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Turkey: Government plans to build mosque on site of historic Istanbul beer factory

Sep 8, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Priorities, priorities. As far as the Erdogan regime is concerned, this beer factory is simply a manifestation of jahiliyya, the society of unbelievers, which must be rejected and obliterated.

“Turkey plans to build mosque on site of Istanbul’s first beer factory,” by Ali Kucukgocmen, Reuters, September 4, 2019:

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s first modern beer factory could face demolition after being transferred to the country’s highest religious authority, which plans to build a mosque and a car park in its place, architects and engineers say.

The long-defunct Bomonti factory was built in the late Ottoman era and gave its name to the Istanbul neighbourhood where it has stood since the 1890s. It is registered as a historic site by the city’s conservation board.

“The structures are very important. It takes you to the past,” said a member of the Istanbul Architects Chamber, who lamented the plans for the factory’s demolition.

“It is more than an architectural heritage. The Bomonti beer factory was very special,” the architect, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters.

She said Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs, or Diyanet, planned to build a mosque, a dormitory, car park and exhibition space in place of the factory. Diyanet officials were not available for comment on Wednesday….

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  1. Gork says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 9:30 am

    Frankly, I don’t care if other countries decide to ignore the history of beer, wine, and distilled spirits. I don’t care if they deny their populations any access to alcohol.

    The fallout from such things will be their problem, not ours. It will be a black market in their country, not ours. I’ll just sit here with my beer and popcorn laughing at how they haven’t learned a damned thing from history.

    And for those with the guts to try, I’m sure the opportunities for smuggling will be wonderful.

    • Ole Pederson says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 12:56 pm

      Gork says Sep 8, 2019 at 9:30 am
      …
      The fallout from such things will be their problem, not ours.

      Unfortunately, it will be our problem as well. The excess birth rates will cause their overpopulation to spill over to our countries too.

  2. mortimer says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 9:46 am

    Cultural heritage and architectural heritage? ‘So what?’ the Islamists say.

    Built in 1890 and shut down a century later, the Bomonti brewery is one of Istanbul’s most significant early industrial sites, designated a protected cultural asset in 1998.

    “The structures are very important. It takes you to the past,” said a member of the Istanbul Architects Chamber who asked not to be identified.

    It’s to be seen if Turkish citizens will return to Kemalist secularism or let Erdogan continually railroad them into delusional fanaticism and self-destruction.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 12:30 pm

    Another building that will “switch” to a mosque.
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/09/salon-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-famously-switched-from-a-christian-church-to-a-mosque-in-1453

  4. European pagan says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 2:53 pm

    Maybe Turkey will be like Iran…

    I have a question… in Turkey someone can be arrested for reading Jihadwatch?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 8, 2019 at 10:41 pm

      We used to have a Westerner working in Turkey who posted here–that was years ago, though.

  5. ntesdorf says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 7:31 pm

    The mosque will cause more social damage than the beer factory ever did.

  6. gravenimage says

    Sep 8, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    Further Islamization. The Botomi Brewery had long been defunct, and the building and grounds had been turned into a popular complex with restaurants, shops, an art gallery, and a concert hall.

    https://theculturetrip.com/europe/turkey/articles/bomontiada-istanbuls-old-brewery-turned-entertainment-center/

    Still too un-Islamic. Shut it down and put up a Mosque…

  7. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 3:56 am

    FFS, Turkey even offered to return “Istanbul” (Constantinople) to Greece, for FREE! (But the retarded infidels rejected the offer, right after WWI). Why are there still any “Turks” (mongrols) left at all, in “Turkey” (formerly known as THRACE and Anatolia, Greece!)?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 9, 2019 at 8:52 pm

      Um…not exactly.

  8. john reilly says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 5:17 am

    this is typical islamist behaviour….to erect a mosque on the site of a vanquished enemy

    its what the 9-11 mosque was always about

    irs why the 9-11 mosque was called “cordoba house, after /cordoba spain, the site of a mosque built on the ruins of the christian cathedral

  9. John Acord says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 7:09 am

    Soon, Christian forces will march into Constantinople second thing hey will do after restoring St. Sophia to the Church will be to turn this mosque an others into pig pens.

  10. Angemon says

    Sep 9, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    “It is more than an architectural heritage. The Bomonti beer factory was very special,” the architect, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters.

    But they’re unislamic, so they have to go.

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