Turkey is secular at the official level, but religion remained a strong force at the popular level. After 1950 some political leaders tried to benefit from popular attachment to religion "Islam" by espousing support for programs and policies that appealed to the religiously inclined. Orhan pamuk's snow represents the misuse of religious ideas patcularly Islam to support politics. Religion is a sensitive issue that politicians have used it for their own gain. The danger comes when religion is mixed with politics. When a religion like Islam have a huge following of hungry not very educated people then politicians will explore the areas of religion to get them on their sides. In the novel, the Islamists are on the verge of winning the municipal elections.  Muhtar, their candidate, is a former left wing revolutionary and has nothing to do with real Islam except for his desire of winning the election. His party is exploiting poor people by giving them" tins of sun-flower oil, boxes of soaps, or parcels full of cookies and pasta" promising more gifts, they get them to promise their votes in return. We can say that, religion has long been used by politicians to gain power. Although headscarf is one of the Islamic principles, the writer represents it as a symbol of the Political Islam. Kadife, the leader of the headscarf girls, “is Blue’s mistress". She is not Muslim and cannot represent Muslim's principles. She wears a headscarf for a political purpose. She said, “As for me, I put on a head scarf one day to make a political statement. I just did it for a laugh, but it also felt frightening. I’m very sure I intended to wear it for only one day...” The writer shows us that the head scarf not always a religious symbol. It can be a political symbol that used by stupid activists, politicians and power seekers to fulfill their non-Islamic desire. Another bad representative of Islam is Saadettin Efendi, the Kurdish sheikh. He