How could Yusuf Selami Çakaroğlu, who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly, have missed what is crystal clear to so many non-Muslim politicians in the West, that Islam is a religion of peace? Yusuf Selami Çakaroğlu is likely now to run afoul of Pope Francis, who has made the risible claim that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” No doubt he is on his way to Turkey now to explain to Çakaroğlu how he is misunderstanding his peaceful religion.
“Jihadist cleric who adores al-Qaeda gets released to continue preaching in Turkey,” by Abdullah Bozkurt, Nordic Monitor, June 17, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Yusuf Selami Çakaroğlu, a Turkish pro-al-Qaeda cleric under indictment, escaped from the grip of the criminal justice system in Turkey thanks to the intervention of the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He has been freely preaching in Turkish provinces and parading on government-controlled TV networks to propagate radical views for some time now.
Çakaroğlu, 49, was part of what is called in Turkish the Tahşiyeciler, or Molla Muhammetçiler, a jihadist group led by Mehmet Doğan (aka Mullah Muhammed el-Kesri), who openly declared his admiration for Osama bin Laden and called for armed jihad in Turkey. The group had been under surveillance by Turkish security agencies since early 2000, and internal communiques among intelligence services described it as a dangerous group supportive of al-Qaeda. The probe revealed that the terrorist group had sent close to 100 people to Afghanistan for arms training….
In seized tape recordings intended for indoctrination purposes, Mullah Muhammed was heard calling for violent jihad: “I’m telling you to take up your guns and kill them.” He also asked his followers to build bombs and mortars in their homes, urged the decapitation of Americans, claiming that the religion allows such practices. “If the sword is not used, then this is not Islam,” he stated. According to him, all Muslims were obligated to respond to then-al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s armed fight.
Ali Fuat Yılmazer, the police intelligence chief, informed provincial intelligence units about the Tahşiyeyeciler on December 3, 2008, describing it as a radical group with a membership of around 5,000. The intelligence note stated that the group was spreading jihadist propaganda and listed cihaderi.net as one such site. According to the WayBack machine’s archived page of the now-defunct website, the group openly identified itself with al-Qaeda and posted news, videos and articles promoting armed jihadist activity around the world.
The declaration made by the administrators of cihaderi.net reads: “We are on the path and belief put forward by the jihadist community gathered under the banner of al-Qaeda, and where Sheikh Osama bin Laden, Sheikh Zawahiri and Sheikh Zarkawi wanted all jihadists around the world to follow and comply with.”…
Erdoğan vigorously defended Mullah Muhammed, helped secure his and his associates’ acquittals through his loyalist judges and prosecutors, launched a crackdown on journalists who criticized his radical group and even hired a lawyer to file a civil suit in the US against Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen for defaming this fanatic. The Bakirköy 3rd High Criminal Court acquitted all suspects including Mullah Muhammed and Çakaroğlu of al-Qaeda charges on December 15, 2015. In a contradiction of past records, the Security General Directorate (Emniyet) also issued a new report whitewashing the activities of the group.
What is more, the Erdoğan government invited Mullah Muhammed and his men including Çakaroğlu in 2014 to file criminal complaints against the police officers, prosecutors and judges who investigated the group as well as journalists and Muslim scholars like Gülen who criticized this al-Qaeda-linked organization.
Portraying Tahşiyeciler as victimized, Erdoğan even launched a public campaign on behalf of Mullah Muhammed, saying in a speech delivered on December 15, 2014 that Mullah Muhammed was unjustly arrested, served 17 years in jail and lost 90 percent of the sight in both eyes. That was not true, of course, as the cleric served only 17 months and had perfect vision. He was reading quite easily from a document when he declared his love affair with Osama bin Laden during a live TV interview on CNN Türk with Akif Beki, a former spokesman for Erdoğan….
Michael Copeland says
Jesus: “Take up your bed and walk.”
Mullah Muhammad “Take up your guns and kill them.”
As the left will inform everyone, all religions are the same.
Wellington says
A recent variation of this dynamic, telling and damning contrast was put forth by Benjamin Netanyahu, to wit, if Palestinians put down their weapons, there will be peace; if Israelis put down their weapons, there will be no Israel.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Benjamin Netanyahu is, of course, correct.
The Israel Defense Forces is defensive in nature. From the IDF website:
“The purpose of the IDF is to preserve the State of Israel, to protect its independence, and to foil attempts by its enemies to disrupt the normal life within it.”
https://www.idf.il/en/who-we-are/
Wellington says
Thanks for that link, James. The IDF is one of the most decent (and necessary) military forces on earth. It serves as a major martial arm of liberty, though its many detractors, both Muslim and non-Muslim, would have one conclude exactly the opposite.
It’s another example, per another post of mine to you today on another thread at JW, of how truth is so often twisted and the conventional wisdom is profoundly wrong.
Indeed, the quest for truth, which no civilization has explored more than has Western Civilization, is arguably the greatest of all quests, elusive though truth remains. It serves as the “Holy Grail” of what all civilizations should pursue, though sadly almost none do.
gravenimage says
Important stuff–and entirely true.
Lion heart says
Michael Copeland : or maybe rheumatoid will say that this evil and terrorist Turkish is MENTALLY ILL ?as they keep saying after every Islamic terrorist attack against non-Muslims
Michael Copeland says
Mullah Muhammed agrees with Ayatollah Khomeini;
“Islam says: kill all of the kafirs. Jihad stands for killing all kafirs. ….
Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels. Kill them. Put them to the sword.
Cut them in pieces. Killing is a great Divine gift.”
HUGO Lindum says
Yes, but the Pope says they are wrong.
Templer says
Islam is santic satin loves death and the sword so does islam satin hates the crose so does satin satin loves to hurt and kill the indent so does islam the religon off satin
tim gallagher says
No doubt about it, Templer, murderous Islam is definitely Satan’s own religion.
HUGO Lindum says
But surely, we aren’t going to take the opinion of a mere Muslim cleric about Islam over that of the Pope!?
And what about Obama – he said Islam is one of the least violent religions in the world. Surely he wouldn’t lie?
tim gallagher says
It amazes me how the obvious calls for murderous violence in the Koran and all these calls by Muslim “scholars” like this maggot in this report, are ignored continually by so many people (the Pope being an obvious example, along with many left wing media commentators and left wing politicians, etc). The complete dishonesty of these apologists for Islam is beyond belief. Their dishonest boosting of Islam, by lying to us all about how “true” Islam is peaceful, endangers all of us. Time for them all to face the truth and admit that islam is totally violent and always has been and is a constant danger to all non-Muslims everywhere in the world. Islam hasn’t changed in its vile 1400 year history of murderous violence.
Wellington says
Seconded, tim gallagher.
It is indeed stunning how many non-Muslims, let alone Muslims themselves, still run interference for a belief system that is rooted in rot to its very core. It serves as one of the greater mysteries in the history of our species.
Reasonable minds, of course, can disagree why mankind is so very often so effing stupid, whether thinking that Marxism has merit, Nazism has merit, Islam has merit, or the newest idiocy in man’s history, i.e., modern Western Leftism has merit—it makes for interesting discussions, preferably while consuming several pitchers of beer—or the alcoholic preference other than beer by an informed and reasonable mind—but again I veer into ancillary topics).
BUT, I think I can at least expect a Pope not to make excuses for the worst religion of all time. Alas, even this is not a given. Should be but it isn’t. Damn.
tim gallagher says
Yes, Wellington, I keep thinking that Islam’s ability to convince so many people that it is a peaceful and decent ideology and that it deserves to be respected is the greatest confidence trick of all time. Maybe a lot of people are able to ignore reality if doing so gives them a peaceful life for as long as possible. Of course, there are probably many people on the left who hate all religions, including Islam, but who hate the western, free enterprise type of society so much that they seek to use Islam in their battle against western society, and think they can ditch the Muslims if their revolution is successful. I do enjoy a beer from time to time though I’ve cut back quite a lot as I have become older and less healthy. I don’t get this Pope at all. Islam seems the complete opposite to Christianity and is a clear enemy of Christianity, so it beats me how he can cosy up to it.
James Lincoln says
Good analysis, tim.
tim gallagher says
Thanks, James. I think the majority of commenters here at Jihad Watch see things clearly when it comes to islam and I am amazed that so many people in our societies still don’t get it. Talk about slow learners. Islam deserves to be a total outcast and deserves to receive zero respect from all civilised people. As I have said a few times, I find the way that barbaric islam ,( threatening to kill non-Muslims, misogynistic, homophobic, etc) somehow fools people into giving it respect has to be the biggest confidence trick ever. Well, maybe the way some people still think that Marxism (after all the people it has murdered) has something to offer mankind is an equally extraordinary con job.
curious george says
Nothing new here. Islam was, is and will continue to be the epitome of evil. Get used to it, things are only going to get worse.
tim gallagher says
Unfortunately, curious George, I think you are right in your assessment. Until enough people wake up and force our politicians to toughen up in their policies towards Islam, I also think things will get worse.
Gork says
Good to know. I’ll make sure to bring a gun to that sword fight.
gravenimage says
Yep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua_TZ84hmEA
curious george says
Yep! That just about sums it up. One and done!
LOL, thanks for the post.
gravenimage says
🙂
Walter Sieruk says
That imam does ,indeed, have valid point in saying that. For the Qu’ ran instructs in 47:4 “Whenever you encounter the the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”
Islam, what a bloody violent religion it actually is
Myron J. Poltroonian says
Well, then, I’m so glad my worries about Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been wholly and totally unfounded.
gravenimage says
Muslim cleric says “If the sword is not used, then this is not Islam”
……………….
Yusuf Selami Çakaroğlu is right–this is orthodox Islam, since the days of the “Prophet”.
mortimer says
Bukhari, Volume4, Book 52, Number 73: Allah’s Apostle said,” Know that paradise is under the shades of swords.”
On Killing – from the Tafsir of Ibn Kathir, on verse 2:191, “As jihad involves death and the killing of men, Allah draws our attention to the fact that the disbelief and polytheism of the disbelievers and their avoidance of Allah’s path are far worse than killing. Thus Allah says, “And Fitnah is worse than killing” (Koran 2:191) This is to say that shirk (Polytheism) is more serious and worse than killing.”
Ishaq: 489 – “Do the bastards (Jews/Christians) think that we are not their equal in fighting? We are men who think that there is no shame in killing.” {No shame?)
Ishaq:315 “It was so criminal, men could hardly imagine it. Muhammad was ennobled because of the bloody fighting. I swear we shall never lack soldiers, nor army leaders. Driving before us infidels until we subdue them with a halter above their noses and a branding iron. We will drive them to the ends of the earth. We will pursue them on horse and on foot. We will never deviate from fighting in our cause. We will bring upon the infidels the fate of the Ad and Jurhum. Any people that disobey Muhammad will pay for it. If you do not surrender to Islam, then you will live to regret it. You will be shamed in Hell, forced to wear a garment of molten pitch forever!”
Ishaq:327 “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'”
Mohammed said, “I was made victorious through TERROR.” – Bukhari 4.52.220
Tabari VIII:141 ‘The battle cry of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah that night was: ‘Kill! Kill! Kill!”
The sword is on the flag of Saudi Arabia.
gravenimage says
Important quotes, Mortimer.
And the flag of Oman bristles with swords *and* daggers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Oman
Mike says
religion of peace you say
Honest Ali says
He is right. Allah commanded very clearly in the Qur’an that Muslims are to kill and enslave non-Muslims as punishment for their disbelief.
“Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace.” (Qur’an 9:14)
Also, dying while murdering non-Muslims (jihad) is the ONLY guaranteed way into heaven. And it was made clear by Muhammad that Jihad is commanded until the Day of Judgment.
“Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Three things are the roots of faith: to refrain from (killing) a person who utters, “There is no god but Allah” and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commits, and not to excommunicate him from Islam for his any action; and jihad will be performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet until the day the last member of my community will fight with the Dajjal (Antichrist). The tyranny of any tyrant and the justice of any just (ruler) will not invalidate it.” Sunan Abu Dawood, Book 8, Number 2526:
Islam is what Muhammad said it is, not what peaceniks wish it to be.
I love Iblis says
Hypocrite CNN is far-left in USA and far-right in Turkey.
curious george says
Certified
Nonsense
News
mortimer says
There are about 1,000,000 mullahs in the world who substantially agree with Yusuf Selami Çakaroğlu.
The pope … naturally … thinks he understands Islam BETTER than 1,000,000 mullahs.
How PRESUMPTUOUS!