Protecting the Purity of Islam

Faced with the inconvenient fact that there was actually that there was actually much to commend the modernizing German-allied Turkish government—it had been secular and constitutional, with expanding trade, industry and railways, a functioning judiciary and the rule of civil law since the Young Turk Revolution of 1908—France and Britain weirdly declared that Western progress and modernity were actually quite evil. - Quicksand by Geoffrey Wawro