President Erdoğan: If we want to build a society of trust, we have to make sincerity and mercy prevail in our lives

 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at an event held in Istanbul to mark the beginning of the Mawlid al-Nabi (birthday of Prophet Muhammad) Week for 2019.

Underscoring that the society model that Prophet Muhammad built in the period in which he lived was a source of peace and trust for members of different religions as well as for Muslims, President Erdoğan said: “If we want to build a society of trust today, we have to make the same sincerity, loyalty, awareness of trust, faithfulness, affection, respect and mercy prevail in our lives. Because, he was the prophet of love, smile, compassion and mercy.”

Further stressing that neo-Nazi terrorist organizations, which he described as the crusaders of our age, make Muslims’ lives a misery in the world’s most developed and most democratic countries, President Erdoğan drew attention to terrorist attacks carried out on mosques every passing day, and added: “The terrorist organizations mercilessly massacre Muslims praying in mosques, innocent people shopping at markets and children going to schools in Islamic countries. The Islam civilization is suffering a cultural genocide, so to speak, in the hands of such flocks of murderers as DAESH, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, FETO, PKK and YPG on one side, and under the pressure of ignorance and bigotry of sects and dispositions on the other.”