The Sunni Alliance?

Can there be anything more absurd? Well, probably. After all, the world is going through such a period that every day the level of absurdity is being carried to new heights. Still, the creation of a Sunni Alliance led by Saudi Arabia with the aim of fighting Sunni, Salafist, jihadist, Islamist terrorism might constitute a new and hard-to-be-surpassed world record in absurdity.

Who created al-Qaeda? Who fathered the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)? Who has been financing and in every way possible supporting those "Taliban" (Students) groups, or other "cemaats" obsessed with a certain school of Islam, categorically declaring the rest of the Muslim and non-Muslim world as infidel or heathen, which must be exterminated?

For the prime minister and his mentor, the almighty president of the still-Turkish Republic, Islam and terrorism should not be used in the same sentence. So a steadfast alliance of Sunni Muslim countries against "terrorists exploiting religion" is the most suitable answer ever delivered to those who aimed at defaming the good name of Islam. Of course, Islam has always been a peaceful religion. Never ever in the history of Islam has there been any practice showing intolerance against people subscribing to other religions. Claims that three of the first four caliphs were killed in political infighting are all infidel lies. 

The United States, Saudi Arabia and Turkey were happy that besides Ankara and Riyadh 32 other Muslim capitals have agreed to join this new Sunni Alliance - the composition, strength and mission of which is yet to be agreed on. What's known so far is that it will be led by the Saudis, headquartered in Saudi Arabia, and will be an "anti-terrorism alliance."

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