On Saturday 15th June at the same time when the Turkish protester in Istanbul's Taksim sqaure, resisting their government's latest Islamization plans,  were tear-gassed, fired on by water cannons and eventually (and brutally) driven out of the square, the jubilant crowd on the streets of Tehran were celebrating the dawn of a new Islamic presidency. There could be no better demonstration of the stark differences between these two nations' reaction to the same issue: Islam and state. While one country, Turkey, was resisting any further drives to spread the influence of Islam, the other, Iran, was rejoicing in the aftermath electing a new Islamic administration.

Where the Turks defy an authoritarian prime minister with his Islamic-leaning AKP party, the Iranians embrace an Islamic clergy as a new president of a totaliterian Islamic regime. Where the Turks struggle to preserve their national identity and heritage, Iranians celebrate the accession to power of a man who was first to call the founder of the Islamic regime, Imam.

There could be no better demonstration of the stark differences that exist between the citizens of the two cities of Istanbul and Tehran in their reaction to the same issue: Islamization of their identity.

Now, tell me which of the two cities residents deserve higher respect?