Last week, 90,000 mosques across Turkey prayed the 48th chapter of the Qur’an for victory over the Kurds. Surah al-Fath, the 48th chapter of the Qur’an, promises Muslims who wage jihad much material reward: “Allah has promised you much booty that you will take and has hastened for you this and withheld the hands of […]
Erdogan: Islamic education will build “new civilization for Turkey”
The steady Islamization of Turkey is not new. Since 2002, the government has built 17,000 new mosques, and its goals stretch beyond Turkish borders. Robert Spencer speculated on January 16 that the “reason why Erdogan has been so notably dilatory in fighting against the Islamic State may be that he wants to co-opt its caliphate […]
Turkey: 90,000 mosques pray Qur’anic “conquest” prayers calling on Muslims to be “ruthless against unbelievers”
Surah al-Fath is the 48th chapter of the Qur’an. It promises Muslims who wage jihad much material reward: “Allah has promised you much booty that you will take and has hastened for you this and withheld the hands of people from you – that it may be a sign for the believers and He may […]
Turkey threatens action against US-allied Syrian Kurds plan
Turkey has vowed to: take action against a United States-supported plan to establish a Kurdish-majority force of 30,000 troops in Syria “regardless of who backs them”, cautioned Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Turkey is desperate to crush the Kurds. The tension is historic: When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the modern republic in the ashes of […]
Turkey: Club-wielding Muslim says, “I’m waiting for Santa. I’ll tell him to convert to Islam, the true faith”
This will be dismissed as just a bit of foolery, but imagine if a club-wielding Christian announced that he was going to convert Khidr or some other mythical Muslim figure to Christianity. Islamic supremacism is taken for granted the world over, while calling attention to it and noting its implications is stigmatized all over the […]
Erdogan: “We expect the Trump administration to rescind without further delay its unfortunate decision” on Jerusalem
This is exactly the kind of intimidation that President Trump was standing up to when he announced the decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. If he bows to it now, he will undo all the good work he has done in finally showing the world that intimidation and bullying are not always how to […]
Turkey’s Erdogan issues veiled threat of Jewish genocide, refers to statement of Muhammad about Muslims killing Jews
Turkish president #Erdogan issues a veiled threat of killing each and every Jew with a shocking reference to apocalyptic prophecy of tree story. pic.twitter.com/DIaOtd7tZL — Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) December 11, 2017 Here is the fullest version of the hadith, which appears many times in shorter forms in the two hadith collections that Muslims consider most […]
Erdogan: “Jerusalem is our red line,” Trump making “grave mistake,” calls emergency OIC meeting
The real grave mistake will be if President Trump bows to this intimidation, which will only encourage more of it. “Erdogan calls Islamic summit next week on Jerusalem,” AFP, December 6, 2017: ANKARA (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is calling a summit of the main pan-Islamic body in Istanbul on December 13 to […]
Turkey’s Deputy PM: “Declaring Jerusalem a capital is plunging region and world into a fire with no end in sight”
“Declaring Jerusalem a capital is disregarding history and the truths in the region.” On the contrary, it is rejecting lies and propaganda and recognizing history and the truths in the region. “It is a big injustice/cruelty, shortsightedness, foolishness/madness, it is plunging the region and the world into a fire with no end in sight.” We […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: In Turkey, “What Is This Black Friday? Why Friday?”
Ordinarily one may be wary of Mustafa Akyol, but in this article he cannot be faulted. Millions of Americans rushed to stores all across the United States Nov. 24 to take advantage of Black Friday, the day when most retailers offer promotional sales. Back in Turkey, some major department stores in big cities tried to […]