Posted on 05/27/2015 6:23:53 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Turkey’s President Erdogan is up to his usual Islamist antics. He said yesterday that he will ask the Turkish government to give the head of the country’s religious directorate, the Diyanet, a private jet.
The reason?
The pope has one, so Turkey’s religious leader deserves one too. After all, he’s just as important as the pope, isn’t he?
“[Religious Affairs Directorate President] Mr. Mehmet Görmez is not only the religious leader of Turkey. In fact, he is the respected religious leader of this geographical area in the Islamic world,” Erdoğan said.'
'The president also stressed that Görmez is a respected Islamic religious leader who deserved the same conveniences as the pope. Slamming critics while comparing the situation to that in Christian parts of the world, Erdoğan claimed the pope “has a private jet, private cars and armored vehicles.” “That’s the situation at the Vatican and our religious leader will take scheduled [commercial] flights?” he asked.'
Of course there’s one minor difference. The head of the Diyanet is not supposed to be the official leader of Sunni Islam. In fact, the religious directorate was created by Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, to make sure that there would never be a new caliph. He wanted to separate religion from politics and push it back to where it belongs; in people’s private lives, not in public life.
Erdogan has dedicated his life to undoing everything Atatürk has done – he created the Republic of Turkey out of the ashes of the Islamist Ottoman Empire – so it’s no surprise that he wants to build up the position of Mr. Görmez, but the timing is shocking nonetheless.
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Your observation of Erdogon’s political moves including attempting to mollify the Kurds by offering the concept of creating a super Sultanate based on Islam had better be of concern not only to US policy makers and shakers. But as bad news particularly to others of religions with a mono-theistic base.
Erdogan wants to be Caliph-Sultan or Sultan-Caliph or something.
When Hagia Sophia is rededicated as a mosque, things are going to get much more unstable in the Middle East if that’s possible.
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