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Turkey lobbies to criminalize criticism of Islamic extremism in Europe
The most recent edition of an annual report on so-called ” Islamophobia” in Europe, produced with the backing of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, indicates that Ankara has found a group of American and European scholars and activists willing to promote Islamic extremist propaganda and misinformation in Europe.
IslamismNews The 2020 edition of the European Islamophobia Report, (EIR), published by the Leopold Weiss Institute and its academic partners in December 2021, features French president Emmanuel Macron on its cover – a consequence, it seems, of his government’s counter-Islamic extremist efforts (which Erdoğan has repeatedly denounced).
The report, co-edited by Enes Bayrakli, an international relations professor at Istanbul-based Turkish-German University, and Farid Hafez, an Austrian academic said to be close to the Muslim Brotherhood, is yet another attempt to weaponize “Islamophobia” and advance Turkish regime interests by opposing counter-Islamic extremist through the pretense of defending ordinary Muslims and by conflating genuine anti-Muslim violence with legitimate counter-terrorism efforts.
The definition of Islamophobe has now been expanded to include Muslims themselves: “it is therefore irrelevant if the person that re- produces Islamophobic structures, is himself or herself Muslim or not.”
While promoting their report in past years, EIR editors have even called for the criminalization of Islamophobia, which by their definition appears to include criticism of Turkey’s ruling party. The 2020 report, for instance, notes Albanian media criticism of a proposed law put before the Turkish parliament that, if passed, would have allowed rapists to avoid prosecution if they c
Each chapter offers a detailed chronology of “Islamophobic” events as well as “country-specific policy recommendations to counter this phenomenon.”
Reports from previous years defined Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism (what ‘race’ is Islam?), further describing Islamophobes as “a dominant group of people aiming at seizing, stabilising and widening their power by means of defining a scapegoat – real or invented – and excluding this scapegoat from the resources/rights/definition of a constructed ‘we.’”
This change is aimed at not just reformist Muslims active in the West, whom Islamic extremist groups and their fellow travelers have increasingly attacked as “anti-Muslim” in recent years, but also Muslim-majority states that have cracked down on Islamic extremists.
For example, EIR editor Enes Bayrakli has expressed concern about “some ‘Muslim’ countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) financially [supporting] anti-Muslim circles.” And Hatem Bazian, head of EIR’s partner, the Islamophobia Studies Center in Berkeley, California, recently accused Muslim-majority states, including the UAE and Morocco, of “utilizing a form of Islamophobia by trying to draft or craft the good Muslim from bad Muslim.” While Bazian does not, of course, use the term ‘Islamist.’ he evidently holds the view that opposing Islamism is a form of Islamophobia.
A similar logic permeates the EIR. In the French section, for example, the authors suggest that France “recognize Islamophobia as a specific form of racism and fight it adequately in all spheres,” which apparently means “abandoning” counter-Islamic terrorism legislation “since it overly targets and criminalizes French Muslims.”
The French authors’ policy recommendations for the European Union (EU) include the suggestion that it “assess and acknowledge the discriminatory impact of counter-radicalization and counter-terrorism measures. In 2017, the keynote was given by the then Turkish Minister of European Union Affairs, Omer Celik, who denounced “Islamophobia” as a “cultural racism” that “badly affects the lives of European Muslims.”
As every EIR presentation apparently necessitates the presence of a high-ranking Turkish official, the speech at the 2018 event was given by the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu. This presentation marked the beginning of a more aggressive tone towards Europe – perhaps as retaliation for the EU’s decision to stop funding the EIR. According to the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, Cavusoglu “urged European countries to include Islamophobia as a crime in their constitution, without waiting for a Holocaust-like situation to unfold,” and accused European politicians and media of using “non-existing terminologies such as ‘Islamism.’”
Given the heavy influence of Ankara and its officials, it should not come as a surprise that the EIR has consistently tried to include anti-Turkish sentiments as examples of such “Islamophobia.” Year after year, concerns over anti-Turkey reactions have been expressed in EIR chapters, with examples from countries once part of the Ottoman empire particularly highlighted.
While the EIR claims to offer a “unique collection of […] analyses,” it has, in reality, been nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Turkish regime and its European and American Islamist partners. Its shifting definition of Islamophobes to include Muslims confirms that it will continue to misuse genuine examples of violence committed against Muslims in order to decredibilize anti-Islamist efforts and any concerns about malign Turkish regime influence in the West.
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So reassuring that this ugly terrorist is a member of NATO…//////s
They should have been kicked out of NATO years ago, especially when they refused to allow American military planes to use their military airports during the post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan.
Can’t express how much I hate this clown. Stirring trouble in Europe and at the same time bombing the YDP in Syria, one of the best western allies against ISIS.
The latest mass barbaric genocide of Christian innocents by God hater Muslims was only 100 years ago where millions of Christians were slaughtered in the Armenian genocide.
The SATANIC SLAUGHTER was perpetrated by BLOODTHIRSTY TURKISH MUSLIMS where they starved, horribly tortured, barbarically murdered, gang raped, stripped naked, and hung Christian girls on crosses .
BLOODTHIRSTY SATANIST Erdogan and Turkey lusts after another huge genocide of Christians in Europe.
PROTECT Europe! Kick anti-God, Christian hater Turkey out of NATO immediately!
Go Ramez! Articulating a feeling. These Muslims are half men. Vermin in the world of ordinary GOD fearing men. Climate change.
You are destined and doomed to be the slaves of African vengeance seekers. God does not need devil anti-energy. Long live Life!
Just pop ‘em. Islamic cancer. This vermin feels so confident it can swagger on and infect a site that represents the Jews and non Muslimes of this world. Wrong. We are tired of you. You nothing in the history of time.
islam by its own actions, beliefs, and lack of tolerance,understanding and compassion, can only be described properly as a Fascist Religious Cult that cant take a bloody joke as my opinion of their nonsense appears to be so important to them that they wish to kill me for calling out their hate of everybody and everything that does not fall in line with their garbage and so by that alone they really are a sad ass bunch of weak morons that are obviously very shallow in their faith if my criticism of their teachings causes them to go bat shit crazy rather than just telling me to shine it on but I guess I must be important enough to these fools…
But then I am known as a islamowhatsitcalled…
Turkish Moslems have murdered tens of millions of pure-blooded European Christians in hundreds of battles, chief among them being the 1071 A.D. Battle of Manzikert and the 1453 A.D. Siege of Constantinople, not to mention the fact that Turkish Koranimals have raped and impregnated hundreds of millions of pure-blooded European Christian females in the Levant, Anatolia, the Balkans, Central Asia, and Southern Russia since 710 C.E.
F*ck all Moslems, especially El-Sissy and Erdoğan!
So reassuring that this ugly terrorist is a member of NATO…//////s
They should have been kicked out of NATO years ago, especially when they refused to allow American military planes to use their military airports during the post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan.
Can’t express how much I hate this clown. Stirring trouble in Europe and at the same time bombing the YDP in Syria, one of the best western allies against ISIS.
The latest mass barbaric genocide of Christian innocents by God hater Muslims was only 100 years ago where millions of Christians were slaughtered in the Armenian genocide.
The SATANIC SLAUGHTER was perpetrated by BLOODTHIRSTY TURKISH MUSLIMS where they starved, horribly tortured, barbarically murdered, gang raped, stripped naked, and hung Christian girls on crosses .
BLOODTHIRSTY SATANIST Erdogan and Turkey lusts after another huge genocide of Christians in Europe.
PROTECT Europe! Kick anti-God, Christian hater Turkey out of NATO immediately!
Go Ramez! Articulating a feeling. These Muslims are half men. Vermin in the world of ordinary GOD fearing men. Climate change.
You are destined and doomed to be the slaves of African vengeance seekers. God does not need devil anti-energy. Long live Life!
Just pop ‘em. Islamic cancer. This vermin feels so confident it can swagger on and infect a site that represents the Jews and non Muslimes of this world. Wrong. We are tired of you. You nothing in the history of time.
Ghulam lobbies to criminalize criticism of Islam @ BNI
Just saying….I would never do that. 🙂
Ghulam, did somebody here say that about you?
So sick of these filthy throwbacks. Goto hell every last one of u .
islam by its own actions, beliefs, and lack of tolerance,understanding and compassion, can only be described properly as a Fascist Religious Cult that cant take a bloody joke as my opinion of their nonsense appears to be so important to them that they wish to kill me for calling out their hate of everybody and everything that does not fall in line with their garbage and so by that alone they really are a sad ass bunch of weak morons that are obviously very shallow in their faith if my criticism of their teachings causes them to go bat shit crazy rather than just telling me to shine it on but I guess I must be important enough to these fools…
But then I am known as a islamowhatsitcalled…
Turkish Moslems have murdered tens of millions of pure-blooded European Christians in hundreds of battles, chief among them being the 1071 A.D. Battle of Manzikert and the 1453 A.D. Siege of Constantinople, not to mention the fact that Turkish Koranimals have raped and impregnated hundreds of millions of pure-blooded European Christian females in the Levant, Anatolia, the Balkans, Central Asia, and Southern Russia since 710 C.E.
F*ck all Moslems, especially El-Sissy and Erdoğan!