Turkey’s Jihad President seizes iconic Church of Hagia Sophia, makes it a MOSQUE #war

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Above: A Byzantine mosaic in the old church Hagia Sophia showing the Judgment day with Jesus Christ to the left and John the Baptist to the right, from the 12th century, Constantinople, Turkey

Imagine if the leader of a Christian nation (though none identifies as such save for the Vatican), declared the Great Mosque of Mecca a church. That’s what this is.

Annulling the 1934 Cabinet decision that turned the site into a museum, the era of Ataturk, who created a modern, secular Islamic state, is dead.

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That there was “jubilation” outside the iconic church chanting “Allah akbar!” (Allah is greater [than your g-d]), is all you need to know about supremacism in Islam.

Church of Hagia Sophia, also called Church of the Holy Wisdom or Church of the Divine Wisdom, cathedral built at Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) in the 6th century ce (532–537) under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. By general consensus, it is the most important Christian Byzantine structure and one of the world’s great churches.

Turkey’s president formally makes Hagia Sophia a mosque

Suzan Fraser, Associated Press, July 10, 2020:

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The president of Turkey on Friday formally converted Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had made the religious landmark a museum.

The decision sparked deep dismay among Orthodox Christians. Originally a cathedral, Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque after Istanbul’s conquest by the Ottoman Empire but had been a museum for the last 86 years, drawing millions of tourists annually.

There was jubilation outside the terracotta-hued structure with its cascading domes and four minarets. Dozens of people awaiting the court’s ruling chanted “Allah is great!” when the news broke. A large crowd later prayed outside it.

In the capital of Ankara, legislators stood and applauded as the decision was read in Parliament.

Turkey’s high administrative court threw its weight behind a petition brought by a religious group and annulled the 1934 Cabinet decision that turned the site into a museum. Within hours, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a decree handing over Hagia Sophia to Turkey’s Religious Affairs Presidency.

In a televised address to the nation, Erdogan said the first prayers inside Hagia Sofia would be held on July 24, and he urged respect for the decision.

“I underline that we will open Hagia Sophia to worship as a mosque by preserving its character of humanity’s common cultural heritage,” he said, adding: “It is Turkey’s sovereign right to decide for which purpose Hagia Sofia will be used.”

He rejected the idea that the decision ends Hagia Sophia’s status as a structure that brings faiths together.

Erdogan had spoken in favor of turning the hugely symbolic UNESCO World Heritage site back into a mosque despite widespread international criticism, including from U.S. and Orthodox Christian leaders, who had urged Turkey to keep its status as a museum symbolizing solidarity among faiths and cultures.

The move threatens to deepen tensions with neighboring Greece, whose prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, condemned the decision as an affront to Hagia Sophia’s ecumenical character.

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Maranatha
Maranatha
3 years ago

Cultural appropriation.
Steal.
Annexation: so …don’t complain tomorrow.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Maranatha

Erdogan is just another rotten tyrant, wreaking his country, while he wraps himself in phony religious piety.

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Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

The turkey erdogan, was elected as the leader of turkeyland, by a very healthy margin of the turkeys that voted.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Maranatha

Erdogan is just another rotten tyrant, wreaking his country, while he wraps himself in phony religious piety.

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Quantumphase
Quantumphase
3 years ago

Imagine what would happen if we started transforming mosques into
Christian churches.
Always a one way street with the one world caliphate crowd isn’t it?

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Quantumphase

Turkey is a Muslim majority country run by a Jihadist.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Majority? That’s an understatement, Turkey is more than 99.8% muslum and that statistic is only increasing because the population of non-muslims is decreasing.

KalevEfrayim
KalevEfrayim
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Nuke ’em all, kill Islam once and for all.

David Grisez
David Grisez
3 years ago

We know that Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to bring back a new form of the Ottoman Empire Caliphate. Converting Hagia Sophia back into a mosque is a symbol of Islamic Power and Supremacy for this Neo Ottoman Empire that Erdogan is trying to build. It is a fact that Erdogan is reversing all the secular reforms of Kemal Ataturk to turn Turkey from a secular nation back into an Islamic Ottoman Empire.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  David Grisez

Exactly right!
He knows there are no consequences to it by the U.N. or anyone else.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
3 years ago
Reply to  David Grisez

“Converting Hagia Sophia back into a mosque” It was not a mosque any time in the past. It was always a Christian church.You can see all the signs and all the windows and none of them shows only Christian symbols.

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

They would probably justify it by stating their belief that everyone is a Muslim anyway, and have wandered from the “faith.”

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

It was the New Rome that the Roman Catholic Church hated

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago
Reply to  David Grisez

Look up Kemal Ataturk and Great Fire of Smyrna 1922. Just another Muslim butcher.

David Grisez
David Grisez
3 years ago

We know that Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to bring back a new form of the Ottoman Empire Caliphate. Converting Hagia Sophia back into a mosque is a symbol of Islamic Power and Supremacy for this Neo Ottoman Empire that Erdogan is trying to build. It is a fact that Erdogan is reversing all the secular reforms of Kemal Ataturk to turn Turkey from a secular nation back into an Islamic Ottoman Empire.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hates Christians. The UN will do nothing about it.

Bradley Lexvold
Bradley Lexvold
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

From this site we’ve learned about muslins taking Joan of Arc’s home town, burning down of Notre Dame, and now the Hagia Sophia having Islamic prayers. Am I the only one who hears the deafening screams of “Take them back!”

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago

With you

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago

Lots to be discovered in history, start with Waraqa, Khadija, and Muhammad.
Muhammad was White.
Called blacks Raisin Heads.
Find all in the Quran doing a search

Look it up also the white, black slavery trade and Barbary Coast Pirates

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

A great time to eliminate our participation in the U.N. long overdue .

mackykam
mackykam
3 years ago

No more tourist travel to Turkey. No Christian business with Turkey.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  mackykam

I can’t f’ing imagine why anyone kafir would want to vacation anywhere in the muslum world, maybe they’re stupid.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago

They would not holiday in Muslim countries knowing they are to be raped, tortured, and made slaves

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

The non-islamist muslums will be protesting this any day now I’m sure.

mackykam
mackykam
3 years ago

Not until time passes are the after effects of having been kicked in the balls by a horse felt worldwide.

CARRENO BARTOX
CARRENO BARTOX
3 years ago

Why in the world do Christians and other non-muslims have to be considerate of a diabolical ideology – just because it represents itself as a religion?
If ever, Hagia Sofia must be reconverted into the Christian Cathedral which it always has been!

What about the Al Aqsa mosque on top of the Jewish Temple in the heart of Israels capital Jerusalem?
Shouldn’t it be converted into a museum for Arabic tiles and ornaments ?
Beside there are thousands of other mosques outside muslim countries – shouldn’t those be closed and demolished since centuries due to their diabolic and murderous actions?

Neither in the Old nor in the New Testament nor elsewhere is written that Christians and other non-muslims must not defend themselves effectively – on the contrary: wherever and however named Satan occurs, we must fight him with all our might!

1PierreMontagne1
1PierreMontagne1
3 years ago

Erdogan has rejected secularism and is using his Imams and secret police to restore the Caliphate and return Turkey to being a Moslem nation. Observers who say otherwise are naive or self deceived – those who say Erdogan will not succeed are seriously out of touch and need to get out more.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago

Want the Ottoman Empire returned.

1PierreMontagne1
1PierreMontagne1
3 years ago

Suzan Fraser Quote: “Imagine if the leader of a Christian nation (though none identifies as such save for the Vatican)
That’s where Suzan Fraser the writer of the article needs to get out more.

Since first coming to Power V Putin has declared Russia is a Christian nation and has excoriated America and the west for abandoning their Christian foundations in favor of secularism which Russia rejects. Russian powers-that-be proclaim boldly that Russia is the Christian nation.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/01/29/vladimir%20putin-america-is-godless-turns-away-from-christian-values/
https://baptistnews.com/article/why-is-russias-putin-talking-about-marriage-and-faith-in-god/
Now you know the real reason the MSN hates Putin

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago

You are so correct. In Russia, new churches are completed at a rate of nearly two each day and they are filled with worshipers. The Miracle of Fatima instructed Christians to pray for the deliverance of Russia and our prayers were answered. Holy Russia is once again led by a great Christian leader who battles Satan every day.

Charlie
Charlie
3 years ago

It’s not like the Christian hierarchy stands up for what is theirs. All the cathedrals in the U.S. are closed, too. Do you think they will ever be reopened even as mere museums? What a laugh. They will not. The bishops will happily hand the keys to the terrorists to burn them down, just as the pope handed the keys (for $2B) to the CCP to bulldoze all the churches in China. The Bishops have sided with the hatefilled left my whole life. I’m soooooo sick of it. Obviously, Orthodox bishops are no better. In the “Land of the Free”, we have no church at all anymore. If I’m lucky, I might be able to have Amazon deliver a Jesus figurine in an unmarked box. Or not. So what is the big deal for the Christian hierarchy to care now about a far off land they abandoned to the heathens decades, even centuries, ago? The mistake was allowing it to be converted to a museum in the first place. It has not been a Christian site in 86 years, so why is it considered a loss now?

Charlie
Charlie
3 years ago
Reply to  Charlie

I’m just amazed this Jewish lady is standing up for Christians more than the Christian hierarchy is, who have not cared about the flock in many many decades. I would not have known about this story at all if not for Pamela Geller. Certainly not from my own bishops.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago
Reply to  Charlie

Lots more than just the Black Jesuit General Pope.

In October the Pope is holding a Global Education Pact.

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago

WHAT HAPPENS IN THE PAST WILL REPEAT ITSELF IN THE FUTURE WITH MUSLIMS! ATATURK WAS A SECULARIST TURK WHO MURDERED NON-MUSLIMS WHILE NOT BEING RELIGIOUSLY MUSLIM AS A DRUNK WHO GAVE WOMEN SOME FREEDOM!
SAD THING IS THAT GREECE HAD WON BACK CONSTANTINOPLE FAIR AND SQUARE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND WHEN IT ENFORCED THE TREATY SETTLEMENT IN 1919-1921 THEY WERE BAITED AND BETRAYED BY THE BRITISH WHO ENCOURAGED THEM TO DEFEAT ATATURK BY TAKING ANKARA INSTEAD OF JUST TAKING THE HISTORIC GREEK AREAS INCLUDING CONSTANTINOPLE AND DIGGING IN LIKE THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE AND COULD HAVE HELD/WON! IT IS NICE THAT THE GREEK GOVERNMENT IS FINALLY AT LEAST SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
HAGIA SOPHIA IS A TOMB OF MARTYRS WHO WERE MURDERED AFTER TAKING SANCTUARY THERE BY THE TURKS WHILE TAKING LAST COMMUNION! GOING BACK TO THE RUSSIAN-TURKISH WAR THAT ENDED IN THE CRIMEAN WAR IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND WAS A TRAVESTY AS RUSSIA SOUGHT TO FREE THE ORTHODOX AREAS BUT WAS GANGED UP ON BY FRANCE, U.K. AND ITALY WHICH SET THE STAGE FOR THE COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF WESTERN RUSSIA IN WWI THAT HELPED BRING THE BOLSHEVIKS TO POWER!
HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THE BEAUTIFUL BYZANTINE ART WILL LAST AS A MOSQUE NOW? THE U.N. SILENCE ON THIS IS LIVING PROOF THAT THE U.N. FOR ALL ITS TALK ABOUT PRESERVING CULTURAL SITES IS REALLY CONTROLLED BY THE MUSLIMS WHO WORK FOR THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE MUCH OF THE TIME! SUPER SUMMER, RIGHTISTS!

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago

WHAT HAPPENS IN THE PAST WILL REPEAT ITSELF IN THE FUTURE WITH MUSLIMS! ATATURK WAS A SECULARIST TURK WHO MURDERED NON-MUSLIMS WHILE NOT BEING RELIGIOUSLY MUSLIM AS A DRUNK WHO GAVE WOMEN SOME FREEDOM!
SAD THING IS THAT GREECE HAD WON BACK CONSTANTINOPLE FAIR AND SQUARE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND WHEN IT ENFORCED THE TREATY SETTLEMENT IN 1919-1921 THEY WERE BAITED AND BETRAYED BY THE BRITISH WHO ENCOURAGED THEM TO DEFEAT ATATURK BY TAKING ANKARA INSTEAD OF JUST TAKING THE HISTORIC GREEK AREAS INCLUDING CONSTANTINOPLE AND DIGGING IN LIKE THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE AND COULD HAVE HELD/WON! IT IS NICE THAT THE GREEK GOVERNMENT IS FINALLY AT LEAST SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
HAGIA SOPHIA IS A TOMB OF MARTYRS WHO WERE MURDERED AFTER TAKING SANCTUARY THERE BY THE TURKS WHILE TAKING LAST COMMUNION! GOING BACK TO THE RUSSIAN-TURKISH WAR THAT ENDED IN THE CRIMEAN WAR IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND WAS A TRAVESTY AS RUSSIA SOUGHT TO FREE THE ORTHODOX AREAS BUT WAS GANGED UP ON BY FRANCE, U.K. AND ITALY WHICH SET THE STAGE FOR THE COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF WESTERN RUSSIA IN WWI THAT HELPED BRING THE BOLSHEVIKS TO POWER!
HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THE BEAUTIFUL BYZANTINE ART WILL LAST AS A MOSQUE NOW? THE U.N. SILENCE ON THIS IS LIVING PROOF THAT THE U.N. FOR ALL ITS TALK ABOUT PRESERVING CULTURAL SITES IS REALLY CONTROLLED BY THE MUSLIMS WHO WORK FOR THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE MUCH OF THE TIME! SUPER SUMMER, RIGHTISTS!

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

Revelation is coming to pass…!

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago

The proper and only response is to seize the Dome of the Rock and turn it into a museum dedicated to the 1 billion innocents who have been murdered and enslaved by the Islamist’s over the past 1450 years.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  John Acord

Raze it to the ground. Build the Temple. If that spot was good enough for Solomon, it should be good enough for Israel.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago

Solomon’s Temple was originally a “church”?

Only a millennia ‘r two, prior to the Creator coming down in human form.

Maranatha
Maranatha
3 years ago

Hypocrite Pope Francis said that ”he is very sad” about this occupation and steal of Hagia Sofia.
However he’s got a very good plan against Israel for their ”occupation” and Judea and Samaria ”annexation”
Wait and see.

KalevEfrayim
KalevEfrayim
3 years ago
Reply to  Maranatha

The pope IS the anti-Christ and Islam IS the Beast.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago
Reply to  KalevEfrayim

No not the antiChrist but a false Prophet been the Black Pope, a Jesuit General

Matthew 24: 4 – 6 kjv

Maranatha
Maranatha
3 years ago

Hypocrite Pope Francis said that ”he is very sad” about this occupation and steal of Hagia Sofia.
However he’s got a very good plan against Israel for their ”occupation” and Judea and Samaria ”annexation”
Wait and see.

ed
ed
3 years ago

I bet Obama was among the first people there to celebrate and had his face buried in some other guys ass to “pray “ to his demon god…

Lonna Lisa Williams
Lonna Lisa Williams
3 years ago

I taught English in Turkey (at a university) for 2.5 years and wrote 2 books about it, journalistic-style with photos. The Hagia Sophia (in Istanbul) appears in both my books. Turkey has over 100,000 mosques and over 10,000 in Istanbul, yet Dictator Erdogan will not allow 1 Christian church in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. Turkey has a Christian history that goes back 2000 years, and all 6 of the churches in Revelation chapters 1 to 3 are in Turkey. Still, Erdogan says Turkey is Islamic only. He keeps rewriting history and denying the people of Turkey their Ataturk Constitutional human rights. Turkey has more journalists in prison than any country in the world, and Erdogan closed almost all newspapers and TV news stations. The Turks need their freedoms back! Read “I Protested for Freedom with Turks” on Amazon.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

The population of Turkey that is non-muslim? 0.2%. The f’ing Turks have been persecuting non-muslims in their theocratic, religious apartheid state for decades, starting with “secular” Ataturk’s orders to slaughter the Greek Christians of Smyrna while burning their homes to the ground.

ed
ed
3 years ago

Obama’s butt buddy….I mean best buddy…Erdogan.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago

Here again the Catholics against Orthodox Russia to take back Constantinople

What Were the Causes of the Crimean War

The main causes of the Crimean War were religion, in particular of the Holy sites in Jerusalem — this applied to all major powers, including France, Britain and the Ottoman Empire — and also British foreign policy which was strongly in support of the Ottoman Empire, as the British saw the Turkish lands as a barrier that could halt Russian expansionism. Russia eventually conceded defeat to the alliance of France, Britain, Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire.

https://www.reference.com/history/were-causes-crimean-war-1c47a066d4cacc4d

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
3 years ago

We all need to pray to Jesus Christ who ever goes in for Islamic prayer gets fried. They more we pray the bigger chance it may happen

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