How do Islam and the Arabs concern the Arab League?

Macron is trying to overcome the economic and political problems he faces in his own country by investing in turning them into an interfaith conflict and tension that is not confined to his own country. With his deaf-eared, provocative bigotry, he is trying to awaken anti-Islamic sentiment across the whole of Europe. We said that although he is trying to incite the Western world to embark on this adventure, no one has supported him so far apart from a few very exceptional far-right figures; but unfortunately, there is also no one in Europe who sees this dirty and dangerous game of his sufficiently and reacts to it.

If even one thousandth of the hateful and hostile rhetoric openly directed against Muslims had been directed against Jews, the whole world would long since have raised the roof in the name of anti-Semitism. With only a little empathy, one can see that what is being done against Muslims is far more dangerous than any anti-Semitic discourse. Knowing full well that the caricatures of the Prophet openly amount to enmity toward Muslims, using the actions of one or two ignorant, provocative Muslims as a pretext, turning these insults into a state policy, projecting them onto official state buildings in a way that will hurt all 1.7 billion Muslims and incite rancor, hatred and hostility against them, and then shamelessly placing it all under the protection of "freedom of expression" means openly opening a front against all Muslims.

We know that France is not a country that recognizes no limits on freedom of expression. In fact, not long ago, during his visit after the Beirut explosion, Macron showed a clear limit to freedom of expression with the scolding he gave in front of everyone to a French journalist who had written against him.

For a more general exception, there is not the slightest freedom, or even tolerance, for any anti-Semitic expression, for example. On this occasion it is better seen that the thoroughly humanist philosophies developed about anti-Semitic discourse have nothing universal about them, and that when scratched beneath the surface they rest on an extremely racist and chauvinist sensibility. Moreover, once the sensitivities of Muslims are learned, the arrogant insolence and aggressiveness of going after them, as if to trim them down or educate them, by disregarding those sensitivities and even finding them primitive and unnecessary, is also on display.

In the face of such aggression, it is inevitable that all Muslims will find themselves as one body and thus awaken in themselves a broader sensitivity of unity. Attacks awaken and reinforce the feeling of unity. This is the most basic rule of group sociology. The feeling of unity awakened by attacks also produces, on the opposing side, a fervor that becomes hard to control. That is why awakening it is dangerous, but once an attack has taken place, it is also impossible to remain indifferent to it.

The strongest voice in the Islamic world against Macron's attacks came from Erdoğan. Apart from countries such as Pakistan, Kuwait and Qatar, we had said that the fact that no reaction at all comes from Arab countries in particular against the sanctities of Islam shows that these countries are in fact under occupation. It is quite natural that no voice comes from countries governed by those who are Arab in name but whose minds and souls are under the occupation of French colonialism.

For example, you have probably heard what the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said. While we expected him to raise his voice against the attacks on the sanctities of Arabs and Muslims, he got up and, on this occasion, rejoiced at what will befall Turkey for having hit a hard rock. According to him, the hard rock is "France," and by defying such a great state, Turkey is preparing its own end.

While describing this matter in one of his speeches as if giving glad tidings, he not only said not a single word about Macron's insolent anti-Islamic rhetoric but also continues to accuse Turkey of interfering in the internal affairs of the Arabs in Syria, Iraq and Libya.

We have said before: the Arab League has nothing to do with either the Arabs or Islam. It has no respect and no concern whatsoever for the real problems of either Muslims or Arabs. For them, Arabs and Muslims are merely a field of power. They can kill them as they wish, violate their honor, and hand over their lives, honor, property and countries to the imperialists as a gift.

When we dig a little into the record of the same person, everyone remembers the image from 25 December 2008, in Cairo, two days before Israel's air attack on Gaza, together with the then Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. Livni, holding the hand of Aboul Gheit, who was then Egypt's Foreign Minister, announced from the heart of the Egyptian palace that she was declaring war on Gaza.

Is it not clear why the Secretary of the Arab League, who hands over Palestine and the life, property and honor of Muslims to the Zionists and the French as easily as pulling a hair out of butter, criticizes Turkey for sticking its nose into the affairs of the Arabs?

Because today Muslims, and unfortunately Arabs too, have no other representation. The only thing those who claim to represent them do is betrayal. The discomfort that Turkey, which says stop to betrayal, has caused to certain people is plain, but it is just as plain as day that these interventions of Turkey have created great satisfaction among all Muslims and the Arab peoples.