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Turkey’s Religious Affairs top dog: ‘Hagia Sophia shouldn’t only be place of worship,’ should be ‘a madrasa inside’

Jul 14, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Training a new generation of jihadis and Islamic supremacists inside what was the foremost cathedral in Christendom for nearly a millennium — what could be more deliciously illustrative of the triumph and supremacy of Islam?

“Turkey’s Top Imam Now Wants to Build an Islamic School at Hagia Sophia,” by Tasos Kokkinidis, Greek Reporter, July 12, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Turkey’s top imam, Ali Erbas, said on Saturday that he now hopes to build an Islamic school at Hagia Sophia which was converted to a mosque on Friday.

Erbas hailed the decision by President Erdogan to “break the chains” on the spiritual center of Orthodox Christianity and claimed that a project to create an Islamic school (madrasa) is already underway.

“Hagia Sophia should not only be a place of worship. Let be there be a madrasa inside,” he said adding that Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), which he leads, has “already started working on the project.”…

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, madrassas, Turkey Tagged With: Ali Erbaş, Diyanet, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul


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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jul 14, 2020 at 3:28 pm

    What does he mean “break the chains?” The Christians were not the ones putting people in chains. When the Muslims broke into the Hagia Sofia the Christian men, women and children being sheltered there were either murdered or raped and enslaved by the Muslims. Break the chains. What is he talking about? He is a clown who twists the truth into grotesque contortions.

    • DH says

      Jul 14, 2020 at 4:33 pm

      Muslim children learn a history that differs radically from the actual events. Bloody, brutal conquests are recast as “liberating” or “opening up” the country and it’s people. I’ve had online discussions with “average” Muslims and they all spew out the same or very similar rhetoric.
      But in a way they almost have to because the reality, honestly faced, would tear them apart.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 14, 2020 at 8:34 pm

      He means he wants to ‘break the chains’ of ATATURK’S SECULARISM … so that Islam may become unrestricted in Turkey. They want to make Islam the official state religion.

      It’s a step towards DE-SECULARIZATION. Once they have an Islamic state, they can re-instate the CALIPH OF ALL ISLAM and lay claim to the world.

    • curious george says

      Jul 15, 2020 at 1:04 pm

      CogitoErgoSum

      +1
      ……………………………………..
      Hagia Sophia: Turkish Propaganda vs. Documented History

      https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/hagia_sophia_turkish_propaganda_vs_documented_history.html

  2. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jul 14, 2020 at 3:36 pm

    By the way the strange phenomenon of churches accidentally burning down has spread from France to the U.S. Here is yet another one that had its chains broken.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jul 14, 2020 at 4:37 pm

      Note: the fire “started in the choir loft, and then spread to the wood roof”.

      • mortimer says

        Jul 14, 2020 at 4:54 pm

        Allah is destroying the West. Allah Akbar.

        But everyone remember: Leftists told us ‘they are not dangerous’.

        • Rufolino says

          Jul 15, 2020 at 10:35 am

          Don’t worry, Mortimer, I for one, won’t forget.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 15, 2020 at 10:57 pm

      This is tragic.

  3. mortimer says

    Jul 14, 2020 at 4:44 pm

    Sharia creep! Istanbul today… Europe TOMORROW! Saint Peter’s will be next! Allah Akbar.

    To the EUROPEAN UNION … message: ISLAM HATES YOU AND WANTS TO CONQUER YOU.

    FORGET ‘COMPATIBLE WITH MODERNITY’ … Islam is not compatible with anything.

    Question for Pope Francis: “COMFY?”

  4. mortimer says

    Jul 14, 2020 at 4:46 pm

    How would Erdogan feel if the KAABA were taken over and turned into a SIKH TEMPLE ???

    • revereridesagain says

      Jul 14, 2020 at 5:17 pm

      What’s that old saying about the camel’s nose inside the tent?

  5. Westman says

    Jul 14, 2020 at 4:48 pm

    Will we be able to take off our tourist shoes and watch Islam pounded into children’s heads until they are unable to think for themselves? Will there be an interpreter so we can hear the insults toward the slow learners and have an explanation for the hitting? Peace…

    • mortimer says

      Jul 14, 2020 at 4:57 pm

      The sounds of prayers that curse Jews and Christians will be wailed inside Hagia Sophia 17 times a day. Allah Akbar.

  6. Billy Chickens says

    Jul 14, 2020 at 4:57 pm

    Blow the place up. It will be gone forever…and no muslims will ever be able to rub our faces in their HG Mosque again. Sometimes we need to be brave and willing to sacrifice.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 14, 2020 at 8:22 pm

      Billy, you obviously ‘blowed up’ your brain with whatever toxic chemicals you used. You ‘sacrificed’ too many brain cells already. Real soldiers do not appreciate your foolishness.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 14, 2020 at 8:39 pm

      Right–as though Christians haven’t sacrificed enough at the hands of Muslims–now you want to blow up our greatest landmarks. Good grief…

      • Billy Chickens says

        Jul 14, 2020 at 10:24 pm

        Well, ok then. We can fight with soldiers and blood and sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives. Is that a good solution for you?

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 14, 2020 at 10:33 pm

          Wait–you believe that there are no other reactions to this act of aggression besides going to war and sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives, and blowing up our own buildings?

          This is *very* strange.

          I have suggested sanctions, cutting aid, and threatening to oust Turkey from NATO. None of these things, of course, involve either of the above.

        • Billy Chickens says

          Jul 14, 2020 at 11:52 pm

          And, gravenimage, in response to your comment @ 10:33pm…none of those things will work. Sanctions and cutting aid…yawn. Threatening (not actually doing it, but merely threatening?) to oust Turkey from NATO. Won’t do a thing. This is the devil you’re dealing with. Islam. At some point in time Europeans will either lie down and become dhimmis, or there will be a fight for Christendom which will spread across the planet. Millions of people will be slaughtered and in the end St Peter’s will either still be St Peters or The Great Mosque of St Peters. That is if it is still standing after atomic bombs are dropped. We have to be willing to lose everything except our souls – even the HG Mosque. Of course we will drop an A bomb on top of the Kaaba.

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 15, 2020 at 12:34 am

          There is no reason for us to continue to shovel money at these vicious Muslim thugs, certainly.

  7. mortimer says

    Jul 14, 2020 at 4:57 pm

    Where is Eli? Is he ashamed of this?

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 14, 2020 at 8:18 pm

      I doubt it…

  8. gravenimage says

    Jul 14, 2020 at 8:18 pm

    Turkey’s Religious Affairs top dog: ‘Hagia Sophia shouldn’t only be place of worship,’ should be ‘a madrasa inside’

    Erbas hailed the decision by President Erdogan to “break the chains” on the spiritual center of Orthodox Christianity and claimed that a project to create an Islamic school (madrasa) is already underway.
    …………………..

    Never mind that ravening Muslims raped, enslaved, or slaughtered all those taking sanctuary in Hagia Sophia and desecrated the Cathedral over 500 years ago, then murdered most of the surviving Christians in Turkey a hundred years ago–Muslims are pretending that they have to “break the chains” of the tiny remnant of powerless surviving Christians in Turkey now.

    Just grotesque–but this is how victim-mongering Muslims “think”.

  9. European pagan says

    Jul 15, 2020 at 10:48 am

    And what is next? Will they choose a more arabic name for the building?

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 15, 2020 at 10:59 pm

      They already have, European pagan.

      Muslims call Hagia Sophia the Great Mosque of Ayasofya (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Camii Şerifi).

  10. OLD GUY says

    Jul 15, 2020 at 11:12 am

    Turkey is just a stepping stone into the EU. Erdogan wants to be the leader of the migrant invasion of Europe by the civilian islamic army that will use intimidation, and terror to take over.

  11. Bill Carson says

    Jul 15, 2020 at 2:49 pm

    This falls under the heading of “arrogance of power” What’s next, are the Turks going to tear down Christian places of worship.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 15, 2020 at 11:02 pm

      They have done plenty of this, as well, Bill.

      Here’s a story from just a couple of years ago:

      “Islamist Turkey seizes ALL Christian churches in city and declares them ‘state property'”

      https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/663089/Islamist-Turkey-Erdogan-seize-Christian-churches-Diyarbakir-persecution-state-property

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