ELECTING ALLAH By Ralph Peters

The results of last week’s elections in Turkey should be deeply troubling to America and all those in the secular West who were counting on a successful resistance of the expansion of Islamic extremism there. Cox & Forkum’s new cartoon illustrates this very serious rising new threat.

THE bad news is that democracy works. In free and fair elections, the Turkish peo ple voted overwhelmingly to deepen the majority status of a religion-based party that's modern on the outside and medieval within.

In Sunday's vote, 47 percent of the ballots went to the Justice And Development Party (AKP). In Turkey's multi-player parliamentary system, that's a landslide. The Islamist-in-a-necktie AKP still doesn't have enough votes to break the secular Constitution - which it intends to do - but it believes it has a mandate to hack away at the legacy of Kemal Ataturk.

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