This man is a Muslim cleric. He knows that Islam teaches that blasphemers must be put to death. The denial in the West about this obvious fact is pandemic, and no one will take any particular notice of this, even though Ahmet Altıok is a cleric in “moderate,” “secular” Turkey.
“Turkish mufti threatens opposition news site reminding Charlie Hebdo attack,” Ahval News, December 31, 2018 (thanks to M.):
A Turkish mufti threatened opposition news site OdaTV as reminding 2015’s Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, news site Duvar reported late Sunday.
Ahmet Altıok, Mufti of the southeastern city of Siirt, said OdaTV insulted Mohammed the Prophet, the founder of the Islam. Mufti is an Islamic scholar who interprets and expounds Islamic law and qualified to give authoritative legal opinions known as fatwas.
“Charlie Hebdo teased (our prophet) through campaigns and perception operations, but they could not get away with it,” Altıok said, adding that OdaTV has been doing the same thing.
OdaTV, founded in 2007, has been critical of the government from the beginning. In 2011, in the course of the Ergenekon investigations, OdaTV editors and workers were arrested. Several criminal complaints were filed against the news site.
“If anyone gets hurt in OdaTV, the responsibility belongs to the authorities who encourage it, watches it in silence and back it!” OdaTV news director Barış Terkoğlu said on Twitter.
“Are you going to remain silent against a paid official of the government calling for a massacre? Are you going to watch the massacre calls of gangs tasked by the mufti?” OdaTV chief editor Barış Pehlivan asked on Twitter. He said the gangs massacred people in the past, are called on duty with the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ citing….
mccode says
Considering the long list of horrific crimes attributed to ‘the prophet’ it is a stretch of the imagination that anything said against him could be considered insulting.
Indiana Tom says
Turkey is not a secular NATO ally.Turkey=Iran.
gravenimage says
Yes–Turkey is not really our ally at all.
And Happy New Year to you and yours, Indiana Tom.
Dave says
Turkey’s voting for Christmas! (lol)
mortimer says
Democracy is IMPOSSIBLE under Sharia law, because there can only be ONE CORRECT INTERPRETATION … the others are HERETICS and should be punished and silenced.
Muslims believe their own sect is correct and has the right and duty to crush the other Muslim sects.
mortimer says
This mullah passed a death sentence and now the terrorists will hunt down and murder those he condemned.
That’s Islam everyone. Things are going to get a lot worse in Western countries before people wake up.
gravenimage says
Turkey: Mufti claims TV station insulted Muhammad, issues veiled threat with mention of Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre
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Will Turkish authorities do anything about this cal for mass murder? Don’t count on it.
Also note: the conflation of criticizing Muslim authorities–in this case, Turkish ones–with “insulting Muhammad”.
But why not? There has never been a separation of “church” and state in Islam, and political authorities in Islamic states have always claimed divine sanction. Hence, anyone with any complaints about the powers that be is a “blasphemer”.
na says
if you read about ‘hebdo attack’ in wiki you can understand who are the supporters of terrorism. Even Muftis ,Muslim politicians, cleric, clergy man all are supporters. They are warlords, corruption specialist, smugglers of drugs, weapon,arms, electronic gadget, gold, illegal currency makers, land lobbies, oil dollar filthy rich, Darwin’s monkeys like ayatollahs, human trafficking specialist, terrorism experts, Bollywood masala movie makers, hawala money laundering specialists, love jihad warriors etc
FYI says
allah: muhammed has a big FAT ass ..haha
muhammed: islam has B.O and stinks… heehee
Angry muslim mob:our beloved ‘prophet’ has been insulted by allah !!Let’s use this as an excuse to be evil and do violent things and get away with it by pretending this really has anything to do with any God!
..and muhammed has insulted islam!!what is the penalty for those who insult the prophet?Death to allah for insulting the prophet!.. and death to our cross-dressing prophet for insulting islam!
allahu-akbar,allahu-akbar!