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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Founding Father of the Turkish Republic, a Muslim or an atheist?
9 Answers
- ?Lv 75 years ago
According to Muslims he is Muslim. He doesn't have a choice because of who his father was.
Regardless, he helped enable the most destructive religion on the face of the planet to continue operations and grow.
That's enough for me.
- 7 years ago
He's an atheist. Isn't it obvious?
"Or nearly five hundred years, these rules and theories [regarding civil and criminal law] of an Arab Shaikh and the interpretations 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. This theology of an immoral Arab [presented as Islam] 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 weaklings. No weaklings should rule!"
- AgProvLv 67 years ago
he gives the lie to the evangelic Christian myth that all Islam is evil and no Islamic country can be a Westernised democracy. Turkey is the welcome example of a nation where the people are 98% Islamic but the form of government, legal system, constitution, educational institutions, et c, are secular. It proves it can be done!
- WiseCrackLv 77 years ago
It is because of his non belief that he raised the standard of Turkey to the point they want to be a part of Europe now rather then Asia.
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- Anonymous7 years ago
I think he was in n The Lion King
- Anonymous7 years ago
Some sources say atheist, some sources say agnostic, and most say Muslim. But...
- Anonymous7 years ago
He admired Hitler too