A reminder in all the present confusion that Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a jihadist scoundrel with revanchist caliphate dreams. Turkey is not an ally of the United States, and should not be in NATO. “Concerns as Turkish Navy surrounds Cyprus,” by Vassilis Nedos, Ekathimerini, October 9, 2019: Tension mounted in the Eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday […]
Syrian Christians Proclaim “Trump is right on Syria”
Johny Messo, President of the World Council of Arameans (WCA; indigenous Syriac speaking Middle Eastern Christians), has written thoughtfully and sympathetically about Zionism as a (belated) prototype for “Arameanism,” though he guardedly refrains from “championing” Zionism, outright, today. Mr. Messo, nonetheless, does not appear to have imbibed in any way the vitriolic Antisemitic persuasions one […]
Syrian Christian group contradicts NBC’s claim that Christians have been killed in Turkey’s Syrian incursion
The international political and media elites are so avid to destroy President Trump that they have turned from their rhetoric denouncing endless wars to denouncing Trump for ending one. These denunciations are being accompanied by a steady drumbeat of fake news. Here is the reality. “Syrian Christian group urges NBC not to mislead public,’ by […]
Turkey and the Kurds: Trump “wants U.S. forces out of a conflict in which America’s interests have never been clear”
Here is a clear explication of an issue that has been enflamed by partisanship and hatred of the man in the White House. The President is pursuing the America-First agenda on which he campaigned. It should be the case that every President has America’s interests first in every situation, but that hasn’t been the case […]
Turkey: Human rights activist sentenced ten years jail for “blasphemy” against Islam
You criticize Islam, you pay a dear price, ranging from jail to murder in many Muslim countries. Canan Kaftancioglu, a Turkish politician and critic of Islam, has received a ten-year-long prison sentence for “blasphemy against Islam.” Canan has risked her life and future by standing up for human rights and being daring enough to make […]
German interior minister goes to Turkey to try to prevent a new migrant crisis
Many countries in the EU have lost control of their own sovereignty, and are now bowing to threats of Islamic supremacist thugs such as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan when their priority should be focused on the security of their citizenry: German interior minister Horst Seehofer travelled to Turkey and Greece this week to meet […]
Trump to withdraw US troops from Syria, says “I’m not siding with anybody”
It is foolish in the extreme, and ultimately self-defeating, to keep troops anywhere indefinitely, with no end point, no plan for victory, no clear goal — that just saps the nation’s resources and produces no good result. Anytime we leave Syria or anywhere else, anti-American elements will do their best to capitalize on our absence. […]
As Islamic Republic of Pakistan escalates threats against India, Turkey building warships for Pakistanis
In mid-August, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan threatened to “teach Delhi a lesson” and vowed a “fight until the end against any Indian violations in disputed Kashmir.” Then later in the month, Khan escalated his threats of a nuclear war with India over Kashmir. Khan also recently said that the struggle against India over Kashmir […]
Turkey: Newspaper falsely claims that Hindus in India murdered a Muslim for killing a cow
There simply aren’t enough actual incidents to support the Muslim victimhood narrative that gets Muslim communities so much special consideration, and deflects counterterror efforts, so such incidents have to be invented. “Turkish Daily Reported a Man Killed by Hindu Mob in a ‘Cow-Lynching’ Was Muslim: False,” Polygraph.info, September 26, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of […]
Erdogan, Imran Khan, and Mahathir counter “Islamophobia” with new English-language TV outlet
This initiative, like all others to counter “Islamophobia,” will not address the real reason why people have any suspicion or dislike of Islam at all: because of Islamic jihad terrorism and Sharia oppression of women and others. Instead, it will try yet again to intimidate non-Muslims into accepting as truth Erdogan’s risible statement that “it […]