20,000 SECULARISTS PROTEST AKP'S ISMLAMISM IN TURKEY

REUTERS/NYTIMES:

Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in Turkey's capital on Sunday, calling on Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to resign for what they say are violations of the country's secular principles.

About 20,000 people waving red-and-white Turkish flags and carrying banners reading "Secular Turkey will stay secular" walked from the central square of Tandogan to the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Turkish Republic.

Erdogan's opponents have said he wants to make Turkey more overtly Islamic through incremental steps, like failed attempts to end a ban on the Islamic-style headscarf at universities.

The ruling AK Party narrowly escaped a ban last year on charges it was undermining Turkey's secular constitution.

INCREMENTALISM... SOUND FAMILIAR!?

IT SHOULD: THE LEFT WANTS TO MAKE US SOCIALIST THE SAME WAY, ONE STEP AT A TIME.

• WHY DO THE LEFTISTS AND THE JIHADISTS CHOOSE INCREMENTALISM?

• SIMPLE: THE JIHADISTS AND THE LEFTISTS CAN'T RUN AND WIN - OR GOVERN - HONESTLY BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE REJECT THEIR IDEOLOGIES.

• THAT'S WHY BOTH MUST ULTIMATELY AND INEVITABLY RESORT TO COERCION AND VIOLENCE, TOO.

• IN FACT, THE HISTORY OF BOTH JIHADISM AND SOCIALISM IS REPLETE WITH VIOLENCE: THEY ARE THE TWO MOST VIOLENT AND DEADLY IDEOLOGIES IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND.

• ISLAM HAS KILLED TWICE AS MANY AS SOCIALISM - BUT SOCIALISM DID MOST OF ITS GENOCIDE IN JUST ONE CENTURY.

SOCIALISM AND JIHADISM ARE THE TWIN HEADS OF MANKIND'S MOST EVIL INNER DEMONS.

WE MUST FIGHT THEM ACCORDINGLY.