Muslims Cannot be Secular

“You cannot be both secular and a Muslim! You will either be a Muslim, or secular! . . . It is not possible for a person who says ‘I am a Muslim’ to go on and say ‘I am secular too.’ And why is that? Because Allah, the creator of the Muslim, has absolute power and rule!”

– Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey

Thanks to Ataturk, Turkey is a secular Muslim country, but Erdoğan and the AKP party are slowly breaking away from secularism and moving towards an Islamic state.