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by Uzay Bulut
• April 6, 2015 at 5:00 am
The
West seems to have lost the capacity and the will to criticize political
Islam.
While
"peace-loving" liberals in the West show support and sympathy
for Hamas, and have removed Hamas from Europe's terror list, Hamas
leaders have been busy expressing their support and sympathy for Osama
bin Laden and the Taliban.
Why
then, for Europeans, is Hamas a "more acceptable" terrorist
group than ISIS? Because it targets Jews?
If
these Islamic jihadist groups cannot carry out their mission right away,
it is not because they do not want to. It is because they do not have
enough power to -- at least for now.
In July 2014, in the midst of Israel's battles to
stop the firing of hundreds of rockets launched by Hamas, then U.S.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (pictured at left) famously said,
"we have to confer with the Qataris, who have told me over and
over again that Hamas is a humanitarian organization." Pictured at
right: Hamas.
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In the eyes of most Islamists -- whether or Sunni or Shia -- nothing
is cheaper or more worthless than human life. It can be seen in the
accelerating rate of executions in Iran since the "moderate"
President Hassan Rouhani arrived on the scene, and in the ghoulish
slaughters committed by ISIS.
As terrorists throughout the Muslim world lay down their own lives
to bring death, the U.S. and Europe silently watch Islamic terrorism in
Sudan, in Pakistan, in Iraq and Syria by ISIS, in Nigeria by Boko Haram
and especially in Iran by the Mullahs' regime, which the P5+1 (the permanent
members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) deludedly still seem to
think will turn nuclear warheads into plowshares.
by Burak Bekdil
• April 6, 2015 at 4:00 am
After
losing Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and Egypt, Turkey has now lost Libya.
More
U.S. politicians are realizing that their country's old staunch ally,
Turkey, has turned into an unstable, unreliable, authoritarian and
part-time friend that has the habit of sending shipments of arms to
Middle Eastern Islamists of a variety of radical behavior.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (left) is the
architect of Turkey's "zero problems with neighbors" policy,
which ironically has led Turkey to have no ambassador in Israel, Egypt,
Syria, Yemen, Libya, Cyprus and Armenia. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(right) says, "I do not mind isolation in the world,"
claiming that other world leaders might be jealous of him.
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In a speech in December 2011, Turkey's then foreign minister Ahmet
Davutoglu (now Prime Minister) said that Turkey's Middle East foreign
policy had pushed an "isolated" Israel to "kneel
down" before the Turkish Republic. He also claimed that his own
"zero problems with neighbors" policy would succeed.
More than three years later, however, Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has admitted to Turkey's own isolation. "I do not mind
isolation in the world," Erdogan said, and claimed that "other
world leaders might be jealous of him."
Apparently, Messrs Erdogan and Davutoglu may have failed in
formulating a realistic foreign policy calculus, but they have proven
their skills in black humor.
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