Posted on 06/18/2020 5:37:59 PM PDT by marshmallow
As Turkish officials await the court hearing on the possibility of converting the world-famous Agia Sophia Museum back into a mosque, preparations for the change are reportedly already underway.
In this vein, the leader of the Saadet Partisi Islamist political party, Abdullah Sevim, called for Turkey to immediately take action and paint over the faces of the seraphim in the dome of the 6th-century Orthodox cathedral-turned-mosque-turned-museum, reports the Orthodoxia News Agency.
“There’s no need to wait for the decision of the State Council. We’ve already purchased the lime,” Sevim wrote on his Twitter page, calling everyone to join in a Muslim prayer to be held at Agia Sophia by President Erdogan.
The State Council will review the possibility of changing the status of Agia Sophia from a mosque to a museum, thus canceling the presidential decree of 1934 that turned it into a museum in the first place, on July 2.
Other preparations towards converting it back into a mosque are reportedly underway already. According to Turkish historian and writer Ahmet Anapali, more than 75,000 sq. ft. worth of carpets used in Islamic prayers have already been purchased, paid for by a private individual, reports Romfea with reference to the Turkish newspaper Yeni Akit Gazetesi.
The carpets are purple, the color of the time of Mehmet the Conqueror. According to Anapali, the information was provided to him by “the most reliable person in the country after Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.”
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Answers the question: What do you do when you run out of Armenians to murder?
No surprise. Erdogan has been telegraphing this for a dozen years now.
I’m actually surprised that it took this long.
Erdogan is a Caliphatist. The only difference between him and ISIS is that he sees himself as Caliph of the New Islamic Empire, and ISIS sees someone else as Caliph.
Glad I got to see this a long time ago - doubt I’ll be setting foot in Turkey again.
Answers the question - what do you do when you run out of confederate statues to topple.
Look, don’t sweat the small stuff.
Retake Constantinople, and make it a cathedral again, or don’t.
If you accept the Muslim conquest, then you have no right to complain about them creating mosques.
So many statues, so little time.
It is time for Russia to protect Holy Mother Church!!
I think useful idiot Popular Mechanics is on that project.
Antichrist will almost certainly come out of Islam.
All he’ll need to do to get the secular West to flock into the mosques and take whatever mark they demand will be to use the doctrine of abrogation to proclaim a new poofter friendly / mandatory form of Islam.
I think it may be more accurate to call him a Sultanist. He sees himself as an Ottoman Sultan.
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!
It is long past time for Vladimir Putin to become not only the holy Orthodox Czar but the Byzantine Emperor-in-exile....and may that exile be short lived!
when the Ottomans took over, it was made into a mosque and remained so for years. When the secular gov’t took over, they made it into a museum.
One reason it shouldn’t be a mosque (or a church): earthquake danger. The church has made it through a lot of earthquakes in the past, and was damaged in many of them, but that doesn’t mean it might not collapse in a future quake.
Falling on a couple dozen tourists, no problem. Falling down on a couple hundred (or even thousand) praying Muslims would be a disaster.
OMG ...
Yep, that would be a darn shame.
Brings tears if only the lesser.
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