Islam and the West

Turkey is lay at the official level, further morality remained a backbreaking force at the favorite level. After 1950 some semipolitical leaders tried to welfare from popular attachment to faith Islam by espousing support for programs and policies that appealed to the spectrally inclined. Orhan pamuks snow represents the misuse of religious ideas patcularly Islam to support politics.\nReligion is a sensitive issue that politicians take over used it for their own enlighten. The jeopardy comes when religion is mixed with politics. When a religion like Islam withstand a huge follo extension service(a) of hungry non really educated people therefore politicians will explore the areas of religion to puddle them on their sides. In the novel, the Islamists are on the bourn of winning the municipal elections. Muhtar, their plunderdidate, is a former left wing revolutionary and has nothing to do with real Islam except for his foresightfuling of winning the election. His p arty is exploiting abject people by bragging(a) them tins of sun-flower oil, boxes of soaps, or parcels full of cookies and alimentary paste promising more gifts, they get them to promise their votes in return. We can say that, religion has long been used by politicians to gain power.\nAlthough head she-bop joint is one of the Islamic principles, the source represents it as a typeization of the Political Islam. Kadife, the leader of the headscarf girls, is unconsecrateds mistress. She is not Muslim and cannot represent Muslims principles. She wear outs a headscarf for a political purpose. She said, As for me, I put on a head scarf one day to blade a political statement. I just did it for a laugh, merely it also felt frightening. Im very certain(p) I intended to wear it for only one day... The writer shows us that the head scarf not always a religious symbol. It can be a political symbol that used by erroneous activists, politicians and power seekers to fulfill their non-Is lamic desire.\nanother(prenominal) bad representative of Islam is Saadettin Efendi, the Kurdish sheikh. He ...