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Reading current News and recalling News from the early 00s , I get the distinct impression that Kuridsh identity is the major issue for Kurds.
He (Erdogan) gave them some carrots to win their votes and ascend to power. His quote from many years ago on Democrasy being a train , shows his true colors. Now that he is in power, he doesn't need to give the Kurds as big a carrot . You can't deny that there has been a huge falling out between him and the Kurds. At the end of the day how is Turkish Pan-Islamism going to reconcile itself with Kurdish identity. Islamism sees no borders and eshews ethnic nationalism (in theory atleast). Do you think he is really going to allow the Kurds to attain more power and autonomy over their affairs? Erdogan is nostalgic for the Ottoman empire days, so how is he going to go along with Kurdish aspirations since Kurdish self-identity will clash with Turkish hegemony.
Yes Pak is run by the security appratus but the day to day life where minorities are kidnapped by Muslims and where they are accused of blasphemy is under the jurisdiction of the civilian government that is officially running the country. I am not saying the Military is opposed to Sunni extremist groups and Islamism, because it was Zia after all who really started down the path of Islamist chavinist thinking. What I am saying is that even the civilian government supports it or is indifferent. So be it Military dictatorship or Civilian, it doesn't matter. A military dictatorship that genuinely wants to protect minorities can do a better job of it than a civilian government.
Yes Sisi has killed more than Mursi but Sisi has moved against the Jihadis too . Mursi's tyranny would have been disenfranchising Copts steadly through laws and turning a blind eye to Muslim thugs bullying them. With Sisi, as long as you don't cross him, he will keep the lid on Islamists.
Pakistan is insane in so many ways.
Officially for instance being stoned to death is not a practiced form of capital punishment (despite it being in law by the books) by the 'Federal' government but yet it happens quite often in this 'civilian' government jurisdictions. In which case very often someone is friends or knows someone who knows someone who is in the security services.
Some crazy stuff goes on in these extrajudicial cases.
Belief in a theistic god is blind faith . Theory of Evolution isn't blind faith.
When it has been shown that Creationism is bunk and by extension a good deal of theistic religions, some supporters of said religions move the goal-posts to now claim God directed evolution.
Belief in God may be viewed as 'blind faith' I can acknowledge it certainly is a leap of faith.
However, the case that evolution and God can go together is not at all false.
So I don't see the issue there all you are doing is combining facts with a leap of faith (in God).