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After Hagia Sophia, Muslim Ruler Wonders, Why Not the Cordoba Cathedral?

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The ruler of Sharjah, among the lesser of the seven emirates that make up the UAE, has apparently been so impressed with Turkish President Erdogan’s turning Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque that he has “demanded” – not asked, but demanded – that the cathedral in Cordoba be turned again into a mosque. […]

Hagia Sophia turned to mosque: majority of Greeks want EU financial sanctions against Turkey

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As the U.S. Catholic bishops joined the Greek Orthodox Church in proclaiming July 24 a day of “mourning and manifest grief” over Turkey’s decision to convert the Hagia Sophia cathedral to a mosque, the majority of Greeks want action. “Greeks have expressed dissatisfaction with the international response to the Turkish regime,” and the strength of […]

Muslim writer wants Christian mosaics removed from Hagia Sophia so Muslims don’t have to pray under image of ‘whore’

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Zaimoglu was likely referring, as Sofuoglu did, to “images of the Byzantine empress Zoe. The Christian ruler married several times and is said to have had different lovers.” But doctrinaire Muslims don’t approve of images of Jesus, Mary, and the saints either, so if Zaimoglu and Sofuoglu are heeded, the historic Byzantine icons in Hagia […]

Turkish Supreme Court: Mehmet the Conqueror Bought Hagia Sophia, So Of Course It’s a Mosque

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My latest in PJ Media: No one should be concerned about the conversion of Hagia Sophia, the foremost cathedral in the Christian world for nearly a thousand years, into a mosque – at least according to Shahid Qureshi, writing Monday in a Muslim publication known as the London Post. Why not? Because Mehmet the Conqueror, […]

New York Times Falsely Claims Muhammad Would Deplore Conversion of Hagia Sophia to a Mosque

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My latest in PJ Media: If you’re concerned about the implications for the geopolitical scene, as well as for the Church, of the conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque, relax: in a piece by the prominent Turkish moderate Muslim Mustafa Akyol, the New York Times is here to tell you that what’s happening is […]

Hagia Sophia, Pope Francis, and UNESCO 

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The U.S., Russia, Greece, the E.U., the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew, the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus’ Kirill, even the left-leaning Israel-demeaning World Council of Churches and many others, have expressed various degrees of “grief and dismay” at the announcement by Turkish President Erdogan that from now on, Hagia Sophia would no longer […]

Vatican top dog: Conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque “should not be put down to current Islamic aggression”

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In reality, that’s exactly what it should be put down to. But Körner no doubt feels compelled to try to preserve Pope Francis’ fiction that “current Islamic aggression” has anything to do with the teachings of Islam itself. Accordingly, he has to ignore Erdogan’s explicit grounding of the conversion of Hagia Sophia in Islamic terms. […]

Arabs React to Erdogan’s Big Plans 

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to “liberate al-Aqsa mosque” from Israel after “resurrecting Hagia Sophia” as a mosque on Friday [July 10]. The story is here. The decision to change the status of the ancient Hagia Sophia church, which had been transformed into a mosque in 1453 and then into a museum in 1934, […]

Turkish Supreme Court claims Mehmet the Conqueror “bought” Hagia Sophia, so it can only be a mosque

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This claim is a transparent attempt to whitewash an act of cultural appropriation and annihilation on a massive scale. It is useful to recall exactly how Hagia Sophia became a mosque on May 29, 1453. The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS tells the full story. Once they breached the walls of Constantinople, Muslims […]

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