Video: Geert Wilders & Mike Rosen

Fra Newsradio 850KOA – bla. om den danske muhammedkrise:

Geert Wilders & Mike Rosen – May 3, 2012

Guest: Geert Wilders, author of, “Marked for Death: Islam’s War Against the West and Me.”

Sandheden om hvad der udløste det hollandske valg den 15. september 2012, er omsider kommet frem. Statsminister, Mark Rutte, angreb Geert Wilders på det groveste - midt under budgetforhandlingerne - og sagde, at han ville ødelægge Frihedspartiet, som Wilders er formand for. Derfor udvandrede Wilders fra forhandlingerne og opsagde aftalerne om at fungere som støtteparti. Wilders’ modstand imod alt for drastiske besparelser på statens budgetter har ellers hidtil fået hele skylden. Nis News skrev den 15. maj 2012:

Premier Mark Rutte’s reputation as the good-humoured gentleman has been dented now that it has emerged that he made a fierce attack behind the scenes on Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders.

Rutte was confronted on TV programme Pauw&Witteman last Friday evening with a rumour that he threatened to “decimate” the PVV if Wilders did not sign up to an accord for 14 billion euros in budget cutbacks for 2013. Rutte confirmed that he “may have said something like this”.

Wilders said Saturday evening on TV programme EenVandaag that Rutte’s words had been even stronger. According to the PVV leader, the premier told him “I will break that little party of yours down to the last seat.”

Wilders om EUs krav – Reuters:

“I cannot explain to anyone that these parties signed a blank cheque of 40 billion euros for Greece and perhaps for Spain, Italy and other countries while we demand 12 billion euros from the Dutch citizens,” Wilders told TV station RTL 7.

Og der er mere uenighed:

• Hvis Holland skal tilslutte sig EUs stabilitetspagt, European Stability Mechanism, ESM, skal vælgerne spørges først. Det siger Geert Wilders, der nu anlægger sag ved de hollandske domstole. Den afgående regering har ikke handlet lovligt ved at underskrive aftalen, som i følge Wilders er suverænitetsafgivelse. Det skriver flere kilder, blandt andre Expatica.
• Opdatering 5. juni 2012: Wilders tabte retssagen, skriver flere kilder blandt andre The Irish Times og Expatica. Wilders overvejer at anke sagen, skriver Reuters.

Jeg har lavet et lille overblik over noget af Wilders rolle i hollandsk politik det sidste halve år:

• Bill Gates, Desmond Tutu og Bob Geldof følte sig kaldet til at blande sig i den politiske debat i april. De synes ikke om Wilders Frihedspartis (PVV) forslag om at skære i bistandshjælpen til udviklingslande. Det er som bekendt EU, der har krævet voldsomme stramninger i det offentliges udgifter. Tutu og Geldof har haft læserbreve i hollandske aviser og Bill Gates har ringet til en tv-kanal, skriver Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Avisen Volkskrant modtog også en opringning, fortæller DutchNews. Gates har desuden inviteret Wilders på besøg i Afrika for at se på udviklingsprojekter, fortæller The Irish Times.
• I april 2012 viste en Klout-undersøgelse, at Geert Wilders ligger på top 10 over de mest indflydelsesrige hollændere på Twitter.
• Wilders protesterede over den tyrkiske islamist og præsident Abdullah Güls tre dage lange besøg i Holland. Af en eller anden urimelig grund har hollænderne valgt at markere 400 året for diplomatiske forbindelser mellem de to lande. Fra Expatica den 18. april 2012:

“The Turkish president described Mr Wilders as an Islamophobe in an interview with popular daily De Telegraaf. He said the Freedom Party leader expressed extremist views that fostered radicalism.”

Og Wilders svarede via Twitter – fra armenske Panorama:

“Islamist Gul, who persecutes the Christians, attacks the Kurds and is in friendly relations with Hamas, complaint of intolerance. Typical Turkish humor.”

“Turkey has a number of shortcomings – imprisonment of journalists covering criticism, denial of Armenian Genocide, pressure against national minorities. However, due to Kemal Ataturk’s advanced visions Turkey managed to become a strategic ally of the West and shared military and diplomatic cooperation with Israel for so long.”

• Holland bør droppe euroen og reintroducere hollandske gylden, synes Wilders, der i marts måned plæderede for en folkeafstemning, fremgår det af Bloomberg. En analyse lavet af det britiske Lombard Street Research viser, at den hollandske økonomi er alvorligt hæmmet af euro-medlemsskabet, fortæller The Independent.
• Wilders Frihedsparti har oprettet en hjemmeside og en hotline, hvor hollændere kan indrapportere de problemer, de oplever med østarbejdere, skriver Deutsche Welle. Hjemmesiden hedder “Meldpunt Midden en Oost Europeanen“. EU, Polen, Bulgarien, Rumænien, Ungarn, Tjekkiet, Slovakiet, Slovenien, Estland, Letland, Lithauen, - har klaget over denne “hadetale”. Tilsidst blev den hollandske regering presset til også at lægge afstand til initiativet. Som man kan regne ud, handler det først og fremmest om østeuropæernes ofte meget kriminelle adfærd. Wilders vil heller ikke have Bulgarien og Rumænien med i Schengen. Midt i februar havde PVVs site mere end 40.000 kommentarer. Da havde det kun været åbent i en uge. Wilders har da også svaret kritikerne med et “Mind your own business”, skriver The Global Post. EU-Kommissionens danske cheftalskvinde, Pia Ahrenkilde-Hansen, udtalte i følge NYDailyNews, at hjemmesiden muligvis kunne være et brud på EUs hade-tale-love. Jojo.
• I januar foreslog Wilders, at den hollandske regering undskylde deportationen af landets jøder under anden verdenskrig. Mere end 100.000 jøder blev deporteret til dødslejre i Tyskland og Polen. Den hollandske stat solgte de ejendomme, de myrdede jøder var tvunget til at forlade, skriver World of Judaica. I dag bor der kun 30.000 jøder i Holland. Mark Ruttes regering har svaret, at de vil overveje forslaget. Der er til dato ikke kommet noget svar på Wilders anmodning.
• Den hollandske regering bør arbejde på at få Tyrkiet ud af Nato, mener Wilders’ Frihedsparti i følge The Jerusalem Post, som skrev om det allerede i december 2011.
• Den egyptiske regering protesterede allerede i november 2011 over Geert Wilders nye bog, skriver Wilders på sin blog. Egypterne anklagede Wilders for at bagvaske islam og den hollandske ambassadør i Egypten blev kaldt i samråd i det Egyptiske udenrigsministerium. Ingen kan imidlertid have læst sig til den antagelse, – bogen er som bekendt først udkommet for få uger siden.

Der ligger et ret godt interview med Geert Wilders hos The Daily Caller. Jeg har linket til det en gang før og nu gør jeg det igen:

• TheDC Interview: ‘Marked for Death’ Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders [VIDEO]

Desuden lige dette:

“Before Somebody Gets Hurt”?

by Hugh Fitzgerald – 16 January 2012

Apparently Christopher Dickey, who for many years had a photograph of Yasir Arafat hanging on his Newsweek office wall in Paris, thinks that “someone could get hurt” if Geert Wilders continues to say what, for the well-informed, is obvious: that what is in Qur’an, Hadith, and Sira, if taken to heart, makes every Believer a menace, in posse and, whenever the spirit moves him, in esse, to all non-Muslims. Apparently Christopher Dickey has not noticed the 2.5 million black African Christians killed in the southern Sudan by northern Muslims, never noticed what happened to the Igbo and other Christians before, during, and after the Biafra War, has not noticed what has been happening to Christians in Iraq and in Pakistan and in Indonesia [...]

Mere HER i The New English Review. Fitzgerald kommenterer på denne ignorante artikel i The Daily Beast:

• Geert Wilders Says There’s No Such Thing as Moderate Islam

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David P. Goldman om Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis – årgang 1916 – har skrevet en ny bog. Lewis ser tilbage på det århundrede, der gik. Spengler anmelder:

Bernard Lewis’ Stubborn Hope

In Notes on a Century, the historian is still optimistic about a ‘great civilization’ in the Muslim world

By David P. Goldman | May 9, 2012

Bernard Lewis beckons to us as if from the mists of legend. A poet-scholar, linguist, observer and sometime participant in the great events of the Middle East for seven decades, the London-born scholar belongs more to the world of T.E. Lawrence than to ours. At 95, his prose is translucent and his recollection luminous.

But Notes on a Century—his personal and professional memoir—makes for sad reading, for two reasons. The first is that we will not find another like Bernard Lewis; it is a valedictory essay not just for a remarkable man but for an epoch. No university today could train a poet capable of extracting the red thread of history from the obscure orthography of official archives, or a historian-diplomat who knows the songs of a dozen peoples in their own dialects. Part of the reason is ideological. The post-colonial-studies movement typified by the late Edward Said has ruined a field that once was called “Orientalism”—meaning simply a specialty in Near Eastern philology rather than Greek and Roman. Saudi and other Gulf State funding of Middle East studies programs, meanwhile, has made a critical stance toward Muslim culture an academic career-killer. Even without the ideological divide, though, our culture has grown too brittle to nurture another mind of Lewis’ depth.

Mere HER i The Tablet.

Opdatering – Spengler har lidt mere om bogen:

Bernard Lewis’ Valediction

May 9, 2012 – by David P. Goldman

Prof. Bernard Lewis has just published a memoir which is as much a valedictory statement of his views as a reminiscence about a remarkable life; I review it today at the Jewish webzine The Tablet. Lewis has of course been denounced from the left (by the sulfurous Edward Said) as an “orientalist,” which used to mean scholar of Semitic languages but now means “neo-colonialist.” That is an absurd charge by an incompetent and mendacious scholar, but it ruined Middle Eastern studies in the politically correct (and Arab-funded) world of academia. From the right, he has been denounced as an “Arab apologist” by Pamela Geller and as a “Pied Piper of Islamic Confusion” by Andrew Bostom.

One should be cautious about attacking Prof. Lewis, whose analysis of Muslim rage did more to galvanize Western support for the idea of a war on terror than any other single source, and who drew more opprobrium from the academic left than any other personality. His optimism about Islamic democracy ultimately was misplaced, in my view, but should be understood in context. As I wrote in Tablet:

Mere HER hos PJ Media.

Tyrkiet fængsler journalister

Tyrkerne er så klodsede. I EU har man længe holdt pressen nede ved hjælp af økonomiske tilskud. Det hedder i reglerne, at medier, der modtager støtte, ikke må kritisere EU og at de skal arbejde for multikultur. Og det virker. Senest lykkedes det at føre hele kontinentet bag lyset, da islamisternes magtovertagelser i Mellemøsten blev kaldt “arabisk forår”. Ingen ved sine fulde fem vil nu om dage kalde sig velorienteret, bare fordi man læser europæiske aviser. I gruppen, “ved sine fulde fem”, har jeg ikke medregnet politikere, selvfølgelig ikke. Men altså: tyrkerne kører løs med straf, fængsel, retssager og et større cirkus:

Subtergenekon and Other Crimes

In Turkey, alleged terrorism requires a brand-new vocabulary.

3 January 2012 -  Claire Berlinski

George Orwell’s greatest act of genius was the invention of Newspeak, the official language of Oceania, devised to meet the ideological needs of “Ingsoc,” or English Socialism. Explaining the nature of a mass trial in Turkey likewise requires the construction of a language all its own. Of late, journalists’ trials have received particular notice in the foreign press, but only because the arrest of journalists excites other journalists. In fact, early-morning raids, mass arrests, detentions without trial, and mass trials are a common feature of the Turkish landscape—for academics, students, suspected members of the so-called KCK (the urban wing of the terrorist Kurdish group PKK), lawyers of suspected members of the KCK, heads of soccer teams and their associates, members of parliament, generals, admirals, and an indeterminate number of unfortunates who just got sucked up in the vacuum.

Mere HER i City Journal.

Andre kilder: Stonegate Institute, Stonegate Institute, Stonegate Institute, Stonegate Institute, Stonegate Institute, Stonegate Institute, BBC,

Opdatering 14. marts 2012 fra Stonegate Institute:

Journalists Freed After 375 Days Behind Bars

Four Turkish journalists detained on charges of links to an underground anti-government network were released Monday afternoon.

Video: Pamela Geller – to flotte foredrag

Geller kan bare det der. Skønt foredrag - ser ud til at være fra den 18. oktober 2011:

Banned Speech at the Hyatt: Pamela Geller, “Truth is the New Hate Speech”

Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas. This event was originally to be held at the HyattPlace in Sugar Land but was canceled with less than 30 hours notice after the hotel received one email threatening to protest her appearance. The event was relocated to the Sugar Land Community Center.

Der er flere overlap, men pyt:

Pamela Geller Speaks at Fort Lauderdale Tea: “There is a War on the Truth”

See what is banned, prohibited from the public square by Islamic supremacists and their tools that enforce the restriction of free speech under the sharia. Huge thanks to David DiCrescenzo of American Patriots Press for the video of my remarks made at the Fort Lauderdale Tea Party , October 4, 2011.

Hyatt Place Hutton Hotels and the 20 other hotels in Nashville that turned away our Freedom Conference take note — they have sided with the enemies of our cherished freedoms.

Aflysning af arrangementer sker bare igen og igen:

Hotel boots anti-sharia conference

Chad Groening – November 1, 2011

A terrorism expert and Islam watchdog says a Nashville hotel has caved to Islamic supremacism.

The Tennessee Freedom Coalition describes itself as a group dedicated to keeping sharia law from being established in the United States. It had booked space for November 11 at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville to host a 300-person event called “The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference” — and event touted as the first national conference on sharia and the “Islamization of America.”

But Fox News has reported that when hotel officials learned that sharia critics Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were scheduled to speak, they promptly canceled the event and returned the deposit, citing security concerns.

Mere HER hos OneNewsNow. Og igen:

Staver seeking actual cause of hotel’s ‘security concerns’

Chad Groening – 11/4/2011

In the opinion of a Christian law firm, a Nashville hotel was unjustified in canceling an upcoming conference that features several staunch critics of radical Islam.

As previously reported on OneNewsNow, the Tennessee Freedom Coalition had booked space at Hutton Hotel in Nashville to host a 300-person event called “The Constitution or Sharia: Preserving Freedom Conference” — an event touted as the first national conference on sharia and the “Islamization of America.”

Mere HER hos OneNewsNow.

Opdateret.

Tip: Tak til Asdic.

Tyrkiets dance macabre

Den største svinestreg i nyere tid er denne: IHH-folkene bag den palæstinensiske  flotilla har via bla. Facebook og Twitter lavet og offentliggjort en liste med navne på israelske soldater, der deltog i den operation, der stoppede aktivisterne - med billede og det hele:

Turkey: IHH draws up list of IDF soldiers linked to Gaza flotilla raid

Speaking to the Today’s Zaman daily, Turkish prosecutor denies list was result of an official investigation; directory includes 174 names identified using Facebook, Twitter accounts.

September 26, 2011

A Turkish public prosecutor said Monday that the Turkish IHH organization drew up a list – reportedly found through Facebook – of Israeli soldiers who were involved in the 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, the Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman reported on Monday.

Istanbul Deputy Public Prosecutor Ates Hasan Sozen denied reports that the Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office asked the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) to identify the soldiers and prepare the list.

Mere HER hos Haaretz. Ynetnews skriver, at tyrkeres liste er fuld af fejl:

Turkish list of flotilla soldiers a sham?

September 27, 2011

Reports in Turkish media claimed IHH compiled list of 174 soldiers, security officials who took part in raid on Gaza-bound ship, but closer glance reveals that names were recycled from previous lists, belong to soldiers who already completed military service during 2010 naval operation

Mere HER hos Ynetnews. Dagen før skrev Ynetnews, at Tyrkiet havde brugt efterretningsagenter for at få fabrikeret listen.

Erdogan opfører sig som en elefant i en porcelænsbutik. Hvis manden ser sig selv som kommende kalif, må det have været lidt af en bet, at alle arabiske statsledere i sidste uge udeblev fra Erdogans tale i det ellers stærkt islamiserede FN. En journalist fra det tyrkiske dagblad, Hurriyet Daily News, var til stede under talen og skriver skuffet:

In the end I understood that I was looking for Abbas and other Arab leaders in vain.

Optakten til talen var præget af vold, skriver Jyllands-Posten. Erdogans sikkerhedsvager gav sig til at slås med FNs vagter på hele to etager. Manden benyttede sit besøg i New York til at træde yderligere i spinaten:

Israeli PM slams ‘outrageous’ Erdogan remarks

September 26, 2011

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday described as “outrageous” remarks by Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan in which he claimed Israel had killed “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians.

In an interview with the English-language Jerusalem Post, excerpts of which were published on Monday, the Israeli prime minister expressed anger over comments made by Erdogan in an weekend interview with US cable network CNN.

In the interview, footage of which is available on CNN’s website, Erdogan said there were no accurate statistics about the number of Israelis killed in the conflict, suggesting up to “200″ while he said “hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were killed.”

Mere HER hos AFP hos Google Hosted. Tyrkerne har efterfølgende hævdet, at CNN oversatte Erdogan forkert, fortæller The Jerusalem Post:

Erdgoan said hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed by the Israelis, not hundreds of thousands

Seriøse kritikere er bekymrede over Tyrkiets kurs. Først Daniel Pipes, hvis artikel delvis findes på dansk her. Den engelske version er komplet:

Is Turkey Going Rogue?

by Daniel Pipes – September 27, 2011

In a Middle East wracked by coups d’état and civil insurrections, the Republic of Turkey credibly offers itself as a model thanks to its impressive economic growth, democratic system, political control of the military, and secular order.

But, in reality, Turkey may be, along with Iran, the most dangerous state of the region. Count the reasons:

Islamists without brakes: When four out of five of the Turkish chiefs of staff abruptly resigned on July 29, 2011, they signaled the effective end of the republic founded in 1923 by Kemal Atatürk. A second republic headed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Islamist colleagues of the AK Party began that day. The military safely under their control, AKP ideologues can now pursue their ambitions to create an Islamic order.

Mere HER hos Daniel Pipes. Kan også læses her hos National Review Online. AINA her. The Washington Times her. National Post her.

Tyrkiet spiller åbenbart dobbeltspil hvad Syrien angår. AFP har en interessant artikel om Tyrkiet, Syrien, Det Muslimske Broderskab, Erdogan og taqiyya:

Turkey ‘offered Syria support’ if Islamists given posts

September 29, 2011

Ankara asked Damascus to offer the Muslim Brotherhood government posts in exchange for Turkey’s support in ending rallies in Syria, an offer rejected by Bashar al-Assad, officials and diplomats said.

The plan, which would have required that at least a quarter of ministerial positions went to the currently banned organisation, was initially mooted over the summer.

“In June, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered, if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ensured between a quarter and a third of ministers in his government were members of the Muslim Brotherhood, to make a commitment to use all his influence to end the rebellion,” a Western diplomat told AFP.

“The head of the Syrian state refused such a proposal,” said the diplomat, who did not want to be named.

Mere HER hos AFP via Yahoo News. Tyrkiet benægter alt, skriver Asharq Alawsat.

Dernæst Michael Rubin:

The Trouble With Turkey A nation that once aspired to be European now curries favor among Islamists

By Michael Rubin | October 3, 2011

“We stand together on the major issues that divide the world,” Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower declared in Ankara while preparing to depart Turkey, on a cold and windy day in December 1959. “And I can see no reason whatsoever that we shouldn’t be two of the sturdiest partners standing together always for freedom, security, and the pursuit of peace.”

It took almost a half century, but Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has succeeded in ending that partnership. Certainly Turkey no longer stands for freedom. Like his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Erdogan roughs up and imprisons those who challenge him. In 2002, the year before Erdogan became prime minister, Turkey ranked 99th in the world in press freedom out of 139 nations rated by Reporters Without Borders. By 2010, it ranked 138th out of 178, barely nosing out Russia and finishing below even Zimbabwe. Nor can American officials any longer say that America’s relationship with Turkey bolsters national security. Just one year ago, the Turkish air force held secret war games with its Chinese counterparts without first informing the Pentagon. Erdogan has also deferred final approval of a new NATO anti-missile warning system. Meanwhile, Hakan Fidan, Turkey’s new intelligence chief, makes little secret of his preference for Tehran over Washington.

Mere HER hos AEI. Der er mere kritik hos Hudson New York:

Turkey: Erdogan’s New “Secular” Islamism

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – September 28, 2011

During a recent meeting in Cairo, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that secularism does not mean giving up religion, and called on Egyptians to adopt a secular constitution. “Do not be wary of secularism. I hope there will be a secular state in Egypt,” Erdogan said. Immediately, from Cairo to Saudi Arabia, there was a shocked reaction.

Secular circles had long ago expressed their concern that the AKP-led government in Turkey wanted to change the secular nature of the Turkish Republic. With Erdogan’s new, “revised” definitions of language, they may well be right.

The Saudi-owned paper Asharq Al-Awsat wrote that the Muslim Brotherhood had portrayed Erdogan as a “Muslim Caliph mounted upon his horse, commanding Muslim armies all across the world,” and had thought to hear some support for their dream of having Islamic Sharia Law as the only source of legislation. Instead, Erdogan trashed their hopes. “Picture this” wrote Asharq Al-Awsat: “a moment of utter silence where the cheers died down and eyes were wide open, only to be broken by a well-known, ‘moderate’ Brotherhood voice, namely Essam el-Eryan, who said: ‘We thank Erdogan and love Turkey, but he should not interfere in Egypt’s affairs. Secularism is not a solution for us. Turkey is free to adopt its own choice. The power of the Islamic civilization lies in its diversity’…among other loaded phrases.”

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Også Anders Fogh Rasmussen er urolig:

Turkey’s Rifts With 2 Nations Worry a Top NATO Official

By Steven Erlanger and Stephen Castle – September 30, 2011

NATO’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, expressed disquiet on Friday about tensions over natural gas exploration in the Mediterranean between a newly assertive Turkey and Cyprus, as well as Turkey’s strained relations with Israel, saying that they were both “a matter of concern.”

Mr. Rasmussen said he did not foresee the tension turning into conflict in the Mediterranean, and he praised Turkey as an indispensable member of NATO that could be “a bridge” between the West and the Arab countries now engaged in revolts.

Mere HER i The New York Times. Fogh Rasmussen har god grund til uro. Præsident Obama konkurrerer med Erdogan om titlen som årets torsk. Rubin igen:

Why is Obama Rewarding Turkey with Attack Helicopters?

Michael Rubin – Oktober 2, 2011

If Obama were a poker player holding a full house, he’d fold to let the guy across the table with a pair of twos feel like a winner. Not even Jimmy Carter​ was so adverse to squandering leverage when dealing with friends and foes.

Mere HER i Commentary Magazine.

Time Magazine bragte et interview med Erdogan i den forgangne uge. Her har man ikke fattet en islamisk bønne af, hvad der foregår:

Exclusive: TIME Meets Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

by Ishaan Tharoor – September 26, 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the international statesman of the moment. Greeted as a rock star in Egypt and other countries transformed by the Arab Spring, the Turkish Premier looms like a colossus over the Middle East. In recent weeks, he has been one of the most vocal world leaders to back the Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations. Popular at home, Erdogan has held his position since 2003, and was recently re-elected to a new term. All the while, both Turkey’s economy and geopolitical footprint have been growing noticeably. Erdogan sat down with TIME’s Jim Frederick, Bobby Ghosh, Tony Karon, Matt McAllester and Ishaan Tharoor on the sidelines of U.N. meetings in New York City. The following are excerpts from the conversation, touching upon Turkey’s deteriorating relationship with Israel, the failures of the Middle East peace process, Erdogan’s support for the Arab Spring and frustrations with the U.N., and whether anybody in Ankara still cares about joining the E.U.

Mere HER i Time Magazine. Michael Rubin har en fin kritik af interviewet i The American:

• Time’s Puff Piece on Turkey’s Erdogan

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Video: Pamela Geller på Beverly Hills Hotel

Alletiders video. Geller er bare god. Mark Tapson introducerer og gør det aldeles glimrede:

Pamela Geller – Stop the Islamization of America

Pamela Geller’s remarks at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Wednesday Morning Club at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Kritikken hagler ned over Tyrkiet

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Analysis: Israel, Egypt, Turkey – shifting sands

By Zvi Mazel – September 18, 2011

The many commentators who have lamented in the past few days about the isolation of Israel in the Middle East have apparently forgotten that this is nothing new. Arab armies tried to destroy the newborn state in 1948; successive attempts having failed as well, Arab states dealt with the existence of the Jewish state as with something which had to be endured, not accepted. Yes, peace was achieved between Israel and Egypt, then Jordan, but this was a peace between governments, not peoples. Incitement against the Jewish state never stopped, finding fertile soil in the minds of youngsters taught from the cradle that Jews are the enemies of Islam and will be destroyed on Judgment Day.

What was left were agreements fueled by transient political interests.

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post.

Erdogan Has Good Reason To Be Crazy

September 18, 2011 – by David P. Goldman

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan brings to mind the story about the housewife who calls her husband during rush hour. “Be careful driving home on the Beltway, dear,” she advises. “The news says that there’s a maniac driving in the wrong direction.” “What do you mean, ‘a maniac’?,” he replies. “Everybody’s driving in the wrong direction!”

Now that Turkey has threatened Europe with a “freeze in relations” if Cyprus (as planned) assumes the presidency of the European Union in 2012, it must seem to Erdogan that everyone is driving in the wrong direction. Earlier this month Turkey declared “null and void” the United Nations’ Palmer Commission report, which supported Israel’s right to enforce a blockade against Gaza. That was a minor gaffe, because United Nations dicta have the authority of revelation to the liberal media, except, of course, when they support Israel. It’s one thing for Turkey to freeze relations with Israel — we take it for granted these days that everybody hates Israel — but the Europeans? Everybody likes the Europeans, who have replaced their defense ministries with an answering machine that says, “We surrender.” And over Cyprus? Even Russia, Turkey’s key trading partner and the host for millions of Turkish guest workers, is aghast at Erdogan’s tantrum. Russia has strong ties to Cyprus.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Turkey’s Moralpolitik: World Leader in Imprisoning Journalists

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – September 23, 2011

Some analysts, under the impression that Turkey is severing relations with Israel because Turkey claims that it is its duty is to champion “human rights” in the Middle East, have written that Turkey is abandoning “realpolitik” for “moralpolitik.”

According to a large number of academics and journalists in the Western media, especially in Europe, Turkey has chosen to follow a new ethical policy based on moral attitudes. This simplistic and naïve interpretation of the Turkish agenda is becoming so that the international community fails to denounce human rights abuses in Turkey. In Italy, several media sources, such as the newspaper La Stampa, wrote that Turkey is an example of democracy to be followed in the Middle East, whereas the Washington-based Middle East Institute wrote in an article published by Dr. Gonul Tol that Turkey is balancing strategic interests with idealism.”Turkey views its conduct of foreign policy as a balance between diplomacy and hard power to pursue its interests, both moral and geopolitical,” Tol wrote..

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Erdogan Creates International Complications for Turkey

Dore Gold – September 23, 2011

While Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has been using his anti-Israeli rhetoric to build up Turkey as a new great power in the Arab world, his neo-Ottoman policy is sparking  a reaction among other countries that could pose for him serious problems in the period ahead. For Erdogan has not only been using aggressive rhetoric against Israel. In the last few weeks the Turkish government has also been threatening Cyprus for developing its undersea gas resources in the Mediterranean. As a result, Russia has been drawn in to neutralize Turkish behavior.

Cyprus just signed an agreement with the Texas-based Noble Energy, which is in a partner in developing Israeli maritime gas fields, as well. Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs, Egemen Bağış let it be known that the Turkish Navy could intervene if Greek Cyprus does not call off the project. He said “That’s what a navy is for.”  As a result, the Russian Foreign Ministry publicly backed the right of Cyprus to develop its Mediterranean gas. Cyprus, in turn, described Russia as “a shield against any threats by Turkey.”

Mere HER hos Dore Gold.

Opdatering:

Turkish Prime Minister Cuts All Ties with Syria

And more from the Turkish Press

by AK Group – September 23, 2011

Turkey has suspended talks with Syria and may impose sanctions on Damascus, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said, the clearest sign yet that Ankara has parted ways with President Bashar al-Assad over his bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Andre kilder: The New York Times, Asia Times, Pajamas Media,

Video, audio & artikler: Konflikt mellem Israel og Tyrkiet

Jeg har brugt en hulens masse tid på at læse om konflikten mellem Tyrkiet og Israel. Og noget af det bedste tog jeg fra til bloggen. Men først et nyt interview med Tyrkiets præsident, Abdullah Gül:

“Turkey is No Longer a Friend of Israel” Says President of Turkey

Det, man siger, er man selv? Erdogan er en dårlig taber. Det var Tyrkiet, der handlede i strid med international lov, fordi de ikke stoppede den “flotilla”:

Turkish PM declares freeze on Israel ties

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces a total freeze on military and trade ties with Israel and threatens to visit Gaza as the one-time allies’ diplomatic spat intensifies

Desuden audio fra NPR – Talk of the Nation den 13. september 2011. Man kan følge med i en komplet udskrift her:

Israel Feeling Increasingly Isolated From Allies

Israeli diplomats have fled Egypt after an attack on their embassy in Cairo and were forced to leave Turkey after a diplomatic row. As Israel appears to lose its Muslim allies, many worry about possible repercussions on the peace process, Israel’s security and the U.S. role in the region.

Guests
Joel Greenberg, Jerusalem correspondent, Washington Post
Akiva Eldar, chief political columnist, Ha’aretz
Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations

Host
Neal Conan

Startes HER eller her - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed ½ time. Og til artiklerne:

UN Report on Flotilla Incident Exonerates Israel

Sep 3, 2011 • By Elliott Abrams

The United Nations report on the Mavi Marmara incident, entitled “Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident,” is now public and largely exculpates Israel.  All the facts are as Israel contended and as the Commission notes “Israel faces a real threat to its security from militant groups in Gaza. The naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure” and “Israeli Defense Forces personnel faced significant, organized and violent resistance from a group of passengers when they boarded the Mavi Marmara requiring them to use force for their own protection. Three soldiers were captured, mistreated, and placed at risk by those passengers. Several others were wounded.”

The Commission makes the judgment that the use of force by the Israelis was “excessive and unreasonable,” but the real verdict is evident in the way the Israeli and Turkish governments have reacted.  Israel has accepted the report and its findings of fact while of course disagreeing with that judgment about its soldiers; Turkey has rejected the report entirely.

First, the panel challenges the motives of the flotilla:

Mere HER i The Weekly Standard.

Turkey’s economic lie

Turkey no economic powerhouse, Erdogan’s credit bubble will soon explode

Guy Bechor – September 15, 2011

Some refer to him as “the Middle East’s new sultan in a neo-Ottoman empire” – yet the truth about Erdogan’s kingdom is utterly different. We are not facing an economic power, but rather, a state whose credit bubble will be bursting any moment now and bringing down its economy.

The budget deficit of the collapsing Greece compared to its GDP stands at some 10%, and the world is alarmed. At the same time, Turkey’s deficit is at 9.5%, yet some members of the financial media describe the Turkish economy as a success story (for comparison’s sake, Israel’s deficit stands at some 3% and is expected to decline to 2% this year.)

Mere HER hos Ynetnews.

Why the West Cares about Turkey’s Diplomatic Conflict with Israel

September 10, 2011 – Dore Gold

Under the surface, there have been growing concerns in the West about the general direction of Turkish foreign policy under Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP Party. In an extremely important 2004 cable from the US Department of State, revealed by WIKILEAKS, that was described previously in this column, an American diplomat in Turkey wrote about his concerns with Ankara’s “new, highly activist foreign policy,” Like many other commentators he focused on what he called the “neo-Ottoman fantasies” of Ahmet Davutoglu, who was then only an advisor and today is Turkey’s foreign minister.

But the American diplomat went much further in his description. He attended a meeting at the main think tank of Turkey’s ruling AKP Party where he heard many in the AKP saying that it is Turkey’s role to spread Islam in Europe. He added that among the participants in the think tank there was “the widespread belief” that Turkey should ”avenge the defeat at the siege of Vienna in 1683″–where the Ottoman armies loss to the Hapsburg Empire.

Mere HER i The Algemeiner. Kan også læses her hos Dore Gold.

A Brilliant Fraud

By Stanley Weiss – September 15, 2011

It was the first time that cattle cars would be used in the 20th century to carry people to concentration camps, a systematic annihilation of a whole population so horrific that a new word had to be invented to capture its brutality: genocide.

In the midst of World War I, over a million Christian Armenians in Turkey were rounded up by the Ottoman Empire and slaughtered in unspeakable ways. No less a mass murderer than Adolf Hitler, in a speech to Nazi commanders before he invaded Poland, reportedly defended his order to, “kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of the Polish race” by asking, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

Mere HER i Huffington Post.

Turkey rebukes Israel: do they remember Northern Cyprus and the Kurds?

04 Sep, 2011 – Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker

Turkey is once more playing the “Israel card” whereby in order to gain credibility at home and to appease the anti-Israeli lobby, the same issue keeps on popping up.  However, while individuals or governments who oppose Israel may welcome the ongoing outbursts which break out frequently it is obvious that mass hypocrisy in Turkey renders this a farce.

If Turkey is so concerned about human rights then why not focus on leaving Northern Cyprus, give greater freedom to the Kurds, install equality for the Alevi Muslims, stop attacking Kurds in Northern Iraq and recognize the mass genocide of Christians which took place in 1915 (pogroms before and after this date).

Mere HER hos Lee Jay Walker.

Erdogan’s Dhimmi Problem

Emmanuel Navon – September 7, 2011

Under Islamic law (“Shariah”), non-Muslims (such as Christians and Jews) are mostly free to practice their religion in private but are discriminated and treated as second-class citizens, or dhimmis. As the Quran clearly states, non-Muslims must “feel themselves subdued” (Sura 9:20). When the Jews regained their independence in 1948, they not only rebelled against “dhimmitude.” They also regained and freed, like the Spaniards after the Reconquista, a land once ruled by Islam. To Muslims, this was -and still is- a double offence.

Turkey’s Islamist Prime Minister Erdogan has taken upon himself to make Israel a “dhimmi state.” Edorgan was raised as a Sufi Muslim and was imprisoned in 1998 for singing out loud that “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.” While mainstream Western media are at pains to describe Turkey’s Islamist AKP Party as “moderate,” Erdogan himself declared on Kanal D TV in August 2007 that describing Islam as moderate “is offensive and an insult to our religion.” Erdogan has been embracing the presidents of Iran and Sudan. While Sudan’s president is accused of genocide by the International Criminal Court, and while Turkey has been asked to apologize for the Armenian genocide, Erdogan has declared that “No Muslim can perpetuate genocide.”

Mere HER hos For the Sake of Zion. Kan også læses her hos Arutz Sheva.

As Israel-Turkey Alliance Disintegrates, Analysts Worry

By Piotr Zalewski – Sep 6 2011

The rapidly worsening fall-out between these two allies could have serious repercussions for an already fragile Middle East

After Turkey’s decision to suspend military ties with Israel, expel the country’s ambassador, and now possibly to apply to the International Court of Justice for an investigation into Israel’s Gaza blockade — on account of Israel’s refusal to apologize for last year’s lethal attack on the Mavi Marmara, a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship — it’s difficult to decipher who, if anyone, might benefit from the current impasse. For Turkey, the breakup with Israel is another nail in the coffin of Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s vaunted “zero problems” policy that, until recently, allowed the country to keep lines open with all sides of the Middle East’s conflicts. For Israel, the potential loss of a crucial regional ally only deepens the country’s isolation as it scrambles to come to terms with the Arab spring and its fallout. Among experts, there is some hope that the Turkey-Israel relationship could recover, if slowly. Yet there is also fear that it will deteriorate much further — and quickly.

Not long ago, Turkey could rightfully claim to maintain open diplomatic relationships with practically everyone in the Middle East. But, as Soli Ozel, a professor of international relations at Istanbul’s Bilgi University, told me, “those times are over.” “Turkey is not going to have much of a role to play. It cannot replicate the Syrian-Israeli proximity talks, which it masterminded a few years ago.” Same, he said, for the Israeli-Palestinian talks. “Turkey will probably be hailed by the Palestinians but it will isolate itself from the peace process, if the process ever comes back to life.”

Mer HER i The Atlantic.

Turkey Tantrum Burying Palmer Report

by Simon Plosker  – September 14, 2011

Only weeks after its release, the Palmer Report into the 2010 Gaza flotilla incident appears to have been consigned to the dustbin of history.

Despite leveling criticism at Israel for “excessive force”, the report could and should have been a major prize for Israel public diplomacy. How often, and particularly at a time of precious few PR gifts, does a UN-sponsored investigation uphold the legitimacy of Israel’s naval blockade as well as highlighting the danger of Hamas from Gaza?

Mere HER hos Ynetnews eller her hos HonestReporting. 

Og endelig to artikler om de israelske naturgas-fund, som siges at styrke Israels position både i Mellemøsten og i Vesten. Fra hhv. Foreign Policy og Family Security Matters:

• The Land of Gas and Honey
• Sea Change in the Mediterranean

Andre kilder: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, FN pdf, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Post, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Post, Haaretz, Haaretz, Haaretz, Haaretz, Ynetnews, Ynetnews, Ynetnews, Ynetnews, Ynetnews, Ynetnews, Ynetnews, Ynetnews, Ynetnews, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, Reuters, Reuters, Reuters, Reuters, The Trumpet, Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, The Sacramento Bee, The Boston Globe, The American Spectator, Townhall, The Guardian, The American, The American, The National Interest, The Algemeiner, The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, Voice of America, Blomberg Businessweek, MSNBC, BBC, BBC, CNN, HonestReporting, Israel Hayom, Israel Hayom, IMRA, AEI, Globes, Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes, National Review Online, Yahoo News, Yahoo News,

Video: Michael Coren spidder Tyrkiet

Fra 14. september 2011:

Michael Coren on Turkey’s neo-Ottomanism

With David Pryce-Jones of National Review.

Den morderiske side af Tyrkiet

The Jihad against the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Christians

Janet Levy – August 10, 2011

In Germany, where Holocaust denial is punishable by up to five years in prison, Stuttgart University recently capitulated to pressure from resident Turkish Muslims and canceled an event entitled, “Persecution, Expulsion and Annihilation of Christians in the Ottoman Empire 1912-1922.” Ironically, this occurred in a country that was forced to confront its own genocidal past, educate its population and pay restitution to victims. University officials explained that they wanted to “remain neutral” on the subject of the nearly 100-year-old, well-documented Turkish massacre of more than two million Christians. Citing neutrality in the face of crimes against humanity is deeply troubling, particularly in light of Germany’s Holocaust past and the missed opportunity the event represented to educate students about genocide and potentially prevent its recurrence.

Equally troubling is Turkey’s continued denial and banning of information about these crimes, not only within its own borders, but, as exemplified in Germany, within other countries as well. In contrast to Germany where laws since the end of World War II seek to prevent a Holocaust from ever happening again, the Turkish government under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, passed in 2005, makes it a crime punishable by up to two years imprisonment to insult the Turkish state. This provision prevents any public commemoration or consideration of the Turkish Muslim atrocities committed against Ottoman Christians.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Tyskland islamiseres af tyrkere

Islamist and Nationalist Radicalism Among German Turks

by Veli Sirin – August 2, 2011

Of the many signs that point to the growing influence among Turks and Kurds living in Germany of the Justice and Development Party [AKP], which represents an “updated” Islamist ideology, the worst aspect of it is that it will likely go unopposed.

The June 2011 election victory in Turkey by AKP, headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, provoked debate in both Western and Muslim countries, but few commentators have analyzed the impact of AKP’s third triumph at the polls on Germans of Turkish and Kurdish origin or heritage – the main Turkish immigrant community in the West, with as many as four million members, or five percent of Germany’s total census.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Sappho med mere sommerlæsning

Overfaldet på Strandvejen

21. juli 2011 – klumme af Geoffrey Cain

Det er risikabelt at nyde solopgangen over Øresund, og skulle man ende med dobbelt kraniebrud, er det Vestens skyld.

Sappho HER.

Tyrkisk hacking i Danmark

21. juli 2011 – artikel af Jens Juhn Jensen

Forfatteren kunne for nyligt fejre “guldbryllup” med Tyrkiets hemmelige politi, som gennem 50 år har udvist en levende interesse for ham. Det har givet anledning til adskillige besynderlige episoder, der imidlertid ikke påkalder sig nævneværdig opmærksomhed hos det danske politi.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

Pamela Geller & Robert Spencer om SIOA

EU er imod ytringsfrihed. Nogle mennesker er endda så naive, at de tror, vi stadig har forsamlingsfrihed i EUs medlemslande. Men de blev klogere. Nu forsøger de sig med en Freedom Flotilla. Mon de overlever turen? Man kan have sine tvivl:

Freedom Collapses in Europe – So We’re Taking It to the Seas

By Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer

In a capitulation to Islamic supremacists and violent radical Leftists, French and European Union authorities have canceled a free speech rally that we had planned with a coalition of American and European human rights organizations in Strasbourg, the seat of the European Parliament.

Our human rights organizations Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and its sister group, Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) were planning to hold their first-ever transatlantic summit in Strasbourg, France, on July 2.

Mere i Big Government HER. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch.

Andre kilder: Reuters, The Sacramento Bee,

Tostatsløsning for Tyrkiet?

Nej, to er ikke nok. Grækerne skal have deres områder tilbage. Det er der også andre, der skal. Men at få Tyrkiet ud af Kurdistan, ville da være da en start:

Turkish intolerance of ethnic minorities resulted in the Armenian genocide

A Two State Solution for Turkey?

Daniel Greenfield – June 21, 2011

Imagine a European Union member nation which represses an ethnic minority that makes up a fifth of its population. Now imagine the EU being forced to take sides in a domestic civil war within its own union in which ethnic cleansing is the order of the day. That is the fate awaiting the EU if it admits Turkey as it is.

Turkish intolerance of ethnic minorities resulted in the Armenian genocide. And in the ongoing repression of its Kurdish population. Turkish prisons are full of Kurdish political prisoners, some who have done nothing more than use the Kurdish language in the wrong place or sing a Kurdish song. Kurds have fought back against Turkish state repression with a political and militant struggle. And despite what Turkish authorities are telling their European counterparts, that struggle is not over.

Mere HER i Canada Free Press. Kan også læses her hos Sultan Knish. Right Side News her.

The Sound of Turkey Clapping

Thoughts on the recent elections, mostly ignored around the world

Claire Berlinski – 22 June 2011

Having long before accepted a lecturing assignment on Hillsdale College’s Baltic Cruise, I wasn’t in Istanbul for the June 12 general election. So despite months of following the campaign in minute detail, when it actually happened, I was physically and metaphorically isolated from the mood in Turkey. There was some value to that: contemplating the pale, glassy, silent Baltic Sea puts Turkish hysteria in perspective.

Mere HER i City Journal.

“Turkey won the Democracy Special Olympics!”
Claire Berlinski

Andre kilder: PanArmenian.Net,

Tyrkiet skal skrubbe ud af Kurdistan!

Den overskrift har jeg brugt før, men det bliver den ikke mindre rigtig af:

It’s Time for Turkey To End Its Occupation of Iraqi Kurdistan

By Michael Rubin | May 28, 2011

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davatoğlu, Turkey has pursued a policy of good relations with all its neighbors. Well, almost.

It has de-mined its border with Syria, tripled trade with Iran, established diplomatic relations with Armenia and reduced its military activities in the Aegean Sea in order to ameliorate Greece. Yet, while Ankara often rebuffs Western concerns about its increasingly warm relations with Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas with reference to its desire to have no problems with its neighbors, Turkey inexplicably has taken no action to end its more than two decade-long occupation of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Mere HER hos AEI. Kan også læses her hos Michael Rubin.

Kristne i Tyrkiet får det stadig værre

Endnu en advarsel om forholdene  i Tyrkiet. Kristofobi overalt:

Turkey’s Christians under Siege

by John Eibner – Middle East Quarterly

The brutal murder of the head of Turkey’s Catholic Church, Bishop Luigi Padovese, on June 3, 2010, has rattled the country’s small, diverse, and hard-pressed Christian community.[1] The 62-year-old bishop, who spearheaded the Vatican’s efforts to improve Muslim-Christian relations in Turkey, was stabbed repeatedly at his Iskenderun home by his driver and bodyguard Murat Altun, who concluded the slaughter by decapitating Padovese and shouting, “I killed the Great Satan. Allahu Akhbar!” He then told the police that he had acted in obedience to a “command from God.”[2]

Though bearing all the hallmarks of a jihadist execution, the murder was met by denials and obfuscation—not only by the Turkish authorities but also by Western governments and the Vatican. This is not wholly surprising. In the post-9/11 era, it has become commonplace to deny connections between Islam and acts of violence despite much evidence to the contrary. [...]

Mere HER i Middle East Quarterly. Kan også læses her hos Family Security Matters.

Tyrkiske kristne forfølges

Hele 59 procent af den tyrkiske befolkning er imod, at kristne må holde gudstjeneste:

Tyrkiets kristne udsættes for chikane

Tobias Stern Johansen | 13. maj 2011

Flertallet af tyrkere er imod kristnes ret til at holde gudstjeneste, og seks præster lever under beskyttelse. Fjendtligheden fostres af skolebøgers fordømmelse af mission

Mere HER i Kristeligt Dagblad.

Video: Glenn Beck, Daniel Pipes & Christopher Holton

Fra 1. april 2011 – først lige 3 minutter fra programmet. Endelig er der en, der advarer imod flerkoneri, – Daniel Pipes.

Det væsentlige er dog stadig ufortalt: Hvis halvdelen af alle mænd har 2 koner, hvem skal den anden halvdel så gifte sig med? Hvis man vil standse pædofili, skal man forbyde polygami. Fik I den, kære læsere?

Og så hele programmet:

Glenn Beck – Sharia Law in America?

Reservelink: del 1, del 2, del 3.

Opdateret – link rettet 2 gange.

Tyrkiets vej til kalifatet?

Uhyre indsigtsfuld artikel her:

Turkey and the Restoration of the Caliphate

By Janet Levy – March 10, 2011

Turkey, the supposed bridge between East and West, was, until recently, showcased as a model democratic and secular exception in the Muslim world.  Since the days of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder of the modern Turkish state in the 1920s — the Turkish military and courts were assumed to be effectively moderating against the theocratic and ideological hold of Islam evident in Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. 

However, closer inspection reveals that this has not been the case, especially in the last half century.  Instead, what actually exists is the veneer of a democratic republic overlaying an insidious, percolating revival of the Ottoman Empire by way of dormant Islamic fundamentalism and Turkish nationalism.  Using financial and political clout on a global scale, Turkey and one of its premier Islamic leaders, Fetullah Gulen, have steadily gathered allies, including even in the United States, to pursue their dream of a global caliphate.

Mere HER i The American Thinker eller her hos Free Republic. Family Security Matters her. The Econimist skriver om valget i Tyriet, som finder sted til sommer:

A Muslim democracy in action

Popular uprisings in the Arab world are drawing new attention to the example of Turkey’s democracy

Feb 17th 2011

“VOTE for AK. Write Your Own Constitution.” This is the slogan under which Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) party will launch its campaign for the general election that is to be held on June 12th. On one level, the outcome seems predictable. Opinion polls have consistently suggested that the mild Islamists who came to power in 2002 will bag a third term of single-party rule, with over 40% of the vote.

Mere HER i The Economist.

Opdatering. Se også Informations artikel fra 7. marts 2011:

Tyrkiet über alles

En ny tyrkisk valglov har gjort Tyskland til Tyrkiets potentielt fjerdestørste valgkreds, og for nylig opfordrede den tyrkiske premierminister, Tayyip Erdogan, tyske tyrkere til at lære deres børn tyrkisk før tysk. Det har skabt debat om forholdet mellem to af den europæiske regions største og tættest forbundne lande

Mere i Information HER.

Opdatering – jeg har fundet denne gamle sag fra 1953. En artikel af Bernard Lewis:

Europe and the Turks: The Civilization of the Ottoman Empire

By Bernard Lewis

This year the Turks have been celebrating the 500th anniversary of their conquest of Constantinople. Turkish rule in Europe began nearly a century earlier, and was firmly established by the time that the occupation of the Imperial city rounded off the Turkish dominions and made Constantinople once again the capital of a great empire. But the anniversary may serve as the occasion for some reflections on the place of the Ottoman Empire in the history of Europe and of the world.

Mere HER i History Today.

Andre kilder: The Trumpet,

Video: Barry Rubin om Det Muslimske Borderskab

Dave Reaboi fra Center for Security Policy interviewer. Fra 28. februar 2011:

Barry Rubin: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood

The Center for Security Policy’s Dave Reaboi spent some time with Professor Barry Rubin of the GLORIA Center in Israel. Prof. Rubin is one of the world’s foremost experts on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and in the Arab world. He’s the author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles on topics ranging from Islamism in the East to anti-Americanism in the West. He blogs regularly at http://rubinreports.blogspot.com