Altun here once again conflates vigilante attacks against Muslims, which are never justified, with reasonable and evidence-based evaluation of the texts and teachings of Islam that Islamic jihadis use to justify violence and supremacism. The former is used to silence the latter. That’s what the “Islamophobia” initiative is all about.
“Europe must ‘stop treating Islam as a security threat’ – Turkey,” TRT World, June 20, 2020:
European governments, opinion leaders, and policymakers “must stop” treating Islam as a security threat and Muslims as potential criminals, a top Turkish government official said.
“Don’t do that,” Turkey’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun told a web panel during the launch of the European Islamophobia Report 2019.
“Islamophobia is a global threat that places millions of Muslims at risk,” he said.
Stressing that there has been a notable increase in the number of attacks against Muslims, Islamic places of worship and community centres across Europe, he said, “The frequency of those attacks contributes to their normalisation.”
The yearly report was launched by Turkish think-tank SETA, which provides country-specific surveys on the development of Islamophobia in 32 European countries….
Altun also criticised mainstream Western media for “glorifying far-left terrorism.”
“Although the mainstream media opposes Islamophobia out of political correctness, it has had no problem glorifying far-left terrorism,” he said, adding ” the securitisation of Islam and European Muslims is a source of concern.”