The Turkish entry into Libya’s civil war on the side of the GNA has provoked other foreign powers to either threaten to join in, or actually to do so, on the side of Haftar’s LNA. Now the Libyan side of the story can be told in more details. We know that since Turkey has escalated […]
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Turkey Drives a Hard Bargain in Libya (Part 1)
Turkish President Erdogan has come to the rescue in Libya of the GNA (Government of National Accord). Just as the forces of the LNA (Libyan National Army) under General Haftar were besieging – as they had been doing for 14 months – the GNA in Tripoli, and on the point of success, the Turkish troops […]
Turkey: Religious Affairs Ministry says it’s permissible for girls to be married at age nine
It would have been surprising if the Diyanet had said anything else. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world. Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. Turkey’s […]
Assad and the Ruination of Syria
In the tenth year of the Syrian Civil War, Bashar al-Assad continues to rule, against all the odds. He’s supported by Iran, by Hezbollah, by Russia. Meanwhile the opposition to him is splintered; there are secular liberals and Islamic fundamentalists, and everything in between, fighting to overthrow his rule but agreeing on little else. Assad […]
Turkey ‘expanding its footprint across the Arab world, using force more than diplomacy’
Turkey’s Islamic supremacist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is increasingly forthright regarding his dreams of Ottoman revival, and has been working to broaden Turkey’s influence. Yet few are paying adequate attention to the aggressive expansion and influence of this country, which is a member of NATO. It should long ago have been expelled, given its increasingly […]
French Foreign Minister Le Drian to Lebanon: ‘Help Us to Help You’ (Part 2)
The French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, on his recent visit to Beirut could see for himself evidence of the economic abyss into which the country has fallen. Dozens of businesses in Lebanon are closing down permanently every day, thousands of people are losing their jobs or suffering massive pay cuts and the suicides of […]
German Foreign Ministry Hires Hijab-Wearing Muslima Who Defends Israel’s Destruction
Angela Merkel promised to make Israel’s security the centerpiece of her policy. But that was then. And this is now. The newest appointee to Germany’s Foreign Office is a Muslim woman, Nurhan Soykan, who is not just a Muslim, but a fanatical antisemite who supports the al-Quds Day rally in Germany, supported by Iran, which […]
Peter Beinart’s Israeli Suicide
Should Israel’s military, including nuclear weapons, “disband itself? Does it become a shared, joint military force” of Arabs and Jews, asked Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) President Lara Friedman in a July 13 webinar. This question was only one element of the lunacy in her discussion with American Jewish political commentator Peter Beinart, who […]
Arabs Über Alles
The late Anwar Shaikh, a scholar of Islam who lived in the West, argued in his Islam: The Arab National Religion that Islam has always been a “vehicle for Arab supremacism.” It’s not hard to see how he came to that conclusion. The Qur’an, after all, was delivered to an Arab, and in his language. […]
What A Surprise! Qatar Funds Hezbollah
What do we know about Qatar? We know that it is the only Gulf Arab country that is well-disposed toward the terror state of Iran. And it is also a stout supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. The leading ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood is Yousef al-Qaradawi, the Egyptian-born cleric who spews his antisemitic and anti-Infidel […]