Pompeo is set to meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Tuesday in Istanbul. He is not scheduled to meet Erdogan. The Turks are enraged because Pompeo is slated to focus on religious freedom, just months after Turkey converted two venerable Byzantine churches, Hagia Sophia and the Monastery at Chora, into mosques. Pompeo should instead, the Turks insisted, focus on Muslims as victims. The establishment media and most non-Muslim leaders around the world readily fall for this victimhood propaganda. Will Pompeo stand firm?
“Turkey condemns Pompeo: Focus on racism, Islamophobia in US before preaching on religious freedoms,” Ahlul Bayt News Agency, November 14, 2020 (thanks to Henry):
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Turkey has condemned U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for trying to promote religious freedom during an upcoming visit to Istanbul and called Wednesday on Washington to focus on racism and hate crimes in the United States instead.
The U.S State Department said in a statement Tuesday that Pompeo would travel to Istanbul to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Greek Orthodox Christians.
The top U.S. diplomat plans to discuss religious issues in Turkey and to promote “our strong stance on religious freedom around the world,” the statement read.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry rebuked the statement “as extremely inappropriate,” insisting that the country protects the rights of citizens of various faiths to freely practice their religions.
“It would be more advisable for the United States to look in the mirror first and to show the necessary sensitivity to human rights violations such as racism, Islamophobia and hate crimes in its own country,” the Turkish ministry said in a statement….
Emilie Green says
The Muzzie Turks just reconverted Byzantine Empire’s greatest church back to being a mosque,* and yet they’re victims. 1400 years of inbreeding.
*A building which they stole in May, 1453,
revereridesagain says
Just what the world needs: The return of the rotten-Ottomans.
mortimer says
Erdogan, give back what is not yours.
manzoor alam says
It was the best wish of Mohammad to take over Iranian and Roman empires. They conquered Iran but they had to fight for almost 700 years to take over last roman christian kingdom.. Now they want to show victimhood while they enslaved the best known world for the last 1400 years.and changed their religion, culture and way of life. Last desire is to change the western Judeo-Christian civilization.
gravenimage says
Muslims *did* horribly conquer Constantinople–but they have not yet taken Rome itself. Let’s make sure they don’t get the chance to do so.
Kenneth Phillips says
They should focus on their own religious intolerance first, before they talk about us having islamophobia.
mortimer says
Yes, Turkey is a paragon of intolerance towards the ‘other’.
Tony Naim says
The main obstacle to the application of religious freedom in the Middle East is the abolition of the laws of Dhimmitude in Islamic Sharia.
I sincerely hope Mike Pompei knows that much.
revereridesagain says
I’m hoping he knows what “laws of Dhimmitude” even means. Or that Islamic Sharia isn’t a middle eastern restaurant chain.
gravenimage says
+1
Sam says
Give the readers an evidence that the what you are calling a ” dimmitude” laws are applied, or are mentioned in any constitution in the middle East, ok? Waiting…. let’s see how smart you are …
gravenimage says
Such dhimmitude laws are a core part of Shari’ah, as “Sam” here well knows. That he is sneering about them is just appalling.
Christians in Egypt cannot get permits to rebuild Churches under the laws of dhimmitude:
“Egypt: Church Closed after Muslim mob beats up priest, scares 200 Sunday school children onlookers”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/egypt-church-closed-after-muslim-mob-beats-up-priest-scares-200-sunday-school-children-onlookers
There are many more such stories in Egypt and across the Muslim world.
In Turkey Christian Churches are regularly seized and turned into Mosques–including the famous Hagia Sophia in Instanbul:
“Turkey: Nine Churches Named Hagia Sophia Have Now Been Converted to Mosques”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/09/turkey-nine-churches-named-hagia-sophia-have-now-been-converted-to-mosques
In Pakistan Infidel girls are regularly kidnapped, raped, and forcibly “married” to their rapists, with complicity from authorities and police:
“Pakistan: 13-year-old Christian girl kidnapped, converted to Islam, forced to marry the man who abducted her”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/pakistan-13-year-old-christian-girl-kidnapped-converted-to-islam-forced-to-marry-the-man-who-abducted-her
There are *many* more such horrific stories. That “Sam” here is sneering at the victims is just sickening.
There are no non-Islamic places of worship allowed in Saudi Arabia at all.
somehistory says
moslims don’t consider any faith or belief system as a religion outside of their own filthy, evil one.
moslims have religious freedom….everywhere, except maybe China and N.Korea….where Christians and others are also persecuted by those governments…without reason in that of Christians.
Christians, Jews and others are persecuted, including being murdered, in all moslim countries, but moslims in “free” countries such as the U.S., have every freedom that others have. What is more, the “privileges” for moslims are far beyond what Christians and others experience, even in the U.S.
It’s fine and dandy to burn a Bible or call Christians names, but if someone even speaks of burning a filthy book of islam…woe to them.
In how many countries in recent times has a Bible been burned and the authorities prosecute the one burning it? Or painted Jesus in some awful, vile circumstance and then been arrested? Or told lies about Jesus Christ and been arrested , fined or persecuted?
Yet, more and more nations, or people within those nations, are calling for the burning of the book of filth, or the depiction of their fake prophet, mass-murdering, lying sack of slime, slug of the centuries, raper of children, lying son of satan to be made illegal…unlawful, banned; and those expressing themselves be locked up. And just telling the Truth about islam is going to be against the law as “hate speech.”
But, in so many nations, Christians are being slaughtered, their homes burned, their children kidnapped and raped or forced into slavery to male moslims, their churches and Bibles burned…and moslms in those same countries cry and whine about the fake ‘phobia.’ If there was such a “phobia,” then moslims bring it upon themselves with their constant and continual butchery, raping, abductions, threats, lies and anything they can do to terrorize everyone else.
And the ***real*** fear of islam is what they are all about, it is the goal they seek with their terrorism.
Templer says
England is fucket thanks to evil Islam France Germany brusels Sweden Denmark and the USA is next under Biden god help you
John J Dinan says
When the “Me Too” crowd start getting “Gang Raped” in the public parks and children are raped in schoolyards, maybe even the classroom, they will quickly find out that Cosby wasn’t as bad as they thought. Jewish businesses will be bombed or destroyed. Then, maybe the SJW’s will wake up.
Boycott Turkey says
That filthy POS God I hate him so much he needs to be jailed for war crimes his just committed on Armenians he is the devil incarnate now his visiting the illegal occupied part of Cyprus he needs to get the hell out and take the Turkish Army with him why is he breathing please God bring us justice against this monster
Infidel says
Actually, Turkey is the #2 adversary of the US worldwide – after China. Neither Russia nor Iran even come close!
Mauricio says
Unfortunately this devil just gain territory in Armenia through Azerbaijan.
Boycott Turkey says
Thanks to traitor Putin I pray there evil plans fail
somehistory says
This slimy slug moslim turk hasn’t been able to get enough real fear of islam and moslims through threats and terror, he and all of the others like him….in pakistan, iran, the U.K., the U.S., Australia, Norway, France, Sweden, etc….they are demanding that the governments of these nations, and all other nations through the U.N., to create the fear for them. They want laws against telling the Truth about islam, drawing or saying things about the mass-murdering, raper of children, lying son of satan, to force the average person to stop talking due to the “fear” of being arrested, losing their jobs, paying large fines, having to go to a place where moslims will lecture them on ‘sensitivities’ to the feelings of moslims, etc.
Terrorism and threats of terrorism have not yet achieved the goal of stopping the Truth about islam from getting published worldwide. moslims are demanding laws that they believe will put enough fear of moslims and islam out there that every mouth will shut on the subject.
Sam says
Very funny comment, funny because it’s filled with hate and extreme stupidity, it’s just a pure lie, and the writer seem to have a below 70 IQ level … but with a very high amount of HATE.
Pete says
Agreed.
Just like pedo moe
somehistory says
Well, child, if you don’t understand, comprehend, my comment about the “reasons” for the turk’s demands, it’s you with the “low IQ.” Too low to even measure.
There aren’t many moslims, a.k.a. islamic devil worshippers, who go by the name of “Sam.” What’s the name your moslim parent’s gave you? Or the moslim moniker you have given yourself?
islam is all about control…submission…to satan and his evil designs. And a person doesn’t need to be an Einstein to know that.
And yes, I hate, detest, despise, abhor, islam and all that it stands for. Because I love what is good, upright, virtuous, honest, trustworthy, righteous, loving, kind, respectable, peaceful, mild, self control even in the face of threats and abuse from someone who serves satan and lies about it.
gravenimage says
How is anything that Somehistory said incorrect? Of course, “Sam” here does not say.
His Taqiyya is really very weak.
Infidel says
The real issue here is that Pompeo needs to issue a major address on US relations w/ Turkey just like he did on China at the Nixon library months ago. The Turkey of today is not the same Kemalist ally we had during the Cold War. A lot has changed, and US policy needs to be updated to reflect that! B’cos otherwise, Turkey is just getting away w/ murder
gravenimage says
Irked Turks slam Pompeo for promoting religious freedom, call on him to focus on ‘Islamophobia’ instead
……………..
Muslims *hate* freedom.
Jayell says
Seems like the slightest things can ‘irk a Turk’.
Shaman says
Agree with Gravenimage and Jayell. These muslim Turks who run Turkey must be so mentally sick that even a visit from an American statesman can irk them. There is no freedom of belief/religion nor not to believe in Turkey nor any other islamic country.
There are not more than 2.000 Greeks in Anatolia today, one of the homelands of Greeks which they were forcibly eradicated from. And the Christian population of Turkey is only about 0.2 % ! The lands that Saint Paul of Tarsus and many Early Church Fathers born and evangelized. World must see the hypocritical acts of Turkey and islam.
gravenimage says
Yes–most Greeks were driven out or Turkey or murdered outright during the Armenian Geniocide, which actually targeted all Christians.
newsupplements says
There is no fake phobia. The phobia is justified and held by millions of Muslims from other Muslims who hold them as not Muslims because they do not take part in jihad violence. They will not face the inner struggle of doing so. It is by this objection that they are also regarded as not Muslims and treated to the same violence as the infidel or non Muslim despite their pious natures. Have the government never admitted of Muslims fleeing from Muslim countries because of Muslim terrorists? yet they think to invent laws such as the forbidding of Islamophobia which represents a real human concern and well they know it! Laws forbidding a point of view held and expressed will strengthen the rule of Islam! What are they ? idiots or psychopaths?
Dachlan says
Christian leader dare not to say a word. When Hagia converted to a mosque.
Mauricio says
Robert Spencer said:
“The Turks are enraged because Pompeo is slated to focus on religious freedom, just months after Turkey converted two venerable Byzantine churches, Hagia Sophia and the Monastery at Chora, into mosques.”
Not only that, the Turks are not currently allowing the reopening of the Halki Seminary:
https://orthodoxtimes.com/archbishop-of-america-turkeys-stance-on-halki-seminary-is-incomprehensible/
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Mauricio.
Mauricio says
Welcome.
OLD GUY says
Erdogan, wants a world wide islamic dictatorship and see’s himself as that dictator. Islamophobia is a tool being promoted to restrict freedom of speech by islam in an attempt to control the spread of truth about its violence and hateful treatment of non islamic believers.