President Obama and BFF Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan To Celebrate Opening of Maryland Mega Mosque
President Obama and BFF Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan To Celebrate Opening of Maryland Mega Mosque…
We don’t call it Marylandistan for nothing.
[…] The mega-mosque is called the Turkish American Culture and Civilization Center and, according to the Muslim Link, it “will likely become the largest and most striking examples of Islamic architecture in the western hemisphere” when it is finished. The Muslim Link explicitly says it is “a project of the government of Turkey.”
(Via Right Scoop) A couple of years ago it was reported that Turkey was helping fund the building of a $100 million dollar mega mosque in Lanham, Maryland. In fact Erdogan visited the mosque when he was here in May of 2013, promising to come back for the opening.
Well that time has apparently arrived and now Erdogan and Obama will be together at the mosque for the big opening ceremony:
ANADOLU AGENCY – The presidents of Turkey and the U.S. will open the Turkish-American Culture and Civilization Center in Maryland, Turkey’s foreign minister said Sunday.
Mevlut Cavusoglu, on a three-day visit to Washington, visited the center that also has a middle-sized mosque, and lunched with representatives from the American Muslim community.
“During a phone call, President (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan asked President (Barack) Obama to accompany him in opening the center together and President Obama accepted his offer’in principle,’” Cavusoglu told the representatives.
If Obama’s schedule allows at the time of the opening, he will accompany Erdogan. (read more)
RELATED: Turkey Destroys Christian Churches […] “Turkey is not converting churches into mosques because there is a need for more mosques… The message conveyed … is that Turkey is an Islamic state and no other religion is tolerated.” — Constantine Tzanos, author.
The physical devastation of the Christian Armenians was
followed by a cultural devastation. Countless Christian churches and
schools have been destroyed or turned into mosques, storehouses or
stables, among other things.
“Christians are certainly seen as second-class citizens.
A real citizen is a Muslim, and those who aren’t Muslim are seen as
suspicious.” — Walter Flick, Scholar, International Society for Human
Rights.
Sadly, Turkey, a NATO member since 1952 and supposedly a
candidate for membership in the European Union, has largely succeeded
in destroying the entire Christian cultural heritage of Asia Minor. (read more)
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