Someone objects to the church being used as a church. Like Hagia Sophia it has been turned into "a museum for Orthodox icons."
From Kathimerini:
A bomb exploded before dawn yesterday at a Greek Orthodox church in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, causing damage but no injuries.Officials said anti-Greek slogans were scribbled on the church. The attack followed reports in the Turkish-Cypriot press that local extremist groups had vowed to try to prevent services planned next week at the Aghios Mamas Church to celebrate its namesake’s saint’s day.
The turkish-cypriot leader claims the turks were "provoked" by the original Greek inhabitants of turk-controlled Cyprus who wanted to return for the celebration. Nice attitude. No wonder the Greek half of the island voted overwhelmingly to stay separated and keep EU entry benefits only for themselves.
The wholesale destruction of the riches of Byzantium, including the ripping off of crosses and the destruction of frescoes in Hagia Sophia, which became a mosque from which Christians were barred (only in the 1920s did Ataturk manage to declare it a museum). Less damaged, because less central, was the Kariye Djami (the word "djami" means mosque), now surrounded by working-class dwellings full of indifferent neighbors, with hardly leaving space for a single tour-bus, and which, judging by the postcards and suchlike, is no longer used as a mosque either.
In Cyprus, the destruction of mosques and Greek burial sites has been considerable, yet Americans did nothing to put pressure on their Turkish ally to prevent it, as they might so easily have done. Kofi Annan presented a "peace plan" that reflected the Muslim bias of the U.N. (the same U.N. that did nothing for 20 years about the Jihad against the Christians in southern Sudan, and that is now hoping to rival that record with its indifference toward the Jihad of Arab Muslims against mawalis, non-Arab Muslims, in Darfur) to the Greek Cypriots -- 9,000 pages, which they had to accept or reject overnight. They rejected it. They did not much care for a number of the provisions, including that which would have allowed the stationing of 600 or so Turkish troops for the next decade. Yet they became the villains in the world press.
The continued destruction of Orthodox churches in Cyprus and in Kosovo and in Bosnia is simply the same thing that has happened to the synagogues of Judea, the Nestorian and then the Assyrian and other Christian churches of Mesopotamia and Syria, the Coptic churches in Egypt, the Christian churches all over North Africa and then in Spain, the Hindu and Buddhist temples of India and Central Asia. They all are violent expressions of a belief-system that encourages its followers to feel contempt and hate for all non-Muslims. That some do not necessarily feel that hate, is a tribute to them -- or perhaps a tribute, in some cases, to their unfamiliarity with Muslim doctrine beyond the Five Pillars. With new technology, however, such as audiocassettes and satellite channels, that happy ignorance no longer can be counted on. Nor can Infidels base the continued survival of their civilizations, their beliefs, their physical existence, on the fact that some Muslims (and more in the past, perhaps, when Muslims lacked the wherewithal, over the past several hundred years, to pose a serious threat to the non-Muslim world) do not completely accept Islam. To the extent that a Muslim fully embraces the tenets of Islam, that Muslim is a permanent danger to all non-Muslims. There is no getting around this, no phony interpretation or presentation of a hollowed-out sanitized Qur'an. The conclusion is a bleak one, but the situation is not bleak, provided one thinks, and acts, on the basis not of hopeful fantasy but of a full grasp of what it means to hear, day after day, in mosque and at school and on the street, the same virtually unchallenged doctrine, which monopolizes intellectual life, and colors every aspect of life itself.
Is Koffi Annan a Muslim? does any one know.
Great post, Hugh! Kofi Annan was installed by the French in a clever outmanouevering of the Americans at the UN. Dunno whether Kofi dearie's mussi but he's certainly Dhimmi and thats bad enough.
Sudan sits in the UN security council today, and nobody so far has moved to impose UN sanctions on its obnoxious regime.
Anti-Greek slogans, or anti-Greek Orthodox slogans? That is what I would like to know.
Sorry for the same post on multi discussion threads. I thought this was important.
ala-sux wrote:
"...truth is,the Public system is the best way to teach Islam to non-muslims and do it through the guise of "Raciam and Islamophobia" ,I know this because it's alredy being done and is backed by Mosques and taught by Muslims in the classroom."
It has been occurring here in the USA too. Read this link:
http://www.textbookleague.org/121slam.htm
William J. Bennetta (text book reviewer) should be praised for his work. I check his website on a regular basis.