Here is a glimpse into the future of Europe and North America: “Friends, everything is under control. Everything happened according to Islamic law. I beat people whose outfits I do not like. The state should punish those who dress like this.” “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the […]
Turkey: Muslim child murders 51, injures 69 in jihad-martyrdom bombing at wedding party
The third one just today: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111) “Erdogan: Suicide Bomber in Turkish Wedding Attack Was 12-14 Years Old,” by Dasha Afanasieva, Reuters, August 21, […]
Turkey bans Orthodox Christian Liturgy in historic monastery
The doors of the Sumela Monastery reopened in June 2010, after 88 years. The Turkish government had given permission to the Ecumenical Patriarchate to have a patriarchal liturgy for the Feast of the Assumption every year. That permission has been suddenly revoked, perhaps permanently. That the Greek Orthodox need special permission to celebrate divine services […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: In Erdogan’s Turkey, Kemalism is Temporary, Islam is Forever
The Ottoman Empire, the Sick Man of Europe in the nineteenth century, finally was put out of its misery by military defeat in World War I, to be replaced by the enlightened despotism of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a war hero at Gallipoli, who established a provisional government in Ankara as the head of the Turkish […]
50,000 demonstrate for Turkey’s Erdogan…in Cologne, Germany
“For Democracy, Against Putsch” in Turkey means “For Islamization, Against Secularism.” And 50,000 people demonstrating for this in Germany bodes ill for Germany’s future. But what doesn’t, these days? “50,000 demonstrators march through the streets of Cologne to show support for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan,” by Anthony Joseph, MailOnline, July 31, 2016: Around 50,000 demonstrators […]
Turkey: 7,000 armed police in heavy vehicles surround NATO air base after huge rally accuses US of role in failed coup
This “security check” is hardly the action of a friend and ally. It is odd that Erdogan, who has been so friendly with Obama, would think he had a hand in the coup, but in any case, this just reemphasizes that rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey is no friend or ally of the United States, and should […]
Erdogan tightens iron grip on power: Turkey shuts down over 130 media outlets, dismisses 2,400 military personnel
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is actively using the recent coup attempt that led to some 290 deaths on July 15 to claim sweeping new powers for himself. Now he has ordered the shutdown of over 130 media outlets and dismissed 2,400 military personnel. Some say that the coup was staged precisely to give the tyrannical leader […]
100 jihadis still entering the Islamic State from Turkey each week
John Kerry will be along presently to explain to us how this demonstrates that the Islamic State is losing. “100 jihadis still entering Syria from Turkey each week – Le Figaro,” Reuters, July 20, 2016: DAMASCUS: French military intelligence estimates that about 100 foreigners continue to enter Syria from Turkey each week to join Islamic […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Hillary’s Imam
In Front Page today, I reveal the Democratic nominee’s close ties to “the Turkish Khomeini.” The Daily Caller on Wednesday revealed numerous ties between Hillary Clinton and members of the shadowy network surrounding Fethullah Gulen, the controversial Muslim cleric who has been called “the Turkish Khomeini,” and whom the Erdogan regime is accusing of instigating […]
Erdogan calls failed Turkish coup a “gift from Allah”
It allows him to move against his opponents and consolidate his power. He will be able to hasten the roll-back of secularism and the Islamization of the country. “After his Istanbul speech, many commentators suggest that Turkish coup attempt was ‘staged,’ as the President called it a ‘gift from Allah,’” by Irene Kostaki, New Europe, […]