munaeem | 25 July, 2007 15:39
via metimes.com:
An editorial in Jordan's Al Rai described Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP as a "secular Islamist" group that was not atheist simply because it was secular, adding that the party believed Turkey had to form part of Europe and the Western alliance.
"Its Islamism doesn't mean its hostility toward everything; it deals with the world based on Turkey's interests," the mass-circulation daily said.
The paper, partially owned by the government, noted that Arab Islamist parties had not launched political dialogue with the AKP to study its "unique experience and the Islamic renaissance movement."
This party, it stressed, was different in that its rhetoric was not as forceful as Iran's, nor was it as bloody as similar groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan; it did not have dealings with Al Qaeda, but was an independent group.
The paper urged Arab Islamist parties to learn from Turkey's Justice Party, and to emulate its objectives and plans, without having to seek support from Iran.
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