Commentary Magazine:
Traveling abroad on his first trip as president, Barack Obama tacked a visit to Turkey onto the tail end of a trip to Europe. “Some people have asked me if I chose to continue my travels to Ankara and Istanbul to send a message,” he told the Turkish Parliament. “My answer is simple: Evet [yes]. Turkey is a critical ally.” On the same visit, however, the president showed that he considered Turkey more firmly part of the Islamic world than of Europe. “I want to make sure that we end before the call to prayer, so we have about half an hour,” Obama told a town hall in Istanbul. Obama was not simply demonstrating cultural sensitivity. The fact is that Turkey has changed. Gone, and gone permanently, is secular Turkey, a unique Muslim country that straddled East and West and that even maintained a cooperative relationship with Israel. Today Turkey is an Islamic republic whose government saw fit to facilitate the May 31 flotilla raid on Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Turkey is now more aligned to Iran than to the democracies of Europe. Whereas Iran’s Islamic revolution shocked the world with its suddenness in 1979, Turkey’s Islamic revolution has been so slow and deliberate as to pass almost unnoticed. Nevertheless, the Islamic Republic of Turkey is a reality—and a danger.
“Nevertheless, the Islamic Republic of Turkey is a reality—and a danger.”
I would say that ALL Islamic republics represent the biggest threat to world peace since the Soviet Union and its allies did during the Cold War.
Perhaps bigger, since the ideological differences between the Soviet Union and the PRC, the two major types of Communism, were more significant in preventing those two spheres of influence from conquering the world than the differences between Shia and Sunni Islam. Islam, no matter what stripe you are talking about wants one thing; world domination at all costs.
Once Turkey becomes fully Islamic, you will see them wish for a return of the Ottoman Empire, an Empire that laid waste to eastern Europe for hundreds of years.
Are you listening, western leaders? Or are you so full of OPEC oil and money that you cannot see what is happening before your very eyes?