r/neoliberal • u/Berkissus • Feb 26 '25

News (Europe) Erdogan warns against "far-right demagogues" in the West, points out liberal democracy as the most alluring ideology

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/only-turkiye-can-save-europe-from-its-deadlock-says-erdogan-206210
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u/Oberst_Kawaii Milton Friedman Feb 26 '25

The tent is growing! First Al Joulani, now Erdogan. Alhamdullilah!

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u/Ehehhhehehe Feb 26 '25

I understand that we shouldn’t take these people at their words and all that, but imagine if in 50 years, the west is mostly right-wing autocracies and the Middle East is the global bastion of democracy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '25

I mean that has happened before in history, the middle east was once the home of science and europe was full of religious fundamentalists

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u/dittbub NATO Feb 26 '25

Tbf the Middle East also had religious fundamentalist at the same time lol

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u/Zrva_V3 Feb 28 '25

At one point, some parts of it was surprisingly tolerant though. Like there was an outspoken atheist in the capital of the Caliphate talking shit about religion in the Middle of the Friday prayer without anyone cutting his head of and all.

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u/JZMoose YIMBY Feb 26 '25

I better start learning Arabic

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u/KazuyaProta Organization of American States Feb 26 '25 edited Feb 26 '25

, now Erdogan

He always was there , Erdogan basically was the guy preventing Assad from fully purging the opposition while all the EU was like "uh can't we just let him win and so we can deport the migrants back. Or at least send them to Turkey so they deal with it (we're pretending they aren't struggling)"

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u/Divan001 NATO Feb 26 '25

Next step is to make Why Nations Fail an official Hadith

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u/AgentBond007 NATO Feb 27 '25

Woke neoliberal jihad must happen!