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| Turkey Fears ISIL Radicalism Could Spill Over From Syria, Iraq |
| 2014-08-02 |
| [Iraq Sun] With the Sunni jihadist group ISIL stepping up attacks in Syria along the border with Turkey, concern is growing in Turkey that the violence could spill over. Earlier this month, Istanbul's Jafari Muhamadiye Mosque a mosque belonging to Turkey's Shi'ite Moslem minority was burned down. The attack was blamed on ISIL and is seen as a possible harbinger of future ISIL attacks, which could threaten Turkey's complex social fabric. Istanbul is home to large numbers of adherents of both Sunni Islam and Shi'ite Islam -- or Jafari Islam, as the latter is known in Turkey. But tensions between the two groups have been rising following the arson attack. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Screw the turks. I still remember OIF and their backstab Some of us have long memories. Must be some kind of Jacksonian thing. That 'enemy of my enemy' thing is all well and good until they work their way around the circle and it's *you* in the cross-hairs. We're all infidels on this bus, baby. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-08-02 18:53 |
| #5 Good question TFSM. Its a shame nobody in the press will investigate radical muslims to their sources. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-02 18:38 |
| #4 How much support did they give to ISIL so it could become a problem? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-08-02 16:19 |
| #3 Screw the turks. I still remember OIF and their backstab, as well as their apparent tacit backing of Hamas now. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-02 14:55 |
| #2 Turkey thinks that they have dibs on caliphates, just like the old days. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-08-02 12:36 |
| #1 Nobody is doing anything to combat it, of course it will spread. You should be afraid. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-08-02 11:55 |