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General Category => World News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 25, 2017, 08:20:57 pm
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The West's Steadfast Misunderstanding of Turkey and Islam
by Uzay Bulut
December 24, 2017 at 4:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11562/turkey-islam-understanding (https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11562/turkey-islam-understanding)
Fundamentalist Muslims in Turkey -- and elsewhere -- do not see jihad, forced conversions or other forms of persecution against non-Muslims as criminal. On the contrary, their religious scriptures openly command them "to chop off heads and fingers, and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding," among many other openly violent teachings.
Hence, what the rest of the world would describe as "genocide," "massacre," "terrorism," or "ethnic cleansing" is viewed by radical Muslims as a "righteous" way of spreading Islam and of liberating kafir (infidel) lands. Erdogan is clearly such a radical, which is why he takes pride in his country's criminal history, while chastising and rewriting that of other states, such as Israel.
The West's misunderstanding of this knows no bounds.