The following joint statement below (in English and Turkish) was prepared over two years ago (November 2018) by a group Hizmet participants, primarily engaged in Hizmet-related dialogue activities in Western Europe. We prepared this statement of our own free will without consulting or informing Hizmet’s senior participants. The aim was to publish this statement in […]
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December 10, 2020, London — It gives me great pleasure to be able to finally inform you that the Westminster Magistrates’ Court dismissed the spurious extradition request against me on December 6, 2019, on the grounds that the Turkish government had failed, despite its numerous efforts, to provide sufficient ‘information’ to identify any criminal conduct […]
It was just over two months from the Christchurch terrorist attack in New Zealand that had claimed the lives of fifty-one Muslims. I was sat in my local hybrid-mosque for the Friday prayers. By day, and any other time of the week, this place was a Scouts’ club. By midday every Friday, it transformed into […]
From a white supremacist standpoint, here’s what’s “odd” about the terrorist attack in New Zealand last week. Despite Islam being a “religion of war”, “violence” and “jihad”, not a single Muslim man, woman or child took out their weapon of choice, concealed no doubt beneath their loosely-fitted garment, to return fire upon the white supremacist […]