Hagia Sophia is almost certain to be declared a mosque soon. As I explain below, this is an integral part of Erdogan’s desire to restore the Ottoman caliphate. European leaders seem neither to know or care about the significance and implications of that.
“Top Court Declares Hagia Sophia a Mosque,” by Jules Gomes, Church Militant, July 9, 2020:
ISTANBUL (ChurchMilitant.com) – In a historic verdict, Turkey’s top court has returned the world’s greatest Byzantine basilica to its previous status as a mosque after it abolished President Atatürk’s 1934 decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a museum.
Turkey’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, reached a unanimous verdict declaring that president Kemal Atatürk’s cabinet had no right to turn Hagia Sophia into a museum as part of his secularist reforms and has rendered the decision unlawful.
The court is expected to deliver its judgment Friday, but Turkish journalist Mehmet Ardıç, a close advisor of the current radical Islamic president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, broke the news Wednesday. “The countdown has begun,” he tweeted.
Numan Kurtulmuş, deputy chairman of Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP), told Turkish media that on July 15, or even earlier, Hagia Sophia will be opened as a mosque “for prayer.” The ruling was also confirmed by the popular Turkish history Twitter channel Ottoman Records.
A Sign of Continued Jihad?
Emperor Justinian the Great dedicated the Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople to the Wisdom of God in 537. Sultan Mohammed II conquered Constantinople and converted the basilica into a mosque in 1453.
Speaking to Church Militant, world-renowned Islamic historian Robert Spencer pointed out that under the radical Islamic rule of president Erdoğan, the ruling was not at all surprising.
“The Ottoman caliphate conquered and subjugated the Christian East, and waged jihad warfare against Christian Europe for centuries. Western Christians would be naïve to assume that Erdoğan doesn’t have jihad in mind as part of the agenda of his revived caliphate,” Spencer said.
The author of bestselling The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS slammed Pope Francis for his deafening silence on Turkey’s takeover of what was once a Catholic basilica: “Centuries ago, popes of Rome stood in the forefront of efforts to galvanize Europe into resistance to the Ottoman attempts at jihad conquest and Islamization.”
“By contrast, Pope Francis, who has said nothing about the impending re-Islamization of Hagia Sophia, will likely open the gates and welcome in the invaders, while shaming Christians who thought any opposition was warranted,” Spencer lamented.
The Islamic scholar also explained why the re-conquest of Hagia Sophia was inevitable as a consequence of Islamic theology of sacred space: “Islamic theology holds that once Islamic prayers have been said in a structure, it is a mosque.”
Spencer elaborated:
Most famously, when Mehmet the Conqueror entered Hagia Sophia on May 29, 1453, he brought with him a Muslim cleric who chanted the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, from the pulpit. That act made Hagia Sophia a mosque. Accordingly the Charter of Fatih of Sultan Mehmet cannot be altered, not only because it states that it cannot, but because in the Islamic understanding, no secular law can overrule the truths of Islam.
“If Hagia Sophia became a mosque, it is always a mosque,” Spencer stated.
Turkey’s Council of State began hearing the case on July 2 and announced that a decision would be made within 15 days, Church Militant earlier reported. Sources say the court reached its decision in 17 minutes….
mortimer says
May God grant the European leaders ‘holy wisdom’ to understand the cruel forces that Erdogan is striving to release.
The European Union should be helping Turkey to increase human rights, civil liberties and education. Islam is darkness. The European Union should dedicate resources to scholars who are deconstructing Islam. Islam will not survive its own historical critique.
When Muslims see … in large numbers … that the Koran is of human origin, they will leave Islam in the tens of millions.
Ray Jarman says
Mortimer,
I hope that you are being sarcastic. The Pakis have been in the UK for over fifty years and are still just like their brothers who remain in Pakistan and else where. What about the likes of Ilhan Omar who smears the nation and people who brought her to America? The only way to eradicate Islam is to destroy the Qur’an and we both know that is not going to happen.
gravenimage says
The EU *should* be doing this–but they won’t be.
mortimer says
Erdogan is thereby stating that Islam will take over Europe, since the Hagia Sophia church is in Europe. This is symbolic of his planned takeover and genocide against Europeans.
Erdogan is a Turkish version of Hitler, but he hasn’t the support or financing to pull off an attack on Europe.
The EU should occupy all of European Turkey and thus end the Turkish presence in Europe forever.
Brian Hoff says
Turkey have than very powerful military force in NATO. If Greece act on they own.
Giacomo Latta says
How the hell is Greece involved, brain child? Are Erdogan and company celebrating with ouzo?
mortimer says
NATO troops are in Greece and EU troops too.
gravenimage says
Is “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–threatening us again?
Jayell says
“Ataturk had no right to convert Hagia Sophia from a mosque to a museum”…..Really? So by what right did Sultan Mohammed II convert it from the original church into a mosque in 1453? Or do we just conveniently ignore that one, as seems usual with these muslims?
Carson says
attaboyturk
bitcounter says
now you understand why the chinese bulldozed mosques?! And that’s why the west needs to look, listen and understand the rules and tactics of islam. Unfortunately the west is ruled by unmature feelings and not by logic.
dimmi bbc looks but does not see; https://youtu.be/DewWSGTwOXo
Brian Hoff says
The BBC is telling the tuth about the ungodly chinese government they are doing the same to christian in china.
gravenimage says
Note that “Brian Hoff” here has said that Christians should only be allowed to exist as persecuted dhimmis in Islamic nations, so his pretending to care about oppressed Christians is utter claptrap.
European pagan says
I wish a new president for Turkey
Brian Hoff says
He will be the future Sultan of Turkey and Islan. So get loose to it. Near the end time there will be Caph government in the Holy Land in Jerusalem.
gravenimage says
In other words, submit or die, you filthy Infidels. “DefenderofIslam” here is a nasty piece of work.
And note his hatred of democracy. He has said that if he and his coreligionists gain full power here they will destroy the US Constitution and impose brutal Shari’ah law on us.
Maureen Chaloner says
Edogan needs taking out ASAP.
gravenimage says
Turkish court rules that Ataturk had no right to convert Hagia Sophia from a mosque to a museum
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Going along with the vicious Erdogan–who would expect anything else?
Ray Jarman says
Gravenimage,
+++++++++1 Cannot agree more.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Ray.
Owen Morgan says
Since they were working from a book written by the perfect man, dictated, via an archangel, from the deity itself, shouldn’t the muslims have been able to put up their own version of Haghia Sophia? Didn’t allah know how to do domes?
Brian Hoff says
The Sultan kept the beautiful building from being destroyed. It than beautiful mosque. The christian art work will be cover up again.
SAFI says
“The Sultan kept the beautiful building from being destroyed”… destroyed by whom? Well, I guess by the same people who would murder the Christians if they failed to pay the jizya…
Also I had no idea that the reason why these mosaics were made was to be hidden indefinitely so that the Muslims would be able to pray undisturbed.
gravenimage says
The Sultan kept the beautiful building from being destroyed–by whom?
By other Muslims.
“Brian Hoff’ here is so excited over this gross show of Muslim supremacy here I’m sure he has had to change his pants several times…
SAFI says
They have. As a matter of fact they’ve already made a hundred copies of it (which largely remain empty even on Fridays).
Which further proves it’s not some practical or even “supremacist” need which compels Muslims to usurp the temples of other religions, but rather their hateful eliminationist obsession with destroying, dispossessing and displacing all other faiths.
mortimer says
HOW WOULD MUSLIMS FEEL IF WE TURNED THE KAABA INTO A CATHEDRAL???
This ain’t no itty-bitty church … it’s the LARGEST, most important church of its time, the center and seat of the Orthodox Church.
Hagia Sophia has TREMENDOUS symbolic value for a number of reasons. This is meant as a slap in the face … the OTTOMAN SLAP.
SAFI says
This is how the turkish parliament (including the “secularists”) reacted to the decision. https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/07/11/the-moment-the-grand-national-assembly-of-turkey-learn-hagia-sophia-will-be-converted-into-a-mosque/
John says
It was built as a Greek Orthodox Church.Which in itself makes it haram to islam. Therefore islam had no RIGHT to make it a mosque. A Satanic Moon God worshipping place uttering Satanic Verses. Barbaric FILTH of the World.
John says
In short, a Barbaric Totalitarian Ideology invented by and followed by male SAVAGES. Ban it from all Democracies NOW.