THE IMPRESSIVE RAYMOND IBRAHIM ON "TURKS GLORIFY HISTORIC SLAUGHTER AND RAPE OF CHRISTIANS"!!

Turks Glorify Historic Slaughter and Rape of Christians

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/turks-glorify-historic-slaughter-and-rape-of-christians/ Earlier this week a news report unwittingly demonstrated how Turkey—once deemed the most “secularized” Muslim nation—is returning to its Islamic heritage, complete with animosity for the infidel West and dreams of the glory days of jihadi conquests: "A group of devout Muslims from across Turkey prayed before the city’s historic Hagia Sophia on the 562nd anniversary of the Turkish conquest of Istanbul [Constantinople], demanding that the site be turned back into a mosque. "Men and women from across the country gathered before the Hagia Sophia museum early May 31, as part of an event organized by the Anatolian Youth Association (AGD) with the motto 'Break the chains, Open Hagia Sophia,' and prayed the morning prayer with a call for the reconversion of the museum into a mosque." In fact, this is an annual ritual. Thousands of Turks surround Hagia Sophia every May and call for it to become a mosque—often to Islam’s war-cry, “Allahu Akbar!” This is not about a “minority of radicals.” In a survey conducted with 401 Turks, more than 97 percent wanted Hagia Sophia to be turned into a functioning mosque. Nor is this about Muslims needing a place to pray. As of 2010, there were 3,000 active mosques in Istanbul alone. Rather, this is about Muslims wanting to revel in the glory days of Islamic jihad and conquest. Unlike historically-challenged Westerners, Muslims fully understand the significance of Hagia Sophia. Hagia Sophia—Greek for “Holy Wisdom”—was, in fact, Christendom’s greatest cathedral for almost one thousand years. Built in Constantinople, the heart of the ancient Christian empire, it was also a stalwart symbol of defiance against an ever encroaching Islam from the east. After parrying centuries of jihadi thrusts, Constantinople was finally sacked by the Turks under Sultan Mehmet II on May 29, 1453. Its crosses desecrated and icons defaced, Hagia Sophia—as well as thousands of other churches—was converted into a victory mosque, the tall minarets of Islam surrounding it in triumph. Reading the primary historic texts from the period is not unlike reading current headlines concerning Islamic State atrocities—the massacres, beheadings, rapes, enslavement of Christian “infidels” and the defilement of their churches. Writes an eyewitness to the 1453 Turkish conquest of Constantinople: "The enraged Turkish soldiers . . . gave no quarter. When they had massacred and there was no longer any resistance, they were intent on pillage and roamed through the town stealing, disrobing, pillaging, killing, raping, taking captive men, women, children, old men, young men, monks, priests, people of all sorts and conditions… There were virgins who awoke from troubled sleep to find those brigands standing over them with bloody hands and faces full of abject fury… [The Turkish jihadis] dragged them, tore them, forced them, dishonored them, raped them at the cross-roads and made them submit to the most terrible outrages…KEEP READING ALSO NEW: * Ontario: Muslim Vandalizes Church and Christ Statue * Islamic State Kidnaps 86 Eritrean Refugees, They Fail Koran Test * Turkey: Christian Schools Shut Down for Distributing Bibles to Muslim Refugees from Syria * Al Azhar Distributing Free Book Dedicated to Discrediting Christianity, the “Failed Religion” * Libya: Yet Another Christian Cemetery Desecrated by ‘Salafis’ * Iran: Eighteen Apostates to Christianity Sentenced to 24 Years Total * Islamic State Burns 80-Year-Old Christian Woman Alive * Muslim Convert to Christianity Told to Murder Pastors ‘or Else’ * Egypt: Masked Men Open Fire on Evangelical Church * Muslims Destroy Church, Beat Christians for ‘Proselytism and Conversions of Muslims’ in Pakistan * “It Is Permissible for the Mujahid to Enjoy Young Boys in the Absence of Women”