This is in the spirit of the supremacist tendency within Islam to claim the holy sites and holy figures of others, insisting that they’re really Islamic. There are numerous examples of this in The History of Jihad. “Turkish daily says ancient site in Thessaloniki built 300 years before Mohammed is a mosque,” by Paul Antonopoulos, […]
Greece: Christians cannot go to church for Easter on April 19, but mosques still operating
Orthodox Easter this year falls on April 19, within the period of the suspension of daily services and sacraments, which goes until at least April 27. Some mosques, however, are still open. This is in keeping with the Qur’anic idea that the Muslims are the “best of people” (3:110) and the unbelievers are “the most […]