Sheikh al-Qadri: Turkey  uses Islam to occupy neighboring countries

 The allegations of the head of the Turkish occupation state, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, directed at Muslims in particular regarding his "protection of the Islamic community", and the recent targeting of his army and mercenaries loyal to him in a mosque in Zarkan district, show the falsehood of the Turkish president's allegations.

 Erdogan seeks, playing on the religious chord, seeks to restore the fading Ottoman Empire and achieve his political gains in the Middle East, using religion as a political tool to cover his practices and justify his crime."

 Distortion of the Islamic truth

 In this regard, the head of the Qadri Sufi Order in Syria, Sheikh Muhammad al-Qadri, explained to our agency that what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan practices against peoples under the name of Islam is completely contrary to the divine principles and the Holy Qur’an, and that his policies are considered hostility and distortion of the Islamic truth.

 According to Qadri the words of God: "(It is the darkest of those who prevent the mosques of Allah to mention his name and sought to mess those what they had to enter it only scared them in this world and shame them in the Hereafter a great punishment) that is not a darker than those who denied Allah  in mosques, from establishing prayer, or they sought to destroy it by demolishing it or preventing the believers from it, and everyone who has this characteristic will have a severe punishment in the Hereafter.”

 Since the beginning of the Turkish occupation launching attacks on northern and eastern Syria, it has targeted  holy places for the peoples of the region, the last of which was the bombing of the Zarkan district mosque of Hasaka canton on December 30, 2021.

 'launches attacks on the Muslims'

 Sheikh Muhammad al-Qadri referred to the Turkish occupation army’s targeting of places of worship in its attacks on the region, saying: “Erdogan clearly contradicts his speeches and actions on the ground to achieve his personal interests at the expense of the blood of the people, and thus he distorts the principles of true Islam.”

 On the third day of the Turkish occupation army's attack on Serêkaniyê / Ras al-Ain, northern and eastern Syria on October 9, 2019, the "Bukhari" Mosque, which is located in the center of the city, was bombed.

 During a special statement to our agency, the co-chair of the Tel Tamer district council, Jiwan Mullah Ayoub, explained that the Turkish occupation targeted two places of worship in the villages of Tawila and Dardara, in the district of Tel Tamer in Hasaka canton.

On May 30, 2020, sources from the occupied canton of Afrin reported that the "Samarkand" mercenaries of the Turkish occupation had turned a mosque in the Mobata district into a detention to torture women, in addition to targeting the Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi mosque in Janders district of the occupied canton of Afrin with heavy artillery.

 Al-Qadri stressed that Erdogan and his policies are nothing but a continuation of "the filth of the Ottoman Caliphate and its predecessors, who pursued unjust violations against peoples under the name of Islam. True Islam does not accept these practices and policies at all."

 'NE Syria represent the true and sacred principles of Islam'

 Al-Qadri indicated that in northern and eastern Syria they represent the true and sacred principles of Islam, where each component practices its religion and belief freely and democratically, and preserves the holy sites of all monotheistic faiths and religions, and added: "It is the right of every people in the Middle East and the world to practice their religion and belief freely."

 The crimes of the Turkish occupation were not limited to Muslims only. Its mercenaries practiced the most heinous violations and crimes against the Yazidis and Alawites in the occupied city of Afrin, where they imposed Islam on the Yazidis and imposed the Sunni doctrine on the Alawites, forcing them to attend mosques and pronounce the two testimonies.

 Sources from the occupied city of Afrin told our agency that the mercenaries of the Turkish occupation destroyed the headquarters of the Yazidis Union in Afrin, and destroyed the statue of Zarathustra and the dome model of Lalish that were placed in it, in addition to the mercenaries of the occupation stole and exhumed the graves of the Yezidis and destroyed them in Afrin and Serêkaniyê.

 'He uses Islam to impose his hegemony'

 Sheikh Muhammad al-Qadri stressed: "We will remain true to our religion and our principles, and we will continue the path of resistance in achieving the words of God Almighty, and all religions and beliefs in northern and eastern Syria will remain one hand, and we will achieve the democracy of all religions on the ground."

 Al-Qadri explained that Turkey uses Islam to occupy the lands and neighboring countries in order to end the rights of the peoples of these countries, and added: "The Kurds are also among the servants of God Almighty, and despite that, Turkey sees this people as its main enemy."

 At the conclusion of his speech, Sheikh Muhammad al-Qadri noted the use of Islam by the Turkish occupation state to impose its authority on society from a psychological and moral point of view, and said: “Despite all its attempts, it has not been able to use this policy in practice to influence the people of northern and eastern Syria."

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