"Long before the 'cultural revolution' of Communist China, and starting before the Bolshevik Jews of Russia destroyed
Christianity and Christians in the Slavic World, the Donmeh (the Secret Jews of Turkey), and especially Mustafa Kemal
(Ataturk), tried very hard to strip Turkey of its religion and of its culture. It is vital to World Jewry to prevent
the Muslims of Turkey from taking back their nation and their faith, and aligning themselves with their Muslim neighbors."
Christopher Jon Bjerknes
"For (Mustafa) Kemal, Islam and civilization were a contradiction in terms. "If only," he once said of the Turks, with a flash of cynical insight,
"we could make them Christians!" His was not to be the reformed Islamic state for which the faithful were waiting: it was to be a strictly lay state,
with a centralized government as strong as the Sultan's, backed by the army and run by his own intellectual bureaucracy."
(Ataturk, The Rebirth of a Nation, Lord Kinross, 1965, page 437)
"Sabbateanism (Donmeh) is the matrix of every significant movement to have emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, from Hasidism, to Reform Judaism, to the
earliest Masonic circles and revolutionary idealism. The Sabbatean 'believers' felt that they were champions of a new world [order] which was to be established
by overthrowing the values of all positive religions."
Gershom Scholem
