Death of a muezzin in Hagia Sophia causes shock in Turkey
The news of the death of the muezzin, Osman Aslan, last Sunday in Hagia Sophia shocked the Turks.
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The news of the death of the muezzin, Osman Aslan, last Sunday in Hagia Sophia shocked the Turks.
The images from the Hagia Sophia cause sadness, after its transformation into a mosque. Images that testify to the sloppiness and radical transformation of the image of this world monument.
by Archbishop of Albania Anastasios
The conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque brought to the fore the West's troubled relationship with Islam. Usually, in such a position on the problem, a special tone is given to political-military Islam, especially radical Islam. While, directly, or indirectly, the religious nature of Islam is relegated to second place. It is the religious nature, however, which feeds, inspires and innervates political Islam (with specific metaphysical principles and beliefs, with a system of dogmatic official positions, ethical codes, a text that is sacred, of an absolute, non-negotiable prestige).