[Griff]

My brother worked in Turkey for a couple years. He really loved the people and their commitment to a secular state. The spark for this could happen here really. The state condemned a significant green space for a mall. It looks like the environmentalists were joined by people who support freedom of assembly (and a place to assemble rather than a private mall) and booze hounds pissed off by Islamic over-reach. The more I look at it the more familiar it feels. We start electing preachers we get the same thing. What is different is a secular conservative military willing to intervene. I don't think our military would step in but I also doubt its commitment to secular government.