Notwithstanding any limited “support” Turkey may (or may not) have provided the successful U.S. raid this weekend, which liquidated ISIS’s al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Erdogan made some revealing, indeed pathognomonic remarks, during last Friday’s (10/25/19) prayers in Istanbul’s Great Camlica Mosque.
A Turkish writer in exile who is a very fluent, gifted Turkish-to-English translator, translated (below) the triumphal report by Yeni Akit, an outlet enamored of the Turkish President and his traditionalist Islamic political party, the AKP.
On October 25, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the Friday prayers at the Great Çamlıca Mosque in Istanbul. He was accompanied by Istanbul’s governor Ali Yerlikaya, mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s chief of police Mustafa Çalışkan and the head of the Istanbul branch of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Bayram Şenocak. After the Friday prayers, hafiz İshak Danış recited from the Koran Sura Al-Fath (which means “victory, triumph, conquest” in English, Koran 48:29: “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah ; and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves.” ). Then Erdogan took the microphone, reciting a part of the verse in Arabic and then in Turkish. He told the congregants: “My dear brothers. First of all, I congratulate your holy Friday. The Koranic verses that Danış just recited commands us to be violent towards the kuffar (infidels). Who are we? The ummah [nation] of Mohammed. So [the Koran] also commands us to be merciful to each other. So we will be merciful to each other. And we will be violent to the kuffar. Like in Syria.” Erdogan then went on to refer to another Koranic verse (61:13: “And [you will obtain] another [favor] that you love – victory from Allah and an imminent conquest; and give good tidings to the believers.”) in Arabic: “Inshallah, God has promised us in Syria (in Turkish): ‘Nasrun minallahi ve fethun karib ve beşşiril mu’minin.’ [‘Victory from Allah and an imminent conquest; and give good tidings to the believers.’]. We see it is happening right now. With the permission of Allah, we will see it even more. I will meet some presidents of foreign countries at the Dolmabahce Palace today. I ask for your permission now to go there.”
Authoritative Koranic commentaries—classical and modern—as well as canonical hadith, traditions of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, support Erdogan’s hateful and predatory views toward non-Muslims.
The Egyptian polymath al-Suyuti (d. 1505) was recognized as a brilliant jurist, historian, and biographer, among whose many scholarly contributions are about twenty works of Koranic studies, including seminal Koranic commentaries. Suytui’s Tafsir al-Jalalayn (co-written with his mentor al-Mahalli), as the great contemporary Dutch Islamologist Johannes J.G. Jansen (d. 2015) noted in his treatise “The Interpretation of the Koran in Modern Egypt,” remains one of the most popular as well as the most authoritative Koranic commentaries in Egypt. Maulana Muhammad Shafi (d.1976), was a former grand mufti of India (prior to the August, 1947 partition), and author of Maariful Quran, which remains the best-known Koranic commentary in Urdu, and a major, influential modern interpretation of the Koran. Shafi also wrote more than three hundred books, and in addition to these literary works, broadcasted tafsir of the Koran on Radio Pakistan for a number of years.
Below are the authoritative glosses by al-Suyuti, and Shafi on Koran 48:29, and 61:13, respectively:
(Suyuti; 48:29): “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him—his Companions among the believers (Muslims)—are fierce to the unbelievers, and do not show mercy on them, merciful to one another—gentle with one another, and showing mutual love as between parents and their children.”
(Suyuti; 61:13): “And He (Allah) will give you other blessings in the things you love: support from Allah and imminent victory. Give good news to the believers (Muslims)—of victory and conquest.”
(Shafi; 48:29): “The first quality of the Companions mentioned here is that they are hard against the unbelievers, and merciful to one another. It was proven time and again that they were harsh against the unbelievers. They sacrificed all their ethnic and tribal relations for the sake of Islam. This was especially demonstrated on the occasion of Hudaibiyah….In a Hadith, the Holy Prophet has said, ‘He who loves for the sake of Allah and hates for the sake of Allah has attained the highest degree of faith’”
(Shafi; 61:13) “There is one blessing that will be granted right here in this world, which is the Divine help and an imminent victory, that is, conquests of enemy territories….it would include all later Islamic conquests of Arab and non-Arab territories.”
The canonical hadith (Sunan Abu Dawud 4681; p. 200) cited in part by Shafi from his gloss on Koran 48:29, reads in full:
“It was narrated from Abu Umamah, that the Messenger of Allah, said, ‘Whoever loves for the sake of Allah and hates for the sake of Allah, gives for the sake of Allah, and withholds for the sake of Allah, he will have perfected his faith.’ ”
By Islamic consensus, The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute For Islamic Thought / The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Amman, Jordan has defined, and epitomizes, “mainstream Islam.” Each year, this authoritative, mainstream international Islamic organization puts out the “The Muslim 500—The World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims.” The major aims of this mainstream Islamic organization, per its 2007 Charter, are:
–“to protect, preserve and propagate traditional, orthodox, ‘moderate’ Islam as defined by the international Islamic Consensus on the ‘Three Points of the Amman Message’ arrived at over the years 2005-2006.”
–“to spread knowledge of the ‘Amman Message’ of November 2004 and the principles it contains in so far as these best represent traditional, orthodox, ‘moderate’ Islam.”
–“to establish, propagate and publicize the religious and legal positions of traditional, orthodox, ‘moderate’ Islam on key issues relevant to life in the modern world.”
Acknowledging his stature in Islamdom, and apropos to the RISSC’s own stated commitment to “traditional, orthodox, ‘moderate’ Islam,” Erdogan is ranked #1—the most influential Muslim—in the 2019 The Muslim 500. Turkish President Erdogan’s rather glowing The Muslim 500 profile, notes,
Erdogan was the Prime Minister of Turkey, for 11 years, winning three consecutive elections with a majority (2002, 2007 and 2011), before becoming Turkey’s first popularly-elected president in August 2014, and then securing a second term in the 2018 election.
His 2019 profile adds, almost rapturously,
Erdogan secured 52.5% of the vote in the 2018 Presidential election (electoral turnout was 86%), and thereby avoided a second round runoff. This was a continuation of his remarkable popularity and success at the ballot box over the past two decades…During his terms, Turkey has seen unprecedented economic growth, constitutional reform, and re-emergence as a global Muslim power.
Thus, not only do Erdogan’s Koranic invocations sanctioning harshness towards non-Muslims and their jihad conquest, comport with their authoritative glosses, the Turkish President himself is revered by the mainstream. Global Muslim umma.
OREN WYSOCKI says
It is wild that he would say this on national TV in front of A massive audience. Erdogan took the microphone and said
“commands us to be violent towards the kuffar (infidels). Who are we? The ummah [nation] of Mohammed. So [the Koran] also commands us to be merciful to each other. So we will be merciful to each other. And we will be violent to the kuffar.”
Even the shafi commentary on the koran only says be hard on the non believers, erdogan is clearer, and says be violent towards the kuffar.
I wonder how influential Erdogan and the position of president of turkey is among muslims in the middle east, europe and around the world. Could this be the beginning call for an intifada in Israel, the middle east and europe? Does erdogans position represent A chess piece in the shadow government, calling for their forces to begin more terrorist attacks? Will this simply be buried by the western media? I notice there are no comments yet at jihad watch.
If the left continues to live in A bubble of denial, with the right having actual quotes of arguably one of the most powerful men of visible islam, calling for all muslims to be violent towards non muslims, the wide scale condemnation of the sanity of the left will occur in the minds of A great many right wingers. Right wingers will become outcasts, and or left wingers will be perceived as mad. It is possible that I am the one in the bubble. Regardless, I will try to remain obedient to G-d, and the truth. It is said that those who sew evil, deception and violence, reap the whirlwind. Well I prefer to put my faith in G-d, and His justice. In G-d I trust.
Michael Copeland says
It is ironic that Erdogan is ranked #1—the most influential Muslim by an organisation that stresses its commitment to “traditional, orthodox, ‘moderate’ Islam,”
Erdogan has insisted that there is no moderate or immoderate Islam: Islam is Islam and that is that.
Lotus says
We non-Muslims believe in humanity. But the Muslims believe in ummahnity (the Muslim community).
As far as they are concerned, non-Muslims don’t count, except to pay jizya and be their inferiors.
Mario Alexis Portella says
As this article clearly presents, Erdogan is a jihadist! One wonders why Trump calls him a friend and a “hell of a leader”? Complete rubbish!! https://thegreatarchitect.blog/2019/10/24/erdogans-crimes-against-humanity-continue-to-go-unpunished/
Lotus says
// Hell of a leader//
Rearrange those words and you get:
A leader of hell.
That’s more accurate.
Infidel says
Trump is perfectly capable of saying one thing and doing another, if he sees that that’s whats being done to him. Yeah, he called them a friend, but he also threatened them when they looked like moving on the Kurds
Rueben_Singh says
And still the EU assists them in their economic development.
Wellington says
Nazism preached a master race and Islam preaches a master faith. Hitler was the poster boy for the rot which is Nazism and Erdogan serves quite well in our era as the poster boy for Islam, which religion is the best disguised and longest-lived (some 1400 years) malevolent ideology in the history of mankind.
Peter WF says
Turkey will fit beautifully into the EU.
gravenimage says
Actually, there is–thankfully–less and less support for this.
Lotus says
Yes, the tide has gone out for that project, thankfully.
gravenimage says
It looks like it–I hope so. Turkey becoming a part of the EU would likely doom Europe.
Infidel says
Once Britain & others drop out, the EU might like having the likes of Turkey in their club. And not just them – maybe pretend that countries like Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, et al are a part of Europe
gravenimage says
Erdogan Extols Koranic Harshness Toward Non-Muslims, Seeks Their Koranic Conquest
…………….
Remember this harshness included the Armenian Genocide for Turkey in the not-so-distant past.
GreekEmpress says
gravenimage,
I get so riled up now when I read anything about Erdogan or Omar that I can’t even post a coherent response any more. Therefore, I will just give you a huge +1. ???
gravenimage says
Thank you, GreekEmpress.
FYI says
islam and the koran classifies humanity into TWO categories
1}muslims{“the best community that hath been raised up for mankind” k3;110}
2}non-muslims {“the worst of created beings” koran 98:6}{Jews,Christians etc}
Along with the islamic Doctrine of Hate al walaa wal baraa,the denial of the 2nd Chief Commandment
and the ludicrously antisocial koranic command “take not the Jews and Christians for friends” k5:51 we see islamic supremacist ideology amounts to an islamic version of apartheid.
NO GOLDEN RULE exists in islam
NO “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR” exists in islam{2nd Chief Commandment of God found in Judaism and Christianity but MISSING in islam}
In fact,since the koran pits muslims AGIANST non-muslims,it is impossible that such concepts can exist in islam!!
Angemon says
State spending and construction market? Not going to end well…
Aussie Infidel says
Turkey under Erdogan has rapidly abandoned its democratic facade, and sought to re-establish the Ottoman Caliphate.
When he was mayor of Istanbul, Erdogan remarked, “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers” – which landed him in jail for four months for inciting religious hatred. but the old reprobate has bounced back with a vengeance.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2270642.stm
Angela Merkel should also note that Erdogan once declared that Turkish immigrants who assimilate into German society were committing “a crime against humanity”. Does Merkel understand the significance of that, and the Islamic Doctrine of Hijra, or ‘migration in the cause of Allah’? (Quran 2:218, 4:89, 4:100, 8:72-75, 9:20, 16:41, 22:58).
Is Turkey still a democracy?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37883006
A dark time for democracy in Turkey:
https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-a-dark-time-for-democracy-in-turkey/a-44589205
The doctrine of al-Wala’ wal-Bara’ is based on many Quranic verses such as 3:28-32, 5:10-15, 5:51, 33:57-62, 35:39, 40:10, 40:35, 48:6, 49:7, 60:4, 98:6; and the following hadith from Dawud: “Whoever Loves for the sake of Allah and hates for the sake of Allah, gives for the sake of Allah and withholds for the sake of Allah, he will have perfected his faith.” (Sahih Abu Dawud 4681).
Love and Hatred in Islam (al-Wala’ wal-Bara’):
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Love_and_Hate_in_Islam
http://www.crethiplethi.com/loving-and-hating-for-the-sake-of-allah-the-al-wala-wal-bara-doctrine/global-islam/2017/
Furthermore this doctrine it is codified as law in the Sharia. In essence, it states that Muslims must “love for the sake of Allah, hate for the sake of Allah, detest unbelievers and be hard against them, while accepting the destiny of Allah most high, as it is Allah’s decree”. (Reliance of the Traveller, Acceptance and Hatred w59.2).
This hatred of unbelievers is another reason why the Muslim states refused to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights back in 1948. Instead they drafted their own iniquitous Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, which grants such rights only to Muslims.
And let’s not forget that Islam is also a supremacist creed: “O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.” (Q5:51). “It is He who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although those who associate others with Allah (Christians) dislike it”. (Q61:9). “The unbelievers among the Jews and Christians are the worst of people and will abide in the fire of Hell”. (Q98:6). “Indeed, those who have believed [Muslims] and done righteous deeds are the best of people.” (Q98:7).
Western politicians need to understand that the claim that Islam is ‘a religion of peace’, is merely propaganda (Islamic taqiyya). The tenets of Islam command Muslims to wage jihad against us – to “cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve”, (Q3:151). But terrorism per se is not our enemy; it’s just a strategy used against us, to weaken our resolve to resist the jihad and fight back, Our real enemy is the ideology driving jihad terror; and that is ordinary, everyday, orthodox Islam, as commanded in its holy scriptures. Only when politicians identify our real enemy, might they begin to make some progress against this scourge on humanity, and quell the ambitions of militant Muslims like Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Ken Baskin says
Put that damn ‘s’ back in ‘toward’ – what next, MT in place of ’empty’ , ‘thru’ in place of ‘through’ , ‘though’ instead of ‘although’ ? Damn Yanks – quit butchering the Queen’s English. Cellphone texting will be the death of a beautiful language.
gravenimage says
It seems that this poster is enraged over American English, but has no problems with Jihad threats. Priorities…
James Birdling says
God of love versus the god of hate in competition, in the end we will see who wins.
Richard says
Perhaps this will offer a bigger picture of the situation between Turkey, Syria and the Kurds and the total mess the CIA has unconstitutionally created. Being the world’s faux policeman and forcing ourselves into foreign entanglements is very costly in many aspects
Richard says
here is the weblink: http://newswithviews.com/how-to-deep-six-the-deep-state/
GB says
Ottoman Empire tried and failed but committed genocide against entire Christians of occupied former Eastern Roman Empire and Armenia!
gravenimage says
Here is another story from Turkey from the same day:
“Turkey’s ambassador to the Vatican claims that freedom of religion is protected in Turkish law”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/turkeys-ambassador-to-the-vatican-claims-that-freedom-of-religion-is-protected-in-turkish-law
This story above is true; the one from the ambassador is Taqiyya.