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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/07/turkey-openly-declares-commitment-jihad-non-raymond-ibrahim/

While monuments to heroic Americans of a former age—including abolitionists who died fighting slavery—get toppled and dishonored, a land-grabber, mass-slaver, terrorist, and pedophile—Ottoman sultan Muhammad II—was recently honored by the president of Turkey.

During his recent public address celebrating the July 10, 2020 decree to transform the Hagia Sophia, which for a millennium had functioned as Eastern Christendom’s greatest church, into a mosque, Turkish president Erdoğan repeatedly saluted Sultan Muhammad (1432-1481), also known as al-Fatih (“the Conqueror”), for violently transforming Christian Constantinople into Islamic Istanbul. 

Of the apparently intolerable decades when Hagia Sophia served as a museum (1935 to the recent decision), Erdoğan began by quoting a Turkish poet:

Hagia Sophia, O magnificent temple, do not worry: the grandchildren of Muhammad al-Fatih will overthrow all the [Christian] idols and convert you into a mosque; they will perform their ablutions with tears and prostrate; tahlils [recitations of the Islamic credo] and takbirs [cries of “Allahu akbar”] will replenish your empty domes … Your minaret balconies will light up in honor of Allah and his Prophet Muhammad. The whole world will think that Muhammad al-Fatih has resurrected.  This will be Hagia Sophia; this will be a second conquest, a new resurrection”

Erdoğan’s and much of Turkey’s adoration of and desire to emulate Muhammad al-Fatih—this, to quote Erdoğan, “happy, blessed servant of Allah,” who in fact behaved like an ISIS chieftain—should (but won’t) be cause for alarm.

Consider: Sultan Muhammad’s sole justification for conquering Constantinople was that Islam demands the subjugation of “infidels,” in this case, Christians. He had no other “grievance” than that.  In fact, when he first became sultan, he “swore by the god of their false prophet, by the prophet whose name he bore,” a bitter Christian contemporary retrospectively wrote, that “he was their friend, and would remain for the whole of his life a friend and ally of Constantinople.” Although they believed him, Muhammad was taking advantage of “the basest arts of dissimulation and deceit,” wrote Edward Gibbon. “Peace was on his lips while war was in his heart.”

During the siege of Constantinople, he regularly exhorted his followers with jihadi ideology, including by unleashing throngs of preachers crying, 

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16278/turkey-warpath

The Erdogan regime has been militarily targeting Syria and Iraq, sending its Syrian mercenaries to Libya to seize Libya’s oil, and continuing to bully Greece. It is now provoking ongoing violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

“Until the Syrian people are free, peaceful and safe, we will remain in this country.” — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Reuters, July 21, 2020.

“Crimes committed against Yazidis [in Syria] include forced conversion to Islam, rape of women and girls, humiliation and torture, arbitrary incarceration, and forced displacement.” — Yazda.org, May 29, 2020.

One of Turkey’s main targets also seems to be Greece…. If such an attack took place, would the West abandon Greece?

Turkey is currently involved in quite a few international military conflicts — both against its own neighbors such as Greece, Armenia, Iraq, Syria and Cyprus, and against African nations such as Libya and Yemen. These actions by Turkey suggest that Turkey’s foreign policy is increasingly destabilizing not only several nations, but the region as well.

In addition, the Erdogan regime has been militarily targeting Syria and Iraq, sending its Syrian mercenaries to Libya to seize Libyan oil and continuing, as usual, to bully Greece. Turkey’s regime is also now provoking ongoing violence between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/will-scandal-finally-sink-trudeau-11595795221?mod=opinion_lead_pos10

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has miraculously survived scandals that would have destroyed many political careers. These include three instances of wearing blackface, a decades-old allegation of groping a woman, and two ethics violations.

Now Mr. Trudeau is about to make his third trip to Canada’s ethics commissioner in five years—and it’s a controversy that could lead to his political demise.

The latest scandal involves WE Charity. Originally known as Free the Children, it was founded in 1995 by two well-known Canadian human-rights activists, brothers Marc and Craig Kielburger. WE has raised awareness of the plight of children in underdeveloped nations. It has fought to strike down abusive child-labor laws, improve education and promote healthy nutrition and access to clean drinking water.

Ottawa recently awarded the charity a contract worth 19.5 million Canadian dollars (around US$14.5 million) to administer the C$912 million Canada Student Service Grant program. WE had earlier received C$120,000 from several government contracts and C$5.2 million in government grants during Mr. Trudeau’s tenure. Mr. Trudeau asserted WE’s “extensive practice” with third parties and other charities made it “the best and only organization able to deliver on the scale.”

While few challenged the prime minister’s or WE’s motives, this changed when the charity’s ties to the federal Liberals—and Mr. Trudeau’s family—were revealed.