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Turkey: By opposing Hagia Sophia conversion, ‘Greece showed once again its enmity towards Islam’

Jul 28, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque was an act of cultural aggression against Greece and Orthodox Christians worldwide. It was a declaration of the victory of Islam over Christianity and the supremacy of Islam. It was also a tacit declaration of war against all the countries that once were part of the Ottoman caliphate. But in typical Islamic supremacist fashion, the Turkish Foreign Ministry is playing the victim, blaming the Greeks for being upset about this rather than owning up to the reality of what they have done.

“Turkey slams Greece’s ‘enmity toward Islam’ after Hagia Sophia prayers,” Reuters, July 25, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

ISTANBUL: The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned statements by Greek officials and a flag-burning protest in Greece after the first Islamic prayers in nine decades were held at Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia.

“Greece showed once again its enmity towards Islam and Turkey with the excuse of reacting to Hagia Sophia Mosque being opened to prayers,” ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a written statement.

Greek criticism of the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque after decades as a museum has been scathing, underlining tense ties between Greece and Turkey. Church bells tolled in mourning across Greece on Friday as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan joined prayers at the building.

In a message marking Greece’s 46th anniversary of the restoration of democracy, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called Turkey a “troublemaker”, and the conversion an “affront to civilisation of the 21st century”….

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", claiming victim status, Featured, Greece, Islamic supremacism, Turkey Tagged With: Hami Aksoy, Turkish Foreign Ministry


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  1. Clifford Fodor says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 2:42 pm

    Turkey needs to be expelled from NATO, and Israel should take its place.

    • Paul Stein says

      Jul 28, 2020 at 3:17 pm

      That is a wonderfully brilliant idea! It works on every single level. Call, write, or e-mail our President.

    • jca reid says

      Jul 28, 2020 at 7:34 pm

      Bold Move! I like it! Get rid of a country being run by a megalomaniac & replace it with a democratic one!!

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 28, 2020 at 10:58 pm

      +1

    • James Lincoln says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 5:20 am

      Agree 100%.

      NATO countries should defend other NATO democracies, not islamic republics.

  2. elee says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 2:57 pm

    And gee, what on earth could make the Greeks feel they’ve got any unfinished business with Muslims? Hint: Start at “history” and then choose your favourite century.

    • GreekEmpress says

      Jul 28, 2020 at 4:38 pm

      +1

  3. Rueben says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 3:52 pm

    “Turkey slams Greece’s ‘enmity toward Islam’ what do they expect ? seriously !!
    There so called religion has set them against the entire human race, how are humans supposed to react ?
    The logic of these people.

    The mind boggles

    • Rufolino says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 9:59 am

      Moslems are always the victims. It’s the way they relate, like chidren.

  4. Baba says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 4:58 pm

    Greek was once part of Turkey the Britist separated them after the second world war and they converted most Turkish mosques into churches but they have soon forgotten about it.

    • SAFI says

      Jul 28, 2020 at 6:39 pm

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • Edmund says

      Jul 28, 2020 at 7:18 pm

      Goebbels could learn from You. It’s for sure. Those nasty Greeks occupying their lands shuld be ashamed.

    • I love Iblis says

      Jul 28, 2020 at 9:27 pm

      There were Greeks, Armenians and Kurds in Anatolia before Turks came. Now the fascist government of Turkey is forcibly Turkificates native people of Anatolia. They forbid the Kurdish language. They still deny the Kurdish identity. Fascist Erdogan even said “If they build Kurdistan on Argentine we will destroy it”.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 28, 2020 at 11:04 pm

      What rot. Greece won her freedom from the Muslim heel in 1832–Greece was not under Muslim Turkish rule in 1945.

      It seems that Baba–like so many of his woefully ignorant coreligionists–knows nothing about history. Just sad.

      More broadly, note that he makes no distinction between Muslims invading a people and stealing their places of worship, and a people freeing themselves from Muslim tyranny.

    • owensgate says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 9:13 am

      Greece was once part of Turkey? Sorry, but I think you have it backward. Turkey, west of the Bosporus certainly, was once part of Greece. Europe is now wallowing in Mussulmans (really hard to find the appropriate derogatory term for them and still remain politely civil) by the greatest mistake in its history, not insuring the Ottomans were COMPLETELY out of Europe. Hagia Sophia is the Heart of Constantinopoli; having a Mussulman set foot in it is second only to the Anti-Christ setting foot in the Holy of Holies in the End Time Temple. Hopefully, Greece will reclaim it when the Turks, Iranians, Russians and Libyans are Supernaturally defeated when they attack Israel with the soon to come Ezekiel 38 War.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 29, 2020 at 4:02 pm

        owensgate, the Greeks were indeed under Muslim conquest for centuries. The bravely regained their independence in the early 19th century. One of the Westerners who joined their fight was Lord Byron.

    • MykeJohn says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 9:24 am

      The act of converting mosques into churches makes quite interesting reading. Without any jaundiced eyes, which of the two religions was first to set foot in Turkey and to evangelise the inhabitants about the span of 100 years?

    • Dieks62 says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 11:06 am

      The inbreeding is showing Baba, lol 😂

    • Kepha says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 3:06 pm

      Try Greek independence in 1829.

  5. Glyndwr says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    Baba. Muslims are the scum of the earth. What other religion insists that women have to wear bags on their heads? What other religion kills non-muslims because Mohammed said they have to? What other religion makes a virtue of raping 9 year old girls? Etc Etc

  6. jca reid says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    The Greeks had 400 years of Ottoman Rule. Don’t think they would want 1 second more!

  7. mortimer says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    Hagia Sophia is the mother church of 260 million Orthodox Christians. How can they accept the loss of their mother church?

    Muslims would not accept the loss of the Kaaba, no matter how many years had elapsed.

    Very hypocritical. But that’s real Islam.

  8. Lews Therin says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    Time to clean house on the Temple Mount and get that 3rd Temple built. Israel owns it. Right Erdogan? To the victors go the spoils.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jul 28, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    Turkey: By opposing Hagia Sophia conversion, ‘Greece showed once again its enmity towards Islam’
    ………………

    Yeah, we’ve heard this before–if you don’t want Muslims to seize your Churches–or have them rape and murder you–you are an enemy of Islam…

    • James Lincoln says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 5:27 am

      gravenimage,

      I get your point, but there is another way to look at it.

      Enemies of islam should wear that title as a “badge of honor”…

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 29, 2020 at 4:03 pm

        Hear, hear!

    • SAFI says

      Jul 29, 2020 at 6:07 am

      Well, the dhimmi Greek govt was careful not to mention Islam or muslims in any of its statements… or Christianity for that matter or that it was ever a Church… only some vague platitudes about some “world heritage” and this being a “provocation” against the “civilized humanity” and such similar BS… and apparently, that still did not stop Turkey from accusing them of being enemies of Allah… that’s what you get for being polite to these people…

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 29, 2020 at 4:09 pm

        Even this from Greece was too much. Muslims demand full dhimmitude, and that includes not criticizing anything Muslims do to them.

  10. infidel says

    Jul 30, 2020 at 3:22 am

    this is the thing with these mad animals. They do everything to prove that their enmity towards other faiths. And when any1 calls them out for this, they immediately declare him/her as an enemy of Islam.

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