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The Grand Turk
Turkey's top imam as the 'Muslim world's pope'
2015-05-28
[Hurriyet Daily News] Having increased the tone of "Moslem solidarity" in his speeches with 10 days to go until the general elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
has finally come to the point of comparing The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's top religious official to the pope, the spiritual leader of the world's Catholics.
Posted by:Fred

#5  Uh oh, methinks this will NOT go down well wid the Saudis, ISIS, AQ, Egypt, + other Islamic Centre wannabes.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-05-28 23:50  

#4  BTW, the Pope does not have a private airplane. He does have a private car - a 1980's POSTED that someone gave him.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2015-05-28 09:15  

#3  Or al-Baghdadi, the self appointed caliph.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2015-05-28 09:13  

#2  Wonder what the Saudi Grand Mufti thinks of it?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-28 07:02  

#1  erdogen defo sees himself as the leader of muslims.does he miss the ottoman empire or what?
Posted by: paul   2015-05-28 02:38  

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