Tuesday 1 May 2007

Where Is Sobieski When We Need Him?

Turkey continues to worsen. The Army is ultimately in charge there, and only the threat of a full-blown coup keeps that country from becoming a full-scale Islamic Republic, with shrouded women, limb amputations, the lot.

For, of course, the Caliphate is a Sunni, not a Shi'ite, concept. On account of their very different historical experience, Shi'ites ordinarily have a highly sceptical view of the Islamic capabilities of the State. The situation now coming to an end in Iran, and the emerging situation in Iraq, are aberrations caused, in both cases, by clunking Anglo-American interference. Those who fear the Caliphate's revival should look to the last country to date to have it (unless you count the Taliban - also Sunni, of course), rather than to a form of Islam which has no concept of it.

Can anyone tell me when there has ever been a Persian army at the gates of Vienna? Or just how long it is since the Greeks were last expelled either from Iran or from the Persian Empire? Or which EU member-state (and Commonwealth country) Iran wishes to partition with a view to annexing the part of it where it already maintains an illegal rebel regime?

It is no surprise that the neoconservative supporters of the Wahhabi (Sunni, of course) interest in Yugoslavia have welcomed Turkey into NATO, and would welcome Turkey into the EU. Well, if there must be either a NATO or an EU at all (and I wish to God that there were neither), then Turkey has no proper place in either of them.

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