Erdogan’s Troubling Friends

FrontPageMagazine 9 June 2010
By Robert Ellis

In 1974, when Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was president of the Istanbul youth group of the MSP (the Islamist National Salvation Party), he wrote, directed, and starred in a play called Mas-Kom-Ya, which addressed subversive elements in Turkish society:

masons, communists and yahudi (Jews). This very same performer has managed to convince gullible Western politicians that Turkey is committed to EU membership. Equally convincingly, he has played to the Arab gallery since his AKP (Justice and Development Party) came to power in 2002.

 

Muslim teens enraged by pop star’s name

The Copenhagen Post 9 June 2010

Muslim teens at a Copenhagen concert threw eggs at pop icon who shares a name with a holy city of Islam It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Denmark’s answer to Lady Gaga, decided

 

Britain will struggle to handle 'catastrophic' population growth unless changes are made

Daily Mail 9 June 2010

Britain will struggle to handle 'catastrophic' population growth in future unless urgent action is taken, a report has warned. The predicted increase to 70million by 2029 will put unsustainable

 

Riots must be brought under control: Reinfeldt

The Local 9 June 2010

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt cautioned that the riots that blighted the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on Monday and Tuesday needed to be brought quickly under control.

 

Turkey: Jihadi State Rising

FrontPageMagazine 9 June 2010
By Anav Silverman

Scanning news reports this week, I was surprised to learn that according to much of the press, Turkey had been Israel’s "staunchest ally in the Muslim world,” until the Gaza aid flotilla debacle.

 

Top 100 'women friendly' mosques revealed

A directory of the 100 most 'women-friendly' mosques in England has been launched today. The list has been compiled inter-faith, community cohesion and conflict resolution organisation, Faith

 

New Islamic Facebook, Millatfacebook, launched in wake of Mohammed controversy

NYDailyNews.com 9 June 2010
By Joe Tacopino

Will you 'friend' the new Islamic Facebook? After outrage among Muslims over a Facebook page that invited users to draw the Prophet Mohammed, a 25-year-old Pakistani man has launched

 

FBI: Texas man accused of trying to help al-Qaida referred to terror network as his 'brothers'

FOXNews 9 June 2010

HOUSTON — A Texas man who pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he tried to help al-Qaida referred to members of the terrorist group as his "brothers," was eager to prove his dedication to

 

Vatican says world ignores Christians in Mideast

Las Vegas Sun 9 June 2010

The Vatican said Sunday that the international community is ignoring the plight of Christians in the Middle East, and that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq and political instability

 

An Open Letter to the Turkish Embassy

American Spectator 9 June 2010
By Edward Sisson

Dear Embassy of Turkey

In early 1995 as an associate lawyer at Arnold & Porter (I was later elected a partner, and eventually left practicing law in early 2006), I had the pleasure and honor

 

Turkish journalist sentenced to 15 months for 'terrorist propaganda'

Hurriyet Daily News 9 June 2010
By Devrim Sevimay

Journalist Irfan Aktan has been sentenced to a 15-month prison term for "making terrorist propaganda” based on his quoting of members of an outlawed organization in a news story about the country’s

 

Egypt's climate of sexual harassment persists, and police don't seem to care

MinnPost.com 9 June 2010
By Justin D. Martin

CAIRO — Women must be allowed to hold up "half the sky" for poverty to be challenged, wrote Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn in their powerful 2009 book of the same name. But when many women

 

Europe court rules against Turkey in book dispute

Hurriyet Daily News 9 June 2010

Turkey was punished by the European Court of Human Rights because of the seizure of a book about a pop star that discussed his sexual orientation, the court said Tuesday. "Tarkan - Anatomy of a

 

Nigeria: Muslim youth attack churches and house

There has been yet another attack against Nigerian Christian: this time in Kano state, north of Jos where January and March violence took place. Two churches and a pastor's home were

 

Poland: Mosque, Paediatrician and Radical Islamists

Rzeczpospolita.pl 8 June 2010
By Agnieszka Rybak & Aleksandra Rybilska
Translation: Jan Wójcik, EuroIslam.pl

Contrary to the assurances of the president of Muslim League in the Republic of Poland, the Ministry of Interior and Administration (MSWiA) does not know who finances the building of the Centre of Islamic Culture in Warsaw.

In this year’s spring, Samir Ismail became very popular after it had turned out that the organisation he presides – the Muslim League in RP – has been building a mosque in Warsaw’s Ochota district.

 

Mohammed believed in women's rights, says poster campaign. Oh, really?

Telegraph 8 June 2010
By Douglas Murray

This week sees the launch of a hilarious new campaign called "Inspired by Muhammad” (as we are now all expected to spell Mohammed). It claims to want to "improve the public understanding of Islam and

 

Vilks takes fight to Facebook foes

The Local 8 June 2010

Swedish artist Lars Vilks has joined a Facebook group entitled Kill Lars Vilks in order to engage in discussion with his antagonists as part of his ongoing art project to explore the bounds of free

 

Turkey is calling for a jihad against Israel

The Guardian  8 June 2010
By Joshua Teitelbaum

Erdogan's bellicose support for the flotilla has sacrificed Israeli relations in the service of retrograde east-facing aspirations.Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called the Israeli

 

UK: Sharia.com Lights Up The Internet

Middle East Events 8 June 2010

Since its recent launch companies and individuals from many Muslim Communities around the world have used Sharia.com to advertise their products and services online for free. Sharia.com aims to

 

Islamist Turkey Overreaches: Ankara’s irresponsible behavior reveals the weaknesses of Islamism 2.0.

National Review 8 June 2010
By Daniel Pipes

As typical Islamist-leftist theater to delegitimize Israel, late May’s Turkish-sponsored "Free Gaza” flotilla was tediously repetitious. As an illustration that Israelis don’t understand the kind of

 

FGM activists threaten victims

Sierra Express Media 8 June 2010
By Isata Mansaray

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) remains widely practiced in Sierra Leone in spite of frantic efforts made by NGOs and human rights activists to eliminate the scourge because of its dreadful

 

Prisoners convert to Islam to win perks and get protection from powerful Muslim gangs

Daily Mail 8 June 2010

Prisoners are converting to Islam to win benefits and gain the protection of powerful Muslim gangs inside jails, the Chief Inspector of Prisons has warned. Up to a third of Muslim prisoners

 

Muslim Murders Vatican Cleric in Turkey

Arutz Sheva 8 June 2010
By Hillel Fendel

Contrary to earlier reports, it has now been confirmed that the Muslim who murdered a Vatican official in Turkey last week did so for religious reasons. Luigi Padovese, who represented the Vatican

 

Great Britain’s Standard Chartered to Enter Saudi Shariah Banking Market

Standard Chartered Bank, one of the United Kingdom’s largest and oldest financial institutions is set to enter the Saudi market to promote Shariah-Compliant Finance. If any non-Muslim Standard

 

TURKEY - VATICAN Funeral of Mgr. Padovese. Murderer, "I killed the great Satan!"

AsiaNews 8 June 2010
By Geries Othman

The bishop was stabbed in the house and beheaded outside. He cried help before he died. The murderer shouted "Allah Akbar!". The alleged insanity of the murderer is now to be excluded. There is no

 

Liberal leader set for historic success in Dutch election

Dutch centre-right leader Mark Rutte hit the campaign trail Tuesday pressing his case for radically reduced public spending on the eve of an election expected to make him the premier from his party

 

Hamas refuses to allow aid for "starving" Gaza to enter over land route

Jihad Watch 8 June 2010

All the more proof that this is not about the aid, and never was. "Hamas refuses to allow aid supplies into Gaza," by Hanan Greenberg for

 

More Documentation on Gaza Flotilla Charity IHH

Counterterrorism Blog 8 June 2010
By Evan Kohlmann

The NEFA Foundation has released two new documents relating to the Turkish Muslim charitable group Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH), sponsor of the Gaza freedom flotilla.

 

Italy: 'Drunk' Moroccan 'tries to steal' ambulance

Reggio Calabria - A drunk Moroccan immigrant tried to make off in the ambulance that was called to help him in the southern city of Reggio Calabria, according to police. Abdelmjid El

 

When Secularism Is Not Enough

FrontPageMagazine 8 June 2010
By William Kilpatrick

Can Islamic jihad be resisted simply on the basis of Western secular values? Some readers of my posts on the role of Christianity in resisting Islam have objected that bringing Christianity into the

 
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