Muslims in Turkey

Now here is a topic I'm sure all of you people are very interested in. Something that you should know is that I have only talked to people from the West coast which is similar to talking to people in Los Angelas in the fact that its probably different in the East here, as religious views in the South are there. Hopefully that makes sense. But so far I have seen great similarities between religious reverence in America and here in Turkey. My family is not particularly religious. They don't observe Rhamadon, and they never go to a mosque. Rhamadon is a couple of religious days, like lent only they give up all food and drink for the daylight hours. The maid and nanny for Emri observe it along with the gardener and the turkish neighbors. But I've been meeting a lot of kids, and non of them give any thought to religion, at least not the ones I've met. Quick note though. I've been noticing a trend in teenage religious views. I have a tendency to talk religion and philosophy when I meet people and so far every single kid my age who I really like, ends up truely interrested in Buddhism. I got really interested in it back in December when I got dissatisfied with Christianity, and now out of the 8 or so people Ive talked religion with over the last couple of months, about 7 of them have turned out to be, while not fully buddhist, following many of the key philosophies that make it a distinct lifestyle. But back to Islam. something that most people dont know is the difference between Islam and Muslim. Islam is the religion, a Muslim is the follower. The religion is not the extreme head scarves on all women and all guys fulfilling the will of the all powerful Allah. Which by the way is just the arabic translation of God, not a completely different all powerful being. I found out on tuesday that last year in school a bunch of kids got together and put on the play Chicago. short skirts, fishnets and everthing. The biggest difference that the religion makes is seeing a lot less cleavage on the streets. Not counting when girls are walking around in bakini's and flabby guys.