My latest at PJ Media:
Hagia Sophia, the foremost cathedral in the entire Christian world for nearly a thousand years, officially became a mosque today, and the party is on in Istanbul. According to Middle East Eye, there was a festive atmosphere as thousands of Turks thronged to the city to take part in the first Islamic prayers at the newly designated mosque, while “in Greece, whose people and church lost the Hagia Sophia six centuries ago, churches meanwhile rang their bells in protest at the conversion. Videos of the Greek dismay were circulated gleefully among the crowd in Istanbul.” This schadenfreude is for the Turks not a bug, but a feature. The redesignation of Hagia Sophia as a mosque is a new declaration of the victory, supremacy, and superiority of Islam.
As Muslims thronged in and around the great cathedral, reported Middle East Eye, “someone shouted loudly: ‘Taqbir!’ And, the crowd enthusiastically yelled: ‘Allahu aqbar!’” The cry of “Allahu akbar,” as it is more commonly rendered in the Roman alphabet, means “Allah is greater,” i.e., greater than your god, and Turks today are making no effort to hide their supremacist delight. Jihad terrorists have often shouted “Allahu akbar” while attacking infidels, and chief 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta explained why this is so in the letter he wrote to himself before carrying out his jihad mission: “When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.”
Striking fear in the hearts of the non-believers, and proclaiming the victory, superiority, and supremacy of Islam, is what the conversion of Hagia Sophia is all about. When the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror finally defeated the Byzantine Empire and took Constantinople on May 29, 1453, he almost immediately had the Islamic call to prayer proclaimed from Hagia Sophia, so as to herald its conversion to a mosque. The conversion of Christendom’s foremost church to a mosque demonstrated, as far as Mehmet was concerned, that Allah was the true god, that Christianity was a false religion, and that the truth of Islam had been vindicated by an act of Allah himself in granting the Muslims victory over the Christian Byzantines.
The Hagia Sophia mosque stood from 1453 to 1935 as the centerpiece of the Ottoman Empire, the living demonstration of both the legitimacy of the regime and its power. Paradoxically, this was the same kind of thinking that led Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of secular Turkey, to convert the building to a museum in 1935. Ataturk was a Westernized, secular Mehmet, declaring the superiority and victory of secularism over Islam by redesignating the foremost symbol of the Ottomans as a museum, a repository of past glories. When the last Ottoman caliph, Abdulmecid II, asked for an increase in his pay, Ataturk thundered: “The Caliphate, your office, is no more than an historical relic. It has no justification for existence.” On another occasion Ataturk went even further, saying: “Islam, this theology of an immoral Arab, is a dead thing.”
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CogitoErgoSum says
I hope they screamed it loudly enough for Muhammad to hear them in Hell. I hope they scream it even louder when they join him there.
mortimer says
I hope they have a spiritual awakening to the evil in Islam. The world has suffered too much from exactly this sort of supremacism.
If Erdogan is re-elected, I predict he will greatly increase the size of the Turkish military.
CogitoErgoSum says
I believe Christ will deal with them justly when their time comes to stand before Him. He will certainly ask of them why they covered His picture in the Hagia Sofia and persecuted those who believed in Him. If they answer Him with “Allahu Akbar” I am certain He will send them to the place they belong. But maybe they will fall to their knees and wash His feet with their tears and beg for forgiveness and they will find mercy but that is up to them … if they are able to do it before they draw their final breath. I pray that moment comes soon for each of them.
Uma Maheswar Nakka says
I HOPE SO BY THE GRACE OF THE LORD
gravenimage says
Erdogan is basically a dictator at this point–he has been in power as president or prime minister since 2003.
jca reid says
Yeah, “Allah Mouse!” is just about their level.
Larry A. Singleton says
Beyond depressing.
FYI says
To any Greeks[..yah sas!..] understandably upset at this, or Christians anywhere affronted at this typical triumphalist islamic supremacist nastiness…
Yes, muslims are ‘praying’ in this STOLEN property dedicated to Jesus Christ the HAGIA SOPHIA,’praying’ to their Arab god allah,a god who calls himself ‘the BEST of deceivers’ {koran 3:54},a god whose greatest enemy is ‘a MAN called the king of kings MALIK AL AMLAK’ {sahih muslim vol 5 hadith #5611}a god who CURSES Christians for believing in Jesus{koran 9:30/koran 98:6},the god who MISSED the Golden Rule and who teaches the OPPOSITE to the 2nd chief commandment of Leviticus 19:18{‘Love thy neighbor’},the god with the Doctrine of HATE{al walaa wal baraa},the god whose chief commandment is “Belief in allah and JIHAD is his cause”{muslim 1:149}the god who is clearly antiChrist,the god of this world.
It isn’t hard to see that allah is the diabolus simius Dei {except to the truly blind}
Firstly,given who they are ‘praying’ to, their obviously false evil god allah,their ‘prayers’ and false piety are WORTHLESS.
Secondly,the One who will be judging their souls{..who they wrongly think will be their arab god allah..} is the One called the King of Kings who is Jesus Christ the HAGIA SOPHIA{Divine Wisdom}
So the muslims ‘pray’ in a church STOLEN from Christians, to their false god allah the greatest of deceivers,a god who cannot save them,in a church dedicated to the One who will be judging them.
Every single muslim,emperor erdolf himself who ‘prays’ in that occupied church will stand before the One whose church they occupy:that One is called Jesus Christ the HAGIA SOPHIA.
It seems a great victory for islam{in a worldly sense it is}but anyone familiar with the Prophetic teachings of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Gospel regarding the Parousia should see it differently.Christians need to pay close attention to Gospel prophecies and note the parable of the Fig Tree:unless they want to be the ‘foolish bridesmaids’.
Jesus Christ the HAGIA SOPHIA,the King of Kings is not on the losing side:the forces of antiChrist are.
Biblical prophecies come through the Holy Spirit and you will need the Holy Spirit to properly understand them
{2 Peter 1 v 20-21}but you must know them.
Matthew 24:3-14
john smith says
Brilliant post FYI
mortimer says
If Islam were benign and peaceful and moderate and co-existent … and all the other sugary untruths we have been told … they would return Hagia Sophia to 260 million Orthodox Christians so it may be again serve as their mother church.
john smith says
So true Mortimer.
Uma Maheswar Nakka says
I HOPE SO
gravenimage says
Muslims Scream ‘Allahu Akbar’ as Hagia Sophia Officially Becomes a Mosque
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More proof that this is aggressive Muslim surpremacy.
Frank Anderson says
GI, after 1400 years, 250-1000 million dead, war, conquest, slavery, looting. . .how much more proof is needed?
mortimer says
The Leftards cannot explain this contradiction of their narrative. Clearly, most Turks are Islamic supremacists. They are not ‘peaceful’ or ‘moderate’ or ‘benign’. They are like Hitler’s adoring crowds shouting ‘Sieg Heil’ … the Nazi war cry.
Allahu Akbar is the comparable Islamic war cry.
gravenimage says
So true, Frank and Mortimer.
Wellington says
Just another “episode” in a much, much larger “phenomenon,” that being that mankind ended up with a major religion which is malevolent to its very core—supremacist, ungracious, denying a true Golden Rule for all, hostile to the very human desire for romantic love, horribly control-freakish, rooted in sanctioned violence to spread itself around the globe, et al.
I hate Islam. It is disgusting.
Jaydam says
+1+1+1
mortimer says
A very good and correct summary by Wellington: “a major religion which is malevolent to its very core”.
Islam appeals to a secret sadism in the human heart which civilized people try to redirect and channel for the common good … whether in sports or in highly disciplined military service. Islam instead inflames and approves the sadistic urge and directs it towards the vulnerable ‘wrong worshipers’ … the dirty kafirs. This historically has led to Muslims committing crimes against humanity and being rewarded for doing so.
Anyone who does not know about Islam’s teaching of hate directed against disbelievers is culpably negligent for failing to inform themselves about this major threat to world peace.
Every civilized person has a duty to understand Islam’s ‘core malignancy’.
mortimer says
correction: ‘core malevolence’
Uma Maheswar Nakka says
+1+1+1
SAFI says
+1
Very well said. The fact that Islam flatly rejects the Golden Rule is key and should always be stressed. By far the biggest, most frequent and most dangerous mistake which the “infidels” (and particaularly westerners) make when dealing with Islam is assuming that the muslims subscribe more or less to the same moral codes, values and standards that we do, when nothing could be further from the truth.
I love Iblis says
Erdogan in the photo looks like a small freak ??????
European pagan says
Ugly arabic hat
RichardL says
never seen Erdolf in a tea cozy.
mortimer says
‘ERDOLF’ … Approved.
Jake2169 says
Supremacist bastards, and Western politicians ignore it due to chronic fear!!!
Marigold says
I haven’t heard a single polititian in the so called Christian Western world speak out against the takeover except perhaps Greeks.They are nothing but a bunch of miserable cowards and should be ashamed of themselves as I am. It costs nothing to speak up.
Frank Anderson says
M. I think speaking out without taking action further confirms their supremacist view. Words without action display futility and powerlessness. Aggressors have no reason to care what words are said by sub-human, powerless infidels.
One example to show power without spilling or risking a drop of blood would be to build another Hagia Sophia in Greece and protect it from conquest as the first should have been. If it means so much, build another and show it.
Neville Chamberlain will enjoy the company of the gutless appeasers who are following his example today. Appeasement does not get peace. It invites war.
James Lincoln says
Frank Anderson says,
“…build another Hagia Sophia in Greece and protect it from conquest as the first should have been.”
I agree with building another Hagia Sophia – but it may be safer in a country like Poland or Hungary…
Frank Anderson says
James, I have no reason to disagree. In fact build more than one. Build one everywhere Orthodox Christians worship and practice their faith. Actions speak louder than words. God is everywhere that His Children live.
Antônio Garcia says
Islã is war against christians and jews. Woke up.
Reziac says
They’re so concerned that what was once a mosque stay a mosque? Consider that most of Turkey is actually Occupied Greece.
#TakeBackConstantinople
andrew mckendrick says
Think if Erdogan had been smart and wanted to divide Christians , he would have handed back Hagia Sophia to the Christian Church no strings attached. Just think of the reaction of the world press and all the Islamic Apologists , The Pope , the Archbishop of The Church Of England , see we told you so Islam really is a religion of peace and goodwill. Erdogan would have received non-stop world praise. So in a kind of perverted way I am glad he did what he did. Keeps our mind focused on what Islam is all about ,theft and subjugation.
James Lincoln says
An interesting take on this, andrew.
Erdogan may have shot himself in the foot on this – and the world knows, without a doubt, exactly where he stands.
No question…
gravenimage says
Andrew, the implication that Catholics and Protestants would violently attack Orthodox Christians if Hagia Sophia had been returned to them is just calumny.
mortimer says
‘Allahu Akbar’ is the Islamic war cry as every Muslim knows. These celebrating Turks are actually declaring war on those who resist the supremacy of the new, revived Ottoman Empire which already exists in their delusional thoughts.
Turkey is now a motivated war machine searching for a target. Cyprus may be next on their agenda.
mortimer says
Very fine comparison by Robert Spencer of Ataturk with the Sultan … Ataturk being the SULTAN OF SECULARISM.
There are still many secularists in Turkey. I wonder how long it will take for them to resume political power. This supremacist nonsense from Erdogan must be causing a lot of them to organize politically.
Erdogan will wreck Turkey’s economy.
It is a great tragedy to the world that the European Powers did not kick Turkey out of Europe in 1918 when it was easy to do so.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, secularism has been greatly eroded in Turkey, especially with the purging of the military a few years ago.
BJ says
I quite agree with you, sir!