(There is nothing unique/special about the words "radical Islam"!!! It is just "Islam.")
Posted on 07/06/2016 9:31:48 AM PDT by marshmallow
A muezzin’s call to prayer reverberated inside the sixth-century Istanbul landmark Hagia Sophia for the first time in 85 years on July 1.
The building in the city’s historic Sultanahmet district broadcast the azan from its minarets following July 1’s Laylat al-Qadr, or night of power, marking the first revelation of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad.
The broadcast of the morning call to prayer from within Hagia Sophia is likely to reignite controversy over the use of the building, which was designated a museum in 1935 under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the modern Turkish Republic. Although the call to prayer has been played from Hagia Sophia’s minarets for the last four years, the muezzin has always chanted from a prayer room in the museum grounds rather than from inside the former mosque and cathedral.
Built as an Orthodox Christian basilica during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in 537, the famous domed structure, known as Ayasofya in Turkish, was converted into a mosque following Sultan Mehmet II’s conquest of the city in 1453.
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Terror works.
Islam is on the march.
(There is nothing unique/special about the words "radical Islam"!!! It is just "Islam.")
Muslims love converting old Christian Churches, because it shows domination. Its a sick, twisted aspect of their overall psychology.
What should be wafting from the Hagia Sophia is the “Kyrie Eleison”.
CC
>>>What should be wafting from the Hagia Sophia is the “Kyrie Eleison”.<<<
That’s a GREAT song! (-:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NDjt4FzFWY
I was referring to the orthodox Christian chant, but that works too. Would still piss off those little jerks with the rug burns on their foreheads!
CC
Sorry! I love 80’s music even though I wasn’t around to enjoy it when it first came out! I’ll look up the chant and check it out! Thank you!
I thought it was still a Catholic shrine.
Well past time to retake Constantinople for Christ.
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