Haberler

Just where has IS come from? Is it not a product of the desperation caused by the disasters that have struck Iraq and Syria, the resulting rage of the excluded and humiliated Sunni Muslims, and their loss of any hope for their future? And just how has this environment been created?

If, faced with an extremely savage sort of violence predicated on a set of [Islamic] values that it considers to be its own, a society cannot respond with anything more serious than “it is the West that has created these demons,” I cannot help thinking that it has no chance of competing with the West either.

Whether it is going to be a parliamentary or a presidential system, this is not going to have any bearing whatsoever, implicitly or as a direct imposition, a fait accompli, on establishing the spirit of the constitution.

I don’t know whether Burger King might also start serving IS in the near future. But from what I, too, have learned through reliable channels, a notorious IS militant has said that “Mc Donald’s is beyond compare.”

It is totally wrong to assert that terrorism has no ideology. If you are trying to say that we should not be feeling ourselves close to this or that form of terrorism on grounds of any perceived ideological affinity, that instead we should be equally hostile to each and every one of them, fine, but then do say so, and you would be in the right and we would all agree with you. But please do not claim that terrorism has no ideology, for actually all terror does have an ideology behind it. In fact, it is far closer to the truth to say that without ideology, there would be no terror.