Erdogan criticizes Islamophobia in the United States

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Erdogan criticizes Islamophobia in the United States

Muslims would lump vilified as a terrorist, complained to the Turkish President at the opening of a mosque near Washington. This is done through the rhetoric of the candidates in the US election campaign, Erdogan said.

During his visit to the United States, the Turkish government has complained to the chief Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Islamophobia as a reaction to attacks by extremists. “Unfortunately, we are in a Phase of growing intolerance and prejudice against Muslims in the United States and the world,” he said to an audience of thousands at the inauguration of a mosque in the 10.000 inhabitants of the place Lanham in the state of Maryland.

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“Terrorism has no Religion”

Muslims paid the price of suspicion due to “a handful of terrorists”. This was not acceptable. Terrorism have no Religion, said Erdogan, but many had failed to do so.

Indirect criticism of Trump and Cruz

The Turkish President criticized explicitly the “inflammatory rhetoric of certain presidential candidates in the United States”. In the race for the presidential nomination-the two Republicans, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, they were anti-Islam statements noticed. Thus, in the case of the Republicans leading US presidential candidates, Trump had demanded after an Islamist-motivated attack in California’s San Bernardino at the beginning of December, a General entry ban for Muslims in the United States. Cruz wants the police in Muslim patrol-oriented neighborhoods stronger.

From the Turkey The new mosque in Lanham funded: in the US state of Maryland

The now-inaugurated the mosque of the Islamic center of Diyanet in Lanham should play “a decisive role” in the United States with Islam reconcile, Erdogan said. The Muslim community to contribute “to the strengthening of the United States”. The new mosque was for approximately $ 110 million in the style of Ottoman architecture of the 16th century. Century built and fully of Turkey financed. She’s supposed to be the largest mosque in the United States and, as the only one in the country with two minarets.

Tensions between Washington and Ankara

Earlier, Erdogan participated on Thursday and Friday at an international nuclear summit in Washington. On the sidelines of the summit he had met US President Barack Obama. First it was said that Obama will not receive Erdogan, like other heads of state to a single conversation. This was seen as an Affront to the Turkish President.

For tension in relations between Washington and Ankara in the dispute over the handling of Kurdish fighters in the civil war country Syria provides, among other things. Obama also expressed after his Meeting with Erdogan “worried” about its handling of the freedom of the press. In Turkey recently, the government-critical newspaper “Zaman had been” under administration. In addition, a spy running process against two of the leading journalists of the newspaper “Cumhuriyet”.

cw/qu (rtr, afp)