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Why is everybody so surprised?

There seems to be a minor international kerfuffle over Turkey's turning Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. What's most surprising to me is that most of the complainants seem to think this is a single action to be condemned in isolation.

Erdogan has been systematically undoing Kemal Ataturk's reforms for years, to all appearances with the enthusiastic support of the Turkish people. It was Ataturk who decreed that Hagia Sophia should become a museum instead of a mosque. Naturally reversing that change was on Erdogan's list. What did the international community expect?

I think it's unfortunate that Turkey is reverting to traditional Islam, but it's not my country and I'm not sure I have any standing to tell them not to go down this road. The last few years in Turkey have been an object lesson in the difficulty of changing any culture by decree. Even a national hero can't make those top-down decisions stick after his death.

Those arguing for our continued military presence in places like Afghanistan and Iraq should take note.

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