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Turkey: What Ally?
by Burak Bekdil
• September 22, 2014 at 5:00 am
The
Turkish government "frankly worked" with the al-Nusrah Front, the
al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, along with other terrorist groups.
The
Financial Task Force, an international body setting the standards for
combating terrorist financing, ruled that Turkey should remain in its
"gray list."
While
NATO wishes to reinforce its outreach to democracies such as Australia and
Japan, Turkey is trying to forge wider partnerships with the Arab world,
Russia, China, Central Asia, China, Africa and -- and with a bunch of
terrorist organizations, including Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Ahrar al-Sham
and the al-Nusrah Front.
Being
NATO's only Muslim member was fine. Being NATO's only Islamist member
ideologically attached to the Muslim Brotherhood is quite another thing.
Last week, the U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense, John Kerry and
Chuck Hagel, were in the Turkish capital, one after the other, to ask for
Turkey's contribution to a coalition of allies in a U.S.-led war on the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS, aka The Islamic State].
Not only will Ankara take no military action, it will also forbid the
U.S. from using a critical U.S. air base in southern Turkey to conduct
strikes against the jihadist terrorists, the Turks told Messrs. Kerry and
Hagel.
Earlier during the week, Turkey also abstained from signing a communiqué
which Arab nations penned, seeking stronger action against ISIS.
Some call Turkey "a U.S. frenemy," others refer to it as
"NATO's Qatar." Unsurprisingly, on Sept. 9 the U.S. Congress
delivered its staunchest warning to date that Turkey and Qatar could face
financial and other penalties if they continue to support Hamas and other
U.S.-designated terrorist organizations.
UK: More Taxpayer Funds Go to Extremist Charities
by Samuel Westrop
• September 22, 2014 at 4:00 am
British
politicians seem to be trapped in an endless debate over how to curb both
violent and non-violent extremism within the Muslim community.
A truly
useful measure might be to end the provision of state funding and legitimacy
to terror-linked extremist charities
The British government is, incredibly, still continuing to fund
charitable UK-based organizations with links to the Muslim Brotherhood,
terrorist groups and domestic extremism. Simultaneously, lawmakers seem to be
having trouble thinking of ways to tackle extremism and terrorist incitement
within Britain's Muslim communities.
In early 2014, the Department for Communities and Local Government
provided a grant of £18,000 ($29,000) to the Muslim Charities Forum [MCF], a
charitable body and umbrella group for a number of leading Islamist
charities, most of which are members of the Union of Good, a fundraising body
established by the Muslim Brotherhood to raise money for the terror group
Hamas.
The MCF is made up of nine member organizations, all of which stand
accused of funding terror or promoting extremism:
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