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The Colonial roots of Hating on Muslims, & of Muslim Nationa
lism
By: guest5 Date: October 26, 2020, 9:28 pm
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The Colonial roots of Hating on Muslims, & of Muslim Nationalism
[quote]The presence of growing Muslim populations in Europe at
the same time as the rise of political Islam and the inception
of Israel, was largely a legacy of twentieth century colonial
history.[/quote]
HTML https://www.juancole.com/2015/10/colonial-muslims-nationalism.html
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Re: Turanian diffusion
By: antihellenistic Date: February 20, 2024, 4:12 am
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Western Civilization has its root on Mongolians?
[quote]The institution of the Turkish Ojaks has been the most
effective channel of spreading Kemalist ideology to the
population. It was founded in 1912 with the fourfold mission:
‘to reinforce the ethnic conscience among the Turks; to elevate
their social and intellectual level; to purify their language;
to increasing their economic prosperity’. Rechid
Safvet,Footnote28 in his lecture on 7 June 1929 to the Turanian
Society of Budapest,Footnote29 noted that with Kemal Ataturk,
Turks had passed to the third and last period in the three
required stages of national formation. According to Safvet,
The Turks had always and profoundly the consciousness and the
pride of their origins, their ascendances, so much that there
was almost no leader among them that has stood with honour to
trace back their ancestors to Altai, the birthplace of the white
race itself.Footnote30
After establishing the Turkish ‘race’ as a ‘white’ race, the
Ojaks claimed that in ‘11th century BC the word “turk” was
synonymous with “noble” and “superior” at central
Asia’.Footnote31 They stated that even the great Genghis Khan
had proudly referred to his Turkish ancestry. The Ojaks traced
the consciousness of nationality itself, in the sense that the
French Revolution gave, and in which it was understood later in
the rest of Europe, this conscience was awakened for the first
time in Turkey at the beginning of the 19th century. The
ideology of Turkish Hearths had been heavily influenced by the
work of Ziya Gokalp. It was him who made the ancient claim for
the land and the affinity toward Western civilization. In
Gokalp’s understanding, Western civilization was portrayed as a
continuation of the ancient Mediterranean civilization.
According to Gokalp, the ‘ancient Turks were among the earliest
founders of that Mediterranean civilization’ and it was only
‘after attacks that they were forced to move to Far East only
temporarily’.Footnote32 Likewise, the Turkish Hearths propagated
the world view that the Turkish nation laid the foundation of
the Pelasgian, Etruscan, Chaldean, Egyptian and Chinese
civilizations.Footnote33 Furthermore, it was also proclaimed
that the Turkish language was one of the first languages spoken
widely in the world, possessed all the elements of a language
that is truly flexible and modern.Footnote34 All these
outrageous claims on race were based on Gokalp’s work and
systematically promulgated to the Turkish population through the
numerous activities and publications of the Turkish Hearths. In
1930, Turkish Ojaks had 257 departments throughout the Republic
with 32,000 members. The Turkish Hearths through their
publications and their social and cultural activities played a
crucial role for the implementation of the Kemalist cultural
policies.
Ziya Gokalp classified the Turkish ‘race’ as the ‘Altai’. He was
convinced that future comparative studies on civilization would
‘show the nature of the relation of the Turks to the groups
called “Altai” or “Mongolian race”’. Gokalp asserted that:
to classify Turks who are fairer and more handsome than Aryans
with the ‘yellow race’ has no scientific foundation, as the
supposition of a linguistic unity among the ethnic groups,
usually called the ‘Altai race’, is far from being proven. It is
very probable that all of these groups all belonging to the Far
Eastern civilisation. If this is so, our only affinity with
Finno-Ugrians, Tunguz, and the Mongols consists of a common
sharing of the same civilisation of our domination over them for
a long period. It is quite possible that through such an
association certain similarities in language have taken
place.Footnote35
A decade later the research conducted under the auspices of the
Turkish Historical Society provided pseudo-scientific coverage
for these claims.[/quote]
Source :
Ilia Xypolia (2016) Racist Aspects of Modern Turkish
Nationalism, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 18:2,
111-124, DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2016.1141580
HTML https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141580
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Re: Re: Turanian diffusion
By: antihellenistic Date: February 20, 2024, 4:57 am
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Western Civilization has its root on Mongolians? (Part 2)
[quote]High-school teachers as well as the professors of the
Darülfünun, the successor of the imperial university, were in
attendance, as were some members of parliament. The Congress of
History provides a preview to some of the ideas core to the
Atatürk regime’s looming overhaul of the imperial university, to
make it more friendly with the scientific whiteness campaign.
The restricting of the university also meant firing a large
number of professors and hiring German scholars fleeing Nazi
persecution.
In his opening speech, the minister of education listed two
goals for the conference: learning the roots of Turkish
civilisation and correcting Western misrepresentations of the
Turks. He made a sweeping claim for the influence of Turks on
the history of world civilisations:
Turks … established the essences of Chinese and Indian
civilisations in Asia, Hittite civilisation in their blessed
land Anatolia, Sumerian and Elamite civilisations in
Mesopotamia, and finally Egyptian, Mediterranean, and Roman
civilisations. They saved Europe, whose high civilisation we
value and follow today, from cave life in those days.
Next on the stage was İnan, who emphasised Turks’
whiteness:
The obvious characteristic of this Central Asian race is
brachycephalic; its corporeal formation, despite fabricated
legends, is proportional; and its skin has no relationship with
the colour of yellow; it is mainly and generally white.[/quote]
Source :
Murat Ergin. (2019, April 3). The fantastic science of Turkey’s
whiteness campaign | Aeon Essays. Aeon; Aeon Magazine.
HTML https://aeon.co/essays/the-fantastic-science-of-turkeys-whiteness-campaign
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