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THE ISLAMISATION OF ST SOPHIA’S CATHEDRAL IN CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE EXTINCTION OF THE BYZANTINE HERITAGE
St Sophia’s cathedral
ISTANBUL (what an ugly word to replace mellifluous Constantinople with) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the notorious Islamo-Fascist sultan of Turkey (a member state of NATO and American ally(sic)), said on Friday 10th of July 2020 that the city’s sixth-century Christian cathedral, Saint Sophia’s (building began in 320 AD when Rome was still intact and three hundred years before any mention of Islam) would be converted into a Muslim mosque. Today, 24th of July 2020 by the Christian calendar, Erdogan, and his Islamic acolytes, committed an act of gross desecration, by performing a Muslim act of disrespect to the whole Christian Orthodox community in this Christian church (drapes were found to cover the beautiful representations of Christ and the Virgin Mary). With sword in hand a big-wig participant relived the rape and Islamic conquest of Constantinople in May 1453. Bastard.
St Sophia’s is the home of the Greek orthodox patriarchate of Constantinople. The archbishop there is held under restriction by Islamic authorities. The Greek orthodox seminary (Halki) was forcibly closed by the Islamic authorities in Turkey decades ago (1971). The forcible conversion of a Christian cathedral into an Islamic mosque is part of a…