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 .
âA building covenanted as a mosque cannot be used for any other purpose,â says Mazhar Yildirimhan, the head of the directorateâs 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. âThere are modern techniques for masking the walls,â he says.
Turkish scholars are also up in arms at the directorateâs 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 mĂ„ udvide sit “krĂŠnkede kor”: 500.000 muslimer og X- millioner kvinder. Folk der har tid til det her, er ikke livsduelige, de har smidt dĂ„rligt LSD i drikkevandet pĂ„ Undervisiteterne. Red Sverige, lav dem til kyllingefarme! Jeg skrev igĂ„r, at Sverige er nordens bibelbĂŠlte i snerpethed. Reklamebureauet spiller pĂ„ dem som pĂ„ en violin.
NÀrbilderna pÄ sensuella kvinnolÀppar, redo att kyssa och pÄ en av bilderna redo att ta nÄgot i sin mun, reducerar kvinnorna till enbart en liten del av deras kroppar som dessutom laddas erotiskt genom karaktÀrsbeskrivningarna och plutande samt sÀrade lÀppar. Det vore snudd pÄ omöjligt att förestÀlla sig en likadan reklam med manslÀppar, eftersom reklamens utformning Àr menad att föra tankarna till heterosexuellt oralsex. Det finns dessutom ingen som helst anledning till att Magnum mÄste anvÀnda sig av kvinnomunnar för att sÀlja in sina olika glassorter. DÀrför Àr reklamen könsdiskriminerande och schabloniserande. Den hÀr typen av sexuella budskap, och de anspelningar reklamen sÀnder ut, ska inte finnas i det offentliga rummet. Magnumreklamen.
MI 5: 237 terrordomme i England pĂ„ ti Ă„r – 1834 fĂŠngslinger
Hvis der er nogen ikke-muslimske, er de ikke at se pÄ denne liste, men det er ogsÄ 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 âą Crown Prosecution Service
7 February 2006
Radical London cleric Abu Hamza was convicted of incitement to murder and sentenced to 7 years.
Metropolitan Police âą 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 âą 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 âą 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 âą 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 âą 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 âą 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 âą 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 âą 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 âą 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 âą 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 âą 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 ogsÄ)
Erdogan og hans AKP gĂžr sig klar til igen, at anfĂžre den islamiske ummah. Det er vist hele 17.000 nye moskeer pĂ„ landsplan hans regime har “beriget” Tyrkiet med. En sprit-ny Mega-Allahsbodega-moske skal krone vĂŠrket i Istanbul. Atatyrk mĂ„ rotere med raketfart i sin grav. SĂ„ snart det lykkes, at smide Assad pĂ„ porten og dermed fravriste Syrien det iranske greb, sĂ„ ruller den tyrkiske karavane. Den arabiske verden vil til den tid vĂŠre sĂ„ kaotisk og destabiliseret at EU og Amerika bogstavelig talt vil tigge tyrkerne om at genopfĂžre den osmanniske imperie-struktur. Og hvad fĂžlger sĂ„?? Kalifatet?? Og hvis… Read more »
“Fallosserne” er da eller ganske politisk korrekt chokoladebrune. Feministerne burde vel juble over inklusionen af vore tilrejsende venner, som her nĂŠrmest fĂ„r lov til pĂ„ symbolsk vis helt at tage de vaniljeisfarvede ispindes plads! Det er en fin, socialt bevidst og kulturelt fĂžlsom reklame.
Ja, hvor fa’n er pixeleringen, nĂ„r der virkelig er brug for den?
FÄfÀng gÄ lÀrer mycket ont
Jeg synes, at reklamen – og ikke mindst de indsendte fotos fra konkurrencen – er sjove og livsbekrĂŠftende.
De svenske feminister er lige det modsatte.
Tager Over-Sverige dem virkelig alvorligt? Jeg er ikke i tvivl om, hvad det svenske folk mener om dem.
Haha..det skulle vara intressant att kika in i dessa batikhĂ€xors dagliga tankeverksamhet med förklĂ€dda penisar lurandes i var buske..ops, kanske ett farligt ordval..sĂ„ anmĂ€l mig med đ
Sanningen Ă€r att den heterosexuella delen av dessa “feminister” kommer att ropa efter en stor stark karl efter en rejĂ€l svensk fylla, problemet Ă€r att det knappt finns nĂ„gra svenska mĂ€n kvar. De flesta Ă€r snöpta hanrejar, sĂ„ nĂ„gon annan fĂ„r fylla tomrummet..
Res er nu, svenska mÀn.
Der er en grund til at ingen tager feminister alvorlige mere. Det er fordi de er ubetalelige dumme.
Vis et par kvindelÊber i nÊrkontakt med et penis lignende objekt og de flipper fuldstÊndigt ud men nÄr afghanske kvinder overhÊldes med syre eller fÄr nÊse og Þrer skÄret af, blot fordi hun er kvinder, sÄ rager det dem en papand.
SÞstersolidariteten er vist for nedadgÄende.