Speaking at the 7th Religious Council, President Erdoğan said: “The veiled and insidious enemy attacking Muslims and Islamic values on a global scale has caused much more impact and damage than in Gaza. This veiled and insidious enemy employs every means and method, but most of all, it wages its war via the media and lately social media. While the digital world is destroying all values on a global scale, it is directly targeting Muslims, especially the Ahl al-Sunnah creed.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the 7th Religious Council in Ankara.
Pointing out that Muslims’ connection of with their spiritual roots disturbs the civilized world and that Muslims have been attacked not only physically but also spiritually and intellectually for centuries in order to wear down and sever that spiritual root, President Erdoğan pointed out that these attacks have gained great momentum in the last century and have almost peaked in recent years.
Noting that the Mongol invasion in the 13th century ravaged the Islamic world but failed to destroy the essence and spirit of Islam, President Erdoğan said: “In the 20th century, attacks on Islamic lands, especially the Ottoman Empire, weakened, enfeebled and even tore apart Muslims but could not extinguish the light of Islam. Today, there is a very intense, very comprehensive, more planned and insidious attack against that light, that brightness, our faith, our values, that is, our codes that make us who we are, our spirit and essence.”
“WE NEED TO REALIZE THAT THE DIGITAL REALM IS NOT JUST A CAPITALIST TOOL FOR ENTERTAINMENT”
“Those, who are trying to exterminate Muslims by massacring them in Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon and other Islamic lands, are obvious. However, the veiled and insidious enemy attacking Muslims and Islamic values on a global scale has caused much more impact and damage than in Gaza. This veiled and insidious enemy employs every means and method, but most of all, it wages its war via the media and lately social media. While the digital world is destroying all values on a global scale, it is directly targeting Muslims, especially the Ahl al-Sunnah creed. Today, children are more exposed to the education and upbringing of digital media than the education and upbringing of their parents, family, teachers and neighborhood. We need to realize that the digital realm is not just a capitalist tool, aimed just at making money or entertainment. We see that those who manage and disseminate digital techno-culture make serious money on the one hand, and on the other hand, they impose their own ideas, beliefs and lifestyles on new generations,” President Erdoğan said.
