Turkish columnist can't find anything wrong with Jerusalem - except Jews, of course

Yasin Aktay, writing in conservative pro-ErdoganTurkish site Yeni Safak, quotes an earlier article of his on Jerusalem:

Jerusalem continuing to remain under this occupation today is the result of the fact that the world order insistently and stubbornly works for a history and international order that serves Zionism. It is the result of considering that the world is made up of only five [countries]. But beyond all this, Jerusalem's current state is a reflection of the fact that more than 1.5 billion Muslims do not live in line with Islamic practices and do not know whom to accept as enemy or friend.

So he decided to visit Jerusalem and see how terrible it is.

As long as Muslims do not distinguish between who are friends and who are enemies, as long as they struggle with each other and pave the way for tyrants, Jerusalem will continue to cry in its present state of sadness.
Seeing is not like hearing. We need to go and see Jerusalem's state. Which of mankind’s mistakes and evil has caused Jerusalem to end up in such a state? We need to think about this in Jerusalem.

 It is necessary to see how words about Jerusalem do not reflect the city’s state and how the words remain incompetent in describing the levels to which mankind can fall. To see it, we need to head out to Jerusalem.

OK, so what is so awful about Jewish rule over Jerusalem.  After all, the Zionists are letting an Israel-hating Muslim visit, so it can't be that they have closed the city off to everyone but Jews the way Muslims treat their holy cities. So what is it?

Masjid al-Aqsa is the third major temple of Islam after Mecca and Medina, which the Prophet recommended and encouraged us to visit. This mosque should not be ruined there under the guardianship of the despicable Zionist occupation.

Well, Mohammed never once said people should visit Jerusalem. But besides the despicable Zionist occupation, what specifically is so terrible?

First he has to give some background:

 Prophet Musa [Moses] circumnavigated his people in the mountains around Canaan for 40 years, expecting them to get rid of the slavery they had internalized for centuries under the Pharaoh's persecution. The moment they got rid of it, they started resorting to the heresy of slaving all people to themselves.

Oh, so Jews have always been oppressors.

The scenes of intifada that Palestinian children repeat every day make you remember that Prophet Dawood [David] challenged Jalut [Goliath], against whom no one could dare to face, and that he defeated him with the weakest weapon, striking him with a slingshot.

Wasn't Goliath the native Philistine and David the invading Jew who was in the midt of enslaving the people? I'm so confused.

Here, you also remember Prophet Suleiman’s temple construction  and meeting with Balqis, Jews’ settlement and their consecutive exile.

Hello?

 As you remember all this by looking at each street and building, you continue to face today's bitter truth on all these layers of history at every corner: Zionist occupation.

OK. So what did you see?

Zionism is a form of perversion. It is precisely the extreme form of the feeling that what happened in Jerusalem is not actually over and that page will be reopened at any moment. Claiming to revert history, reconstruct a ruined building- temple, and go back to the beginning by ignoring what happened. Insisting on condemning the whole world to a reversed time cycle with the fantasy of reversing the time.

So did you visit the Al Aqsa Mosque or the third Temple?

The entire article is about how awful things are in Jerusalem but the only thing he can say is that Jews are controlling it - allowing him to visit freely.

Is this anti-Zionism or antisemitism?

Actually, it is Islamic supremacy. And that is at least as dangerous.

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