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Turkey exporting jihad ideology into South Asia “under the garb of relief”

Jan 25, 2019 9:45 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Turkey has been exporting its ideology under “the garb of relief,” a well-known global strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood that Brotherhood operatives practice frequently in the West.

“Turkey’s strong backing of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has been extensively catalogued, but not much has been written about the country’s support for the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the Brotherhood’s ideological cousin in South Asia that also has an active presence in North America.”

Turkey’s aggressive spread of the Islamic agenda worldwide has been no secret. Erdogan has also been spreading the jihad ideology through a network of mosques and religious centers.

“Turkey exporting radical Islam into South Asia under the garb of relief,” by Abha Shankar, Weeekly Blitz, January 25, 2019:

Turkey’s strong backing of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has been extensively catalogued, but not much has been written about the country’s support for the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the Brotherhood’s ideological cousin in South Asia that also has an active presence in North America.

JI’s role in advancing the Islamist agenda of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was highlighted by a senior aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a video interview last year. JI and the MB are “soft power proxies” that helped bolster Turkey’s role as leader of a global caliphate “defending oppressed and victimized Muslims,” Yasin Atkay told the pro-government Hilal TV.

Islamist ideologue Maulana Syed Abdul Ala Maududi created the JI in 1941, when Lahore, Pakistan was part of British India. In addition to advancing a rigid interpretation of Islam, the Islamist movement has provided an ideological platform and recruiting base for terrorist groups in South Asia.

Turkey advocates actively on behalf of the JI. Erdogan, for example, denounced the 2016 hanging of JI Bangladesh leader Motiur Rahman Nizami as “neither fair governance nor a democratic mentality.” He also described the Islamist leader as a “mujahid [holy warrior].”

JI’s leadership also openly applauds Turkey’s Islamist leader and regime. After Erdogan was reelected president in June, for instance, JI Pakistan chief Siraj ul Haq called him “a great leader of the Muslim world.” Another JI leader described Turkey as “the hope of the Ummah [world community of Muslims].”

Turkey under the Islamist AKP has become a key sponsor of JI-affiliated organizations in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well as the Islamist movement’s proxy groups in North America.

The Union of NGOs of the Islamic World (UNIW) is a key agency used by the Turkish government to sponsor and coordinate JI activities, an Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) investigation finds.

The Istanbul-based organization was established in 2005 with the AKP’s blessing and boasts 340 NGOs from 65 countries, including in the United States. Through a global network of Islamist organizations, UNIW seeks to revive the global Muslim ummah and stand up to the U.S.-led world order. Its stated mission is “to create an ummah consciousness” among its members and seek unity among Muslim nations “against to [sic] the western world which want to weaken the Islamic World by their dirty tricks and try to separate it from each other although they are unions among themselves.”

The network’s membership roster includes leading Islamist and terror-tied organizations such as the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), Zamzam Foundation (Somalia), Islamic Relief (UK), International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), and others. By sponsoring and coordinating developmental projects, providing humanitarian assistance, and addressing alleged violations of human rights and freedoms in the Muslim world, the umbrella group seeks to defend “Islamic culture and values” and assist in finding “solutions of the problems relating to the Islamic world collectively.”

Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD) and Kashmir American Council (KAC) are U.S.-based UNIW members and work closely with the umbrella group.

Like UNIW, Helping Hand was founded in 2005. It is the charitable arm of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a JI front group headquartered in Jamaica, N.Y. Helping Hand regional partners have been found to have ties to U.S.-designated terrorist entities, including Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and its leader Syed Salahuddin……

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Filed Under: Islamic charities, Turkey Tagged With: Jamaat-e-Islami, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, South Asia, The Union of NGOs of the Islamic World


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  1. Tom says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 10:07 am

    “Assimilation is a crime against humanity. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam, Islam is Islam. The mosques are our barracks, The minorets are our bayonets, The cupolas our helmets, and the faithful our soldiers.” Tyyip Erdogan, President of Turkey 2008.

    Islamic Muslim Brotherhood tentacles are everywhere in politics and their front operatives have become elected officials in many countries. Erdogan has never been shy of telling the world where he stands on Islam.

    Turkey is one of the key states supporting the Islamic invasion of Europe.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 9:58 pm

      Fine post, Tom.

  2. elee says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 2:32 pm

    What Tom just said.

    Oh and good photo of Erdogan with Muslim eyes.

  3. gravenimage says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 9:58 pm

    Turkey exporting jihad ideology into South Asia “under the garb of relief”
    …………………

    This should surprise no one.

  4. Brian hoff says

    Jan 26, 2019 at 9:16 am

    Yet you want Islam and muslim to assimilated into western culture so you are than hypocrite.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 8:01 pm

      Our expecting Muslims to act like civilized people if they come to the West is somehow the same as Muslims exporting the ideology of oppressing and murdering unbelievers?

      Note that “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–has said that he and his fellow Muslims intend to impose brutal Shari’ah law on us in the West as soon as they are able. *Ugh*.

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