Turkey's radical Muslims

Recently I posted about "Europe and Islam" which also discussed the coming vote on Turkey's bid to join the EU and noted this:

It will be interesting to see if the EU votes to let Turkey in. Things like, Turkey threatens EU over membership and Returning jihadis new risk for Europe do not help.

And now LGF reports on "Turkey's Radical (not so fringe) Fringe".

Here’s a disturbing piece on the rise of radical Islam in Turkey, with an unusual degree of candor for an Associated Press story: Turkey’s Radical Fringe Returns to View.

ISTANBUL, Turkey - It’s the sort of scene that rattles Turkey’s Western-looking establishment: angry demonstrators raising fists for Islam and waving posters supporting Chechen separatists, the Iraq insurgency and hard-line Palestinian factions such as Hamas.

“Islamic resistance will win!” chanted nearly 400 protesters, including women wearing green headbands with Quranic verses — similar to those worn by suicide bombers in farewell videos.

And yet, when students at UC Irvine wore the same type of green headbands, mainstream media went out of their way to assure us it wasn’t connected in any way with extremism.

As they say, read the rest.
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