"An Islamic Test for Turkey"

I'm in Arizona with family, eating great food, and getting ready to talk with a hundred or so rising second-year law students (Blackstone Fellows)  about religious freedom.  So, I'm a bit behind passing on this opinion piece, by Michael Gerson, "An Islamic Test for Turkey."  Check it out.  (Also, if you haven't, read this novel -- "Snow," by Orham Pamuk --  about Turkey, Islam, poetry, and other things.)  It got me thinking somewhat uncomfortable thoughts, about whether, perhaps, my own firm commitment to religion and religiosity in the public square is one that exists independently from my confidence that this presence is quite consistent with -- indeed, it nurtures -- political freedom and stable pluralism.  But, what if it weren't?