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Islam is not source of terrorism, says Germany's Merkel
2017-02-19
[AA.TR] Islam is not the source of terrorism, and Islamic scholars and Moslem countries should speak up against fundamentalists to make this clear to the world, Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
has said.

In her address to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Merkel underlined the importance of close cooperation with Moslem countries in defeating ISIS, Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
and international terrorism.

"I think, those countries, first and foremost have to give a contribution. Because only in this way we would be able to convince people that it is not Islam that is the source of terrorism. But a falsely understood Islam," she said.

"I expect from religious authorities of Islam to find strong language in order to delimitate peaceful Islam from terrorism committed in the name of Islam. We as non-Moslems cannot do this, it should be done by Islamic clergy and authorities," she added.

Merkel said she had discussed the fight against terrorism during her meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim this morning in Munich.

"I have just now addressed this issue with the Turkish prime minister. We know that particularly our NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
partner The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
is very much threatened through the challenge of international Islamist terrorism through ISIS, but also obviously the terrorism of PKK," she said.
Posted by:Fred

#16  Not all moselimbs are terrorists.

However...

Most terrorists are moselimbs.

Decide whether to take a group in at your own risk.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-02-19 21:08  

#15  Islam is not source of terrorism

Better tell that to the Muslims who apparently didn't get the memo.
Posted by: gorb   2017-02-19 20:45  

#14  "Islam is not the source of terrorism"__ Merkel & the Pope

a) Proves you can lead a major country and still be a drooling idiot

b) proves you can lead a major religion and still be a drooling idiot
Posted by: Sholugum Smith2723   2017-02-19 14:20  

#13  "And who would know more about Islamic orthodoxy than a Lutheran Christian woman from Germany?"

She's a woman from Germany who was taught theocratic totalitarian Christian Communism by her father?

Why wouldn't she empathize with theocratic totalitarian Muslims?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2017-02-19 14:19  

#12  Not all Germans were Nazis either. Seem we had to go through a lot of them and lay waste to the country to get to them though.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-02-19 14:14  

#11  I don't have much hope over that Hags replacement for PM either.
Posted by: newc   2017-02-19 14:11  

#10  ...isn't Assad an alawite too?

anon1's sentence is confusing as written, chris. The first two times she uses "he" it refers to Erdogan; the third "he" is Assad.

Sultan Recip I "the much beloved" is a Sufi Sunni, according to Wikipedia. Bashar al Assad is indeed Alawite, a Shiite heresy.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-02-19 13:11  

#9  ...it is not Islam that is the source of terrorism. But a falsely understood Islam.

And who would know more about Islamic orthodoxy than a Lutheran Christian woman from Germany?
Posted by: DepotGuy    2017-02-19 11:09  

#8  Merkel has a credibility problem--it is badly strained.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-02-19 10:15  

#7  So Islam is not a source of terrorism, just the Fundamentalists of Islam? Huh?
Posted by: Frank G   2017-02-19 09:48  

#6  Was it over when stay-behind Stasi
Girl harbored her pets from Benghazi?
When all those around her
Watched Angela flounder
As Germany went kamikaze?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-02-19 06:59  

#5  Am I wrong, but isn't Assad an alawite too?
Posted by: chris   2017-02-19 06:29  

#4  So now she's an expert on Islam as well as climate?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-02-19 05:13  

#3  "I expect from religious authorities of Islam to find strong language in order to delimitate peaceful Islam from terrorism committed in the name of Islam."

I expect that in the same way that I expect Publisher's Clearinghouse to knock on my door and tell my I won their gazillions for life award (despite the pesky fact that I never registered for it).
Posted by: Crusader   2017-02-19 01:06  

#2  secondly Turkey is on the side of sunni Islamofascism as Erdogan has repeatedly sided with Islamic State, supported the Caliphate and sold its oil

and the reason is, Erdogan wants a return of the Caliphate just with Ankara as the capital as it was under the Ottomans

so he wants to support and co-opt Islamic State.

He also loves Islamic State as they are fighting Assad whom he hates because he's an alawite and therefore "not a real muslim"

and because they are fighting the kurds who he hates as he doesn't want them to get a homeland on his border

so Islamic State are BFFs with Erdogan

so why is Erdogan's turkey still in NATO?

Because NATO is irrelevant. NATO was set up to confront the Evil Empire of communism which fell

Now the enemy is Islamism

and now Turkey is no longer our ally against the commies, they are our enemy in our new fight
Posted by: anon1   2017-02-19 00:36  

#1  And yet it has been nearly two decades since 9/11 and they haven't

and al Azhar university, foremost authority of Islam, has ruled Islamic State are NOT heretics, that they are extremist yes but they are able to justify all they do through Islamic teachings

you can see the problem we have here, can't you

stupid Merkel
Posted by: anon1   2017-02-19 00:32  

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