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by Burak Bekdil • November 14, 2023 at 5:00 am
* In [Erdoğan's] speech [at the UN General Assembly], greeted as a brave international challenge by the Turkish media (90% of which he controls), he called on the international community to collectively fight what he thinks is the greatest malady of mankind: Islamophobia. He wants, he said, to revolutionize the post-World War II international political order by giving Muslim nations a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
* That is not all. Erdoğan wants the world to recognize the breakaway Turkish statelet of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, recognized only by Turkey. That statelet emerged after Turkey's illegal invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
* Still not all. Erdoğan admitted he was holding NATO hostage. On September 26, he said that the Turkish parliament would abide by his pledge to ratify Sweden's accession to NATO if the US sticks to its commitments to deliver F-16 fighter jets to Ankara.
* Meanwhile, at home, a brave Turkish journalist broadcast a video showing Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists being detained in Turkey, then released and sent to government-run camps for military training.
* In Erdoğan's worldview, Islamophobia is the greatest threat to humanity. Radical Islamist suicide bombers and torturers are not.

In the worldview of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Islamophobia is the greatest threat to humanity. Radical Islamist suicide bombers and torturers are not. Pictured: Erdoğan addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

Editor's note: The following is the last article written for Gatestone by Burak Bekdil, a few days before he tragically passed away last month. Burak was an extraordinary person, and a brave and brilliant journalist. May he rest in peace.

The world's "strategic eyes" should have looked closer at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's speech in September at the UN General Assembly. It was another warning to the West about his intended Islamist design for the entire world — not that he can accomplish this ambition, but what he aims for comes in with several red flags with it.

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** David Horowitz Freedom Center's Censorship Talk Gets Censored ([link removed])
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by Daniel Greenfield • November 14, 2023 at 4:00 am
* A year after Twitter was ridiculed and then taken over for classifying Babylon Bee's humor as hate speech, Vimeo sent out a letter announcing "Seth Dillon – The Babylon Bee was removed for Hate Speech." The letter refused to name anything hateful that had been said or to specify what in the talk triggered the ban.
* They censor you after the fact, but they also censor you before the fact. There's pre-censorship that happens because people are afraid to make jokes and statements like this knowing they will probably get censored, so they censor themselves.
* "The reason they don't want you to say that Rachel Levine is 'Man of the Year' is because they don't want you to say that Rachel Levine is a man, they don't want you to say what's true," Seth Dillon told us at Restoration Weekend. "And one of the most powerful things that we can do is to refuse to go along with that nonsense."
* Big Tech still hasn't learned that the more it tries to censor us, the more the truth will be heard.

Pictured: Seth Dillon speaks at David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 27, 2023. (Image source: David Horowitz Freedom Center)

Last year, the Babylon Bee was censored for naming Rachel Levine its "Man of the Year." Now, the David Horowitz Freedom Center has been banned over a speech about that joke.

On Friday afternoon, Seth Dillon, the gregarious leader of the Babylon Bee, took the floor to tell attendees at the Center's Restoration Weekend about his fight against censorship.

When USA Today named Rick 'Rachel' Levine, a transgender Biden administration official, as one of its "Women of the Year," the Babylon Bee responded by naming him its "Man of the Year."

And Twitter locked the Bee's account for "hateful conduct" for telling the obvious truth.

That Orwellian act of censorship was described as one of the most "consequential" moments in the anti-woke struggle against Big Tech and helped lead to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

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