The practice of appropriating the sacred sites of other religious traditions and converting them to mosques, or destroying the non-Muslim buildings and constructing a mosque on the same site, has abundant precedent worldwide. Consider Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, the Church of St. John the Baptist/Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, thousands of mosques built over destroyed Hindu […]
Cyprus: Muslim enters monastery, begins reciting Islamic chants
“Moderates” and “extremists” alike, all too many Muslims love to engage in intimidation, and attempt to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). Now that he has prayed Islamic chants inside this church, he or other Muslims could claim it as Islamic property and convert it to a mosque. This idea goes back […]