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2020-07-12 The Grand Turk

Erdogan calls on world to respect Turkey's decision to transform Hagia Sophia into mosque

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Posted by Fred 2020-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 I believe all it would take to stop this is a call from President Trump. Cmon Pres, take the lead, stop this Islamist freak in his tracks.

Posted by b 2020-07-12 06:59|| 2020-07-12 06:59|| Front Page Top

#2 ^And be accused of Russian collision again?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 07:02|| 2020-07-12 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Was Hagia Sophia ever a mosque?

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-07-12 10:49|| 2020-07-12 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Constantinople fell in 1453. In the first few hours the Moslem onquerors immediately trashed the cathedral and its Christian symbols and did hideous and cruel things on the altars and to the iconography. Read the original sources from the period referenced in Raymond Ibrahim’s Sword and Scimitar on the fall of Byzantium.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-07-12 12:34|| 2020-07-12 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 And from that baptism in blood the day NoMoreBS describes until Kamal Ataturk introduced secularism in 1935(?) it was a mosque. Until this week it was a museum — they even uncovered some of the glorious Christian mosaics in recent years, confident that the situation was permanent. At least there are now photos of them — who knows what destruction Sultan Erdogan I’s neo-Ottomans will glory in.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-12 23:08|| 2020-07-12 23:08|| Front Page Top

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