Turkish secularism steadily eroding away. "Turkish army chiefs boycott ceremony over Islamic headscarf," from AFP, October 30: ANKARA — Turkish army chiefs boycotted an official ceremony at the presidential palace because the president’s wife wore an Islamic headscarf, the press reported Saturday. The army’s top brass were conspicuous by their…

As Turkey moves toward Sharia, it also moves toward jihad. "Gaza flotilla was ‘Turkish provocation’, Livni tells enquiry: Turkey exploitation of a diplomatic vacuum was behind the decision to launch aid convoy raided by Israel, opposition leader says," by Barak Ravid for Haaretz, October 25: Opposition leader Tzipi Livni testified…

If only those who write for The New York Times, such as Laurie Goodstein, could understand that they have a responsibility not to credulously accept such efforts as this transparent propaganda video at face-value, but to find out about the Muslims who actually appear on it, as is done…

Not surprising. “Obama behind Cameron’s attack on Israel, by Pamela Geller in the Daily Caller, July 29: Speaking in Turkey on Tuesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron slammed Israel and called Gaza a “prison camp.” (Apparently Gaza is the first prison camp with luxury shopping malls.) The British Foreign Office…

What shall we make of David Cameron? What can we learn from his little speech in Ankara? What does it tell us about his mental makeup, his grasp of history, his powers of understanding, his ability to make sense of things, his hierarchy of values, his appreciation and knowledge of…

The standard Mohammedan elite propaganda issued to their oppressed public is that outsiders, and most particularly the Jews, are the proper target of their frustrations.
I can understand this coming from Mohammedan politicos, or preachers or newly minted royalty — who wants an angry mob surrounding the mansion? But why does the British Prime Minister want [...]

This is worth the price of admission right away: “David Cameron was in Turkey yesterday endorsing Turkish membership of the EU, as blogger Laban Tall says, ‘doubtless driven by that grass-roots Tory pressure for a few million Turks to come to the UK.’” But all of it is worth reading….

Cameron’s entire argument here rests on the proposition that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been Hijacked by a Tiny Minority of Extremists. If that is false, then he is taking a course of extraordinary folly. “Turkey must join EU, says Cameron: ‘Those who are against are playing…

First there was theological anti-Semitism. For centuries the Jews were vilified for “killing Jesus” and not accepting the divinity of Christ. Then, in the 19th  and 20th centuries came racial anti-Semitism. The Jews were vilified for being racially inferior and an insect-like “parasite” on their Aryan hosts. Now we have what [...]

Recently I had an interesting exchange with the self-described “liberal Muslim” Mustafa Akyol, after he declared his support for the jihad flotilla that Turkey sent against Israel. And so I read this peace by the Turkish columnist Burak Bekdil with great interest: he characterizes the “liberal” Akyol as a pro-Sharia,…