Egyptian-German Scholar: Peculiar Alliance between Fundamentalist Islam, Turkish Nationalism

Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad said in a video that was uploaded to the Internet on March 3, 2019 that conservative narrow-minded Islam with a touch of Salafism and Muslim Brotherhood ideology shares a peculiar alliance with Turkish nationalism and pro-Erdoğan sentiment in European cities like Berlin, Malmö, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Aarhus. He said that these people live off of Western social security benefits while at the same time saying that Erdoğan will crush the West. Abdel-Samad said: "Why don't you go get social benefits from [Erdoğan]?" He said that fundamentalist Islam and Turkish nationalism is also allied with criminal gangs such that religious Muslims tell women to dress modestly and get upset when people criticize Islam or the Prophet Muhammad while simultaneously having no problem that their friends are dealing in Islamically forbidden things like drugs and prostitutes.

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