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Turkey: Muslims screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ unfurl Taliban flag inside Hagia Sophia

Aug 5, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Erdogan’s conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque has encouraged and emboldened Islamic supremacists and jihadists around the world.

#AfghanTaliban flag was raised in #HagiaSophia, #Turkey by pro #Taliban activists.
The conversion of Hagia Sophia was a motivational message of #MuslimBrotherhood to the world’s Islamist #extremists and #terrorists.
Soon, pro #ISIS activists will raise their flag too. #CHIIS pic.twitter.com/B6ArvLmSfe

— Noor Dahri (@dahrinoor2) August 3, 2020

“Taliban Flag Unfurled Inside Hagia Sophia Mosque,” South Front, August 4, 2020:

On August 3rd, a Taliban flag was unfurled inside Turkey’s newly re-opened Hagia Sophia mosque….

In the footage, you can see a group of men with the group’s flag unfurled. This is a white cloth that depicts the Shahadah (evidence of faith in Islam).

The unidentified individuals changed their location several times, they stood with the flag first at the entrance to the Mosque, and then in the center of the prayer hall.

They were shouting “Allahu Akbar” with their right index finger raised, a gesture that has been identified with Islamic extremism.

Immediately after, Afghanistan called on Turkey to take action against the propaganda of the Taliban group after the unfurling of the flag, Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman Gran Hewad said.

“The peace process is supported by the Afghan government and the Afghan people, [They] should support it too and get rid of movements that can harm this process and that appear in these countries,” Hewad said….

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  1. Maureen Chaloner says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 4:02 pm

    They are all screaming looneys!,

  2. Ramez says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 4:02 pm

    Darwin Akbar.

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 4:02 pm

    We can say goodbye to what is left of the icons and mosaics inside the Hagia Sofia.

    • J Morgan says

      Aug 5, 2020 at 4:44 pm

      Exactly what I was thinking. It is gone.

      • GreekEmpress says

        Aug 5, 2020 at 7:10 pm

        I’ve been concerned about that for a long time.
        As appalling as that video was, reading some of the comments posted was even worse.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 5, 2020 at 9:01 pm

        I’m terribly worried about this, myself.

        I wrote two papers on the Hagia Sophia mosaics as an undergraduate at Berkeley.

        • J Morgan says

          Aug 5, 2020 at 10:34 pm

          Someone posted a video here, showing them disinfecting, spraying, gassing the Hagia Sophia after “prayer” service and it seemed the chemicals would damage the walls, ceiling ultimately. I thought that and brandishing the sword and yelling Allahu Akbar was enough, but now unfurling a Taliban flag inside the “mosque” really takes the cake.

        • James Lincoln says

          Aug 6, 2020 at 9:37 am

          gravenimage,

          I’m sure that this article just scratches the surface, but it may be helpful to some of our fellow Jihad Watch readers:

          https://hagiasophiaturkey.com/mosaics-hagia-sophia/

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 6, 2020 at 11:51 pm

          Thank you for that link, James.

  4. Ramez says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 4:21 pm

    Mohammedans’ ambitions of world domination are bared, so, Kuffar, be prepared!

    • Peter Buckley says

      Aug 5, 2020 at 4:53 pm

      Islam is collapsing. ”

      “Islam is a like a wounded, cornered animal lashing out in its death throes” (UK convert to Christianity:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTECBfbUGMI

      All this will do is show “moderate Turks” the true face of their religion, and the decent muslims will end up leaving.

      It is narrated on the authority of Ibn ‘Umar (‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar) that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed: Verily Islam started as something strange and it would again revert (to its old position) of being strange just as it started, and it would recede between the two mosques just as the serpent crawls back into its hole.

      http://hadithcollection.com/sahihmuslim/Sahih%20Muslim%20Book%2001.%20Faith/sahih-muslim-book-001-hadith-number-0271.html

      Even Muhammad knew Islam would get found out eventually…….

      • FYI says

        Aug 5, 2020 at 6:24 pm

        islamic sources provide amazing insights into islam thanks to the internet.

        The internet is islam’s Nemesis.

        The world needs to know something,something I have always believed about those who follow muhammed{pbuh,perversity be the usual for him}

        muhammed’s followers were -LITERALLY-a bunch of wankers{to borrow an English expression}:they always have been wankers.
        They always will be wankers.It is in their nature to be wankers.

        “It was narrated that the companions of the prophet used to masturbate while they were on military expeditions or travelling”
        [Bada’i al Fuwa’id of ibn Qayyim{islamic scholar}page 129]

        You see?islamic sources confirm muhammed’s men were a shower of wankers.
        And so today we see the ancient islamic tradition continues…

        muhammed the perfect man:his incredible towering stature and Herculean physique is revealed..

        ABU DAWUD 40:4731

        alhamdiddlyilah for the internet.

        • Pal says

          Aug 6, 2020 at 6:00 am

          Hi FYI,
          Could you please post a link here for: “Muhammad the perfect man: his incredible towering stature and Herculean physique is revealed”.
          As by: ABU DAWUD 40:4731 (i.e., Sunan Abu Dawu/oo/d, book 40, hadith 4731)
          I couldn’t find it.
          Best

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 7, 2020 at 12:37 am

          FYI is of course being sarcastic.

          https://quranx.com/hadith/AbuDawud/Hasan/Hadith-4731/

    • SAFI says

      Aug 5, 2020 at 6:11 pm

      Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop with Erdogan at the tomb of Mehmed II prays to Allah asking for “new conquests”
      https://twitter.com/abdbozkurt/status/1286724428835979267

      • Ramez says

        Aug 5, 2020 at 6:17 pm

        Thanks for the link, Safi!

        • SAFI says

          Aug 5, 2020 at 6:54 pm

          No problem.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 5, 2020 at 9:02 pm

        Horrifying, SAFI–we have heard a lot of this, from Erdogan and others. Thank you for the link.

  5. SAFI says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 4:58 pm

    Pretty sure they weren’t arrested, were they? I wonder what would happen if I displayed some infidel flag (particularly one that features a cross on it) inside the “Ayasofya Grand Mosque”… By the way Ali Erbas was brandishing his scimitar again during his Eid al-Adha sermon in Ayasofya a couple days ago

  6. Wellington says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 5:02 pm

    Just one more example of two verities: 1) Islam is wretched; and 2) No truly decent person has any business being a Muslim (with due consideration of course extended to those brought up Muslim, realize Islam is a con-job, but who dare not leave Islam publicly because of family matters, overall ostracism and, most important of all, likely death).

    Way to go, Islam. Illustrating again how pathetic, appropriating, extremely annoying (yes, Islam in sundry ways is most annoying), ungrateful, stupid, and potentially deadly Mo’s creed really is. The burden to all mankind continues. This burden is Islam.

    • Alien Republican says

      Aug 5, 2020 at 5:11 pm

      Celebrating the victory of conquering what was conquered centuries before by Carholics and only able to conquer the byzantine carvass with the help of christian engineers. Erdogan is pathetic and delusional,

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 5, 2020 at 9:04 pm

        What is a “Carholic”?

        • Quazgaa says

          Aug 5, 2020 at 9:35 pm

          Someone who works on his car 24/7?

  7. owensgate says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 6:33 pm

    “Hagia Sophia” and “mosque” used together constitute an oxymoron.

    • SAFI says

      Aug 5, 2020 at 6:53 pm

      There’s actually several “Ayasofya” Mosques in Turkey (yes, all of them former churches). For example there’s a well-known one in Trabzon which was also a museum until a few years ago when Erdo tasked the Diyanet with “reverting” it to a mosque.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 5, 2020 at 9:07 pm

        And Trabzon was one of the centers of Armenian life before the horrifying Armenian Genocide.

        • SAFI says

          Aug 6, 2020 at 10:03 am

          Well, it was mostly a Greek orthodox town but there was a large Armenian and Armenian Catholic community living there until 1915. The Hagia Sophia I mentioned was a 13th century Greek church which was probably converted to a mosque in the late 1500s then it became a museum in the 1950s until it was reverted to mosque under Erdogan 6 or 7 years ago. There’s actually several mosques in Trabzon which used to be churches. The most well known ones are the “Ayasofya” I just mentioned, the “Fatih Camii”(literally “Conquest Mosque”) formerly the Church of Panagia Chrysokephalos, (dedicated to Mary the Mother of Jesus) and the Yeni Cuma Camii (“New Friday Mosque”), originally the Church of Hagios Eugenios (Saint Eugene)

  8. gravenimage says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 9:00 pm

    Turkey: Muslims screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ unfurl Taliban flag inside Hagia Sophia
    ………………..

    Well, *this* does not surprise.

  9. I love Iblis says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 9:14 pm

    Look at what Erdogan and his gang did to this once somewhat-secular country. Unfurling of flag -sorry, not a flag but a rag- of the jihadi terror organization Taliban is proves how dangerous Erdogan and his gang is. He must be tried for his crimes against humanity, especially crimes that supporting and funding jihadi terror organizations in Syria and Libya.

  10. Gray says

    Aug 5, 2020 at 11:25 pm

    Don’t want to sound too vindictive, but I do hope the Hagia Sophia takeover marks the total cessation of tourists and visitors coming into Turkey from the infidel West. Why should any infidel play even a minor role in helping Erdogan and his cronies to build up their foreign currency reserves? Let the Islamic cesspool suffocate in its own filth.

  11. Jerry says

    Aug 6, 2020 at 12:52 am

    It’s about time the Israelis employ similar logic and open Al Aksa for Jewish Prayers, including the drinking and blessing using sacramental wine on Friday evening.

    • Ramez says

      Aug 6, 2020 at 1:53 am

      Yup.

    • J Morgan says

      Aug 6, 2020 at 11:08 am

      Yes, it is time for Israel to reclaim the Temple.

  12. OLD GUY says

    Aug 6, 2020 at 10:43 am

    Big surprise the islamic regime considers this a victory over Christians. And they will now be embolden to continue their attack on the world.

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