Ibrahim A. Anli

For a number of Muslim minorities and diasporas, Erdogan appears to be an oasis for politically orphaned people in search for direction, esteem, funds and leadership. Whereas their flirt with Erdogan is nothing but a sleepwalk into a dangerous mirage. It is about time these groups and their organizations wake up to the realites and refuse being used as gap filling material in the PR of a despicable regime. The years that followed the 9/11 attacks were marked by a global wave of interfaith activism. This wave enabled a sizebale component of the Muslim minorities to abandon the ghetto mindset and reach out to the larger segments of the socities they lived in. Their outreach was kindly reciprocated with similar gestures by the non-Muslim majorities. While the terror attacks that shook New York, London, Istanbul and Madrid were being interpreted as the advance shocks of a Clash of Civilizations by some, to many others they were bitter wake-up calls to engage in meaningful dialogue with