'The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets'On his visit to a new Turkish-funded mosque in Lanham, Md., Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erodogan said his government chose the site because of its location in “free territory.”
He said when he attended the groundbreaking of the 15-acre, $100 million mega-mosque that the Turkish-American Cultural Center likely will become “the largest and most striking examples of Islamic architecture in the Western hemisphere when finished in 2014.”
But those seemingly innocuous words are alarming to a number of analysts, including former Palestinian operative Walid Shoebat, who says the West doesn’t realize the significance of what Erdogan was saying.
Shoebat said Erdogan’s true mission is to claim the land for Islam, and the evidence is in his words.
“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers,” Shoebat said, quoting Erdogan.
“The West is unaware that in Islam, a mosque is an embassy and Turkey is acting stealthily, which is why the project is not arousing much alarm,” Shoebat said.
Islam analyst and Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller agrees. Most Americans don’t know that the plans showcase Turkey’s long-held territorial dream, she said.
“The Turks are trying to restore the glory of the Ottoman period. They may be staking a claim to be the leaders of Sunni Islam worldwide, as they were in the days of the last caliphate,” Geller said.
Clarion Project intelligence analyst Ryan Mauro noted that Turkey’s influence is largely under the radar.
He said Turkey is quietly spreading its influence in the U.S.
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10 comments:
There coming people, and the site was chosen because it near the White house.
O'Malley's job plan: ATTRACT $100 MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT FOR AN ISLAMIC STRONGHOLD, 10 MILES FROM NATION'S CAPITAL!
We have freedom of religion here. Muslims can do this all day if they want. The ironic thing is when they have a community with a majority membership, and want to enforce sharia law, and have the ability to vote it in.
Lets see how you Christians start backing the establishment clause then.
once they "stake their claim", in their mind they can take over our state. this is their stated goal and we must understand this.
back to our founding. we are a judeo-christian nation; not muslim. if our government is going to continue to allow muslims to come to this nation, they should limit the numbers and make it clear that they are to assimilate under OUR way of life, not theirs. harsh? NO it's not harsh. this is the way it should be. we are NOT a muslim nation.
Now y'all know how the American Indians felt when the white man brought his religion here...
12:28 Don't you know Islam is a political movement and not a religion.
The establishment clause doesn't pertain to terrorists.
This building should be dismantled and omalley should be impeached.
4:08 the same can be said of Pat Robertson and his like.
6:59 Really? How?
@ 4:08 Islam is no more a political movement than the Evangelical movement is, or Mormans, or any religion for that matter.
Religion is always trying to enforce it's way through politics, we see this happening time and time and time and time again through out history. All powerful Dieties that apparently don't care to, or don't have the ability to, enforce anything, so they have their minions try to force their religious views via politics.
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