Posted on 08/16/2010 10:01:15 PM PDT by neverdem
I will be very happy when one day those minarets are torn down and the Hagia Sophia is once again a Christian church.
I have read someplace that part of the issue with long islamic memory for historical events comes from the nature of the Arabic language itself, because Arabic has no ~tenses~. There’s no past tense... no future tense... everything is written about in what amounts to the present tense.
An illuminating little factoid, that.
It certainly has a strong historical precedent!
Some of Pope Urban II speeches should be required reading. We really need to take back Constantinople, which is the birthplace of Christianity as a united and stuctured religion (and I am Catholic, not Orthodox). Having that city in Muslim hands is a spit in the face, much worse than the ground zero mosque. If Westerners knew their history, we would not tolerate muslim control of Constantinople and the way the few Orthodox that remain their are treated.
Wow.... Wolfman's crusade to invade Turkey. How remarkably silly.
Not as remarkably silly as accepting the city as a part of Turkey.
Or even sillier regarding Manhattan as part of the United States, rather than belonging to Native American tribes. Istanbul became part of Turkey the year after Columbus first sailed the oceans blue, and a century and a half before New Amsterdam was settled.
Yes, quite illuminating indeed. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting. I didn’t know that much of Cordoba’s “tolerant” reputation was largely a myth. VDH is indispensible.
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