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Originally Posted by Khan_Han
(1) I can sense your intollerance!
(2) The Ottoman Sultan was just doing what his Christian counterpart did in the past in Spain. The Great Mosque of Cordoba was converted into a Church and it still remains a church till this day!
(3) The Turkish Republic under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk declared Hagia Sofia a museum and it remains till this day a museum! Muslims are not allowed to prey in it either. Hagia Sofia has a budget of $100 million dollars per year. This budget is mainly used for the restoration and preservation of this magnificiant structure! I invite you to go see Hagia Sofia for yourself before making false assumptions!
(4) What was the Anglo-saxons doing when the Ottomans were "invading" Hellenic territories? Weren't they invading Africa and India in a bid to exploit their resources? What were they doing with African children? Taking them back to Britain for Slave labour!!
(5) Religious tolerance is just something which the Turks are known for! Turkey is the only country in the Middle East where Jewish peoples can prosper!
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2) I think the mosque should have remained a mosque myself. Others in our group will tell you that that was the usual result of a conquest at the time...you know, par for the course.
3)Yes, it's a museum today but we were discussing it in terms of 1453. Even today the lower icons, on the first floor, are still covered so it's a museum not showing all it's treasures and still under Moslem religious bans.
4) I guess history speaks for itself on the Anglo-saxons.
5) Well, the Jews seem to do ok everywhere else in the world so that is not so important now but in the past it was.
Anyway, they are now your military allies. Perhaps with low cost Turkish labor
you will both prosper.