On 20 May 2018, President Tayyip Erdogan has hinted that Turkey might consider imposing a ban on imports of some “Israeli” goods over the killing of Palestinian protesters by “Israeli” forces in Gaza just before Ramadan. This was stated to reporters on a plane ride back from a 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting. The “Israeli” attacks on unarmed people of Palestine protesting against the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem led to the killing of over 2000 Muslims including dozens of children who UN observers reported were directly targeted by “Israeli” snipers.
Comment:
It is with immense shame that Erdogan should be in a position where he is sitting in the comfort of luxury meetings with fellow Muslim leaders merely discussing which items will be on shop shelves. The families of the murdered in Gaza have no interest or need for fake economic sanctions whilst all of the Muslim armies stand disabled as their brothers and sisters are mercilessly slaughtered! All of these Muslim rulers have agreed on the existence of the Jewish entity and have cooperated to support over 70 years of oppression so their insincere words of protest are meaningless and will not serve to dissipate the outrage felt by the rest of the Muslims globally.
Rather than doing back door deals for a Jewish entity /Turkish gas pipeline, Erdogan should take lesson from the last Khalifah of Turkey Sultan Abdülhamid II and make a real political stance that actually prevents the harm of the Islamic interests.
When the first Zionist movement sought to recruit Turkey into selling the Blessed Land (Palestine) to them, Theodor Herzl was refused a meeting and sent his laky Phillip NewlinskyI (in May 1901). The Zionists offered to pay the Ottomans’ foreign debts and to provide propaganda for the Ottoman Sultan in Europe in exchange for opening the Blessed Land (Palestine) to Jewish settlement and transferring governance to the Jewish people. The Khalifah’s response was categorical and unapologetic when he stated;
“I would never agree with you even if you offer not 150 million British gold but all the gold in the entire world. I served the Muslim community for more than 30 years. I did not let my forefathers down.”
These are the words of a true Islamic leader who has Taqwa and real sense of looking after the affairs of the Muslims as Allah (swt) and the Prophet ﷺ ordered;
هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ
“It is He who has sent his Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, in order for it to be dominant over all other religions, even though the Mushrikoon (disbelievers) hate it.”
(at-Tawbah, 9:33)
From these and many other evidences none of the Muslims’ rulers can justify their empty rhetoric when a great Haram is acted upon this Muslim ummah. All of the rulers collude to fill the western companies pockets with military purchased and annual upgrades but only ever use this power to kill Muslims in and surrounding Islamic lands. This betrayal cannot be allowed to continue and deserve to be accounted for until of the agents of the West in power are removed and are replace with the one leader – the Khalif who will be loyal only to Allah (swt) and unite this Ummah as one nation devoid of all colonialist boarders that exist today.
Imrana Mohammed