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In this mailing:
- Giulio Meotti: Qatar, Saudi
Arabia to Islamize One of Europe's Greatest Cathedrals
- John R. Bolton: Trump Must
Withdraw From Iran Nuclear Deal - Now
- Daniel Pipes: Another Turkish
Ambassador Confronts Me
by Giulio Meotti • July 18, 2017
at 5:00 am
- In
Islamic symbolism, Córdoba is the lost Caliphate. Political
authorities in Córdoba dealt a blow to the Catholic Church's
claim of ownership of cathedral by declaring that
"religious consecration is not the way to acquire
property". But this is how history works, especially in
the lands where Christianity and Islam fought hard for
dominion. Why are secularists not pressing Turkey's President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan to give Christians back the Hagia Sophia?
No one has raised an eyebrow that "Christendom's greatest
cathedral has become a mosque".
- The
Spanish left, governing the region, would like to convert the
church into "a place for the meeting of faiths".
Nice ecumenical words, but a death trap for the Islamic
domination over other faiths. If these Islamists, supported by
the militant secularists, will be able to bring Allah back
inside the Cathedral of Córdoba, a tsunami of Islamic
supremacism will submerge Europe's decaying Christianity.
There are thousands of empty churches just waiting to be
filled by the voices of muezzins.
- The
Western attempt to free Jerusalem in the Middle Ages has been
condemned as Christian imperialism, while the Muslim campaigns
to colonize and Islamize the Byzantine Empire, North Africa,
the Balkans, Egypt, the Middle East and most of Spain, to name
but a few, are celebrated as a season of enlightenment.
The main
altar of the Cathedral of Córdoba. (Image source: Wikimedia
Commons/© José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 3.0)
Muslim supremacists seem to have fantasies -- as
well as a long history -- of converting Christian sites to Islamic
ones. Take, for example, Saint-Denis, the Gothic cathedral named
for the first Christian bishop of Paris who was buried there in
250, and the burial place of Charles Martel, whose victory stopped
the Muslim invasion of France in 732. Now, according to the scholar
Gilles Kepel, this burial place of most of France's kings and
queens is "the Mecca in Islam of France". The French
Islamists are dreaming of taking it over and replacing the church
bells with the call of the muezzin.
In Turkey's greatest cathedral, Hagia Sophia, a
muezzin's call recently reverberated inside the sixth-century
church for the first time in 85 years.
In France, Muslim leaders called for converting
abandoned churches into mosques. thereby echoing The late writer
Emile Cioran once predicted of Europe: "The French will not
wake up until Notre Dame becomes a mosque".
by John R. Bolton • July 18, 2017
at 4:30 am
- Tehran's
violations of the deal have become public, including:
exceeding limits on uranium enrichment and production of heavy
water; illicit efforts at international procurement of
dual-use nuclear and missile technology; and obstructing
international inspection efforts (which were insufficient to
begin with).
- There
is ominous talk of America "not living up to its
word." This is nonsense. The president's primary
obligation is to keep American citizens safe from foreign
threats. Should President George W. Bush have kept the United
States in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, rather than
withdraw to allow the creation of a limited national
missile-defense shield to protect against rogue-state nuclear
attacks?
- Care
to bet how close Tehran — and North Korea — now are? Consider
the costs of betting wrong.
Donald
Trump talks with VIP guests during a rally against the Iran nuclear
deal on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol September 9, 2015 in
Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
For the second time during the Trump administration,
the State Department has reportedly decided to certify that Iran is
complying with its 2015 nuclear deal with the Security Council's
five permanent members and Germany, known formally as the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
If true, it will be the administration's second
unforced error regarding the JCPOA. Over the past two years,
considerable information detailing Tehran's violations of the deal
have become public, including: exceeding limits on uranium
enrichment and production of heavy water; illicit efforts at
international procurement of dual-use nuclear and missile
technology; and obstructing international inspection efforts (which
were insufficient to begin with).
Since international verification is fatally
inadequate, and our own intelligence far from perfect, these
violations undoubtedly only scratch the surface of the ayatollahs'
inexhaustible mendaciousness.
by Daniel Pipes • July 18, 2017
at 4:00 am
- Sending
an ambassador to demean and threaten an analyst at a private
educational event is the non-violent equivalent of Erdoğan's
bodyguards beating up peaceful demonstrators in Washington.
Both are integral parts to suppressing dissent against an
increasingly megalomaniacal leader.
- Erdoğan's
officious diplomats inadvertently make enemies for the regime,
bringing closer the day when, bag and baggage, they will wear
out their already frayed welcome.
Turkish
Ambassador Süleyman Gökçe threatens Daniel Pipes at a talk in
Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 29, 2017. (Image source: Daniel Pipes
video screenshot)
In February, Turkey's ambassador to Israel told this
author to stay away from his country; at least he did so diplomatically.
In June, Turkey's ambassador to Bulgaria treated me in a remarkably
rude and undiplomatic manner.
The occasion was a talk I gave, "On Turkey and
Erdoğan – a partner or a threat," for the Center for Balkan
and Black Sea Studies think tank in Sofia. After mentioning my
connections to and affection for Turkey, I explained that strongman
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's inability to reconcile three
competing priorities — Islam, Turkey, and Erdoğan — and the
resulting contradictions that are likely to doom his regime. By the
end of the event, Ambassador Süleyman Gökçe confirmed that
prediction.
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