As the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, whose name means "Party of God", vows to total support for Syria's Bashar al-Assad the deputy Prime Minister of Turkey says they should change their name to "Party of Satan," according to Yahoo.
While speaking at the "Problems of the Islamic World and Solutions" conference Bekir Bozdag attacked Hezbollah for their support of al-Assad.
"Those who stand by the Assad regime and kill their own Muslim brothers and indiscriminately kill women and children in the battlefield should not appeal to Islam and the Quran to legitimize their actions," Bozdag said according to Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman.
Bozdag compared the actions of the Assad regime in Syria to those undertaken by the Pharaoh of the Bible.
"The pharaoh gave orders for the killing of innocent children and their mothers to maintain power," Bozdag said at the conference. "What is the difference between what the pharaoh did and Assad is doing?"
Earlier this month the Prime Minister of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan, met with President Obama to discuss steps that could be taken in order to end the bloody civil war in Syria. Turkey has been hoping that the U.S. would commit more decisively toward forcing the ouster of the Syrian dictator.
Bozdag also spoke about how terrorist groups like Hezbollah and al-Qaeda give all of Islam a bad name.
"What the al-Qaeda is doing is causing huge damage to the Muslim world," Bozdag said according to Today's Zaman. "Muslims have nothing to share or do with people whose hands are full of blood."
Racism, both racism among groups of Muslims and racism towards Muslims as a whole, is also a problem that Bozdag spoke about at the conference, according to Yahoo.
"Racism is a sickness that threatens Turkey and other countries in the Middle East," Bozdag said. "If someone decides to kill a man based on racist feelings, then he rejects the book of God and His orders. Quran and Islam do not absolutely approve of killing of people based on racist feelings. Turkey has been fighting against racist terrorism for the past 30 years."
The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, announced that the Lebanese group was sending troops to fight alongside the troops of al-Assad in an effort to help the Syrian leader win back land he has lost to rebels, according to The New York Times.
"It is our battle, and we are up to it," Nasrallah said in a speech according to The New York Times.
