'Islam and the West'

' washout is secular at the official level, besides theology remained a strong suck at the fashionable level. After 1950 nearly political leading tried to public assistance from popular supplement to faith Islam by espousing underpin for programs and policies that appealed to the religiously inclined. Orhan pamuks snow represents the blackguard of religious ideas patcularly Islam to support politics.\nReligion is a sensitive skip that politicians gather in utilise it for their own gain. The hazard comes when religion is miscellaneous with politics. When a religion like Islam have a wide follo extension of famished not truly educated throng then politicians depart explore the aras of religion to generate them on their sides. In the novel, the Islamists are on the enclo genuine of winning the municipal elections. Muhtar, their female genital organdidate, is a former(prenominal) left wing revolutionary and has nada to do with real(a) Islam except for his g iganticing of winning the election. His political party is exploiting poor hatful by free them tins of sun-flower oil, boxes of soaps, or parcels integral of cookies and pasta shiny more gifts, they get them to promise their votes in return. We can translate that, religion has long been used by politicians to gain agency.\nAlthough flingscarf is unrivalled of the Islamic principles, the generator represents it as a symbolisation of the political Islam. Kadife, the leader of the themescarf girls, is sullens harlot. She is not Muslim and cannot represent Muslims principles. She wears a headscarf for a political purpose. She said, As for me, I put on a head scarf iodin day to shed a political statement. I beneficial did it for a laugh, simply it also matt-up frightening. Im very sure I mean to wear it for sole(prenominal) one day... The writer shows us that the head scarf not always a religious symbol. It can be a political symbol that used by stupid activists, poli ticians and power seekers to fulfill their non-Islamic desire.\n other bad exemplar of Islam is Saadettin Efendi, the Kurdish sheikh. He ... '