03-28-2008
Islamist Book Distributed In Mosques Idolizes Erdogan, Insults Ataturk, Anti-Islamists; Stirs Controversy

CHP officials in Denizli have filed a legal complaint about a pro-sharia poetry book written by Fatma Durmus, the wife of a former imam. Thousands of copies of the book are being distributed in mosques - free of charge - and are also delivered to people’s homes. The ‘poetry’ book idolizes PM Erdogan, treats him as a ‘prophet’, or ‘Caliph’, and says that those against him are being against Allah, “those that hurt him hurt Allah”.

The book invites sharia, longs for an Islamist “mujahideen military”, slams ‘infidels’ and condemns secular life style “adopted from Christianity”. The book insults Ataturk and his mother, as well as the Republic and the military, attacks the uncovered women who “show their private body parts”, who are – the book claims - “shameful”, “sinful”, “cheap” and “void of any honor, virtue or faith”.

One of the poems advocates segregation of sexes in education and says that putting girls with boys in same classrooms would result in the filling of the streets with thrown away, unwanted babies.

Ali Kavak, the head of CHP in Denizli, said that the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs [Diyanet] had authorized and encouraged the printing and the distribution of this book. During the rule of the AKP, Denizli has become a center of Islamism.

Source: Vatan, Milliyet, Hurriyet, Cumhuriyet, Turkey, March 27-28, 2008