Divisive Leader Quotes

Kennedy although sharing some of the pro-Nazi sentiments of Coughlin was one of the first political leaders to recognize Coughlin as a danger. He was one of those instrumental in convincing the Vatican to shut down the priest’s political activities.

He was referring to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, teh President of Turkey, While had had a number of very good and successful policies, as he served in the role, he became les and less democratic until at the time of this quotation, many of the dictatorial practices common in most of he Middle Eastern nations were also operational in Turkey. At the same time Erdogan becan rolling back the nation's comittment to being a secular state, implmented of Kalal Attaturk, thich allowed Turkey to develop much mor-so than any other Muslim majority state in the world. The religious, uneducated, and rural people loved him, while the educated, secular and urban population feard Turkey was regressing to the Islamic domination that had kept all the other Muslim Nations backward while Turkey had after its secular revolution European style modernization joined the modern successful nations with a strong, developed economy, an excellent educational system, very competent in science and Engineering, a modern health system.