“The recent increase in racial movements and anti-Islamic discourses and actions in Europe threaten the multiculturalism of Europe, the culture of living together, peace and tranquility,” said the leaned Erbaş.
He didn’t say anything about multiculturalism in Turkey, which has practiced ruthless ethnic cleansing of religious and ethnic minorities for over 100 years, nearly effacing that nation’s 2,000-year-old Christian presence.
Ali Erbaş also said: “Islam is a religion of peace.” Oh yes he did. He and his fellow propagandists have to keep repeating this, because it is so contrary to fact and to the evidence of the daily headlines. If Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance, harmony and brotherhood, it has been misunderstood by mainstream Islamic authorities throughout the history of the religion. In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I trace the 1,400-year war of Islamic jihadis against the rest of the world, detailing the jihad against Europe, including the 700-year struggle to conquer Constantinople; the jihad in Spain, where non-Muslims fought for another 700 years to get the jihadi invaders out of the country; and the jihad against India, where Muslim warriors and conquerors wrought unparalleled and unfathomable devastation in the name of their religion. Order it here now.
“Islam is ‘religion of peace,’ says head of Turkey’s Diyanet,” Anadolu Agency, January 2, 2019:
Islam is a religion of peace that defends universal values, Ali Erbaş, the head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, said on Wednesday.
“Islam is a religion of peace that defends and tries to keep the same universal values alive all over the world,” Erbas said at the opening ceremony of 2nd meeting of European Muslims in the German city of Cologne.
Erbaş said racism, xenophobia and attacks on mosques gradually narrow areas of freedom and restrict rights.
“The recent increase in racial movements and anti-Islamic discourses and actions in Europe threaten the multiculturalism of Europe, the culture of living together, peace and tranquility,” he added.
According to the European Islamophobia Report 2017, a rising wave of Islamophobia has taken hold in Europe….