Posted on 04/02/2016 5:30:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At the opening of the Turkish government-funded Diyanet Muslim center in Maryland, President Recep Erdogan lashed out at US presidential candidates for encouraging xenophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric against “primary elements” of American society.
Speaking to a mainly Muslim crowd at the inauguration of the Turkish-funded Diyanet Center of America, in Maryland, just outside of Washington DC, Erdogan took the opportunity to criticize the American political elite and American society, saying that “there are still people walking around calling Muslims terrorists.”
He blamed the US presidential contenders for spreading anti-Muslim sentiment in the US. In their race to secure the Republican candidacy, Donald Trump has called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country. His main party contender, Ted Cruz urged the police to patrol Muslim neighborhoods in the US.
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“It is very interesting and shocking for me to see some of the presidential candidates here in the United States using these allegations and using these labels against Muslims openly and on a continuous basis,” Erdogan said.
Erdogan stressed that Muslim communities in the US have nothing to do with terrorism and in fact are “contributing to strengthening the United States,” adding that Muslim communities are “primary elements” of American society.
“It is unacceptable for the Muslims of the world to be forced to pay the price of a horror of a pain and suffering created by a handful of terrorists, infamous terrorists here in the aftermath of 9/11,” he stressed.
Circumventing discussions about a Turkish military campaign against the Kurds, Erdogan touched on his Thursday visit to the Brookings Institution think tank where he was met by protesters who had been mishandled by his bodyguards.
Violence and chaos reigned outside the event, with one journalist physically removed from the venue by Turkish security personnel, another kicked by a guard, and a third, a woman, thrown to the sidewalk in front of a Washington think tank. Erdogan’s bodyguards also insulted, threatened and pushed the journalists.
However, instead of apologizing for the conduct of his security team, which also brawled with American policemen, Erdogan went on the offensive against the crowd, which kept on shouting, “Erdogan- terrorist!” Erdogan labeled pro-Kurdish protesters as “parallel state structure” in “religious disguise” in addition to calling them “terrorists.”
“There is one organization that specifically upsets me the most which has a religious disguise, which is pretending to be legal but has been involved in all sorts of illegal actions,” Erdogan said. “Not only the representatives of the parallel state organization were outside the Brookings Institution, you could see also members and supporters of the Armenian organization along with other terrorist organizations in Turkey.”
Erdogan moved on to praising the Turkish role in fighting the global terrorism, referencing the terror attack in Brussels, where he blamed the Belgian authorities for not following through on a lead provided by Ankara. At the same time he accused EU countries of refusing to extradite militants wanted by Turkey.
“The perpetrator of the recent attacks in Brussels was a person that we have identified and detained in Turkey and we had provided the relevant intelligence to the authorities in Belgium,” the Turkish President said, adding that the Belgian authorities claimed that there was “nothing ... to pay attention to.”
I thought Hussein Obama was supposed to be there.
when they ask which way mecca is, always point towards Compton Calif, bitches. That way they pray to Snoop, ya’All
0bama was supposed to be there. I read somewhere that he begged off.
People need to look at the images and notices of the US mosques. We will be a dhimmi country within the next 8 years, if not outright moslem. Soon.
I do not say this happily.
Blow the damned thing up. Go to hell, Erdogan.
Well there Erdogan, just tell your musslime friends to quit butchering people and blowing up places, that would be just spiffy on your part. As for that Islamophobic remark which means to be afraid of; well I for one are not afraid of them, they’re nothing but cowards.
Erdogan is Turkish like Barack Hussein Obama is America.
Ask a Turk and he’ll tell you that he loves America and misses the friendship with Israel. They can’t stand this F.
This guy is a fudge-packing Islamofascist “extra-constitutional” creep like some other cats we know and his “people” can’t stand him.
What would they do if at the spot on the globe that is the antipodes of Mecca? Down would be the only choice then.
Imagine after WWII that Nazi sympathizers opened an SS memorial.
And Hess showed up to blast the Americans.
I wonder if there would be some kind of Christainphobic reaction if someone built a $100 million Christian cultural center in Turkey? I wonder.
It might be controversial.
The new anti muslim strain of honeybee would love to turn those minarets into beehives.
Americans love it when foreign leaders lecture them on proper behavior and decorum. Always goes over YUGE!
Shove it up your mosques, Erdogan.
What an artist. Erdogan should be put on a “no fly list”. Specifically, HEY ERDOGAN! Your BS doesn’t fly here!
From the comments, it looks like this blew up in his face.
Proves he’s a terrorist, too...
Looking forward to President Trump declaring that the World must now recognize “the terrible genocide forced on the Kurds in 1915”.
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