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Turkey: Refah political party leader says coronavirus “serves Zionism’s goals of decreasing the number of people”

Mar 21, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Well, of course. It was inevitable that some Islamic supremacist somewhere would claim that the coronavirus was a Zionist plot. The Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).

“Turkish Politicians, Press, Public React To Coronavirus: ‘This Virus Serves Zionism’s Goals Of Decreasing The Number Of People,'” MEMRI, March 16, 2020:

Members of the Turkish press and public have reacted to the global spread of COVID-19, colloquially known as the Coronavirus, blaming it on Jews and other unspecified political actors and saying that the virus cannot be transmitted in mosques….

Fatih Erbakan, who is the head of Refah Party and the son of late Turkish Islamist politician and former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan, who is generally thought to have been President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s political mentor, said of the virus in a speech reported on March 6: “Though we do not have certain evidence, this virus serves Zionism’s goals of decreasing the number of people and preventing it from increasing, and important research expresses this. [Necmettin] Erbakan said: ‘Zionism is a five-thousand-year-old bacteria that has caused the suffering of people.'”[2]

A video recently appeared on social media showing a Turkish bus driver saying that all the epidemics in recent history, from AIDS to Ebola, had been created by pharmaceutical companies. The bus driver then asked: “And to whom do most of the pharmaceutical companies belong? To the Jews.” A passenger said: “[The Jews] will do anything to end the lineage of the Turks.” Another said: “Not only Turks, sister, they will do anything to bring the world to its knees.” The bus driver then said: “Anyway the Jews are a cursed race.”[3]…

Turkish journalist Seyhan Avşar interviewed some Turks in a mosque on March 16. One woman, asked if she was concerned about coming to the mosque while the virus is spreading, said: “A virus cannot spread in Allah’s house. Also, the Quran has healing verses, we recite them continually. As our president said: ‘Cleanliness comes from faith.’… Also, if the virus is going to spread in the place where I came to read the Quran, then let it spread.” An older man said: “No one dies before their time. I would come to the mosque even if I knew I would die [because of it].”[5] The same day, Turkey’s Ministry of Religious Affairs announced that, in order to limit the spread of the virus, prayers would not be performed in groups in mosques throughout the country.[6]…

[2] Yeniakit.com.tr/haber/fatih-erbakandan-dikkat-ceken-koronavirus-uyarisi-arkasinda-onlar-olabilir-1106972.html, March 6, 2020.

[3] Avlaremoz.com/2020/03/14/minibuste-nefret-koronavirusunu-yahudiler-yolladi, March 14, 2020.

[4] Yeniakit.com.tr/yazarlar/abdurrahman-dilipak/korona-mi-durun-bakin-hele-31567.html, March 10, 2020.

[4] Cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/allahin-evinde-virus-bulasmaz-1727470, March 16, 2020.

[6] Yenicaggazetesi.com.tr/diyanet-camileri-cemaatle-namaza-kapatti-271988h.htm, March 16, 2020.

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  1. Buraq says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 3:15 pm

    “A virus cannot spread in Allah’s house.” ……… !!! But there is a hadith that states that the whole earth is a Mosque, so prayers may be offered anywhere, singly or in congregation ……

    In that case, why is there any corona virus at all??

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Mar 21, 2020 at 3:33 pm

      It won’t kill you … unless it was meant to kill you. Allah wills everything that happens so if it’s a Zionist plot, Allah must have willed that too. Wait. What? Let’s not think about that too much. It’s too taxing on the brain.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 21, 2020 at 5:20 pm

        🙂

      • James Lincoln says

        Mar 21, 2020 at 6:09 pm

        CogitoErgoSum,

        So why do muslims pray five times a day to allah if everything is predetermined by allah’s will?

        • CogitoErgoSum says

          Mar 21, 2020 at 6:17 pm

          I’ve wondered that myself numerous times, James. It must be because Allah is the most vain being in the universe and needs constant reassurance of how great he (or it) is. It’s makes me think such a being would have an intellect similar to that ascribed to Satan.

        • James Lincoln says

          Mar 21, 2020 at 6:34 pm

          CogitoErgoSum,

          Thanks for the reply.

          I guess allah has a pretty weak ego…

  2. Merri-joy says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 4:19 pm

    Turkish Politicians need to get their story right – ‘cos in India Muslim’s say Corona means Qu’ran!!!
    That being the case it is Muslim’s who want to decrease the world’s population!

  3. gravenimage says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 5:07 pm

    Turkey: Refah political party leader says coronavirus “serves Zionism’s goals of decreasing the number of people”
    …………………….

    What vicious calumny. The fact is that few people have done more than Jews to feed and heal people world-wide. Certainly, not Muslims.

  4. mgoldberg says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 5:47 pm

    There must be a list of the numbers of political leaders, and imams, sheiks and other bonafide jew haters, and their sacralized hatred statments. I think this would be instructive to compile and plant on the doorsteps of those in our government to sober up and contemplate the depth and reality of Jihad.

  5. European pagan says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    One year before a man told me that “something will happen” to reduce world population. Maybe he prophesied Corona

  6. Jim says

    Mar 21, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    Why do Muslims need to do jihad if everything is predetermined by “allah”? Perhaps “allah” can’t do the job himself and therefore needs human help.

  7. RichardL says

    Mar 22, 2020 at 7:34 am

    He stole my theory and reversed it! allah is the mix of bacteria, virus, and fungi collecting preferably on foreheads and then eating through the bone into the brain to cause the full-blown disease caused by allah: islam.

  8. RichardL says

    Mar 22, 2020 at 7:47 am

    I bet, this not what you get arrested for, unlike 64 poeple:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkey-arrests-64-provocative-coronavirus-social-media-posts

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