Hagia Sophia is almost certain to be declared a mosque soon. As I explain below, this is an integral part of Erdogan’s desire to restore the Ottoman caliphate. European leaders seem neither to know or care about the significance and implications of that. “Top Court Declares Hagia Sophia a Mosque,” by Jules Gomes, Church Militant, […]
Turkey creates “autonomous and civilian structure” dedicated to denying early 20th-century genocide of Christians
The Turks continue to deny that they committed genocide of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Christians of the nation. The Christians were kuffar harbi — Infidels at war with Islam — for wanting independence, and hence under Islamic law their lives were forfeit. But jihadis and Islamic supremacists never, ever take responsibility for what they […]
Turkey: When Alevis Were Burned Alive
On July 2, 1993, yet another massacre targeted defenseless members of a religious minority in Turkey. On that day, a group of Alevi intellectuals were publicly burned alive by pious Muslims at a hotel in the city of Sivas. The perpetrators still remain unpunished. Moreover, many defense lawyers have had prosperous careers in Turkish […]
Turks fight Kurdish Leftists and Antifa in Vienna, Austrian Chancellor accuses Erdogan of stoking tensions in EU
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz “has accused Turkey of sowing strife in Europe” after members of the Turkish Grey Wolves, an ultra-nationalist Turkish political organization, “clashed with Kurdish leftists and their Antifa allies in Vienna.” This is nothing new. “In 2016, the two groups clashed in the city of Duisburg and both Turks and Kurds briefly […]
Turkey: Erdogan taking advantage of pandemic to scapegoat Christians and deny them basic rights
While socialists and Antifa attack the history of the U.S. and the U.K. and ignore their development of societies that recognize and protect equal justice for all, Christians are being massacred and persecuted in majority-Muslim countries, with little international attention given to their plight. “Turkish authorities have started to simply assign land owned by a […]
“Turkish & Muslim Hackers” hijack Jerusalem Post website, fill it with Qur’an verses and jihad propaganda
Last month, it emerged that Iran had launched a cyberattack on Israel’s water authority sites. The “Iranian hackers used American computer servers to launch their attack.” The attack was fended off. “Israel has an advanced cyber security apparatus and fends off of thousands of cyber attacks on a daily basis.” And in late May, 300 […]
Former Jordanian Minister Attacks Erdogan As Neo-Ottoman
As is well known, Recep Tayyip Erdogan harbors neo-Ottoman fantasies of leading the Muslim world. He made this clear first when he had published in his mouthpiece, the newspaper Yeni Safak, in December 2017, a plan for a pan-Islamic army that would, by pooling the weapons and fighters of many Muslim states, be able […]
Turkey: Europe “must stop treating Islam as a security threat”
Altun here once again conflates vigilante attacks against Muslims, which are never justified, with reasonable and evidence-based evaluation of the texts and teachings of Islam that Islamic jihadis use to justify violence and supremacism. The former is used to silence the latter. That’s what the “Islamophobia” initiative is all about. “Europe must ‘stop treating Islam […]
Turkey’s move to convert Hagia Sophia to a mosque shows worthlessness of Pope/Grand Imam joint declaration
If the utter worthlessness of the “Human Fraternity Declaration” weren’t already clear, this makes it obvious to everyone except the most indefatigably willfully ignorant. “Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14) “Turkey Moves to Reclaim Basilica as Mosque,” by […]
Turkish daily claims ancient site in Thessaloniki built 300 years before Muhammad is a mosque
This is in the spirit of the supremacist tendency within Islam to claim the holy sites and holy figures of others, insisting that they’re really Islamic. There are numerous examples of this in The History of Jihad. “Turkish daily says ancient site in Thessaloniki built 300 years before Mohammed is a mosque,” by Paul Antonopoulos, […]