Lars Møller reminds us of how Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and then of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Muslim Ottomans, and how the story of that fatal defeat may offer lessons to Westerners today, who are under a different kind of Muslim assault, this one from within, where steady demographic […]
Constantinople: Muslim call to prayer over loudspeakers interrupts Greek Orthodox celebration of Theophany
3 thousand remaining Greeks celebrating Theofania at Konstantinoupolis. Turks could not even stand this harmless celebration. https://t.co/AkbcHNBxwu — ypso (@ypso15) January 11, 2026 In the comments on the video, some say it was the regularly scheduled adhan (call to prayer). Others say that actually the tiny remaining Greek Orthodox community of Constantinople scheduled the Theophany […]
May 29: The Last Day of the World
New in PJ Media: “On May 29, 1453,” the state-run Turkish broadcaster TRT World reported happily on Thursday, the 572nd anniversary of the fateful day, “a 21-year-old Sultan Mehmed II led the Ottoman army to a decisive victory over the Byzantine Empire. The conquest of Istanbul remains a shining jewel in the crown of the Ottoman Empire.” […]
May 29 was the Anniversary of the ‘Last Day of the World,’ the Fall of Constantinople
My latest in PJ Media: Yesterday in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended a ceremony in honor of 136 young men who had succeeded in memorizing the entire Qur’an. The ceremony was held in what the International Quran News Agency called “the iconic Hagia Sophia Mosque,” which up until last year was a museum, although […]
How the Hagia Sophia became a mosque on this day in 1453
Turkish President and would-be caliph Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to turn the Hagia Sophia, now a museum in Istanbul, back into a mosque. But how did the Hagia Sophia become a mosque in the first place? Today is the anniversary of an awesome tragedy. On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, once the greatest city in the […]
“Refugee” “child” in Europe wears t-shirt celebrating Islamic conquest of Constantinople in 1453
What are the chances that this young man will gratefully accept the aid that Europe offers him, and become a loyal, stable, productive citizen of a European state? I have often noted that many of the migrants come with a supremacist ideology that they mean to impose upon their new homes. This young man’s t-shirt […]
Will Hagia Sophia Again Become a Mosque?
In 537, the Hagia Sophia was completed, as a church, in Constantinople. It remained the largest and grandest church in Christendom for nearly a millennium, until it was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453. The Muslims soon destroyed the bells, altar, iconostasis, and other relics, and the mosaics […]
Erdogan declares Istanbul is “Islam-bul”, not Constantinople
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is inciting religious battle again in his supremacist bid to establish Islam above all faiths. He has now declared in his pre-election rant that “there are people who want to see Istanbul as Constantinople….this is Istanbul, also known as Islam-bul, this is not Constantinople!” Some other examples of Erdogan’s bid […]
On Columbus Day, remember: We owe the discovery of America to Islam and Muslims
Without Islam, the United States would not exist. That’s right: without Islam, the United States as we know it would not exist. No, Reza Aslan has not knocked me over the head with a rock and taken over the writing of Jihad Watch, using my name. It’s absolutely true: if it weren’t for Islam and […]
ISIS to Trump: “You have your eyes on Raqqa and Mosul, but we have our eyes on Constantinople and Rome”
You might think that Constantinople has already been conquered for Islam, but the Islamic State jihadis believe that no land is truly Islamic until it obeys their caliph. And they called it Constantinople because it is called that in ancient Islamic prophecy. “Imam Ahmad reported in his Musnad that Abdullah bin ‘Amr bin Al-‘As (may God […]