Erdogan has deep faith in his strategy of politics cloaked by religion | Robert Fisk – The Independent

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If Bashar al-Assad was the only figure able to take advantage of Recep Tayyip Erdogans reconversion of Saint Sophia into a mosque after a mere 85 years as a museum, something must be very wrong with the worlds reaction to the Turkish presidents latest political shenanigans.

After Erdogan restored the almost 1,500-year old structure designed by its Christian builders to recreate the Temple of Solomon to the status of a fully prayed-in, fully functioning, fully muezzined place of worship for Turkeys Muslim majority, the Americans expressed their disappointment, the EU and Unesco their regret and the Pope his deep sadness.

Inevitably, only the Orthodox church rumbled on about this threat to the whole of Christian civilisation though it has been tolling its misery about the loss of the church ever since the Muslims conquered Byzantium in the 15th century. In the Middle East, history lasts a long time.

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