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The head of the problem is that the seats representing the Islamic world are under occupation

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The plan that had been worked on for a long time and called the "deal of the century" has finally come to light, announced by US President Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at his side. The deal of the century is in fact a step that adds a feather's weight on top of the hypocritical, cruel and brutal practices, the racist, massacring and occupying policies, put forth by the world order over the past century. It is the annexation of homelands that have in fact been under occupation for a long time.

It is a text that reveals how religiously fanatical, how sharia-minded, how racist and fascist the Western world actually is, the world that for a century has been selling and imposing secularism on the Islamic world and working its language, its discourse and its philosophy over our heads as if brewing boza.

The deal of the century is the declaration of bankruptcy of all the Western claims to democracy, human rights, religious pluralism, secularism and tolerance. It is the picture of Western civilization, which portrays a Muslim moved by a religious motivation as the most bigoted person in the world, itself running after a nonsensical 2,500-year-old prophecy and thrashing about madly in it.

The only reason the prophecy seems to be fulfilling itself is that the USA, which has turned this Evangelical-Zionist dream into a nightmare for the peace of the whole world, is today the superpower of the world.

Their wish to make Jerusalem their capital is not because they love Jerusalem very much. Whoever does not understand Jerusalem, whoever does not know Jerusalem, cannot love Jerusalem. The USA, Israel and the Crusader world are leagues away from understanding Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is, above all, the place where human blood is sanctified and exalted. Jerusalem is not sanctified by shedding the blood of innocent people; it is only burned and demolished, and all of your humanity is left under its rubble. Those who today, for the sake of making Jerusalem a capital, disturb the peace, order and stability of the whole world and plunge their hands into the blood of millions of people cannot possibly be close to any of the meanings that Jerusalem stands for.

Jerusalem is not the place where sins are covered up but the place where sins are recognized and repented of. Both Trmup, who today declares Jerusalem the capital of Israel, and Israel's prime minister Netanyahu are taking this audacious, insolent step as a way of whitewashing their own sins and escaping the corruption charges they face in domestic politics.

As we always say: Jerusalem is a mirror of our world. In fact, whatever state humanity has been in throughout history, whatever state the world has been in, Jerusalem has been in that state. The oppression, fraud, treachery and insolence displayed in Jerusalem today are like a reflection of the order in the world as well.

President Erdoğan, at yesterday's Provincial Chairs Meeting, described Jerusalem as the key to world peace. But when this key is used with ill intent and wrongly, it also has an effect that disrupts world peace. Of course the reverse is true too. We find here a reflection of the disorder in the world order as well. Indeed, when he touched on Libya and Idlib in his speech, he was illustrating in the most striking manner that the relations there are mirrored one to one in the treachery, occupation and oppression in Jerusalem.

In Libya, the coup-plotter, war criminal and occupier Haftar, trusting in the forces he has put behind him and in the devastating weapons they have placed in his hands, is trying to establish a rule by crushing legitimacy, the people and civilians. Those who support him there, and all the justifications, logic and style of those who support him, are the same as the justification, logic and style of the occupation in Jerusalem. If one has the power, one can justify the lowliest occupation by fait accompli and by presenting things as done, and can embark upon it.

There too this occupation, these murders, this usurpation are carried out with the cooperation and financing of the leaders of so-called Arab-Islamic countries, just as in Jerusalem. Who could expect the Islamic world to raise its voice about Jerusalem? Is not the root of the problem that the offices representing the Islamic world have been occupied?

Is not the same logic and style staged in Idlib too, with the cooperation of Russia, Iran and the Syrian regime? There too, in the name of fighting terror, cities, hospitals and bakeries are bombed every day, and dozens of civilians, women and children, lose their lives. How many terrorists really die in the process? Who is the real terrorist there? Questions such as what benefit to humanity killing terrorists brings lose their meaning altogether. Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council and, because it has the power, it can commit as many crimes as it likes. In any case there is no power that will stop it. Those strong enough to stop it are in any case no less guilty than it. All of them have the blood of innocent people on their hands, no less than one another.

Is not this picture too a one-to-one reflection of the order currently prevailing in Jerusalem?

There too, in the Muslim blood that is shed, in the Muslim land that is occupied, in the Muslim honor and dignity that is trampled, do we not see, above all, the treachery of those who have occupied the offices representing the Islamic country?

That is why the state of Jerusalem is always a summary of our own state. Jerusalem is the mirror of the world. Salvation begins in Jerusalem or is completed in Jerusalem.

It is not possible to free Jerusalem while leaving the oppression and distortion in the Islamic world as they are. To be able to save Jerusalem, these injustices in our world must be ended. Unless the order in the world changes, nothing in Jerusalem will change,