[newberger]

If this happens, Turkey should be permanently barred from EU membership.

[boycott]

Isn’t Hussein obamar big pals with the leader of turkey?

[JPX2011]

Putin’s next stop: Constantinople.

[ClearCase_guy]

It definitely shows the direction we're going in to see that the church became a mosque under the Ottomans and when the Ottomans fell, the mosque because a museum because Turkey became a secular society.

Then Turkey got infected by late 20th century islamic fanaticism, and now the museum will be a mosque again. Back and forth and back forth and currently not good at all.

[SAJ]

Fiddle-de-de. Ho hum. This is a re-run. When Mehmed II and the Turks took Constantinople the first time, Hagia Sophia WAS converted into a mosque, specifically named 'Ayasofya'. The year? 1453.

Dude, what's the worry here, hmmm? You can't go back to Constantinope, after all (but you can sing it in harmony, if you like).

[BenLurkin]

Walmart better get there first — before it becomes a Target.

[Jim Noble]

I’m not opposed to Christendom retaking Constantinople, and reconsecrating the cathedral.

But that’s what it will take to prevent it being turned into a mosque.

[Nifster]

Hey the ROP wants to do this to every church and synagogue and temple or shrine of ANY faith other than theirs

[SuziQ]

I thought it WAS a mosque, after it was a Church, but before it became a museum.

[cloudmountain]

This won't happen as the tourism there is worth too much.

My guess is that this is a bid for a little "baksheesh" to keep it open as a tourist stop.

[cloudmountain]

I've been there. It IS a marvel.
NO, it won't be a mosque, unless they use it on Friday mornings, the Muslim "Sunday," for a couple of hours, THEN let it revert to the tourist sight.
THAT sounds more reasonable.