France facing the jihadism of its Turkish ally
by Thierry Meyssan
Friday 12th of February 2021
France realizes a little late that the jihadists who carried out attacks on its soil and that others who are preparing new ones are supported by foreign states, military allies within NATO. The refusal to draw any conclusions in matters of foreign policy renders the bill aimed at combating Islamism of little use.
President Emmanuel Macron and the government of Jean Castex have drafted a bill to combat the political instrumentation of the Muslim faith. This text is currently being discussed in Parliament.
It revolves around four strong ideas, including the prohibition of funding of religious associations by foreign states. Everyone is well aware that this is the head of Islamism, but no one dares to name these states: Turkey and Qatar, guided by the United Kingdom and the United States. Indeed, fighting against Islamism in France has many brutal consequences in foreign policy. No party dares to address this problem rendering ineffective all efforts in this fight.
France had already known this hesitation in the face of Islamism in the mid-1990s. At the time, the United Kingdom and the United States supported the jihadists in Algeria against French influence. London also offers political asylum to these "democrats" who are fighting against a military regime. The Minister of the Interior, Charles Pasqua, then embarked on a showdown that led him to shoot down the members of a commando group from the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) who had hijacked an Air France plane and to expel the CIA post chief in Paris (also compromised in an economic espionage affair). The question was thus settled for 20 years.
The Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) inspired a press kit, in the Journal du Dimanche of February 7, 2021, on how "Erdoğan infiltrates France". Note: the newspaper does not implicate Turkey, but only President Erdoğan. Likewise, at least initially, he does not cite Qatar, the United Kingdom, or the United States. Above all, he quotes the Millî Görüş that he overwhelms, without noting that it was Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's militia and that President Erdoğan was one of its leaders. Finally, he fails to address the alleged role of the Turkish secret services in the attacks of November 13, 2015 (the Bataclan).
It is this theme that we will develop by correcting many prejudices.
slam: faith and politics
Muhammad was at the same time a prophet, a warlord and a prince. The Islam he founded was both a particular rite of Christianity [ 1 ], his policy towards the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula and the law he promulgated. No one was able at his death to distinguish his spiritual heritage from his political and military action. On the contrary, his political successors (in Arabic: "Caliphs") inherited his authority in religious matters, although they had no theological knowledge and sometimes even did not believe in God.
Today, Muslims living in Europe aspire to sort through this Islam, to keep only the spiritual part and to abandon dated aspects, in particular the Sharia. On the contrary, President Erdoğan, who officially wishes to be declared Caliph of Muslims on October 29, 2023 (centenary of the Turkish Republic), is doing everything to oppose it.
It is therefore a fight between two civilizations. Not between European culture and that of Turkey, but contemporary civilization against another, which disappeared a century ago
Erdoğan: an Islamist thug turned president
President Erdoğan is not a politician like the others. He started his career as a thug who punched the streets of the capital. He entered politics in the 1970s by joining an Islamist militia, the Akıncılar, until joining that created during the fall of Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan in 1997, the Millî Görüş. This organization of thugs was funded by President Saddam Hussein's Iraq and placed under the control of the Grand Master of the Sufi Order of the Naqchbandis, General Ezzat Ibrahim Al-Douri, future Iraqi vice-president.
Anglo-Tunisian Rachid Ghanoucchi, one of the great figures of the Brotherhood of the Muslim Brotherhood, said: “In the Arab world of my generation, when people spoke of the Islamic movement, they spoke of Erbakan. When they spoke of Erbakan, it was the way they spoke of Hassan al-Banna and Sayyed Qutb ”. So although the Islamist movement is organizationally divided between the Muslim Brotherhood on the one hand and the Naqchbandis on the other, they undoubtedly form a single ideology.
It is in the name of Millî Görüş that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan played an effective role in the wars in Afghanistan alongside Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and in the wars in Chechnya alongside Shamil Basayev. Once he became president, he established himself as the leader of this current during the NATO war in Syria. Today, he is both the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood (established in the wider Middle East and in Europe) and of the Naqchbandis (established especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russian Dagestan, South Asia and Chinese Xinjiang).
Islamist networks
The transformation of the Order of Naqchbandis and the creation of the Brotherhood of the Muslim Brotherhood on the model of the United Grand Lodge of England were piloted by the United Kingdom in the context of the “Great Game” which opposed it to the United Kingdom. Russian Empire and the colonial conquest of Sudan. Even today, MI6 exercises direct control over these two organizations. Donors change (Saudi Arabia first, then Qatar and Turkey), but never the originator.
Before World War I, the British used Al-Azhar University in Cairo to unify the Muslim world behind a single version of the Quran (there were about 40 at the time). The aim was to exclude from the text the passages used by the cruel Sudanese sect of the Mahdi against the British Empire. The Grand Imam of Al-Ahzar was sent to convert the Sudanese Muslims to the “real” Islam which had just been born.
The first form of the Brotherhood of the Muslim Brotherhood was founded by the Egyptian Hassan el-Banna. It had been imagined as an extension of British investment in Islam. The second form of the Brotherhood was organized after World War II and the execution of Hassan el-Banna, directly by MI6. Quickly, the United States introduced an atheist Masonic intellectual, Sayyed Qutb, there. He converted to Islam, which he saw as a weapon to take power. He created a binary ideology (them and us, forbidden and allowed) and preached jihad. Gradually, under British control and with funding from Saudi Arabia (World Islamic League), the Brotherhood expanded to cover all of what we now call the Greater Middle East. They seized power in Pakistan making possible the CIA war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Then they transformed into a real army and fought in Bosnia and Herzegovina alongside the Pentagon. They are now involved in several conflicts, notably in the Sahel, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan [2 ].
Rohollah Khomeini's Iran is also based on a conception of political Islam. The Ayatollah had met Hassan el-Banna in Cairo, not to rally around him, but to share the Muslim world with him. Current Revolutionary Guide Ali Khamenei has translated two books by Sayyed Qutb that he says he admires. He systematically invites the Brothers to congresses he organizes on Islam, but the two groups never miss an opportunity to slander each other in private. A sort of armed peace has been established between them.
Europeans in general and the French in particular are just starting to take an interest in political Islam, which they fail to distinguish from Muslim spirituality despite the work of Louis Massignon.
Turkey and NATO
Back to Turkey. The United States included it in NATO because it bordered on the Soviet Union. They were able to appreciate the value of its soldiers during the Korean War, without whom they would have suffered a shameful defeat. They themselves organized a labor migration of Turkish citizens to West Germany in order to stabilize its population in the Atlanticist camp. In addition, the Kurdish Turks having created the PKK with the help of the Soviets, the US occupation authorities in Germany could monitor them directly.
Subsequently, when the Soviet Union dissolved, the United States eased its pressure. Turkish workers began to spill over from West Germany to other border countries, including France.
During the Cold War, the United States had installed the European headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Munich, then in Geneva around Saïd Ramadan (husband of the daughter of Hassan el-Banna and father of Tariq and Hanni Ramadan). After each failed coup d'état in the Middle East, NATO had political asylum granted by Germany or France. So these two countries have historically raised their enemies within them. Charles Pasqua was the first to oppose this alliance of dupes. The files then accumulated by the French General Intelligence were recently compiled by Jean-Loup Izambert [ 3 ].
With the Islamist turn imposed on Turkey by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the agency of religious goods (Diyanet) has considerably developed its grip on the diaspora. It multiplied the number of imams made available and relied on Millî Görüş, and more recently on the Gray Wolves (another Turkish militia, also linked to NATO, but now banned in France [ 4 ]).
Erdoğan and the 2015 and 2016 attacks in Paris and Brussels
The investigations into the Paris-Saint Denis and Bruxelles-Zaventem attacks in 2015 and 2016 were not carried out as actions by isolated combatants. According to French and Belgian investigators, these were military-type operations. So the question is which army organized them?
The investigators showed that the two groups were very closely related. It is therefore the same principal.
Four days before the Brussels-Zaventem attacks, President Erdoğan explicitly threatened the European Union in general and Belgium in particular with an attack [ 5 ]. The day after this bloodbath, the press favorable to the president did not hide its joy [ 6 ].
There is therefore little doubt that he identically wanted the Paris-Saint Denis attacks, France having betrayed its commitments for Turkey in Syria [ 7 ].
As always, the only jihadist identified as having belonged to both the Paris and the Brussels commandos (Mohammed Abrini, “the man in the hat”) was identified as an informant of the British secret services [ 8 ].
Did you say “financing of jihadists operating on French soil”?
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