He is sly and manipulative, combative
and threatening, combustible and resolute
in his passion for the faith he inherited
and the country he rules as an obdurate
tyrant, appealing to his electorate as a
modern-day Caliph, explaining Islam to
those outside the faith with the memorable
phrase: 'Minarets are our bayonets, domes
our helmets and mosques our barracks'.
He has funded and built massive barracks
in non-Muslim countries where Turkish
expatriates have long taken up residence
authoritatively posing as their extraordinary
guide and mentor alienating them from the
customs and values of their host country.
His rages and hatreds for any who oppose
his elevation of Islam over all others an
object lesson in obedience to the Koran.
And while he berates and threatens any who
equivocate over Islam's role he cannily sees
opportunity in joining Western alliances for
economic and protectionist gain. Legendary
in his volatile denunciations as a grasping
opportunist, he flawlessly plays both ends
against the middle, a strategic craftsman who
in another day and age might have delivered
incomparably sage advice to Machiavelli.
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