This will come as a shock to the likes of Emmanuel Macron, with his confident plans to create a “French Islam,” but Macron will pay no heed. Erbaş, however, is backed up by the record of history. Throughout 1,400 years of Islam, there has never been a non-Muslim state in which a form of Islam developed that was shorn of jihad violence and Sharia oppression, and readily adapted to the values of the non-Muslim society. Instead, for 1,400 years, there has been jihad, wherever Muslims have gone. The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS demonstrates this definitively, detailing the jihad against Europe, the jihad against India, the jihad in Africa, and elsewhere. Nowhere was there ever established an acculturated, defanged Islam. Macron is whistling in the dark, as are all Western European and Northern European leaders. Get the book here.
More on this story. “No such thing as European Islam – Turkey’s top Muslim official,” Ahval News, January 3, 2019:
Turkey’s main Islamic body in Germany hosted a meeting in Cologne this week to shape the continuing debate about the future of Muslims in Europe, Turkish pro-government news outlets Diaspora Daily and Yeni Şafak reported.
“There is no such thing as German, French or European Islam,” Ali Erbaş, the head of Turkey’s state religious authority, the Diyanet, said on Wednesday. “Islam is a religion of peace that defends and tries to keep the same universal values alive all over the world.”
The Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs, or DITIB, organised the two-day event. Germany’s largest Muslim body, DITIB runs more than 900 mosques. The former Diyanet branch is still largely run by Ankara, though it insists it is independent. DITIB is based in the Cologne Central Mosque, which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inaugurated during a visit to Germany in September.
Last week the German tabloid Bild ran an image of the mosque with a story on how terrorist money funded Germany’s mosques. Critics said the report could spur anti-Muslim attacks.
“Both printed and visual media have been advocating Islamophobia under the pretext of criticism,” Erbaş said in Cologne, while also urging the European Muslim community to eliminate internal rifts….