Islamist 'Dictatorship' Turkey nominates permanent imam for Hagia Sophia.

Islamist 'Dictatorship' Turkey nominates permanent imam for Hagia Sophia.(Ekathimerini).

A few months after a controversial decision by Turkish authorities to allow readings from the Quran to be broadcast from Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, reports on Friday said Turkey had decided to appoint a permanent imam for the venue.

According to the Anadolu state news agency, the country’s religious affairs directorate and the mufti of the Fatih district have agreed to assign a permanent imam who will lead five daily prayers, instead of the current two.

While the position was foreseen in the plans of 1935, when Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque under Kemal Ataturk, until recently prayers were led by visiting imams.

There had been no official reaction from Athens by late Friday.

Built as a Christian basilica in the 6th century, Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque following the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman army in 1453.


In June, readings were held at Hagia Sophia for the first time in 80 years – a move seen by critics as a violation of the monument’s formally neutral status. The move drew protests from the Greek Foreign Ministry.

Last month, the Turkish strongman attacked the 1923 Lausanne Treaty that defined the borders of modern Turkey. Read the full story here.

UPDATE! 25 October:

#Turkey gov't appoints a full time Imam to lead daily & Friday prayers at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul after 80 years in hiatus. pic.twitter.com/Rbu0u9Qn6e

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) October 25, 2016

The new Imam who led the first Friday prayer in Hagia Sophia decades after is a fan of kickboxing & martial arts pic.twitter.com/aAMnRCmq1k

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) October 25, 2016

"Happy Easter" The EU Took €100 Million from the Cypriot Greek Orthodox Church.

"Happy Easter" The EU Took €100 Million from the Cypriot Greek Orthodox Church.(Cyprus Mail).

This so-called “bail-in” designed only to protect the hedge funds of the European and British money center banks scalped the one entity which could help the poor during the nations transition from quasi-capitalism to European serf state. From the article in today’s paper:

The Church stands to lose more than 100 million euros in the bailout deal reached with international creditors early Monday, its leader Archbishop Chrysostomos said.

“The capital owned by the Church, which was over 100 million euros, has been lost,” the archbishop told reporters.

“There will be many difficulties, some will lose their jobs, the hungry will be multiplied and the Church has to take care of people,” he added.

Granted, I’m sure they won’t suffer at the top of the church as in the old Vatican tradition, the Greek Orthodox Church has been known to enjoy ornate lifestyles and investments which per the article range from breweries (yes, that’s correct) to hotels and resorts. The bigger picture is that the European Union using the power of the ECB and IMF combined has now found a formula not just to create vassal states, but to seize the assets of the Church, something the atheistic Marxists which created the Eurozone have fantasized about for over a decade.

This action should make the Vatican extremely nervous about their massive Italian and Spanish property holdings in those nations.

John Galt: When this program is translated into an American version, look for only those “Federally approved” institutions to be exempt from property and capital seizure. Three is no better formula to force a religious institution to pay taxes and force compliance with the political elite’s prevailing point of view to extinguish the concept of freedom of expression.Read the full story here.