Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)
Posted on 10/23/2016 1:09:57 PM PDT by cutty
Observers are warning about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s increasingly neo-Ottoman stance and disregard for secular prerogatives.”
Indeed, and this new appointment essentially completes the motion of making the Hagia Sophia into a functioning mosque again. European Union officials ought to see this for what it is: a decisive rejection of any pretense of dealing with the Christian or post-Christian West on a mutually respectful basis. Erdogan is an Islamic supremacist and is pursuing an openly supremacist imperative. European officials who are still pushing for Turkey’s entry into the EU, as well as the ongoing phenomenon of massive Muslim immigration into the West, should consider Erdogan’s actions carefully. But they almost certainly won’t.
Hagia Sophia gets permanent imam as tensions rise in Aegean,” Ekathimerini, October 22, 2016:
“ A few months after a controversial decision by Turkish authorities to allow readings from the Quran to be broadcast from Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, reports on Friday said Turkey had decided to appoint a permanent imam for the venue.
According to the Anadolu state news agency, the country’s religious affairs directorate and the mufti of the Fatih district have agreed to assign a permanent imam who will lead five daily prayers, instead of the current two.
While the position was foreseen in the plans of 1935, when Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque under Kemal Ataturk, until recently prayers were led by visiting imams.
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Built as a Christian basilica in the 6th century, Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque following the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman army in 1453.
In June, readings were held at Hagia Sophia for the first time in 80 years – a move seen by critics as a violation of the monument’s formally neutral status. The move drew protests from the Greek Foreign Ministry.
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A nato ally...
Okay.
Bomb the place.
To rubble.
The hell with it.
“Drop your bombs between the minarets.”
Christian church...when beauty matters.
Get those pigs out of OUR church !
I love how the globalists, Muslims, and assorted historical revisionists so easily accept that the Hagia’s history began with it being conquered by the Jihad religion of peace. Aren’t things beautiful now. The major church in the Eastern empire reduced to a Muslim garbage bin.
A NATO member.
I am so glad I got to go see this magnificent church last year when I did. I would be afraid to go now. This is one of the major tourist attractions in Istanbul, and one of the finest structures ever built on earth. It was not built by Muslims. Egodan is a fool.
I respectfully disagree. Erdogan is a very cunning islamist in a world increasingly in thrall to very cunning islamists.
Mr. niteowl77
Erdogan is reviving the religion of the Antichrist that will enable the Islamic Mahdi to declare “I Am God!”
what St. Paul warned about, a verse which mystified theologians from time immemorial, that the Antichrist “as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
And why is that?
Beats me. Because there is a sucker born every minute while it takes a half an hour between the wise? Really… I do not know, other than what I believe to be scripturally true.
What I do know is that too many sheep don't want to see the wolves with sheepskins on or acknowledge that other sheep have cut a deal with the wolves (like the one who shares rooms with an aide whose parents are Muslim Brotherhood, or the one who said, “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.”).
Mr. niteowl77
Expect From Russia With Love to get another edit since part of it was filmed in it.
It does not matter. God will reclaim his church when he is ready.
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has called for a Holy War against islamic terrorism:
https://www.rt.com/politics/342097-russian-orthodox-patriarch-declares-international/
This MUST include all those who facilitate the Migration, including the two “mothers” of the Migration, Merkel and Crooked Hillary!!!! If Crooked Hillary wins, we lose not only our country, but our civilization!!!!
As for Erdogan, he is a cunning islamist enemy, and must be destroyed as well!! The same goes for ANY imam he may appoint!!!!
Free Constantinople, now!
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)
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