If Turkey joined the EU, says Kazik, we might live to see minarets in Rome. Would you want that, he asks rhetorically. He is surprised by my answer, but announces proudly, "but I would not want to see it". Kazik is, of course, behind the times. He has not yet realized that the Vatican policy now is to make friends with all the former enemies – Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, all and sundry, against the one threat which threatens them all: disfatih.
Not so much atheism, or even agnosticism, but – indifference. The Vatican calls it “consumerism”, but the Vatican is perhaps deliberately misdiagnosing the facts. It isn’t that anything blinds or prevents us all from being religious, which, if we were only not prevented we naturally would be. It’s just that with modern medicine there isn’t much reason to turn to black magic for help. At any rate, Turks are religious. The Pope should want to see them in the EU. Better a religious infidel, after all, than an irreligious consumerist! At least he's a potential ally.
As for minarets, why I’d be happy to see them in Rome – or anywhere. As long as they are built beautifully and house a real muezzin and not his loudspeaker substitute. A real muezzin, one who can sing, like those in Malaysia, and would not be miked up if his life depended on it.
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