Urdu,Hindi,and Sanskrit

[Aditya, the Cheerful Hindu Skeptic]

Stephen Hodge <s.hodge at PADMACHOLING.FREESERVE.CO.UK> has written as follows:

>Sorry, I perhaps I did not express myself well enough.   What happened
>under Ataturk was a very harsh and destructive repression of religious
>beliefs and practices.

This seems to be your personal opinion in your attempt to discredit Kamal
Pasha's legacy which I do not share.

>speaking, illegal at least until the 80s.  According to my Turkish
>Sufi friends, there was virtually a blanket ban on all Sufi texts

I suspect that they are really fundamentalist Islamists  masquerading as
sufis since Turkey is even to this  day is the only secular country whose
population is predominantly muslim.

There were many such Islamists during his time in India who launched a
misguided movement called Khilafat. The word "Khilaf" was deliberately
misused since it means "opposition" and has nothing to do with Caliph or
Khalifa. Even Mahatma Gandhi was duped into supporting this movement which
ultimately led to a demand for separate country and resulted in the
formation of Pakistan.

Have a peaceful and joyous day.
Aditya Mishra
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