Page 339 - A Call for a Turkish-Islamic Union

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

his book was written in the summer of 2003. It
would have been very difficult to speak about a

T Turkish Islamic Union 20, 30, 40, or 50 years ago,
because neither the world in general nor the Islamic world
in particular fulfilled the necessary criteria for forming
such a union. To the contrary, many conditions would
have prevented it. However, after a series of changes from
1980 onward, the idea of such a union was no longer un-

realistic. Let's examine these changes one by one.

Muslims Have Become Freer
Muslims Have Become Freer
The last "Turkish Islamic Union" was the great

Ottoman Empire. Since its collapse, the Islamic world has
been divided into many nation states that remained, some
for a prolonged period of time, under colonial rule. From
1920 onward, most of the Middle East, North Africa, the

Indian Subcontinent, and the Muslims of Southeast Asia
came under the rule of European colonial powers, in par-
ticular France and Britain. Muslims of Central Asia and the
Caucasus first fell under the rule of the Russians and later
on, and even worse, the Soviets. The Balkan Muslims came
under the rule of such non-Muslim people as the Serbs and

Croatians, whose rulers, after the Second World War, ac-
cepted communism.
In short, the majority of Muslims lived under colonial
rule. With the end of colonialism in the 1950s and 1960s,