Reply to: Turkey turns iconic Istanbul museum into mosque

[minestrone]

Minny also despises Muslim majority countries because they don't allow gay marriage or adoption by gay parents.

You are probably OK with them hanging homosexuals.

[TheGreenBastard]

I think it would be one thing if this was universally desired in turkey but half the country and probably about 75% of the population in Istanbul is absolutely outraged by this. Further distancing themselves from the secular country they use to be.

I haven't spoken to a Turkish person yet who supports this. Just more authoritarian tulip from a leader that is losing more and more support by the day.

The death of the Islamic world's bastion of secularism and democracy is worth it, if it provides a platform to feel morally superior over "gammons" and throw around a few claims of racism.

[jayn200]

I think it would be one thing if this was universally desired in turkey but half the country and probably about 75% of the population in Istanbul is absolutely outraged by this. Further distancing themselves from the secular country they use to be.

I haven't spoken to a Turkish person yet who supports this. Just more authoritarian tulip from a leader that is losing more and more support by the day.

[Mordac]

And mosques. Old Church Becomes Mosque in Uneasy Britain - The New York Times

Clitheroe is tucked away in Lancashire County in the north

Ah, bless, Americans...
It's not a part of the world I'm familiar with, but I can't imagine a great uprising at the thought of turning an abandoned Methodist church into something else.

[Andy2]

Afghanistan, Iran , Libya were alll nice countries until the fanatics took over
Turkey is going the same way

[Mordac]

Istanbul was Constantinople.

It went downhill when they stopped calling it Byzantium.

[ladymuck]

And mosques. Old Church Becomes Mosque in Uneasy Britain - The New York Times

Ah the NYT, the paper that always looks to bash the UK.

[NotAllThere]

In the UK we turn churches into pubs, nightclubs and houses

And mosques. Old Church Becomes Mosque in Uneasy Britain - The New York Times

[Old Greg]

Minny also despises Muslim majority countries because they don't allow gay marriage or adoption by gay parents.

[NotAllThere]

Does anyone get away with saying Auschwitz is a museum?

Yes. Because it is a museum.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and includes the grounds of two extant parts of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps. The Museum grounds cover 191 hectares, of which 20 are at Auschwitz I and 171 at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

[NotAllThere]

Sshhh, whisper it but ...... he may be a bit tiddly little bit racist

FTFY.

[minestrone]

Why are most of your posts about foreign people or people of colour? Someone would think you had an hidden agenda

Firstly, i dont think most of my posts are about foreign people, but if they were, it would hardly be a hidden agenda.

But as you are a foreign national electing to post on a UK business forum it could reasonably be argued that all of your posts are about "foreign people".

You need to get someone to straighten out your backwards 'ideas' before they get to the keyboard.

[Whorty]

Why are most of your posts about foreign people or people of colour? Someone would think you had an hidden agenda

Sshhh, whisper it but ...... he may be a tiddly little bit racist

[darmstadt]

It's been a museum since 1930 when they made a law saying it was not to be a place of worship.

Does anyone get away with saying Auschwitz is a museum?

Why are most of your posts about foreign people or people of colour? Someone would think you had an hidden agenda

[ladymuck]

Sounds like Minnie needs to move to Turkey and go tell Erdogan where to stick his mosque. Evidently they're very upset that a building can change its purpose over time.