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by Uzay Bulut
• May 11, 2016 at 6:00 am
- "What is
the conquest?" Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked
his audience. "The conquest is Hijrah [expansion of
Islam through emigration, following the example of Muhammad, the
founder of Islam, and his followers from Mecca to Medina]. The
conquest is Al-Andalus [Muslim Spain]. ... The conquest is
Salah al-Din al-Ayubbi [Saladin]. ... It is to hoist the flag of
Islam in Jerusalem again. ... The conquest is to have the courage,
tenacity and sagacity to defy the entire world even at the hardest
times."
- "The EU
needs Turkey more than Turkey needs the EU. Let everyone know it
like that." — Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left)
recently made affectionate statements expressing admiration not for the
European Union, but for the last Islamic caliphate -- the Ottoman Empire,
an expansionist Islamic realm that committed massacres, rapes, and sexual
slavery of people in the lands it invaded. The question is when the EU
will start acting like a self-respecting institution, and consider Turkey
according to what it actually says and does? Pictured right: European
Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
On April 25, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek, while speaking at
the High-Level EU-Turkey Economic Dialogue meeting in Istanbul, said that
the full membership process to the European Union was Turkey's most
crucial strategic target.
Simsek noted that Turkey will increase the quality of its
institutions, strengthen the rule of law and complete the approximation
process with Europe by running a reform process.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, however, has made
affectionate statements expressing his admiration not for the European
Union, but for the last Islamic caliphate -- the Ottoman Empire, an
expansionist Islamic realm that committed massacres, rapes, and sexual
slavery of people in the lands it invaded.
In Istanbul on May 30, 2015, in a public meeting celebrating the 562nd
anniversary of the fall of Constantinople, Erdogan, sounded more like an
Ottoman sultan than the leader of a NATO member nation.
by Nuhu Othman
• May 11, 2016 at 4:30 am
- In the mid-20th
century, the Western powers partitioned West Africa, and other parts
of the African continent, into nation-states that had nothing in
common with each other apart from geographical proximity. The
general consensus among the Muslims in fragmented West Africa was
that the West won over the vast Caliphate not by the superiority of
its idea or civilization but by its sheer superiority in organized
violence. This reasoning plays into the hands of extremist Islamic
groups today.
- There has been
no way for people to reject the past Empire and Caliphate in West
Africa as failed systems because they were not replaced by better
systems.
- Whatever
democratic values were handed to these newly independent states were
short-lived, trampled by military incursions. Military leadership
suppressed freedoms in every aspect. This in itself served as a gag
to protest the rule of any aspiring terror group. Now Africa,
especially West Africa, would like to democratize. Amid the madness
of terrorism, it is calling for freedom. But is anyone listening?
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau (center) in one of
the group's propaganda videos.
Great civilizations existed in northern Nigeria before the West ever
set foot there. The Kanem Bornu Empire (700-1900) stretched to
present-day Chad, Libya, Niger and Cameroon, and was bound by trade and
ethnic similarities and religion.
Present day Northern Nigeria is home to the large Hausa ethnic
group. The Hausa language is spoken by more than 50 million people across
the present-day Sahel (north Central Africa, spanning much of Niger,
Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Togo, Chad, and Sudan). Hausa is still
the region's second language of trade; the primary languages come from
the region's colonizers: English, French and to a degree, Arabic.
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