With so many Islamic authorities condemning the Islamic State, albeit in vague and non-specific terms, it is noteworthy that it has received so much help from elements in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. There are obviously many people in both countries who believe that what the Islamic State is doing is perfectly Islamic, and to be encouraged.
“ISIS Fighter Claims Turkey Funds the Jihadist Group,” by Mary Chastain, Breitbart, July 30, 2014 (thanks to Joshua):
Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AK Party have a well developed reputation for anti-Semitism and anti-Israel policies generally. But now ties to the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, are emerging. The Jerusalem Post reported one Islamic State member said Turkey, a member of NATO, provided funds for the terrorist group.
“Turkey paved the way for us. Had Turkey not shown such understanding for us, the Islamic State would not be in its current place. It [Turkey] showed us affection. Large [numbers] of our mujahedeen received medical treatment in Turkey,” said the man, who was not identified. “We do not have the support of Saudi Arabia, but many Saudi families who believe in jihad do assist us. But anyhow, we will no longer need it, soon,” he said.
“We will build the Islamic state in the territories from Tigris to Jordan and Palestine and to Lebanon. Sunni Law will rule,” he continued.
The terrorists took over Azaz, a key town in Syria near the border of Turkey in September 2013. That is significant because Turkey “vocally supported the fight against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and allowed weapons to cross into Syria on its southern border.” The capture of Azaz allowed easier access to the jihadists. Two months later, CNN featured Turkey’s secret jihadi route to Syria.
Now, ISIS is speaking with Turkey businesses and asking them to return to Iraq.
“Turkish companies have signed major contracts in Iraq, promising to keep their shelves stocked,” said Turkey’s Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci. “Our exports to Iraq are now down to 35%, but Iraq cannot easily substitute other sources. We think there will be a boom in demand soon. We also know that IS is contacting individual Turkish businessmen and telling them, ‘Come back, we won’t interfere.’ That is not easy, of course. But when in the future Iraq is rebuilt, it will be Turkey doing it.”…
Beagle says
Hey, Recep, as they say in Highlander: “There can be only one (caliph).”
Joseph says
So WALID SHOEBAT has been RIGHT all along! Mr. Shoebat has been saying for over a decade that TURKEY is the nation that will be the seat of the restored Islamic Caliphate (as MB “spiritual” advisor Yusuf al-Qaradawi also recommended recently). Mr. Shoebat has said fearlessly, in the face of MUCH opposition that Turkey will make an alliance with Iran and either one or the other (or both) will attack and destroy the hated…wait for it…Saudi Arabia.
But that’s all just background for this current story. Mr. Shoebat has also said tirelessly, ever since the threat of Islamic State became known, that it was TURKEY and ERDOGAN that gave birth to and nurtured the Islamic State from the beginning. And, for those who are interested, for the record he also predicts, based on sound biblical principles of interpretation and hermeneutics, that Turkey will be the nation from which the Antichrist arises.
Beagle says
For now anyway, the seat of the ‘restored’ caliphate is in Raqqa, Syria. I was not kidding about only one caliph. Part of me is laughing at Muslim leaders creating this monster and watching it turn on them. If only we had another option, planet wise.
Time for everyone to start reading things like this:
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa18
http://historymedren.about.com/od/bwho/p/who_abu_bakr.htm
http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/history/caliphs.htm
http://www.examiner.com/article/ottoman-caliphate-and-the-khilafat-movement
I studied medieval history in college to get away from really obnoxious socialists. Who knew it would turn out to be better than studying current events of the 1980s in determining our actual trajectory in 2014?
umbra says
Neither turkey nor iran have the capability of defeating (conquering) saudi arabia in an armed conflict at the moment. It would also appear that as saudis continues to arm and upgrade its armed forces, chances of turkish and/or iranian victory over saudis is improbable anytime soon … unless turks somehow get the keys and codes to USAF nukes stationed in turkey.
Edward says
……..”unless turks somehow get the keys and codes to USAF nukes stationed in turkey.”
Hmm, strange bedfellows the US has! So, this the union-ification of Amerika then!
I wonder how much Turkey gets in aid from the US? Is so…. wonder if this stipend ends up in the ISIS coffers? If it does…..what a revolting situation! Hey, America is aiding and abetting in the murder of fellow Christians.
So, lets kick out the bums out DC! Including all of the Islamic/Muslim lobbyists.
umbra says
US poured billions into turkey during the cold war. It is probable that present US “aid” to turkey still exists and perhaps runs in the tens or hundreds of millions USD annually.
annieoakley says
Erdogan is the President’s best bud.
Sovereign Man says
Master is more like it. I have heard that Obama’s first phone call after the 2008 election results came in was to Erdogan. The next day he called Mahmoud Abbas. Shortly thereafter he made his apology tour, where he came face to face with the Saudi King’s junk.
I suspect he was first introduced to the Muslim Brotherhood in Indonesia as a teenager, after which he traveled to Pakistan in 1981 for several months (who the hell goes to Pakistan except for Jihad indoctrination?), and then returned to United States to meet his handler and the man who got him into Harvard, the black radical Muslim convert and Saudi terror boss Khalid Al-Mansour.
fred lapides says
“I have heard” is hardly proof of anything but an odd assertion. Name source.
tpellow says
And West’s political class is implicated in this by:
a.) its support for Islamizing Turkey’s entry into E.U;
b.) trying to distance the Islamic ‘Islamic State’ from Islam.
Salah says
Turkey paved the way for ISIL, that’s true. But most of the funding is pouring in from Qatar.
Edward says
Their decision to support the ISIS will hurt Turkey’s industries. I plan not to buy a fleet of Ford’s Transit Connect’s, which are assembled in Turkey. Turkey’s productivity in time will go the same way as beautiful Lebanon has gotten to be. Theo-democracy is not the best way for economy growth even if you have oil resources. This radical religious warfare against America faces has come to a stop. We have to stop the rhetoric and unite our minds to discover who, from where ….are our threats originating from……do they come from terrestrial or spiritual origins?
This brings to mind the passage From Ephesian 6:12 For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the principalities and the ruling forces who are masters of the darkness in this world, the spirits of evil in the heavens.
Threats from man can be suppressed, but if religion is its motivator it is much harder to contain if it is a spiritual in nature type of warfare we face……where evil gets it strength to harm the innocent from its inherent unpredictable tactics.
Lets keep our Faith intact……without it we loose our immunity against our Teflon like ultra maligned nemeses!
Edward says
Typo error: Turkey’s productivity in time will go [to the pits] the same way as beautiful Lebanon has gotten to be.
Beagle says
hence , USA and all NATO members support/finance/defend/fund/arm/aid islamofacists worldwide .
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Fascinating use of syllogistic logic there.
1. Zawahiri is an Egyptian
2. Therefore, you are a member of al Qaeda.
3. Don’t need a 3.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Turkey paved the way for us. Had Turkey not shown such understanding for us, the Islamic State would not be in its current place.
English must be his second language, cuz without Turkey’s help the Islamic State (aka the Caliphate) would be in the very same place it is now: the eastern Levant. Hey, U.S. taxpayer purchased advanced weaponry was there for the taking, and so they did, and thought why go anywhere else? Right next door sat an oil rich area of Nineveh, Arbil and Dohuk, where it was easy to overrun the banks is Mosul and Ibril and stuff their U.S. manufactured trucks and Humvees with piles of cash. Why would the Caliphs wanna go any where else? They’re in hog heaven, if you’ll forgive the phrase.
But Recep and his buddies are always in for a good old fashioned Kurd massacre. Throw in ten thousand Christians and Yazidis so much the better. Turkey has advanced weaponry and operations gear, and training, from the U.S.
I sure hope al-Baghdadi and Erdogan don’t get snarled up in a power struggle. Can’t we just get along? When the plan is to take over the world, it takes some self-sacrifice and big thinking.
GP says
With so many Islamic authorities condemning the Islamic State, albeit in vague and non-specific terms, it is noteworthy that it has received so much help from elements in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. There are obviously many people in both countries who believe that what the Islamic State is doing is perfectly Islamic, and to be encouraged.
BY the way many imams are preaching this same message in their local mosques throughout America and the West. Furthermore, Turkey is a key gateway for American and European jihadists to join up with ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
“ISIS Fighter Claims Turkey Funds the Jihadist Group” Hello?
Raimund says
poor NATO. what a big trash(turkey)has in its structure.
epistemology says
President Erdogaga wants to become sultan and ISIS is a good helper for this endeavour. Islam is the religion of terrorism and ISIS, HamaSS, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda and the likes are only subgroups of the umma. Unfortunately our politicians don’t realise that.
NATO definitely needs to be re-structured and Turkey kicked out. Please let Obama know.
paddy says
I lived in Turkey for a while in the late eighties and it really seemed as though it had become a secular, democratic state. ErDOGan is now intent on building an autocratic sunni state. The one beacon of light in the islamic world has finally proved that this ‘religion’ and freedom are incompatible.
tpellow says
“Revealed: The secret emails helping to smuggle Britons into the war zone as Turkey says 20 UK nationals are waiting in safe houses for signal to cross into Syria.
British militants use sophisticated system to get into Syria undetected.
Terrorist handlers leave recruits instructions in draft email messages.
Would-be fighters wait for signal to cross Turkish border to Syrian camps.
Turkish authorities believe up to 20 Britons are hiding in IS safe houses.
Around 100 foreign militants suspected of being in network of IS buildings.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738028/Revealed-The-secret-emails-helping-smuggle-Britons-war-zone-Turkey-says-20-UK-nationals-hiding-safe-houses-signal-cross-Syria.html#ixzz3BuuwPS00