"....Mr. Hewitt writes that my arguments of last week were wrong, citing 'functioning democracies in Turkey and other predominantly Islamic countries' as evidence of Islamo-Western compatibility. He throws in the loyal host ('millions of loyal British and American citizens') for good measure. Problem is, the extent to which Turkey — where, just incidentally, 'Mein Kampf' was a top 10 bestseller this spring — has ever functioned as a democracy is directly related to the efforts of a strong man, Ataturk, to constrain Islam's grip on the country's institutions, replacing religion with a doctrine of Turkish racial and civilizational supremacy...."
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