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The little guy with the mustache did not use religion. 
And there was another mustached guy, which surpassed the little mustached guy, and he is now followed by another little guy, no mustache - that same guy is who Erdogan has aligned  with, and  has certainly emboldened his political play.
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But those  guys are not from the West, so it does not suite your anti-Western frame of mind  to use them as an example.
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Regarding your other post - the anti-Muslim sentiment in India (which has is the largest Muslim population in the world), don't hide behind years past (1947) - you know better than most posters here what happened (under the watch of the current Indian PM, no less) in 2002.

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