{"id":11616,"date":"2017-09-22T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T06:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2017-09-24T18:14:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:14:40","slug":"american-islamists-turn-to-ankara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/?p=11616","title":{"rendered":"American Islamists Turn to Ankara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">American Islamists Turn to Ankara<\/h1>\n<div class=\"byline\">\n<p class=\"sans-serif\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>by\u00a0Samantha Mandeles\u00a0and\u00a0Samuel Westrop*<br \/>\n<time class=\"nocontent\" datetime=\"2017-09-21T16:02:00\">September 21, 2017 at 4:02 pm<\/time><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"content_preface_bullets\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In general, lawful Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2007\/09\/17\/muslim-brotherhood-s-papers-detail-plan-to-seize-u.s.\">work to insert themselves<\/a>\u00a0into Western society, exploiting liberal, democratic bodies to promote their own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meforum.org\/6439\/worst-of-the-2016-mas-icna-speakers\">illiberal and anti-democratic<\/a>ideology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Whether co-opting Western democracies to silence its critics, or funding American Islamist organizations with long histories of extremism and ties to terror, the Turkish regime is now a crucial component of the global Islamist threat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemprop_articlebody\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For the past few years, the international Muslim Brotherhood has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/turkey-nurtures-egypts-terrorist-muslim-brothers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found a welcoming home<\/a>\u00a0in Ankara in the face of opposition from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Consequently, U.S. Islamist organizations have also turned to the Turkish regime for collaboration and support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">On September 18<sup>th<\/sup>, a Washington, D.C.- based organization, the Turkish American National Steering Committee (TASC), hosted an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DJySMaoWAAAzZON.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event<\/a>\u00a0in New York City with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. &#8220;US-based Muslim Brotherhood supporters have a busy week coming up,&#8221; the Middle East analyst\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@EricTrager18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Trager<\/a>\u00a0noted. &#8220;They&#8217;re hanging with Erdogan on Monday, protesting Sisi on Wednesday.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Organizers of the TASC event included Ahmed Shehata, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/foreign-policy\/200149-group-uses-democratic-rhetoric-to-push-its-own-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lobbyist<\/a>\u00a0for the Muslim Brotherhood who has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ahmed-shehata-a6174b17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also worked for<\/a>\u00a0Islamic Relief and the Muslim American Society &#8212; two prominent Islamist groups\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/uae\/government\/list-of-groups-designated-terrorist-organisations-by-the-uae-1.270037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designated as terrorist organizations<\/a>\u00a0by the United Arab Emirates in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Last year, following Turkish claims of an attempted coup against the regime,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ourtasc.org\/tasc-rallies-over-1000-at-white-house-against-coup-attempt-in-turkey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a TASC rally in support of Erdogan\u00a0<\/a>outside the White House included Shehata and a number of prominent American Islamist leaders, such as Nihad Awad, the Executive Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meforum.org\/pics\/CAIR-Dossier-other.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terror-linked<\/a>Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). As the Investigative Project on Terrorism\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/5631\/cair-awad-continue-aggressively-shilling-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes<\/a>, Erdogan&#8217;s Justice and Development Party subsequently sent a delegation to the United States to hold meetings with senior CAIR officials. Since then, Awad has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/06\/15\/why-is-the-head-of-cair-palling-around-with-turkeys-ambassador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continued to meet<\/a>\u00a0with representatives of the Turkish regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Such partnerships are not new. Since a coalition of U.S. Islamist organizations\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org\/2017\/04\/03\/nato-ally-turkey-working-with-u-s-muslim-brotherhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travelled<\/a>\u00a0to Turkey in 2014, prominent American Islamic groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood have become some of Erdogan&#8217;s staunchest advocates in America.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11617\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11617 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2799.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2799.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2799-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2799-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2799-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Islamist organizations have turned to the Turkish regime for collaboration and support. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In 2014, the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140912061911\/http:\/isna.net\/uploads\/1\/5\/7\/4\/15744382\/51st_annual_isna_convention_program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">featured<\/a>\u00a0three regime-linked speakers, including Erdogan&#8217;s senior advisor, Ibrahim Kalin. ISNA, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionproject.org\/analysis\/islamic-society-north-america-isna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Muslim Brotherhood front<\/a>\u00a0, was named by federal prosecutors as an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/documents\/case_docs\/423.pdf#page=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unindicted co-conspirator<\/a>\u00a0during the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Also in 2014, Turkish regime official Mehmet G\u00f6rmez recorded a video message for America&#8217;s largest Islamic conference, organized jointly by two prominent Islamist organizations: the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America (MAS-ICNA). In his message, G\u00f6rmez announced the completion of a Turkish-funded mosque in Maryland, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.muslimlinkpaper.com\/community-news\/community-news\/3358-a-symbol-of-friendship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diyanet Center of America<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The MAS-ICNA conference that year was funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icna.org\/muslims-unite-at-13th-mas-icna-in-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Turkish-backed&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0American Zakat Foundation. In return, MAS-ICNA\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icna.org\/turkey-to-have-large-presence-at-annual-islamic-convention-in-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that the &#8220;Turkish presidency, agencies, several NGOs, state-media TRT World and Daily Sabah will organize events during the summit in Chicago, while President Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s daughter &#8230; will attend the summit as guest of honor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Turkish regime and U.S. Islamist organizations have looked out for one another. Erdogan has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalmbwatch.com\/2017\/02\/20\/turkeys-erdogan-muslim-brotherhood-is-ideological-not-terrorist-organisation-middle-east-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denounced<\/a>\u00a0American attempts to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. And in 2015, U.S. Islamist groups, including CAIR,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stream.aljazeera.com\/story\/201504210041-0024703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a statement<\/a>\u00a0opposing recognizing the slaughter of Armenians organized by Turkey in 1915 as a genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Turkey&#8217;s intolerance for its critics is whitewashed by American Islamist groups. At the 2016 MAS-ICNA conference, Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s daughter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/12\/27\/erdogans-daughter-tells-us-muslims-that-gulen-movement-is-more-dangerous-than-isis-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended<\/a>\u00a0the regime&#8217;s purges \u2013 managing both to justify and deny mass-arrests of journalists. Prominent American Islamist operatives and clerics\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/5744\/erdogan-daughter-mas-icna-speech-spurs-dissenterous-than-isis-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised <\/a>her speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In general, lawful Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/2007\/09\/17\/muslim-brotherhood-s-papers-detail-plan-to-seize-u.s.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">work to insert themselves<\/a>\u00a0into Western society, exploiting liberal, democratic bodies to promote their own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meforum.org\/6439\/worst-of-the-2016-mas-icna-speakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illiberal and anti-democratic<\/a>\u00a0ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Proving itself to be a natural ally of the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey makes use of this same deception: on September 18, Erdogan&#8217;s office\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meforum.org\/6927\/turkish-delegation-stifles-free-speech-at-mef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demanded<\/a>\u00a0that NATO prevent a critic of the Turkish regime from speaking at a NATO Parliamentary Assembly conference organized by the Middle East Forum. When the dissident appeared anyway, the Turkish delegation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1VhCZDbYY88&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=25m35s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interrupted proceedings<\/a>\u00a0and then stormed out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Whether co-opting Western democracies to silence its critics, or funding American Islamist organizations with long histories of extremism and ties to terror, the Turkish regime is now a crucial component of the global Islamist threat. The West must recognize this, and work to counteract both.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>*S<i>am Westrop and Samantha Mandeles are based at Islamist Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>source:<i>Gatestone Institute<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Islamists Turn to Ankara by\u00a0Samantha Mandeles\u00a0and\u00a0Samuel Westrop* September 21, 2017 at 4:02 pm In general, lawful Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood\u00a0work to insert themselves\u00a0into Western society, exploiting &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/?p=11616'><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.onisilos.gr%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F11616\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><span class=\"heateor_sss_square_count heateor_sss_facebook_count\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"heateor_sss_svg\" style=\"background-color:#0765FE;width:30px;height:30px;display:inline-block;opacity:1;float:left;font-size:32px;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;font-size:16px;padding:0 4px;vertical-align:middle;background-repeat:repeat;overflow:hidden;padding:0;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:content-box\"><svg style=\"display:block;\" focusable=\"false\" aria-hidden=\"true\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" viewBox=\"0 0 32 32\"><path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M28 16c0-6.627-5.373-12-12-12S4 9.373 4 16c0 5.628 3.875 10.35 9.101 11.647v-7.98h-2.474V16H13.1v-1.58c0-4.085 1.849-5.978 5.859-5.978.76 0 2.072.15 2.608.298v3.325c-.283-.03-.775-.045-1.386-.045-1.967 0-2.728.745-2.728 2.683V16h3.92l-.673 3.667h-3.247v8.245C23.395 27.195 28 22.135 28 16Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=American%20Islamists%20Turn%20to%20Ankara&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.onisilos.gr%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F11616\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><span class=\"heateor_sss_square_count heateor_sss_twitter_count\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"heateor_sss_svg heateor_sss_s__default heateor_sss_s_twitter\" style=\"background-color:#55acee;width:30px;height:30px;display:inline-block;opacity:1;float:left;font-size:32px;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;font-size:16px;padding:0 4px;vertical-align:middle;background-repeat:repeat;overflow:hidden;padding:0;cursor:pointer;box-sizing:content-box\"><svg style=\"display:block;\" focusable=\"false\" aria-hidden=\"true\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" viewBox=\"-4 -4 39 39\"><path d=\"M28 8.557a9.913 9.913 0 0 1-2.828.775 4.93 4.93 0 0 0 2.166-2.725 9.738 9.738 0 0 1-3.13 1.194 4.92 4.92 0 0 0-3.593-1.55 4.924 4.924 0 0 0-4.794 6.049c-4.09-.21-7.72-2.17-10.15-5.15a4.942 4.942 0 0 0-.665 2.477c0 1.71.87 3.214 2.19 4.1a4.968 4.968 0 0 1-2.23-.616v.06c0 2.39 1.7 4.38 3.952 4.83-.414.115-.85.174-1.297.174-.318 0-.626-.03-.928-.086a4.935 4.935 0 0 0 4.6 3.42 9.893 9.893 0 0 1-6.114 2.107c-.398 0-.79-.023-1.175-.068a13.953 13.953 0 0 0 7.55 2.213c9.056 0 14.01-7.507 14.01-14.013 0-.213-.005-.426-.015-.637.96-.695 1.795-1.56 2.455-2.55z\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"heateorSssClear\"><\/div><\/div><div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[4566,4567,4568,649],"class_list":["post-11616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9","category-1","tag-american-islamists-turn-to-ankara","tag-ankara","tag-erdogan","tag-isis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"American Islamists Turn to Ankara by Samantha Mandeles and Samuel Westrop* September 21, 2017 at 4:02 pm In general, lawful Islamist movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood work to insert themselves into Western society, exploiting liberal, democratic bodies to promote their own illiberal and anti-democraticideology. 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