Despite his inflammatory rhetoric, the Turkish PM remains a moderate leader who is trying to chart his country’s course between the US and EU on one hand and Syria and Iran on the other.
A conclave of significant Islamic theologians assembled in the Turkish town of Mardin renounced Ibn Taymiyya’s medieval fatwa which allowed the killing of non-Muslim civilians during holy wars. The theologians went so far as to renounce the Dar al Kharb doctrine, which treated non-Muslim lands as the kingdom of evil.
Their proclamation is welcome, but it will not have the slightest effect on Muslim terrorists.