Turkey and Europe

Our Lord Jesus calls us to love Muslims and yet Islam is yet another religious system that ought to be compared with the Bible to see whether it is true or false.
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Turkey and Europe

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Turkey’s leaders plan Muslim Europe

Who would have seen this coming?

If you thought Turkey was no threat to the West, think again. A new generation of politicians is aiming to Islamise the state by stealth. The AKP - Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, or Justice and Development Party - has a stranglehold on Turkey for the foreseeable future.


The AKP was founded to replace a previous Islamic party banned for extremism. It benefited hugely from the corruption scandals that dragged down the previous government, taking two-thirds of parliament in the 2002 general election (on a third of the vote).

On Friday, its ex-foreign secretary Abdullah Gul narrowly failed to win a victory in the first round of presidential elections. The result was close enough to prompt public demonstrations by secularists ahead of the second round voting on May 2, and a statement from the military - long the
guardians of Turkey’s secular traditions - warning against a pro-Islam political agenda.

Since coming to power, the AKP has done nothing revolutionary, but it does have a revolutionary agenda. For all their suavity, its leaders seek to transform the country into a Sunni Muslim republic. This collides with institutions and laws strictly limiting Islam’s role in public life, and with a long-standing security alliance with Israel.

It also collides with democracy itself, for no Koranic state can have a sovereign parliament free to legalise such abominations as equal rights for women and homosexuals or the drinking of alcohol.

A sinister slogan attributed to the AKP is that democracy is ‘a bus we can ride until we reach our station’. Under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his foreign secretary Abdullah Gul, the party has been cautious until now.

But abroad the AKP has been more strident. Turkey has stepped up relations with Muslim countries and cooled them with Israel. They have capitalised on public suspicion of the

Western war on terror and yet have pursued Turkey’s application to join the EU.

There is no inconsistency. The AKP’s apparent ambitions in Europe are its most strategic deceptions. Ostensibly, the aim is simply to accelerate Turkey’s climb to prosperity.

However, a key condition imposed by the EU is the army’s abrogation of political authority - which suits the AKP just fine, for the military is the greatest barrier to Islamisation. Moreover, the party shares the Islamist belief that Europe will inevitably be conquered by the high birthrates of its Muslim inhabitants - and Turkey’s entry would immediately add some 70 million.

Then there’s the media. There are three major groups in Turkey, compared to which any Islamist operations are small. However, the government now has a hold over all of them because of contested tax liabilities, and because the government-controlled Savings Deposits Insurance Fund can seize their associated banks at any time without even having to go to court.
The story of Valley of the Wolves includes US army officers selling body parts from captured Iraqis, using Jewish surgeons
The results are manifest in coverage that mostly reflects the AKP agenda - and duly affects public opinion. Why else would Valley of the Wolves, whose cast includes US actors Billy Zane and Gary Busey, become the most successful Turkish film ever? The story includes American army officers selling body parts from captured Iraqis - with Jewish surgeons removing them! No wonder the AKP cabinet took their wives to the opening gala.

The party has also done its best to Islamise the bureaucracy. Even in Istanbul, post-office employees now stop work for Friday prayers, and civil servants are no longer expected to work a full day during Ramadan.

And just to make sure, the AKP has literally bought public opinion in poor urban areas by distributing food packages, paid for by contributions from big business.

Although the wind is blowing their way, I doubt if more than 15 per cent of the population really want a full-blown Sunni republic. But the AKP is being patient. Gul and Erdogan are clearly willing to defer Turkey’s Islamisation if they can advance Europe’s.

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Paul Says:
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:44 am
This is interesting, very similar to what i kind of thought would happen in Turkey.

Because I hold Babylon to be the Caliphate of the Ottoman empire, and the destruction that the secularist did and what they do to keep the country secular is just as ruthless.

But since i also saw the Beast and the False Prophet as the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphate and Gog and magog as the 8th empire that would come from the 7th, it would make sense then that the Caliphate would make a reemergance within Turkey.

Seeker Says:
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:11 am
Hi Paul,

I am with you on this. When I consider Rev 17, I see that there are 8 successive empires. One was (Rome), the next to rule the area was the Ottoman (7th), and the 8th was of the 7 specically of the 7th.

Rev 17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
Rev 17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

Mohammed’s sword is sitting just waiting in a museum in Istanbul. My pick for the woman of Rev 17 has been Istanbul (Constantinople). Constantinople was founded on 7 hills. There are abominations (Mosques) on each of the 7 hills.

Rev 17:9 And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.

Istanbul is and has always been a great trade city. Now with the AKP leading Turkey to prosperity, Istanbul once again is becoming an important trade hub of the middle-east. Rev 17-18 takes place at the time of God’s wrath. Babylon’s destruction is part of the judgments. So the picture we see of the woman is in the future. Istanbul is truely a magnificant city by human standards.

Turkey is currently positioning itself as the energy hub for Europe and the west. Through a series of pipelines they are funneling the oil through Turkey to the west. Undoubtably the most important item of international trade these days is energy and Turkey aims to be the broker of that energy.

Turkey can control the flow of the Euphrates by closing their dams possibly fulfilling this verse.

Rev 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial on the great river Euphrates. And its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared.

Simple matter for them to stop the flow of the Euprates long enough for their Iranian allies to march across with their masses as part of the Gog alliance. And of course we have Satan’s seat in the same geographic location of Istanbul. The cogs are starting to align in all areas at once it seems. The time is approaching rapidly. Now all we need is for Israel to trust their only middle-eastern ally, Turkey, enough to allow them to confirm a covenant with many of their enemies. This event seems to be fast approaching as the world grows weary of this middle-eastern crisis.

Peace,
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David,

Thanks for posting current events observations and articles dealing with Islamic movements.

As followers of Jesus, as the Bride of Christ together, our calling is the same whether we are living in worldly peace and prosperity or in cataclysm and oppression.

Regardless of who has burned us at the stake in the past or who will chop our heads off in the future, our priorities from the New Testament remain the same.

Regardless of whether Europe is Masonic controlled or Islamic controlled or Catholic controlled, we are still called to be ambassadors for Christ.

And yet we are called to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. It is important that we take seriously the prophecy that our Lord has given us and that we understand the times in which we live.

Thanks again for your participation, David.

Jim
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Truely Jim many souls are without the Lord and I really believe we are witnessing the early stages of labor.
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