“The recent increase in racial movements and anti-Islamic discourses and actions in Europe threaten the multiculturalism of Europe, the culture of living together, peace and tranquility,” said the leaned Erbaş.
He didn’t say anything about multiculturalism in Turkey, which has practiced ruthless ethnic cleansing of religious and ethnic minorities for over 100 years, nearly effacing that nation’s 2,000-year-old Christian presence.
Ali Erbaş also said: “Islam is a religion of peace.” Oh yes he did. He and his fellow propagandists have to keep repeating this, because it is so contrary to fact and to the evidence of the daily headlines. If Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance, harmony and brotherhood, it has been misunderstood by mainstream Islamic authorities throughout the history of the religion. In my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I trace the 1,400-year war of Islamic jihadis against the rest of the world, detailing the jihad against Europe, including the 700-year struggle to conquer Constantinople; the jihad in Spain, where non-Muslims fought for another 700 years to get the jihadi invaders out of the country; and the jihad against India, where Muslim warriors and conquerors wrought unparalleled and unfathomable devastation in the name of their religion. Order it here now.
“Islam is ‘religion of peace,’ says head of Turkey’s Diyanet,” Anadolu Agency, January 2, 2019:
Islam is a religion of peace that defends universal values, Ali Erbaş, the head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, said on Wednesday.
“Islam is a religion of peace that defends and tries to keep the same universal values alive all over the world,” Erbas said at the opening ceremony of 2nd meeting of European Muslims in the German city of Cologne.
Erbaş said racism, xenophobia and attacks on mosques gradually narrow areas of freedom and restrict rights.
“The recent increase in racial movements and anti-Islamic discourses and actions in Europe threaten the multiculturalism of Europe, the culture of living together, peace and tranquility,” he added.
According to the European Islamophobia Report 2017, a rising wave of Islamophobia has taken hold in Europe….

Mary says
He keeps repeating Islam is a religion of peace. Is he trying to convince himself, because he knows that that’s not true?
Moshe says
No, let us instead recall that the remarks of Ali Erbaş, head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, find confirmation in the eloquent statement of American values by former President B.H. Obama.
“Generations of Muslim Americans have helped build our country,” recalled then-President Obama in February, 2016 with compelling logic. “They’re the teachers who inspire our kids, and the nurses and doctors whom we trust with our health. They’re the champions we cheer for – from Muhammad Ali to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. They’re the police and firefighters who keep us safe, and the men and women in uniform who have fought and bled and died for our freedom.”
Islam, observed President Obama, has a deep and abiding “tradition of peace, charity and justice.”
“So we should never play into terrorist propaganda or suggest that all Muslims, or Islam itself, is the problem,” cautioned this world-historic figure. “That betrays our values.”
“It alienates Muslim Americans. It helps our enemies recruit. It makes us all less safe,” concluded America’s Nobel Laureate for Peace.
These are beautiful words that we can live by.
Wellington says
Moshe: You’re either a bad comedian or an idiot.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
I have done a search of all of Moshe’s postings. He is not being sarcastic – he is a Muslim apologist.
The only problem with Pres. Obama’s speech was the fact that his “beautiful words”, as Moshe called them, were propaganda for the acceptance of Islam in the United States.
gravenimage says
James, I have read just about all of “Moshe’s” comments over the past couple of years.
Initially, it seemed unlikely but still somewhat plausible that he was genuine–a clueless naif–but if that were the case surely he would have changed his approach when he found no one was buying his claptrap.
That leaves several choices–firstly, that he is sarcastic, and his posts are a send-up. I found this somewhat plausible at first, as well. But–again–if this were the case, surely he would have changed his approach when most people missed the “humor”.
That leaves two main possibilities–one, that he is a Muslim apologist; secondly, that he is a garden-variety troll just trying to get a rise out of good Anti-Jihadists here. Either way, he is trolling us–and this is becoming increasingly tedious.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Excellent analysis. I would put my money on him being a Muslim apologist. If he is, indeed, a garden-variety troll, then he’s going through an awfully lot of trouble just to irritate the JW Anti-Jihadists.
gravenimage says
I agree, James. Also, if he is a garden-variety troll, then he is an unusually sophisticated one. Likely you are correct that he is a Muslim apologist.
The mere fact that he has never said–even when challenged many times over the past months–show that he is *not* an honest actor.
Ernie says
Dear Wellington , Moshe is a muslim apologist , and a liar , just as his beloved Barack Hussein Obama . It’s lies upon lies etc . Disgusting !
george darley says
It is the definition of peace as described in the Koran and the methods allowed to achieve it that is not being explained. Their explanation of peace is when all people are of the Islamic beliefs and a member of their cult. They also fail to mention the many ways to eliminate by means of barbaric death of those that are non-believers, members . This is the fate of those of us whom call BS to this fake excuse posing as a religion and yet we are the ones called racist and xenophobes all the while this cults history of over 1400 hundred years has been the death and destruction to us and our family members. Sad part is the ignorance of our own whom fail to research this cult and believe their deadly lies.
mortimer says
The pseudonymous ‘Moshe’ is an Islamic apologist who naively thinks that quoting the unread and uniformed Obama will influence people at JihadWatch who read Islam’s PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS. Once you have read the PRIMARY SOURCES OF ISLAMIC TEACHINGS, dear ‘Moshe’, you cannot go back. ‘Opinions’ are insignificant when the FACTS are known.
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID. Islam is an aggressive, dualistic world-conquest political ideology.
Westman says
“The recent increase in racial movements and anti-Islamic discourses and actions in Europe threaten the multiculturalism of Europe…”
That statement needs some correcting:
“The recent increase in racial movements, anti-Kafir discourses, and violent actions stemming from mosques in Europe, threaten the multiculturalism of Europe…”
Bindon Blood says
No one ,except the elites,want a multicultural Europe.
mortimer says
Further to the above … “THE RECENT, OFFICIAL, RACIST, ANTI-KURDISH DISCOURSES OF THE TURKISH LEADERS …”
gravenimage says
How “beautiful” was the Armenian Genocide?
I’m so tired of “Moshe” trolling us here.
Wellington says
Well, gravenimage, James and Westman, I’m going to stand by my initial assessment. Moshe is either tediously and ineptly sarcastic or he is a fool, which foolhardiness has one of two possible subsets: a) Moshe is a Muslim troll; or b) Moshe is a non-Muslim troll.
mortimer says
GI & Welly, ‘Moshe’ is a well-expressed politico who appears to know NOTHING of the Islamic doctrines, but he is well-acquainted with the white-washing speeches of DHIMMI politicians. He appears likely to be a neo-Marxist, globalist Democrat and possibly non-practicing Jew. ‘Moshe’ seems to believe the neo-Marxist rhetoric that only ECONOMIC EXPLANATIONS have validity and the ideas that Muslims are motivated by RELIGIOUS DOCRINES requiring bigoted hatred and sacred warfare against disbelievers are dismissed out of hand because they contradict Marxism.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, it is also quite possible that “Moshe” is just posing as a Jewish liberal, and actually knows a great deal about Islam. This is more likely to be Taqiyya than ignorance, I think.
Lydia Church says
It is islam that is threatening the multiculturalism of Europe!
Wellington says
Ali Erbas is a total bullshitter. But how appropriate since Islam is so full of bullshit.
Enough already with any respect for the worst religion of all time (and yes, Islam is a religion—it’s a waste of time arguing otherwise—but it is an evil religion). It should be legal in the West, but as with other malevolent creeds, be they secular or religious, which are legal, it should be properly characterized as iniquitous. If this occurred, this would be more than enough for the West to deal with what Mo wrought so that freedom, a true Golden Rule for all, in-tact clitorises, Muslims who convert to another religion, romantic love, equal rights for women, fine music and beer, etc., would all be in a far better position to survive and prosper because Islam would have been characterized accurately once and for all.
mortimer says
Wellington, agree. Islam is so full of BS, that surely the mullahs must feel nauseated every day to shovel the same rancid, hate-filled messages. They continue because it’s too late in life for them to learn another trade. So they tell comforting lies and deceive the kafirs and deceive their congregants and then when they look in the mirror, they cannot deceive themselves. They must surely recognize themselves as liars for Allah. What huge pack of falsehoods. A lifestyle of deception.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington.
Carol the 1st says
Wellington…just describing Islam properly while continuing to allow it to share our space sounds very defeatist and discouraging. Islam is a determined thief in the night and always will be so long as there are rewards to be had. If the strong and capable West doesn’t attempt to throw it in the dustbin then we’ll all be soon hollering “UNCLE” (Erba’s actual method to obtain “peace”) and praying for end times to put us out of the dragged-out misery that comes ingrained with the Islamic “religious” parcel.
Speaking of prayers, Dr. Bill Warner’s website describes Islamic “prayers” thusly:
“Since over half of Islamic doctrine is about Kafirs (non-Muslims), it follows that prayers would include Kafirs too, so every day, a Muslim prays for the punishment and suffering of all Kafirs. The prayers also follow the Koranic doctrine that Muslims are not to be a true friend of them. Muslims are to forsake and turn away from Kafirs.
Not only are all Kafirs to suffer punishment in hell, but Christians and Jews are singled out to be worthy of Allah’s anger and are condemned in their beliefs.
In the end, all references to Kafirs in Islamic prayer are negative, demeaning and hateful”
Prayers for Kafirs
https://www.politicalislam.com/prayers-for-kafirs/
somehistory says
If there is any “rise” besides the rise in moslim violence, rise in moslim rapists raping young girls…and boys…rise in bombings, stabbings, murders by msolims, if there is any “rise” against the moslim barracks, it is due to a rise in understanding just how evil islam is. Any rise in understanding of islam is a good thing.
james reid says
Who would have thought a doctrine/dogma, other than the totalitarian regimes of Nazism & Communism, would actually use & believe in Orwellian “Newspeak”? Let multiculturalism flourish in Muslim majority countries. How about Speakers’ Corners, as in Hyde Park, London, England, be set up in Cairo, Riyadh, Tehran etc.? After all it’s only fair. This “man” is a f*ckin* disgrace!
Crusades Were Right says
Well, one has to admit, graveyards sure are peaceful!
gravenimage says
Turkey’s Religious Affairs top dog decries “anti-Islamic discourses” that “threaten the multiculturalism of Europe”
…………………………
Right–how “multicultural” is Turkey, after they drove out or murdered most of their Jews and Christians a hundred years ago?
All he means is that there is still a small amount of resistance in Europe to the Islamic invasion.
mortimer says
Exactly, GI. Is Ali Erbas at all concerned about promoting ‘MULTICULTURALISM’ in Turkey ??? Why not ???
gravenimage says
Good question–and one all too few will even think to ask.
Tony Naim says
The best proof Islam can provide in support of the argument that it is a religion of peace is by returning the Hagia Sophia Cathedral to Christians and the Jewish Temple of Jerusalem to Jews
eduardo odraude says
Ali Erbas, Turkey’s Religious Affairs top pig says he’s worried about threats to multiculturalism in Europe. But as Robert Spencer points out, Erbas worries not a whit about that in Turkey, that totalitarian tar pit over which Erbas is one of the presiding pigs. So there are only a few possibilities for Erbas: he’s a LIAR, he’s a MORON, or he’s a HYPOCRITE, most likely all three. And I apologize for insulting the porcine world by calling Erbas a pig.
eduardo odraude says
By the way, when I call Turkey totalitarian, that’s based on the Freedom House rating of that nation. Freedom House has three main categories: “Free”, “Partly Free”, and “Not Free”. Those ratings are based on a very detailed analysis of many facets of civil liberties and political rights. Countries are then scored on a dozen different measures and the scores are tallied. So guess which category Turkey, which used to be the poster boy for a secular Islam, is now in?
eduardo odraude says
To be clear, I’m not attacking Turkish people in general. Many of them are innocent, though many are not. I’m attacking their government and the totalitarian religion that dominates that country.
Anjuli Pandavar says
The same can be said for Indonesia, the other poster boy for Islamic democracy (just ask Mehdi Hassan).
eduardo odraude says
Yep.
KWJ says
More projecting of their own faults and lies. A Turkish politician threatened Germany that they could take Germany in three days and Erdogan said Turkey’s are the future of Europe while every other ethnicity is thinking why.
Islam is disturbing cultures, peace and harmony more than anyone. The number of imams, clerics who don’t even bother hiding their distaste of western culture, secular government, Jews, etc. These people are so plentiful in every Western country. Damage of mosques is minimal compared to churches. I suppose he thinks the rise in rapes, crime, attacks on people is Muslims living in harmony and peace? Their goal is not peace.
What he is saying is people’s opinions Muslims don’t like are a threat because Muslims can’t handle while they dish out hate towards everyone else. It is they who need to learn tolerance, especially intellectual tolerance.
Really, I’m sick of their whining. They just want everybody to bend over to them under the guise of hurt feelings or worrying that people will leave Islam. It’s Muslims disrupting “multiculturalism” (a word I don’t like).
Everyone knows it even if they don’t admit it. Why does he think some European leaders have been saying Muslims need to assimilate more? What about the thousands of jihadists on watch lists? What about people practicing child marriage, FGM, sharia courts, attacking Jews, telling news reporters they want sharia law and to see all women dressed except for their face and hands in England, America, Australia, Canada…and they expect people to like or withhold their opinions on that.
Islam does not have universal values; some of its values are repugnant.
Cunamarra says
I have come to see the term “Multiculturalism” to really mean Islamization. Certainly “multiculturalism” is anti-Western civilization, but I don’t see any other “culture” being promoted like Islam, ever.
tim gallagher says
The hypocrisy of these Muslim spokesmen amazes me. Islam, throughout its history, displays zero tolerance towards all non-Muslims and then you get these completely intolerant Muslims invoking the need for non-Muslims to be tolerant towards Muslims and for non-Muslims to practise multiculturalism. Muslims display zero tolerance towards cultures which are not Islamic. Muslims will tell any lie and, unfortunately, many of the all too tolerant lovers of multiculturalism (those who think that we should accept the barbaric practices of islam) will accept the lying Muslim point of view. No one should take any notice of anything these Muslim spokesman say. Thy are always out to advance Islam and their end goal is for Islam to win and all non-Muslims to be either subjugated or eradicated. It is them or us. No one can get along peacefully with Islam. I guess that they know that many in our societies are excessively tolerance and embrace of multiculturalism (foolishly including Islam) and that makes us an easy target for their lies.
dan christensen says
The islamic preacher Ali Erbaş also said: “Islam is a religion of peace.””
A Christian preacher is a spiritual mechanic = healer of the soul.
A mullah or imam is a spiritual meccanic = destroyer of the soul.
Baucent says
That’s rich. The Turks lecturing the West on multiculturalism when they persecuted and killed the Armenians, the Greeks and currently the Kurds.
Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says
Islamophobia is the best malady I’ve ever had foisted upon myself.
So healthy do I feel that I can’t stop myself passing it on.
The only Turkey I know that can sit comfortably and welcomed in the West sat on my plate over Christmas dinner.
dan christensen says
You forgot the spirit in the bottle – the “Wild Turkey” .
FYI says
islam is….. antisocial and threatens our culture.
It is hostile to both the secular{non-religious} and Judeo-Christian {religious}aspects of the west.
It is a misogynistic,antisemitic,antiChristian,antisecular.antifreedom cult of murder and false piety.
islamic teachings are antisocial:-
“Oh ye who believe!Take not the Jews and Christians for friends,they are friends to one another”
koran 5 v 51
The koran CURSES Jews AND Christians k9:30
J D S says
How can these idiots keep saying Islam is a religion If peace when at every turn we see the headlines..stabbing…rape…murder..enslavement and just general destructiveness.
Oh I know they think Thatcher they are doing is sanctioned by islam..Since when isn’t MURDER STILL MURDER…….
THE REAL BIG PROBLEM: Those so called cleric leaders in Islam are not leading the way in denouncing what some Muslims are doing There should be Muslims in the streets on TV radio social media on every street corner in every news outlet trying to that what is happening isn’t the Islam they want to be associated with and then take necessary action to change all teachings that put Islam in a bad light.
Is any of this going to happen? Of course not..because the OLD GEEZERS who have the “say so do so” in Islam are dead set against any change and furthermore Those in our government who know Islam is WRONG won’t do anything either.
Peter says
Islamic Infidelphobia destroyed “multiculturalism” in Turkey.
Elina says
Exactly. Is there any religious diversity in Turkey? I don’t think so…