Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Foreign influence taking over Bosnia and Herzegovina?" video.

Another example of Turkey empire building. It looks like Saudi Arabia and Turkey are in a soft power struggle.
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Fahad ibn Iqbal it is an aggressive, fundamentalist, fascist, Islamic state that worries me. Separation of state and religion is the way forward.
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Random Person the changes so far have been subtle, however if you want an example how about the compulsory teaching of Islamic religion in schools, strange for a secular state.
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Erkan X in WWI Turkey sided with Germany. In WWII, Turkey sided with the allies against Germany andJapan, but rather late in the war. But this is not the issue, what is, the rise of militant, intolerate, Islam, mainly Sunni and wahhabism. You may not have started the first two world wars, but you may provide the flash point for the third.
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Question Mark you are right, there is a risk of war sometime in the future. It is interesting that Turkey is moving towards Muslim fundamentalism to compete with Saudi Arabia. As always there is a underlying dream of forming a Muslim empire. I suspect Turkey wishes to revive the Ottoman Empire. Saudi ambitions are even greater, the religious fundamentalists ( not to be confused with the government) what a Muslim dominated world.
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Mohamed Mo that is not what Google reports. While Turkey tried to remain neutral during the WWII, it was finally forced to side with the allies towards the end of the war.
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@rdflower7025 both want to be seen as the leader of the Muslim world. Turkey once saw itself as the liaison between the west and the Muslim nations, now its position seems to have changed as its secular society is dismantled in favour of a theocracy,bring it in line with most other Muslim states. Saudi has a legacy of wealth, which is now at risk as the world moves away from oil, what better time for turkey to assert itself.
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@rdflower7025 you are confusing politics and religion, not difficult where Islam is concerned given that Islamic countries are organised as theocracies, a form of dictatorship. As I said in my original post, this is about empire building. Its is about uniting as many Islamic countries as possible, not for religious reasons, but as a concentration of power. The world is busy building power blocks, China, Russia, the EU and the US. Even African nations are seeking unions to form political and military power blocks. I am an atheists, but it concerns me that so many believe in religious prophecy, as society can make them self fulfilling. The world needs saving from " believers" as they are dangerous.
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@rdflower7025 making generalisations is w sure way to upset someone, and that is not my intention. There was a time when Islamic countries were leaders in scientific advancment, but I suspect that religious zealotry brought this golden age to an end, when science conflicted with religious dogma. The American Christian far right have a similar problem with the conflict between geology and Darwinism, against creationism. It is interesting the middle eastern politics spawn more than its fair share of oppressive dictators. It is also notable that religious zealotry is linked with religious intolerance, suggesting that such strong beliefs can only be maintained if any possible counter theory, often persevered as criticism is ruthlessly suppress. Like the curse of the tower of Babel, disunity is a reason for not achieving full potential. In light of this, is there are surprise that strong leaders seek to unit the Islamic nations. Unfortunately for them, and maybe fortunately for the rest of the world, extremism is not a recipe for unity, even if it uses dogmatic religious beliefs as the glue. One might wonder if the leaders actually believe what they espouse to their people, or are they simple cynically using religion as a glue. Most religious establishments have been shown to be corrupt at their hearts. Unfortunately for the world religious glue is very toxic, and the reason behind many wars.
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