Posted on 05/21/2013 8:06:20 PM PDT by Nachum
The Islamist government of Turkey is building a 15-acre, $100 million mega-mosque in Lanham, Maryland. Prime Minister Erdogan visited the site on May 15 in a ceremony that was attended by the leaders of two groups linked to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. Also present was the Maryland Secretary of State, representing Maryland Governor and likely Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, Martin OMalley.
The mega-mosque is called the Turkish American Culture and Civilization Center and, according to the Muslim Link, it will likely become the largest and most striking examples of Islamic architecture in the western hemisphere when it is finished in 2014. The Muslim Link explicitly says it is a project of the government of Turkey.
On May 15, Prime Minister Erdogan spoke to hundreds of people at the construction site and said hed come back for the opening ceremony next year. He warned the audience that there are groups promoting Islamophobia, branding potential critics as paranoid bigots. Erdogan recently said that Islamophobia and Zionism are equivalent to fascism and anti-Semitism, saying they are a crime against humanity.
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From PuffHo:
“The Istanbul Process grew out of a resolution adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council in March and then by the U.N. General Assembly in November.
Resolutions in the previous 10 years had supported legal measures restricting the “defamation of religions.” The more recent Resolution 16/18, however, broke with that tradition by calling for concrete, positive measures to combat religious intolerance rather than legal measures that restrict speech.
“It is important that we recognize what we accomplished when this resolution ended 10 years of divisive debate where people were not listening to each other anymore. Now we are. We’re talking,” said Clinton.
The new resolution has faced criticism from conservatives who think it amounts to a concession to Islamic countries, and will result in the curtailing of any speech that is critical of Islam.
After Clinton’s speech, Andrea Lafferty, president of the Traditional Values Coalition, said her organization has been denied entrance to conferences and hotels for fear of “incitement to violence,” a phrase used in Resolution 16/18.
“We remain concerned about the use of that language,” Lafferty said.
Kozak tried to dispel her fears.
“That whole issue of incitement got debated a lot, and we were clear all along that what we meant by incitement was when ... the speech is part of an act,” he said. “It’s a very narrow concept.”
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Hell came out in support of the OIC’s ‘10 year plan’ there in Istanbul. See:
“The Istanbul Process”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/15/istanbul-process-clinton_n_1152508.html
Also see: http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/oic_10_year_plan.html
http://internationalopinion.com/id478.html
http://www.humanevents.com/2010/10/11/sharia-laws-threat-to-free-speech/
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