to the destruction of all they held sacred. Nothing can be further from the truth than
the delusion that the Turkish people wanted any of this.
The intensity of resistance can be imagined from the fact that Atatrk imposed martial law
nine times. So despised is this Dictator by millions of Turks, particularly in the villages and
small towns, that the mere mention of his name is cursed. In 1932 Mustafa Kemal decreed
that every Turk must adopt a family name as it is customary in Europe and America. He
chose for himself Atatrk which means "The Father of the Turks". Six years later, his health
completely ruined, he died of cirrhosis of the liver which is caused by alcoholism.
The category "psychopathic personality" has been called the wastebasket of psychiatry.
Into it are dumped all those men who are not psychotic, not psychoneurotic, not feeble minded-yet there is something very much wrong with them.. ..The psychopath is not psychotic, not "insane." He knows where he is and who he is and what time it is; he dwells in our world, not the fantasy world of psychosis. But the psychopathic syndrome engulfs his whole personality as much as psychosis. The psychopath is not deficient in intelligence. Indeed he may be of above-average intelligence. It is his emotions that are out of kilter, his moral development, his "character." He is cold, remote, unreachable, indifferent to the plight of others, even hostile. He "knows" intellectually the consequences of his criminal acts to himself and to his victims but he is unable to "feel" these consequences emotionally and so he does not refrain from them. He never feels remorse or shame. If he is a murderer captured, he is never sorry that he killed but only that he got caught. He is the hired killer for the mob; for him to kill is nothing. He rejects society. He rejects any obligation to it....He is in perpetual rebellion. He cannot form permanent emotional ties to anyone. His sex life is random, chancy, for what he wants is sexual satisfaction and the partner matters not....No reliable statistics exist on the number of psychopaths incarcerated but nobody doubts that among them are the most dangerous humans alive. That is why the prisons are filled with them.[SIZE=-2][11][/SIZE]
Word for word, this is an accurate description of the personality and character of Mustafa
Kemal Atatrk; the only difference is that instead of being recognized for what he was, as
absolute Dictator, nothing could inhibit him from committing his crimes on a national scale.
None welcomed the dictatorship of Kemal Atatrk more than the intellectuals and
politicians in America. The Jews among them accorded him the most enthusiastic praise of
all. How the traditions of political freedom and democracy America claims to champion can
be reconciled with the atrocities committed under this Dictatorship is an unsolved mystery
until the reader understands that the democratic West regards these human rights strictly for
home-consumption. Under no circumstances can they be exported to any Muslim land.
Official publications from the American Information Service did not hesitate to support such
authoritarian regimes so long as they were not openly affiliated with the Communist bloc.
Dictatorship, according to this view, is justified if it effectively implements the
modernization of the country. The peoples of these "under-developed" places are too
backward, tradition-bound, ignorant and illiterate to be allowed to choose their fate. Only
the all-wise Government can decide what is best for them. Westernization is the supreme
virtue and no sacrifice of moral scruples is too great to attain this end. Therefore any means,
including the most ruthless tyranny, is sanctioned with the full blessings of America and the
other Western democracies if it accelerates the disintegration of the Islamic way of life.
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Conclusions[/SIZE]
The fact that Kemal Atatrk laknatullah alaih was a despot and dictator cannot be denied. It
was his cruelty and sadistic treatment of Muslims that makes him stand out as one of the
worst enemies of God. The above was only what was reported and recorded by mostly
Western observers. The extent of what actually went on in the new Turkey by the direct
policy of Kemal was heinous, to say the least. He was truly an enemy of God to the core.
And only God knows best.
