Samuel Huntington and the Christchurch Massacre
Posted by Robert Ellis | Mar 19, 2019 |
In the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre hatemongers are having a field day. As there were Turkish victims of the attack, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu travelled to Christchurch to emphasize Turkey’s common resolve against Islamophobia and xenophobia. Furthermore, Fuat Oktay called on the entire world to stop promoting some kind of provocative language.
Back home, Fuat Oktay’s call fell on deaf ears. The day after the attack, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is not known to mince his words, at an electoral rally in Istanbul invoked the threat of a new Crusader-Crescent war, and in a clear provocation showed video clips of the massacre. Last year Erdoğan made use of the same trope, and in an echo of Samuel Huntington’s prediction of a clash of civilizations, threatened Austria with a “crusader-crescent war” after Austria closed down seven mosques and expelled 40 imams. This is, in fact, curious, as Erdoğan together with the Spanish prime minister in 2005 proposed the creation of the Alliance of Nations.
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