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Erdogan urges UN to set up ‘International Solidarity Day Against Islamophobia,’ hits legitimizing of ‘hate speech’

Sep 26, 2020 2:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams 34 Comments

Erdogan’s obvious agenda in urging the United Nations to establish an “International Solidarity Day Against Islamophobia” is to try to weaken and ultimately destroy the freedom of speech. This is clearly much more important to him than the atrocities that are being committed against the Uighur Muslim population in China. As far as he is concerned, insulting Muhammad is worse than actually killing Muslims.

Erdogan, who seeks to revive the Ottoman Empire, blamed “politicians who turn to populist rhetoric for the sake of votes” for this supposed increase in hate speech. “He warned against groups who, he said ‘legitimize hate speech by abusing the freedom of expression.'”

Before Erdogan made his absurd request, President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro “urged the world to unite against ‘Christophobia,'” as an actual genocide of Christians is underway in Africa and the Middle East.

“Turkey’s Erdogan Demands U.N. Create ‘International Solidarity Day Against Islamophobia,’” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, September 22, 2020:

Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the United Nations to establish “International Solidarity Day Against Islamophobia” during his speech at the General Assembly on Tuesday, claiming Muslims are the most vulnerable population to “racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and hate speech.”

Erdogan did not mention the world’s largest systematic human rights atrocity against Muslims — the imprisoning of between 1 to 3 million Muslims in concentration camps in China — during his remarks. Prior to joining dictator Xi Jinping’s lucrative “Belt and Road Initiative,” a Chinese global infrastructure program, Erdogan had referred to the treatment of Muslims in China as “genocide,” but has not similarly condemned China for its abuses in a decade.

The absence of mention of the situation in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost province, was especially notable given that the Muslim population of Xinjiang is largely Turkic — Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz people — and that Erdogan spoke immediately before Xi. Erdogan spoke after President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who urged the world to unite against “Christophobia.”

Brazil traditionally opens the U.N. General Assembly followed by the host nation, America.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations. In addition to the hallmark anniversary, the General Assembly is functioning slightly differently this year due to travel restrictions and social distancing guidelines to contain the Chinese coronavirus. World leaders stayed in their home countries and addressed the chamber in New York virtually.

“Racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and hate speech have reached an alarming level. In the course of the [Chinese coronavirus] pandemic, acts of violence against vulnerable people, especially migrants and asylum-seekers, accelerated while xenophobia and racism increased,” Erdogan claimed. “Muslims are the most exposed to these dangerous tendencies fueled by prejudice and ignorance.”

Erdogan, himself an Islamist populist politician, blamed “politicians who turn to populist rhetoric for the sake of votes” for this alleged rise in hate speech. He warned against groups who, he said “legitimize hate speech by abusing the freedom of expression.”

Under Erdogan, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ranked Turkey the world’s number one jailer of journalists for three years in a row, 2016 to 2018. Xi’s China took the top spot from Turkey in 2019.

To fight this alleged racism and hate speech, Erdogan told the General Assembly that the United Nations should establish March 15 as the “International Solidarity Day Against Islamophobia.” March 15 is the anniversary of the 2019 mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand.

“I reiterate my call for March 15, the day of the terrorist attack perpetrated in New Zealand against Muslims, to be declared by the United Nations as ‘International Solidarity Day Against Islamophobia,’” Erdogan said. “As the second largest international organization after the United Nations, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [OIC] has officially recognized this day.”…

Erdogan also had harsh words for the growing number of nations seeking peace with Israel. While he did not name them — the most recent nations to formalize diplomatic with Israel are Turkey’s neighbors Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — Erdogan called any move in the region less than the establishment of a Palestinian state “vain, one-sided, and unjust.”…

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", blasphemy, Featured, free speech, Turkey, United Nations Tagged With: “International Solidarity Day Against Islamophobia”, Christophobia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan


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  1. jca reid says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    Erdogan pushing more of the Islamic agenda for world Domination. ALL Muslim Majority countries should be kicked out of the UN. They’re the tail wagging the dog. Before they go, these “diplomats” should pay the Fines they owe New York City. Likewise their Embassy staff should be reduced by around 75-90% &, they too, pay the Fines they owe NYC.

    Reply
    • Merri-joy says

      Sep 27, 2020 at 5:09 am

      There are more non-Muslim countries that are members of the UN – If they got wise and banded together and called themselves ONIC – Organization of Non-Islamic Countries – then ONIC would be the second biggest Organization in the world & could vote as a block against every thing the OIC votes for!
      The OIC is not a country so why are they be allowed any say at the UN!

      Reply
  2. 11B40 says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 2:40 pm

    Greetings:

    Me, I’m thinking that his “hate speech” doesn’t include, “The Kuffart should feel himself subdued.”.

    Reply
    • Peter35 says

      Sep 26, 2020 at 3:43 pm

      And the dhimmis (dummies) will race to do Erdogan’s bidding. Particularly the corrupt, moslem controlled U.N.

      Speaking to people on blogs and the street, it always amazes me that no one want’s to do anything about the moslem demands, and even on Scandinavian blogs where I find some of the best comments, it just doesn’t seem to occur to people that if the status quo continues without any fight-back what is the end result?
      An islamic Europe, and as moslems say themselves, without a shot fired.

      Reply
      • gravenimage says

        Sep 26, 2020 at 9:42 pm

        Grimly true, Peter.

        Reply
  3. Gork says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 2:53 pm

    …and this is how free speech dies: with anti “hate” speech laws.

    Reply
  4. esther says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 2:54 pm

    An international ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DAY would make sense.
    What is “islamophobia” ?? The only people I have ever encountered
    who seem to be AFRAID of anything related to islam are people who
    have LIVED with muslims or carry a family legacy of such an experience

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2020 at 9:43 pm

      +1

      Reply
  5. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 3:08 pm

    “vain, one-sided, and unjust”. Yes, Mr. Erdogan.

    Reply
  6. Dude says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 3:18 pm

    NONISLAMOPHOBIA

    One word shuts them up. If we have the guts, and the research (i.e. Sharia, dhimmi, rape/murder/rob/enslave wherever you find then, the bloody history, etc.)

    Reply
    • John spielman says

      Sep 26, 2020 at 5:31 pm

      We are NOT “islamophobes”
      We are islamoloaths!

      Reply
      • Jayell says

        Sep 27, 2020 at 2:50 am

        ‘Islamophobia’ – the irrational fear of islam. People whose opinions are governed by ‘irrational fears’ are usually quite low on the IQ scale. What is the average IQ in muslim countries? What is the average IQ in the non-muslim West?

        Reply
  7. Templer says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    What about chirtainphobe by muslims what about jewphobe by muslims are the most racest off all this evil. Ult wants wipeing from the face off the earth China may just cross that

    Reply
  8. John Hawk says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 3:47 pm

    It’s telling how Muslim leaders get very silent when the subject of China comes up, Throw a few millions Muslims in concentration camps, no problem. But say something critical about Muslims in the West, and they trot out the old “Islamophobia” card.

    A little light on consistency and ethics, one might say. Not unlike Old Mo.

    Reply
  9. Templer says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 3:53 pm

    Hate speech whatabout the 3.4 chirstains turkerky crusfixed hate speack fuck islam fuck this murdering santic peace off shit pebhile mo fight these animals back and hard

    Reply
  10. DavidR says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 3:53 pm

    Erdogan is building a cult of personality for himself. But in reality he is just a narcissist. As such his proclamations are all self serving, being seen as the “savior” of Islam for instance, and should be disregarded out of hand.

    Reply
  11. FYI says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    There is no such thing as ‘islamophobia”.

    Reply
  12. Lavéritétriomphera says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 4:22 pm

    I am an islamophobe because I cannot stop myself to believe that Quran is not the true word of God ! And I think, with all due respect to the sultan, that islam is a man-made ideology.

    Reply
  13. Boycott Turkey says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 6:31 pm

    After he demolishis ancient Byzantium Churches and turns them to mosque he is talking about islamophobia solidarity day how about a international solidarity day to remeber Agia Sophia as a church and all the other churches he destroyed and also to remeber Greek Armenian Assyrian Kurdish Genocides.

    Reply
    • GreekEmpress says

      Sep 26, 2020 at 6:55 pm

      +1

      Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2020 at 9:45 pm

      So true, Boycott Turkey.

      Reply
  14. somehistory says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 8:26 pm

    This thug is ugly inside and out. I hate islam, I hate everything islam teaches, everything it says is okay, every thing it commands.

    islam is evil, straight from satan the devil. islam has no redeeming value, no virtue, nothing good can be found it it. It is of no value at all.
    islam shows mankind just how evil is the demon satan, fake god moslims worship. islam is hateable. isalm deserves hatred. islam should be hated. Everyone should know and repeat the Truth about islam.
    “Oh, you lovers of Jehovah, hate what is bad.” This includes hating islam and its fake god.

    “There are six things Jehovah does hate, seven things are detestable to His soul.(Proverbs 6).” Lying tongue, feet in a hurry to run to badness, hands shedding innocent blood, heart scheming hurtful things, …(from memory, so someone who remembers or can look it up can add the others.)
    All of the things Jehovah hates can be found in islam.

    Reply
  15. gravenimage says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    Erdogan urges UN to set up ‘International Solidarity Day Against Islamophobia,’ hits legitimizing of ‘hate speech’
    ………………….

    This from Erdogan of al people is grotesque, given his threats to Greece and Israel. I *hope* the UN tells him to take a hike–but given their dhimmitude they probably won’t.

    Reply
  16. Boycott Turkey says

    Sep 26, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    Also Not only is Turdoghan silent on the Uighur s in China he is also deporting them back to China to please China https://youtu.be/gJqHD05ZSfY

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2020 at 10:03 pm

      Thanks for that link, Boycott Turkey.

      Reply
  17. simpleton1 says

    Sep 27, 2020 at 2:23 am

    I reiterate my call for March 15, the day of the terrorist attack perpetrated in New Zealand against Muslims, to be declared by the United Nations as ‘International Solidarity Day Against Islamophobia’.

    A muslim leader, Gamel Fouda in Christchurch, just like Mohammad would, is asking and will get hate speech laws that will then force all New Zealanders to become sharia compliant in part.
    Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern agrees at that memorial, if they win the election.

    ….. “Freedom of speech becomes hate speech,” he said at the unveiling.
    “Hate turns into hate crime as we have seen at the 15th of March.” ……..
    …… Fouda wants to see a new law differentiating between hate speech and free speech.

    “I’d like to see a new law in New Zealand and I think New Zealand has seen a lot and we went through a lot.
    The blood of those people shouldn’t be forgotten,” he said.
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/nz-election-2020-labour-wouldn-t-stop-with-just-religion-in-hate-speech-crackdown.html

    The blood of muslim martyrs seem to demand it, as Turkish President and many muslim countries demand it, so that Mohammad (PBUH) “perfect man” can be followed more truly in the ways he taught, guided, sayings, deeds & actions.
    All to be done according to the koran, hadith & sira. hmmm.

    The correct memorial for the “shaheed” as many good pious devout muslims asks for; seems to be that all New Zealanders are expected to pay for muslims, is to follow a part of sharia, by giving up “free speech” and putting in place “hate speech” laws.

    Here Ardern does her spiel of getting “hate speech” law changes through.
    Note W. Peters queasy words, so what will it take for a trade off,
    https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/labour-promise-hate-speech-legislation-changes-if-re-elected?auto=6194037980001

    This will also help in UN compliance also turning <b< free speech over to “hate speech laws” which W. Peters happily signed with Ardern’s blessings, of the “UN Global Immigration Pact”.

    Just why are so many New Zealanders happy with accepting islamic sharia demands when a muslim hijrah arrives.
    Is it just to control all “white supremacists”, especially the “white privileged”?

    Reply
    • Merri-joy says

      Sep 27, 2020 at 5:59 am

      New Conservative is the only party standing up for FREE SPEECH & against the UN Global Immigration Pact, in the 2020 Elections in New Zealand – Pray that New Conservative are elected with a huge majority to Govern outright!

      Reply
  18. Robert L Wasson says

    Sep 27, 2020 at 9:16 am

    Why is it that Muslim leaders all want to suppress the truth about Islam? If one speaks the truth of Islam, they are called Islamophobic, why would they have an irrational fear of Islam to identify what Islam is?

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Sep 27, 2020 at 10:31 pm

      Because the truth about Islam is appalling.

      Reply
  19. Giacomo Latta says

    Sep 27, 2020 at 9:47 am

    ‘the United Nations should establish March 15 as the “International Solidarity Day Against Islamophobia” ‘
    So why, following the same logic, is September 11 not already International Solidarity Day Against Islam? Because the UN exists only to allow pitied, failed tyrannies to grind their axe.

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Sep 27, 2020 at 10:31 pm

      Spot on, Giacomo.

      Reply
  20. Kepha says

    Sep 27, 2020 at 1:01 pm

    I hope the USA fights this “hate speech” thing tooth and nail, and that all members of Congress who support “hate speech” legislation lose their seats, while all judges who support the concept get impeached and removed. It is rapidly becoming the case that “hate speech” is used to accuse those who might speak the truth in [tough] love.

    Reply
  21. SAFI says

    Sep 27, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    Some things you can do to help DEFUND the terror-sponsoring oppressive authoritarian warmongering and war-criminal turkish regime…

    Do NOT vacation in Turkey
    Avoid buying products whose barcode begins with 8 68 or 8 69 (MADE IN TURKEY)
    Avoid products or services provided by turkish companies or western companies based in Turkey.
    Avoid products or services provided by businesses which sponsor turkish sports teams or turkish cultural events. Petition these businesses to stop their sponsorship explain to them that you’ll keep boycotting their products until they do.
    Petition the EU or to stop allocating funds to the turkish regime or email your MEP to downvote turkish “pre-accession” funding at they European Parliament (if you’re American petition your Congressman to finally implement the long overdue CAATSA related sanctions on Turkey)

    Reply
  22. Mahendra Singh says

    Sep 29, 2020 at 1:31 am

    Get back some of what your people did to the Balkan nations only 300 years ago. Your a-.hole was thoroughly f-ed by the Russians, who liberated those captive Christian Slavs and Greeks. Now suddenly you, Er-DOG-an get a brainstorm to recapture them for your slave needs. Islamist will make your country resembe Syria very soon

    Reply

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