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Muslims from across Turkey demand Hagia Sophia be turned back into mosque

May 31, 2015 9:28 pm By Robert Spencer

Hagia Sophia prayersMore Islamic supremacism in rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey. “Morning prayer held before Hagia Sophia to demand re-conversion into mosque,” Hürriyet Daily News, May 31, 2015 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

A group of devout Muslims from across Turkey prayed before the city’s historic Hagia Sophia on the 562nd anniversary of the Turkish conquest of Istanbul, demanding that the site be turned back into a mosque.

Men and women from across the country gathered before the Hagia Sophia museum early May 31, as part of an event organized by the Anatolian Youth Association (AGD) with the motto “Break the chains, Open Hagia Sophia,” and prayed the morning prayer with a call for the reconversion of the museum into a mosque.

Designed as a Christian basilica in the sixth century by Anthemios of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, Hagia Sophia is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Hagia Sophia remained a center of Orthodox Christianity until 1453, when the city was conquered by Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, known as the Conqueror of Istanbul. After 916 years of service as a church, he ordered Hagia Sophia to become a “victory mosque,” symbolizing the Muslim conquest. The mosaics of the church were covered with plaster, but they were successfully restored in the 20th century….

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  1. Angemon says

    May 31, 2015 at 9:53 pm

    A group of devout Muslims from across Turkey prayed before the city’s historic Hagia Sophia on the 562nd anniversary of the Turkish conquest of Istanbul, demanding that the site be turned back into a mosque.

    They know their history and the significance of what they’re asking, even if it goes over the heads of gullible Westerners. Why isn’t Erdogan treating them to water cannons and police charges, like he did to the people protesting against the reislamization of Turkey not that long ago?

    • ziggy says

      May 31, 2015 at 11:36 pm

      Because these pinheads speak for him?????

    • Marblenecltr says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 11:38 am

      Because he is a devout Muslim.

  2. Peggy says

    May 31, 2015 at 10:03 pm

    Hagia Sophia remained a center of Orthodox Christianity until 1453, when the city was conquered by Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, known as the Conqueror of Istanbul.
    =======================================
    Another example of how Christians didn’t want to help their own thus Islam conquered. People of Constantinople pleaded with their fellow Christians to thelp them defend the city but nobody showed up. The same is happening today. Christians not doing anything to help their fellow Christians. When are we going to learn?
    Muslims do what Muslims do best. They conquer and then turn churches into mosques. So much of our history will be lost unless we take to arms again.

    • Phil says

      May 31, 2015 at 11:59 pm

      What do you want me to do? We Chritians have no army. We need a president who is concerned for Chrsitains.

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 3:10 am

      @ Peggy,

      I believe that the cannons that the Muslims used to destroy the walls of Constantinople, allowing them to enter the city, were bought from the Christian Hungarians.
      Just another example of Christians supplying weapons to Muslims, to enable them to rape and murder other Christians

      • duh_swami says

        Jun 1, 2015 at 3:57 pm

        Is there something in Christian scriptures that allows for arming Mahoundians? Or is this a few ‘Christians in name only, acting in their own interests?

      • Gbox says

        Jun 1, 2015 at 7:42 pm

        Amazing how everything the muslims find useful come from the West, even their weapons.

      • andrew sapia says

        Jun 3, 2015 at 9:25 pm

        The Hungarian did offer to make them for the Byzantines but they would not pay and Mehmet paid 10 times his asking price. It does suck that he helped the Turks and you are totally correct about Christian unity. When they do stick together they win, Lepanto, Vienna, etc. Britain and France should have allowed the Russians to take back the city a century ago. Fucking shame!

    • Laura says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 5:17 am

      A great idea, but, the moment we begin to fight back our governments will turn their armed forces on us!

      • Lilithwept says

        Jun 2, 2015 at 2:27 am

        There are ways to fight back that dont involve guns and explosives.
        Join ACT! For America. Its when we band together that we become oticable and powerful!!
        Go to CitizenWarrior site, there are pamphlets you can print or make your own. Find out if you need a permitvto hand out pamphlets in your city and one day find a busy park or market square and hand them out. Hand them out at church, hand them out to people leaving a church if you dont belong to a church. leave a few in different places., like the library, public bathrooms, anywhere you can ( probably have to be a bit sneaky about this)

        Talk to your church about the persecuted Christians in the ME, like the Copts, see if you can get speakers who have recently come from those areas and were persecuted to come and talk about what their lives were like under Islam and living as dhimmies.

        Google Enjoy the Conditions of Omar. You can get buttons that say that , to get people talking about Islam and what life is like for Christians and Jews under Islam, thatvthis is Islam’s so called tolerance, dhimmie contracts.

        Go to the we site politicalIslam, look for Bill Warner’s cideo voice4voiceless ( also website www,voice4voiceless.com for pamphlets to print) Bill Warner has things an krdinary person can do to help fight Islam, he outlines them on the video.

        You need to read anout Islam, the Koran and as many of the Hadiths as you can find in English ( some are online) as the practice of Islam is based ln Koran, Hadiths…….find a site called reliance of the travleler that talks ablut what sharia law is, its by muslims……..go to the pro islam sites where imans answer questions from muslims to see what muslims say amongst themselves. When yountalk or write about Islam you need to know what you are talking about, being able to quote a text to prove or make or illustrate your point.
        Write, email and call politicians, leaders, senators, congressmen, the Pope, church leaders, mayor, govenor about how you feel that Islam’s texts , tennants and Sharia law are not compatable with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, that America is acording Islam a protected and priveledged position that we have not given to any other religion and this is NOT right, or lawful. Write them when you read about something Islamic related in the news or online. Ask them why the tv news medias wont show Bosch Fawstin’s drawing of Mohammed…..let them know how you feel, so they know that there are many people who dont believe the lies that Islam means peace and islam is tolerant.

        Research the presidential canidates to see which one is willingbto stand up to Islam. I think ACT! For America is backing Ted Cruz, but I am ot certain, Bobby Jindel from Lousianna is attracting a lot of attention but I dont know if he has declared himself a canidate yet or not.
        Work in your canidates election campaign…..work helping people get registered to vote, especially people who are anti Islam!

        Post the Bosch Fawstin Mohammed drawing on your Facebook page, also post articles from the anti Islam sites that show how Incompatable Islam is with American laws, way of life, or that snow there is no moderate muslims, or that show how barbaric Islam and Sharia is…..post quotes from the Koran that say muslims want fight jntil o god is worshipped but Allah, muslims should kill all non muslims and other verses that show what is “really” in the Koran of peaceful Islam!!!! Try to make people interested in learning about Islam, that it is not peaceful and tolerant.

        A great, well researched biography of Mohammed based on the Islamic sources is F.W. Burleigh’s ” it’s All About Islam” …. Its an easy read, not a rant and the author very rightly refuses to buy in to the muslim agenda by saying the Koran was revealed to Mohammed by an angel from God, instead the author says Mohammed crafted a verse, or Mohammed thought of a verse. Just like Non muslims shouldnt call Mohammed a prophet or saybthe Koran is the ” Holy Koran” Words are important in this fight against Islam and for our Freedoms and rights!!! Why should we say, holy Koran, prophet mohammed? We are not muslims and why respect their religion when they obviousely dont respect our religions, way of life or laws?? Respect is earned not demanded!

        I have bought several copies and given them away. The book shows people how horrible Mohammed was , that this horrible man who did these awful things is the perfect example of a man that muslims “love” and rever!!!! Plus it shows that what ISIS is doing is exactly what Mohammed did so kt’s not extreme Islam, just Islam, a very important point!!!

        And many people who wont listen to some one telling them about Islam and Mohammed,and all the things he did will read the book and because it’s NOT an angry religious rant written by someone in the lunatic fringe, they begin to see the truth. The book is available on Amazon as a book or ebook. I am not affiliated with the author, just found this particular book to be the best researched, based on the Islamic texts muslims use, an easy read and not a rant. The book has some of the Koran verses so you can see what was happening in Mohammeds life when he made a particular verse, which in my opinion, is the only way to make any sense of the Koran.
        Look over all the anti Islam, pro Freedoms sites, like Pam Gellar, Bare Naked Islam ( has a list of these kinds of sites on the right side of the page) blazing Cat fur, political Islam, religion of peace etc and look for ways to fight.

        I am very sorry this is so long, but I believe we all have to DO something to help wake people up to the truth of what Islam is and what it means for us. We need to wake up as many people as possible because we are powerful if we group together. We need people all sorts of jobs , positions and occupations to help fight.
        If we dont fight,and fight hard, our country will be taken away from us one lawsuit, one concession, one demand, one law at a time.maybe not in our life, but in our childrens life or grandchildrens lifetime. We are all soldiers in this fight.

        • John Stefan Obeda says

          Jun 2, 2015 at 5:43 pm

          Lilil, I’m with you all the way. Thanks for this. God have mercy on our country and help us get rid of this cancer.

  3. celtic warriarcanada says

    May 31, 2015 at 10:13 pm

    I,m sure that that if its in the next few years that Com rad Kerry and Caliph Obama WILL NOT MISS THE GRAND OPENING OF THIS HISTORIC EVENT ;and maybe Kerry will invite JAMES TAYLOR ALONG TO SING THE SONG ” YOU ‘ VE GOTTA FRIEND ” . Unlike their Apparent Reluctance TO MARCH IN THE STAND WITH CHARLIE EVENT. AFTER ALL! Those murdering Jihad es WERE OBVIOUSLY PROVOKED BY THE CHARLIE HEBDO STAFF AND THE JEWS THEY MURDERED, IN their SO CALLED misunderstanding of ISLAM .

  4. John Sobieski says

    May 31, 2015 at 10:27 pm

    President Obama just helped Turkish Islamist PM erdogens lay the corner stone on the $100,000,000 Turkish funded mega mosque in Lanham Maryland (Lanhamistan) while Turkey is converting churches to Mosques. The a President is an Islamisist or completely unable to understand that western civilization is under attack.

    • tilda says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 11:40 pm

      Might be time for non-muslims across America to put on a demonstration demanding that the mega mosque be converted into a church — can call it “Hagia Sophia US Style”.

      The President understands….

    • underbed cat says

      Jun 2, 2015 at 3:55 pm

      I could be wrong I thought that it already was conquered and turned into a mosque, didn’t obama visit this once church/ mosque…….?

  5. William Lucas Harvey Jr. says

    May 31, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    “Muslims from across Turkey demand Hagia Sophia be turned back into mosque”

    TYPICAL Islam’s “Dominate the World” Muslims – With their “Territorial Acquisition” Goals.
    DEMANDING EVERYTHING to be FORCIBLY turned into a Mosque – and the Hagia Sophia Museum notwithstanding – INCLUDING EVEN Christian Churches.

    DEMANDING that the World be Ruled by Islam and Islamic Sharia Law, as per the “Dictates” of the Qur’an, Allah, and Mohammed.

    DEMANDING World Wide FORCED “Blasphemy Laws”, with CRININAL Penalties.
    REFUSING even to Recognize the Laws of ANY Non-Islamic Country, such as America – in which the Constitution IS the “SUPREME” Law of the Land.

  6. Jack Holan says

    May 31, 2015 at 11:00 pm

    is Erdogan and Turkey looking for a Holy War? They could lose NATO membership for starters. Cyprus can officially become all Greek. Can he imagine Al Aqsa becoming part of the Third Temple because of him?

    • Caroline says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 6:19 am

      The EU is preparing to spend millions of euros to persuade the Turkish people that they should join the EU. Not that they will need any persuading. After all, Europe really needs millions more Muslims, right?

  7. Richie says

    May 31, 2015 at 11:35 pm

    How long before Muslims lie and claim that it was always a mosque and never a church?

  8. Bridget Ames says

    May 31, 2015 at 11:50 pm

    Where are all the Christian in the West demanding that the Hagia Sophia go back to be a Church?

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 12:20 am

      NATO should tell Turkey, point blank, that unless and until the Hagia Sophia is given back free and clear to the Greek Christians, to be theirs in perpetuity, restored and reconsecrated and used for the purpose for which it was originally built (built by Christians), Turkey is gonna be OUT of NATO.

      And Christians within the EU have to start telling 1/ their own governments and 2/ the EU, loud and clear, that Turkey’s arrogant refusal to give back the Hagia Sophia to the Greek Orthodox Christians whose forebears built it and worshipped in it for **one thousand years** and whose rightful property it is (and why not mention, also, the many *other* less well known places of historic Christian worship and of monastic life, built by Christians, within Turkey, that have been seized, desecrated, and squatted in by the sneering Muslims) is clear grounds for denying Turkey membership of the EU. EVER.

      • Richie says

        Jun 1, 2015 at 9:16 am

        reminding Muslims of reality and actual history is demed islamophoibic

      • Brian Hoff says

        Jun 1, 2015 at 2:45 pm

        First NATO is than military Allialion that have nothing to do with the religish beifet of it member sdtates. Some of thjose Christian church where sold by the member to the moslim community tfor cash, when than christian community convert to Islam since they own the church they are free to turn it into than mosque. Your bigist is showing.

        • Angemon says

          Jun 1, 2015 at 3:20 pm

          Brian, try again, this time in proper English.

        • John Stefan Obeda says

          Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 pm

          Yeah, sure, Christians have sold their Christian churches to the Islam-Mafia very happily just as they happily have paid the Islam-Mafia the Jizya for not getting murdered. Islam is built on lies and deception and cheating and illusions with which the Islamists fool themselves. When death occurs and the Islamist meets the true God, he/she will learn the truth, but too late. How sad, too late! How unfortunate it is for the Islamists that they refuse to see the truth which God reveals in the Bible.

  9. Fr. Basil says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 12:05 am

    I pray that the Church of the Holy Wisdom will collapse and sink into the earth before it is further desecrated.

  10. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 3:40 am

    “…Hagia Sophia remained a center of Orthodox Christianity until 1453, when the city was conquered by Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, known as the Conqueror of Istanbul….”

    I expect they are either proud or impervious to the slaughter that occurred inside the church when it was taken.

    • George Romero says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 5:24 am

      They are proud of the slaughter that took place in the church , they burnt those people alive and the city was ransacked by muslim savages for three days , rape , torture , looting , slaughter of old and young , women and girls abused in every way you could think ,men and boys were killed in every sadistic manner , then the city was declared a muslim city and the rest is history.Tourist companies around the world say the city is rich in heritage and a mecca for their cuisine , but wont mention the actual history of this sick society.

      • Brian Hoff says

        Jun 1, 2015 at 2:57 pm

        All army back then where given 3 days to loot and rape and kill at large many christian army did it to christian city when the latin took this city in the 4th cusude they did more rape and looting and murdering than when the mosque took the city. He revoke the 3 day of looting and rapeing and murdering in thisd case. He want it as his capul city.

        • Angemon says

          Jun 1, 2015 at 3:25 pm

          Brian Hoff posted:

          “when the latin took this city in the 4th cusude”

          Latin is not a nationality, and what the hell is a “cusude”?

          “they did more rape and looting and murdering than when the mosque took the city.”

          A mosque took the city? What?

          Are you saying that when Crusaders participating in the 4th Crusade plundered the city they did worse than muslims did when they took it? That’s so preposterously stupid that’s infuriating having to spend any amount of time refuting the evidence you give to back your claim. Which is zero.

        • Angemon says

          Jun 1, 2015 at 3:32 pm

          Ups, accidentally pressed the “post comment” button.

          More from Brian “Illiterate Liar” Hoff:

          “He revoke the 3 day of looting and rapeing and murdering in thisd case. He want it as his capul city.”

          He did so after seeing the damage this soldiers were doing, not because of the kindness of his heart. By then the vast majority of the populace was dead, raped, despoiled or enslaved. He probably feared that there would be no riches left for him by the end of the 3rd day.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 9:10 am

      The Hagia Sophia offers Muslims two things.
      1. An excuse to show their ass.
      2. A place to show their ass.

  11. albert says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 5:28 am

    Why doesn’t the Pope and other western church Leaders protest, we don’t hear a peep from them, the only church leaders we hear protesting about the destruction of churches and slaughter of Christians are eastern Orthodox ones.

    • bukkdem Jizheads says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 2:30 pm

      He is busy hosting an encyclical about Global Warming. Why can’t he condemn polygamy, for a start?

      Polygamy is what causes the extra men to maraud and slaughter… to get a woman. Mohammed was a diabolical designer of a wildly expansionist society. Too bad they’re all inbred now.

  12. Alboocat says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 8:16 am

    Well, I want to see it turned back into a CHURCH.

  13. Nikiforos Fokas says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 10:22 am

    Turkey is the lovely child of USA and NATO … With the benediction of USA and NATO turkey invated christian Chyprus and occupies 40% of the christian island … Do you know that christian westerners prohibited to the victorious greek army the entry in Constantinople during the WW I ? Well they gave Constantinople to the Turks !
    Soon Aghia Sofia { is an other name for Jesus Christ } will be mosque and then we will see the reactions of the “sensitive” westerners … Perhaps Russia can protect Aghia Sofia from this sacrilege.

  14. Laurence says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 10:49 am

    In Turkey Muslims take to the streets with their demands to revert the long standing Hagia Sophia (Church, Mosque, Museum, World Heritage site) back into a Mosque, then why don’t Christians also take to the streets en masse to implore with one united voice that Turkey officials return the Hagia Sophia back into it’s original state, a magnificent Basilica (Church). Sadly, I suspect I know why.

    As an alternative, why don’t large numbers of Turkey’s more secularly-minded Muslims along with Christians protest visually and audibly en masse for the Hagia Sophia to continue being a Museum, World Heritage site.

    If only things were that at least as simple as all that.

  15. ToastedHam says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 11:04 am

    NOTHING EVER CHANGES WITH THESE ANIMALS:

    Constantinople was taken by the Ottomans on 29 May 1453. In accordance with the custom at the time Sultan Mehmet II allowed his troops three days of unbridled pillage once the city fell, after which he would claim its contents for himself. Hagia Sophia was not exempted from the pillage, becoming its focal point as the invaders believed it to contain the greatest treasures of the city. Shortly after the city’s defenses collapsed, pillagers made their way to the Hagia Sophia and battered down its doors. Throughout the siege worshipers participated in the Holy Liturgy and Prayer of the Hours at the Hagia Sophia, and the church formed a refuge for many of those who were unable to contribute to the city’s defense, such as women, children and elderly. Trapped in the church, congregants and refugees became spoils to be divided amongst the Ottoman invaders. The building was desecrated and looted, and occupants enslaved, violated or slaughtered; while elderly and infirm were killed, women and girls were raped and the remainder chained and sold into slavery. Priests continued to perform Christian rites until stopped by the invaders. When the Sultan and his cohort entered the church, he insisted it should be at once transformed into a mosque. One of the Ulama then climbed the pulpit and recited the Shahada.

  16. Albert S Golbert says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 12:28 pm

    It is not as if another mosque was needed in the vicinity of Hagia Sofia. The Ahmed II Cami (known in the West as the “Blue Mosque”) is in the same area. Were it to be reconverted to a mosque, the exquisite mosaics lovingly restored could well be lost altogether this time. Islamists have no respect for beliefs other than their own and neither reason nor antiquity are meaningful counterweights to their motiviation to destroy that which they consider to be un-Islamic. I have spent a good deal of time in Turkey over the years, and have seen the Hagia Sofia before and after restoration. The light and colors of the mosaics turned the ancient church from an architectural curiosity (it was amongst the first to use “flying buttresses” to support its huge dome) to a spiritual delight. To the threatened conversion I say: “Gec¸ miş olsun” (May it never happen again.)

  17. Charli Main says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    An eye witness report of the rape of Constantinople by the Muslim filth of Islam. Its long, but please find the time to read.

    Nine thousand Christians fought off 150,000 Muslims for two months, before the city fell. The battle is often called the ” Alamo of Eastern Christianity ”

    “Nothing will ever equal the horror of this harrowing and terrible spectacle.”

    An observer describes the scene:

    “Nothing will ever equal the horror of this harrowing and terrible spectacle. People frightened by the shouting ran out of their houses and were cut down by the sword before they knew what was happening. And some were massacred in their houses where they tried to hide, and some in churches where they sought refuge.

    Sack of Constanopile
    A contemporary depiction of the battle

    The enraged Turkish soldiers . . . gave no quarter. When they had massacred and there was no longer any resistance, they were intent on pillage and roamed through the town stealing, disrobing, pillaging, killing, raping, taking captive men, women, children, old men, young men, monks, priests, people of all sorts and conditions . . . There were virgins who awoke from troubled sleep to find those brigands standing over them with bloody hands and faces full of abject fury. This medley of all nations, these frantic brutes stormed into their houses, dragged them, tore them, forced them, dishonored them, raped them at the cross-roads and made them submit to the most terrible outrages. It is even said that at the mere sight of them many girls were so stupefied that they almost gave up the ghost.

    Old men of venerable appearance were dragged by their white hair and piteously beaten. Priests were led into captivity in batches, as well as reverend virgins, hermits and recluses who were dedicated to God alone and lived only for Him to whom they sacrificed themselves, who were dragged from their cells and others from the churches in which they had sought refuge, in spite of their weeping and sobs and their emaciated cheeks, to be made objects of scorn before being struck down. Tender children were brutally snatched from their mothers’ breasts and girls were pitilessly given up to strange and horrible unions, and a thousand other terrible things happened. . .

    Temples were desecrated, ransacked and pillaged . . . sacred objects were scornfully flung aside, the holy icons and the holy vessels were desecrated. Ornaments were burned, broken in pieces or simply thrown into the streets. Saints’ shrines were brutally violated in order to get out the remains which were then thrown to the wind. Chalices and cups for the celebration of the Mass were set aside for their orgies or broken or melted down or sold. Priests’ garments embroidered with gold and set with pearls and gems were sold to the highest bidder and thrown into the fire to extract the gold. Immense numbers of sacred and profane books were flung on the fire or tom up and trampled under foot. The majority, however, were sold at derisory prices, for a few pence. Saints’ altars, tom from their foundations, were overturned. All the most holy hiding places were violated and broken in order to get out the holy treasures which they contained . . .

    When Mehmed (II) saw the ravages, the destruction and the deserted houses and all that had perished and become ruins, then a great sadness took possession of him and he repented the pillage and all the destruction. Tears came to his eyes and sobbing he expressed his sadness. ‘What a town this was! And we have allowed it to be destroyed’! His soul was full of sorrow. And in truth it was natural, so much did the horror of the situation exceed all limits.”

    References:
    This eyewitness account appears in: Routh, C. R. N. They Saw It Happen in Europe 1450-1600 (1965).

    How To Cite This Article:
    “The Sack of Constantinople, 1453” EyeWitness to History, http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2011).

  18. Richie says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    The west should demand that the Hagia Sophia be turned back into a Christian Greek orthodox church.

    I fully expect Muslims will destroy the building and kill people if their demands are not met

  19. Richie says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 4:36 pm

    How will this affect the always fragile Greek/Turkish relationship if the Hagia Sophia is turned into a demonic mosque? Many Greeks still feel that Constantinople was and still is at its foundations a Greek city

    • Nikiforos Fokas says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 6:10 pm

      It will be very very hard psychologicaly for ALL {without exeption } the Greek people to see their Great Church {the bigest christian temple during 1100 years , from 532 AD until the construction of Saint Peter in Rome } turned to a temple of antichrist Mohammed .
      But I think that the turkish islamic elit is totally barbarian but not totally stupid … so they will use the church as a mosque only for some islamic seremonies and ofcourse every 29th May.

  20. Angemon says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    You know what? It wouldn’t surprise me if Erdogan already has a complete plan to turn back the Church of Hagia Sophia into a mosque but he’s just waiting for the perfect occasion – like, for example, Turkey entering the EU.

  21. Sam says

    Jun 1, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    What can I say. Islam is really winning all over the place one way or the other. The west will not fight and is not fighting Islam. America must take the lead to start fighting this evil. I am not seeing that happening anytime soon either. Strange

    • John says

      Jun 1, 2015 at 7:50 pm

      Just as the NWO elites have flooded Europe with Muslim immigrants and Communist cronies, so they’ve flooded America with Communist Democrat Hispanic malcontents and formed a majority coalition with Jews, blacks, blue collar laborers and Liberal Feminazi women. The inmates run the Asylum, and the inmates elected a Muslim President. America, once the bastion of freedom and a voice of morality in the world, Ronald Reagan’s shining city on hill’s become a corrupted banana republic, where everything’s for sale, including the presidency.

  22. clonetrooper says

    Jun 2, 2015 at 5:56 am

    In one of the big german newspapers you could read a long article on how the Turks are making it more and more difficult for “normal” people to drink alcohol. Newly imposed taxes making beer, wine and raki purchases more and more extensive. And I am sure the Turkish Administration only wants their citrizens to live a more healthy life style.There was a time you would see fewer head scarfs in Istanbul than in Berlin…but if Erdogan stays longer in power, this will change rapidly and we will have an emerging Islamist power house in NATO
    But we shouldn’t dispair, our dhimmi German politicians will make sure that Berlin will still be the German Head Scarf Central.

  23. Cindy says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 1:51 am

    Who do these people think that they are to demand that anyone anyplace in the world should stop and do what they say to do???? What makes them THINK that they are right and everyone else is wrong?????? How dare they??? There are people who do have the truth and do not demand that they do it. It would be a great idea for them to learn from the Truth, but they have free will and can walk away from the greatest gift ever given!!!!! But that is the way it works you get a choice, you are not demanded!!!!!!!! So Jesus Christ is of course the best choice. He is kind and gentle and He is never pushy, He gives you all the time you need to think it over, as a matter of fact He tells you to count the cost. Are you ready for the journey of a lifetime???? With the Creator of the universe??????

  24. andrew sapia says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 9:17 pm

    While at the very same time insisting that the Cathedral in Cordoba be given back to the Muslims. Even though it was original a church turned into a mosque and then back into a cathedral. Everything with the Muslims is a double standard. They come here and want free speech they want to build their mosques, they want to do Dawa, none of which is permitted for Christians in the lands where they come from. In Egypt you will cause a riot if you try to repair a leaking toilette in your church without permission from the governor, and ask a Muslim here in the west and 80% of them will tell you this is perfectly acceptable. Christians in Muslim lands should be treated one way while Muslims in Christian lands be treated another. It is all part of the doctrine of Islamic supremacy. They really disgust me. I am so sick to death of them and their perpetual grievance mongering and they’re total lack of introspection, their complete lack of empathy and inability to ever apologize for anything Islam has done in the past. As if no one in all of Islamic history ever did a bad thing and not a single Christian or Jew ever did a good one. They just suck and I am tired of them. If it were up to me not a single Muslim would ever be permitted to emigrate here. All we are doing is buying headaches for our grandchildren and they will curse us for it, if they still have tongues with which to curse us.

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