| And boy does he know wherof he speaks! |
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
has warned young Muslims against "three significant dangers: sectarianism, racism, and terrorism".
"Muslims, if they want to get the respect that they deserve, have to first eliminate these dangers," Erdogan said Thursday.
His remarks came at a youth gathering organized by the ONDER Imam Hatip Schools Alumni Association at Istanbul's Sinan Erdem Dome.
The Turkish president criticized sectarianist tendencies within Islam, which he said had sometimes become more important than one's overall Muslim identity.
"That trouble has been seriously wounding the Islamic world," he said. "We have a religion above all those [denominations]: Islam."
He also complained that the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which he called "the greatest collective voice of the Islamic world", could rarely reach an agreement, even on basic issues.