Posted on 07/10/2020 8:28:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Turkey's President Erdogan has formally converted the former Hagia Sophia cathedral into a mosque to drum up support for his Islamic-rooted party...
The move came hours after Turkey's highest administrative court issued a landmark ruling that unanimously annulled the 1934 cabinet decision to renovate the site into a museum.
It meant the green light was given for Erdogan to restore the UNESCO World Heritage site's previous status as a mosque, reopening it to Muslim worship.
Erdogan, a devout Muslim, is scheduled to deliver an address to the nation later today and has frequently used the Hagia Sophia issue...
Nationalist and conservative [sic] groups have long been yearning to hold prayers at Hagia Sophia, which they regard as part of the Muslim Ottoman legacy.
Others believe the UNESCO World Heritage site should remain a museum, as a symbol of Christian and Muslim solidarity.
The group that brought the case to court had contested the legality of the 1934 decision by the modern Turkish republic's secular government ministers and argued that the building was the personal property of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II, who conquered Istanbul in 1453.
The court ruled that Hagia Sophia was the property of a foundation managing the Sultan's assets and was opened up to the public as a mosque.
The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, considered the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, warned in late June that the building's conversion into a mosque 'will turn millions of Christians across the world against Islam.'
Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, called for 'prudence' and the preservation of the 'current neutral status' for the Hagia Sophia, which he said was one of Christianity's 'devoutly venerated symbols.'
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Here’s the link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8510525/Istanbuls-iconic-former-cathedral-Hagia-Sophia-transformed-mosque-President-Erdogan.html
Please have mercy.
Putin should slap him where it hurts
the building’s conversion into a mosque ‘will turn millions of Christians across the world against Islam.’
The reason millions of Christians should turn against Islam
is ISLAM!
Obama: “My Muslim Faith”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw
The de-Kemalism of modern Turkey is almost complete.
“Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives.”
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
When they destroy Ataturk’s tomb we’ll know it’s complete.
Don’t worry, absolutely nothing will be done.
Whoops.
What a bunch of crap.
Hagia Sophia was a Byzantine church that was lost because the Christians of Europe didn’t support the king that ruled and was literally deposed by the Muslims.
The building was a mosque for years, centuries in fact.
A hue and cry now is just blather, balderdascious drivel.
Hagia Sophia was lost to Christianity only a few months after Christopher Columbus discovered America
It’s pretty well known part of Islam goals today are to purchase and obtain former religious sites and open them as Mosques......and it is happening here and worldwide BTW.
Also building Mosques next to churches and various historical landmarks.
Another proof muslims do not build anything but steal other peoples buildings... talk about a bunch of shameless parasites
Or not
I think the word is if muslims are so great, they should build their own mosques and stop taking slaves and other people’s “I built that!” . This is a sociological sign of the childlish megalomania in Trukey
Islam sucked the life blood out of the Hellenic world, taking credit for inventions and discoveries made during its long slow death, and killed civilizations wherever it spreads.
Thank God for Charles Martel. If only Europe had such defenders of civilization today to turn back the tsunami of Mohamedism.
Putin likes selling him missile systems.
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Kyrie eleison x 100 x 4
I don't see any problem with that.
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Kuala Lumpur Skyline
For the record, built with western civilization technology, by western civilization educated builders
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