Erdogan Practicing for Retirement with Comedy Routine?

Dirty scenario realized to split Islamic world

– Erdogan lashes out at West

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan © Kayhan Ozer / Reuters

The West is exporting the worst elements to Islamic countries in an attempt to ensure its own future, the Turkish president has said. 

Say what? Don't you have that backwards? Jihadists, terrorists, Muslim extremists, criminals, child rapists are flooding into Europe from the Middle East, south Asia and Africa.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims that Islamophobia, neo-Nazism and racism are replacing values such as democracy and human rights in the West.

He makes that claim as he Islamifies what was once a fiercely secular government in Turkey.

“Unresponsiveness to the violence that has been going on in Syria for seven years, to the inhumane treatment refugees are subjected to at border gates, and to the genocide of the Rohingya have revealed the true face of the West,” Erdogan said as cited by Anadolu.

“Islamophobia, neo-Nazism, and racism [are] beginning to replace values such as democracy, human rights and freedoms more and more” in the West, he added.

I'm sorry, how many millions of refugees has Europe taken in, virtually without any vetting? How much money is Turkey receiving from Germany to care for those refugees in Turkey? Did you notice that the Gulf States have not taken a single refugee, even though they are Islamic brothers? Also Myanmar is not a 'western' country.

“The West has exported all kinds of sick elements to Islamic nations (astonishing) in an attempt to ensure its own future,” the Turkish leader said. He specifically mentioned Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Kurdish YPG and the supporters of exiled Turkish cleric Fetullah Gullen – whom Ankara blames for a failed coup attempt last summer – saying that those groups have “transformed our entire region into a large blood bath.”

“The West has exported"!!! Seriously!? Exported would mean that they originated in the West and were transported to the east. It would deny that Islamic State and Al-Qaeda began in Iraq, Boko Haram began in Nigeria, the Kurdish YPG are actually Kurds, and Fetullah Gullen is actually a Turk.

I wonder if Erdogan has got his east & west confused - perhaps he is standing on his head and it all appears backward to him.

Erdogan warned that “a scenario is being realized of splitting the Islamic world, Muslims, of destroying their values and, most dangerously, their future.” And the Islamic world, according to Erdogan, has been going through a period of hardship in recent years, “literally an era of instigation."

The splitting of the Islamic world began with the death of Mohammed when they could not agree on who should succeed him. It has continued ever since. Of the nearly 600 wars Islam has been involved in in the last 1400 years, many of them have been within Islam as hard-liners refuse to accept a more moderate Islamic culture. Peace and tolerance are not Islamic virtues.

Despite being a NATO member and a strong Western ally for decades, Turkey has had tense relations with both the US and the EU in recent years. Among a host of issues, the rift with Washington is mainly characterized by Washington’s unwillingness to extradite Gullen to Turkey, in addition to its support of the Kurdish YPG, which Ankara considers to be an extension of the banned Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK).

Turkish ties with Europe have been compromised by the refugee crisis and the stalled talks on visa free travel for Turks to the EU, which Brussels put on hold, citing Ankara’s refusal to amend its harsh anti-terror laws. Heated words were also exchanged after some European countries, notably, Germany, banned the public appearances of Turkish ministers in the run up to Turkey’s April referendum on constitutional reforms which significantly expanded Erdogan’s powers.

Last week, Turkey blamed NATO for smearing its leaders – past and present – and withdrew its troops from the Trident Javelin drills in Norway after Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Erdogan were listed as enemies during a computer-assisted exercise. NATO apologized for the incident, which it blamed on a Norwegian civilian contractor who was fired for his anti-Turkish stunt.