When I was a boy, Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, was regarded as one of the great men of the twentieth century. Here is what he thought of Islam.

"Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives." - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

This view is probably why Ataturk set up Turkey as a secular state. As time goes on, Ataturk's influence is waning. That's sad for Turkey and the World.