My latest in PJ Media:
Yesterday in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended a ceremony in honor of 136 young men who had succeeded in memorizing the entire Qur’an. The ceremony was held in what the International Quran News Agency called “the iconic Hagia Sophia Mosque,” which up until last year was a museum, although it was a mosque before it was established as a museum in 1935. “After 86 years of longing, we have experienced the happiness of returning Hagia Sophia to its original identity,” said Erdogan at that time. He was ignoring, however, Hagia Sophia’s near-millennium as a cathedral, and the catastrophic events that led to its becoming a mosque – events that took place on this day in 1453, a day some Greek Orthodox Christians referred to as “the last day of the world.”
As The History of Jihad recounts in detail, on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the armies of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II finally broke through Constantinople’s defenses after a long siege, marking the end of the Eastern Roman Empire, more commonly known as the Byzantine Empire. The conquerors were extraordinarily brutal. Historian Steven Runciman notes that the Muslim soldiers “slew everyone that they met in the streets, men, women, and children without discrimination. The blood ran in rivers down the steep streets from the heights of Petra toward the Golden Horn. But soon the lust for slaughter was assuaged. The soldiers realized that captives and precious objects would bring them greater profit.”
Some jihadists “made for the small but splendid churches by the walls, Saint George by the Charisian Gate, Saint John in Petra, and the lovely church of the monastery of the Holy Saviour in Chora, to strip them of their stores of plate and their vestments and everything else that could be torn from them. In the Chora they left the mosaics and frescoes, but they destroyed the icon of the Mother of God, the Hodigitria, the holiest picture in all Byzantium, painted, so men said, by Saint Luke himself. It had been taken there from its own church beside the Palace at the beginning of the siege, that its beneficient presence might be at hand to inspire the defenders on the walls. It was taken from its setting and hacked into four pieces.”
The jihadists also entered the Hagia Sophia, which for nearly a thousand years had been the grandest church in Christendom. The faithful had gathered within its hallowed walls to pray during the city’s last agony. The Muslims halted the celebration of Orthros (morning prayer); the priests, according to legend, took the sacred vessels and disappeared into the cathedral’s eastern wall, through which they shall return to complete the divine service one day. Muslim men then killed the elderly and weak and led the rest off into slavery.
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CogitoErgoSum says
They celebrate murder, rape and slavery. No, that day was not the last day of the world but it will come someday and they will be judged as they have judged others. Let that day come for them soon.
Brando says
I am an agnostic,but in Islam most scholars believe one day a DESCENDANT of Muhamad will appear who Muslims call:
MAHDI ( Guided One) and he will conquer the world for Islam,
with the help of Jesus ( second coming).
NOT MANY HADITHS ON IT
There are 8 in total,and one saying says :
““The world will not come to pass until a MAN from among my FAMILY,
whose NAME will be MY NAME ( note: Mohamed ) , rules over the Arabs.”
AND
““Allah will bring out from concealment AL-MAHDI
from MY FAMILY and just before the day of Judgment; even if only one day were to remain in the life of the world,
and he will SPREAD on this EARTH justice and equity and will eradicate tyranny and oppression.”
SOURCE
https://themuslimvibe.com/faith-islam/8-hadiths-regarding-the-mahdi
POSSIBLE CANDIDATE FOR THE ANTICHRIST
1.In the OT and NT number 3 is repeated many times,in different contexts.
2.In REV 13:18 says:
“This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight CALCULATE the NUMBER of the BEAST( Antichrist),
for it is the NUMBER of a MAN. That number is 666.”
KORAN= WORDS OF MOHAMED ( not of God)
It has 114 chapters, if you apply 3 as REPETITION:
114, and 411 and 141 ( THREE different combinations of same THREE digits), you get:
114 + 411 + 141 = 666
JOEL RICHARDSON
He is the most erudite of the proponents that the Antichrist would be Muslim, but the argument stated above does NOT appear in his books:
1.”Mideast Beast: The Scriptural Case for an Islamic Antichrist”(2012)
2.”The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth about the Real Nature of the Beast “(2009)
It seems it appeared after 2012.
Boycott Turkey says
Turks have no shame celebrating there theft murder rape Erdogan is the anti christ
Infidel says
No, they act like they already owned whatever they loot. And incidentally, this is true about the entire muslim Turkic race – whether it was the Ottomans in Söğüt, the Seljuqs in Rum, the Kharezmids in Gurganj, the Tatars in Crimea and Qazan, the Timurides in Samarqand, the Qarakhanids in Qashqar, the Ghaznavids in Afghanistan or the Mughals in Agra
At one level, it’s almost funny seeing the Turks take what began as an Arab project and making it all their own. And it plays out in today’s sweepstakes for the leadership of the ummah b/w the Arabs and the Turks
GreekEmpress says
The Hagia Sofia has NOT been returned to its original identity. Not until it is an Orthodox place of worship again.
You see how the Turks twist history????
gravenimage says
Yes–utterly appalling.
Brando says
Well,Erdogan’s name is Not Mohammed, but according to EZEKIEL 38:40-48:
There is a man called GOG who leads an immense army against ISRAEL:
“”Son of man, direct your face against GOG,
of the land of Magog, the prince, leader of Meshech and Tubal,
and prophesy concerning him.
Say: Thus said the Lord: Behold, I am against you, Gog, the prince, leader of Meshech and Tubal …
Persia ( IRAN ), Cush ( SUDAN ) and Put (LIBYA)will be with you … also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the MANY NATIONS with YOU.”
WHO IS GOG?
In Ezekiel’s day it referred to GYGES (Greek name)/ GUGU ( native name), ruler of LIDIA
( kingdom that occupied 50% of today’s TURKEY, the WESTERN part ( where Istanbul is today ). It was conquered by the Persians.
According to scholars: Magog,Meshech,Tubal
and Gomer and Togarmah ( 5 places in all ) were places in TURKEY in Ezekiel’s time.
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/336714509629988758/
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomer#Traditional_identifications
A CURIOUS PHRASE
It refers to the Jews of Israel as ” a people GATHERED from the NATIONS” ( 2X)
and the army of Gog would be made up of horses, and soldiers with swords and shields.
Brando says
I forgot to add that the Gyges/Gugu/Gog of history lived BEFORE Ezekiel ( lived 687-652),
1.While Ezekiel was born around 622 BC.
2.And in history,there was only One King Ever who ever had that Specific Name.
THE RING OF GYGES
Gog/Gyges/Gugu appears also in PLATO’s “The Republic” where he finds a golden ring that makes him INVISIBLE,
and thus is able to become King of LYDIA.
Rob Porter says
Boycott – They have no shame. In fact I never cease to marvel at Muslim ignorant gloating over the non-achievement that was the Muslim victory at Constantinople in 1453. It was a great symbolic victory, but not a great military victory.
At the Byzantine empire’s height the city had a population between 500,000 and a million. In its decline over hundreds of years its population shrank, as did the economy of that region. “Between 1346 and 1349 the Black Death plague killed almost half of the inhabitants of Constantinople.” “.. by 1453, Constantinople consisted of a series of walled villages separated by vast fields encircled by the fifth-century Theodosian Walls.”
Along came Mehmed II’s Muslim army of 50 – 80 thousand. Inside the city were just 7,000 defenders. Mehmed’s army had huge Austrian cannons that pounded the city’s walls into crumbling. So, big deal, the Muslims won and Europe did nothing to help Constantinople.
gravenimage says
May 29 was the Anniversary of the ‘Last Day of the World,’ the Fall of Constantinople
…………….
Turkey has had a supremacist celebration of this savagery, *Ugh*.
Wellington says
Gravenimage: George Ostrogorsky in his masterful work, The History Of The Byzantine State, on p.571 wrote the following about the fall of Constantinople: “For three days and three nights the Sultan’s troops were allowed to plunder the city as they had been promised just before the final assault to raise their flagging morale. Property of priceless value, works of art, precious manuscripts, holy icons and ecclesiastical treasures were all destroyed.”
No comment necessary.
gravenimage says
Yes–appalling barbarism these Mohammedans are celebrating.
tim gallagher says
I agree with the other comments about these Turkish Muslim scumbags. But how about that first sentence about celebrating 136 men learning the loathsome, turgid load of crap, the Koran, by heart. Talk about a complete waste of time and effort. They could have tried to do something creative and productive with their minds whether in science or writing a book or whatever. Seriously, that has to be be the most stupid thing I have ever heard of anyone doing. Learning the whole fucking Koran by heart. Pure insanity and not something any sane person would celebrate. Islam really twists the human mind right out of shape.
Wellington says
Completely agree, tim gallagher. Why not instead memorize the Gospels or Shakespeare since there is an infinitely greater amount of worth in each?
tim gallagher says
Yes, Wellington, I thought it was one of the most ridiculous uses of the human mind and memory I have ever heard about. I have heard about people learning the Koran off by heart before here at Jihad Watch. I suppose that there are actually people who can, effortlessly, learn a huge amount of material. I had a friend who studied medicine and had a terrific memory and I recall that he seemed to be able to recite huge slabs of the Coleridge poem “The Ryme of the Ancient Mariner” (I hope I’ve got the title right) as a sort of party trick. Maybe these Turkish clowns have memories like that. It makes no sense to me. As I said, I think trying to do something creative makes more sense. Just remembering stuff by heart doesn’t impress me very much. Learning the Koran, such crap, and evil crap at that, to me, is beyond stupid.
Michael Copeland says
Robert Spencer tells of meeting one of these memorisers, a hafiz, who told him how he loved the text (all Arabic, of course) and would be interested one day to find out what it meant.
tim gallagher says
That is even stranger, Michael. To me, it is amazing that anyone could learn by heart something which is actually meaningless gibberish to them. I have a fairly good memory and remember the lyrics of many songs because I sing them, but I can remember them because they tell a story and make sense to me and also because they have lines which rhyme or almost rhyme, which makes it easier. But remembering something that makes no sense is just downright bizarre. I don’t understand how anyone can learn stuff that makes no sense to them. On that issue of the Koran in Arabic, I recall hearing Robert Spencer being interviewed on 2GB radio station here in Australia several years ago when Robert was visiting Australia and I remember some Muslim clown ringing in and asking Robert Spencer if he knew Arabic and can read the Koran in Arabic. I think the Muslim was trying to say that, if Robert couldn’t read the Koran in Arabic, then he could have nothing to say about the Koran. Total bullshit was my response to this garbage from the Muslim caller.
gravenimage says
Yes–“learning” something in a language that is not even understood is just absurd. No wonder there is so little actual learning in the Muslim world.
tim gallagher says
gravenimage, yes, I’d say that it is the very definition of absurdity. It is lunacy and, it seems to me, totally pointless. Islam does extremely weird things to people’s minds, that’s for sure. I mean, what a waste of time.
gravenimage says
And I wish this were just a waste of time–but Islam is much more sinister and harmful than that.
JANET says
I agree. This is proof that the ilk of the shariah law followers does not value TRUTH!
tim gallagher says
I agree, JANET. Any lie will do for these Muslims as long as it helps Islam in its effort to take over the world. Nothing else matters to them.
born saturday says
it was the king of Constantinople the great paleologos who never surrendered to save his life and fortune, but fought untill the very end to death to defend Constantinople with his byzantine warriors, that inspired the greek people allover the area of todays greece and not only to never surrender, but revolt against the ottomaniac empire untill its demise came in turn after endless revolutions against them…. that is the lesson to learn from this great struggle for anyone who is fighting islam…. never surrender!!!! keep fighting untill the end!!!!
born saturday says
and something else that might look alike with todays reality…. 100 years before the fall of the City the City had been isolated and all its colonies which supplied it, where byzantines had built as colonies based on coexistence with the native people of every region with the greek, all the rest of the byzantine empire, was conquered… it was then that a very suspicious thing happened there was an outbreak of a disease that depleted the population of the City and brought it to its knees… it could have been the great secret of the ottomans, biological war or not???? another fact that resulted in the fall of the City to the ottomaniacs was the fall of the city around 200 years ago to the franks, who were the first to devastate and then abandon the City to its fate, a long and unfair battle against islam…. there is a lot of similarities with todays situation and the modern ottomaniac empire….after being hit from the west, and after some years of biological war, the demise of the byzantine empire was inevitable…
something else worth noting is that this battle was the win of evil against good…. the symbiotic christian and lighthouse of civilisation fell to the barbarism and the oppresion and slavery… this changed the course for sure for all of the other empires and people remaining into that barbaric practises and techniques win over civilised ones…. therefore it changed the course of the whole world into what so called civilised empires then did in order to win and prevail….
Chrissie01 says
that is correct. And the siege of Constantinople and the fall of the Eastern Church was the reason why they called the Western Church, i.e. Rome for help as an ally. THAT is the background of the crusades that today are presented as wars of conquest equal to Islam’s jihad. Nobody I know is aware of this.
OLD GUY says
Erdogan a small man trying to make Muhammads dream of world domination of islam come true with him at the head of the snake.
E T says
When you get a group of psychopaths together, you have a major problem. On Saturday, when Americans were thanking and paying tribute to men and women in America who fight and the ones who have died for the love of their country, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood hoods stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and spewed his barbaric hate.
Hibz ut-Tabriz USA leader at a conference in Jordon said “Let Britain, America and the entire West go to hell because the caliphate is coming”.
The ungrateful, barbarian from Iraq, the Canadian leader of Hibz, / Muslim Brotherhood hoods, Mazin Abdul-Adhim, living in London, Ontario, constantly spews his hate, he seems not to be aware of M-103, the hate speech motion, introduced by fellow Muslim and member of parliament, lLoyal sister Khalid”.
Article 62 of the Hibz ut-Tahrir constitution calls for compulsory conscription in their sought after Caliphate. it states every Muslim male who is 15 years old and over is obliged to undergo military training in readiness for Jihad.
The definition of Jihad is also quite clear for Hibz ut-Tahrir, “The meaning of Jihad being a duty of sufficiency is that we initiate the fighting of the enemy even if he did not attack us. if the Muslims failed to initiate the fighting at any given time, they would be sinful. It should should be noted that defensive Jihad is a falsehood.
They never stop hating, the barbarians of no peace and the politicians allow them to continue all in the name of what?
E T says
Nihad Awad the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood hoods.
Andrew Blackadder says
This silly wee Turkish Prime Minister claims a Church built by Christians is now going back to its origin, as a mosque… WTF?.
Arabs claim that Israel, Judea, is going back to what it was and so they have the right to return, even though the Jewish people were there long before a War Lord in the making met an Angel in a cave.
So its as if muslims in general think that what was not previously theirs, and what they may have taken by force, should now return to them, even though they didnt built it, or created it…
Am I missing something here or are these muslim fellas just bat shit crazy?.