In Turkey, it’s “belittling” to describe Erdogan as a Jew. The Jews in the Qur’an are called 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 man fined for calling Erdoğan ‘a Jew pretending to be a Muslim,’” by Michael Daventry, Jewish News, November 5, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A Turkish man has been convicted of insulting the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after calling him a “Jew pretending to be a Muslim” on Facebook.
Yüksel Üstün was initially jailed after being convicted on Thursday of breaking a law that makes it a criminal offence to insult the president’s “honour, pride and respectability”.
Lawyers for Erdoğan, a pious Muslim, had argued it was “belittling” to describe him as a Jew.
The conviction came despite Üstün’s lawyer Baran Güneş arguing the remark could not possibly be an insult.
“Jews are honoured citizens of this country. It is not a crime to call someone a gypsy or a Jew,” he told the court, according to Deutsche Welle.
But judges initially handed Üstün a 10-month prison term, before reducing the sentence to a 7,000 Turkish lira (£535) fine….
Infidel says
This is hilarious: Üstün calling Erdogan a Jooooooo, and then claiming that they are honored citizens of Turkey in order to save his sorry hiney
He may have been punished for insulting the president, but one can also look at it as an unintended punishment for being Judeophobic. In other words, he got what he deserved: just the punishment should have stayed at 10 months in jail, if not more
Incidentally, how many Jews are there in Turkey for them to be honored citizens? There are probably more Jews in North Korea
Mount Zion says
Doesn’t the Quran say that jews are “the most vile of creation…” I’m surprised he wasn’t convicted of blasphemy for calling them honored citizens , now that would have been really hilareous .
gravenimage says
There are *very few* Jews still surviving in Turkey.
SAFI says
LOL there’s a delicious irony in Erdo being called a Joo after spending so much energy bashing Israel and the “zionists” at every opportunity. Meanwhile chances are this scumbag could have been calling for the Jews or Kurds to be genocided on public television and nothing would likely have happened to him, but “insulting the President”? well that is the one transgression turkish islamists cannot get away with.
gravenimage says
Turkey: Man fined for calling Erdoğan ‘a Jew pretending to be a Muslim’
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You see this all the time in Dar-al-Islam–Muslims call whoever they don’t like “Jews”–no matter how implausible it might be.