Once again we see a claim of “Islamophobia” to be based on false pretenses.
“Erdoğan warns of retaliation for Cyprus mosque attack blamed on Syrian,” Ahval, December 7, 2021:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned of repercussions after an attack on a mosque in the Republic of Cyprus last week.
“You will pay a heavy price for engaging in such acts of sabotage,” Erdoğan said on Monday before departing for Qatar, Turkish Cypriot state-run broadcaster BRT reported. “This operation against our mosques in southern Cyprus will not go unanswered.”
An arson attack was committed on the Grand Mosque (Ulu Camii), located in Cyprus’ Larnaca province, late last Wednesday. A 27-year-old foreigner has been arrested in connection with the incident, Greek Cypriot police said on Monday. The fire caused some damage to the mosque’s door, the police said, the Cyprus Mail reported.
While Turkey and breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) have condemned the attack as a nationalist act against Muslim houses of worship, a local official said there was no religious or nationalist connection.
Sotos Ktoris, a member of Cyprus’ bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage, said the fire had nothing to do with nationalism or racism.
“It was an unfortunate incident in which a homeless Syrian migrant attempted to set fire to the mosque after the hodja refused to let him sleep there at night,” Ktoris said, Yenidüzen newspaper reported on Monday.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry also “strongly condemned” the incident on Sunday, describing it as a “recent instance of Islamophobia”.
“This attack and similar actions do not only target Muslims, but also threaten the common values of humanity, and reveal how certain circles are far from the understanding of peaceful co-existence,” the ministry said in a statement….
born saturday says
the churches in the north part of the turkish occupied teritory of cyprous have all been turned to either mosques, storage facilities for the turkish army, stables, or have been completely demolished…. in the turkish occupied teritory also cemetaries and anything else that is connected to the orthodox religion has been pillaged, destroyed, dececrated or sacrileged in a cultural genocide that continues from the actual genocide of the greek cypriots….
however, in the slightest trouble made to mosques on the southern part of the island, the greek part, there is such threats and rhetoric, into a gebels tactic against the remaining from genocide of the turks, greek cypriot inhabintants….
there is no doupt this is another ottomaniac crises with gebels tactics that preoccupies the greek cypriot side that there will be a use of the dozens of thousant turkish soldiers and tanks against them soon….
turkey is building a multipurpose military base in occupied cyprous which serves to the hostageship of a whole of the remaining from the genocide population of cyprous…
Macedonia is Greece
GreekEmpress says
Syrian migrant? Was he Shia? Muslim on Muslim crime? And that’s Islamophobia?
Torques my jaws thinking of ANY Muslims in any part of Cyprus—
Infidel says
How does Turkey claim any part of southern Cyprus, given their illegal occupation of northern Cyprus? Yeah, I know that they believe that all the world belongs to allah, but…
The maddening this is this country still being considered an ally! The #1 reason we should be out of NATO
GreekEmpress says
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mortimer says
The ‘Islamophobia’ slander is amorphous … it can mean anything a person wants it to mean.
It is preposterous to apply this word to a Muslim. That alone shows us how meaningless and absurd this Gaslighting word actually is.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer.
somehistory says
“common values of humanity, “?
islam has no values…none whatsoever. That means that any devout mozlum whos desires to spread this filth, also have no “values>’
The turkey, er snake a wan and his “ministry” have no concept of “common human values.”
It’s all one-sided with them….they can loot, destroy, burn buildings to the ground, uproot tombs and stones, burn humans, hang humans, t throw humans off buildings, slice and dice and skewer, and for absolutely no reason and then complain when the victims don’t appreciate all the trouble the mozlums have gone through to be in a position to “steal, kill, and destroy.”
Yet, some mozlum takes out his anger on a barracks…where murder and mayhem are planned and talk with satan is frequent and loud…and all must see feathers fly with threats of retaliation against. ..of all people….those who had nothing to do with the damaging of their altar to satan
For the er snake a wan, this is just another excuse to threaten and then attack innocent people.
gravenimage says
Cyprus: Muslim migrant tries to set fire to mosque, Erdogan cries ‘Islamophobia,’ vows retaliation
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Uh…what? Of course, the fact that the perp was also Muslim doesn’t mean that Infidels wilikl not suffer for this. This was Muslim-on-Muslim violence.
Another important point: this Mosque is in *southern Cyprus*, which has not been taken over by Turkey. But when Turkey invaded northern Cyprus in the 1970s, they seized Christian Churches and turned them into Mosques. Probably the most notorious case is desecrating the 13th century Cathedral of St, Nicholas, lopping off her bell tower, and grafting on an ugly Minaret.
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“This attack and similar actions do not only target Muslims, but also threaten the common values of humanity, and reveal how certain circles are far from the understanding of peaceful co-existence,” the ministry said in a statement…
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What crap–Islam rejects human values.
abu taleb says
If somebody attacks mosque at any level, muslims and their dhimmis will cry Islamophobia. If hundreds of muslims coming from a mosque and attack non muslims, other muslims and their dhimmis will cry that it has nothing to do with Islam while at the same time blaming the incident to the non muslims victims.
That is Islamic and dhimmitude culture.
Westman says
This shows that Erdogan could be the twin brother of the US VP who declared the “French actor” Jussie Smollette to be a victim of white racists. The difference might be that one simply speaks without correct knowledge and the other speaks to intentionally incite violence. There was a difference, hopefully?
VICTOR COWEN says
When is the world going to wake up to the fact that Turkey under Erdogan is our enemy?
He is no friend of the West. Enjoy your holiday if you are not arrested for laying on a beach or for pouring a drink or something similar to hard-line Muslims..
gravenimage says
Yes–Turkey is no ally of ours.
OLD GUY says
Erdogan warns of retaliation, What is he going to do kill more christians? Because a muslim attacked a mosque?
Islamophobia is nothing more than an attempt to control freedom of speech against those who seek to speak out on the atrocities of Islamic violence and practices.
Erdogan is a want a be Dictator of the WORLD.
Boycott Turkey says
Turkey needs to leave Cyprus and end its illegal occupation they destroyed churches in Northern Part of Cyprus Erdogan is a filthy POS hyprocrite his destroyed more churches in Turkey stolen Agia Sophia and they even destroy there own mosques to blame Christians the Terrorist Turkish Cypriot TMT group used to bomb there own mosques to blame Greek Cypriot and start trouble on Greek Cypriots before the invasion it’s nothing new
peace says
They should boot turkey out of Nato and give them to Vladimir, let Erdogan find out how what a real dictator is ….
gravenimage says
Putin regularly appeaases Islam as well.
janwoG says
The biggest source of Islamophobia is Islam itself