Christian art in Byzantine church-turned-museum is at risk after controversial court ruling

One of the most important monuments of late Byzantium, the 13th-century Church of Hagia Sophia in the Black Sea city of Trabzon (1238-1263), which is now a museum, will be converted into a mosque, after a legal battle that has dramatic implications for other major historical sites in Turkey. Many in Turkey believe that the Church of Hagia Sophia is a stalking horse for the possible re-conversion of its more famous namesake in Istanbul, the Hagia Sophia Museum .

“A building covenanted as a mosque cannot be used for any other purpose,” says Mazhar Yildirimhan, the head of the directorate’s office in Trabzon. He declined to speculate on whether this would mean covering up nearly half the wall space taken up with figurative Christian art, including the dome depicting a dynamic Christ Pantocrator. “There are modern techniques for masking the walls,” he says.

Turkish scholars are also up in arms at the directorate’s decision to transform another ruin, the Kesik Minare in Antalya, into a mosque. The local chamber of architects has gone to court to prevent this happening. Originally a Roman temple, the Kesik Minare has a Byzantine, Seljuk and Crusader past. A plan had already been drawn up to turn the site into an open-air museum. Mosque conversion raises alarm.

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Svensk kvindelobby anmelder “heteroseksuel oralsex-ispind” til reklameombudsmanden/kvinden/han/hun/hen. Lars Vilks må udvide sit “krænkede kor”: 500.000 muslimer og X- millioner kvinder. Folk der har tid til det her, er ikke livsduelige, de har smidt dårligt LSD i drikkevandet på Undervisiteterne. Red Sverige, lav dem til kyllingefarme! Jeg skrev igår, at Sverige er nordens bibelbælte i snerpethed. Reklamebureauet spiller på dem som på en violin.

Närbilderna på sensuella kvinnoläppar, redo att kyssa och på en av bilderna redo att ta något i sin mun, reducerar kvinnorna till enbart en liten del av deras kroppar som dessutom laddas erotiskt genom karaktärsbeskrivningarna och plutande samt särade läppar. Det vore snudd på omöjligt att föreställa sig en likadan reklam med mansläppar, eftersom reklamens utformning är menad att föra tankarna till heterosexuellt oralsex. Det finns dessutom ingen som helst anledning till att Magnum måste använda sig av kvinnomunnar för att sälja in sina olika glassorter. Därför är reklamen könsdiskriminerande och schabloniserande. Den här typen av sexuella budskap, och de anspelningar reklamen sänder ut, ska inte finnas i det offentliga rummet. Magnumreklamen.

MI 5: 237 terrordomme i England på ti år – 1834 fængslinger
Hvis der er nogen ikke-muslimske, er de ikke at se på denne liste, men det er også kun de groveste sager. Den er endda ikke helt up to date:

Between 11 September 2001 and 31 March 2010, 237 individuals have been convicted of terrorism-related offences, including murder, illegal possession of firearms and explosives offences. 1,834 people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act during this period. As of 31 March 2010, 102 prisoners were classified as terrorists, 73 per cent of whom were UK nationals. For more statistical information on the operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act, see the Home Office Statistical Bulletin of 28 October 2010.

Notable terrorist convictions up to the end of 2010 have included the following cases. For more information on each, please click on the links to see statements by the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.

27 February 2002
Moinul Abedin was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment after being convicted of making large amounts of detonators and the explosive HMTD in a Birmingham house.

1 April 2003
Leicester residents Brahim Benmerzouga and Baghdad Merziane were each sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment for their roles in fundraising for Al Qaida and other extremist groups.

1 March 2005
Saajit Badat was imprisoned for 13 years following his admission that he had plotted with jailed shoe-bomber Richard Reid to destroy an airliner over the Atlantic.
Metropolitan Police

13 April 2005
Kamel Bourgass was convicted of plotting to commit a public nuisance by the use of poisons and/or explosives to cause disruption, fear or injury. He was already serving a life sentence for the murder of PC Stephen Oake.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

7 February 2006
Radical London cleric Abu Hamza was convicted of incitement to murder and sentenced to 7 years.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

7 November 2006
Al Qaida operative Dhiren Barot was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years’ imprisonment after admitting a plot to attack UK and US targets using a “dirty bomb” and gas-filled limousines.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

30 April 2007
Five men were imprisoned for life after being convicted of a plot to attack targets such as shopping centres and nightclubs using fertiliser-based explosives; two others were acquitted.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

15 June 2007
Seven men were jailed for a total of 136 years for their involvement in Dhiren Barot’s “dirty bomb” plot and “Gas Limos Project”.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

5 July 2007
Three men were imprisoned for up to 10 years after being convicted of using the Internet to promote terrorism.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

11 July 2007
The four would-be suicide bombers of 21 July 2005 were given life sentences following their convictions on charges of conspiracy to murder. A fifth man involved in the plot was convicted in November 2007.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

26 July 2007
Five students were convicted on charges of possessing material for terrorist purposes with the intention of going to terrorist training camps in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

9 Jan 2008
Sohail Anjum Qureshi, an Al Qaida-trained terrorist intent on carrying out an act of terrorism overseas, was jailed for four and a half years.
Metropolitan Police

18 February 2008
Five conspirators were convicted of plotting to kidnap and behead a British soldier and were sentenced to terms of between two years and life.
Crown Prosecution Service

17 December 2008
Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi citizen who worked in a hospital in Paisley, Scotland, was sentenced to 32 years’ imprisonment for his role in terrorist attacks carried out in London and Glasgow International Airport in June 2007.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

14 September 2009
In one of a series of trials, three men who plotted in 2006 to blow up aircraft mid-flight between the UK, America and Canada by using liquid explosives were jailed for life.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

8 July 2010
Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Khan and Waheed Zaman were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy to murder persons unknown. By this point a total of twelve people had been convicted in seven trials for terrorism-related offences in connection with the 2006 aircraft bomb plot.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

2 November 2010
Roshonara Choudhry, a student from East London, was convicted of attempting to murder the MP Stephen Timms after being inspired by extremist sermons she had watched on the Internet.
Metropolitan Police • Crown Prosecution Service

18 March 2011
Rajib Karim, an IT worker for British Airways, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for supplying information about airlines to al Qaida terrorists in Yemen.
Metropolitan Police

9 February 2012
Nine men who were members of a terrorist network in England and Wales were sentenced to between five and 17 years’ imprisonment for offences including plotting to attack the London Stock Exchange and seeking terrorist training overseas.
Crown Prosecution Service

MI 5: TERRORIST PLOTS AND ATTAACKS IN THE UK (links til de enkelte sager også)