Day: October 8, 2016
BOYCOTT TURKISH FIREARMS: TURKEY BUILDS 9,000 MOSQUES, BANS ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LITURGY
http://www.clarionproject.org/analysi…
A total of 8,985 mosques were built between 2005 and 2015 by the Turkish government over the last decade in Turkey, according to statistics released by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet).The Central Anatolian province of Konya contained the highest number of mosques, Dogan News Agency reported on Sept. 16. Ankara, the southern province of Antalya, the Black Sea provinces of Ordu and Trabzon, and the southeastern province of Diyarbakır were among the other provinces with over 2,000 mosques.While the Turkish government has built so many mosques across the country with state funds, it has banned Orthodox Christian liturgy in the Sumela Monastery, a historic site in Trabzon.Sumela Monastery, located in the district of Macka — or Matsuka in Greek — in Trabzon province is one of the oldest monasteries in the Christian world. According to records, it was built by two Athenian monks, St. Barnabas and his nephew St. Sophronios, and was inaugurated by the bishop of Trabzon in 386 A.D.The province of Trabzon, located in the ancient region of Pontos, the northeast portion of Anatolia adjacent to the Black Sea, also has a long Greek and Christian history. The word “Pontos” means “sea” in Greek.“Trabzon was settled by Greeks probably by the 7th century BC,” writes researcher Sam Topalidis for the website Pontos World. “Trabzon was the ancient capital of the Greek speaking Komnenos Byzantine Kingdom (1204–1461). It survived until 1461, eight years after the fall of Byzantine Constantinople when both localities fell to the Ottoman Turks.”After the city’s invasion by the Ottoman Turks, the local demographic began to change; but for centuries, Christians were the majority in the city.According to Topalidis, Trabzon’s Muslim population increased dramatically under the Ottoman rule due to:
- Muslims moving into the city (Most of the Trabzon’s Muslims were involuntary immigrants). Deportations of Christians out of the city, probably to Istanbul. Christians converting to Islam, probably for fear of deportation
“However, the most important reason for the conversions was probably due to the higher taxes paid by Christians (compared to Muslims), a strong economic incentive for the poorest Christians,” writes Topalidis.
The tax he refers to is the “jizya tax” — money paid by Christians and Jews in order to be allowed to survive and to keep practicing their religion, according to Islamic law.Prior to the Pontian (or Pontic) Greek genocide that started in 1914, at least 43% of Trabzon’s population was still Christian: Greeks, Armenians, and a small minority of Catholics.During the 1914-1923 Pontian Greek Genocide by the Muslim Turks, “out of approximately 700,000 Pontian Greeks who lived in Turkey at the beginning of World War I, as many as 350,000 were killed, and almost all the rest had been uprooted during the subsequent forced population exchange between Greece and Turkey. This was the end of one of the most ancient Greek civilizations in Asia Minor.”Even after 102 years, Turkey still denies the Pontian Greek genocide.The Sumela Monastery in the city was also closed for prayers until 2010 when, for the first time since the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923, Orthodox Christians were allowed by the Turkish government to celebrate mass on August 15.Bartholomew I, the current archbishop of Constantinople and ecumenical patriarch, led the service, which was held in honor of the Assumption of Mary, a Christian sacred day. Orthodox bishops from Australia, Ukraine, the United States, Greece, and Georgia traveled to Sumela to participate in the mass, according to Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.But this year, the Turkish authorities suddenly banned Christian liturgy for the Feast of the Assumption in the monastery.The authorities notified the Ecumenical Patriarchate that the license for the yearly mass at Sumela Monastery has been revoked for this August.According to the site Greek Reporter:The ban has caused great disappointment to thousands of Pontian people worldwide, and people from Greece who had planned to travel to the region these days to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption.Sources within the Patriarchate of Constantinople, who prefer to remain anonymous, and many Pontic Greeks believe that the construction’s “static problems” invoked is a pretext and they fear that Christian mass will never be allowed in the historic monastery again.This arbitrary ban seems to be yet another demonstration of the “unofficial” second-class status of Christians in Turkey.As the scholar Robert Spencer puts it:That the Greek Orthodox need special permission to celebrate divine services in any of their churches in what is now Turkey is a dark reminder of the Islamic oppression of Eastern Christians from the mid-7th Century to today, and for the Greeks, especially from the Muslim conquest of Constantinople in 1453 through the defeat of the Ottoman Empire by the Western Powers during World War I.Today, Greek-speaking Orthodox Christians are a tiny, dwindling minority in Turkey — around 2,500 people — and the community routinely faces discrimination.“Christians are certainly seen as second-class citizens,” Walter Flick, a religious expert with the International Society for Human Rights in Germany, told the publication DW. “A real citizen is Muslim, and those who aren’t Muslim are seen as suspicious.Christians aren’t equal. They don’t have full rights.”Moreover, the Turkish government does not recognize the title “the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople,” which represents 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.“He has not been able to wield this title as he should,” said Flick. “And this is a historic title that’s been around since the 6th century. He isn’t referred to as ‘Ecumenical Patriarch’ within Turkey. The name is accepted overseas, but in Turkey he can’t use that title, which was afforded by the European Convention on Human Rights.”Another indication of Turkey’s discrimination against its Greek-speaking Orthodox citizens is the situation of the Halki seminary in Istanbul, or the Theological School of Halki, the main school of theology of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It was closed by the Turkish state in 1971 and it has not been reopened.The Turkish state has also confiscated much real estate belonging to Greek Orthodox Christians.“Many properties have been lost over the past few decades, for example office buildings, orphanages and other institutions,” added Flick.The Turkish Constitution, however, asserts that Turkey is “a secular and democratic republic that derives its sovereignty from the people.” And Turkish state authorities, for decades, boasted of “being the only truly secular country” in the Muslim world.Today, many Turkish secularists are crying over what they think is the “defeat of Turkish secularism at the hands of the current Islamic government.”What secular, democratic republic builds thousands of mosques with state funds — taxpayer money — while closing the Halki Seminary of the Eastern Orthodox Church and confiscating countless Christian properties?…
RUSSIA LAUNCHES NO FLY ZONE OVER SYRIA -THREATENS WAR WITH U.S.
Psychotic elite could ignite WWIII
Meanwhile nuclear tensions have risen between Pakistan and India after a jihadi attack on an Indian Army base left 19 soldiers dead. India then entered Pakistan and surgically struck terrorist camps in Kashmir.
Breitbart reports ” It is becoming increasingly clear that something serious has changed in relations between Pakistan and India, as a result of repeated acts of violence in the Indian-controlled region of Kashmir. It is clear that each country, in a generational Crisis era, is on a trend line to become increasing nationalistic and belligerent towards the other, and it is also clear that these trend lines will continue on the same path until they result in war. From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, it is not a question of “if”, but of “when,” and with the rapid rise in nationalism on both sides, “when” may not be too far off.
Several other variants of the initial S-300P system are said to be in Algeria, Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Egypt. Most of these are outdated systems tho, (initial S-300p version) and in some cases wouldn’t signify direct ties to Russia. They just happen to be cheaper then NATO counterpart technologies, and in most cases are obsolete.
(sources)
Israel leaks Patriots missile technologies to china
http://defensetech.org/2013/12/24/rep…
Turkey abandons decision to purchase Chinese missile defense system
(yet to be finalized, reported after Russian plane shot down)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turk…
India Cleared Purchase of Russian S-400 Missile Defense System
(sorta unclear if they purchased em yet)
http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/india-…
KAINE AND HILLARY-A PERFECT TREACHEROUS MATCH
October 8, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
• Kaine strongly favors government enforced affirmative action for women and non-whites.
• The Senator favors a very progressive income tax. Can you say communism?
• Tim Kaine is staunchly pro-amnesty for illegal aliens and favors a “pathway to citizenship.
• He believes in the nationalization of corporations and banks. Can you say fascism?
• Like Hillary, He believes that Voter ID laws make it unnecessarily difficult for people to vote in political elections. (That’s illegals he’s talking about.)
• He believes in the separation-of-church-and-state and that it makes school prayer, government funding for religious organizations, and the posting of the Ten Commandments in public places impermissible.
• When he ran for Governor of Virginia he told the people he opposed gay marriage. So did Hillary at one time. Now they both endorse it.
• When Kaine ran for Lt. Governor of Virginia, he campaigned on being a supporter of the second amendment, and that he would not propose new gun laws. However, as Senator, he has signed every anti-gun law that has come across his desk.
• Kaine previously was against tax payer funded abortion. Now that he’s running as VP, he is for removing all state restrictions on abortion.
• TPP was at the top of Kaine’s list to support, that is until he was chosen as Hillary’s running mate. Like Hillary, he shifted for the campaign.
• In previous years, Kaine was for off-shore drilling, but now has jumped to the other side to match Hillary.