The Turkish government on Sunday ordered the nation’s mosques to deliver an anti-terrorism message as authorities pieced together evidence to determine who was behind a string of suicide bombings that killed 57 people and wounded hundreds more. The Directorate for Religious Affairs, which controls all mosques in Turkey, said the anti-terrorism sermon should be preached Tuesday, the first day of a three-day Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan. "Terrorism, violence and anarchy have nothing to do with Islam," the sermon reads. "Our duty is to love one another, and to live like brothers in unity." Separately, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested the attacks occurred in Turkey because the nation is a democracy with strong ties to the West.
No it’s because the terrorists are unorganized and leaderless due to America’s assault on their infrastructure and now individual groups and cells, that are at best loosely connected, are lashing out irrationally. |