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2019-08-01 The Grand Turk
Might US-Turkish relations become like Israeli-Turkish ones?
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Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
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#1 4th ID. Case closed.
Posted by 3dc 2019-08-01 14:30||   2019-08-01 14:30|| Front Page Top

#2 I forget the terms but I remember the Turks were sort of the opposition to Wahhabism in the Sunni world. Did Wahhabism get af foothold in the Turk mind or did their version of Islam harden?
Posted by ruprecht 2019-08-01 20:27||   2019-08-01 20:27|| Front Page Top

#3 4th ID. Case closed.

Not that we are into holding grudges, but yeah, what he said!
Posted by SteveS 2019-08-01 20:43||   2019-08-01 20:43|| Front Page Top

#4 the Turks were sort of the opposition to Wahhabism in the Sunni world.

They’re the Turkish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, ruprecht. They’re in competition with the Saudis (wahhabism) and Iran (Shiism) for the role of center of the Muslim world. Turkey funds high quality education around the world with a Turkey-oriented religious twist — previously via the Gulen schools, now directly — the Saudis fund mosques, imams, and wahhabi-style Sunday school teaching materials (and, of course, jihadis), while the Mad mullahs fund local Shiite resistance groups after getting the locals excited enough to decide to start resisting.

Or so it seems to me. Others may see more deeply into things.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-01 21:25||   2019-08-01 21:25|| Front Page Top

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