Hagia Sophia was a cathedral for 900 years and was seized from Christians in 1453. But it doesn’t belong to Christians, as far as Ekrema Sabri is concerned, because conquest by jihad confers right of ownership. No Western authorities at all, none, are pondering the wider implications of this.
“Arab World hails Turkish decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia into a Mosque” EurAsian Times, July 13, 2020
The Turkish decision to reconvert Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque after serving decades as a museum has won praise in the Arab world.
“We congratulate Turkey and ourselves for converting Hagia Sophia back to a mosque because it belongs to all Muslims,” Ekrema Sabri, the preacher of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, said in a statement.
The Grand Mufti of Oman, Ahmed bin Hamad al-Khalili, offered his congratulations to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Muslims worldwide for reopening Hagia Sophia as a mosque.
“We congratulate ourselves, the entire Muslim nation, and particularly the Turkish nation headed by its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for converting Hagia Sophia back to a house of worship where Allah authorized his name to be raised and mentioned,” he said on Twitter.
The Muslim Brotherhood group described the Turkish decision on Hagia Sophia as a “historic step”.
This step “confirms the sovereignty of the Turkish people over their land and the exercise of their rights,” spokesman Talaat Fahmy said in a statement.
He said the Turkish court decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia to a mosque “restores the right to its owners”. The Arab Maghreb Union also described the reopening of the Hagia Sophia mosque to worshippers as a “great historic event”.
“We extend our heartfelt congratulations to the Islamic nation as a whole and particularly to the Turkish people, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the occasion of the reopening of the Hagia Sophia mosque to prayer,” the union said in a statement….
Emilie Green says
“. . . it belongs to all Muslims”
“We never could have built it, but we did know how to steal it”
owensgate says
+1
mortimer says
NO, EMILIE … They DIDN’T even know how to steal it. They hired Venetian engineers and other foreigners to teach them modern techniques. The Turks at the time were unsophisticated barbarians and COULD NOT have captured Constantinople on their own.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Emilie.
Blurb1000 says
Who designed and constructed it?
Who build it?
Who “owned” it?
Who lived there?
What happened?
SAFI says
And what are all these mosaics of Jesus Christ, the Angels, and Christian Saints(which now I guess we’ll never get to see as archeologists had promised) just underneath the plastered surfaces of walls of this “mosque” doing there? That’s one weird “mosque”
mortimer says
If Islam were truly a religion of peace they would give Hagia Sophia back to the Orthodox Church.
lucretia macevil says
If this had been in reverse, with an historically vitally important mosque being converted to a Cathedral, there would now be muslims rioting hysterically all around the world, accompanied by the usual muslim terrorism.
Col Kurtz says
The muslims must have paid off every politician in the world!!!! Why does no one stand up against this cult? This murder cult is not a religion! All it would take is a spark and maybe countries would fight back .
tom parry says
i uSED TO VACATION IN TURKEY NO MORE
mortimer says
Yes, Tom, we should all do our part. We should boycott Turkish goods en masse and tell them we are doing so. Money talks.
gravenimage says
I refuse to buy goods from Muslim countries whenever possible.
gravenimage says
Very true, Lucretia.
Narayan Srikanth says
Perfect. There would be Jehad yet again
Giacomo Latta says
I am not aware of any Christian sect that would have a need of a church being surrounded by a plethora of virtual dicks and the associated dickheads.
mortimer says
GL, that isn’t the point. It’s the seat of Orthodox Christianity. Rome is the seat of the Roman Catholic Christianity.
If Islam were truly a religion of peace they would give Hagia Sophia back to the Orthodox.
gravenimage says
+1
Clifford Fodor says
And the Muslims promised to take over Rome.
CogitoErgoSum says
I don’t want any Muslim ever again to say one word to me about the U.S. stealing land from the American Indians. What a bunch hypocrites these liars are who don’t know the difference between good and evil.
SKA says
For the committed musselman good equals “whatever advances Islam” and evil equals “whatever impedes Islam.” This is the same relativistic ethics of the old Soviet Union or of today’s CCP.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, and neither Marxism nor Islam teaches a belief in God (think about it).
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
BOYCOTT all Turkish products. End tourism to Turkey.
wpm says
For the life of me I do not understand how any non-Muslim can even think of vacationing or touring a Muslim majority country.Why go to a country spend your time and money there so it could go into the hands of people who hate you and think you as not even human.Any product Turkey produces or exports I am sure could be gotten from somewhere else.Islamic majority countries main exports are hate ,mayhem,and violence from what I have seen in the form of Jihad support ,”refugees” terrorism,.and extortion.What ever dates ,figs,fish from fish farming,I am sure could be imported from a country run and inhabited by sane people who do not believe in Jihad,Sharia law or the mad moon god allah as the grand ruler of the world.
Clifford Fodor says
Why just Turkey? Saudi Arabia is the one responsible for the 9/11 attacks. They are responsible for the building of mosques throughout the USA. They and the Turks hate Christianity and the Jews. Instead of admitting to the truth, we have to lie to ourselves and tell ourselves that Saudi Arabia is our ally. If we don’t, then Saudi Arabia will be Russia’s and Red China’s ally. We need to embrace our Christianity and we need to protect Israel.
gravenimage says
True–the Saudis are no allies of ours.
James Lincoln says
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says,
“End tourism to Turkey.”
I actually had it ranked one step above Nigeria…
Tony Naim says
All these people do not share one ounce of decency with the rest of humanity. How on earth can one bridge this wide gap with the mentality of Muslims?
They continue to pose a threat and their aggression is boundless. These are insurmountable differences that will need to be reckoned with one day.
owensgate says
I wonder, if Europe had known the price of not helping Greece kick the Turks back across the Bosporus, where they might belong, but I think they were invaders of Asia Minor also, would they still have been willing to pay it? And what the Hell are they still doing in NATO?
John says
The Ottomans should have been forced out of the European side of the Dardanelles after loosing WW1.
Constantinople and Hagia Sofia returned to Christian Oxthodox.
gravenimage says
Agree.
Chistopher Watson says
Why don’t the USA, Britain and France go and take back the oil? After all, we found it, we built the oil fields and then we gave it away. It would not be very difficult.
gravenimage says
Civilized people do not act like this.
Trmpler says
Whatever santic islzm tacken it never gives back
gravenimage says
Never willingly, Templer.
DavidW says
This is fine. However, we can remind the Turks and Muslims around the world that when Israel retakes the Dome of the Rock Islamic shrine in Jerusalem (that was built on top of the Old Temple Mount) and builds a synagogue there that they are just doing what the Turks and Muslims did before.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, and may they do it soon.
Anna Yelena says
This is outrageous. And where has Pope Francis been all along? Sucking face with this POS imam before Ramadan. He is “The”worst Pope in my lifetime and I’m not a spring chicken. The Cult-of-Mo keeps doing more and more evil acts all over the world and no leaders have the testicular fortitude to do anything about it. So, why should they stop their continuous aggressions, killings etc pray tell? Stop all foreign aids to Turkey and all other Muslim countries and DO IT. The Chinese have the right idea with their containment of the Uighurs. I would venture to say all other Degenerate Muslims better take notice. Their agenda of becoming a Super Power is a pipe dream. People boycotting Turkey is a start.
Michael Copeland says
“the sovereignty of the Turkish people over their land”…….
Evidently they did not hear the late Peter Sutherland of the UN:
“states have to become more open states, in terms of the people who inhabit them… sovereignty is an illusion… sovereignty is an absolute illusion that has to be put behind us.”
kazeem Oni says
Turkey and all monuments in it belongs to the Turks. They were Turks before and after the Ottoman took over and they are today majority Muslims,even extremely moderate muslims for that matter. Whatever they choose to convert their edifices to is their choice. It is they who have a lot to lose in terms of touriism. Are there no mosques in Seville that we’re converted to catgederas before. So what’s all the fuss about.
gravenimage says
Of course, Anatolia had nothing to do with the Turks before they began violently invading the Byzantine Empire shortly after the “Prophet” Muhammed’s death.
The Turks did not build this great Cathedral–it was Anatolian Christians who did so.
And Turkey was only briefly known as “moderate” after Ataturk took stringent efforts to curtail the influence of Islam as much as possible. Erdogan is fast re-Islamizing Turkey–that is in fact the main purpose of this move.
In fact, Erdogan has made it quite clear that this is prelude to violent Islamic conquest:
“Erdogan: ‘Resurrection of Hagia Sophia” heralds “return of freedom to al-Aqsa,”’revival of Islam Uzbekistan to Spain”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/07/erdogan-resurrection-of-hagia-sophia-heralds-return-of-freedom-to-al-aqsa-revival-of-islam-uzbekistan-to-spain
Does kazeem Oni have a problem with this? I very much doubt it, especially as he himself seems to be using Spain as a base himself now.
CogitoErgoSum says
What does it matter how moderate a Muslim may be? What matters is Islam. Islam is the same now as it was in Muhammad’s time or in the days of the fall of Constantinople. According to Islam the Koran is the unchangeable word of Islam and Allah says that you are to either to be or Muslim or accept a Muslim’s authority over you. You and your country will be made to submit when the Muslims decide the time is right. You are living in a fantasy world if you do not know that and if you don’t see what’s the fuss is about you or your children will some day. I’m betting you hope it will be your grandchildren who have to stand and do the fighting though.
esther says
what is a catgedera? fuss? what fuss? —–muhummad was a caravan robber and a slave
trader.and rapist. Some things never change
Jim in DC says
If one was to agree with you then you must also agree that the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem belongs to the Israelis. It is the logical result of the same argument.
Inês von Funcke says
The mosques converted into Churches in Sevilla and Córdoba were themselves built over Churches!
OTTER says
Listen to the sounds of silence from the West.
gravenimage says
“We congratulate Turkey and ourselves for converting Hagia Sophia back to a mosque, it belongs to all Muslims”
………………
Muslim thugs worldwide applaud this Muslim supremacism.
americanpatriot says
It is now time for all in the West and in international Christian community and peace-loving people to come together and be wholeheartedly united in showing our displeasure and anger at this one-sided justification of evil act of turning a significant Christian monument into Islamic mosque by non-violent means.
Islam and Muslims always view and treat the non-Islamic world with absolute disdain and disregard without mutual respect and goodwill.
E T says
Actually the West and the International Christian Community and peace loving people should have come together many years ago and stopped the liars, the greatest group of thieves the world has ever seen for the sake of the children (grooming gangs). How many more children’s lives will be destroyed by these filthy barbarians? How many more Christians will be slaughtered and raped and stoned to death by the filthy barbarians? What a strange twist when the so called learned men of the world support the very people who call them dirty Kafirs.
Deepthroat says
And to think that these guys wanted to be part of Euro. Uggghh … Unthinkable. So here is anachronism creeping in from that murderous ” faith” called Islam
Meckerei says
Hagia Sophia still is a cathedral. It has never been deconsecrated – only defiled.
GreekEmpress says
+1
gravenimage says
True, Meckerei.
David Foot says
Erdogan has the EU over a barrel, nothing can be done, Muslims can do whatever they like with the heritage of the West!
Even in London that happens, drop a piece of bacon on the steps of a mosque and Sadiq Khan will have you inside sentenced, sealed and delivered within 48 hours, burn our flag on the Cenotaph or vandalize our national monuments, desecrete our nationality itself and the damned Muslim Marxist doesn’t care, if you try to stop the next wave of Muslim driven black lives marxist, anarchist scum you are a “right wing extremist” and Sadiq has “no time for you”!! To desecrate our nationality is a peaceful protest, but don’t touch a damned Muslim mosque! One going up in Soho!!
The politically correct police the same scum, they kneel in submission to the Muslim driven black lives Marxists and anarchist scum, but take a wee next to a Police Memorial and in 48 hours inside, convicted. It is OK if you can your backside with our flag, not a problem but don’t touch what is sacred to the boys and girls in blue!
Muslims can get away with raping white children (white lives don’t matter to the police only blue lives and black lives) you can have slaves in Leicester but the police don’t care it is not politically correct to stop slavery or the rape of white children! They don’t matter!
gravenimage says
Both the US and EU give Turkey aid. This should stop.
mortimer says
How would Ekrema Sabri feel if the Temple Mount became the Third Temple of Judaism.
What would happen if the shoe were on the other foot?
mortimer says
Robert Spencer correctly points out: “conquest by jihad confers right of ownership”.
That also applies to the kafir’s wife and children.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Mortimer.
mortimer says
Twitter supports CONSERVATIVE ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM.