How dare a free country insult Islam! Turkey has demanded that Swedes must fight those who ‘target Islam’ if it wants to join NATO.” Turkey now has a stranglehold over infidel NATO members, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to believe that he has subjugated the members of the alliance and compelled them to fight for Islam. Sweden, meanwhile, is appeasing Turkey. Here is an appalling outreach by Sweden’s prime minister:
Freedom of expression is a fundamental part of democracy. But what is legal is not necessarily appropriate. Burning books that are holy to many is a deeply disrespectful act. I want to express my sympathy for all Muslims who are offended by what has happened in Stockholm today.
— SwedishPM (@SwedishPM) January 21, 2023
Sympathy is owed to the innocent victims of genocidal Islamic jihad. No one deserves sympathy for being merely offended. Until Muslims learn to accept being offended and stop threatening people when they are, they will continue to justify murdering those infidels who offend them. Kristersson has merely encouraged Erdogan.
Considering its Ottoman history, it was obvious that Turkey was a risky partner for NATO to begin with. Turkey made the historic choice of siding with the free world in World War II for its own benefit. In 1950, “Turkey dispatched its troops to support U.S. and United Nations forces repelling North Korea’s attempted invasion of the southern part of the peninsula, an action that won enduring praise from the West.” That’s where it should have stopped. Turkey may have been a valuable ally at the time NATO was formed, but even so, to make it a full member of the alliance was imprudent.
Now that Turkey has evolved into a stricter Islamic country, as well as a world leader in promulgating the “Islamophobia” canard, it is presuming to dictate what infidels should and shouldn’t do. It is also interfering in Germany, and has become a stumbling block to NATO as it serves its Islamic agenda. There was never any reason to expect anything different.
“Erdogan warns Sweden on NATO after Koran burning,” by Dmitry Zaks, AFP, January 23, 2023:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden on Monday that it should not expect his backing to join NATO following the burning of the Koran outside Ankara’s embassy in Stockholm.
Erdogan’s furious comments further distanced the prospects of Sweden and Finland joining the Western defence alliance before Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary polls in May.
Turkey and Hungary are the only NATO members not to have ratified the Nordic neighbours’ historic decision to break their tradition of military non-alignment in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has promised that his parliament would approve the two bids next month.
But Erdogan has dug in his heels heading into a close election in which he is trying to energise his nationalist electoral base.
“Sweden should not expect support from us for NATO,” Erdogan said in his first official response to the act by an anti-Islam politician during a protest on Saturday that was approved by the Swedish police despite Turkey’s objections.
“It is clear that those who caused such a disgrace in front of our country’s embassy can no longer expect any benevolence from us regarding their application for NATO membership,” Erdogan said.
Sweden reacted with extreme caution to Erdogan’s remarks.
“I cannot comment on the statement tonight. First, I want to understand exactly what was said,” Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told Sweden’s TT news agency.
– Cancelled visits –
Swedish leaders roundly condemned far-right politician Rasmus Paludan’s actions but defended their country’s broad definition of free speech.
“I want to express my sympathy for all Muslims who are offended by what has happened in Stockholm today,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson tweeted on Saturday…..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Do NATO members have the capability to veto membership of anybody? Neither Finland nor Sweden will miss much by not joining NATO. As I’ve often said, Russia makes more sense as a NATO member than Turkey
But realistically, NATO needs to be disbanded. Our support for Ukraine has now resulted in reports that we are ill prepared for a war w/ anybody, should it happen. It’s high time US stopped having troops in 150 countries, and brought them all back home
GreekEmpress says
Agree 100%
PS
Are you back now? If so, welcome home. If not, safe travels.
Walter Sieruk says
t’s far better to expose the flaws used in the “logic” to uphold the Qu ‘ran made by the apologists for Islam than to burn the Qu ‘ran.
For example, there’s an old challenge given by many the apologists for Islam to support of their firm belief that the Qu ‘ran is ,truly, Divine.
The challenge they declare is “Try to write a book as beautifully written as the Qu’ ran . you cannot.”
The answer to that claim this that just because a written work of religious literature has beauty in it does not necessary mean that it’s the infallible Word of God.
For there are many highly religious books that are very beautifully written that have been around for centuries but not literally God’s Word.
For example, many of the books that make up the Apocrypha are very well written but they didn’t make into the Bible as God’s word. For instance, the specific apocrypha book of The Song of Three Young Men is a very pious beautifully written religious work of literature but it’s still not the Divine Word of God.
In addition, there have been and are many very intelligent men who read the Qu ‘ran and found it to be overly repetitious, dull inconsistent and even in some places contradictory.
This naturally is in contrast to how all Muslims hear the Qu ‘ran when it is recited. So those two contrasting views of the Qu ‘ran just prove valid the old saying that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
In conclusion, it should be obvious that just because a person finds something in a book that is religious to be also b that he finds to be written doesn’t actually mean it’s Divine.
John ..Smith says
Turkey should of been kicked out of NATO years ago. Erdogan’s true allegiance lies with the islamic world, with the countries that intend to destroy us, such as Iran.
Infact I don’t believe any muslim country should be part of NATO, so we should also kick out Albania.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
It’s freaking Cold recep! WTF do you expect them to burn now that Russian oil is being withheld??withheld??! Lol.
GreekEmpress says
Erdogan has some nerve. Total uproar over a burnt Koran.
But Armenian/Greek/Assyrian genocide? Not so much.
Erdogan is a manipulating blackmailer.
Deodata says
Best course of action, accept Sweden a non-Muslim country and kick Turkey out. Whose bright idea was it for them to join anyway.
OLD GUY says
Turkey should be kicked out of the UN.
James Lincoln says
If Sweden eventually joins NATO, will Turkey come to its aid if Sweden is attacked by a muslim theocracy?