Leyla Shahin of Turkey a Great Islamic Hero
Leyla Sahin was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1973, into a family of practicing Sunni Muslims. In 1993, she enrolled as a medical student at Uludag University (also known as Bursa University) in Turkey, some 100 miles south of Istanbul. Sahin wore a head scarf—but not a face-covering veil—while attending school in Bursa. In August 1997, Sahin applied at the Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine at Istanbul University. She was admitted. In March 1998, wearing her head-scarf, she walked into a university hall to take an oncology exam. She was denied entry. Less than a month earlier, the vice chancellor of the university had issued a “circular” reaffirming a ban on the wearing of headscarves or other forms of religious dress on campus. Turkish Nonsense Typical Kemalist'nonsense: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded modern Turkey in 1923 on strictly secular principles: The caliphate was abolished in March 1923, the constitutional provision declaring Islam the religion of the state was repealed in 192...