If they go too far with this, they will face uprisings. We shall see.
“Saudi Arabia, Türkiye sign MoU to promote Islamic moderation, combat extremism,” Saudi Gazette, May 25, 2025:
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia and Türkiye have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance cooperation in the field of Islamic affairs, with a focus on promoting moderation and combating extremist ideologies.
The MoU was signed by Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance Sheikh Dr. Abdullatif Al Sheikh, and Dr. Ali Erbaş, President of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye.
The agreement outlines joint efforts to highlight the values of tolerance and moderation in Islam, while countering extremism, fanaticism, and terrorism….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Saudi Arabia, I can believe. “Türkiye”, definitely not!
So Riyadh is no longer interested in asserting its status as the leader of islam, given its ownership of Mecca and Medina? B’cos Ankara still is interested in a neo-Ottoman caliphate. So much so that they have been the only high profile backer of ISIS
mgoldberg says
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated that there is no moderate or immoderate Islam, and that Islam is Islam.
In 2017, according to the Middle East Forum, Erdogan said, “There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. There is only one Islam”. He also stated that the concept of “moderate Islam” was fabricated by the West to weaken Islam. And he has made similar statements many times.
somehistory says
Well, he’s a lying mozscum. and whatever seems to favor him being the next scum in total charge of the demonic plague, he’ll say and do.
But he’s right….islime is islime….and their evil book is the same one throughout their *community* of adherents.
MJ Raichyk, PhD says
other than the Ahmadiyya? …and Imam Tawidi’s bunch of followers sanitizing ”the book”?
TTYL
somehistory says
It is not possible to “sanitize” the “book of demon filth.’ Can you take a spoon of dirt which has been dissolved from a glass of water?
Their book comes from satan the devil, and there is no way to make it any different than what it is….demon filth.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Prof Raichyk
It’s easy for Imam Tawhidi, sitting in Australia, to practically start his own religion, sanitizing the qur’an. It would have been impossible for him to do that in Iran
As Robert has pointed out, the Ahmadiyas are nothing to write home about. If anything, they are a gateway drug. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, they’ve gained some converts, who were later converted into proper sunni muslims
gravenimage says
Good point, mgoldbrg.
somehistory says
The “values of tolerance.” There they go, adding words to their bizzarro dictionary with all words meaning the opposite to Webster.
Daniel Triplett says
Only one man will ever define Islam: Muhammad.
Either “the Perfect Man” is a liar, or he’s not.
Nina says
The main sponsos of terrorism? These two, the Iranian Ayatollah and the criminal Qatari Thani family should be in jail.
abu taleb says
For Turkey, the extremist iedologiy is “being a Kurd” ideology together with other ideologies such as “being a Jew”, “being a non muslim” etc.
For Saudi, the extremist iedologiy is “being a Shia” ideology, the rest is the same as above.
terry says
Yep. Both are extremely duplicitous! It is a chimera and nothing more. Trump is being played by Globalism, Marxist, and Islam.
OLD GUY says
I wouldn’t trust either side of that agreement.
Winston 101 says
For now. What does a “moderate” Islam look like exactly. Details please.
The general outline is “Tell the Kafirs what they want to hear so they’ll support us against those terrible “militant” Shias. (The same game the P.A. is trying to play about Hamas and “Palestine.) Once the Shias are defeated we can move from our Mecca Quran back to our Medina Quran.
With the winding down of the globalist Bretton Wood Agreement of the U.S., the Saudi’s are in need of another, or additional, security partner. They want to link up with the up-and-coming Sunni country that can project its power into the Mediterranean – that would be Turkey with its nice, long coastline and its ever improving navy.
Lady of the Lake says
The idiot on the right thinks he’s in a sauna
gravenimage says
Saudi Arabia and Turkey sign memorandum of understanding to promote moderation and combat ‘extremist ideologies’
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Uh…right, especially given how Turkey is backing Al Sharaa in Syria, massacring its Christian and Alawites. Pretty “moderate”, huh?