Jihad Watch: Turkey: jihadist tries to fly plane into mausoleum

October 15, 2008

Turkey: jihadist tries to fly plane into mausoleum

"Death to the!"...already dead?

More on this story. "Turkey: Islamic militant convicted of plot," from AP, October 15 (thanks to Dionysios):

ANKARA, Turkey: An Islamic militant has been convicted for a second time of planning to crash a plane into the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey.

That would be "Ataturk," who abolished the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 in favor of a "secular" Turkey, paving the way for the many "apostate" rulers of the Islamic world.

Metin Kaplan was also convicted of attempting to overthrow Turkey's secular regime following a retrial in Istanbul Wednesday. His life sentence was reconfirmed.

Kaplan was extradited from Germany and sentenced to life in prison in 2005, but an appeals court overturned the decision, citing insufficient investigation and procedural errors.

Kaplan had previously lived in Cologne, Germany. He led the group the Caliphate State, which wants to replace Turkey's secular regime with an Islamic state. The group has been outlawed in Germany and Turkey.

Posted by Raymond at October 15, 2008 2:43 PM
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That's just like when Pat Robertson tried to demolish Mt. Vernon. Oh, wait a minute...

Posted by: Hyman Roth

at October 15, 2008 3:13 PM

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Posted by: heroyalwhyness

at October 15, 2008 3:15 PM

They are idiots! We know that already! The jurks!

Posted by: dcat

at October 15, 2008 3:54 PM

Metin Kaplan used to be known in Germany as the "caliph of Cologne", because his goal was and is the caliphate. When he had one of his opponents killed the German authorities, very slow indeed as they are, eventually sued him and he got a sentence, but as far as I know it wasn't life. In jail he was on his best behaviour, studied German, became a "really good guy". According to the German custom of clemency towards convicts who really improve and (pretend to) repent and that sort of rubbish he was released prematurely.

But the Germans felt pretty uneasy with him out of jail. So they extradited him to Turkey. Now, being convicted for trying to crash Ataturk's mausoleum for the second time he is back to the roots.

Posted by: epistemology

at October 15, 2008 4:15 PM

There should be a Darwin award for Stupid Jihadist Tricks!

Posted by: CTYankee

at October 15, 2008 4:32 PM

"Death to the!"...already dead?

Actually with more technology about cloning, it might be possible to rebirth any corpse that still has some DNA. You could regrow Jesus if you had some of his DNA. That's the positive side more or less.

Or on the negative side Hitler, as an example.
If the clones memory is intact, Hitler would still be guilty and executable, the second time. If we really want to get nasty a third or...

I would hope the human race would not become that depraved, at least not kufrs, because it is depravity...but just the same, it may be possible in the future to kill someone twice.

This Mohammadan trying to crash a dead guy, was sending a message. A large part of his message was, 'Hey look, I'm not too bright'...

Posted by: duh_swami

at October 15, 2008 4:53 PM

Speaking of Ataturk:

"Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives."

--Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sounds right to me.

Posted by: darcy

at October 15, 2008 5:06 PM

Ataturk probably knew that there was at best a 50% chance that his fellow Turks would see the wisdom of his approach to Islam. Looks like it's down now to no better than 25%. I expect the Arabs to never get it, being the most screwed up major people on the planet as they are, but I thought for many years the Turks would remain sensible and just keep a shell of Islam in place, courtesy of Ataturk. Ain't happenin.' Too bad. Islam will drag the Turks down just as much as it has the Arabs if they let it. Appears they're letting it.

Posted by: Wellington

at October 15, 2008 5:07 PM

Metin Kaplan:

"I'm a Muslim, and a Muslim cannot be a terrorist"

http://sheikyermami.com/2008/10/15/cologne-caliph-faces-life-in-prison-i-am-muslim-and-a-muslim-cannot-be-a-terrorist/#more-12163

Posted by: sheik yer'mami

at October 15, 2008 6:57 PM

What the hell? Where's the reasoning on this one?
I can almost see bin Laden's "slapped ass" face plastered on the tube reading from a piece of paper:

"If the infidels do not cease living long and fruitful lives, then dying, we shall take drastic measures..."

Posted by: Callidus

at October 15, 2008 10:12 PM

If the only time these people are "good" is in Jail, then why in Gods Green Earth do we ever let them out? We short of bad People in the outside or what.

Posted by: flowerknife_us

at October 16, 2008 12:31 AM

Konya in central Turkey is the home of the "whirling dervishes". They did not like Ataturk and the feeling was mutual. I was there about 40 years ago and Ataturk's statue west ot the town had his back to the town. A permanent insult to the dervishes and their ilk. The town is probably bigger now - I wonder if the statue is still there?

Posted by: Jimmy Bones

at October 16, 2008 1:18 AM

I have been noticing something here! Not one of the ones on jihadwatch.org being caught for funneling money, failed terrorist attempts, etc are poor, illiterate or... was there a 3rd stupid reason that muslims like to tell us are the excuses for terrorism? I forget and it isn't that important since muslims themselves prove themselves wrong all the time.

Posted by: R_not

at October 16, 2008 3:36 AM

So what are we saying? Even the dead are not safe from the jihad?

Posted by: tanstaafl

at October 16, 2008 9:07 AM

This time it was a mausoleum. How long before there is a plane flying into the Pyramids, because such "idolatry" cannot exist in a Muslim country?

Posted by: PMK

at October 16, 2008 9:37 AM

darcy,

Ataturk, huh? Read the response from members of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association and the American Hellenic Media Project back when McLaughlin on the McLaughlin Group named Ataturk the Person of the Millenium in 2000. http://www.ahmp.org/McLaugh1.html

The response is partly down the page.

So Turkey went from the religious thugocracy of the Sultanate/Ottoman Empire to the dictatorial Ataturk. Doesn't speak well for Turkey, or Ataturk. No matter how noble or politically expedient Ataturk's goals were when it came to islam, The Armenian Genocide continued under his rule. Like Saddam Hussein, Ataturk used the religious bits from islam which selectively aided his own position. And, of course by doing so, kept the people happy by allowing them to still do a little religious killing. For fun and profit. Jihad, if you will.

Posted by: Rick

at October 16, 2008 11:00 AM