“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the devoted our troopers.”
Thus spake Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 1997 when he was nonetheless mayor of Istanbul. For that, he earned a conviction for inciting non secular hatred. Turkey was nonetheless attempting to be a European-style secular nation, even dreaming of becoming a member of the EU.
That sentence made well-known by the person who has now been heading his nation for over 20 years — as prime minister after which as president — comes from a poem written by Turkish nationalist poet Ziya Gökalp in 1912, in the course of the First Balkan Conflict, which led to the Ottoman Empire’s lack of most of its remaining European territories and inhabitants.
It was three years earlier than the genocide of Armenians and the mass homicide and expulsions of different Christians, primarily Assyrians and Greeks. Genocide laid the foundations for an virtually Muslim-only Turkish state, and the killers had been Kurds in addition to Turks.
Right now, the Turkish president has confirmed ties to the Muslim Brotherhood — a worldwide Muslim-supremacist group — whose professed purpose is to unfold Islam and impose Sharia legislation on the entire world.
The Muslim Brotherhood was established in 1928 by an Egyptian trainer, Hassan al-Banna, and it historically had its headquarters in Cairo. After the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, Mohamed Morsi, received the presidential election in 2012 within the wake of the so-called Arab Spring and was ousted by a army coup in 2013, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE declared the brotherhood a terrorist group. Its leaders discovered refuge in Qatar — and in Turkey.
Turkey’s directorate of spiritual affairs, Diyanet, could be very energetic amongst Turks dwelling overseas, notably in Europe. In 2018, Erdoğan in contrast Diyanet’s members and imams to “a military of 140,000.” Turkish imams in Europe are usually thought-about to be allied with the brotherhood, which, from its new Turkish base, has shifted its efforts to Muslims dwelling in Europe. The Turkish nationalist pan-European Muslim group Millî Görüş can also be mentioned to have shut ties with the Muslim Brotherhood.
In 1982, the brotherhood drew up a 14-page, 12-point technique to “set up an Islamic authorities on earth.” From 2004 to 2010, Mahdi Akef was the seventh Basic Information of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Its purpose remained unchanged: “The Muslim Brotherhood goals to create a worldwide Islamic state. We Muslims immigrate in all places, and there’s nonetheless a protracted technique to go earlier than we take over Europe.”
The brotherhood doesn’t distinguish between Sunni and Shiah Muslims. It performed a job within the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 and later within the institution of Al-Qaeda. Hamas additionally has sturdy private, monetary, and ideological hyperlinks with the brotherhood.
In Europe, many EU-subsidized Muslim organizations have ties to the brotherhood. In 2021, the European Conservative and Reformists (ECR) group within the European Parliament printed a really helpful report on these connections referred to as “Community of Networks — The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe.”
The EU pays for and encourages initiatives aimed toward selling Islamic immigration to Europe, akin to the Eurislam venture, whose purpose was to search out methods higher to combine Muslim newcomers by way of mutual adaptation by immigrants and Europeans.
The European Fee has a historical past of selling Islam within the title of defending minorities (Muslim, non-white, LGBTQ, and so forth.). September 21 is European Motion Day Countering Hate Speech In opposition to Muslims. In 2017, Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Fee, wrote to all “Muslim compatriots” to guarantee them that “they aren’t solely key stakeholders in European society, but in addition that they will discover within the European Fee a loyal buddy . . . .” Mr. Timmermans frightened about “anti-Muslim hatred” and “unlawful on-line hate speech,” proclaimed that younger Muslims “symbolize Europe’s future,” and concluded that “our widespread European venture must be rethought collectively.”
Frans Timmermans throughout a debate within the Home of Representatives in regards to the election outcomes, December 13, 2023. (PaÃses Bajos; Holanda, La Haya) (Credit score Picture: © Remko De Waal/EFE by way of ZUMA Press)
Spreading the faith of Islam is a Koranic obligation. If non-believers is not going to convert peacefully, they need to be transformed by power, by way of jihad, or Islamic holy warfare. The Muslim Brotherhood formally endorses jihad.
On the planet of orthodox Islam, solely Christians and Jews could optionally be allowed to maintain their faith in Muslim lands in the event that they settle for the standing of dhimmi, or second-rank residents who pay a particular tax, might be humiliated at will, and might be stripped even of their remaining rights if their Muslim masters so determine.
After the Individuals invaded Iraq invasion of Iraq in 2003 and toppled Saddam Hussein’s Arab nationalist secular regime, most Iraqi Christians, who numbered about 1,000,000 within the late twentieth century, had been killed or fled. They had been one of many oldest Christian communities within the Center East, with a presence relationship again to historical Assyria.
Emil Shimoun Nona, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, in northern Iraq, was pressured out and is now the Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Australia and New Zealand. In 2014, he printed this warning to Europeans within the Italian day by day Corriere della Sera, a liberal, mainstream newspaper:
Our struggling at present is a prelude to what you Europeans and Western Christians will even undergo within the close to future. I misplaced my diocese. The bodily place of my apostolate has been occupied by Islamic radicals who need us transformed or useless. However my neighborhood remains to be alive. Please attempt to perceive us: Your liberal and democratic rules are nugatory right here. You must rethink our actuality within the Center East since you are welcoming increasingly more Muslims into your international locations. You’re additionally in danger. You need to make sturdy and brave choices, even when it means contradicting your rules. You assume that every one males are equal, however that’s not true. Islam doesn’t say that every one males are equal. Your values usually are not their values. If you don’t perceive this in time, you’ll change into victims of the enemy you could have welcomed into your property.
Archbishop Emil Shimoun Nona
Throughout the civil warfare in Syria, America and Western Europe gave army and monetary support to insurgent teams, together with Islamist teams, in opposition to one other Arab nationalist, secular regime, that of Bashar al-Assad. Syrian Christians shared the plight of their Iraqi brothers. Nevertheless, partly due to Russian intervention in help of Assad, and since Assad remains to be in command of a lot of Syria, about half of the previously 1.5-million-strong Christian neighborhood nonetheless stays.
In 2011, a Franco-British-American assault overturned the nationalist, secular regime of Muammar Gaddafi and wrecked Libya. Together with the civil wars in Iraq and Syria that the West promoted, this led to a everlasting enhance in unlawful immigration into Europe. Even earlier than 2011, Erdoğan’s Turkey had visa-free flight connections with Africa and the Center-East, and had change into one of many primary unlawful gateways to Europe. Libya managed its borders and made unlawful emigration to Europe very troublesome.
Radical Islamic teams foster and typically manage unlawful entry into Europe. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), with 57 member states, encourages authorized migration. Russia, which is house to some 25 million Muslims out of a complete inhabitants of 147 million, is an OIC observer nation.
In 2017, the Pew Analysis Heart printed a report on Europe’s rising Muslim inhabitants with three future eventualities, relying on the extent of immigration. Six years later, it was already clear that we had the “excessive” situation. The share of the Muslim inhabitants in Europe (excluding Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus) is anticipated to extend from 4.9 p.c in 2016 to 14 p.c by 2050.
Sweden could be most affected, with a rise from 8.1 p.c to 30.6 p.c. Listed here are projections for different international locations: Germany from 6.1 p.c to 19.7 p.c, Belgium from 7.6 p.c to 18.2 p.c, Netherlands from 7.1 p.c to 18.2 p.c, France from 8.8 p.c to 18 p.c, Britain from 6.3 p.c to 17.2 p.c, Norway from 5.7 p.c to 17 p.c, Finland from 2.7 p.c to fifteen p.c, and Italy from 4.8 p.c to 14.1 p.c.
Europe is quickly ceasing to be Christian. In line with a examine by France’s Statistical Workplace (INSEE), in 2019–2020, solely 19 p.c of Frenchmen referred to as themselves Catholics, 9 p.c claimed different Christian affiliations, and 10 p.c mentioned they had been Muslims. Nevertheless, solely 8 p.c of Catholics go to Church repeatedly whereas 20 p.c of Muslims repeatedly attend Mosque. Whereas 67 p.c of kids raised in Catholic households and 69 p.c of these raised in different Christian households preserve the faith, 91 p.c of Muslims do. Just a few hundred French Muslims convert to Christianity yearly, whereas hundreds of Frenchmen convert to Islam. Muslims who convert select Evangelical church buildings or Conventional Catholic communities as a result of the mainstream Catholic Church is afraid of them.
The Koran encourages believers to kill each the convert and the individuals who transformed him. Ex-Muslims are seldom killed for apostasy in Europe, however a report printed in 2022 by the European Heart for Regulation and Justice particulars many instances of persecution.
Youthful generations of Muslims in Europe have gotten extra radical within the face of more and more degenerate, atheist Europe, the place wokeness and gender/LGBT ideologies are the brand new faith.
A examine printed in 2016 by the pro-immigration think-tank Institut Montaigne discovered that 28 p.c of French Muslims put Sharia legislation above French legislation and favored polygamy and carrying the burqa. Within the 18-24 age class, the quantity was virtually 50 p.c! One other ballot, taken in 2014, discovered that 27 p.c of Frenchmen, ages 18-24, supported the Islamic State (ISIS) that was then established in Iraq and Syria. This ballot didn’t distinguish respondents by faith; the share of younger Muslims who supported ISIS will need to have been a lot increased.
An Islamic State fighter in Iraq in 2021.
It’s on this surroundings that the Muslim Brotherhood carries on its work, together with the Salafi motion. Each teams are a supply of Jihadi terrorism in Europe, in addition to in Muslim international locations, a lot of which have banned them.
On the identical time, all 57 OIC member states are dedicated to the tips adopted by the ninth Islamic Summit Convention in Doha, Qatar, in 2000: to foster the Islamic id, tradition, and faith of Muslims dwelling outdoors the Islamic world, to counter integration efforts by host international locations, to strain them to simply accept the presence on their soil of a separate Muslim neighborhood, and to let Muslims to protect “their religious and ethical superiority.” The rules proceed:
This technique needs to be focused at offering the mandatory situations for people from the Muslim communities to occupy the important thing positions inside host societies, within the financial, cultural, political or info fields . . . .Muslims now represent a necessary aspect within the demographic construction of the West by advantage of their residence and integration within the financial and social cloth of the West. All people is now satisfied of the truth that Islam has change into a visual phenomenon in North America and a actuality that can’t be ignored within the western society. Some have even began contemplating Islam to be so firmly grounded in Europe that it could actually by no means be uprooted.
The OIC notes that “Western societies usually are not equivalent, accordingly, a bonus needs to be drawn from the variations of their insurance policies.” It devotes a chapter to the necessity for Islamic faculties outdoors the Islamic world. One other line of motion by the OIC is thru social facilities and Islamic charities, one thing perfected by the Muslim Brotherhood.
To grasp the OIC, but in addition the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafist motion, and international locations akin to Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, one should acknowledge that Islam is not only a faith, like Christianity or Hinduism. Islam is the whole group of spiritual, political and social life. For an orthodox Muslim, the Ummah — the world Islamic neighborhood — takes priority over citizenship, race, or ethnicity.
For conventional Islam, there may be implacable division between the world of Islam, the place folks profess Allah and his prophet, and the world of warfare, which stays to be transformed or conquered. Islam is totalitarian and internationalist, identical to communism. The final word purpose of teams just like the Muslim Brotherhood is to ascertain a world califate like that ISIS declared in 2014.
European leftists akin to Frans Timmermans have largely sidelined Christianity. Now they welcome in tons of of hundreds of Muslims yearly, who shall be influenced from overseas, taught by Imams who’re so radical they’re banned even from many Islamic international locations. Are Europe’s rulers blind to the risk or is that this what they hope for?
