in Iraq and Syria.

In the face of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s denials, Biden had
apologized. The Turkish government had allowed the PKK to come to the
aid of Kobané Syrian Kurds besieged by Daesh. Alas! the behavior of
Ankara was not convincing and Washington renewed its accusations.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Austria has emerged as a major base for radical Islam and as a central hub for European jihadists to fight in Syria.
The proposed revisions would, among other changes, regulate the
training and hiring of Muslim clerics, prohibit the foreign funding of
mosques, and establish an official German-language version of the Koran
to prevent its "misinterpretation" by Islamic extremists.
Muslims would be prohibited from citing Islamic sharia law as legal
justification for ignoring or disobeying Austrian civil laws.
Leaders of Austria's Muslim community counter that the contemplated new lawamounts to "institutionalized Islamophobia."
Official statistics show that nearly 60% of the inhabitants of Vienna
are immigrants or foreigners. The massive demographic and religious
shift underway in Austria, traditionally a Roman Catholic country,
appears irreversible.

Monday, October 20, 2014

Egyptian President El-Sisi is forcefully arguing that the U.S. is erring in focusing only on the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda.

The Egyptian Minister of Religious
Endowments says that the Islamic State terrorist group (also known as
ISIS or ISIL) was birthed from the Muslim Brotherhood movement, according to an October 13 report in an Egyptian newspaper called the Seventh Day.Other Egyptian leaders have made the
case in recent days that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist
terrorist groups belong in the same category as the Islamic State. The
Egyptian government has banned the Muslim Brotherhood and its
Palestinian branch, Hamas, as terrorist