Re: Another political question re: Tuffleverse

Laserlight Wrote:

> > >Not necessarily, since it depends on how the takeover was
>accomplished
> > >and what's happened in the meantime.  Even hostilities 100 years
>ago
> > >doesn't mean they can't be allied today.
> >
> > It does if the IF is still rabidly Islamic and the TR is still
>staunchly
> > secularist (As I intend it to be).
>
>It's hard to imagine Turkey being less Islamic than, say, France, yet
>the IF and FSE get along quite well.
>

That's because France isn't Islamic.  On the other hand, Turkey is 
predominantly muslim, but they are firm in retaining a secular state. 
If 
the IF is staunchly muslim enough to even remotely resemble a theocracy,

there would probably be hard feelings towards a group that refuses to
mix 
Mosque and State - just as in modern times, there ARE hard-line muslims
who 
have a real problem with Turkey, and there are manyu secularist Truks
who 
disdain much of the politics and even some customs of more conservative 
muslims.

Brian B2

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis
is 
of no use."

				 - S. Freud

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