Settled in Britain, he has all the confidence to imply a call for the massacre of Alevis. If not ISIS, he is a Jihadist close to the Syrian jihadist mentality (ihvan?) He is also confident because he contributed to many Western media and established himself as an “expert.”
I have seen some fellows like him who get Western think tanks’ support and base their expertise on Western terminology but continue to promote authoritarian regimes in the non-West. Mr. Abdulrazaq is different from the others as his arguments are pretty aggressive. He uses Twitter as a weapon and uses straw-man tactics to insult his critics.
Hate for Alevis and other non-traditional Islamic sects runs deep among some. "May the mere memory of Sultan Selim keep your cult from power" is a reference to the massacre of Alevis by Sultan Selim. For a "British-Iraqi" to spread such hate is appalling. Much less a journalist. pic.twitter.com/JjTUjmU2fz
— Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן (@Istanbultelaviv) April 20, 2023
He does not work for TRT World but seems to have regularly contributed. There are claims that TRT people are deleting, but I saw at least one case he contributed here. If you go to this site: https://www.trtworld.com/author/tallha.abdulrazaq, You will be directed to the home page. But archive.org record on 19 April shows that he contributed regularly: https://web.archive.org/web/20230419044513/https://www.trtworld.com/author/tallha.abdulrazaq
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