Salon: “Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia famously switched from a Christian church to a mosque in 1453”

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They say “switched” although they know that it was forcibly converted by violent Muslims who killed and enslaved people.

The choice of words is to go easy on Muslims, who are never held to the same standards as normal humans. The World Trade Centers “switched” from occupied, to rubble encasing 3,000 corpses because of actions by Muslims.

Jihad Watch : “Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia famously switched from a Christian church to a mosque in 1453. The same sort of conversions have been taking place in Buffalo’s East Side.” The same sort? Really? The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS (which you can order here) recounts how, after over seven hundred years of trying, the warriors of jihad finally entered the great city of Constantinople on May 29, 1453.

When they did, they made the streets run with rivers of blood. Muslims raided monasteries and convents, emptying them of their inhabitants, and plundered private houses.

They entered the Hagia Sophia, which for nearly a thousand years had been the grandest church in Christendom. The Muslims then killed the elderly and weak and led the rest off into slavery. The Byzantine scholar Bessarion wrote to the Doge of Venice in July 1453, saying that Constantinople had been

…sacked by the most inhuman barbarians and the most savage enemies of the Christian faith, by the fiercest of wild beasts. The public treasure has been consumed, private wealth has been destroyed, the temples have been stripped of gold, silver, jewels, the relics of the saints, and other most precious ornaments. Men have been butchered like cattle, women abducted, virgins ravished, and children snatched from the arms of their parents.

When the slaughter and pillage was finished, Mehmet II ordered an Islamic scholar to mount the high pulpit of the Hagia Sophia and declare that there was no God but Allah, and Muhammad was his prophet. The magnificent old church was turned into a mosque; hundreds of other churches in Constantinople and elsewhere suffered the same fate. Millions of Christians joined the ranks of the dhimmis; others were enslaved, and many were killed.

That’s how the Hagia Sophia “famously switched from a Christian church to a mosque,” and Salon is trying to make that bloodbath out to be a routine real estate transaction. It’s all part of the establishment media’s universal tendency to minimize, ignore, or deny outright the reality of Islamic jihad, and to whitewash Islamic doctrine and history. “A new solution for America’s empty churches: A change of faith,” by Ashima Krishna, Salon, August 31, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

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