Why are the world's leaders, particularly those of Europe, not paying attention to the megalomania and fervent Islamism of Turkish President Erdogan? Roberto
de Mattei tells us how Erdogan has been openly seeking lately to establish and lead a Muslim empire extending from Western Europe, all across Central Asia
and the most populous Muslim countries (Bangladesh and Indonesia), and all of Muslim North Africa, to begin with? ISIS's caliphate ambitions may be at a
temporary standstill, but unlike ISIS, Erdogan has a whole country for a base, with a government he can bend to his will.
One feels a monumental frustration akin perhaps to Winston Churchills's when, as late as 1938, his own Prime Minister was trumpeting he had brokered 'peace
in our time' after meeting Adolf Hitler and signing away to him Czechoslovakia's German-speaking Sudetenland. Months later, Hitler invaded Poland, and World
War II was on. But in many ways, World War II and Nazism were far simpler challenges than Islam's new - and seemingly practicable - resolve to subjugate
the world.
'Europe will be Muslim, if it is the will of Allah'
Turkey's president seeks to recreate
the Ottoman Empire on a bigger, bolder scale
by Roberto de Mattei
Translated by Francesca Romana for Rorate caeli from
March 28, 2018
For years now the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been officially celebrating May 29, 1453, he conquest of Constantinople by Mohamed II, and August 26, 1071, when the Seljuks of Alp Arslān defeated the Byzantine army at Manzikert and founded the first Turkish State in Anatolia.
Let’s imagine for a moment that the European Union made a proposal to celebrate solemnly the victory of Lepanto in 1571 and the liberation of Vienna from the Turks in 1683. The mass-media world-wide, controlled by “the powers that be” who run world politics, would protest with all their might against this provocative act and Islamophobia.
But the European Union would never take upon itself such an initiative as in its constitution, known as the Treaty of Lisbon, of December 13, 2007, it definitively renounced every reference to its historical roots.
And while Erdogan claims the Ottoman identity with pride - which defines itself as against Christian Europe - the European Union has replaced the reference to its Christian roots with the ideology of multiculturalism and the reception of immigrants.
Islam’s attack against Europe over the course of the centuries, has developed along two directive lines, led by two different peoples: the Arabs from the South-East and the Turks from the South-West.
- The Arabs, after their conquest of North-Africa, invaded Spain and went beyond the Pyrenees, but were stopped by Charles Martel at Poitiers in 732. From then on they withdrew progressively, and were expelled definitely from the Iberian peninsula in 1492.
- The Turks after subduing the Byzantine Empire and part of the Hapsburg’s, were stopped at Vienna in 1683 by John Sobieski and at Belgrade in 1717 by Eugenio di Savoia.
Today, the advance of Islam follows the same directions.
- Southwest of Europe, it is promoted by countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who finance “The Muslim Brotherhood” and the building of an extensive network of Mosques all over Europe.
- Southeast, Turkey is demanding entrance into the European Union, threatening, if not, to inundate our continent with millions of immigrants.
Erdogan’s plan is actually the most dangerous as his objective is to become the “sultan” of the new Ottoman Empire which is displaying all its power from the Middle East to Central Asia. The Turkish Empire, between 1299 and 1923, ended up spanning a vast territory, which reached Caucasia and the portals of Italy and Austria from the North African coasts.
Erdogan’s aim is to make Turkey the leading country of an even vaster area, which stretches to the East of the Caspian Sea, where five new republics originating from the dissolution of the Soviet Union - Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kirghizstan – make up the nucleus of a community where the Islamic religion is founded on a Turkish-speaking-ethnic identity.
Since the 1990s, the Turks have been addressing their “200 million co-nationals” of the Turkish-speaking States in the East, about the need to build “a community of States stretching from the Adriatic to the Great Wall of China”, according to the motto of their then President, Halil Turgut Özal (1927-1993), who loved to talk about the advent of “a Turkish century”.
Erdogan has recaptured these ideas, developed over the last decade by his Foreign Minister Davutoğlu, until his dismissal in 2016. The founder of modern, secularized Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk saw Islam as a destabilizing factor. His successors, from Özal to Erdogan, think the opposite, i.e. that Islam can be an element of integration and social cohesion.
The education system is one of the mainstays of Erdogan’s plan, in the extending of the Sharia - (even outside the Turkish borders) through the Minister of Religious Affairs, Divanet – as well as the imposition, through the Minister of Education, of its linguistic identity, eliminated by the Kemalist revolution. The re-Islamization of these territories, by way of building mosques and the support offered by the Imams in their maintenance, is accompanied by cultural investments to re-introduce the study of the Ottoman culture in schools and universities.
Referring to the times of the Ottoman Empire, Erdogan has asserted:
“Those who think we have forgotten the lands from which we withdrew in tears a hundred years ago, are mistaken. Every time the occasion arises we say that Syria, Iraq and other places on the geographic map of our hearts, are no different from our homeland. We will be fighting until there is no foreign flag waving in any place where an adhan [the Islamic call to prayer in mosques] is recited. What we have done until now, is nothing compared to the even greater attacks we are planning for the coming days, inshallah ( if Allah wills).”
The primary objective announced by Erdogan is the re-conquest of the Greek Islands in the Aegean Sea. The Turkish leader said that in 1923, Turkey “”sold off” the Greek Islands which “were ours” and where “we still have our mosques and sanctuaries”. As a deadline, Erdogan indicated the year 2023, the hundredth anniversary of the Turkish Republic and the Treaty of Lausanne, which had established the borders he is now asking to be revised. These are not only words. In 1974 Turkey occupied
manu militari a part of the island of Cyprus
[and is still there] and today, under the pretext of the “war on terrorism” , it has taken over a wide strip of Syrian territory along the borders of the two countries.
But the gravest threats concern the future of Europe, which Erdogan envisages subject to his Empire. “Europe will be Muslim, if it is the will of Allah”, announced his party’s (AKP) Deputy, Alparslan Kavaklioglu, repeating what Erdogan himself openly declared:
“Muslims are the future of Europe. The fortune and wealth of the world are moving from the West towards the East. Europe is going through a period which can be called extraordinary. Its population is decreasing and aging. It has a very old population. So, some people are coming from abroad to find work. But Europe has this problem: all the new arrivals are Muslims. They come from Morocco, Tunis, Algeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. The people from these countries are Muslims. We have reached the point that the most common name in Brussels and Belgium is Mohamed. The second most widespread name is Melih, the third, Aisha.”
Erdogan knows that Brussels, the capital of the European Union, is the city where Islam is already today the major religion - one citizen in three is Muslim, and the most common name at the registry among the new residents is Mohamed.
His weapon, just like the Muslim Brotherhood’s, is the demographic conquest of Europe in the coming decades. But even at present, if Turkey entered Europe, it would be the first nation of the Union in terms of population, including its citizens already residing in the European continent. It should be remembered in fact, on the level of numbers, that Turks are already the second community in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark and Bulgaria. And Erdogan is exhorting them not to lose their identity.
“The Turks abroad, should remain Turks apart from their citizenship” the sultan proclaimed, going as far as to define assimilation a “crime against humanity”.
Confronted with Erdogan’s arrogance, Europe not only does not react, but is silent. It is silent on the violation of human rights in Turkey; it is silent on the invasion of Syrian Kurdistan; it is silent on the naval block imposed on the ENI platform in Cyprus; it is silent on the threats against the Greek Islands.
And regarding the declaration of the proximate Islamisation of our continent, not only is the European Union silent but also the Church. Erdogan’s strength is this incriminating silence. [Why should we expect anything positive from 'the Church', for as long as it is under Bergoglio? Who certainly does not offer 'silence', but a resounding endorsement at every possible occasion of Muslims inundating the West and for the citizens of the invaded countries to welcome them! In our outrage over Bergoglio's doctrinal and pastoral laissez-faire and the wreckage he is causing in the Church, let us not forget how his secular policies are a one-way route facilitating the death of Western civilization and the rule of reason.]
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 31/03/2018 03:02]