[Gefreiter]

"And for the benefits of those who do not know, 95 percent of Middle Easterners are Muslims."

For the benefit of Mansour El-Kikhia, there was a time when there were precisely zero muslims in the Middle East. I wonder if he's thought about how that transformation happened?

Maybe then we can talk more about who's conquered whom, or been enslaved, or brutalized, at the hands of foreign occupiers.

Or maybe I can distill it all down to one question: why can't I worship at the Hagia Sophia?

[SAJ]

Excellent! Damned clever, too!

[JCEccles]

Or maybe I can distill it all down to one question: why can't I worship at the Hagia Sophia?

For the same reason Jews cannot worship at the Temple Mount.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Or maybe I can distill it all down to one question: why can't I worship at the Hagia Sophia?

Because it's a museum?