But…but…but…dialogue! “Islamic militants announce plan to transform Mosul church into mosque,” by Laura Ieraci, Catholic News Service, June 8, 2015:
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — One of the largest churches in Mosul, Iraq, will be transformed into a mosque.
According to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Islamic State militants posted notices throughout the city announcing that the Syrian Orthodox Church of St. Ephrem, which they emptied last fall, will reopen soon as the “mosque of the mujahideen” or jihad fighters.
The news came just before the one-year anniversary of the capture of Mosul by Islamic State fighters June 10.
Fides said the militants’ intention to convert the church into a mosque became clear when they removed the cross from the church’s dome, chose the adjacent buildings to house the headquarters of their “state council” last July, and emptied the church of its furnishings and put them on sale in November….
ich says
And the world sits silent because truth i s, not too many people care.
Such a shame, We are all cowards.
Just look out for #1. ME ME ME.
One day we will be sorry.
Jovial Joe says
They’ve emptied it of its contents so why aren’t we bombing it, during the concecration ceremony preferably?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
They won’t bomb it just like they wouldn’t fire a Hellcat missile from that drone when they saw from its camera what looked like Osama* and a few of his buds walking across a Moslem cemetery: doing so would disrespect one of the world’s great religions, one of the three Abrahamic faiths. The cemetery, not Osama; we were offically mad at him then.
* Osama, not Obama. Never mix the two up. The one was a political activist Arab born in Arabia; the other, the one we have now, is a political activist mulatto born in Jakarta.
Brian Hoff says
Since you are born in the UK you arenot than born in america citizen, Our President was born in america so he is born america presidental citizen. There is than special Department of the highter court in america that look into these matter of who can hold office.
duh_swami says
Brian…Your President? Your President is Mahound, the Quran is your Constitution…Sharia is your law.
It doesn’t matter where Rasool Obama was born. His mother was a citizen and that makes him eligible…of course there is that small matter of , why the fake birth certificate?
gravenimage says
Whatever is “Brian Hoff”—really, “DefenderofIslam”—on about now? Why doesn’t he believe that pig farmers can be American? Does he think that the US is that far gone down the road to Islamization?
More importantly, note that he has not a *word* of criticism for his buddies in ISIS seizing a church for use as a mosque, nor for slaughtering the church’s former parishioners.
And why would he? All of this is perfectly Islamic, and he probably can’t wait to do just the same in Texas.
Peggy says
If you really believe that then you’re easily fooled.
Even if he was born in America he is still dangerous. First generation born Muslims in the west are actually more radical.
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Nikiforos Fokas says
NOT SURPRISED … Turks transformed many greek -byzantine cgurches into mosques .
They converted Agia Sophia of Nicea {the place of Nicean Creed !} to a mosque and no one christian country or organisation or ecclesiastic institution said a word !
Angemon says
And they surprised no one by doing so. That’s the MO throughout islamic history.
mortimer says
St. Ephrem’s may become an armory and hiding place of ISIS assets hoping to keep it from being bombed by being a church and a mosque.
Kepha says
In 1009, the Fatimid ruler al-Hakin destroyed the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which the Crusaders later rebuilt. St. Ephrem’s and the Monastery of St. Matthew can be rebuilt.
William Lucas Harvey Jr. says
Islam, the Philosophy of HATE, seems to want just about EVERYTHING in the World turned into a “Mosque”, with a typical HATE Preaching “Death to the Infidel” Imam.
umbra says
non-islamic isis converts a church into a non-islamic mosque?!
Jay Boo says
News Flash!
ISIS has nothing to do with Qur’an or Sharia
According to author of book “Demystifying The Caliphate” interview on BBC late last night.
Jay Boo says
I searched but could not locate a link of program segment aired on NPR/BBC
Angemon says
Jay Boo posted:
“According to author of book “Demystifying The Caliphate””
I think that book was published in my country. But with another name – “Turd Polishing For Dummies”.
sencit says
They have removed the cross from the top of the building, but what are they going to do about the crosses built into the windows? Have they even noticed that?
somehistory says
Tear them out or pretend they are the middle part of the swastika of their hero, hitler.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
This news of the Mosque of the Mujahidin distresses me. Where has the good old fashioned hard working Moslem ethnic gone, and its needed more than ever now, with the rise of the New Caliphate. Back in the day, Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik has his boys construct the Dome of the Rock atop the Temple of Jerusalem once trod by Jesus. Man, that was a slap in the face, a bitter waker uppper, which is what Jihad is all about.
So now, here we have the spectacle of the New Caliph Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi letting his boys simply steal a church, slap a big metal moon & scimitar sign over the front door, and declare it a mosque. The slap in the face here is that the New Caliph with his oil revenue has the dough for a grand building project, but he’s no doing it. What’s the matter, are his Moslem men too lazy or unskilled to pick up a tool and get to building?
Islam is going down hill.
somehistory says
Your mention of the dome, reminds me of a story a little of topic…The supreme court decided that the president is in charge of saying whether or not an American born in Jerusalem can have it listed on his passport and reversed what congress did in ’02. All because muslims say Jerusalem belongs to them, so the pres won’t say it belongs to Israel. So now anyone getting an American passport who was born in Israel, can’t have that on his/her passport as the place of birth.
Not only did they take the ground and say it is their *holy* place….they can keep a person’s place of birth off his passport because they claim the entire city as their own.
They defile everything they touch.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
An admixture of Legal Jihad and Blood Jihad, all officiated by a born Moslem who claims to be a Christian but probably is an atheist, who is decoupled form history with a college degree in history but we’re not sure about that because for some unexplained reason he has ordered his college records kept sealed and secret.
I grew up hearing about the IJC and how the Jews controlled the media. Well, I must say, looking over the landscape now it’s apparent that the International Jewish Conspiracy was either underfunded or flat out mismanaged, or maybe even never existed at all, and even with all the money donated by Jews to Obama’s two campaigns, they can’t win for losing on the TV set, or even in the newspapers.
As the media denounce Bibi for having the nerve to defend Israel against incoming missiles and Mujahidin murder squads, one wonders at the thinking going on in the heads of the Jews who attended all those big money fundraisers in NYC and LA.
Angemon says
Alarmed Pig Farmer posted:
“An admixture of Legal Jihad and Blood Jihad, all officiated by a born Moslem who claims to be a Christian but probably is an atheist”
You’re correct. Obama is a muslim by birth. However, he worshiped for twenty years at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ where his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, ceaselessly denigrated and damned the United States, and declared Americans deserved the slaughter of innocents by muslims on 9/11. So clearly, there’s nothing wrong with Obama’s religion.
RonaldB says
I doubt that Obama is an atheist. If he were, he wouldn’t be so concerned with protecting Islam, with preventing blasphemy and criticism of Muhammad.
Furthermore, as an atheist, he wouldn’t be so emotional about the beauty of Islamic call to prayer.
He would also be aware that an atheist does not even have the dhimmi protection that “people of the book” have. In other words, his choice in an Islamic society would be accept Islam or die.
My opinion is that it’s not fruitful to speculate on Obama’s internal state. His actions are consistent and predictable, so no need to speculate on his thoughts or internal identifications.
Georg says
Maybe they’re trying to moderate themselves a la Erdogan. I suppose there is only one Islam.
Richie says
More Islamic distain for Christianity, yet the western media turns a blind eye.
This will be happening in Europe within 100 years if things don’t change
Charli Main says
@ Richie
Muslim groups have been buying up disused and abandoned churches, in the UK, and turning them into Mosques for decades.
The Church of England appears to have no shame in this matter.
particolor says
Don’t tell them we painted the walls with Pigs Droppings and then painted them over !! SHH !!
duh_swami says
A place does not get ‘holy’ out of nothing. It takes humans to create it. There are all kinds of places that have their own aura’s of detectible ‘feelings’, like a cemetery at night, or when you first enter a mental ward, and can feel the tensions…An old time ‘bughouser’ told me to, ‘take the pulse of the ward’…When someone enters a church, the sensitive can feel the positive energy of prayer and worship because that energy is contained in the place, as is the negativity behind the locked door in an institution…The reason that Mahoundians like to make mosques out of churches is to vampire that latent positive energy. How often has a mosque been converted into a church?
Lioness says
The Pope should be so proud of his “dialogue” achievements. Won’t be long before ISIS will transform the Vatican into a large mosque, judging by the number of Muslims arriving on the shores of Italy.
gravenimage says
Supremacist Muslims have, of course, been doing this since the earliest days of Islam.
Here is a gothic church—St. Nicholas—in Cyprus with its bell tower sheared off and and awkwardly replaced with a minaret:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lala_Mustafa_Pasha_Mosque
St. Ephrem lived in the 4th century, born on what is today the Turkey/Syria border. He wrote hymns—forbidden in Islam—and died while caringly ministering to victims of the plague.
And a church dedicated to this decent and humane saint is going to replaced by a mosque lauding brutal Jihadist “Mujahideen”. *Ugh*.
Here is a beautiful modern production of St. Ephrem’s “Hymn to the Light”: