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Turkey inaugurates Gaza mosque named after al-Qaeda founder

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The vast majority of Muslims abhor terrorism and repudiate al-Qaeda, we’re told. Turkey is a secular, moderate nation that exemplifies how Islam is compatible with secular republican rule, we’re told. Turkish influence in the rebuilding of Gaza would lead Gazans toward moderation in Islam, we’re told.

“Turkey inaugurates Gaza City mosque named for ‘father of global jihad,’” JNS, February 17, 2026:

Turkey recently inaugurated a mosque in the Gaza Strip in the name of Salafi theologian Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli said on Sunday.

“What a ‘gesture’ from Turkey: Funding a mosque in Gaza named after Abdullah Azzam—the man who mentored Osama bin Laden and co-founded Al-Qaeda,” the Israeli minister wrote in a post on X.

Azzam, an Islamic scholar from Silat al-Harithiya, a village near Jenin in Samaria, is widely considered the “father of the global jihad,” having been bin Laden’s mentor before being assassinated by a car bomb detonated by unidentified assailants in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1989.

He also laid the groundwork for the establishment of Al-Qaeda and the Pakistani jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008, killing 166 people and wounding 300. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, who ran the Nariman House Chabad center in the city, were among those murdered.

Chikli in his X post said that under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey has become “a dangerous Trojan horse, actively advancing Al-Qaeda-linked networks in Gaza, Syria and Mogadishu, Somalia.

“The West’s continuing blindness to Erdoğan’s game is extremely dangerous,” wrote Chikli, warning, “Wake up before it’s too late.”

The Abdullah Azzam Mosque in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood was among three houses of worship that opened with Ankara’s support ahead of Ramadan, which begins this week.

According to Turkish state-run news channel TRT, Diyanet—Ankara’s official religious body operating under Erdoğan’s office—also funded Al-Huda Mosque in Jabalia and the al-Isra Mosque in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan district.

Diyanet—formally the Directorate of Religious Affairs—is funded by the state budget and is responsible for overseeing the mosques, appointing imams and issuing religious guidance in line with Turkish state policy….

Comments

  1. Why were the Turks in this story even allowed into Gaza in the first place? Israel still hasn’t vacated it, still largely controls it, so why did they allow it? It’s not like Ankara is remotely friendly towards Jerusalem to warrant such a courtesy

    • Good question, Infidel. Why give their enemy even a step inside, when what they want is complete takeover of all of Israel.

    • LS

      Israel needn’t say yes to every one of Trump’s proposals. They can put their foot down on a few things

  2. OT

    Aimen Halim….names are arabic….sued BWW, or tried to, because he thought he could get money due to the label “boneless wings.”

    The judge laughed and threw out the suit.

    And this from Business Insider
    “Aimen Halim, who sued Buffalo Wild Wings over its boneless wings, has filed another class-action lawsuit.
    Now, Halim is suing a home goods company over a blanket that sells at Costco and Walmart for $20.
    Halim and four other plaintiffs accused Berkshire Blanket & Home Company of greenwashing. ”

    He has also filed at least three other suits. The goon is a sewer., suer.

  3. Schmeißt die Türkei aus Israel und Gaza raus. Es darf der Muslimbruderschaft nicht gestattet werden, sich in Gaza festzusetzen, die Terroristen am Leben zu erhalten und den Islamismus zu festigen.
    Die antisemitische Hetzpostille Erdogan sollte als Persona non grata von Israel und Gaza ferngehalten werden.

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