By Harry Theocharous, a Cypriot state activistic and researcher.
For implicit 2 decades, I’ve dedicated my beingness to documenting and exposing the ongoing Turkish concern of my homeland, Cyprus, since the brutal 1974 invasion. Through tireless research, interviews with survivors, and advocacy connected assorted platforms, I’ve uncovered the patterns of Islamist expansionism that endanger not conscionable Cyprus but the full West.
As idiosyncratic who has spent years researching the scars of Islamist aggression connected my ain country, I spot the aforesaid playbook unfolding crossed Europe and North America. The accelerated emergence of governmental Islam isn’t accidental, it’s been accelerated by leftist policies that champion unfastened borders and multiculturalism without vigilance, turning well-meaning ideals into tools for radicals. These progressives, successful their naive quest for alleged “inclusivity,” person go enablers of those who purpose to subvert our societies. Make nary mistake, this critique targets not peaceful Muslims seeking amended lives, but the militant ideologies and authorities sponsors similar Turkey nether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who export part and conquest. Drawing from my extended probe connected Turkey’s concern of Cyprus, I implore the West to admit this menace earlier it consumes america all.
Echoes of Terror: From PLO Hijackings to Sadat’s Murder
My probe into Middle Eastern conflicts reveals however coercion has agelong been a limb for Islamist causes. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Palestine Liberation Organization hijacked civilian planes to terrorize the satellite into noticing their agenda. Incidents similar the 1970 Dawson’s Field hijackings, wherever aggregate craft were seized, hostages tormented, and planes destroyed, oregon the 1985 TWA Flight 847, wherever an American was murdered successful acold blood, weren’t specified protests. They were acts of Islamist-inspired terror, blending Palestinian nationalism with a broader jihadist ethos that rejects coexistence.
This fanaticism claimed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat successful 1981, assassinated by extremists for brokering bid with Israel via the Camp David Accords. My studies amusement however groups similar Egyptian Islamic Jihad viewed Sadat’s moderation arsenic heresy, a signifier that persists successful today’s rejection of bid by hardliners. These humanities acts aren’t relics, they are blueprints for the unit we spot now, often glossed implicit by leftist narratives successful the sanction of “resistance”.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Shadow and Turkey’s Malignant Influence
Central to this information is the Muslim Brotherhood, an enactment I’ve tracked done its power connected planetary extremism. Founded successful 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood promotes a imaginativeness of Sharia regularisation that has birthed groups similar Hamas. And propping it up is Turkey, Erdogan’s regime, acting arsenic the Muslim Brotherhood’s patron, offering sanctuary and funds portion advancing its ain neo-Ottoman dreams.
Through my research, I’ve documented Turkey’s expansionist subject network, bases successful Somalia, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Albania, and Libya, not arsenic antiaircraft measures, but arsenic platforms for Islamist influence. These outposts enactment Muslim Brotherhood allies and task Turkish-Islamist power, often astatine the disbursal of section sovereignty.
But Turkey’s invasions uncover the existent intent. My decades-long absorption connected Cyprus exposes the 1974 penetration arsenic a textbook lawsuit of Islamist takeover. Under the mendacious pretext of protecting Turkish Cypriots, Turkey unleashed Operation Attila, bombing villages, massacring civilians, and displacing implicit 200,000 Greek Cypriots, including families similar mine. They seized 37% of the island, ethnically cleansing the country and importing settlers to displacement demographics.
The United Nations has repeatedly condemned this arsenic illegal, yet Turkey’s concern endures, with implicit 40,000 troops stationed there, turning bluish Cyprus into a militarized zone. Mosques regenerate desecrated churches, taste sites are looted, and the alleged “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” is recognized lone by Ankara. This isn’t history, it’s ongoing aggression, with caller abductions of Greek Cypriots venturing into occupied lands, arsenic I’ve highlighted successful my advocacy work.
Turkey’s signifier repeats elsewhere, with invasions into Syria, occupying Kurdish areas, Iraq, and Libya. Even successful Azerbaijan, Turkish enactment successful 2020 fueled conflict. Erdogan sympathizers, whether leftist intellectuals excusing “anti-imperialism” oregon Islamist enablers, disregard these crimes, but my probe proves they are portion of a deliberate strategy to revive Ottoman-style dominance done subject and ideological means.
October 7 and the Left’s Betrayal
The Hamas atrocities connected October 7, 2023, wherever implicit 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered successful horrific ways, echo the barbarity I’ve researched successful the occupied territories. As a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot, Hamas’s massacre progressive beheadings, rapes, and burnings, yet Western leftists manipulated facts to support it, spreading lies astir “fabricated” grounds and portraying terrorists arsenic state fighters.
These “useful idiots,” influenced by propaganda, chanted slogans calling for Israel’s demolition portion antisemitism surged. My enactment connected concern shows the hypocrisy, leftists condemn colonialism but place Islamist variants, enabling manipulation that radicalizes younker and divides societies.
Ignored Prophets: Warnings from Moderate Voices
Voices from the Muslim satellite echo my warnings. UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed cautioned Europe successful 2017 astir governmental Islam breeding terrorism. Mohammad Tawhidi, aka the Imam of Peace, has decried importing radicals arsenic garbage that destroys hosts. Recently, successful 2025, pastor Martin Sedra warned of demographic and ideological invasions, aligning with my findings connected however unchecked migration and ideology erode Western values.
Sedra, successful his quality connected Lila Rose’s show, outlined 3 deliberate steps by which Islam intends to instrumentality implicit Europe and America, drafting from Islamic teachings and humanities patterns:
First, migration, oregon Hijrah, wherever Muslims relocate to non-Muslim lands successful ample numbers, often facilitated by leftist open-border policies, to found footholds.
Second, consolidation is achieved done precocious commencement rates, the constitution of parallel societies, mosques, and the power of institutions, portion portraying themselves arsenic victims to garner sympathy and power.
Third, jihad, erstwhile demographics displacement and spot grows, imposing Sharia instrumentality done governmental unit oregon violence, subjugating the big society. These steps, Sedra emphasizes, reflector Muhammad’s progression from Mecca to Medina to conquest, and are evident successful Europe’s no-go zones and America’s increasing Islamist lobbies.
Time to Fight Back
From my years researching Turkey’s grip connected Cyprus, I cognize inaction invites disaster. Turkey’s invasions and occupations, sympathized with by naive leftists and Islamist allies, exemplary the broader threat. We indispensable exposure them, enforce borders, and beforehand existent integration. Heed these lessons, oregon ticker your freedoms vanish, arsenic excavation did successful 1974. The West indispensable enactment now.
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