Various Muslim blogs have published pictures of the reprobate founder of the Turkish republic and his wife, wearing the standard hijab that his followers in modern Turkey want to ban - see Tariq Nelson, Austrolabe, Muslim Matters, which has the most discussion at the moment.
That the wife and mother of "Utter Jerk" wore a hijab won't really convince Turkish secularists, however; Turkish secularism has been a moving target, with the language changing so much that young people now need teaching to learn Atatürk's own speeches, and even material written in the 1950s presents some difficulty. One of the pictures is dated 1923, the year before the Caliphate was officially abolished, so they might well dismiss it as irrelevant.
Yusuf, stop rhyming the word Turk with Jerk, you'll only upset your Turkish readers (like me)!
But seriously, the way Ataturk saw it, it wasn't so much the hijab that he disliked, but more the niqab. Obviously he would rather have got rid of the lot, but the situation was different back then. This was said as much in his biography by Lord Kinross, where emancipation of women meant removing the veil but not necessarily the hijab. I remeber seeing a picture in that book where a Turkish feminist and supporter of Ataturk named Halide Edip, addressed a large gathering wearing the hijab (this was around the time of the war of Turkish independance or maybe afterwards), and that was sort of radical back then seeing as how most women wore the veil.
Yes i can say i am offended by associating Turk eith jerk this just reminds me of all the racist Turk bashing that went on in the newspapers like the Sun when Turkey palyed England at football, if this blog is degrading into using words from trash newspapers i wont be reading it anymore i think an appology should be issued
Another offended Turk. If other Muslims are going to use insulting words against Turks then it seems that an old Turkish saying "The only friend of a Turk is a Turk" is true. Yusuf remove your slander.
Maybe you need to take heed of your own rules.
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