“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Orhan Coskun and Jonny Hogg—Erdogan warns of clash of civilizations following Paris attacks:
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned of a “clash of civilizations” following the wake of the Islamist militant attacks in Paris and he also appeared to criticize France for allowing the wife of one of the gunmen to travel via Turkey to Syria.
Erdogan, a devout Sunni Muslim, has already accused the West of hypocrisy after the attacks last week in which the gunmen killed 17, including 12 at the offices of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. The three gunmen were also killed.
Speaking at a businessmen’s meeting in the capital Ankara, Erdogan said Charlie Hebdo was known for its provocative publications.
“We are following with great concern the attacks against Islam hidden behind the attack on the satirical magazine in France,” said Erdogan, who has become an increasingly vocal critic of what he sees as mounting Islamaphobia in the West.
“Despite all our efforts to prevent it, the clash of civilizations thesis is being brought to life.”
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SnyderTalk Comment: It’s a clash alright, but it’s not a “clash of civilizations”. It’s Islamist terrorists vs. the world, and Islamists aren’t civilized by any stretch of the imagination. They are straight out of the Dark Ages. Erdogan can’t or won’t admit that Islamists are the face of Islam today—its voice, heart, and soul as well. Obama won’t admit it either.
Obama’s claim that Islamist terrorists aren’t Muslims would be laughable if it were not so dangerous. Islamists think that they are the only true Muslims and that they are doing exactly what the Quran instructs them to do. Maybe it’s a clash between sects of Islam, but if it is, the “ordinary peaceful Muslims” that we hear so much about don’t realize that they are in a fight for their lives, too.
In the final analysis, the Turkish government blames Jews for Islamist terrorist activities. See “Turkish PM: Israel’s ‘Provocations’ Cause Muslim Radicalization”. That’s the typical Muslim reaction to atrocities committed by other Muslims.
The West may be waking up to reality, but I still have doubts. See “State of denial in the West”.
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Caroline Glick: The answer to French anti-Semitism—January 16 is the nine-year anniversary of the beginning of the Ilan Halimi disaster. On January 16, 2006, Sorour Arbabzadeh, the seductress from the Muslim anti-Jewish kidnapping gang led by Youssouf Fofana, entered the cellphone store where Halimi worked and set the honey trap. Four days later, Halimi met Arbabzadeh for a drink at a working class bar and agreed to walk her home. She walked him straight into an ambush. Her comrades beat him, bound him and threw him into the trunk of their car. They brought Halimi to a slum apartment and tortured him for 24 days and 24 nights before dumping him, handcuffed, naked, stabbed and suffering from third degree burns over two-thirds of his body, at a railway siding in Paris.
Burak Bekdil: Erdogan’s Turkish Bazaar— Erdogan is trying to sell a product that only finds buyers in his own country and in a few Middle Eastern capitals: self-delusion around the theme of Sunni Islam’s “perfection.” “As Muslims, we have never taken part in terrorist massacres.” Then Erdogan, once again, reverted to his “my-tribe-is-perfect-and-only-yours-is-bad” rhetoric. “[T]he Turkish presence was incredibly awkward. Though the Paris march honored journalists killed in the attack on the monthly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Turkey currently has more reporters in jail, 40, than any other country, even Iran and China.” — Karl Vick, Time Magazine.
Dr. Mordechai Kedar: Changing the Rules of the Democracy Game in Europe— The situation in Europe is intolerable. At any given moment one of the thousands of Jihadists living in Europe can be annoyed by a movie, article or caricature published in a newspaper, grab the closest Kalashnikov and spread death and destruction in editorial offices, shops, museums, schools and on the streets. He can hurl bombs—homemade or imported—into restaurants, movie houses, theaters, railroad stations, pour oil on highways and perpetrate other terrorist acts which will not be enumerated here so as not to give him any ideas. There are various factors that indicate the potential for a major explosion.
Dore Gold: Isolated Incidents or Global War?— In response to the first attack in Paris on the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a member of a jihadi forum, affiliated with ISIS, wrote a very striking explanation as to why France in particular was targeted. As is usual in the jihadi world, which seeks to return to the early days of Islam centuries ago, history played an important role in his thinking: “France was one part of the Islamic land and it will be Islamic again.” What was he talking about? For years, global jihadi organizations have issued calls to retake al-Andalus, the Arabic name for Spain and those parts of the Iberian peninsula when they were held by the Muslims from 711 until 1492. This last summer ISIS members produced a video calling for the liberation of al-Andalus.
Vijeta Uniyal: Radical Islam in Europe: No One to Blame But Us— More hearts of Western civilization have been targeted and hit. First, armed gunmen entered the Paris office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week and killed 12 people, to impose their understanding of Sharia on the French. Then, the German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which had the courage to reprint the cartoons, was firebombed on January 10. Most newspapers in Germany had apparently decided not to risk upsetting Muslim extremists by reprinting anything that might have have distressed them. The Berliner Zeitung, the Hamburger Morgenpost and Der Tagesspiegel were amongst the few exceptions. Assaults such as these, in addition to a list of demands — from banning Christmas decorations to putting people on trial, if not murdering them, for exercising their freedom of speech — lead one to wonder what further demands might be rolling down the pike, how many, and at what point, if any, are they meant to stop?
Damon Linker: Can Islam ever make peace with liberalism?—In the week or so since two jihadists massacred 12 people in the Parisian offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, debate about the attacks in the American press has taken a predictable turn. Early expressions of outrage at the act of homicidal barbarism have given way to a heated conversation about…us. That is, about liberal society and its double standards with regard to what’s considered blasphemous or an acceptable form of shock. Should the New York Times reproduce images of cartoons that might antagonize some readers? Why is the media in Western countries so much less willing to run anti-Semitic words and pictures than images that offend Muslims? Should France be arresting people for expressing sympathy for the shooters? Or does doing so belie liberalism’s vision of itself as truly open-minded and pluralistic? These are worthy, important questions. But they’re less worthy and important than a different set of questions that have haunted the West since Sept. 11, 2001, if not before. This latter cluster of questions does not focus on us, per se — or at least they are not about us alone. They focus, instead, on how the liberal societies of the West should think about and respond to people who emphatically reject the most fundamental principle underlying those societies — the principle of toleration and the concomitant commitment on the part of individuals and groups within those societies not to resort to violence (especially lethal violence) as a means of expressing disagreement.
SnyderTalk Comment: In this context, “liberalism” doesn’t mean left-leaning political liberalism. It’s liberalism in the classic sense: being open to ideas that make sense.
Therein lies the rub. One fundamental value of Islamist terrorists is the subjugation and eventual conversion of infidels. If those things don’t happen, Islamists believe it is their duty to kill the infidels brutally and without mercy.
I suppose it’s conceivable that Islamist terrorists can be persuaded to change their ways, but I think it’s about as likely as convincing leopards to change their spots.
This is my advice: pray for the best but prepare for the worst.
Fox News: Nine troubling statements from Turkey’s Erdogan—1) Foreigners “Like Seeing Our Children Die”. 2) The Muslim World—on its Own—“Can Resolve Every Problem”. 3) America Was Discovered by Muslims….
SnyderTalk Comment: Erdogan lives in a make-believe world. About point #2, does Erdogan think that the rest of the world should do nothing but wait while people are being slaughtered hoping that “ordinary peaceful Muslims” will get their act together? I suspect that he does, and if he does, he’s really dreaming. The evidence suggests that what Erdogan thinks will happen won’t happen.
Armenian Weekly: Turkey Is Perfecting Distortion of History—In a strongly worded letter, President Serge Sarkisian on Jan. 16 responded to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s invitation to Turkey on April 24, to attend commemoration ceremonies marking the centennial of the WWI Gallipoli campaign. “Turkey continues its conventional denial policy and is ‘perfecting’ its instrumentation for distorting history. This time, Turkey is marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli on April 24, even though the battle began on March 18, 1915 and lasted until late January 1916; while the allies’ operation started on April 25,” wrote Sarkisian, adding, “What is the purpose [of this] if not to distract the world’s attention from the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide?”
Jeremy Rosen: France and Islam—I hope and pray the massive demonstration in France against the barbarians who attacked Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher market will mark a sea change in European attitudes. I hope, but I am not convinced. Hollande is still stuck in the same old orthodoxies of the left, which was why he invited Abbas, of all people, to join his march. What is the biggest threat to our freedom? It is the arrogance of the assumption that all reasonable human beings will agree with a basic value system and that if one avoids confrontation one will be able to achieve one’s ends. It is what we call appeasement. The European reaction to Hitler was to do nothing and hope the danger would pass. It did not. Inaction was taken as weakness. In the end the fight came at a catastrophic price.
Jeff Jacoby: The antisemitic derangement— Even before last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, the French prime minister was concerned about the continued viability of Jewish life in France. In an interview with The Atlantic prior to the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket massacres, Manuel Valls made a grim prediction: “If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France. The French Republic will be judged a failure.” His misgivings were far from groundless. An exodus of French Jews is already underway and accelerating rapidly. In 2012, there were just over 1,900 immigrants to Israel from France. The following year nearly 3,400 French Jews emigrated; in 2014 approximately 7,000 left. For the first time ever, France heads the list of countries of origin for immigrants to Israel, and the ministry of immigration absorption expects another 10,000 French Jews to arrive in 2015. That would mean more than 22,000 Jews fleeing France for Israel in the space of just four years, nearly 4.5 percent of the country’s Jewish population. The departure of 100,000 French Jews might once have been inconceivable. No longer. In a survey last spring of France’s Jewish community, the largest in Europe, three out of four respondents said they were considering emigrating.
Bob McGovern: High Court unlikely to fight tide on gay marriage—The writing is on the wall, and more than a decade’s worth of momentum is about to come crashing down in the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court. Gay marriage is most likely about to become legal across the country. The nation’s highest court has nibbled around the issue for years. In 2013, a majority led by Justice Anthony Kennedy struck down a section of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. A decade earlier, the court — also led by Kennedy — erased a Texas statute outlawing sodomy. The Supreme Court, however, never squarely considered whether the Constitution requires a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex. Yesterday, facing a major split among appeals courts, the court finally decided it was time to give the nation an answer.
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Will the Paris attacks change France’s view on Israel and the Palestinians?
SnyderTalk Comment: The answer is “no”.
Hamas, PA hail ICC probe into Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Palestinians preparing lawsuits against Israeli leaders who ordered destruction of Gaza homes
Saudi Arabia building ‘great wall’ to thwart IS
IDF legal division head, Justice Shoham reject pressure over war crimes probe
British PM: The idea that Jews feel unsafe is sickening
SnyderTalk Comment: Memo to British PM: Jews don’t just “feel unsafe”. They are unsafe.
With Bluelight, veteran of Hillaryland eyes the next fight
Palestinian university slams Hamas-linked students for instructional film on attacking Jews
Liberman: We will lobby Canada, Australia and Germany to cut ICC funding
Victim of Paris terror attack urged friend to keep Shabbat before he was killed
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Netanyahu: Israel Rejects the ‘Absurd’ ICC War Crimes Probe
Report: PA Offers Way Out of ICC Bid – and Ultimatum
Likud Candidate Supports Division of Jerusalem
What al-Sisi Didn’t say at Al-Azhar University
Ya’alon: ICC Probe Hypocritical and Outrageous
Watch: IDF Prepares for Hezbollah’s ‘Invasion’
Nasrallah: Hezbollah Can Conquer the Galilee
UK, US to Host Talks on Islamic State in London
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France’s stance on Palestine recognition unchanged by attacks
France lacks the means to grapple with terror, Paris expert says
Belgium sends troops to Jewish sites, Britain boosts patrols amid raised terror fears
Rampant anti-Semitism a major aliyah factor, French Jewish leader says
Protesters burn French flag at anti-cartoon rally on Temple Mount
DC-based command center fights Israel’s war of ideas
FM: Will EU condemn Belgium, France for ‘excessive force’?
Hollande: Muslims ‘main victims of fanaticism’
Swedish FM calls Israel’s behavior ‘unacceptable’
Cracks appearing in Hamas leadership in Gaza
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Five killed in second day of Charlie Hebdo protests in Niger
Belgium terrorists kept in touch using secret code but analysts cracked the messages
European countries seek sweeping new powers to curb terrorism
Belgium terror suspects had police uniforms, report says
Belgium Deploys Troops Amid Threat From Syrian Jihadis
Belgian radicals on margins even among hometown Muslims
SnyderTalk Comment: The fact that Islamist terrorists are marginal players in the Muslim community may sound encouraging, but it’s not since 15% of a very large number is a very large number.
There are about 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and 15% of that number is 240,000,000. Since roughly 15% of Muslims have been radicalized, that’s a reasonable guess as to how many potential jihadists there are roaming among us. That’s a gigantic army, and we are just beginning to learn what they are capable of doing.
Greece arrests over Belgian ‘jihadist terror plot’
US blasts ICC war crimes probe of Israel as ‘tragic irony’
Swedish FM: Israel irritating allies over Palestine recognition
Israel told Swedish FM they would not secure her visit
Boko Haram: Nigerian militant group’s attacks on the rise
Nigeria’s neighbours band together to fight Boko Haram
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Obama warns of military showdown if Iran talks fail
Erdogan lashes out at ‘provocative’ Charlie Hebdo
‘3,000 people in Turkey linked to Islamic State’
Turkey Tells Twitter To Block Turkish Newspaper’s Feed; Twitter Plans To Push Back
Muslims never guilty of ‘terrorist massacres,’ Turkey’s Erdogan insists
US doesn’t have as big a problem with ISIS; Turkey, Europe should do more
Russia accuses European parliament of gunning for war
West sends mixed signals over Russia sanctions, G7, Ukraine crisis
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Genesis 44: 14-17
14 When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him. 15 Joseph said to them, “What is this deed that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can indeed practice divination?” 16 So Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? And how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s slaves, both we and the one in whose possession the cup has been found.” 17 But he said, “Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose possession the cup has been found, he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
SnyderTalk Comment: Read His Name is Yahweh.
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback. It’s also available for free in PDF format.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
- Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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