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The xenophobic rhetoric against Syrians in Turkey

07 July 2021, Wednesday

Last year, the UN developed an emergency action plan to fight xenophobia, discrimination, and racism. Most countries, including Turkey, signed this action plan. However, the world's wealthiest countries, such as the U.S., France, the U.K., Israel, Canada, and Australia, objected and refused to sign. Very interesting, right? Countries such as France and U.K. complain about Turkey daily, yet they object to an emergency action plan aimed at fighting against discrimination, xenophobia, and racism. X

Turkey must fight Armenian 'genocide' allegations with its own unique approach

28 April 2021, Wednesday

When U.S. President Joe Biden used the term “genocide” for the events that transpired in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, we were all outraged, and rightfully so. Turkey is sitting in the defendant’s chair as the sole culprit of the great miseries caused by the storms experienced by the conditions of World War I, which was a storm that tore the world to pieces. The Armenian Hinchak and Dashnak terrorist organizations’ dreams of massacre and division posed a great threat. Armenians were subjected to depor

France’s secular Catholic republic

04 November 2020, Wednesday

France is a secular Catholic republic. Catholic means universal truth. You have no choice but to accept this universal truth. Otherwise, you cannot live with it. Thus, the entirety of Medieval Europe was Catholic. There was no other sect, because it was not given the option to exist. Thus, when the Catholics invaded Andalusia, they gave both Muslims and Jews three options: You either become Catholic, die, or leave. There is no religious pluralism in Catholicism. As an extension, religious plural

The ‘others’ of European host countries: Muslim guest workers

25 October 2020, Sunday

A sociology study conducted in Germany that was published this month provides quite enlightening information with respect to the state of Muslim immigrants in Europe. The study titled, “A Threat to the Occident? Comparing Human Values of Muslim Immigrants, Christian, and Non-religious Natives in Western Europe,” was carried out at Goethe University’s Faculty of Social Sciences by Christian S. Czymara, and Marcus Eisentraut of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. The study that heavily

Chinese communism in Turkestan, Modi racism in India, Russian imperialism in Idlib

25 December 2019, Wednesday

Muslims are either locked up in camps or hit with bombs all over the world. . . They are slaughtered, ostracized, marginalized, sent into concentration camps and their citizenship and identities are being revoked. The world has become a living hell for Muslims. Technologies of “domestication” are being applied on Muslims in the camps of Chinese communism. Assimilation policies are being enacted in the most brutal of ways. Muslims are being kidnapped from their homes, separated from their familie

Europe is watching by as mosques are being bombed

20 March 2019, Wednesday

What a great deal of mosques are being bombed! They are being gunned down, set on fire and bombed. They have recently been the targets of unprecedented destruction and plundering. Mosques are bombed mostly in the Muslim world and Europe. Recently our mosques were attacked in Canada, Germany, Belgium, Holland and lately in New Zealand. Many innocent civilians were viciously murdered. The mosque built in Cologne was subjected to digital terrorism. Racist statements and symbols were projected on to

Anti-imperialism, the Middle East and democracy

27 January 2019, Sunday

The anti-imperialist sentiment was one of the most widespread ideologies of the Cold War era. All the National Socialist Arab regimes in the Middle East were holding on to this ideology. All of them were republics. All of them were one-man regimes. All of them were ruled by dictators. They wanted to save their people. They were promising them equality, independence and welfare. Saddam and Hafez Assad defended this political ideology with their Baath parties. Jamal Abdunnasir formulated this with

Europe is looking for a Martin Luther for Islam!

02 December 2018, Sunday

The assimilation of Muslims is not taking place like the Europeans expected it to. Muslims are somehow continuing to practice their own beliefs. The way they dress, their awareness of what is halal and haram, the sacrifices they make, and their continuing practice of circumcision are all disappointing the Europeans. As Muslims bring their identities, which have been hidden for a long time, to the public sphere and as they become more and more visible, Islamophobia rises even more. Of course, the

The defeat of those who tried to hit Turkey with Khashoggi

24 October 2018, Wednesday

No one was expecting an intellectual to become the main topic of the world. Especially those political authorities who carried out this murder. This murder has become an issue of the Middle East and even of the world. Who made this possible? The Jamal Khashoggi murder isn’t just about a journalist’s disappearance. It tells us a lot about the political rivalry and conflict in the Middle East. The Americans and Saudis are after a utopia favoring oppressive and authoritarian regimes. Salman was pre

The fate of Muslim intellectuals and Jamal Khashoggi

14 October 2018, Sunday

What happened to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi tells us something about what Muslim intellectuals go through. Because Khashoggi, both in his country and abroad, is a well-known intellectual. A mind pondering Muslim communities. He closely follows the issues in the Muslim world. Although he was working with the government on high degree projects, he has always preserved his intellectual stance. A person who thinks, reads, writes and struggles to resolve the problems of the Muslim communities.K