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Is the Umma Shatter-Proof? (Part 1)

Jul 25, 2019 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Those who belong to  the  community of Muslim Believers, or the Umma, are commanded to endorse Al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ (Arabic: الولاء والبراء‎), literally “loyalty and disavowal,” a concept which signifies loving and hating for the sake of Allah. Among other things, Believers are to love those who are obedient to Allah — that is, fellow Muslims — and to defend and assist them. Hating for the sake of Allah signifies showing anger towards those who oppose Allah, that is all non-Muslims.

A few recent news items suggest that Muslim solidarity is not what it’s cracked up to be.

Here’s a story about Turkish unhappiness with Syrian refugees:

Authorities in Istanbul set a four-week deadline on July 22 for Syrians living without approval in Turkey’s largest city to return to provinces where they are registered or face forced removal to those regions.

It was not immediately clear how many people could be affected by the order, but Istanbul’s new mayor has said that a total of 1 million Syrians live in the city compared with Interior Ministry figures showing 500,000 are registered.

Turkey’s recession-hit economy and high levels of unemployment have fueled anger against the 3.6 million Syrians living in Turkey, the largest refugee population to have fled the eight-year-old civil war in neighboring Syria.

Turks who are resentful of the Syrians view them as offering cheap labor and taking jobs from Turks, and using services including health and education.

Monday’s order in Istanbul follows two clashes in the city earlier this year when crowds attacked Syrian shops and properties. There have also been reports of some Syrians being returned to northern Syria.

Most Syrians live in southern Turkish provinces near the Syrian border but Istanbul province, in the northwest, has the largest Syrian population of any province in the country.

Syrians who have a temporary protection permit must stay in the province where they are registered, and obtain a special permit to travel elsewhere in Turkey.

The Istanbul governor’s office said on Monday that Syrians who have temporary protection permits in provinces other than Istanbul have until Aug. 20 to return to those provinces, and will be returned if they stay after that date.

Syrians who do not have temporary protection permits will be sent to provinces specified by the Interior Ministry, it said.

There have been several reports in recent weeks of Syrians being deported to Syria. Reuters has spoken to three people who said they were sent without their consent to areas of northern Syria controlled by Ankara and Turkey-backed rebels in the past few days.

The three told Reuters they were forced to sign a document that said they were voluntarily returning to Syria. One of the men said he was deported with at least 100 other Syrians.

The Turkish government has not commented on the reports of deportations.

Turkey is a signatory to agreements that bind it to a non-refoulement principle, an international customary law rule that prohibits countries from returning people to a place where they risk facing persecution or threat to life.

The Turks are not inclined to offer continued solidarity with the Syrian Muslims. There are too many of those Syrians — 3.6 million — and they’ve outstayed their welcome. The Turks have had it with Syrians receiving free schooling and medical care from the state. Their anger is quite a contrast with the European nations that continue to uncomplainingly offer Muslim economic migrants not just education and medical care but also free or highly subsidized housing, unemployment benefits (without the need to have first  been employed in the country), and family allowances.

They are also angry that Syrians — those that do work — offer cheap labor, driving down the wages of Turkish workers. That groups of Turks have violently attacked Syrians, for costing them jobs and lowering their wages, is a sign of how bad relations between the Turks and their fellow Muslims from Syria have become.

By sending back to the provinces where they were first registered possibly a half-million people (out of an estimated total of one million Syrians now in Istanbul) the Turkish government is declaring Istanbul, the largest city in the country, off-limits to 3.1 out of 3.6 million Syrians. Those who had not been registered, but been employed by Turks, or had started little shops, will lose those jobs and their shops will close. They will have to start over, if they can, in the provinces. Their lives are now for the second time being uprooted: first when they fled from Syria to Turkey, and now, when they are banished from Istanbul and the lives they had created for themselves. The fact that some Syrians have started to be forcibly sent back to Syria, after first having been made to sign documents claiming they were “voluntarily” returning home, signals that Turkey is determined to rid itself of as many of these Syrians as quickly as possible. Many Turks are just fed up with the Syrians. A recent survey by Kadir Has University in Istanbul found that 67.7 percent of the participants were “not content with the presence of Syrian refugees” in Turkey. A popular hashtag is #UlkemdeSuriyeliIstemiyorum (I don’t want Syrians in my country) that had been around has reappeared on social media. The newly-elected mayor of  Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, after being elected, said that “the refugee issue is a severe trauma” in some districts. And even President Erdogan has noted that Turkey has now spent $37 billion on Syrian refugees.

Meanwhile, in Europe, Muslim economic migrants, including some Syrians, continue to have every possible benefit lavished upon them, without experiencing any of the troubles that Syrians experience in Turkey. Muslim migrants — now mainly Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans — find greater generosity among non-Muslim hosts than among fellow members of the umma; it’s all so confusing.

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  1. SAFI says

    Jul 25, 2019 at 10:26 am

    I doubt whether Turkey has really spent $37 billion Euros on Syrian refugees. More likely there’s a big hole in the turkish budget and Erdogan is signaling Brussels that the Europeans better pay for this 37 billion euros deficit or else the EU’s migrant deal with Turkey is off and he will again start flooding with “refugees”.

    • SAFI says

      Jul 25, 2019 at 10:32 am

      flooding *Europe* is what I wanted to write

  2. roberta says

    Jul 25, 2019 at 10:36 am

    They will hold tight on the hatred of the infidel half of the umma.
    That will always unify these best of peoples.

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jul 25, 2019 at 11:05 am

    It’s no surprise that the millions of Moslems sloshing about the world right now is straining the Umma. First, the Moslems don’t have the money because they’re bad at prosperity because of the inshallah mindset. Second, they don’t give really care about them, better they all go up to Europe and lead the Life of Riley on welfare. Best they come to America for help, like Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar. If it takes immigration fraud to get into the U.S., no problem, Moslems are exempt from the law on that count.

    The key characteristic of the Umma is solidarity when it comes killing time. There’s no big killing field rolling right now, so the Umma isn’t being put to its one test, the willingness to fight and kill Infidels because, well, they’re Infidels. There will be no cracks in the Umma’s edifice when it come time for blood, they’re solid on that. It’s programmed into them.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 25, 2019 at 12:51 pm

      Jay Smith mentions in his lecture, below,
      that many of the Muslims in Britain are out of work,
      many are very young in the British population, most are from Asia,
      and they are doubling the traditional demographics, while also —
      increasingly setting up mosques as centers in British towns —
      they bicker among and against each other, and, at times mosques
      compete against each other !

      Cracks are showing in the ummah, but the cracks existing in the West
      has bred weeds in the foundations of free and enlightened civilization.

      What will Britain be like in two generations from now? 2070…

      • Walter Sieruk says

        Jul 25, 2019 at 1:10 pm

        The Christian speaker in the above video did made mention of the construction of the many mosques in England This not only means that more and more Muslims are entering those two continents and likewise more and more people in the United Kingdom are now being proselytized to Islam. This may be disturbing enough. In addition, this mass construction of mosques in Britain have still a further meaning which has been explained by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, in his book ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND for in page 99 it informs the reader that “The mosque is vital for establishing Muslims as sovereign over non-Muslims in a non-Islamic society or country. Building a mosque in a non-Islamic society or country symbolizes Islam’s claim over that society or country, even with a non-Muslim majority.”

      • Walter Sieruk says

        Jul 25, 2019 at 1:14 pm

        With all this information given by this Christian speaker is also very thus very appropriate to reiterated that in the above video did made mention of the construction of the many mosques in England This not only means that more and more Muslims are entering those two continents and likewise more and more people in the United Kingdom are now being proselytized to Islam.

        This may be disturbing enough. In addition, this mass construction of mosques in Britain have still a further meaning which has been explained by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, in his book ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND for in page 99 it informs the reader that “The mosque is vital for establishing Muslims as sovereign over non-Muslims in a non-Islamic society or country. Building a mosque in a non-Islamic society or country symbolizes Islam’s claim over that society or country, even with a non-Muslim majority.”

        • CRUSADER says

          Jul 25, 2019 at 9:35 pm

          Look at what the Muslims did on the Temple Mount with a structure built higher than the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem…

          Yes, Walter, Jay Smith piles vast information in every minute he speaks!

          Thanks for yet another book title I must look up, and add to my library!

          Cheers.

        • william carr says

          Jul 26, 2019 at 8:02 am

          Strange is it not that anyone even suggesting such actions towards migrants in other countries would immediately be branded by their own governments and the EU and UN as racists. Of course only white folks can be racist

      • eduardo odraude says

        Jul 25, 2019 at 7:28 pm

        Jay Smith is fearless. He goes to Speaker’s Corner in the UK and has long public debates surrounded by crowds of Muslims and he uses the core Islamic texts to argue that Muhammad was a false prophet.

  4. CRUSADER says

    Jul 25, 2019 at 12:44 pm

    Is this the vehicle we Counter-Jihad-ers all need to drive around
    against a “shatter-proof” ummah?

    https://www.foxnews.com/auto/armed-police-surround-machine-gun-equipped-car-owned-by-mad-max-fan

    Al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ (Arabic: الولاء والبراء‎), literally “loyalty and disavowal,” a concept which signifies loving and hating for the sake of Allah…

    AL-WALA’ WA-I-BARA’
    is certainly a term that gets written a lot about here at Jihad Watch!

  5. Angemon says

    Jul 25, 2019 at 4:47 pm

    Is the Umma Shatter-Proof?

    Just as long as they don’t have to decide on how to choose a successor to muhammad…

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 25, 2019 at 9:38 pm

      Very “eddie”-fying!

  6. gravenimage says

    Jul 25, 2019 at 8:29 pm

    Is the Umma Shatter-Proof? (Part 1)
    ………………………………

    Muslims have always been pretty ugly to other Muslims–they just hate the Infidels more. There is little true charity in Islam, even to other Muslims.

  7. Relic says

    Jul 25, 2019 at 10:22 pm

    ?

  8. mummymovie says

    Jul 26, 2019 at 5:10 am

    Can the ummah be shattered?

    This is the most important question.

    Certainly, were visionaries Michel Foucault alive today, they would’ve realized, and personally felt the threat islam poses now to modern civilization. Would anyone pay attention?

    Hell no!

    There’s always that death penalty for abandoning the tyrrany of islam, eh?
    That’s the real clincher.

    The ‘no- go’ zones allow this disease to spread.

    Why should any of us regularls here not embrace muslims who have already inhabited our lands? Many of them -as common sense and human nature would dictate- wish to escape. They will not stop coming.

    Western democracies,having fought world wars, haven’t the fortitude to ban ideologies that openly espouse and encourage murder within our boundaries?

    Our only hope is to shatter the Ummah, and I believe we will, eventually, for good historically triumphs over evil, and islam is undeniably evil.

    It is the death penalty for apostates, and our accommodation of it, that feeds this parasitic and destructive ideology.

    This is a matter of legislation first and foremost.

    The hypocrisy is tangible.

    But we are not lawyers largely, nor legislators.

    My friends, I promise you, our only hope is to shatter the ummah by providing tight networks of security to those who wish to leave. And they are many.

    Sure, these networks will be infiltrated by the muhajir and jihadi elements, but this is something we can still control, and will be able to, going forward, for human nature seeks love and islam represents the antithesis of it.

    Don’t play into the mainstream media’s narrative of us as “far-right” xenophobics and racists.

    I am so disappointed that there are only 13 comments here. We don’t need to conduct secret meetings and plot nefarious strategies, bit only defy the “racist” monkier by embracing those who are here, and stopping the for-profit, phony “refugee” resettlement industry.

    Stop the importation of islam: the real refugees are welcome: They are fleeing islam, for quite obviously, anywhere islam spreads, misery is not far behind.

    We can shatter the ummah.

    The “religion of peace” is a pack of lies, and responsible for indeterminable, countless and endless measures of pain and suffering.

    The cathartic allure of political correctness is herea, and is a force out greatest intellectual visionaries could never have predicted or anticipated in their wildest nightmares, it it’s here, and it’s running the show. Our OIC and Muslim Brotherhood adversaries are masterfully gaming it to their advantge, and it feels like they’re winning.

    But:

    Every human wishes to d
    avoid, sidestep, traverse around, or escape ithe most horrifically violent, oppressive, racist, sexist, mysogynist, homophobic, brutal ideology mankind and womankind has ever, or hopefully will, or has ever brush(ed) up against.

    We must stop the importation of the real specter of death that is mowing across the globe and consuming civilization.

    If you’ve never fought before, now is the time.

    And it’s the last opportunity to do so.

    Throw on some Little Richard, and decide if you want that, or the “liberation” the hijab, burka, or niqab might provide you.

    This is not about race. This about the freedom to discuss our problems and fix them.

    If islam establishes itself here, that opportunity if gone forever.

    SHATTER AND SPLINTER THE UMMAH!

  9. mummymovie says

    Jul 26, 2019 at 5:33 am

    If we can legilate-out the threat of the death penalty for leaving islam and provide safe haven for those Muslims who wish to drop it like a sack of rocks, we will win,

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