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Turkish imam joins the Islamic State

Dec 13, 2014 11:40 pm By Robert Spencer

Wall painted with Islamic State flagThis imam was appointed to his post by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate. Presumably he had years of training: study of the Qur’an, study of Muhammad, study of Islamic law. And yet now he has gone to join the Islamic State. Has John Kerry been notified of this? Somehow this imam missed all the many ways — ways that are obvious to all non-Muslim politicians in the West — in which the Islamic State is transgressing against Islamic teaching. He needs some real instruction! Can Joe Biden be dispatched to Çanakkale’s Bayramiç district, and cross into the Islamic State from there, so as to find this imam and talk some sense into him?

“Turkish imam joins ISIL in Syria, deputy PM confirms,” Hürriyet Daily News, December 12, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

An imam who worked at a mosque in the Çanakkale province of northwestern Turkey has joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), daily Taraf cited Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç as saying on Dec. 12, adding that the imam has been removed from his post.

“Unfortunately it is true that an imam from Çanakkale’s Bayramiç district joined the ISIL. This person was suspended from his post on June 25,” said Arınç, while responding to questions over the budget of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet). In Turkey, imams are appointed to mosques by the Diyanet.

“I don’t know if there are similar examples in other provinces, but it deeply hurt us that an imam could leave the country to join an army of such murderers,” the deputy prime minister also said.

More than 100 of the 600 Turkish citizens that have gone to fight for jihadist groups such as ISIL have perished in battle, according to intelligence estimates, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Nov. 24.

Some 7,000 foreigners have been banned from entering Turkey and 1,100 people were deported on suspicions that they may join jihadist groups, the minister said in reply to questions by lawmakers in Parliament during budget discussions.

The foreign minister said it was unfair to expect Turkey, which has a 1,000-kilometer-long border with Syria and Iraq, to tackle alone the problem of foreign fighters crossing through Turkish territory. He asked Western countries to share more intelligence with Turkey on suspected militants so that Turkish authorities can stop them from entering the country….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Turkey Tagged With: Bülent Arınç, Çanakkale’s Bayramiç district, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu


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  1. mortimer says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 12:06 am

    Quick! Call Vice-president Biden! He’ll tell this misunderstander ‘TWO THINGS ABOUT ISLAM’ that’ll SET HIM STRAIGHT…1) Islam is peace with NO COMPULSION 2) ISIS has nothing to do with Islam (even though Al Azhar University has not said that…Biden ‘knows’ that).

    I’m sure that UNIVERSITY-TRAINED mullah will slap his head and say, ‘NOW, I finally get it! I always wondered about that, but now someone has explained to me exactly how Islam is peace…I’ll go back home now.’

    Why does Biden ‘know’ more that Al Azhar and one million mullahs? Because Biden ‘knows’ it IN HIS GUT!

  2. gp says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 1:13 am

    No surprise there, Turkey hates America and Americans, but they do surely love those American dollars! Turkey is a gateway to ISIS terrorist fronts and a veritable playground for ISIS and other Islamist terrorists. Definitely well behind Pakistan in the trust department- and we should have ZERO trust in Pakistan-who openly and conspicuously aided and abetted OBL.

    Does the Turkish government still shuttle ISIS fighters to the border in US supplied Aid vehicles, or did the stop that after it became public last month?

  3. Salah says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 2:33 am

    “This imam was appointed to his post by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate. Presumably he had years of training: study of the Qur’an, study of Muhammad, study of Islamic law. And yet now he has gone to join the Islamic State.”

    Yes, but…
    This other imam was appointed to his post by Al Azhar. He had years of training: study the Qur’an, study of Muhammad, study of Islamic law, his father was an ultra-conservative Salafist. And yet now he has openly and publicly left Islam.

    What happened to him? he started to use his brain.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Harqan

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Dec 14, 2014 at 6:20 am

      Mark Gabriel did the same.

      He was a *lecturer* at Al Azhar.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Dec 14, 2014 at 6:22 am

        By “did the same”, I mean, he did the same as Ahmed Harqan – he ditched Islam.

        In his case he (Mark Gabriel) then became a Christian.

        • Salah says

          Dec 14, 2014 at 2:00 pm

          Yes, and guess what, millions are doing the same either publicly or in hiding.

          http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html

  4. Angemon says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 6:50 am

    Has John Kerry been notified of this? Somehow this imam missed all the many ways — ways that are obvious to all non-Muslim politicians in the West — in which the Islamic State is transgressing against Islamic teaching. He needs some real instruction! Can Joe Biden be dispatched to Çanakkale’s Bayramiç district, and cross into the Islamic State from there, so as to find this imam and talk some sense into him?

    I’ve seen worse kickstarter ideas 😀

  5. thomas pellow says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 7:04 am

    “Turkey and EU:

    The Kodak-Moment”

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4950/turkey-eu

  6. Petey says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 9:25 am

    The sad part is Obummer will probably give them the intelligence they want, I wonder how much of it will be passed to ISIS or Al Qaeda?

  7. thomas pellow says

    Dec 14, 2014 at 9:49 am

    “Turkey police raid opposition media with Gulen links”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30468199

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