"To which a Turkish forum member suggested I should kiss his ass for my trouble."
He was just speaking Turkish.
Hagia Sophia was taken at the point of a sword and Gun and it will have to be retaken at the point of a sword and a gun.
In the coming war with Islam, all Christians should remember Hagia Sophia, good Emperor Michael Palaeologus, the brave people who died defending Constantinople against the Turk, and the poor souls who were murdered, raped and enslaved by those demons, and settle for nothing less than the removal of Islam from all of Europe, and the Christian lands they stole in Anatolia.
I tried to be reasonable and compromise - but you were correct after all.