Islamic Butchers of ISIS Claim Responsibility for Horrendous New Year's Eve Attack in Istanbul

PJ Media ^ | 01-02-2017 | Michael van der Galien

[Michael van der Galien]

The radical Islamic butchers of ISIS have announced today that the man responsible for the terror attack at a New Year party in Istanbul is one of its members. Through its own Aamaq News Agency, ISIS calls the jihadist a "heroic soldier of the caliphate who attacked the most famous nightclub where Christians were celebrating their pagan feast."

Although we're not supposed to talk about, the fact of the matter is that there are some conservative Muslim Turks who object to the celebration of New Year's because they consider it a 'Christian feast.' New Year's parties, they argue, are based on the Western (and therefore Christian) solar calendar rather than on the Islamic moon calendar, and on the year Christ was born. Although 99% of Turks don't celebrate Christmas (after all, 99% of Turks are officially Muslim), they do know and use Santa Claus. To them, however, he's not related to Christmas but to New Year. Of course, Santa Claus is based on an ancient Christian priest from Smyrna, making him a symbol of Christianity.

The result? Every year, fundamentalist Turks organize anti-New Year and anti-Santa Claus protests. Here's an example from 2013, when some fundamentalists stabbed a blow-up Santa. Although it's clear that the New Year's party attacked was a member of ISIS, there are, in other words, more fundamentalist and even ultra-conservative Muslims in Turkey who share ISIS' hatred for anything related to the New Year and Christmas.

Yes, yes, I know: none of them actually go so far as to kill citizens for celebrating New Year, but some commentators have pointed out that this anti-New Year atmosphere isn't exactly helpful if you want to promote peace and tolerance. Thankfully, Turkey's Religious Directorate (called the Diyanet) has condemned the attack, while defending the New Year celebrations.

[Diogenesis]

The “children” of Obama, Clinton and McCAin
rape, murder and kill ... as planned by the corrupt.

[TTFlyer]

“All you need is love.” - Chancellor Merkel

[abclily]

Sounds like Satan to me. Even New Year’s celebrations are to be destroyed. Nothing allowed under Satan’s religion except murder and mayhem. Islam is the religion of everything sinful and ugly.

[veracious]

It is a Roman feast, and since the Holy Roman empire created the calendar we live on, they are right that New Years is a Christian feast. Rome conquered the Nazarene believers and the Jews.

[fella]

Well, DUUUUH! , like nobody thought of that.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Hey veracious-—

The Gregorian calendar has and had nothing to do with the Holy Roman Empire. It was introduced in 1581 by Pope Gregory XIII as a mathematical and astronomical improvement on the previous Julian calendar, and us still recognized as such today.

The Pope had legal authority to “impose” it only on the tiny Papal States, not on the Holy Roman Empire. However it was quickly adopted by most Catholic European countries because it set the date for Holy Week-— and they all wanted to observe the Pasch on the same calendar.

[veracious]

Appreciate your inputs. Our calendar is a Roman calendar. The Roman empire became the Holy Roman empire. They are one and the same. As a matter of fact the same _empire_ exists today as the EU with NATO as it’s army. There is a spirit over the Roman empire; there is a spirit, actually a principality represented by each biblical empire. Those princes did not vanish just because the empire seems to have. The amount of power each empire has is a function of how immersed the people of the respective region are to its prince. All of these empires are resurrecting in power as the Word says they would. Their princes have strong support by mankind in those regions. The combination of them all is mostly described as Babylon in Revelation.

Principalities occupy territory, like the Prince of Persia. This prince is the power behind Iran and is definitely empowered by its peoples support.

Hope this helps...

[Mrs. Don-o]

"The Roman empire became the Holy Roman empire. They are one and the same. "

This is erroneous. Compare maps.

Roman Empire at its height approx 211 AD

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Holy Roman Empire ca. 973 AD

Admitrtedly the borders shifted continuously, but the Roman Empire was vast, covered all of the Europe-Asia-Africa Mediterranean basin plus far into central and northern Europe, east to Mesopotamia.

The core territory of the Holy Roman Empire was much, much smaller, basically Germany and the Low Countries, plus chunks of the Italian peninsula.

And that's just geography. In demographics, governance, culture, historic heritage, religion, languages: two far different entities.

The conflation of the two is not factual.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It seems your view does not actually attempt to be based on historic facts.