Posted on 05/05/2011 4:36:08 PM PDT by george76
Today there is a continuing legal process in effect, while the the over 1,600 year old Monastery fights for its bare survival.
On 26th of January 2011 the systematic dispossession of a Syrian-Orthodox Monastery -- built in the year 397 -- Mor Gabriel in Tur Abdin in south east Turkey began
Today the courts in Ankara gave the national treasury of the district town of Midyat and the Turkish forestry office a significant portion of the Monastery property.
Will the bell of Mor Gabriel be silenced forever? The hope of the Monks is dwindling.
First on the 26th of January the decision of the Supreme Court in Ankara hit like the crack of a whip.
On the 20th of February the highest court in Ankara struck the Monastery with a second blow.
A further 27.6 Hectares of land within and outside of the Monastery wall were given to the office of forestry in Midyat.
A judgment which is a further consequence of an unfair legal process which is aimed on the state confiscation of the Christian heritage and dechristianization.
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Chalk another one for the Islamofascists.
This is one thing I would send our troups to defend.
This is why Christianity needs to be reunited. No more pulling out when help is needed.
“Afghanistan (with apologies to Kipling)
When you’re lying alone in your Afghan bivvy,
And your life it depends on some MOD civvie
When the body armour’s shared (one set between three),
And the firefight’s not like it is on TV,
Then you’ll look to your oppo, your gun and your God,
As you follow that path all Tommies have trod.
When the Gimpy has jammed and you’re down to one round,
And the faith that you’d lost is suddenly found.
When the Taliban horde is close up to the fort,
And you pray that the arty don’t drop a round short,
Stick to your sergeant like a good squaddie should,
And fight them like Satan or one of his brood...”
It would be nice if Christians could focus on the enemy instead of ourselves...
It’s what Muslims do.
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What else is new.
Literally thousands of churches have been destroyed by the islamofascist Turks...in the 20th century.
4 million butchered Christians
So much for the “progressive” Turk Pig.
“It’s what Muslims do.”
Only because we continue to allow them to.
By allow them, I mean allow that filthy, degenerate, murderous, rapacious, disgusting barbaric ideology to continue to exist.
It’s always been us or it and we still want to pretend it’s not.
A mooselimb is a mooselimb. If you think they will live in peace with anyone, well, think again.
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