Nonetheless, Altun says, they are there to stay and will continue to menace those who dare to exercise the freedom of speech: “Here’s what those Europeans need to understand: Muslims won’t go away because you don’t want us. We won’t turn the other cheek when you insult us. We will defend ourselves and our own […]
Erdogan: Raid on Berlin mosque ‘nourished by racism and Islamophobia,’ brings Europe ‘closer to Middle Ages’
Here yet again we see that anytime a Muslim organization runs afoul of the law for any reason, opportunistic supremacists such as Erdogan will portray this as a manifestation of “Islamophobia,” defined as the unfair targeting of innocent Muslims, which is so rare in real life that incidents of it have to be manufactured. Erdogan […]
Erdogan: ‘What is the problem of Macron with Muslims and Islam? Macron needs treatment on a mental level’
This is quite similar to charging opponents of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others with “Islamophobia,” which implies that opposition to such evils are afflicted with a pathology, a psychological disorder. The logic of that leads to pseudo-therapeutic torture in reeducation camps, but we aren’t quite there yet. In any case, these […]
Erdogan Antagonizes His ‘Arab Brothers’
Burak Bekdil is a brave and humorful Turkish journalist who dares, while living in Ankara, to highlight the political follies of President Erdogan in articles he writes for foreign websites. A recent column of interest from him is here. Neither the Ottoman nor the modern Turkish language has ever been short of racist proverbs denigrating […]
Armenian archbishop: Turkey is perpetrating ‘third genocide’ against Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh
They’ll likely get away with again also, as Azerbaijan has a well-oiled PR machine. Genocidal killers take advantage of the world’s indifference. As Hitler himself said, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” “Archbishop accuses Turkey of backing ‘third Armenian genocide’ in Nagorno-Karabakh,” by Inés San Martín, Crux, October 16, 2020: […]
Archbishop of Albania: Conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque is a ‘cultural jihad’
The archbishop is right. The conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque is for Erdogan a symbol of Islam’s triumph over secularism, just as its conversion to a museum in 1935 was a symbol of secularism’s triumph over Islam, and its original conversion to a mosque in 1453 was a symbol of Islam’s triumph over […]
‘Turkey’s continued embrace of terrorist groups, including the Islamic State (ISIS), has caused havoc’
Here is more indication that what is behind the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is the same imperative that has been behind 1,400 years of aggression by Muslims against Christians: the Islamic call to “fight them until religion is all for Allah” (Qur’an 8:39). “Turkey is Normalizing Militant Jihadism,” by Armen V. Sahakyan and Erik Khzmalyan, Providence, September […]
Turkey: Pro-Erdogan journalist hails Azerbaijan ‘purging its cities, villages, mountains and lands’ of Armenians
Turkey did the same thing in the early twentieth century, “purging its lands” of Armenians by means of genocide. Note that the rhetoric of “occupation” that Karagül uses here is the same as that employed by jihadis in the “Palestinian” territories, as well as in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere. Jihadis routinely frame their struggles […]
Turkey: “The claim by Macron that ‘Islam is in crisis’ is dangerous and provocative, encouraging Islamophobia”
Much of the controversy centers upon Macron’s announcement that France will move to ban homeschooling in 2021, in order “to stifle religious instruction of children.” By all indications, the religion that France seeks to protect children from is Islam. Any measure intended to stymie Islamization will inevitably be denounced as “Islamophobic.” But according to independent […]
Israel’s Defense Minister: Turkey and Iran are ‘denying promotion of peace and supporting regional aggression’
Turkey has become an increasing menace and bully in the region. On the heels of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declaring the absurdity that “Jerusalem has been our city for thousands of years,” Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has stated accurately that Turkey and Iran are “denying promotion of peace and supporting regional aggression.” Both […]