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Erdogan: EU ruling on headscarf bans starts “clash between Islam and Christianity”

Mar 18, 2017 11:46 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Erdogan is still in a rage over “the cancellation of his supporters’ rallies across Europe.” He will never permit challenges to his own authority in his own country, but of course he has no respect for Europe. For than matter, Europe has no respect for itself, and apparently no interest in defending its own culture and protecting its own people.

Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has also declared that “holy wars will soon begin” in Europe, in spite of the defeat Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. This menacing declaration should come as no surprise. Turkey’s Islamization has been accelerating at an alarming rate at every level, from the leadership to the citizenry.

Europe, on the other hand, has passively welcomed jihad by immigration (hijrah) into its countries, all in the name of diversity and multiculturalism. The more “welcoming” the West is, the more emboldened Islamic supremacists and jihadists become. Their goal is the conquest of the House of War, not peaceful coexistence. Europeans are to blame for the brazenness of Turkey’s supremacist leaders.

“Recep Tayyip Erdogan: EU ruling on headscarf bans starts ‘clash between Islam and Christianity’”, by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, March 16, 2017:

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Europe of staring a “clash” between Christianity and Islam with a ruling allowing employers to ban headscarves as part of wider restrictions on religious and political symbols.

Speaking hours after his foreign minister warned that “holy wars will soon begin”, the Turkish President launched a fresh attack amid an ongoing row over the cancellation of his supporters’ rallies across Europe.

He said the European Court of Justice ruling that upheld the dismissal of two Muslim women who refused to remove their hijabs started a “clash between crescent and cross” in terminology alluding to the Crusades.

“Shame on the EU. Down with your European principles, values and justice,” Mr Erdogan told supporters in Sakarya. “They started a clash between the cross and the crescent, there is no other explanation.”

In a combative speech, Mr Erdogan hit out at European leaders in the Netherlands and Germany after Turkish ministers were prevented from holding events designed to drum up support ahead of a constitutional referendum.

The Turkish President said the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who the beat far-right leader Geert Wilders in Wednesday’s general election, had lost Ankara’s friendship by banning Turkish political campaigning in the country.

The dispute has intensified since a rally to be held by the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Rotterdam was cancelled on Saturday.

The Dutch authorities withdrew permission for the foreign minister’s plane to land when he vowed to visit the country regardless, sparking a series of tit-for-tat sanctions.

Mr Erdogan and prominent ministers have called the Dutch government “fascists” and “Nazis”, while EU leaders have called the allegations offensive and “detached from reality”.

The dispute has sparked protests in Turkey and across Europe. A protester scaled the Dutch consulate in Istanbul and replaced the national flag with the Turkish banner during demonstrations on Sunday, while Turkish protesters have been photographed stabbing oranges and holding signs reading “fascist Holland”.

Ankara also halted high-level talks with Dutch government officials on Monday and closed its airspace to the country’s diplomats, while repeating threats to scrap a deal struck with the EU last year to slow the flow of refugees to Greece.

Allies of the Turkish President are targeting more than a million Turkish voters living in Europe who will be eligible to cast a ballot in the vote on 16 April.

The referendum could see Turkey’s parliamentary system replaced with an executive presidency using constitutional amendments that have alarmed human rights groups…..

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  1. Westman says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    “Down with your European principles, values and justice..”

    How could it be clearer, unless branding it on the forehead of every EU leader, that Islam’s goal is to replace European governments with its own “principles, values and justice”, namely, Sharia?

    There are not adequate words to describe the putrid depths to which European leaders have fallen for power and Euros; destroying their own society in a canabalistic orgy.

    • CrossWare says

      Mar 18, 2017 at 1:30 pm

      Truer words never been spoken.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 18, 2017 at 2:10 pm

      Exactly!

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 12:18 pm

      Those who are infesting western civilization with the Scourge of Islam are globalist elites who support U.N. Agenda 2030, which calls for the elimination of approximately 6.5 BILLION people (by 2030).

      Most of these western countries have been disarmed so that the Muslims can give the elites a good start on world depopulation by killing everyone but Muslims, leaving only 1.7 billion for the elites to deal with. (And at the same time removing the most serious block in the way of Agenda 2030 One World Government – western civilization).

  2. Just A Concerned Citizen says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 12:12 pm

    The back page of the local Arabic language ragsheet here in Bahrain (typically reserved for oddball news from around the world) gleefully featured color photos of Turkish newspapers with Frau Merkel on the front page in full Hitler get-up; right down to the tiny mustache.

    The “butthurt” of the Turks (and on the Arab Street) is palpable…

  3. Michael McGrath says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    Belligerent belicose dictatorial whack job. A large number of euorpeqn citizens do Not want the principles values and culture of Islam shoved down their throats by.an out of.control.despot wannabbe

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 12:19 pm

      Those who are infesting western civilization with the Scourge of Islam are globalist elites who support U.N. Agenda 2030, which calls for the elimination of approximately 6.5 BILLION people (by 2030).

      Most of these western countries have been disarmed so that the Muslims can give the elites a good start on world depopulation by killing everyone but Muslims, leaving only 1.7 billion for the elites to deal with. (And at the same time removing the most serious block in the way of Agenda 2030 One World Government – western civilization).

  4. Wellington says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    Starting a clash between Christianity and Islam? Hmmm, that clash started back in the seventh century, courtesy of Mo’s creed. Has had lulls at times, especially as the Islamic world began to sink under its own weight because of the many built-in stultifying aspects of Islam, but now it is has been revived, principally because the Islamic world, which for centuries has invented almost nothing of value, has begun to acquire wealth and weaponry due to Western technology. Meanwhile, Western elites aplenty remain clueless about just how inimical Islam is to freedom, equality under the law and the life of the mind.

    P.S. Contra Angelina Jolie, Islam is far from being a beautiful religion. Quite the opposite in fact, though she will almost certainly never learn this.

    • CrankyWW says

      Mar 18, 2017 at 12:35 pm

      If things keep up the way they are, Ms. Jolie will certainly learn this. The hard way.

      • Sam says

        Mar 18, 2017 at 2:01 pm

        No she wont. She will blame Trump for everything. Trust me!!!

        • AnneM says

          Mar 19, 2017 at 1:47 pm

          Not going to happen.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 19, 2017 at 12:58 am

        Islam would never allow an independent woman like Angelina Jolie. What a delusional tool.

        • Anne Smith says

          Mar 19, 2017 at 9:43 am

          Yes, isn’t it disgusting the way these publicity hungry women allow themselves to be used. A good dose of FGM might cure her.

    • epistemology says

      Mar 18, 2017 at 8:21 pm

      It’s a clash between Islam and the whole civilized world, as other cultures have the same problems with Islam as the Western Judeo-Christian culture, nobody gets along with Muslims, as they always want to impose their bloody sharia, very bloody indeed.

      Obviously European elites see Mark Rutte in the Netherlands slowly start to consider the European people’s needs, sensible Europeans want to get rid of Islam, they love their freedom and want to live in peace which is impossible with a strong Islamic population in their midst. Rutte would never have banned the Turkish ministers if he hadn’t Geert Wilders as opponent. So Geert Wilders’ ideas won the the election.

      But I’m afraid Erdogaga will win his referendum which will enthrone him as sultan by mobilizing the undecided ones, he’ll convince them that the whole of Europe is Turkophob, anyway he’ll never, ever get Turkey into the EU.

      All the best to you and yours my friend, take care

      • Wellington says

        Mar 18, 2017 at 9:28 pm

        You’re right, epistemology. It’s a clash between the worst religion ever against the rest of the world, though right now, unfortunately, the stupidest part of the rest of the world is the West, unusual to be sure since the West over time is the greatest civilization ever but right now it’s run by a bunch of overeducated dopes, a good and very recent example being the federal district judge in Hawaii who blocked President Trump’s completely constitutional temporary travel ban for those coming from merely six of the fifty-six Muslim nations.

        This judge should be impeached for gross judicial incompetence. For that matter, I would dearly love to see the Mays, Trudeaus, Merkels, et al. of the West put into permanent retirement. What a collection of destructive losers they are.

    • Carolyne says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 1:22 pm

      It must be a full time job for Angelina Jolie to be a great intellectual. How does she have time for all those kids when she has to think so much.

  5. Jack Dawkins says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 12:20 pm

    He also wants his fellow Muslim Turks to crank up the demographic jihad.

    http://m.ndtv.com/world-news/recep-tayyip-erdogan-tells-turks-in-europe-to-have-5-children-1670780

    • Zé says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 7:25 am

      Western countries should change it’s laws, and allow for discrimination based on religion.

      Then cut of all welfare to muslims.

      Not only they would not have 5 children, most of them would go back to their countries.

      • Anne Smith says

        Mar 19, 2017 at 9:45 am

        Well a good start in UK would be to cut the child allowance to two only. The Muslims main source of funding would be removed at a stroke.

        It might also sort out the lazy and idle underclasses (of all religions) in UK who rely on baby farming to fund their lifestyle.

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 19, 2017 at 12:25 pm

        Islam meets every single qualifier to be a cult, including the most heinous of all: Human sacrifice.

        (What do we call it when a group of Satanists calls to Satan to witness the murder of a victim? Why do we not call it the same thing when a group of Muslims calls to Allah to witness the murder of a victim?)

        The simple thing to remove all religious protections from Islam is to get it re-defined as a cult.

      • The RationalVoice says

        Mar 20, 2017 at 8:51 am

        I was just thinking that myself. We outlawed discrimination based on religion to stop the wars and divisions in Europe between Catholics and Protestants.
        and extended this to the religions of immigrants who were pouring in due to the intolerance and poverty of their own countries
        Most religions don’t have the declared aim of forcibly or otherwise conquering the World with “holy wars” and killing or making second class citizens those who won’t convert. This means the existing laws in the free world can be exploited by Muslims until and if they achieve power in non-Muslim countries. This can be achieved by the slow infusion of cultural and religious attitudes aided and abetted by short-sighted and very stupid “liberal” politicians of left, right and centre.
        The only bulwark against this is the vast majority of the electorate and politically active people 1/Kicking out these short-sighted politicians2/Electing those who will not sell out their countries culture and will repeall or modify existing laws to stop and reverse this dangerous and undesirable process of Islamification including outlawing it and stopping all further immigration into the free World
        There is no other solution. A social cancer like this needs to be cut out !

  6. Jan Aage Jeppesen says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    “An internal rule of an undertaking which prohibits the visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious sign does not constitute direct discrimination”

    (Court of Justice of the European Union, 14 March 2017).

    Case C-157/15, G4S Secure Solutions:

    On 12 February 2003, Samira Achbita, a Muslim, was employed as a receptionist by G4S, a private undertaking which provides, inter alia, reception services for customers in both the public and private sectors. At the time of Ms Achbita’s recruitment there was an unwritten rule within G4S that prohibited employees from wearing visible signs of their political, philosophical or religious beliefs in the workplace.

    In April 2006, Ms Achbita informed her employer that she intended to wear an Islamic headscarf during working hours. In response, the management of G4S informed her that the wearing of the headscarf would not be tolerated because the visible wearing of political, philosophical or religious signs was contrary to the position of neutrality G4S adopted in its contacts with its customers. On 12 May 2006, after a period of absence from work due to sickness, Ms Achbita notified her employer that she would be returning to work on 15 May and that she would in future be wearing the Islamic headscarf.

    On 29 May 2006, the G4S works council approved an amendment to the workplace regulations, which came into force on 13 June 2006. These provided that ‘employees are prohibited, in the workplace, from wearing any visible signs of their political, philosophical or religious beliefs and/or from engaging in any observance of such beliefs’. On 12 June 2006, Ms Achbita was dismissed because of her continuing insistence on wearing the Islamic headscarf at work. She challenged that dismissal in the Belgian courts.

    The Hof van Cassatie (Court of Cassation, Belgium), before which the matter was brought, has queried the interpretation of the EU directive on equal treatment in employment and occupation. In essence, it wishes to know whether the prohibition on wearing an Islamic headscarf, which arises from a general internal rule of a private undertaking, constitutes direct discrimination.

    In its judgment today, the Court of Justice notes first of all that, under the directive, the ‘principle of equal treatment’ means that there is to be no direct or indirect discrimination whatsoever on the grounds, inter alia, of religion. Although the directive does not include a definition of ‘religion’, the EU legislature referred to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and to the constitutional traditions common to the Member States, which have been reaffirmed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Therefore, the concept of religion must be interpreted as covering both the fact of having religious belief and the freedom of persons to manifest that belief in public.

    The Court of Justice finds that G4S’s internal rule refers to the wearing of visible signs of political, philosophical or religious beliefs and therefore covers any manifestation of such beliefs without distinction. The rule thus treats all employees of the undertaking in the same way, notably by requiring them, generally and without any differentiation, to dress neutrally. It is not evident from the material in the file available to the Court that that internal rule was applied differently to Ms Achbita as compared to other G4S employees. Accordingly, such an internal rule does not introduce a difference of treatment that is directly based on religion or belief, for the purposes of the directive.

    The Court notes that it is not, however, inconceivable that the national court might conclude that the internal rule introduces a difference of treatment that is indirectly based on religion or belief, should it be established that the apparently neutral obligation it encompasses results, in fact, in persons adhering to a particular religion or belief being put at a particular disadvantage.

    Nevertheless, such a difference of treatment would not amount to indirect discrimination if it was justified by a legitimate aim and if the means of achieving that aim were appropriate and necessary. Whilst emphasising that the national court hearing the case has sole jurisdiction to determine whether, and to what extent, the internal rule meets those requirements, the Court of Justice provides guidance in that respect.

    It states that an employer’s desire to project an image of neutrality towards both its public and private sector customers is legitimate, notably where the only workers involved are those who come into contact with customers. That desire relates to the freedom to conduct a business, which is recognised in the Charter.

    In addition, the ban on the visible wearing of signs of political, philosophical or religious beliefs is appropriate for the purpose of ensuring that a policy of neutrality is properly applied, provided that that policy is genuinely pursued in a consistent and systematic manner. The national court must ascertain whether G4S had, prior to Ms Achbita’s dismissal, established a general and undifferentiated policy in that respect.

    In this instance, it is also necessary to ascertain whether the prohibition covers only G4S workers who interact with customers. If that is the case, the prohibition must be considered strictly necessary for the purpose of achieving the aim pursued.

    It should also be ascertained whether, taking into account the inherent constraints to which the undertaking is subject, and without G4S being required to take on an additional burden, it would have been possible for G4S to offer Ms Achbita a post not involving any visual contact with those customers, instead of dismissing her.

    The Court therefore concludes that the prohibition on wearing an Islamic headscarf, which arises from an internal rule of a private undertaking prohibiting the visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious sign in the workplace, does not constitute direct discrimination based on religion or belief within the meaning of the directive.

    By contrast, such a prohibition may constitute indirect discrimination if it is established that the apparently neutral obligation it imposes results, in fact, in persons adhering to a particular religion or belief being put at a particular disadvantage. However, such indirect discrimination may be objectively justified by a legitimate aim, such as the pursuit by the employer, in its relations with its customers, of a policy of political, philosophical and religious neutrality, provided that the means of achieving that aim are appropriate and necessary. It is for the Belgian Court of Cassation to check those conditions.

    http://www.curia.europa.eu
    Case C-188/15, Bougnaoui and ADDH
    Prior to being recruited by Micropole, a private undertaking, Asma Bougnaoui met a representative of Micropole at a student fair in October 2007, who informed her that the wearing of an Islamic headscarf might pose a problem when she was in contact with customers of the company. When Ms Bougnaoui arrived at Micropole on 4 February 2008 for an internship, she was wearing a simple bandana. She subsequently wore an Islamic headscarf at work. At the end of her internship, Micropole employed her, from 15 July 2008, as a design engineer under a contract of employment of indefinite duration. Following a complaint from a customer to whom she had been assigned by Micropole, Micropole reaffirmed the principle of the need for neutrality as regards its customers and asked her not to wear the veil in future. Ms Bougnaoui objected and was subsequently dismissed. She challenged her dismissal in the French courts.
    The Cour de cassation (Court of Cassation, France), before which the matter was brought, asked the Court of Justice whether the willingness of an employer to take account of the wishes of a customer no longer to have that employer’s services provided by a worker wearing an Islamic headscarf may be considered a ‘genuine and determining occupational requirement’ within the meaning of the directive.
    In today’s judgment, the Court of Justice notes, first of all, that it is not clear from the order for reference whether the question from the French Court of Cassation is based on a finding of a difference of treatment based directly or indirectly on religion or belief.
    It is therefore for the French Court of Cassation to ascertain whether Ms Bougnaoui’s dismissal was based on non-compliance with an internal rule prohibiting the visible wearing of signs of political, philosophical or religious beliefs. If that is the case, it is for that court to determine whether the conditions set out in the judgment in G4S Secure Solutions are satisfied, that is to say, whether the difference of treatment, arising from an apparently neutral internal rule that is likely to result, in fact, in certain persons being put at a particular disadvantage, is objectively justified by the pursuit of a policy of neutrality, and whether it is appropriate and necessary.
    By contrast, if the dismissal of Ms Bougnaoui was not based on the existence of such an internal rule, it would be necessary to determine whether the willingness of an employer to take account of a customer’s wish no longer to have the employer’s services provided by a worker who wears an Islamic headscarf is justified for the purposes of Article 4(1) of the directive, according to which Member States may provide that a difference of treatment prohibited by the directive does not constitute discrimination where, by reason of the nature of the particular occupational activities concerned or of the context in which they are carried out, the characteristic at issue constitutes a genuine and determining occupational requirement, provided that the objective is legitimate and the requirement is proportionate.
    The Court of Justice points out that it is only in very limited circumstances that a characteristic related, in particular, to religion may constitute a genuine and determining occupational requirement, a concept which refers to a requirement that is objectively dictated by the nature of the occupational activities concerned or of the context in which they are carried out and does not cover subjective considerations, such as the employer’s willingness to take account of the particular wishes of the customer.
    The answer given by the Court is, therefore, that the willingness of an employer to take account of the wishes of a customer no longer to have the services of that employer provided by a worker wearing an Islamic headscarf cannot be considered a genuine and determining occupational requirement within the meaning of the directive.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 18, 2017 at 6:10 pm

      Thank you very much for the added information.

  7. Caliphate says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 12:30 pm

    Erdogan has already said:
    – To clean the population and make it pure
    – To become so strong as Hitler
    – Democracy is as a train were you get of at the right moment
    – 1,5 billion muslims waiting for rise of new civilisation (caliphate)
    – You can’t believe in human laws and in Allah’s laws the same time
    – There is no moderate Islam
    – The mosques are our barracks, the dome our helmets, the minarets our bayonets,
    and the faithful our soldiers
    – Rotterdams riots are provoked, only designated people talk to journalist, immideatly live in Turkey
    – The west is behind the killings of muslims.
    – Erdogan, Cavusolglu and lots of Rotterdams turks showed the marters symbol of rabia. The female minister was prepared to die as a marter in the Netherlands
    – Qaradawi the notoirious preacher of muslim brotherhood gives his approval for the coming caliphate
    – If the minister died in the Netherlands this would be a reason for war
    – War wil come to Europe
    – The dutch media only think Erdogan is doing this for the referendum. Islam is only mentioned sparsly. the dark truth isn’t coming through

  8. CrankyWW says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 12:33 pm

    The Holy wars have begun, it’s just that the infidel leaders and leftists refuse to believe it.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 12:28 pm

      The leftists not only believe it, the APPROVE of it. They are hoping the Muslims will get rid of many conservatives for them.

      They are foolish enough to think that the Alligator Islam will not then eat them, too.

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    This “Clash between Islam and Christianity ” started centuries before an proposed EU headscarf ban.

    About Islam and Muslim clerics, be they living in the UK or the USA or if they are the mullahs of Iran and Afghanistan or the imams of Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia or any other country. All those Muslims clerics are, according to the doctrines of the Bible, Isaiah 8:20. false religious teachers .Meaning false teacher s who teach and indoctrinate the false doctrines of the false religion of Islam into the hearts and minds of others . Such false teachers are described in the Bible ,in Second Peter 2:1. “There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privately shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.” [K.J.V.]
    Therefore, to reply to the many different claims made by the imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam there is the Christian internet site. It’s http://www.answering-islam.org
    In addition, it should be make clear that in the context and meaning of the above Bible verse Second Peter 2:1. The word “destruction” does not mean “loss of being but loss of well-being ,as the destruction of well- being . That is “going to ruin” by ending up and a terrible place of awful suffering which the Bible call hell, Luke 16:19-31.

  10. no_one says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 12:59 pm

    If the west had learned from the history of Eastern Europe they would never allow a single turk or any muslim on their land. It is too late now. They may try expelling the turks and taking Dutch citizenship from those who have a turkish citizenship as well. That would be a matter of national security.

  11. no_one says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 1:03 pm

    Sultan Erdogan al-Terror

  12. Alien Republican says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 1:12 pm

    First genocide of the past century was religously motivated. Armenian genocide….and some syrian, greek christians. Never heard that they went after muslim minorites on their territory during that time.

  13. somehistory says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 1:39 pm

    “Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Europe of staring a “clash” between Christianity and Islam with a ruling allowing employers to ban headscarves as part of wider restrictions on religious and political symbols.”

    Hard to ignore that typo…as his evil eyes do seem to stare in a bugged-out way. Looks as though he is trying to put an evil curse on his audience.

    If employers are allowed to *ban headscarves* and other “wider restrictions on religious and political” symbols, it is only in his small evil mind that the employers are all Christians and that Christian “symbols” are not being banned.

    This is a fabricated excuse to say he is “starting” a war with Christians. The war has been on since that evil little creature murdered those who disagreed with him in the desert. But he wants it to be full-on, slaughtering those who have done him no harm so he can be the biggest little creature on campus and make everyone bow to him and his fake god, satan the devil.

  14. Crusades Were Right! says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 1:40 pm

    After reading this article, try to imagine that the Dutch people are a nation living under Turkish rule. Then ask yourself the question: “What happens next?”

    (See Armenians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Assyrians, et al, for details.)

  15. Sam says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    “They started a clash between the cross and the crescent, there is no other explanation.”

    And people both muslim and infidel believe this crap from Erdogan and would not have the curiosity to find out that this religious battle had already been started long time ago by Erdogan’s “perfect” man Mohammad, the prophet, “peace may be upon him”.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 12:35 pm

      Oh, he’s got peace, undoubtedly!

      After all, he’s not with that horrible God who says, “Love one another” and “Let the little children come to Me.”

      He’s with that glorious Allah who says, “Kill everyone who doesn’t agree with you” and “Rape the little children.”

      Made for each other. What a nice visit they must be having.

  16. Michael says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 2:26 pm

    We’ll see if any leaders in Europe have any balls left. Declaration of war? Explicit statement of intentions? Doesn’t get too much more threatening …. The ‘reason’ for the outrage is bullshit, of course. But they don’t need a reason. The fact that non-Muslims exist, IS reason for outrage and every and any means they can use to kill the infidel.

  17. Dave Catleugh says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 3:19 pm

    Hang on a minute. Headscarves used to be banned in Turkey, until fairly recently.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 1:14 am

      But Erdogan has been steadily dismantling Kemalism for ten years now.

  18. My Opinion says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 3:29 pm

    Hey, dumbass, the clash if civilizations, Christianity and islam, began 1400 years ago. When you allow open celebration, practice, and reverence of Christianity in your own country and encourage your other Islamic hell holes to do the same, you can recommend to us how WE should be so tolerant of YOUR practices and beliefs. Until such time, stfu.

  19. mortimer says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 3:30 pm

    Erdogan is behaving more and more and talking more and more like a sultan of the Ottoman Empire. In his mind, Turkey is already in the EU and HE (Erdogan) is already the caliph over all Europe.

  20. mortimer says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 3:34 pm

    While Western leaders are exceedingly conciliatory to Muslim leaders, the latter use ‘Crusades’ terminology and make other provocative pronouncements to stir up rancor.

    The ‘START’ of the clash between Islam and Christendom is KORAN 9.29 – “Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.”

  21. Craig Kirk says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    At the same time of Erdogan Netherlands should pass a law in recognition of the Armenian Genocide committed by turkish Muslim Army in 1915 against the Armenian Christians

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 1:18 am

      Craig, the Netherlands *do* recognize the Armenian Genocide:

      http://www.armenian-genocide.org/recognition_countries.html

      Good for them!

  22. vladkoval says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 4:00 pm

    https://twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/843123815265779712
    “Crimea leader Aksyonov says if Putin had been leader of USSR it wouldn’t have collapsed, and that he should be president of Russia for life.”
    Guess where Erdogan scoops up his inspiration to be a Dictator?

    • Pal says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 7:19 am

      Russian / Soviet imperialism is No different that the Islam imperialism.
      A iota.

  23. Margaret Haugh says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 4:59 pm

    The obsession with women covering there heads. You would think she was wearing her vagina on her head. What the hell is wrong with these people. They are freaking psychotic! It is like they see the world through a Picasso painting where all the parts of the picture of someone’s form is rearranged. It is schizoid if you ask me. It is like someone cast a spell on those men that men can not possibly control themselves if she dares to uncover her head or arms or legs. People in Amazon are not like that. They could care less.

    • mousey says

      Mar 18, 2017 at 11:35 pm

      thanks for making me laugh

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 1:22 am

      Margaret Haugh wrote:

      The obsession with women covering there heads. You would think she was wearing her vagina on her head.
      ………………..

      But they *are*, as pious Muslims see it, Margaret. A woman’s entire body is considered “Awra”, or private parts. Bunch of savages.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 12:44 pm

      But YOU are thinking as a human being, while they think as some kind of primitive sub-humans.

  24. Eur says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 5:31 pm

    Drone him, drone Erdogan

  25. DFD says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 5:43 pm

    So, the primary kick-off for the next major war comes from the Turks. Probably. I was tipping on massive terror attacks from ISIS/North Africans or Arabs.

    Would it be “hate-betting” if one were to offer odds?
    Have I invented a new crime?

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 12:44 pm

      Go for it!

  26. R Russell says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 6:11 pm

    I wonder, Are we fast approaching the time the Bible speaks about when Germany and Turkey will work together to cause havoc in the Middle East?

    • somehistory says

      Mar 18, 2017 at 6:27 pm

      I believe we are fast approaching the war the Bible calls Armageddon. I believe it will begin with fulfillment of Ezekiel, chapters 38-39.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 1:23 am

      There’s already havoc in the Middle East, courtesy of Islam.

  27. Angemon says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Europe of staring a “clash” between Christianity and Islam with a ruling allowing employers to ban headscarves as part of wider restrictions on religious and political symbols.

    The ruling was bulls*** – it says than an employer who wants to ban symbols of faith can ban the islamic headscarf. I.e., is they want to ban ALL symbols of faith the islamic headscarf is simply “caught in the net”, in a matter of speaking, and therefore it’s not discriminating against a religion because all are being treated equaly. What if carrying a cross around their neck makes no difference to my business or the safety of my employees but a headscarf does?

    “Shame on the EU. Down with your European principles, values and justice,” Mr Erdogan told supporters in Sakarya.

    Translation: “WHY CAN’T I BE A MEMBER OF THE EU?!?!?! WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!”

    http://read.gov/aesop/005.html

    The Fox & the Grapes

    A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox’s mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.

    The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it. The first time he jumped he missed it by a long way. So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more. Again and again he tried, but in vain.

    Now he sat down and looked at the grapes in disgust.

    “What a fool I am,” he said. “Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for.”

    And off he walked very, very scornfully.

    Ankara also halted high-level talks with Dutch government officials on Monday and closed its airspace to the country’s diplomats, while repeating threats to scrap a deal struck with the EU last year to slow the flow of refugees to Greece.

    Yeah, baby, yeah – throw the hissy fit! THROW IT HARDER!!!

  28. Manny says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 11:00 pm

    What do you mean “starts the clash”? The clash has been going on for 1500 years. As long as there will be muslims in the world they will be clashing with everyone.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 1:24 am

      Yup.

  29. davej says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 11:04 pm

    Sometimes you can judge character by appearances, especially with Muslims. Look at his face, there is no mistaking – he is an evil hateful Islamic Fascist. Which exactly matches his speech.

    What a shame, Turkey is the bridge to the near East and used to be a modern secular State. Now it is on the road to Islamic hell, like so much of the world.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 12:47 pm

      Generating fresh hells is the main skill of Muslims.

  30. gravenimage says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 12:44 am

    Erdogan: EU ruling on headscarf bans starts “clash between Islam and Christianity”
    ………………………

    Muslims have been mass-slaughtering Europeans now for over a decade, but Erdogan only considers it a clash when the Infidels try–no matter how non-violently–to defend themselves.

    More:

    “Shame on the EU. Down with your European principles, values and justice”
    ………………………

    Of course Erdogan hates civilized principles, values, and justice–he is a pious Mohammedan, after all.

    • Carolyne says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 4:57 pm

      A couple of years ago I saw a picture of Erdogan and his wife visiting the Queen of England. Erdogan’s wife was swathed from head to toe in Islamic garbage bags. She did not have her face covered, but the hijab, her arms were covered and she was wearing a long dress. She looked like someone’s idea of a Halloween costume representing a mummy. I have been to Turkey many times, but not in the recent past. This wrapping oneself up in bandages is a new thing for the Turks. I would occasionally see elderly women wearing a regular headscarf but not the bandages like Ms. Erdogan was wearing. Shame.

  31. Aton says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 4:45 am

    .
    Might I remind Erdogan that a central plank of Kermel Ataturk’s ‘New Turkey’ was a ban on the headscarf.

    Ataturk understood and openly said that Islam was dangerous to Turkey as a nation, because it strove for a greater Islamic Ummah rather than for the nation state. And so to unify Turkey as a nation, he had to subdue the ambitions of Islam, and that included banning the burquah and the headscarf, and also banning religion in schools (just like in America).

    But Erdogan has legalised the headscarf ‘in the name of religious freedom’ (sic). And now he has a project to build a mosque in every school. And for every woman to have at least five children. Erdogan will destroy Turkey – he cannot see it yet, but he will destroy it.

    Islam does not do ‘work ethic’ or ‘nation building’. Never has, never will – unless they have a subjugated Christian workforce to work for them. So a 99% Muslim Turkey, now holding to 100% Islamic values, WILL implode. States like this always have imploded, and always will. Look at North Africa and Saudi, before the arrival of oil. Look at Syria, which used to be the richest province in the Roman and Byzantine empires. Turkey is doomed.

    Aton

  32. FatherJon says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 5:03 am

    .
    Turkey’s restrictions on wearing overtly religious-oriented attire are rooted in the founding of the modern, secular Turkish state, when the republic’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, introduced a series of clothing regulations designed to keep religious symbolism out of the civil service. The regulations were part of a sweeping series of reforms that altered virtually every aspect of Turkish life, from the civil code to the alphabet to education to social integration of the sexes. Erdogan is overturning that, a sure sign of the Islamist future of Turkey.

  33. SAKOVKT says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 6:06 am

    A clash between the Cross and the Crescent?

    aHHhaaa! Oh, Good Grief!

    Who in Europe is defending the Cross?

    It sure ain’t Pope Francis! The Protestant Churches are long gone.

    And God help him if he tried. The Christian Churches lost all their temporal power by 1871 and with that, went everything else.

    The Church versus the Princes and then the Church versus its own factions have left the secular rulers of Europe squabbling over spurious, conflicting secular ideologies with no more “tolerance” than anyone in the Office of the Inquisition ever had.

    Say whatever about the Kulturkampf but, fact is, the Churches since then have done a better job of it than Bismarck did or could have even imagined.

    Display anything Christian even in the U.S. Military and you’re headed for office hours, at least.

    Erdogan must have made this statement for domestic consumption.

    ***

    The whole Church-State contention in the West was nothing but one big power struggle over the centuries and we all lost, the priests, the princes, cardinals and secular rulers : all of them.

    I was brought up Protestant but I’ve since discovered a lot in the pagan myths I never understood but I am beginning to appreciate.

    The vision may not be as lofty but they do describe life, as it is.

    Power is an awful thing and politics is just a seedy thing, just a Wurfelspiel.

  34. duh swami says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 8:12 am

    What is the sound of one religion clashing?…Allahu Akbar…

    Tayip is just another ego driven dictator like his hero Mohammad…

  35. Blurb1000 says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 10:25 am

    Is there any chance the Turks will give back the nukes USA put there?

    • Carolyne says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 5:01 pm

      Uh……No.

  36. John A. Marre says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 4:16 pm

    That clash has been there ever since Islam started.

  37. davej says

    Mar 19, 2017 at 8:19 pm

    islam doesn’t do science, invention or tolerance but they can breed like rabbits. Nasty, stupid arrogant rabbits.

  38. Aussie Infidel says

    Mar 20, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    I’m overseas at present and somewhat out of contact with the ‘real world’, so this is a bit late but still pertinent.

    LEOPARDS DON’T CHANGE THEIR SPOTS!

    As Mayor of Instanbul, Erdogan once infamously remarked, “The mosques are our barracks; their domes are our helmets; their minarets are our spears; and the faithful are our soldiers.”

    He is still the same sabre-rattling jihadist, wanting to reclaim the Caliphate for himself.

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