Erdogan wants to make sure the whole world is aware of his victory and of the re-Islamization of Turkey.
“‘There’s No God But Allah’ in Hagia Sophia Notes Turkey,” by Tasos Kokkinidis, Greek Reporter, May 9, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
Turkey illuminated Hagia Sophia, the historic Byzantine Church, now turned mosque, with a “There’s No God But Allah” sign on Saturday.
For the first time in 87 years, Hagia Sophia was adorned with traditional Ramadan mahya to mark one of the holiest nights in Islam Laylat al-Qadr.
Mahyas, featuring religious verses or advice for good deeds, are a centuries-old Ramadan tradition from Ottoman times.
The Laylat al-Qadr, or the Night of Power, marks the night in which the first verses of the Holy Quran were revealed to Prophet Muhammad.
Muslims consider the 27th night of Ramadan to be the holiest night of the year and the faithful are encouraged to spend the time in prayer and devotion to God until dawn. The Quran says the night is better than 1,000 months, equivalent to more than 83 years.
The historic landmark Hagia Sophia was reverted to a mosque last July and reopened for prayers after an 86-year hiatus.
Earlier, this year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his controversial decision the “crown of 2020.”…
mortimer says
This is an intentional slap in the face to all Orthodox Christians, since Hagia Sophia Cathedral is the seat of Orthodoxy. It is also a threat against all Christians. If they can do it to the Orthodox, they will do it to all ‘others’ as well. I wonder what plans Erdogan has for the Vatican.
(Are you paying attention, Pope Francis?)
GreekEmpress says
+1
You have echoed my thoughts 100%
We are beyond outrage at our house.
gravenimage says
+1
Infidel says
Why would the pope care about what’s happening to a rival Christian sect, when he doesn’t even care about those in his own sect?
mortimer says
2021 RAMADAN BOMBATHON NUMBERS TO DATE: 201 JIHAD ATTACKS / 1,024 KILLED.
For HISTORY BUFFS !!!
On This Date …May 10, 0965:
ISLAMIC JIHAD ATTACKS … Rometta, Italy
Civilians are massacred by a Muslim army prior to the Crusades being declared: 10,000 Killed !!!
Blessed Ramada … month of jihad attacks! (sarc/off)
Brando says
Thanks for the info about the Siege of ROMETTA in SICILY,I had never heard about it. With the fall of it, the Muslims finished the conquest of Sicily.
But 100 years later they were driven out by the NORMANS.
THE FATE OF ANI: CAPITAL OF ARMENIA
This was also BEFORE the POPE in 1096 called for a CRUSADE.
In 1064, a Seljuk ( TURK ) army under Alp Arslan attacked Ani, they captured the city and slaughtered its population.[
Turkish historian Sibt ibn al-Jawzi, quotes an EYEWITNESS as saying:
“Putting the Persian sword to work, they spared no one… One could see there the grief and calamity of every age of human kind. For children were ravished from the embraces of their mothers and mercilessly hurled against rocks, while the mothers drenched them with tears and blood…
The city became filled from one end to the other with bodies of the slain …..
The army entered the city, massacred its inhabitants, pillaged and burned it, leaving it in ruins and taking prisoner all those who remained alive…The dead bodies were so many that they blocked the streets; one could not go anywhere without stepping over them.
And the number of prisoners was not less than 50,000 souls.
I was determined to enter city and see the destruction with my own eyes. I tried to find a street in which I would not have to walk over the corpses; but that was impossible.”
gravenimage says
Thanks for those grim references, Mortimer and Brando.
mortimer says
Blessed Ramadan! Month of jihad, slaughter, battles, martyrdom and victory. Islam makes OTHER PEOPLE die for their beliefs!
The ‘blessing’ of Islam is not for the dirty kufaar.
Only a sadist could enjoy reading about the SLAUGHTERS and MURDERS committed by Muslims during RAMADAN!
Today (May 11, 2021) is the END of the BLESSED MONTH of SLAUGHTER and JIHAD WARFARE! Hopefully, those Muslims who plan attacks today will fail.
mortimer says
Thanks to the current JIHAD-FRIENDLY US president …
WELL DONE,JIHADISTS! ISLAM IS WINNING in 2021 !
Between Ramadan 2020 and Ramadan 2021, there is an increase of jihad attacks (178 to 201) and jihad-related deaths (718 to 1,038).
Allah’s choice of Pres. Biden is helping jihad to go FORWARD! Praise be to Allah!
More dirty KAFIRS bit the dust this year! Thanks be to Allah for sleepy Joe Bribed-man!
(sarc/off)
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Well, at least we can take comfort that it was only light beams and not a chisel inscribing the ugly and dangerous central tenet of Islam onto the skin of Christendom’s most beautiful building.
DavidR says
They left off the part, “and I, Recep Erodgan, am the Savior of Islam”.
Infidel says
There is no god called allah….
Mohini says
LOL. It would be so funny if this was displayed by mistake.
Michael Copeland says
See the Daily Mail’s picture of the Lindt cafe killer’s wristband:
Caption:
‘The wristband reads ‘There is no God Allah and Muhammaed is his Messenger (Prophet)’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3502293/Man-Monis-weapons-Lindt-Cafe-Sydney-siege-revealed.html
Infidel says
Speaking of which, ‘messenger’ and ‘prophet’ are 2 completely different things. How exactly does ‘rasool’, which means messenger, get translated to ‘prophet’? Maybe RS can address this in his critical quran translation?
Boycott Turkey says
What ugly minarets they have vandalised Agia Sophia with they remind me of devil horns but then again islam is the spirit of the devil
Donovan Nuera says
Hopefully the workmen who fastened the wires and stays spanning between the minartets used the wrong calculations and the tension is too much and pulls the minarets inward and into each other without tipping back and hitting the porch of the Church.
Or a brave Greek with a slingshot knocks out each lightbulb a la Lou Costello at the climax of “Who Done It” (1943) comedy thriller.
Infidel says
If ever that thing was liberated, it would have to be demolished and rebuilt
born saturday says
turkey is responsible for the terrorism in the west and elsewhere especially in the last ten years when it has inherited the funding of all western mosques from saudi arabia…. all the terrorist attacks in the west and elsewhere since have been ordered from turkey….. turkey has made an agreement with pakistan for cooperation on creating nuclear warheads for the already up and running and pointed bora missiles that it produces… it is estimated that turkey will have aquired nuclear warheads in between three to five years…. turkey will then be a bigger threat to israel as well that it so far has cooperated with traditionally…. turkeys statements of audacity of a thousant apes that derives from the islamic massacres of christians in syria and iraq has reduced recently and after the recognition of the armenian genocide but this is not permanent as they have plans for further wars and claims and sharia imposition not only inside but outside the country…
gravenimage says
Turkey is a real problem–but it is not the only one.
born saturday says
https://nordicmonitor.com/
gravenimage says
Turkey: Hagia Sophia illuminated with lighted sign proclaiming ‘There is no god but Allah’
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Erdogan is doubling down on their vicious Muslim surpremacism.