A calculated insult to the tiny remnant of Christians in Turkey is a “symbol of the revival” of Turkish civilization. Erdogan thus suggests that a revived Turkish civilization will subjugate non-Muslims and subject them to the institutionalized discrimination and harassment of dhimmitude. This would be in line with his caliphate dreams, for of course a revived Ottoman caliphate would implement Sharia.
“Erdoğan marks first anniversary of Hagia Sophia reopening as a mosque,” Greek City Times, July 25, 2021:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday commemorated the first anniversary of the reopening of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia as a mosque, calling the iconic 16th-century structure a ‘’symbol of the revival’’ of Turkish civilisation.’
The Turkish president made the remarks on Twitter, where he shared a video of the first Friday prayer at the Hagia Sophia last year after a decades-long hiatus and said he hoped for the call for Muslims prayers and the Quran would never abandon the converted structure “until the end of time.’’
Built 1,500 years ago as an Orthodox Christian cathedral, the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque following the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul in 1453. The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, later turned the building into a museum in 1934.
Last July, Erdoğan signed a presidential decree allowing the 6th-century UNESCO World Heritage site to function as a mosque again, in a move that was met with international condemnation….
tim gallagher says
So thuggishly taking over the Hagia Sophia for Islam and turning it into a mosque is a symbol of the revival of Turkish “civilisation”. Yep, that sounds about right. Islam and civilsation do not go together at all and they never have done. islam and barbarity, now they do go together. I look forward to this Turkish revival bullshit falling away again, just as the old barbarous Ottoman empire turned into a powerless rabble. It is probably a long way off, but I suspect that the Turkish revival will eventually piss off the European countries enough for them to give Turkey a good hammering, which will be well deserved.
SAFI says
That’s Islamic “civilization” essentially. They’ve done it countless times thoughout history, starting with the Kaaba which they usurped from the Meccan polytheists but in that case they kinda felt it necessary to invent a story about it being constructed ages ago by the Muslim(!) “Ibrahim”(Abraham) and thus argue it was rightfully muslim all along. In Hagia Sophia’s case, another sacred site that also predates the creation of Islam itself, they didn’t bother coming up with a similar bs lie to justify the appropriation. They just took it because Islam is the “superior” religion and thus Muslims have the right, no the obligation rather, to dispossess the infidels and that’s all the excuse they ever needed to rob the kafirs of their holly places. And even for the Kaaba I suspect the main reason the bothered to come up with that Ibrahim bullcrap was to explain all weird pagan stuff that Muslims do around the black stone every year… otherwise they don’t seem to need an excuse to steal, allah had already granted them license for that
tim gallagher says
That seems to be it, SAFI. Muhammad, if he did exist, which i doubt, and his followers, were bandits and gangsters, and, imitating their appalling idea of what a man should be like, Muslims have always been nothing but a bunch of marauding gangsters. Hopefully, Erdogan and Turkey will lose this power they seem to have these days and turn into a crappy, fairly powerless country again.
Clifford Fodor says
They probably thought about burning it or flying an airplane into it, but they figured it would be more “civilized” to just take it over and rename it.
SAFI says
< turkish
< civilization
Pick one
gravenimage says
Erdogan says conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque is ‘symbol of the revival’ of Turkish civilization
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The “revival” of Turkish civilization is stealing the accomplishments of non-Muslims? Actually, that sounds about right…
Crusades Were Right says
A Frankenstein’s Monster of a “civilization”: constructed from assorted bits and pieces hacked off the murdered cadavers of other civilizations.
“It’s alive!” lol
Goofy says
Erdogan is embarrassingly spot on. There is neither a Turkish culture nor an Islam which is not solidly rooted on theft. Has he no advisers to keep him put of trouble?
ismail says
yes what erdogan did was correct it is a mosque not amuseum by ataturk erdogan done it fr islam
gravenimage says
Is ismail here just terribly ignorant–does he have no idea that Hagia Sophia is a Church, and was build a hundred years before Muhammed existed (assuming he did), and almost a thousand years before Muslims’ bloody conquest of Constantinople–or is it just that he believes that whatever Muslims seize from productive Infidels is theirs by right?
But, really, ignorance and savagery tend to go together, in any case.
Also, notice that “doing it for Allah” seems to consist of stealing things from non-Muslims. But then, this is reportedly how the “Prophet” operated, as well.
James Lincoln says
ismail,
It is apparent that your thought processes – and your ability to use factual evidence-based logic is about as good as your English grammar…
Crusades Were Right says
@ismail
Not a mosque; it’s a CHURCH: built by indigenous Christians in their native land, for Christian worship.
It will always be a church, even if the congregation was ROBBED of it, and has almost completely disappeared because it was subjected to ETHNIC CLEANSING and GENOCIDE by Turkish Mohammedans.