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The West’s traditional Islamophobia has come out of hiding. A younger Western generation in the West is much more hard-lining on secularism and hence nurtures a different concept of democracy. But justified as we are in being furious at the West, we also have to be realistic. At the end of the day, Turkey is still part of the “Western alliance.”

An openly pro-coup German daily has published an article describing contemporary Turkey as “a tumor within the West.” Meanwhile, Turkey itself is trying to excise the real tumor nestling within so as to bolster its own resistance.

15th July was the Gulenist junta’s attempt to take Turkish society prisoner as a whole. And society for its part also resisted this treasonous attempt as a whole. All political parties and the entire media aligned themselves with the government against the coup. Not a single group applauded the putschists. Not a single social group greeted them with open arms.

A real possibility has finally arisen of reaching some kind of consensus over changing the system so as to get rid of military tutelage. At the very least, there are some indications in that regard. As for those who think they are in some kind of “theatre,” it wouldn’t be too bad if they too were to come down from their imaginary “stage,” and to leave their pride behind in joining the people.

In brief, as against democratically elected leaders or governments that at the same time happen to be religious or who have religious sensitivities, these Western actors prefer to throw in their support behind all kinds of military coups and dictatorships on condition that they are modern and secularist. Compared with the faithful trying their hand at democracy, they see the protection and imposition of a Western lifestyle by military dictatorships as the lesser evil. They deem Muslims intrinsically unfit for democracy, and they outsource the mission of training and educating them to modern, secularist military juntas or dictators.