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Turkey builds 9,000 mosques, bans Orthodox Christian Liturgy

Oct 7, 2016 7:19 am By Robert Spencer

“What secular, democratic republic builds thousands of mosques with state funds — taxpayer money — while closing the Halki Seminary of the Eastern Orthodox Church and confiscating countless Christian properties?”

Erdogan’s intentions are obvious. But apparently because the victims are Christian, the global “human rights community” takes little, if any, notice.

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“Turkey Builds 9,000 Mosques, Bans Orthodox Christian Liturgy,” by Robert Jones, PJ Media, October 6, 2016 (thanks to David):

A total of 8,985 mosques were built between 2005 and 2015 by the Turkish government over the last decade in Turkey, according to statistics released by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet).

The Central Anatolian province of Konya contained the highest number of mosques, Dogan News Agency reported on Sept. 16. Ankara, the southern province of Antalya, the Black Sea provinces of Ordu and Trabzon, and the southeastern province of Diyarbakır were among the other provinces with over 2,000 mosques.

While the Turkish government has built so many mosques across the country with state funds, it has banned Orthodox Christian liturgy in the Sumela Monastery, a historic site in Trabzon.

Sumela Monastery, located in the district of Macka — or Matsuka in Greek — in Trabzon province is one of the oldest monasteries in the Christian world. According to records, it was built by two Athenian monks, St. Barnabas and his nephew St. Sophronios, and was inaugurated by the bishop of Trabzon in 386 A.D.

The province of Trabzon, located in the ancient region of Pontos, the northeast portion of Anatolia adjacent to the Black Sea, also has a long Greek and Christian history. The word “Pontos” means “sea” in Greek.

“Trabzon was settled by Greeks probably by the 7th century BC,” writes researcher Sam Topalidis for the website Pontos World. “Trabzon was the ancient capital of the Greek speaking Komnenos Byzantine Kingdom (1204–1461). It survived until 1461, eight years after the fall of Byzantine Constantinople when both localities fell to the Ottoman Turks.”

After the city’s invasion by the Ottoman Turks, the local demographic began to change; but for centuries, Christians were the majority in the city.

According to Topalidis, Trabzon’s Muslim population increased dramatically under the Ottoman rule due to:

“However, the most important reason for the conversions was probably due to the higher taxes paid by Christians (compared to Muslims), a strong economic incentive for the poorest Christians,” writes Topalidis.

The tax he refers to is the “jizya tax” — money paid by Christians and Jews in order to be allowed to survive and to keep practicing their religion, according to Islamic law.

Prior to the Pontian (or Pontic) Greek genocide that started in 1914, at least 43% of Trabzon’s population was still Christian: Greeks, Armenians, and a small minority of Catholics.

During the 1914-1923 Pontian Greek Genocide by the Muslim Turks, “out of approximately 700,000 Pontian Greeks who lived in Turkey at the beginning of World War I, as many as 350,000 were killed, and almost all the rest had been uprooted during the subsequent forced population exchange between Greece and Turkey. This was the end of one of the most ancient Greek civilizations in Asia Minor.”

Even after 102 years, Turkey still denies the Pontian Greek genocide.

The Sumela Monastery in the city was also closed for prayers until 2010 when, for the first time since the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923, Orthodox Christians were allowed by the Turkish government to celebrate mass on August 15.

Bartholomew I, the current archbishop of Constantinople and ecumenical patriarch, led the service, which was held in honor of the Assumption of Mary, a Christian sacred day. Orthodox bishops from Australia, Ukraine, the United States, Greece, and Georgia traveled to Sumela to participate in the mass, according to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.

But this year, the Turkish authorities suddenly banned Christian liturgy for the Feast of the Assumption in the monastery.

The authorities notified the Ecumenical Patriarchate that the license for the yearly mass at Sumela Monastery has been revoked for this August.

According to the site Greek Reporter:

The ban has caused great disappointment to thousands of Pontian people worldwide, and people from Greece who had planned to travel to the region these days to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption.

Sources within the Patriarchate of Constantinople, who prefer to remain anonymous, and many Pontic Greeks believe that the construction’s “static problems” invoked is a pretext and they fear that Christian mass will never be allowed in the historic monastery again.

This arbitrary ban seems to be yet another demonstration of the “unofficial” second-class status of Christians in Turkey.

As the scholar Robert Spencer puts it:

That the Greek Orthodox need special permission to celebrate divine services in any of their churches in what is now Turkey is a dark reminder of the Islamic oppression of Eastern Christians from the mid-7th Century to today, and for the Greeks, especially from the Muslim conquest of Constantinople in 1453 through the defeat of the Ottoman Empire by the Western Powers during World War I.

Today, Greek-speaking Orthodox Christians are a tiny, dwindling minority in Turkey — around 2,500 people — and the community routinely faces discrimination.

“Christians are certainly seen as second-class citizens,” Walter Flick, a religious expert with the International Society for Human Rights in Germany, told the publication DW. “A real citizen is Muslim, and those who aren’t Muslim are seen as suspicious. Christians aren’t equal. They don’t have full rights.”

Moreover, the Turkish government does not recognize the title “the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople,” which represents 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.

“He has not been able to wield this title as he should,” said Flick. “And this is a historic title that’s been around since the 6th century. He isn’t referred to as ‘Ecumenical Patriarch’ within Turkey. The name is accepted overseas, but in Turkey he can’t use that title, which was afforded by the European Convention on Human Rights.”

Another indication of Turkey’s discrimination against its Greek-speaking Orthodox citizens is the situation of the Halki seminary in Istanbul, or the Theological School of Halki, the main school of theology of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It was closed by the Turkish state in 1971 and it has not been reopened.

The Turkish state has also confiscated much real estate belonging to Greek Orthodox Christians.

“Many properties have been lost over the past few decades, for example office buildings, orphanages and other institutions,” added Flick.

The Turkish Constitution, however, asserts that Turkey is “a secular and democratic republic that derives its sovereignty from the people.” And Turkish state authorities, for decades, boasted of “being the only truly secular country” in the Muslim world.

Today, many Turkish secularists are crying over what they think is the “defeat of Turkish secularism at the hands of the current Islamic government.”

What secular, democratic republic builds thousands of mosques with state funds — taxpayer money — while closing the Halki Seminary of the Eastern Orthodox Church and confiscating countless Christian properties?…

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  1. john spielman says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 7:25 am

    disgusting evil Turkish muslim govt Turkey should be kicked out of Nato and all Nato resources im Turkey should be sent to Greece. Time to let turkey be fried in Greece

    • Crusades Were Right! says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 7:36 am

      “Time to let turkey be fried in Greece”

      I see what you did there!

      ; ¬)

    • Praeceptor Maximus says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 7:50 am

      I agree, but spineless NATO would never do it. Certainly Merkel wouldn’t do it. The European leadership needs to change before change can happen in dealing with this evil bastard Erdogan.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      Yes–Turkey never should have been part of NATO.

      • Johan elzinga says

        Oct 7, 2016 at 4:26 pm

        I agree completely and would like to take this further. The treaty between the EU and Turkey that allows for favorable tariffs on trade should be put on hold until Turkey returns to democracy and lets the people go that are accused of preparing the coup unless there is solid evidence and they can be visited by their family and their lawyer, and get a fair and public trial. And full press freedom is restored, controlled by EU deputees. In addition, there should be a zero tolerance policy on funding of mosques or payment of imams in our country by money from the ill to be trusted Turkish government. And, as noted, no Nato support for Turkey anymore after the grizzly crimes against and mass killings of the Kurdish people, and the support for IS by the Turkish government.

        • Wellington says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 7:12 pm

          Returns to democracy, Johan elzinga? But Turkey has never been a democracy, not a true democracy. Never.

          Turkey, like so many other majority Muslim nations, can be a secularist entity with freedom more or less existing, or an Islamic polity with Islamic law more or less existing. But a true democracy with real freedom existing? NEVER.

      • Wellington says

        Oct 7, 2016 at 7:06 pm

        With respect, gravenimage, when Turkey joined NATO in 1952 It was fully under a secularist, Ataturk-type regime (e.g., if one was a Turkish officer and his brother made a pilgrimage to Mecca said officer was dismissed from the service). It served as a bulwark against Soviet designs and was thus a very valuable ally in the Cold War, a necessary ally.

        True, Turkey under Ataturk was surely not a free country, but Realpolitik requires compromise of all sorts, a classic example being America’s aligning with Stalin against Hitler.

        Turkey in NATO as of 1952 represents such a compromise I would contend. It was highly important at the time to have Turkey in NATO. And were Turkey still an essentially secular though not free state, would you object to it being in NATO? I doubt it. It’s Erdogan and his ilk as Muslim devout rogues here and not the post-Ataturk Turkey who joined NATO back in 1952.

        Truman and Eisenhower were justified in treating Turkey as a NATO member. No longer of course, but then look at the fool who is now President. Quite a contrast he is to the 33rd and 34th Presidents.

        • Angemon says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 8:14 pm

          Yeah, the geopolitical stage and players changed from ’52 to today, as well as the pressing threats.

        • Kepha says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 10:04 pm

          Ataturk blew it. European nationalism stressed common territory, history, and language. Hence, had Ataturk declared people like the Qaramanli and Urum (Turkish in language but Orthodox Christian by religion) to be “Turks” rather than swapping them for Thessalian and Cretan Muslim Hellenophones, he might’ve made a start at truly ssecularizing the Turkish state. Given that the coup plotters were apparently supporters of Fethullah Gulen (an erstwhile Islamicist aally of Erdogan’s), my guess is that the Kemalist secular vision is dead as a doornail in Turkey.

      • Angemon says

        Oct 7, 2016 at 8:11 pm

        I respectfully disagree, GI. Turkey shouldn’t be a part of Nato nowadays. But Turkey nowadays is not the same as when it joined Nato. Same thing for the geopolitical stage and players. So, while I agree that Turkey should be given a swift kick out of Nato and not allowed to join the EU, I won’t go as far as saying that it should never have been allowed into Nato in the first place.

        • Mark Swan says

          Oct 9, 2016 at 6:58 am

          It is certain that NATO membership means more to Turkey than it does to anyone else.

      • Mark Swan says

        Oct 9, 2016 at 8:25 am

        Now as to the reasons real or imagined, has Turkey contributed anything that shows
        it was necessary as part of NATO–Truman’s doctrine is at best just that. The Truman
        Doctrine was the first in a series of containment moves by the United States, followed
        by economic restoration of Western Europe through the Marshall Plan and military containment by the creation of NATO in 1949. It brought nation-building activities and modernization programs to the fore front of foreign policy. All this provided the United
        States with its willingness to direct military confrontation with communist forces in
        Korea and Vietnam.

        It is over now, this is now and that was then, did we benefit from any of it, I will not
        way in either way. Hindsight can give lots of for and against why we allowed NATO
        membership to Turkey.

  2. Crusades Were Right! says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 7:44 am

    Looks like the Turks are putting the finishing touches to their genocide of the Christian peoples of Asia Minor and Eastern Balkans, while the West looks on and does nothing to stop it.

    No “Christian Lives Matter” demonstrations in America, or anywhere else. That would be “Islamophobic” and “racist”, of course.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      Grimly spot on.

      • Bob says

        Oct 8, 2016 at 7:41 am

        And Crusades were Right – the exalted UN & Security Council mob’re silent. Christians’re of no interest to the muslim majority.

  3. kessler says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 7:48 am

    It is curious why anyone taking pride in our hard fought freedoms and principles of democracy would consider Turkey an ally – and work towards their EU membership.
    There is a staggering amount of evidence that Turkey is increasingly incompatible with a Western democracy, that a majority of it’s citizens are not remotely interested to align themselves with our values and that their dictator is working hard to distance the country from secularism.
    So either these people are traitors who seek the destruction of their own democratic values, plain stupid or directed by political correctness – as in being aware of the threat, but scared to speak out.

    In any case – the evidence that Turkey is unfit to be a Western ally is staggering. And they are not even trying to hide their intentions. We need a complete overhaul in leadership to protect our very existence. On top of the 1 million+ muslim immigrants – imagine what an uncontrolled immigration of Turkish muslims would do to our freedoms. It is not the sort of Turks who immigrated to Germany 30+ years ago when Turkey was secular. It is the awakened Turks who want to re-islamize. Turks who are in conflict with everything we stand for. Good luck to us all.

  4. Jerry says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 8:33 am

    With every new mosque our nation becomes more like Turkey. Muslims are building a new climate of bigotry and hate right under our noses. Thanks in part to obama’s dangerous and conciliatory policies our nation is replicating the mistakes of Europe. We cannot survive a massive influx of muslims, the culture and religion they import means the destruction of our own. A new age of doom and gloom is coming, our nation will be saturated with muslims’ discrimination and intolerance. Islam is abusive toward their own people and it’s 100 times more abusive toward others. Right now we’re seeing their hatred of us in the mass murder they commit. And once they grow strong enough politically we’ll be rather surprised at how quickly we become another Turkey. Their cult of hate and stupidity will be a gigantic monkey on our backs that will never go away.

    That’s why we need to rid our politics of traitors like obama and hillary, their globalist agenda does not suit our times. Maybe 500 years from now we can all live together, but only if we’re living in a world without islam’s hateful and exclusive policies. And the mainstream media too must stop pandering muslims with puff pieces that gloss over the violence they do for their religion. The truth can be painful, I know. But with so much at stake it’s imperative that we confront islam honestly and with a conviction for the humane principles imbued in our constitution. Anything less would be a curse against our nation and the progress of human kind.

    Trump is right, no more muslims. Not until they stop living for that fascist religion that threatens us all.

    • boakai ngombu says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 9:15 am

      the slaves (Muslims) of the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) will not stop “living for that fascist religion” as long as SHARIA is tolerated and practiced and the memory of Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts; having no compassion) is eliminated.

      • Jerry says

        Oct 7, 2016 at 9:38 am

        Of course you’re 100% right about that. If they want to live for a demonic belief system in their own country then so be it, I’m all for free will. I prefer they not do it and I hope they overcome that vile ignorance. But ultimately I feel obligated to respect the idiotic traditions they live by. But now they want to bring that filth into my country too, and that’s a problem. Because bad ideas have a way of hurting the people around them. The more islam grows in our nation the worse things will be, it only requires commonsense to see this. That’s why obama and hillary are traitors, they’re smart enough to know this but they don’t care. Thank our lucky stars for Trump, he punched a hole in their wall of deceit. I’ll always be grateful for his patriotic stance against islam despite his painful flaws and gaffes.

        • Johan elzinga says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 4:33 pm

          Completely right at all points but one. I do not think you owe it to anyone to “respect” a violent or backward culture OR religion. I myself have NO respect OR any tolerance for societies, indindividuals or religions who spread terror or discrimination on the basis of any religion, be it the islam or any other faith.

        • Jerry says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 5:24 pm

          “Completely right at all points but one. I do not think you owe it to anyone to “respect” a violent or backward culture OR religion…”

          Thanks for that. My words didn’t match my intended meaning. What I meant to say is I feel obligated to respect their right to live by those idiotic traditions. My diction really gave the wrong impression.

        • Jerry says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 7:10 pm

          Johan,

          Actually I feel the need to amend my last remark. I respect their right to live for a demonic ideology but only to a point. Of course I object to muslims couching threats of violence or terror in the name of their “religion,” obviously that’s wrong. And of course I object to many of the crimes and immoralities within islamic culture because that too is a kind of terror. Those acts should be condemned and dealt with in proper measure by all civilized nations of the world. Naturally as an atheist I prefer they put aside their idiotic belief in muhammad and allah, but I recognize that cultures are different and must be granted at least a modicum of tolerance if it serves a larger peaceful agenda. We could just nuke them and defeat the evils of islam. But we’d be more evil for having done so. In our own nation I feel less an obligation to tolerate islam and the muslims who bring it. Our national and cultural identity is the product of many generation’s blood, sweat, and tears. I accept the unique dignity and greatness of our nation as the product of their hard work. It’s inhumane to expect our people to commit suicide for islam, an ideology built on hatred and bigotry of the worst kind. But that’s what hillary and obama would have us do, and I really mean that, they’d be perfectly happy destroying us for islam. I could not be more certain of this. So as much as Trump annoys me with his dumb-dumb ways, he really has served us well. Nobody else showed his courage in confronting the “religion of peace” that’s mass murdering us and our allies.

    • Alexius Comnenus says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 12:46 pm

      I agree entirely with your word above.
      Let us hope the vast majority of Americans see the historical dangerous situation our country is now.

  5. Johan says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 9:52 am

    Lets stop calling it a “tax” its criminal extortion by Islamic law What human being would willingly accept this racket of murder mongers disguised as a religion?

  6. August West says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 9:58 am

    Mosques = Barracks
    Domes = Helmets
    Minarets = Spears
    Muslims = Soldiers

    There is no moderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that is that.

    The thoughts and words of Caliph Erdogan.

    • Keys says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 11:00 am

      Thank you, August. Keep reminding us of Ergodan’s words, as needed.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 3:32 pm

      Exactly, August.

  7. Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:06 am

    2016/10/07 Is the feast day for all Catholics of Our Lady of the Rosary, was called Our Lay of Victory. Where on the 1571/10/07. We sent the Muslim fleet to the bottom of the Med, the battle of Lepanto.

    We celebrate this feast every year.

    You are all welcome to celebrate this feast with us.

    • Alexius Comnenus says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 12:47 pm

      HAPPY FEAST OF THE LEPANTO AND REMEMBER DON JOHN OF AUSTRIA A GREAT ADMIRAL AND BRILLIANT GENERAL AGAINST OTOMANS.

      • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

        Oct 7, 2016 at 2:17 pm

        Thanks, the late G. K, Chesterton wrote a great poem of the event. Have it somewhere, probably I will google it and end the feast off with that.

        Don John, what a good man.

        • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 2:55 pm

          Ha, thanks to You Tube

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 3:33 pm

          Thank you for posting that, Malcolm!

        • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 4:05 pm

          I thank you for all that you do, gravenimage.

          And pray today for all those affected by Hurricane Matthew.

    • Defen0derofIsliam says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 5:56 pm

      Ten years later the Ottoman Empire rebuilt they fleet an regain control of the sea.

      • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

        Oct 7, 2016 at 6:49 pm

        Before Lepanto, 1565 Catholic Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette the siege of Malta, with 700 knights and 8000 catholic regular troops, gave cowardly, 40 000 Islamic ottoman turks, a good hiding and sent them packing .

        We have no respect for evil, we confront it.

        • Mazo says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 9:23 pm

          Most of the Ottoman soldiers and officers weren’t Turks.

        • Kepha says

          Oct 7, 2016 at 10:20 pm

          To Mazo: To say that most of the Ottoman soldiers and officers weren’t Turks is like saying Eisenhower wasn’t an American because his last name means “Iron cutter” in German–or to say someone else born and bred in California or New York is not an American because his name means “what” in Classical Chinese.

          Turkey was the Islamic world’s America back in the Middle Ages–conquered land, a settler state, and lodestone to immigrants from as far afield as Sudan and Kashgar settling formerly Greek and Armenian land.

  8. Westman says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:39 am

    Turkey is dying both secularly and economically. The only prosperous, sans oil, majority Muslim country is being systematically turned toward the “recapture” of the Ottoman Empire’s Islamic glory – a fantasy.

    At something like 20 times the population of the Ottoman days, the retarding inertia of Islamic control will load down Turkey’s economic engine to a crawl. Multicultural Turkey is dying a quick death; erasing the innovation required for a modern state. With Erdogan in charge, destroying democracy and imposing a religion-based dictatorship, Turkey should not be in NATO.

    Here is a very interesting, but long, well-written, article’s by someone with roots in Istanbul.

    http://medium.com/the-big-roundtable/my-shattered-istanbul-355be366bbd3#.adav1ma2i

    • celtic says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 5:15 pm

      Excellent article. Thank you!

  9. Charli Main says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 11:47 am

    In the 19th century, Imperial Russian troops were systematically driving the Ottoman Muslim invaders out of Europe and on the point of liberating the holy Christian city of Constantinople.

    What went wrong??? The British, French and German Governments, of the day, went rushing off to defend their beloved Muslim brothers. Russia was threatened with the full weight of the British, French and German empires, if they did not stop their offensive against the Muslim Turks, illegally occupying Christian European land.

    Fxxxking un-believable.

    • Johan elzinga says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 4:35 pm

      Hillary, Obama, Merkel and the loony bin called the European commission happened.

      • Charli Main says

        Oct 8, 2016 at 3:37 am

        Yes, not much has changed since those Victorian days. The current and recent Governments of Britain, France and Germany are falling over themselves to continue kissing Muslim arse.

        If there was an Olympic event in Muslim arse licking, Cameron, May, Hollande and Merkel would all win gold medals.

  10. Ciudadano says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    Another example of Islamic tolerance. How come we have nothing to be afraid of Muslims in western countries? What is the difference between Muslims in Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Muslims in western countries? How come we are expected to believe our fate will be different than that of non Muslims in Islamic countries? How come we are expected to believe that Muslims in western countries will not be as bigot as Muslims in Islamic countries?

  11. Georg says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    This is what you get from a man without a penis who still tries to have sex with children. If I were Turkish, I’d be embarrassed to be led by this Islamic maniac masquerading as a pedophile. He is a sexual deviant of the highest order!!!

    • Georg says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 12:42 pm

      *moonlighting not masquerading. sorry for the offense of illogic.

  12. gravenimage says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    Turkey builds 9,000 mosques, bans Orthodox Christian Liturgy
    ……………………

    Turkey is fast re-Islamizing under Erdogan–and things are becoming worse for the tiny surviving remnant of Christians there.

    The Pontian Greek Genocide was of a piece with the Armenian Genocide–both really part of the genocide against *all* Infidels in Turkey a century ago. Up to two million Christians–Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and Levantines–were systematically slaughtered in waves of savagery between the mid-1890s and the early 1920s.

    Turkey went from having a sizable Infidel population to just a few hundred thousand survivors.

    Robert Spencer’s own family fled Turkey to escape persecution.

    There have been other spasms since, including a massacre of Greek Christians in Istanbul in the 1950s. There are murders of individual Christians there all the time, such as the assassination of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, for daring to stand up for his people’s rights.

    Today there are only about 120,000 Christians and 26,000 Jews left in Turkey, out of a population of 73 million–in a nation that was majority-Christian before the Muslim conquest six hundred years ago.

    Policies like this one are just intended to drive out the last of the Infidels.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Oct 7, 2016 at 4:32 pm

      The economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out – as an interesting example of different predilections among different groups – that the pre-WW I stock exchange in Ottoman Turkey did not have a single ethnic Turk among its members.

      Members with a seat on the exchange were Ionian Greek, Armenian, Georgian (like Erdogan), Jewish, etc.

  13. Champ says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 4:51 pm

    “A real citizen is Muslim, and those who aren’t Muslim are seen as suspicious. Christians aren’t equal. They don’t have full rights.”

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    “…those who aren’t Muslim are seen as suspicious”?

    Talk about BACKWARDS! …since the vast majority of terrorists ARE muslims.

    And Robert Spencer has written a book entitled:

    “Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t”

    https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Peace-Christianity-Islam-Isnt/dp/1596985151

    Also, this video offers additional insights …

    “The Basics of Islam 2: Robert Spencer on Is Islam A Religion of Peace?”

  14. Mark A says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 4:52 pm

    With actions like this, there is no way Turkey should be part of the EU.

    • Charli Main says

      Oct 8, 2016 at 10:22 am

      @ Mark

      Erdogan´s plan is not for Turkey to become a part of the European Union. His plan is for the European Union to become a part of Turkey.

      In the mind of lunatics like Erdogan, Muslims lost a battle at Vienna in 1683 NOT THE WAR.

      Erdogan´s Turkey is brazenly facilitating the Muslim re-invasion of Europe by helping ” Syrian Refugees” to swarm into Greece and Bulgaria.

      Phase 1 of operation ” Muslim invasion ” is on track and going well.

  15. Fritz KO says

    Oct 7, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    Also Important!

    The state has build Mosqes in ALEVITE Areas-but ALEVITES NEVER go to Mosques!!!

    Alevites go to CEM Houses.They are 15-20% in Turkey.

    Also in this time Turkey gets 1 Billion or so from the EU….for what?The have enough money to build Mosques in ares where are no real muslims but need money from the EU?

  16. Dustin Koellhoffer says

    Oct 8, 2016 at 7:49 am

    Democrats approve of the war on Christianity

  17. Carolyne says

    Oct 8, 2016 at 11:11 am

    Loretta Lynch has her worst nightmare—that someone would criticize Islam. My worst nightmare would be hearing the screeching coming from 9,000 Turkish mosques.

  18. InspiredByBoris says

    Oct 8, 2016 at 11:23 am

    Boris’s limerick re-inspired me to write some of my own. As a Brit, very proud. Here’s extract from RT –

    “If somebody wants to make a joke about the love that flowers between the Turkish president and a goat, he should be able to do so, in any European country, including Turkey,” Johnson said. The former mayor, whose full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, has Turkish blood himself, with his great-grandfather being an ethnic Turk.

    Boris’s limerick reads:

    “There was a young fellow from Ankara
    Who was a terrific wankera
    Till he sowed his wild oats
    With the help of a goat
    But he didn’t even stop to thankera”

  19. Ryan says

    Oct 9, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    What a load of crap. This entire article is full of sh*t LOL. Just go to Israel and see how Christians AND Muslims are treated. Second class citizens. You can even YouTube the videos.

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