Ironic to stand in the middle of a symbolic of the triumph of Islam to claim that other genocidal jihadis are the real victims.
“After 87 years, Eid prayers resonate in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia,” Asia News, May 15, 2021:
Istanbul (AsiaNews) – For the first time in 87 years, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, converted into a mosque by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last year, hosted the recitation of the Eid-al-Fitr prayers marking the end of Ramadan, the holy month of Islamic fasting and prayer.
Hundreds of worshippers gathered on the day of celebration in the square in front of the building, which is located in the historic Sultanahmet neighbourhood.
Most of those present followed the rite outside the mosque, due to the anti-gathering measures imposed by the authorities to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, whilst a small number were able to participate inside.
Leading the prayer on Tuesday was Ali Erbaş, the head of the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Turkey’s highest Sunni institution, who climbed the minbar – mosque pulpit – wielding a sword.
During the service, the faithful began chanting and shouting slogans against Israel and in favour of the Palestinian cause, in response to the escalating violence that has been going on for days between the Israeli army and Hamas forces.
Delivering the sermon and leading the prayer, Ali Erbaş said that religious feasts are days of happiness and enthusiasm for those who belong to the same faith, history, and civilisation.
He also expressed sadness at the “cries raised from the aggrieved lands of the Islamic geography,” from Yemen to Syria, via Palestine.
The events currently inflaming the Holy Land, in Jerusalem and al-Aqsa, the third holiest place in Islam after Makkah and Madinah, received special mention.
Ali Erbaş then said that “the symbolic city of religions, languages, cultures and civilisations is being plundered” and “our innocent Palestinian brothers and sisters are evicted from their houses by force, [. . .] subjected to massacres. Therefore, until Palestine and al-Aqsa are completely free, every Eid will be marked in sorrow.”…
Boycott Turkey says
Only thing that needs to be free is Agia Sophia from those demons and yes I agree with them al Aqsa needs to be free to and returned back to Israel and converted back to Solomons temple just like when the Hindus took back there temple of Ram and destroyed the trash that was built on top of it during a brutal invasionand rebuilt there temple. funny how they are crying about Palestinians bring evicted when Turkey was built on genocide and evicting Greeks Armenians Assyrians from there homes if they think we just going to forget about it they got a other thing coming I wish Islam will Eid one day
GreekEmpress says
+1
Infidel says
Right now, Hindus have filed court cases to reclaim temples in Varanasi and Mathura. In Varanasi, a court has ordered an archaeological investigation on whether a temple existed before a mosque (even though the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb explicitly claimed to have had it destroyed). And in Mathura, there has already been an appeal to initiate the same process on the mosque there that was built on the site of Shri Krishna’s birthplace
Boycott Turkey says
Great news I hope the claims are successful For Hindus I notice muslims invaders always build mosques on other peoples holy places it’s such a sick immoral ideology
gravenimage says
Good–I hope they are successful.
Wellington says
Just another wicked initiative by a wicked religion.
Hey, imagine this: The Middle East overwhelmingly Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, agnostic, atheist, et al., with no more than 1% of said region being Muslim. OMG, how much better off said region would be, actually far better off for all the world.
Islam is a drag on mankind. It is rooted in victimhood, parasitism, lies, animosity to other ways of thinking, to the life of the mind in general, to real equality under the law, to a true Golden Rule for all, to women’s rights, to real tolerance, most certainly to overall liberty—yes, a long list and only partially noted here.
In fact, how is Islam in anyway possessed of a positive, if indeed it is possessed of any positive at all, that can’t be found elsewhere in other belief systems? I can think of none, not one, and thus Islam is not “merely” replete with malevolence and a monumental amount of stupidities, it is, at best, superfluous.
No need for Islam at all. None. By now mankind would be far better off were Islam as moribund as the Aztec religion is. A given.
Crusades Were Right says
The ludicrous brazenness of these Turkish Mohammedans! Bewailing “evictions” and “plunder” in a colonised land…
…from a plundered GREEK CHRISTIAN CHURCH in a land that was colonised by Turks…
…the INDIGENOUS GREEKS, ARMENIANS, ASSYRIANS AND OTHER CHRISTIANS having been MASSACRED and ETHNICALLY CLEANSED!
AND NO APOLOGY, ADMISSION OR REDRESS FROM THE TURKISH STATE!
Shamelessness, thy name is “Turkey”!
Boycott Turkey says
+1
tim gallagher says
Spot on, Crusades Were Right. Along with all the other evil crap that Islam produces in its adherents, being the biggest hypocrites in the world is definitely a major characteristic of the lying, evil Muslims.
somehistory says
islam has its flying donkey.
Too bad pigs can’t actually fly. Perhaps they could make a few dozen…thousand…trips over all of the places mozlums gather, with their swords, bombs, knives, acids, and saying their words of “prey,” …and do what pigs do.
It’s getting really, really tiresome, hearing their whining and lies of being the victims and everyone else is bad and unfair to them; even disliking them is worthy of death…in their evil-beclouded eyes.
Those who believe in a Divine Creator of True Justice are praying for Him to take action, and soon.
Jim says
I am wondering how long it will be until Islam is holding services in St. Peters, the National Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. It is really just a matter of time before these Christian churches go bankrupt and are bought up by Islam and the oil billionaires.
Hank says
The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) and Constantinople today are just echoing what’s up for France and Paris for accommodating and entertaining Islam.
“During the service, the faithful began chanting and shouting slogans against Israel and in favor of the Palestinian cause”.
So, is it okay to chant and shout slogans now against the occupation of the Christian Byzantine eastern provinces and Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1454? Greeks, Italians, Armenians used to live there before the Islamic hordes illegally occupied it.
Infidel says
Except that the Byzantines, unlike the Europeans of today, were not appeasing or indulging the Arabs or Turks: they bravely fought and lost territory to them in 2 phases. First, w/ the Arabs, they lost Syria, Egypt and all their North African possessions. Later, Anatolia itself was invaded by the Seljuq Turks, and they lost major cities like Iconium, Nicea and so on until they were reduced to a city state Constantinople. Finally, Constantinople too fell and it was all over for them
We would respect the Europeans a lot more if they at least fought. Unlike the Byzantines, they’d be a lot less likely to go down fighting like the Armenians did earlier this year, but at least, there would be a belief in the Christian underpinnings of their culture and an obdurate refusal to cede anything to islam
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Infidel!
gravenimage says
Eid prayers in Hagia Sophia for the first time in 87 years stir crowd with ‘Palestinian’ victimhood propaganda
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No surprise there. I knew it would be some kind of call to Jihad violence.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Islam is dedicated to the return to the 7th century. Anything that opposes that aim is considered haram. It is why Muslim countries are hellholes and produce nothing of value, save for oil, which is not of their making. BOYCOTT ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES. THEY ARE CESSPOOLS OF HATRED.