Turkish President Erdogan's decision in 2020 to reconvert the Hagia Sophia from a museum back into a mosque has been met with considerable global controversy.

This move reversed the 1934 decision by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, which had made Hagia Sophia a museum as a symbol of secularism.

Critics argue that the reconversion carries significant religious undertones, as Hagia Sophia was originally built as a Byzantine cathedral in 537 AD, then converted into an Ottoman mosque after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and served as a museum for 86 years.

It is seen by many as an effort to appeal to Erdogan’s conservative and religious base, reasserting Islamic identity in Turkey at the expense of the country's secular heritage.

Internationally, the decision was strongly criticized by UNESCO, as Hagia Sophia holds a designation as a World Heritage Site; UNESCO stated that changes to the status of such sites require notification and sometimes permission from the organization.

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, other Christian leaders, and governments including Greece and the United States expressed regret and concern, emphasizing the site's historical significance to both Christians and Muslims.

Many interpret the timing as a political move by Erdogan to galvanize nationalist and religious sentiment amid broader concerns over Turkey’s economy and his diminishing popularity.

Some analysts contend that the move was intended to distract from domestic issues by uniting conservative voters and diverting attention from economic struggles.

The decision heightened longstanding tensions between secularists, who value Turkey’s secular traditions, and religious conservatives, who saw this as reclaiming Islamic heritage.

Observers noted that the reconversion is likely to deepen rifts between Turkey and Western countries, as well as the Orthodox Christian world, impacting diplomatic relations.

Supporters of Erdogan argued that the decision restores a rightful place of worship for Muslims and is an expression of Turkish sovereignty.

However, detractors highlight the symbolic loss for pluralism and religious coexistence represented by Hagia Sophia’s role as a museum open to all faiths and nationalities for nearly a century.

In 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the reconversion of the Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque.

This decision reversed a 1934 decree that had turned Hagia Sophia into a museum, a move that was seen as a symbol of secularism in modern Turkey.

The change triggered widespread controversy in both religious and political circles, given Hagia Sophia's unique history as a Byzantine cathedral, an Ottoman mosque, and later a secular museum.

Critics argue the decision carries heavy religious undertones, signaling a return to Ottoman-Islamic identity and reflecting Erdogan’s support for political Islam.

This development has been interpreted as a political move by Erdogan to solidify support among his conservative and nationalist base amid declining popularity and economic challenges.

Many in the international community, including UNESCO and the World Council of Churches, criticized the move because Hagia Sophia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site recognized for its universal cultural and religious significance.

Western governments and religious leaders, particularly in Greece and Eastern Orthodox circles, expressed concern that the move could deepen religious divisions and undermine Turkey’s image as a secular state.

The reconversion was condemned by several countries for potentially harming interfaith relations, specifically between Islam and Christianity.

Erdogan’s government claimed the change restores a right that was taken from Muslims in 1934, positioning the move as an act of historical justice and national sovereignty.

Supporters of the decision in Turkey viewed it as reclaiming the country’s Muslim heritage and reinvigorating national pride.

Meanwhile, secularists and members of minority faiths in Turkey warned that the reconversion signals growing intolerance and erodes secular foundations.

There was also domestic concern over increasing state involvement in religious affairs and the potential marginalization of non-Muslim communities.

The decision sparked debates about the role of religion in Turkish identity, secularism’s future, and the intersection of culture, politics, and faith in the country’s public life.

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The controversy around recent events is heightened by figures like Nashat Majd al-Noor, who claims to be “sent from heaven” and promotes “enlightenment” to a growing group of followers on social media.

Initial reactions to Nashat in Lebanon and abroad, especially in Egypt, were largely mocking, due to his unusual uniform and stick.

Mohamed Salem Abu al-Assi, former dean at Al-Azhar University, commented that Nashat is free to make claims, but must produce proof or a miracle to be believed.

Commentators have accused proponents like Munther of madness, charlatanism, or viewed such claims as signs of the “hour.”
Other personalities, such as Carmen, reportedly have a large following convinced of her astrological abilities and her claims of conveying a new “heavenly message.”
The Grand Mufti of the Republic has stated that extremist ideologues are enemies of the homeland.

President Sisi has taken upon himself the task of renewing religious discourse, calling it "the duty of time."

Dar Al Ifta (Fatwa House) insists it is not politicized, acts independently, and is determined to confront extremist groups by enhancing public communication and planning to open new branches annually.

Innovations like the Animation Unit have been launched by Dar Al Ifta to make countering extremist fatwas more accessible.

Questions have arisen regarding Dar Al Ifta’s plans during Ramadan and its methods of dealing with religious issues.

Dar Ifta maintains that while it does not follow directives from others, it sometimes collaborates with state bodies or courts when their opinions are needed for public interest.

There is ongoing evaluation of progress in religious consultation and communication.

Controversy also extends to social media figures such as "the junkie reader," who defends his family name use as his natural right following public criticism.

False allegations have been spread against Sheikh Issa by “the Brotherhood” via video clips.

Media scandals, such as those involving the “My Heart Is Reassured” program using Syrian Civil Defense rescue footage, have drawn criticism for their handling of content from regime-controlled and liberated areas in Syria.

Attempts to renew and restore shrines have sparked debate, with some advocating for modernization to enhance Egypt’s standing in religious tourism and others emphasizing the need for appropriate expert involvement.

There is concern about the “soft war” targeting Husseini councils, which play a unique role in respecting people from all social backgrounds and providing for the poor and rich alike.

The modern era is marked by nonviolent “soft war,” using subtle manipulation, urging vigilance and understanding of such tactics.

The controversy over Turkish President Erdogan's 2020 reconversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque has elicited significant criticism both domestically and internationally.

Many critics argue that the decision carried strong religious undertones, as it underscored a shift away from Turkey's foundational secular principles toward an Islamist identity.

Religious minorities and secular citizens within Turkey expressed concern that this move marginalized non-Muslim communities and undermined the inclusive secularism established by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

The reconversion reversed the 1934 decree that designated Hagia Sophia as a museum, a symbol of reconciliation and shared heritage among faiths and cultures.

UNESCO, which recognized the Hagia Sophia as a World Heritage Site, warned that such a dramatic change in status could impact its universal value and emphasized that any alterations require international consultation and consensus.

Some international leaders, especially from the Christian world such as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the Pope, voiced deep regret, stating the move could increase religious tensions and erode interfaith dialogue.

Observers noted that the transformation was seen by many as a political strategy by Erdogan to consolidate support from his conservative and nationalist base ahead of domestic elections.

Opponents within Turkey accused Erdogan of using the Hagia Sophia’s status as a means to galvanize his supporters in the context of declining approval ratings and economic challenges.

Analysts highlight that the reconversion appealed to historical grievances and nationalistic pride, resonating with segments of the population who viewed restoring mosque status as rectifying a perceived historical injustice.

Internationally, the decision was met with disappointment from Greek officials and other Orthodox Christian communities, who regard Hagia Sophia as a central monument of their religious heritage.

The controversy surrounding Hagia Sophia thus reflects ongoing tensions in Turkey regarding secularism, religion, and national identity.

Ultimately, critics see Erdogan’s move as both a religiously motivated act and a politically calculated effort to shape Turkey’s future direction and assert his leadership.

Turkish President Erdogan's decision in 2020 to reconvert the Hagia Sophia from a museum back into a mosque has been met with considerable global controversy.

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We still don’t know how exactly Paul Kessler died. All we know for sure is he didn’t have to.

At a Tuesday press conference about Kessler’s death following a Sunday confrontation with anti-Israel protesters in Thousand Oaks, the chief medical examiner of Ventura County said that Kessler’s cause of death had been determined to be a homicide. “The manner of death is a medical-legal determination,” he added. “Homicide does not indicate that a crime has been committed.”

Of course, there are Jewish groups who are already shouting, irresponsibly, on social media that this was an antisemitic murder, although the investigation is ongoing and no suspect has been arrested. (In fact, Ventura County Sheriff James Fryhoff told reporters, the suspect was one of the people who called 911 to get Kessler help.) And there are anti-Israel groups claiming Kessler, who was 69, started it.

The fact is that we simply don’t know enough yet to make any grand proclamations. What we do know is that Paul Kessler is dead, which is a tragedy.

Kessler set out on a beautiful L.A. morning to wave the Israeli flag, just as the man he faced off against in his final moments, a 50-year-old Arab American, woke up that morning compelled to defend Palestinians. That their confrontation ended in death should send us three giant, flashing warning messages.

The first message is: Be careful. The Jewish community in Los Angeles is understandably worried about antisemitic attacks in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas. In February, long before the war began, a man was arrested for shooting two Jews walking out of synagogues in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood. He told police he was “targeting Jews.”

Two weeks ago, after the war began, a man broke into a Jewish family’s home in the San Fernando Valley and threatened to kill them. Police reports said the man screamed “Free Palestine!” as he was arrested.

America is not an antisemitic countrystudies show Jews are consistently one of the most admired groups. But antisemitic acts have always spiked during flare-ups in Israel: A 2019 study by Ayal Feinberg, using FBI hate crime data from 2001 to 2014, found that antisemitic hate crime spiked 35% during periods of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

And during this unprecedented iteration of the conflict, they’ve quickly reached alarming peaks. “Homeland perpetrated violence can directly impact the security of diaspora communities,” Feinberg wrote.

This isn’t an excuse. Antisemites are responsible for antisemitism, not Israel. But it does help explain why, in a country where Jews have found historically unprecedented degrees of acceptance and safety, anti-Jewish violence breaks out.

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The second message is: Don’t jump to conclusions. Yes, there have been horrible and shocking antisemitic attacks, in L.A. and around the world, especially at times of heightened tension in Israel. But the wisest thing to do, despite the emotional impetus to react quickly, is wait for the facts.

We saw the same script play out around a 2021 fight on La Cienega Blvd. in L.A., when pro-Israel and anti-Israel protesters clashed in front of a sushi restaurant. Many Jewish leaders immediately called the incident a pogrom, asserting that Arabs were out “hunting” Jews. Two years later, by the time the actual case against the attackers went through court, the slight penalties revealed a much more complicated story of mutual antagonism.

Kessler might very well have been the victim of a hate crime. But we just don’t know yet. Your X feed and Instagram story will certainly get more likes if you beat that drum. Your headline will get more clicks and your organizations may get more donations. But you will be doing the Jewish community of Los Angeles no favors by stoking unwarranted fear — especially when there is more than enough legitimate fear to go around.

The third message occurred to me as I watched a video recording of Kessler on the ground following the incident. The crowd of 75-100 protesters and counterprotesters is subdued, the shouting has stopped, and people are respectfully quiet as paramedics and police do their jobs.

And kneeling by Kessler’s side, with a look of grave concern on her face, is a woman in a headscarf with the words “Free Palestine” emblazoned on her shirt.

The image reminded me that America’s Jews and Muslims actually face similar threats and challenges as religious minorities. Just as antisemitic attacks have increased, so have Islamophobic incidents. According to FBI hate crime statistics, both are on the rise.

On Oct. 14, a man stabbed a six-year-old Palestinian boy to death in Chicago. On Nov. 3, according to a Saturday statement from the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, a man aimed his SUV at a Muslim student at an anti-Israel protest at Stanford University and struck him before driving off, yelling profanities about “you and your people!”

American mosques are more likely to be attacked than any other houses of worship, followed by synagogues, according to a 2023 study by the A-Mark Foundation, which I run. Synagogues account for 3.2% of all congregations nationwide, but 22% of the attacks. Muslim congregations, which account for .6% of religious congregations nationwide, are the victims in 17% of attacks.

And while attacks against Christian houses of worship have a variety of motivations, the reasons people attack synagogues and mosques are overwhelmingly antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Sharing common threats should drive Muslim and Jewish communities closer together, if anything. But the suffering of our fellow Jews and Muslims thousands of miles away inflames our passions and sends us to the streets. When we find each other there, we can default to meeting as enemies.

The only wisdom I can offer comes from Abdulwahab Omira, the Syrian-born Stanford undergraduate who survived the hit-and-run attack.

“As I lay in my hospital bed, grappling with a reality I had never imagined, I reflect on the importance of spreading love, kindness, and compassion in a world that seems to be steadily succumbing to hatred and prejudice,” Omira said in a statement.

Those are wise words to take to heart even as, like Paul Kessler, we fearlessly stand up for our own.

Rob Eshman

Rob Eshman is CEO of A-Mark Foundation and a senior contributing columnist to the Forward.

How did Muslims and Orthodox Christians react to the reconversion?

No--In 1934, Ataturk turned it into a museum, making it a major tourist attraction and secular symbol in Turkey.

Who was angered by the reconversion of Hagia Sophia in July 2020?

Why did Erdogan restore Hagia Sophia as a mosque in 2020?

Because he wanted to end its 86-year museum status to return it to its original role as a mosque.

This move reversed the 1934 decision by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, which had made Hagia Sophia a museum as a symbol of secularism.

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Tales from the Coffeeshop: Monk mayhem is all about the moolah

WHEN the story about the entrepreneurial archimandrites, who set up the start-up monastery Osiou Avakoum in Fterikoudi, broke and there was talk of film of them having sex with each other, I wondered how anyone would have obtained the film of them in the act.

As there is no accounting for sexual tastes, perhaps they got a kick out of filming themselves and posting the video on an adult site on which it may have been spotted by another priest who felt morally obliged to report them. The Holy Synod members were reportedly shocked when shown the film at their meeting to discuss what they should do about the clerical debauchery.

It later emerged that there was CCTV footage of the archimandrites discussing where to hide the 800 grand they had stashed in the monastery safe and preparing to stage miracles. Were they so stupid doing all these things when they knew there was CCTV in their monastery?

The truth is they did not have a clue CCTV had been installed all over the monastery, including their private quarters and was hidden from view. These were hi tech surveillance cameras that had been installed when the two had gone on a trip abroad.

THERE is only one person, who could have given such orders – the Bishop of Tamassos and Orini, Isaias, who did not even bother to pretend he had nothing to do with this. It was Isaias who handed over the CCTV footage of the goings at the monastery to the police and who provided the holy synod with the sex footage.

The bishop’s brother is a surveillance expert working for our secret service Kyp and was perfectly capable of setting up the CCTV network, although there is no evidence he was in any way involved. Isaias also has very good ties with Russian oligarchs who paid for his palatial bishopric, built in the architectural style of Russian churches.

One of the Russian benefactors could have called in the FSB to install the cameras, although this is pure speculation. If the FSB was involved it would probably have recommended the use of Novichok, a more effective way of dealing with the troublesome two.

Nothing was made of the fact that Isaias was secretly filming the activities of Nektarios and Porfyrios, probably because it is not prohibited by the Church.

FOOTAGE of the activities at the monastery were leaked to the media all last week, by the person who was in possession of the CCTV recording but his name was mentioned by nobody.

First we had Porfyrios and Nektarios discussing where to hide the 800 grand; then there was Nektarios giving orders to monks to put myrrh in the cross so it would be secreted and give a pleasant smell to the faithful who would be convinced they witnessed a miracle. There was also film of a monk shouting at a woman and hitting her with a belt.

The funny bit was that the lawyers of the monks would issue a ludicrously lame explanation for each of these. In the case of the myrrh, they provided a “written testimony, with certification for the authenticity of the signature of worshipper from Greece.” The witness was in Nektarios’ office and “saw with his own eyes bottles of methylated and antiseptic which was used with cotton wool to clean all holy relics.”

The witness also said that the head of a baby on which the sign of the cross had been done with the crucifix of Saint Porfyrios smelt of myrrh for five days. This was also in the written testimony.

THE BEST explanation, however was the woman being beaten with a belt, claiming it was her fault. It must have been a holy belt she was hit with to make her take the blame for her beating.

In a post on her Facebook page, the woman, who works at the monastery, said “I am greatly saddened that you were forced to see a specific video which ‘shows’ in a harsh way that I was subjected to a ‘brutal beating’ by a monk of the Osiou Avakoum monastery.” She added that the video had been tampered with.

“Yes, we had a scuffle with the monk, which resulted from a misunderstanding for which I was to blame.” The misunderstanding was sorted, she said, and our relations are “very good.” She also pointed out that the incident took place last August, but she was still at the monastery.

The sinister Isaias had been filming the goings-on at the monastery since August. I can’t help thinking that the recordings he collected could be turned into a big hit as a reality TV show.

YOU DO NOT have to be a detective to realise that the row between Isaias and the monks is all about the moollah. The entrepreneurial monks were making a lot of moollah through the successful miracle business they had set up and claimed they were regularly giving a cut to Isaias. Perhaps they fell out because the bishop wanted a bigger cut.

They claimed to have contributed some 300 grand to the bishop’s election campaign for the archiepiscopal throne and insist they had documentation of money transfers as well as SMS messages from Isaias demanding payment.

It is rather embarrassing for a bishop to be cashing in on a fake miracle business, that so brazenly exploited the weak and vulnerable, but by making the scam public, Isaias may have scripted his own downfall. Unless the Russian patriarch steps in to save one of his own.

THE TIMING of Prezniktwo’s visit to the monasteries of Mount Athos could not have been worse. This was a time to keep a safe distance away from monks and monasteries, but our devout, churchgoing prez could not cancel his visit to the Holy Mount a second time.

He had planned to visit in October, but put it off because of the events in Gaza, his sense of duty preventing him from making the holy trip. But there is popularity to be gained from the faithful by visiting Mount Athos so the visit could not be put off again.

In his address at one church, he beseeched the holy fathers “to multiply your prayers and warm supplications to the Lord and the most holy Mother of God for the passing of the sufferings and sorrows of our country Cyprus…. The Holy Mount teaches that God is present in the shaping of the history of the world.”

What was the point of asking the UN to get involved in the Cyprob when we could pray not just for a resumption of the talks, but also a fair and just settlement that would end our sufferings and sorrows?

SPEAKING of the Cyprob, a few digs against the UNSG’s envoy Maria Angela Holguin have made an appearance. If anything, media attacks on her have been almost non-existent, which is a sad break from a proud tradition upheld for decades. Perhaps it is because after two visits she has said almost nothing in public.

On Monday however, some self-regarding Alpha TV reporter fired the first salvos. First, he said Holguin was being guided by British ideas – the Brits being the anti-christ of the Cyprob. Worse still, one of her chosen associates, a former deputy foreign minister of Colombia, had greeted the Turkish president at the airport in Bogota, emphatic proof she was pro-Turkish.

Clips of the visit were shown, before the reporter ominously stated, “this lady will be the assistant of Holguin.”

DIKO issued a statement to pay its respect to former president Spy Kyp, our establishment’s all-time hero, on the 22nd anniversary of his death last Tuesday. Twenty-two years after the passing of the Diko founder (is that something he should be praised for?), the party “continues his struggle, faithful to his legacies, for a solution that will secure the continued existence of the Cyprus Republic.”

Spy’s only legacy is ‘no solution’ and Diko says as much in its announcement. “He resisted pressures to accept undignified, one-sided, and catastrophic plans for the future of Cypriot Hellenism and the Cyprus Republic.” He should be particularly praised for resisting the catastrophic American-Canadian-British plan of 1978 which would have allowed the residents of Varosha to return to their homes, regardless of the outcome of the peace process that would have followed.

He was a true fighter of the resistance, not to mention his heroic efforts to establish rusfeti.

I APOLOGISE for the heavy reliance on religious content today. Secular services will resume next week.

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No--In 1934, Ataturk turned it into a museum, making it a major tourist attraction and secular symbol in Turkey.

Why did Erdogan restore Hagia Sophia as a mosque in 2020?

Because he wanted to end its 86-year museum status to return it to its original role as a mosque.

Critics argue that the reconversion carries significant religious undertones, as Hagia Sophia was originally built as a Byzantine cathedral in 537 AD, then converted into an Ottoman mosque after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and served as a museum for 86 years.

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Storyglass has teamed up with iHeartPodcasts to launch a new eight-part podcast series “False Profits: Hillsong,” which takes a look into a global megachurch.

THE STORY:
Host Noemi Uribe was looking for a church where everyone was welcome and she thought she’d found it in Hillsong, but it was the most expensive mistake she ever made.  Alongside journalist Elle Hardy, Uribe will reveal stories Hillsong never wanted the public to hear about money, sex and power. This series will trace the rise and fall of Hillsong’s founder, hear from sources inside the church, and ask if Hillsong is part of a wider problem within evangelical churches. Noemi’s own story turned into one of rejection, despair and a fight for justice. Hillsong used to be home, now, for Noemi, “it’s a dumpster fire.”

“We are part of a group who are committed to great storytelling and giving under-represented voices a chance to be heard,” said Steve Carsey, Managing Director, Storyglass. “We are delighted to be working with iHeartPodcasts on this powerful, immersive and important series. Like us, they realised it was a story that had to be told. There have been many attempts to truly understand the inner workings of the Hillsong church, but this first-person account really brings listeners much closer than ever before. The journey Noemi and Elle go on is incredibly emotive and shocking. We’re so grateful that they chose to share their story with us.”

How did Hagia Sophia become important for Muslims?

Sultan Mehmed II converted Hagia Sophia into a mosque,making it a key religious site for Muslims for centuries.

No--In 1934, Ataturk turned it into a museum, making it a major tourist attraction and secular symbol in Turkey.

What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

Erdogan's decision was influenced by Turkey's Islamic resurgence.

When was Hagia Sophia built and under whose rule?

It is seen by many as an effort to appeal to Erdogan’s conservative and religious base, reasserting Islamic identity in Turkey at the expense of the country's secular heritage.

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Civilian deaths are being dismissed as 'crisis actors' in Gaza and Israel

On one side of the split-screen video, a young man lies injured in a hospital bed. A red banner across the top of the frame reads "Yesterday." On the other side, under a green banner reading "Today," a similar-looking man walks through rubble in Gaza.

"I'm now walking in a neighborhood where there were houses. There are no houses anymore," he says.

The post on X, formerly known as Twitter, claims the side-by-side videos show the same person. It accuses him of faking his injuries, only to be "miraculously healed" and walking around just a day later.

But the videos actually show two different people, according to fact checks from multiple media outlets. One is a Palestinian teenagerwho lost his leg this summer during an Israeli raid in the West Bank. That video was originally posted to TikTok in August.

The other is a Palestinian social media influencer in Gaza who has been documenting the conflict since October.

The conflation of the two individuals is a prime example of a "crisis actor" trope: the false claim that, for propaganda purposes, people are pretending to be victims of tragedies — in this case of Israel's war in Gaza, which Palestinian health officials say has killed more than 14,000 people.

"It is a means by which you blunt those narratives or the reality on the ground," said Moustafa Ayad, executive director for Africa, the Middle East and Asia at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit that studies extremism. "You discredit them off the bat."

The false accusations have spread on multiple platforms, including X and Facebook, boosted by pro-Israel influencers with large followings. Some of the videos on X carry labels warning they are "presented out of context." But the false claims have still been widely seen, with one video racking up 5 million views.

Crisis actor narratives have become a standard element of the messy information landscape of catastrophe, from the war in Syria to the Russian invasion of Ukraine to mass shootings in the U.S.

Sometimes, the claim is that a real victim never existed. Other times, behind-the-scenes movie footage or images of unrelated events are presented as proof an incident was staged.

But the intent is the same, Ayad said. "It comes out of a defensive posturing: trying to essentially downplay civilian casualties in conflicts of this nature."

And that's why the false claims keep coming. They're a way of deflecting the horrors of war.

"Pallywood" accusations claim civilian casualties in Gaza are staged

Claims that Palestinians are manufacturing injuries and deaths are particularly widespread online, where videos and pictures are often derided as creations of "Pallywood."

That pejorative — a mashup of Palestine and Hollywood — was coined by an American professor in 2005 in the aftermath of disputes over who killedan 11-year-old Palestinian boy five years earlier. In 2013 the Israeli government released a report suggesting the event had been staged and questioning whether the child was shot or killed in the incident. His father, as well as the cameraman who captured the event, reject the report's findings.

Mentions of "Pallywood" have steadily increased across social media platforms since Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, according to fact-checkers at Logically, which tracks online disinformation. Much of the volume is being driven by accounts outside of Israel, Logically found, with the U.S. and India the most common origin for posts that contained geographical data.

Many accusations involve mischaracterized or out-of-context images, like a photo of a Thai child's Halloween costume in 2022 and video from a decade-old protest in Egypt that have been presented as evidence that Palestinians are faking dead bodies. An Israeli government spokesperson posted a clip from a film set, writing "Pallywood gets busted again." (He later deleted the post after being fact-checked.)

One surge in online "Pallywood" references came on Oct. 13, the day Israel's official X account accused Hamas of trying to pass off a doll as a child killed in Gaza. The claim was picked up and echoed by other accounts, including several Israeli embassies.

But the accusation was false. The BBCfound and spoke to the family of the child — a four-year-old killed in an Israeli airstrike. Multiple photojournalists captured images of his body, wrapped in a white sheet. The @Israel X account has deleted its post about the child.

The episode showed that "even when the image is real, even when the context is real, people still approach it having so many existing biases that they can dismiss this evidence before their eyes," said Emerson Brooking of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab during a panel about disinformation in the war.

Israel baselessly accused of engineering "false flag" on Oct. 7

Crisis actor accusations have also been levied at Israelis. Social media posters and even some public figures have questioned whether Hamas really killed 1,200 people in Israel on Oct. 7, despite graphic images and survivors' stories. Some denialists baselessly claim the slaughter was a "false flag" planned by the Israeli government — another common conspiratorial trope, closely related to crisis actor accusations.

When CNN interviewed children whose parents were killed by Hamas, a TikTok user accused the network of "hir[ing] actors and photoshop[ping] grief." That video has been taken down.

A clip from the making of a short film, originally posted online last year, has been used by some to falsely claim Israelis are faking deaths, and by others that it shows Hamas staging a killing.

The flood of crisis actor claims in the current conflict may be a result of the sheer volume of imagery that is available online.

"I don't think we're meant to deal with this level of of traumatizing video," said Mike Caulfield, who studies the spread of viral rumors at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public.

Faced with that amount of footage, there's no question it can be hard to sort fact from fiction. Clips from video games and images from other conflicts are being misrepresented as showing Gaza or Israel. Some images have been revealed to be generated by artificial intelligence.

"One of the big themes of this war is just sort of a mass distrust of any images, real or not," said Jack Brewster of NewsGuard, which rates the reliability of online news sources.

But claiming civilian deaths are fake takes skepticism and turns it into justification, ISD's Ayad said.

"One of the toughest parts of a war is believing that your side has been involved in killing civilians," he said. "You will go to great lengths to try to downplay those casualties, because it does have an ability to reframe a lot of the reasons people go to war."

NPR's Fatima Al-Kassab and Linah Mohammad contributed to this report. contributed to this story

Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Shannon Bond is a business correspondent at NPR, covering technology and how Silicon Valley's biggest companies are transforming how we live, work and communicate.

What kind of domestic reaction did Erdogan's reconversion of Hagia Sophia receive?

What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

Erdogan's decision was influenced by Turkey's Islamic resurgence.

The decision aimed to rally anti-Kemalist voters.

Why did Erdogan restore Hagia Sophia as a mosque in 2020?

Because he wanted to end its 86-year museum status to return it to its original role as a mosque.

Internationally, the decision was strongly criticized by UNESCO, as Hagia Sophia holds a designation as a World Heritage Site; UNESCO stated that changes to the status of such sites require notification and sometimes permission from the organization.

What was UNESCO's main complaint about the reconversion?

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, other Christian leaders, and governments including Greece and the United States expressed regret and concern, emphasizing the site's historical significance to both Christians and Muslims.

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Father Patrick is a real hit on social media! In your Instagram, for example, he has over 3.9 million followers and is always sharing different posts with his fans. However, recently, the religious caused controversy by posting a shirtless photo.

In season, the image of the priest quickly reverberated on the internet and ended up on several news sites. However, he was also harshly criticized by some stricter believers. Because of that, Patrick chose to delete the publication.

“I think that photo that really gave me the real dimension of how much I’m known. I had posted shirtless photos before, except it was an account with two thousand followers on Instagram. And other priests post shirtless photos, it’s not taboo.”, he said, in a conversation with journalists Fernanda Talarico and Renata Nogueira, from Splash UOL.

Father Patrick explains that he decided to delete the photo without a shirt, after getting scared by the repercussion of the image. He also remembers that some assemblies were made, putting it as if he were in a swimsuit.

“It appeared that I was in swim trunks, but I was in shorts!”, guarantees Patrick, laughing. “I decided to go out in fright. After two days the Bishop texted me because they had sent him an edited version. And, of course it was montage, I don’t have that whole body. And he said affectionately: ‘don’t post a picture without a shirt, people think it’s bad’.”, explained the famous priest.

Good-humored, Patrick Fernandes guarantees that he will only post photos of this type again, when Jesus returns to the world. “I’ll post one two hours before, because by then I can already be enraptured and I won’t need to see anything else.”, he joked.

Father Patrick’s fame

Father Patrick started going viral on social media in the middle of the year, by posting controversial videos on Youtube talking about wearing bikinis and answering if tattoos were considered a sin.

To G1, the priest commented on the fame he gained in recent months and how he has been dealing with the repercussions of its contents.

“I started recording the funniest videos at the beginning of the pandemic. We were not celebrating mass with the people, the city was in lockdown and I wanted to talk to people who were from my parish. An account of 2,000 to 3,000 people, but I was realizing that precisely these videos with a funnier nature, with a joke, had a proportion. People like what’s no good, serious things didn’t spread at the same rate as the funniest videos”, he joked.

“Monday is garbage day, a day I only talk nonsense. From Tuesday onwards, we start to get more serious. We have to police ourselves because a little word out of context can offend. Today I feel much more stuck than in the beginning precisely because of the reach. I do much more with the intention of bringing lightness, of showing that faith can be associated with a light, happy life, with laughter. It’s not a heavy thing, a burden, it doesn’t attract people anymore”, he pointed out.

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Who was angered by the reconversion of Hagia Sophia in July 2020?

Many interpret the timing as a political move by Erdogan to galvanize nationalist and religious sentiment amid broader concerns over Turkey’s economy and his diminishing popularity.

What kind of domestic reaction did Erdogan's reconversion of Hagia Sophia receive?

Some analysts contend that the move was intended to distract from domestic issues by uniting conservative voters and diverting attention from economic struggles.

The decision heightened longstanding tensions between secularists, who value Turkey’s secular traditions, and religious conservatives, who saw this as reclaiming Islamic heritage.

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April 21, 2023 10:27 am

If We Accept Lies and Half-Truths, Society Will Not Function

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by Pini Dunner

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A Torah scroll. Photo: RabbiSacks.org.

Benjamin Franklin declared that “half the truth is often a great lie.” Mark Twain put it slightly differently: “A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.” And this, from Tennyson: “The lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”

Essentially, they were all saying the same thing — the lies that cause the most harm are the half-truths, which can ultimately cause far greater damage than outright lies.

A 2022 study issued by four academics at the University of Cincinnati — “The Half-Truth Effect and Its Implications for Sustainability” — identified what the authors referred to as the “half-truth effect.” Based on two carefully calibrated survey-based experiments, the study showed that people tend to believe a false claim more when it is preceded by a true claim, even if the claims are unrelated. On the other hand, when a false claim is presented before a true claim, it reduces belief in the entire statement.

Politicians are particularly bad when it comes to half-truths, and party affiliation is not a relevant factor — because they all do it. Two months ago, President Biden told an audience in Philadelphia that he had “created more new jobs in two years than any president did in their entire term.” But although it’s true that President Biden has recorded notable job gains in his presidential term so far, surpassing those of previous postwar presidents, the fact is that he took office just as the economy was recovering from a profound recession, which gave the job market a significant tailwind. So, a half-truth.

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Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the political spectrum, last week former vice president Mike Pence told an audience in Indianapolis that “liberals” emptied mental health hospitals in 1960s. He failed to mention that they didn’t act alone. Many fiscal conservatives, including several Republicans, were instrumental in shaping the key legislation that resulted in shutting down mental hospitals. Ronald Reagan, who served as both California’s governor and later as president, was particularly prominent; he signed landmark bills that left a significant impact. Another half-truth.

The Torah portions of Tazria and Metzora delve into an extinct condition known as “tzara’at,” which was characterized by discoloration of the skin, on clothes, or on the walls of a person’s home. The consequence of a positive diagnosis was quarantine outside community boundaries for someone with the skin discoloration tzara’at, or the destruction of clothes or a home that had been infected.

While not explicitly stated in the Torah, the Talmudic sages reveal that tzara’at was the consequence of wrongdoing on the part of the afflicted person. The Talmud (Arachin 16a), drawing on various Biblical sources, suggests different potential causes for tzara’at, with speaking ill of others behind their backs being the best-known cause.

The divergence of opinions regarding the cause of tzara’at suggests that by the time the sages of the Talmud were writing about it, the condition had either disappeared or become exceedingly rare, leading the sages to speculate on its causes. But the persistence of this idea that gossip and tittle-tattle were the main cause of tzara’at is intriguing, especially as the Talmud mentions six other potential causes.

The enigmatic nature of tzara’at leaves us grappling with uncertainties as we attempt to understand exactly what we are meant to learn from it. Why would God choose to punish individuals for a seemingly minor transgression such as engaging in gossip? The notion of quarantine and public humiliation is also puzzling. Why would isolation be the remedy? Why is the destruction of clothes and a person’s home the only solution?

The answer relates to the issue of half-truths vs. whole truths. I vividly recall a classroom discussion during my childhood, and although I can’t remember the exact topic, I do recollect our teacher posing the question, “What is your parents’ greatest source of pleasure?” My hand shot up. Smiling, I confidently responded, “Me, of course!”

But he had a follow-up question: “What’s your parents’ greatest source of pain?” I paused, briefly, and then I smiled again. “Me, of course!” I replied. And I wasn’t lying — although, to be fair, my siblings probably shared this distinction with me. Being the source of pleasure and pain was the whole truth; had I said that I was the source of just one or the other it would have been a half-truth that distorted the picture completely.

Many aspects of our lives are wonderful, but we are also all plagued by aspects that are distressing and disturbing. Curiously, if we analyze our lives and are brutally honest with ourselves, we might discover that it is often the same thing which causes joy that also causes us distress. Presented one way they are irredeemably negative, but presented in another they can be upliftingly positive. Our personal reality is complex, and life is complicated.

Modern psychology has come to the conclusion that depressed people aren’t lying when they say that there are things in their lives which are bad — it’s just that they fail to appreciate that there is good in their lives as well. And often, the good is in the very same aspects of their lives which they cast in the most negative light.

Society descends into dysfunction when one “truth” is chosen over another without considering the coexistence of multiple truths. This idea is exemplified by tzara’at and its treatment. Tzara’at was an affliction that befell those who refused to acknowledge that good and bad can coexist. They spoke ill of others, perhaps sharing a half-truth about them that cast their target in an entirely negative light without allowing the listener to consider the broader context.

Often, the greatest lie is the truth seen through a narrow lens. The gravest evil is the undermining of complex reality by cherry-picking truths to support or perpetuate a biased viewpoint. A person with tzara’at needs to be removed from society, so that they cannot destroy it, and the tzara’at itself must be destroyed, as a symbol of the destruction created by those who peddle half-truths.

The message of tzara’at is clear: half-truths wreak havoc. They erode the fabric of society, and those who perpetuate them must never be tolerated, or society will fall apart.

The author is a rabbi in Beverly Hills, California.

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What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

Erdogan's decision was influenced by Turkey's Islamic resurgence.

Observers noted that the reconversion is likely to deepen rifts between Turkey and Western countries, as well as the Orthodox Christian world, impacting diplomatic relations.

Who was angered by the reconversion of Hagia Sophia in July 2020?

Supporters of Erdogan argued that the decision restores a rightful place of worship for Muslims and is an expression of Turkish sovereignty.

How did Muslims and Orthodox Christians react to the reconversion?

What kind of domestic reaction did Erdogan's reconversion of Hagia Sophia receive?

What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

Erdogan's decision was influenced by Turkey's Islamic resurgence.

Why did Erdogan restore Hagia Sophia as a mosque in 2020?

Because he wanted to end its 86-year museum status to return it to its original role as a mosque.

However, detractors highlight the symbolic loss for pluralism and religious coexistence represented by Hagia Sophia’s role as a museum open to all faiths and nationalities for nearly a century.

No--In 1934, Ataturk turned it into a museum, making it a major tourist attraction and secular symbol in Turkey.

In 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the reconversion of the Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque.

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The author of the cartoon Oleg Kuvaev is skeptical about the claim.
YouTube has removed the last episode of Oleg Kuvakva ’ s animated series “Masyanya ” due to a complaint of one of the users on copyright infringement.
This was reported by the author of the series on social networks.
Administrators got rid of the video on Saturday, July 23, two weeks after publication.
As it turned out, the claim came from user Igor Sobolev, who claims that the view of the facade of St. Isaac ’ s Cathedral used in the series is copied from his photo.
Kuvaev does not agree with this logic - in his defense, he noted that the image was depicted frontally, that is, could coincide with any other photo from a similar angle.
The author of the animated series considers the claim absurd and does not understand why his work was deleted, and not temporarily blocked.
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No--In 1934, Ataturk turned it into a museum, making it a major tourist attraction and secular symbol in Turkey.

Why did Erdogan restore Hagia Sophia as a mosque in 2020?

Because he wanted to end its 86-year museum status to return it to its original role as a mosque.

This decision reversed a 1934 decree that had turned Hagia Sophia into a museum, a move that was seen as a symbol of secularism in modern Turkey.

No--In 1934, Ataturk turned it into a museum, making it a major tourist attraction and secular symbol in Turkey.

Why did Erdogan restore Hagia Sophia as a mosque in 2020?

Because he wanted to end its 86-year museum status to return it to its original role as a mosque.

The change triggered widespread controversy in both religious and political circles, given Hagia Sophia's unique history as a Byzantine cathedral, an Ottoman mosque, and later a secular museum.

No--In 1934, Ataturk turned it into a museum, making it a major tourist attraction and secular symbol in Turkey.

Critics argue the decision carries heavy religious undertones, signaling a return to Ottoman-Islamic identity and reflecting Erdogan’s support for political Islam.

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According to the press service of the Prosecutor General ’ s Office, details that Sanan Akhmedov voiced in the second video distributed on social media are also being comprehensively investigated.
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We ask media representatives and users of social networks not to spread unspecified information in connection with this sensitive topic, "the Prosecutor General's Office said.

What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

Erdogan's decision was influenced by Turkey's Islamic resurgence.

This development has been interpreted as a political move by Erdogan to solidify support among his conservative and nationalist base amid declining popularity and economic challenges.

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a private channel, without an interpreter in a nutshell, what is the swedish ambassador talking about?
That it is necessary to prepare heating points in each house, since there may be no light for a week or two.
A little later, it is replicated by all TG channels.
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I strongly suspect that the location of powerful transformers is well known since Soviet times.
do not deceive yourself, look at any energo invest programs, how money is sawed and what it is sawed at.
it has already been built and moved 100,500 times, but the accuracy of the missiles is surprising.
without an asshole with a fungus for the ZhPS clearly did not do.
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It is possible, mobile zv 'yazok in Ukraine isnuvatime in the mode of point criticism, that will be the "island" with the zv' yazkom and teritory without zv 'yazku, - the president of "Kyivstar"
"And this is the time for the application of Kiev, if you include the cities of the great city of life, and through the city of year knows the mobile and fixed names, but this does not mean that Kiev is without a name, that is ivvidnoshennya pratsyuyuchyh i nepratsyuyuchyh saytiv itself, yak i vsіy Ukraіnі — close to 30%.
Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Poltava, ” said Oleksandr Komarov.
In this case, there is a sum that can be known for a long time in all Ukraine.
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"HERSON: CURRENT CHANGE OF THE POLICE, THE DESTINATIONS OF THE CABINETS, AND THE HEROICISM OF THE PEOPLE."
This is the end of the conversation 10.11.2022 with Sergey NIKITENKO - journalist, public figure, friend of Kateryna Gandzyuk, editor of the Kherson site "MOST": https: / / most.ks.ua
- about I. Bakanov, and "demining of Chongar"
- about the police and the "kidnapped" mayor of Kherson I. Kolykhayev
- about war crimes in Kherson
"Drummers from the AllatRa and Stremousov SECTA, who knew a lot.
ABOUT KHERSON from S.NIKITENKO ":
- where did Stremousov, political career and the work of the future Gauleiter for the siloviki
- about the role of Ilya Kiva
- about the traitors from the SBU Sadokhin and Kulinich, about the connection with A. Derkach
part1: https: / / youtu.be / 5Tcw7FzeZP8
The White Brotherhood 2.
The Allat Sisters. "
Tatyana Zarovnaya:
I tell you about the modern version of the White Brotherhood, which is called "AllatRa" and was invented in the same bowels of the KGB-SBU of Donetsk.
The news that the Minister of Defense of Ukraine may become a fan of the neo-religion "AllatRa" made this topic super-relevant.
The Ministry to Irina Vereshchuk, that is true, only pro-Russian sources predict.
"Claimant" comments on rumors, giving wishful thinking.
So what is this new religion?
In short, the occult current, the creators of which preach Putinism.
"Allatra" has religious literature in the form of a multivolume authorship group of unknown comrades under the pseudonym "Anastasia Novykh".
And V. Putin himself - his biography, his appearance - is described in one of the books of the series, which is called "Crossroads" - literally with passport accuracy.
“Novykh ’ s works ” have no artistic value, but they carry a powerful propaganda charge.
Russia is represented in this fiction as the spiritual center of the earth.
Putin is described as already living among people the Savior of mankind named Nomo – not just the leader of Russia, but the incarnate Jesus Christ himself.
In Kiev, this neo-religion is represented by 53-year-old massage therapist Igor Danilov, who moved from Makeevka, and has many sympathizers in the “DNR ”.
He impersonates the Archangel Gabriel, the revived St. Agapit of Pechersk and Rigden Djappo - the lord of the fabulous Shambhala, the magician and wizard.
Has an office in a rented room on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
And shows tricks - animates dead chickens, reads thoughts, goes to the astral.
Makeevskiy "archangel" lives in a suburb of Kiev, in the house of a pshonka-style with 12 concubines (Allat sisters), and about once a week... extracts the vital energy of allat with the help of... group sex.
Danilov declared one of them an annunnaka-reptilian.
The approximate call themselves geliars and orgies allegedly prevent climatic disasters.
So, friends, it is thanks to the joys of the Makeyevsky masseur Kiev bypassed by earthquakes and tsunamis.
I mean, who would believe this nonsense?
But, firstly, Igor Danilov works under the roof of the ROC - in direct and figurative senses - under the wing of the rector of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Pavel, who personally advertised the sect.
part 2: https: / / youtu.be / OopYVj5-rGk
"AllatRa, or White Brotherhood 2.
Long-term anti-Ukrainian strategy. "
“I am far from thinking that the Russian Federation at least once will allow us to join NATO, ” said MP I. Vereshchuk in the fall of 2019.
And in the books that Allatra distributes, it is said about NATO that this is a whip of “sotons ”.
And another detail that I forgot to mention in this video - in December 2013, then the mayor of Rava-Russkaya Vereshchuk gave an interview to the Russian "Ogonyok", where she admitted: "If we had such a Putin, I would vote for him.
He ’ s doing good for Russia. ”
So, friends, Irina sympathizes with the neo-religion "Allatra", whose chief has an office in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, and on whose channels in YouTube you can see videos with rituals in the cemetery, there is a video with elements of light porn, and a video where Danilov tells adepts that they need to try to get the hair of popular people along with bulbs.
As if obscurantism is off the scale, and the position of the UOC-KP on AllatRa was voiced back in 2017: it is a quasi-religion with elements of occultism, which contradicts Orthodoxy.
But the “highlight ” of“ Allatra ” is that the creators of the sect have been preparing for the “materialization of sensual ideas ” (similar to the movie Formula of Love) for years, and before coming out of the underground described themselves in their books.
So not only Putin, but also the leader of "AllatRa" was for many years earlier presented in the waste paper authorship of "Anastasia Novykh" as a kind of ninja special forces named "Sensei", who has superpowers - because he is the Holy Spirit himself, Agapit Pechersky, Rigden Djappo and Archangel Gabriel.
The AllatRa Brotherhood is actively involved in politics and the affairs of the state, although this contradicts the Constitution.
For example, one of the politicians recommended by sectarians is N. Savchenko, a regular guest of the AllatRa TV studio.
Nadia recently shared her impressions of the “International Conference“ Creative Society ”.
She talked about aliens and how to introduce the Allatra program into the legislation.
And Allatra is far from harmless: while fans are urged to spread pro-Russian propaganda and harmful myths – for example, that the rulers of countries with Western values are maniacs.
And in the second stage, the guys are going to actively interfere in the affairs of the state.
So far, the work is taking place at the level of recruiting new members, but the next stage is the achievement of political influence.
The doctrine of Allatra coincides entirely with the geopolitical tasks of modern Russia: the unification of the Slavic peoples into a single state, the destruction of America under the flag of a holy war with the spiritless West.
Note: Ukraine in the book “Crossroads ”, first published back in 2005, is presented as part of Russia, Ukrainian politicians are priests of the striped star devil who want to tear Ukrainians away from their spiritual center – Moscow, while Chekists, Kgbists and FSB officers are just an example of spirituality and honesty, and the best of them is“ Nomo ” (aka V. Putin).).
If we take a closer look at the common features of AllatRa and the White Brotherhood, we study the chronology of the emergence of the two sects, parallels.This is important to understand how long and systematically the creators of AllatRa have been working, implementing a long-term anti-Ukrainian strategy with the participation of the KGB.
Preparing to show the world the "incarnation" of the Archangel in the face of the masseur, the current henchmen of Agapita-Gavrila collected signatures for the demolition of Archangel Michael in the center of Kiev and his replacement with Gabriel.
And if the sectarians succeeded, they could be even better prepared for the “revival of the stone statue ” in the person of the“ Archangel ” Danilov.
In the winter of 2013-2014, the future “reptilian ” Zhanna Khveschuk and her colleague Andrei Mikhalchuk (the elite of the sect) pushed anti-Maidan theses.
And Agapit-Gavrila himself came out of the underground in 2014 - "materialized" to inspire adepts that without Russia Ukraine - khan.
Under the guise of building a society in which there will be self-government, the guys actually all lead to the fact that the masseur Danilov will rule the new world order with the Chekist Putin.
zombies "woke up to fight the servants of Satan...
More about Kherson from those who know:
"What is Kherson becoming easy zdobychyu orkiv?
The first Russian Gauleiter from Avakovim "
Radio Svoboda (TV project Crim.Reality) by the journalist Igor Tokar.
We will discuss the life of the pupils of Kirila Stremousova and Volodymyr Saldo.
And we have a vision, which was the role of the local police, with which the agents of the FSB Strremousov and Saldo sprang up the results of the war.
Next year 2014 measures V. Saldo will organize the referendum for the KhNR, and K. Stremousov will stand for the "Russian world".
Stremousov was the organizer of the "Russian Studies", and became a representative of the Socialist Party and the head of the Illi Kivi region.
Vin threatened Kateryna Gandzyuk, on which there was an acid attack.
Also, after the fall on Gandzyuk, the leader of socialistiv Kіva liv brud na zhіnku.
In the past, Kyva joined the party of the Kuma of the OPZZH route.
Who paid for your site at the list – pitannya vіdkrite, ale vіdomo, sho Kyva nіkoli not becoming a political, yakbi not kolychni mіnіstr MBC Avakov.
Kіva buv yogo radnikom, otrimav vіd mynіstra zbroyu.Pіd dahom MBC Kіva vtoryv pіdrozdіl, sho diyav yak private zagіn.
Handziuk fought with the structures of Arsen Avakov.
Vona bula is not less active, and th pratsivnytsya mіskvikonkom.
On the Facebook page there was a photo with the letter "Ментам смоктати".
Dakhom at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Katya explained the carnless days of the Maybut Gauleiter Stremousov.
Yakos Vin attacked the head of the man and stripped his coat.
On the back of the car vlashtovuv biki.
"Right at the session, beating the legs of Politseysky, and no one for that was not bulo," K. Gandzyuk said.
Spyvrobitniki pravookhoronnyh organіv not mali zapitany to Stremousova, hocha mer Volodymyr Mykolayenko wrote the application to polіції.
Spring 2018 р.
Stremoussiv organized an attack on the SBU spyvrobitnikіv and tried the zhalnitsy tryman on the administrative cordon with Krim "Deputy of the European Parliament".
"With the sum of the constatuemo, there is a presence of the independent coordination of the law enforcement bodies, which should be brought before the head of the Russian" fifth column "in the areas that are close to Krim.
It ’ s cool to be in Kyiv at social services when active diy prikordonnoyu service and the SBU at “zero ”.
And to ensure the presence of politseysku diyalnist and the provision of trymanyh in Kherson - not so cool.
Special “contribution ” to the Kherson Militia and the National Guard ”, – wrote the representative of the President of Ukraine in Crimea Boris Babin.
Ale attack on the convoy of the leader of Kirill Stremousov from the hands.
Handziuk called the kerіvnitstvo Kherson polіції in uncontrolled distribution of traumatic disease fake magazines, and on the right titushkam.
The head of the Department of Economic Development of the National Policy in the Kherson region Artyom Antoshchuk was also apologised.
The fear that the Russian Federation can invade Kherson from the side of the anexovanogo pivostrova, has been caused from the first day by the Crim of Independence in the Dnieper water.
Kateryna Gandzyuk spoke about this post (they doused with silicic acid 31 December 2018 year, and won died from 4 December 2018 year)...
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in july, we recorded a fall in GDP by 4.3% in annual terms, in june - by 5%, in may - by 4.5%, in april - by 2.7%, growth by 1.4% in march, by 4.2% - in february and 5.7% - in january.
According to the Ministry, the decline in GDP of the Russian Federation in the 3rd quarter of 2022 amounted to 4.4% in annual terms after a decline of 4.1% in the 2nd quarter and growth of 3.5% in the 1st quarter.
The decrease in GDP of the Russian Federation for January-September 2022, the Ministry of Economic Development estimated at 2%.
The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation predicts a decline in GDP of the Russian Federation in 2022 by 2.9%, a decrease in 2023 by 0.8% and an increase of 2.6% in 2024 and 2025.
At the same time, the forecasts of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on the dynamics of the Russian economy for 2022-2025 are more conservative than the expectations of the Russian government.
Last week, the Bank of Russia improved its forecast for Russia ’ s GDP decline in 2022 to 3-3.5% from 4-6% in the previous July forecast.
At the same time, in the 4th quarter of 2022, the Central Bank expects a decline in the economy by 6.4-7.8% in annual terms.
https: / / www.epravda.com.ua / eng / news / 2022 / 11 / 3 / 693428 /
The World Bank has released a new economic outlook for Europe and Central Asia for the next three years.
Analysts have improved the forecast for Russia ’ s GDP for 2022: the decline will be, but by 4.5%, and not by 8.9%, as predicted earlier.
In 2024, the Russian economy should move to growth.
The economy of Ukraine, whose GDP this year will collapse by 35%, will begin to grow from 2023, but growth “will remain weak ”.
https: / / www.gazeta.ru / business / 2022 / 10 / 04 / 15575173.shtml? updated
The situation in the Russian economy is developing better than expected, and the decline in GDP in 2022 will not exceed 3.3%, said the head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin.
Their forecasts have improved and specialized agencies: according to the Ministry of Economic Development, the decline in GDP this year will be 2.9%, the Central Bank says about minus 3-3.5%
The fall in Russia ’ s GDP in 2022 will not exceed 3.3%, Chairman of the Accounts Chamber (JV) Alexei Kudrin said in an interview with RT, acknowledging that the situation in the country ’ s economy is developing better than originally expected.
“The unprecedented sanctions regime that was imposed on Russia, of course, affects our economy, and it was originally predicted that GDP would fall by more than 7%.
However, now I think the fall will be only about 2.9-3.3%, ” he said.
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He noted that part of the burden of reducing GDP will pass to 2023, when the economy can contract by another 0.8%.
And he did not rule out “more complex scenarios ”, taking into account possible restrictions on the sale of Russian oil and the ceiling on energy prices.
According to him, after two years of recession, the Russian economy will need two or three years to return to pre-crisis indicators, "if no new difficult events occur."
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Last week, the Bank of Russia improved its forecast for Russia ’ s GDP decline in 2022 to 3-3.5% from 4-6% in the previous July forecast.
https: / / www.epravda.com.ua / eng / news / 2022 / 11 / 3 / 693428 /
The World Bank has released a new economic outlook for Europe and Central Asia for the next three years.
Analysts have improved the forecast for Russia ’ s GDP for 2022: the decline will be, but by 4.5%, and not by 8.9%, as predicted earlier.
In 2024, the Russian economy should move to growth.
The economy of Ukraine, whose GDP this year will collapse by 35%, will begin to grow from 2023, but growth “will remain weak ”.
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The situation in the Russian economy is developing better than expected, and the decline in GDP in 2022 will not exceed 3.3%, said the head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin.
Their forecasts have improved and specialized agencies: according to the Ministry of Economic Development, the decline in GDP this year will be 2.9%, the Central Bank says about minus 3-3.5%
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What kind of domestic reaction did Erdogan's reconversion of Hagia Sophia receive?

What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

The decision aimed to rally anti-Kemalist voters.

Many in the international community, including UNESCO and the World Council of Churches, criticized the move because Hagia Sophia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site recognized for its universal cultural and religious significance.

Western governments and religious leaders, particularly in Greece and Eastern Orthodox circles, expressed concern that the move could deepen religious divisions and undermine Turkey’s image as a secular state.

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The rector of the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in Taiwan, Priest Kirill Shkarbul, has been engaged in missionary work on the islands of the Pacific Ocean for many years.
In previous years, he worked on the conversion to Orthodoxy of residents of Taiwan, the Philippines, East Timor, Papua New Guinea.
Recently, Father Cyril made a new missionary journey to an exotic land - to the Mariana Islands, where he preached to the locals.
In an interview with “Izvestia ” he told about his impressions received during his stay in the distant archipelago.
How did you get to the Mariana Islands?
To begin with, since the planet was quarantined, our ability to get anywhere with a missionary mission has been severely limited.
It became difficult to maintain communication even with the missions that we had established in previous years — in Papua New Guinea, in East Timor.
We are now forced to maintain, mainly, remote communication with them, from time to time it is possible to send some humanitarian supplies.
Photo courtesy of Father Kirill Shkarbul
I now pay a lot of attention to the development of missionary YouTube channels, where I talk about the Orthodox faith — videos are published in Russian, English and Chinese.
In May of this year, a new outbreak of COVID-19 began in Taiwan.
For the first time, a serious lockdown was introduced on the island - so severe that we were forbidden even to go to the temple, not that to conduct services and courses on Orthodoxy.
It all went online.
Then I remembered that there was a region where I was often invited to develop the Orthodox mission.
This is Oceania, and in particular the Mariana Islands — there is the approval of the Church to develop a mission in those parts of the Pacific region where there is nothing Orthodox yet.
Thus, the lockdown in Taiwan unexpectedly made it possible to make a new missionary journey.
As a result, I managed to visit the Mariana Islands and communicate with representatives of the local Chamorro people.
Before, I knew little about this archipelago, but during my trip there I managed to get acquainted with it closer.
— It seems that the history of the discovery of this archipelago was quite sad?
Europeans first arrived on these islands four hundred years ago, on March 6, 1521.
And they were the sailors of the world ’ s first round-the-world expedition.
According to the results of communication with the Chamorro, the head of the expedition Fernando Magellan gave the archipelago the unhonorable name Las Islas de los Ladrones ("Islands of Thieves") - the aborigines, climbing the ships, dragged from there everything that lay bad.
Much later, in 1668, the islands were named Mariana, after Mariana of Austria, widow of King Philip IV of Spain.
The Spaniards declared the archipelago their colony, but the Chamorros did not want to submit.
The war of conquest began, which lasted for many decades.
During this war, the Chamorros were almost completely exterminated - at one time their number decreased from the previous 100 thousand to just 3 thousand people.
In general, now the thoroughbred Chamorros are almost gone.
The islands are now inhabited by mestizos, leading their pedigrees from Chamorro marriages with peoples who came from other islands of Oceania, as well as with Filipinos, Japanese, Spaniards, Germans.
Who owns the islands now?
The Spanish lost the archipelago at the end of the century.
They lost the southern part of it as a result of the losing war with the Americans, and the northern part was bought from them by Germany.
After World War I, the League of Nations placed Mariana under Japanese control.
When a new world war broke out, the archipelago became the scene of fierce fighting.
The Americans took possession of the islands in 1944, it was from here that planes took off that dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
After the war, the United Nations instructed the United States to continue to administer these territories.
Since 1978, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam have officially become “unincorporated organized territories of the United States ”, and eight years later, the Marians have received the status of US citizens.
The population of the islands, according to the latest census data, is decreasing - in 2010 it was 213,241 people.
The inhabited islands are Guam, Saipan, Tinian and Rota.
In fact, I visited them.
There are still many smaller islands in the archipelago, but due to volcanic activity, no one lives there on a permanent basis.
What do you remember most about your stay in the archipelago?
The first people appeared there two thousand years before the birth of Christ.
And the descendants of those aborigines, despite the increasing Europeanization, still managed to save much from the culture of their ancestors.
As for religion, they are mostly Catholics.
However, for many, Catholicism is purely formal, with extensive pagan inclusions.
I have encountered something similar before in the Philippines and East Timor, where people who call themselves Catholics continue to practice purely pagan rites, such as spirit worship, magic, and divination.
It seems that they go to a Catholic church, but there is no special sense...
Photo courtesy of Father Kirill Shkarbul
To be honest, I had to make a lot of effort to convey to them that Orthodoxy is not the same as Catholicism.
“What new can you tell us?
I read the Bible without you. ”
Before them, unfortunately, Christianity came in a very “dried ” form, and therefore could not supplant paganism, deeply rooted in their worldview and way of life.
The former preachers tried not so much to light the flock with the flame of faith as to entertain it.
Therefore, it turned out that many Marians only in the words of Catholic Christians, but in fact - polytheists animists (believe that each object has its own soul).
And how exactly did you preach?
I began missionary work with the Marians by distributing leaflets specially printed in English.
Immediately there was a question with mobility, as without a car it is difficult to work there.
As a result, I began to practice detour of villages and talk with their inhabitants.
The task was complicated by the fact that, unlike many other Pacific and Asian peoples, the Marians prefer not to gather in large groups.
They are by nature individualists, all on cars, do not experience much interest in visitors.
I want to emphasize that missionary work is first and foremost work on oneself.
You must clearly understand what the Good News you bring to the natives is.
He is obliged to burn himself with this faith in the Living Gospel, in the Apostolic Church, which has not lost its direct connection with Christ.
And those people in the Mariana Islands who, with my modest participation, converted to Orthodoxy, discovered something incredibly important in it.
We saw in Orthodoxy a new hope, an indestructible spiritual core.
After all, now — especially in the era of the pandemic — people are more eager than ever to find a reliable spiritual guide.
What impression did you have of the aborigines?
The Chamorros have always been a small but independent people with high self-esteem, and their modern descendants have inherited this quality.
At the same time, they are not belligerent, not arrogant, they are characterized by a naive-optimistic attitude to the world.
But, of course, they are much more educated than the Papuans I visited two years ago.
Despite the fact that Americanization is gradually doing its job, modern Chamorros still strongly felt such clannishness, which I have not yet seen anywhere else.
Photo courtesy of Father Kirill Shkarbul
Although Guam is home to about 160,000 people (of which only about a third are Chamorros), people identify each other by belonging to a particular clan and many are able to name the names of their ancestors, who lived two hundred and sometimes four hundred years ago, during the era of the arrival of Spanish colonists on the islands.
And people there are often judged not by personal qualities, but by family ties - from which clan you are, who your father, grandfather, uncle, and so on.
They have their own interesting mythology, epic tales, passed down from generation to generation.
What is the policy of the United States towards the population of the Mariana Islands?
In general, they have already managed to Americanize them, deprive the cultural and social elite and tear them away from their national roots.
True, in recent years, programs for the revival of the Chamorro language and culture have been implemented, but often they are of a bootleg nature.
Marian traditions and customs for American businessmen are just another potential tourist attraction, a way of earning.
In fact, the Chamorros are trying to deprive them of the cultural code.
However, the younger generation of natives is beginning to realize this, and therefore they are trying to revive their culture.
But the forces are initially unequal.
On one side is all the power of Hollywood, American show business, modern mass culture, and on the other is a relatively small community of Marians trying to find and revive their ancestral heritage.
Moreover, there are even fewer people in the archipelago who claim to call themselves “Chamorro ” than Filipinos living here.
How do you assess the results of the trip?
During my stay on the islands, I had a lot of conversations about faith — in homes, on the streets, on the beaches, in parks.
Told the Marians about Orthodoxy, and many managed to interest.
The foundation for the future development of the mission, it seems to me, is left good.
A great help was the fact that a small number of our Orthodox compatriots lived on Marians before my arrival, however, they were very divided.
There was no single Orthodox community as such.
When news spread among them that an Orthodox priest had come to the islands for some time, the co-religionists began to look for me (and I - them) to meet.
Photo courtesy of Father Kirill Shkarbul
I think that I managed to somehow unite these people, and their small communities can become the basis for the development of a further mission among those who do not yet belong to Orthodoxy.
Now there are centers of attraction — a circle of believers where people can pray and communicate together.
I hope that in the future these small islands will grow.
I must say that I was greatly helped by an Orthodox family living on the island of Saipan, they even conduct divine services in a secular order.
We are now holding regular online catechesis classes with them and with other volunteers, including converts.
That they may be engaged in the preaching work and that those who already wish to be baptized receive the necessary training to do so.
— Did you leave any visible traces of your stay in the Mariana Islands?
- Yes, on the way to the islands, it occurred to me that it would be nice to install Orthodox worship crosses on some of the islands of the archipelago, in order to thereby express our praise to the Lord and hope for the development and strengthening of Orthodoxy in these parts.
It turned out that the same desire had matured for many years in one of the Orthodox men living on Saipan.
The installation of worship crosses should also serve to further develop the mission and attract greater interest of local residents in the true Christian doctrine.
In addition, this inspired our believers living here, because they still do not have a temple, nor the opportunity to regularly attend Orthodox worship.
After obtaining permission from the local authorities, the initiative was covered by the local media, and its preparation and implementation took about four months.
In November, our volunteer Vladislav installed worship crosses on two island-volcanoes – Anatahan and Pagan.
Crosses with commemorative plaques were erected in accordance with all Orthodox canons, they are clearly visible from afar: both from the sea and from the land.
The Lord blessed to have time to carry out this first part of the project already this year, in November, despite the fact that the shipping season is already closed.
By God ’ s grace, the sea was still surprisingly calm.
This allowed a group of volunteers, having overcome a considerable distance, to swim to both islands and install crosses.
What are your further plans?
In the near future, it is planned to install a symbolic cross also on the northernmost island of the Mariana archipelago - Farallion de Pajaros.
There was hardly a human foot here...
In addition, if the Lord blesses, Orthodox crosses will be erected on some other islands of the archipelago.
But it is extremely important, of course, that a priest be sent to Mariana for the care of the Orthodox and, possibly, other missionaries.
I hope that in the foreseeable future it will be possible to build churches or chapels there for regular divine services.
I hope that I will be there again with a mission when this opportunity arises, because it is necessary to continue the work begun.
In my humble opinion, the Mariana Islands could become a convenient base for the development of an Orthodox mission throughout the Pacific region.
But, of course, the revival and development of the preaching of Orthodoxy here requires both prayerful and financial support from everyone for whom the Lord ’ s call “Go, teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! ” is important.
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The controversy around recent events is heightened by figures like Nashat Majd al-Noor, who claims to be “sent from heaven” and promotes “enlightenment” to a growing group of followers on social media.

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How did Arab religious leaders respond?
Dar al-Fatwa in Lebanon filed a complaint with the Lebanese Public Prosecution against a person named Nashat Munther, also known as Nashat Majd al-Nour, who claims to be a prophet of God.
Who is the glory of light born?
The name “Nashat Majd al-Noor ” has been popping up on social media for weeks.
Images of a man in a traditional Arab costume with a tattoo on his forehead, holding what looked like a scepter in his hand, calling himself the "Prophet Nashat the Glory of Light" began to recur.
Nashat claims to be "sent from heaven" and calls for "enlightenment", as well as those he says are his followers.
A “message ” that arose, among many things, is based on the call to follow a vegetarian diet.
The name originated as "yoga teacher and meditation" and "sage of enlightenment" "spreading the spiritual rule of the key to enlightenment" and announced a series of episodes on YouTube accompanied by well-known Lebanese astronomer Carmen Chammas.
Then he turned from contemplation to “Prophecy ” and instead of a“ wise teacher ” he began to call himself a “prophet. ”
Carmen Chammas was the first to announce a “prophecy ” that grew up in a clip in which he sat next to her congratulating the Lebanese for“ the presence of a messenger from heaven to help humans and the earth from the beloved land of Lebanon. ”
What are the charges against Munther?
Munther is not the first person to claim prophecy, and the act itself is not the reason for legally following him.
This may explain why religious and law enforcement authorities in Lebanon “ignored ” Munther ’ s initial claim.
However, with the frequency of his publications and statements and his involvement in debates on social media sites, and the expansion of the matter inside and outside Lebanon, the authorities have become the basis for the charges of “racism, incitement to conflict, and denigration of religious rites, ” which the complainants brought against Nashat Munther.
The National Media Agency, the official news agency in Lebanon, said that the complaint filed by the secretary of the fatwa under the guidance of Grand Mufti Abdellatif Drian, calls on the discriminatory public prosecution to “take the necessary legal action against Nashat Munther and anyone shown by the investigation, in accordance with the provisions of articles 317 and 474 of the Penal Code. ”
Article 317 states:
"Every act, every writing and every speech which is intended or results in inciting sectarian or racial strife or inciting conflict between sects and the various elements of the nation shall be punished by imprisonment of one to three years and a fine of one hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand liras..."
Article 474 provides that:
"Anyone who, by any of the methods provided for in article 209, denigrates or incites contempt for a religious practice practised in public shall be sentenced to six months to three years' imprisonment."
ridicule and condemnation.
On Facebook and Twitter, numerous pages bearing the name “Prophet Nashat Majd al-Nur ” and pages for“ his followers, ” and it is difficult to distinguish between the seriousness of ridicule in what is published on these pages and in the responses to the posts therein.
But Neshat not only wrote to spread his “message, ” but also appeared repeatedly in videos on social media, sometimes accompanied by Carmen Chammas and sometimes alone.
At the beginning of the spread of his name and videos through social networking sites, Nashat in his uniform and stick was a source of ridicule in Lebanon and abroad, especially in Egypt.
The Prophet Nashat, in turn, devoted much of his time and his “prophecies ” to the Egyptians and threatened them to see the impact of their mockery of him in their country and the tremors and anger that will be witnessed.
It turned into a debate of insults, insults and racism.
Commentators on the matter have expressed sympathy with Nashat Munther, considering what he is saying a sign of "psychological disorder".
The controversy then went beyond social media pages to newspapers and media screens.
In Egypt, professors at Al-Azhar University, including Mabrouk Attiya, commented on the claim that “the claim of prophecy is a settled issue and that most of those who follow what is published by the claim of prophecy originated their goal of entertainment and spending time. ”
Mohamed Salem Abu al-Assi, former dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Al-Azhar University, said: "I grew up free to claim what he wants, but he has to come up with proof and his miracle if he is honest."
Some commentators have accused Munther of madness and charlatanism and some have said that the repetition of such calls is a sign of the hour.
Carmen Deacon: From Astrology to Evangelism
Much of the controversy surrounding Nashat and his claim to prophethood came from the astrologer Carmen Chammas, who reacted angrily to her cynics, especially from the Lebanese.
“Astronomer ” Carmen Chammas has a million followers on her YouTube channel and her verified Facebook page has 116,000 followers, 127,000 on Twitter and nearly 13,000 on Instagram.
Lebanese and Arabs have known her through her horoscope forecasts since the end of the 1990s and her annual books on the towers are highly sold.
Carmen, a deacon and a warner, must have grown up on the large number of followers and believers in her ability to astrology and the believers of her prophecies in spreading what they describe as the new heavenly message.
But Carmen Shammas ’ bet, as it appears from the interaction with Neshat ’ s claim of prophecy, was a mistake and her history of convincing people of her ability to see the future in this attempt.
Some commentators are not surprised by what Carmen Shammas is doing and consider it a natural result of the popularity, space and even credibility given to her, as she has been making predictions about the future of events in New Year's programs for many years.
There have been many hypotheses as to why Carmen Chammas "sacrificed her reputation and prestige" among those who say she is suffering from a psychological crisis, those who suspect she is being blackmailed and those who believe she is doing it to make money from YouTube.
But Carmen said in her response to the sarcasm that she was aware of what she was saying and that this is what she sees, whose vision is the vision of the knower.

Initial reactions to Nashat in Lebanon and abroad, especially in Egypt, were largely mocking, due to his unusual uniform and stick.

Mohamed Salem Abu al-Assi, former dean at Al-Azhar University, commented that Nashat is free to make claims, but must produce proof or a miracle to be believed.

Commentators have accused proponents like Munther of madness, charlatanism, or viewed such claims as signs of the “hour.”
Other personalities, such as Carmen, reportedly have a large following convinced of her astrological abilities and her claims of conveying a new “heavenly message.”
The Grand Mufti of the Republic has stated that extremist ideologues are enemies of the homeland.

President Sisi has taken upon himself the task of renewing religious discourse, calling it "the duty of time."

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The Grand Mufti of the Republic: Extremist ideologues are the enemies of the homeland.
We appreciate any “constructive criticism ” (dialogue)
President Sisi takes it upon himself to renew the religious discourse because it is “the duty of time ”
The Fatwa House is not “politicized ” and is strongly determined to confront extremist groups
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Dr. Shawky Allam, Mufti of the Republic, said that the Egyptian Fatwa House offers a rich religious and cultural meal and a package of legitimate services that facilitate communication between the mufti and the mufti during the holy month of Ramadan, while continuing the five-year plan that is being implemented to enhance communication with the public by opening four or five new branches each year in the governorates.
The Grand Mufti of the Republic, in his dialogue with the « Constitution », stressed that the renewal of religious discourse and fatwas is the duty of time and an imperative necessity, so President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi bears upon himself this file, pointing out that the House launched the animated unit to respond to extremist fatwas in a simplified manner, with the work to issue a monthly report, under the name « Fatwa Trend », Stirring up rumors and distorting facts.
He stressed that the Fatwa House is not "politicized", does not take instructions from anyone, and is not subject to any dictates, but the public interest is part of the work of the Mufti, so the House does not pay attention to the abusive comments received on social networking sites, which stand behind the enemies of the homeland from the owners of extremist Brotherhood thought, but, in turn, interested in constructive criticism, and substantive proposals.
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What are the details of Dar Al Ifta ’ s plan to work in the holy month of Ramadan?
In the holy month of Ramadan, we invite the masses of Muslims to seize the days of this holy month in self-reform, behavior, and constructive work, and to be sincere in the intention of God in all their deeds and obedience, in accordance with the saying of God Almighty: "Say that my prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death to God, the Lord of the worlds, has no partner."
During the month of Ramadan, we have a package of sharia services that facilitate communication between the mufti and the respondent, some of which are provided through the various departments of the house directly, and some of which we provide through the official accounts of the house through social networking sites, as part of the keenness to provide an intensive faith meal during the holy month that helps the Muslim to obey and offer him various forms of obedience and worship.
We at Dar Al Iftaa are continuing our five-year plan, which is being implemented successively, and aims primarily to strengthen communication channels with the public, and facilitate obtaining the correct fatwa from the specialized fatwa trustees in Dar Al Iftaa, and other Sharia services.
We have already signed a cooperation protocol to establish a branch of Dar al-Ifta in Gharbia Governorate, and we have opened a new branch in Beni Suef Governorate, at the Faculty of Navigation Science and Space Technology at Beni Suef University, as well as a cooperation protocol to establish a new branch in Matrouh, in addition to coordinating the opening of two other branches in North Sinai and Sohag governorates.
What files are you working on at the moment?
Building awareness and confronting extremism is a matter of constant concern to us, and therefore we are strongly determined to confront extremist groups that sow discord and threaten intellectual and social peace and security by flooding social media pages with a flood of sound information that corrects misconceptions.
As part of this, we work through the Dar al-Ifta page on the social networking site « Facebook », which is the beginning of this purpose, and through which we work to correct the concepts through fatwas, and through the daily live broadcast on the page, for an hour from Sunday to Thursday.
In addition, we hold fatwa councils in the major mosques in the provinces, in cooperation with the Ministry of Awqaf, and launched the animation unit to respond to extremist fatwas in a simplified way that reaches everyone, to push the extremist ideology and refute it, and do not leave a vacuum that can be filled by extremist groups that are not competent; because the vacuum must be filled, even if not filled with right is full of falsehood.
■ The phenomenon of "trendsetters" of the owners of video clips through social networking sites has become of great interest recently..
How do you deal with that?
- We are currently developing a new activity to confront this phenomenon, under the name of « Fatwa Trend », which will be a monthly report, issued by the House, after monitoring the most influential issues during the month, and then presented in the form of a detailed report containing the correct judgments, in addition to presenting studies and research that will help explain these « trends » scientifically convincing.
And « Fatwas Trend » aims to publish certain content between people, whether social, political or religious, in order to provoke rumors and distort the facts, so we monitor what is moving on the ground and what people interact with and what concerns them, since the beginning of the new century, field wars and armed confrontations are declining, and replaced by electronic wars, and wars of the fourth and fifth generations, up to what is currently called « “Trends ”, which has become a market of public opinion, through fatwas and topics, and what it raises comments and responses and then responses to responses.
■ Increasing your interest in social networking sites, up to the launch of a special account for the house on the site « TikTok », which provoked the ridicule of some..
So why was that?
During the previous period, the Egyptian Dar al-Ifta had efforts and presence in all social media, without exception, the most important of which is Facebook with 18 pages, in more than one language.
The interest in these sites comes within the framework of direct communication with young people, to build awareness and correct concepts, and maintain the stability of societies and the national state, and we always seek to find a place for us on all social media, so we created that account after monitoring a number of fatwas and ideas anomalous through this application.
Therefore, Dar al-Ifta was the first religious institution to enter the application « TikTok », because it wanted to build a policy of dumping useful content and correct information and speech and everything that benefits people.
We, as I said, see the need to intensify the presence on social networking sites, because of the impact and features, including the speed of spread, and the intensity of youth use of the sites, and the fact that it represents the new modern method of communication, so it was necessary to communicate through them, and the delivery of religious information easily.
Your pages are facing violent attacks and abusive comments.
How do you deal with her?
- Undoubtedly, there are some comments and abusive interactions that stand behind the enemies of the homeland from the owners of extremist Brotherhood thought and others, and we have clarified all their suspicions in many fatwas and publications, such as political Islamism and others, but nevertheless there is another type of interactions, which is the largest share of attention and care, and they are constructive criticism, because we appreciate any proposals or constructive criticism based on methodology and awareness Directed to the house.
Some in his comments accuse the house of being politicized.
So how do you see that?
- Dar Ifta is not "politicized" in the sense intended by people, and does not take instructions from anyone, and is not subject to any dictates, but the public interest is part of the work of the mufti when he considers the issues presented to him, may need state organs or courts to give Dar Ifta legitimate opinion on a particular issue, and answer them.
We talk when it is related to the legal aspect, and after asking people about the matter, so when we talk we do our duty, and we must refer to the people of specialization in all fields, which we do in the fatwa, it is a work that needs skill and training and craftsmanship and professionalism especially; we value the public interest and the need of society and put it on the private interest, as an approach in the fatwa procedures.
■ The official page of the official spokesman of the Presidency of the Republic published a friendly picture that gathered you with President Sisi..
What are the details of this picture?
- This picture was after the performance of Friday prayers, with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of the Republic, at the mosque « Marshal Tantawi » in the fifth assembly, in conjunction with the anniversary of « Martyr Day », and a friendly conversation between us showed the extent of President Sisi's keenness to build the awareness of Egyptians and correct false religious concepts and renew the religious discourse.
This is not the first time I met with Mr. President, I met him with a number of fatwa scholars, on the sidelines of the Sixth International Conference of the Egyptian House of Ifta, and we discussed a number of different issues, including the renewal of religious discourse, and the preservation of the identity of the nation and its constants.
President Sisi always calls for a disciplined religious renewal, and since he assumed his duties, he carries on his shoulders the issue of renewing religious discourse, and cares about the need to show this religion in its civilized dress, while maintaining the constants, taking into account the changes, and starting with the legal text with his accurate understanding to the changing reality through which the disciplined mind can address the issues of the times.
What are the most important topics that come to the House for an opinion?
- The house receives about 4 thousand to 5 thousand requests for fatwa on divorce, most of which are faith and oath of divorce, of which one in a thousand falls, and perhaps nothing.
Dealing with divorce cases is done in an organized and disciplined manner, going through three stages; it starts with dealing with the secretary of the fatwa, if it is not possible to resolve the fatwa trustees, there is a doubt in the divorce, referred to me personally, and I may host the parties of the divorce in my office to make sure of divorce or to find a solution, and this is a way to preserve the family, which is the nucleus of society.
Therefore, in recent years, we have launched several specialized courses and programs in order to strengthen the family structure, such as the “Rehabilitation of those who are planning to marry ” program, which aims to raise awareness of those who are planning to marry, as well as the establishment of a specialized unit for family counseling, to which problems are referred from the various fatwa departments, as well as the Department of Family Dispute Resolution.
Society and political leadership are very interested in renewing religious discourse.
What is your assessment of what has been done in this file so far?
The renewal of the religious discourse and the fatwa is a duty of time and an imperative necessity, and the great interest in renewing it stems from the belief that it is the most capable and effective discourse to guide and modify the behavioral and moral paths in the Arab and Islamic societies.
The House, published through its page on social networking sites, messages to citizens, especially young people, in video clips, two minutes, to facilitate the followers, it is necessary to address the world and people to the extent of their minds, sitting with the simple and public has a language and terms, and sitting with men of science has other terms, in order to communicate the correct understanding of religion, which leads to reconstruction and remove the dust raised by some extremist ideas.

Dar Al Ifta (Fatwa House) insists it is not politicized, acts independently, and is determined to confront extremist groups by enhancing public communication and planning to open new branches annually.

Innovations like the Animation Unit have been launched by Dar Al Ifta to make countering extremist fatwas more accessible.

Questions have arisen regarding Dar Al Ifta’s plans during Ramadan and its methods of dealing with religious issues.

Dar Ifta maintains that while it does not follow directives from others, it sometimes collaborates with state bodies or courts when their opinions are needed for public interest.

There is ongoing evaluation of progress in religious consultation and communication.

Controversy also extends to social media figures such as "the junkie reader," who defends his family name use as his natural right following public criticism.

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Content: The junkie reader defends himself after a controversy: My family is known worldwide
The reader denied the friend of the junkie owner of the video, who knew the media video « The junkie reader », if he was stopped or taken any action against him, and « but it is possible that there is media confusion, because I use my family name full name is the friend of Ibrahim Bassiouni junkie ».
I use my name and surname in publications, which is something I am honored with, and not as they claim, “How does he remain a reader and a junkie? ”
The Mahfazy and Quran Reading Syndicate spoke to me today and gave me an appointment on December 18, and they may have summoned me because of what was circulated in the media and social media sites.
A friend commented saying the syndicate ’ s decision saying: The syndicate ’ s reaction is normal and it has the right to call members for advice and guidance, and it may be my call for clarification, but I don ’ t know the real reason.
A friend pointed out that what happened because of his family name, which is "the Hashash", saying: The Hashash family is a large and well-known family at the level of all the villages and governorates of Egypt and also globally, and does not refer to anything corrupt.
A friend commented, “Let ’ s catch the fall and the shot, and it ’ s better to take things to the root than to argue and take it for something that ’ s not good.
He added: I said "junkie when he is awake" and here I meant my name not drugs, and my name has nothing to do with deviations.
“I used my family name and this is my legitimate and natural right.
He explained: We should not take things in the way of deviation, commenting on the decision to cancel his membership by saying: Is it me when I use my name that I committed a crime?.
The friend of Ibrahim Al-Hashash, sparked a wide controversy through social networking sites after posting a comment on one of the videos reciting verses from the Holy Quran during a mourning event.
A friend posted a video of him on his Facebook account saying: "The junkie when he is awake, you live with him the sweetest minutes, you remember the Hereafter and you fear the horror of it.
Lord, give me your mercy. ”
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False allegations have been spread against Sheikh Issa by “the Brotherhood” via video clips.

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Content: Archive / Saudi News
"The Brotherhood" slandered Sheikh Issa with a video clip
RIYADH - There is no doubt that the Muslim Brotherhood is behind the spread of rumors and lies against the moderate approach of Islam, which enjoys moderation and tolerance.
Therefore, it is not new for this group to continue its practices of slandering His Excellency the Secretary of the Muslim World League Sheikh Mohammed Al-Issa and publish through the new media a video showing Sheikh Al-Issa ringing the bell at an international conference in Indonesia.
The group and its supporters from terrorist and extremist groups commented on the video, which was circulated through various social media platforms, that Sheikh Al-Issa announces the ringing of the bell in the Christian church to call for the unification of religions under the name of "The Brahimi religion".
But the truth is that this was done at the opening of the Southeast Asian Youth Forum in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on the theme of the role of youth in representing the tolerance of Islam and spreading peace on the 5th of Rajab in 1441 AH, where the ringing of the bell or drum is a cultural tradition in Asia used in the opening of important conferences and celebrations.
It is noteworthy that the Brotherhood has worked and is still working to weave lies to serve its agendas based on misinformation, and the use of electronic media platforms to spread these rumors, in order to spread chaos in the Arab and Islamic world, and to undermine influential Islamic figures who call for moderation and dialogue with the other.
Since assuming the post of Secretary of the Muslim World League, Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Al-Issa has sought to modify many concepts among non-Muslims, based on the message of Islam, which is based on peace, tolerance and dialogue with the other, and the principle of coexistence, through his active participation in international conferences around the world, where these misconceptions have been enshrined for decades by some groups that are sadly affiliated with Islam.
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Media scandals, such as those involving the “My Heart Is Reassured” program using Syrian Civil Defense rescue footage, have drawn criticism for their handling of content from regime-controlled and liberated areas in Syria.

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Content: Saturday, April 8, 2023
The Ghaith scandal and the program "My heart is reassured" in Syria..
What does the White Helmets have to do with it?
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The scandal of Ghaith and the program “My heart is reassured ” in Syria..
What does the White Helmets have to do with it?
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“My Heart Reassure ” program visits and uses clips from the Syrian Civil Defense during its rescue of those trapped under the rubble in the liberated north as they are in the areas of the Syrian regime
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The Emirati media called “Ghaith ” in his program“ My Heart is content ” used to record episodes from the areas controlled by the Syrian regime, which were hit by the earthquake without approaching the areas of the countryside of Idlib, which paid the most expensive price due to the earthquake, which hit large areas and killed and displaced millions.
“My heart is reassured ”, the Assad regime and the UAE ’ s goal
“My Heart is Reassuring ” is a reality show on TV and on social media.
It is a social experience in which the young Emirati “Ghaith ” travels to several countries around the world to help those in need.
But some saw that this project was intended to cover up the reality of the UAE and show it a benevolent appearance in the Arab street, similar to the campaign called “Knight the Magnificent 2 ” for relief of earthquake victims but in areas controlled by the regime, and reached them farce to allocate tables in areas controlled by the regime, where people do not fast and do not pray, according to activists.
In a new scandal for the UAE, the program “My Heart Reassure ”, which did not reassure the hearts of the earthquake victims outside the control of the Assad regime for one time, used videos of the“ White Helmets ” in Idlib carrying out rescue operations, and showed them to be in the areas of the regime and attributed to the regime of Bashar.
In one episode of “My Heart is Reassuring ” from regime-held areas, a pro-regime supporter appeared talking about the loss of his wife and children who were buried under the rubble by the earthquake that hit parts of the Syrian coast.
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The man managed to reach the place where his wife was found and hired paramedics, but they could not reach her because of the collapsed concrete columns, and there was only an opening.
It was noted that the program in this story presents rescue clips of the White Helmets team opposed to the Syrian regime, as a rescue operation inside the areas controlled by the regime.
Suspicious role of the UAE
The responses and comments of the pioneers of the sites varied communication about the program “My heart is reassured ” and its suspicious role, where the media commented“ Qutaiba Al-Yasin ”: “There is nothing that the UAE does good, nothing at all. ”
“Everything you do carries evil, even the program of my heart assures me that absolutely everything deliberately falsifies the truth except a demon. ”
“You show the White Helmets as being from the Assad regime, what is all this evil, how can you be so bad? ”
“Fadi ” believes that the program“ My heart is reassured ” is dedicated to polishing the sons of Zayed. ”
He added: “An episode was filmed in Syria in Latakia within the areas controlled by the Assad regime around those affected by the earthquake, so here is fine, that is their business, but in the clip clips are stolen and used from the Syrian Civil Defense during its rescue of those trapped under the rubble in the liberated north. ”
Another said the UAE had not sent a single date or pill to northern Syria, which is outside the control of the Assad regime.
The UAE does not support Syrian civil defense in the north, let alone any organization or institution there.
The program also focuses its support on Egypt and Sudan, which are ruled by the military, where the UAE supported counter-revolutions in Arab countries, stood against the wishes of the people for change, and supports the forces of retired Libyan Major General Khalifa Haftar to control the capital Tripoli, the headquarters of the internationally recognized legitimate Government of National Accord.
“As the UAE presents itself as a beacon of tolerance in the region, the data reveals a much uglier reality that shows contempt for human rights principles, ” Human Rights Watch said in its ongoing accentuation of abuses such as torture, enforced disappearances, and unfair trials.
Khalid Al-Ahmad
- Writer and journalist born in Homs 1966, published in many Arab magazines and newspapers since 1983. She studied at the Sharia Scientific Institute and then at the Sharia High School in Homs. She worked as a correspondent for the Arab newspaper Al-Itidal, which is published in the United States of America. Most of the Syrian newspapers and magazines, and after moving to Jordan, I followed two press and radio courses for the community media network and a course for the Doha Center for Media Freedom in Amman and completed dozens of radio reports in Radio Al-Balad and Amman Net.
I have been working as a collaborator with Zaman Al Wasl on behalf of Fares Al Rifai since 2013. I have interests in writing about social issues, heritage, phenomena and various artistic topics. I have many printed books, including: (The Seduction of Questions – Confrontations in Thought, Life and Creativity), "Habits and Beliefs from Homs Governorate - Syrian Book Organization in Damascus 2011, and (Pictures of Bedouin Social Life), 2008. And (landmarks and flags from Homs) about Taha House for Printing and Publishing in Homs 2010.
- Many of the manuscript books, including: (Obads and cultural creations from Syria) and (The time of writing - The time of listening - dialogues in thought, life and creativity) - printed electronically on the site "e-book" and (professions and industries heritage from Homs) and (Strange hand, face and tongue - pictures of the popular heritage in Homs) and (Famous scholars of Homs in the second and thirteenth centuries AH).
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Attempts to renew and restore shrines have sparked debate, with some advocating for modernization to enhance Egypt’s standing in religious tourism and others emphasizing the need for appropriate expert involvement.

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Content: Chairman of the Board of Directors and Editors
I'm sorry.
Mohamad Elbaz
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Editors
I'm sorry.
Mohamad Elbaz
The castle, the sea and Mrs. Nafisa
I rubbed my eyes several times while watching a video of a tweet from an Arab country on a historical topic.
The subject of the video was about a dangerous archaeological assumption, which is that Mount Sinai is located outside Sinai!
Especially in a mountain range in Saudi Arabia!
At first, I didn ’ t feel that tight.
and if I asked myself & lt; & lt; what brought the castle by the sea? & gt; & gt;
In the famous way of Muhammad Sa'ad.
I did a quick search and found that it was based on the individual diligence of a scientist who said this strange opinion and many did not pay attention to it.
But the activity of this young singer drew my attention to something inside of us more than about others.
And that is that there are those who seek to reduce what we have, and it is very, very much.
And that whoever does this may be an Egyptian by nationality, but certainly not an Egyptian by belonging and closest to health is that he is an Egyptian traitor.
Others recruited him to destroy his country and lose his people ’ s self-confidence.
It goes without saying that the Torah, the Quran and the Gospel are what told us that Moses (peace be upon him) saved his Lord in Sinai, and that his people lived there for forty years, and it goes without saying that the Mount of Transfiguration is one of the most important religious shrines in Egypt, and that President Sisi ordered the development of the region tourist to become a global tourist destination.. Why?
Because there is a great tourism competition that will be witnessed in the coming years and among the axes of religious tourism..
This competition, which does not spoil the friendliness of the issue, will happen by chance with a number of brotherly countries in the Middle East such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar and other countries.
As a result of its years of inactivity, Egypt only ranked third in the number of tourists in the region after the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Egypt has announced that it aims to double the number of tourists and reach 30 million tourists within five years.
This is a legitimate ambition and less than a country that has one-sixth of the world ’ s monuments and has beaches on Bahrain and combines the climate of Asia with the climate of Africa.
Etc..
What does the electronic commissions of traitors have to do with all this?
The relationship is very close.
Take a project such as the development of the shrines of the House..
It ’ s a simple project, but it ’ s a great one.
First, it sweeps the dust of half a century of imposing Wahhabism on Egypt and generalizing the culture of criminalizing the visit of the family of the house and expiation and innovation - from the heresy - who performs it for other spiritual shrines and another understanding of the religion - has all the respect away from us - then it deepens the cultural heritage of Egypt. This is how God wanted him.
The revival of the shrines of Al-Bayt means that Egypt should be for Muslims with all their sects, diversity, teams and sects, because we welcome visitors without interfering in their relationship with their Lord exactly as we do not like anyone to interfere in our relationship with our Lord.
The renewal of these shrines would raise the value of Egypt in the Muslim world more than it is high, and would revive religious tourism.
In addition to the 15 million who come to visit the beaches and Pharaonic monuments, a million, two or three may come to visit the shrines of Al Bayt.
Certainly this increases Egypt's income and opportunities in tourism competition and harasses the committees of traitors and those who pay them, and here shows the genius of the traitor in distortion through small details depending on the lack of specialization of people..
For example, if you renovated the mosque of Sayyeda Nafisa using wood, he said that it would have been better to use marble.
If you used marble, he said it was better to use stone.
If the mosque was decorated using Andalusian inscriptions, he said it was better to resort to the Ottoman style.
If you used the Ottoman style, he said that the Ottomans were invaders!
How can we salute them?
Thus, according to the system « Doukhini Ya Lemona » based on the lack of specialization of the ordinary citizen and his tendency to malice in any government entity because he considers the government responsible for all his problems and crises, and that ridiculing what it does and minimizing it is « the least duty » can be done in the face of provoking some ministers and their inability to communicate with the people..
In fact, everything that the committees of the fugitives said about the mosque of Mrs. Nafisa is pure nonsense and lies paid for by parties disturbed by the revival of religious tourism in Egypt.
Mosques are generally a moral entity, not monuments.
God wants us to build it, not rebuild it.
At the time of the mission, Al-Haram Al-Sharif was a group of rooms in Al-Jareed overlooking its ground plate of dirt where people pray no more than several meters..
Does it make sense to keep it as it is?
Of course not...
The rooms have been demolished and the mosque expanded dozens of times over fourteen centuries, and this applies to other large and great mosques, but the ignorant do not know.
The Chinese proverb says it doesn ’ t matter what color a cat is, whether it ’ s white or black.
It is important to eat rats.
Likewise, I say that I do not care about the method of renewing the shrines of the House as long as it is carried out by specialists..
The important thing is to renew, develop, illuminate, shine, flourish and bring millions of visitors from all over the Islamic world.
And whoever bothers him should go to hell.

There is concern about the “soft war” targeting Husseini councils, which play a unique role in respecting people from all social backgrounds and providing for the poor and rich alike.

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Content: ARTICLES
The soft war on the Husseini councils
Abdul Rahman the owner.
Not so long ago wars were face-to-face, someone attacked another person or country on another country, then things changed a little and minds developed, so the enemy learned not to enter directly into the arena of war, but to use other people with influence and power in the fighting country, but development did not stop there, but we find ourselves today in front of soft war.
Joseph Nye defined soft power as “the ability to get what you want by gravity rather than by force; soft power means manipulating and gaining points at the expense of the agenda of others, without showing the fingerprints of this manipulation, and at the same time preventing others from expressing their own agenda, preferences and perceptions, relations of attraction, expulsion, hatred, envy and admiration. ”
People may not have known this term until recently, but in fact it has existed since ancient times when God commanded Satan to worship our Prophet Adam (peace be upon him) and refused to do so: “Look at me until the day they are resurrected. ”
God answered and gave him the opportunity to the end of life and the day they were resurrected, for you are one of those who see * until the day of the appointed time. "
Then Iblis said to him, "My Lord, when you have tempted me to adorn them in the land, and to seduce them all, except your servants from among them who are sincere."
Satan knew that he is a symbol of corruption and perversion, without having direct control over humans in a material way, he works by seduction, obsessive and corruption by loving lusts, adornment and doubting things, he does not take direct military action but whispers to man in a soft and indirect way, but does not do so with all people, but with those whom God knows by saying: It is in their hearts that they are afflicted and their hearts hardened, and the wrong-doers are in a distant cleavage.
Therefore, one must learn the lines of life perfectly in order to know how to solve the equations in this difficult test. The soft war on the surface raises the slogans of truth, but it is only a beautiful vessel filled with dangerous poison. We find these vessels today adorn the Husayni councils abundantly because only the name of Hussein (peace be upon him) shakes the entity of the oppressors and frightens the sultans. This powerful force has been destroyed in every way to destroy it.
In the beginning, Yazid fought Imam Hussein (peace be upon him) face to face, and then fought the Umayyads and Abbasids going to visit Hussein (peace be upon him) and link with him, but today ’ s war is not only a war against the visit, but it is a war of councils and spending money in this way after Muharram, where it is said what is the benefit of these Husseiniyat is only ten days or two months a year.
Before Muharram it is said that these funds must be spent for orphans and the poor, but they do not know that they are in front of a great temptation, as the Commander of the Faithful Ali (peace be upon him) said: "If the truth is saved from the cloak of falsehood, the tongues of the recalcitrant will cease from it, but from this pressure and from this pressure is a mixture, and they mix."
If we look in the east and west of the earth, we find no place or authority that respects the small and the large alike, except these Husseiniyas, and we do not find a table on which the poor and the rich sit, except the table of the councils of Hussein (peace be upon him).
These Husseini councils are the reason for the survival of the Islamic religion because they teach people in the name of Hussein (peace be upon him), we are not talking here about thieves who dressed in the clothes of religion, and took it as a cover and a means to achieve their worldly goals known, they are few and do not put the red line on everyone because of the ignorance, but we should know that Hussein university teaches everyone and Hussain shelter for every poor and rich.
These Husseiniyat became a shelter for the displaced when no one cared about them, and human rights associations did not know anything about them because they were not included in the list of humanity at that time and until today.
The ministers and deputies did not care about them because they were busy with the affairs of the country!!!
The rich did not care about them because they were enjoying their travels in neighboring countries, so with the Husseiniyas and councils, and we ask some of those who talk about the affairs of the poor, do they see themselves what has been offered to the poor and the needy?.
Today ’ s war is a soft war that manipulates minds without leaving fingerprints, so let ’ s learn the rules of this war perfectly according to the important rule, if you want to win and avoid defeat know your enemy well.
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The controversy over Turkish President Erdogan's 2020 reconversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque has elicited significant criticism both domestically and internationally.

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Content: "Extinction Blade" fans protest, dissatisfied with the unique perspective of happiness science education interpretation of the original meaning
Author: Nagahama Sleeping
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The book is coming to an end, and the name of the author, Goge, is actually related to the “Happiness Science Society ”, a new“ religious group ” in Japan!
It turned out that the leader of the group, Takeshi Ogawa, had earlier interpreted the meaning behind the writing of "Ghost Extinction" in January from the perspective of "Guardianship of the Spirit". A group of ghost extinction fans felt that the love book was being pumped up and hyped up, and they staged a demonstration outside the group's Tokyo venue!
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How was it interpreted so that fans took to the streets to protest?
The "Happiness Science Church" is the most controversial new religious group in Japan in recent years. Why did fans of "Ghost Extinction" protest outside the church? Originally, with the leader of the church, Takufumi Ogawa filmed a video about the author of "Ghost Extinction", Goto Tao.
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The science of happiness is much more controversial.
“Happiness Science ” has not been established for a long time, but it has attracted many celebrities and rich people to become believers, and there has been a lot of news.
For example, Miko Chi-kai, who has performed "Kamen Superman Frouze" and "Housewife Sanda Garden" (formerly known as: Shimizu Fumika), is a former manager company by the power of the church after entering education, and is now a direct artiste of happiness science.
Later, Japanese gossip magazines continued to find more celebrities who believed in the "happiness science education".
She is known for her roles in "Kamen Superman Frouze" and "Housekeeper Mita Garden", and is a well-known follower of the Happiness Science Society.
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Questioned by experts from many countries, the leaders of China and the United States have also been "killed".
The "Science of Happiness" has also been criticized by religious experts in many countries, including the high cost of preaching the first Takahiro Ogawa. Rick Ross, a well-known anti-cult expert in the United States, has criticized Takahiro Ogawa and his team for living a life of extravagance.
The leader of Daichuan often "spontaneously" for some ways called "guarding the spirit", making videos, e-books, and explaining the personalities and motivations of some celebrities. Even China's top leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden (see below) have been published by Daichuan Longfa.
This time it was he who made the video called "Guardians of the Spirit" (the video has been removed), pumping water to anger the fans.
Online Laughter: Poisoning the Poisoning
However, the jailer who launched this demonstration was also a strange man, he opposed vaccination, often cosplay into a column to participate in various demonstrations, and also tried to be arrested by the Japanese police.
It is no wonder that some netizens laughed and said that this "ghost extermination" demonstration was "using poison to attack poison".
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How did Muslims and Orthodox Christians react to the reconversion?

No--In 1934, Ataturk turned it into a museum, making it a major tourist attraction and secular symbol in Turkey.

Who was angered by the reconversion of Hagia Sophia in July 2020?

Why did Erdogan restore Hagia Sophia as a mosque in 2020?

Because he wanted to end its 86-year museum status to return it to its original role as a mosque.

Many critics argue that the decision carried strong religious undertones, as it underscored a shift away from Turkey's foundational secular principles toward an Islamist identity.

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Content: Freedom Square "Exorcism" Religious Exorcism
◎ Liu Weiting
A few days ago, it was reported that a case of life occurred in a religious group in Taichung, which was suspected to have been caused by the act of “exorcism ” on behalf of believers, resulting in severe bruising on the body of the deceased and triggering a huge wave.
It was found that the owner of the house was the founder of a religious group suspected of abetting cadres to kill female believers four years ago. He called himself “Virgin ” and“ Master ”. The old case is still under trial, but new incidents have broken out, causing people to panic, and the neighbors are very afraid of this.
The group is a legal society approved by the People's Organization Law in 2015, and has adapted popular songs on audio-visual platforms to promote good works. One of the aims of the group is to "enlighten people on the five virtues of benevolence, conscience, conscience, good ability, and good behavior."
Taiwan is a place of religious pluralism and freedom of belief, and the Constitution protects people's freedom of religious belief, which is a characteristic of a democratic country.
However, the general public has limited understanding of religion and culture, and the lack of complete basic religious knowledge in school education reflects that intellectuals have long rejected the concept of religion and scientific rationality, ignoring the importance of spiritual reform, leading to people facing various emerging religious phenomena and insufficient judgment, resulting in religious regrets.
The government should take precautions and use the results of academic research on religion to educate the public.
According to the study of emerging religions by religious sociologists, they are different from traditional religions, which are both traditional and new, emphasizing the influence of personal sacred color (i.e. charisma) on believers, and often create miracles in order to establish norms.
Take this news event as an example, the church master often severely "discipline" those believers who do not agree or want to leave the group. It is said that believers are invaded by demons and must be "exorcised by means of knowledge", that is, instigated cadres to beat the believers to achieve the effect of exorcism.
In Eastern and Western religions, exorcism is supported by a theological foundation, which is by no means simple. On the contrary, this kind of behavior has violated social norms, not to mention religion is not only concerned with moral ethics, but also pays more attention to the practical level of practice, the unity of knowledge and action, and becomes a true religious person.
The author calls on the relevant government departments to first and foremost carefully assess the process of filing religious groups, conduct field visits, and formulate religious regulations, whether it is the "Religious Groups Law" or the "Religious Basic Law" and other regulations.
Secondly, pay attention to religious education, including the cultivation of research energy or the preparation of relevant teaching materials, through the Internet and the media to deepen people ’ s understanding of religion to a certain extent, and reduce the consequences of being deceived and deceived, so that they will not be led by problematic religious groups.
(The author is a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and an adjunct assistant professor at the university)
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What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

Erdogan's decision was influenced by Turkey's Islamic resurgence.

Religious minorities and secular citizens within Turkey expressed concern that this move marginalized non-Muslim communities and undermined the inclusive secularism established by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

Erdogan's decision was influenced by Turkey's Islamic resurgence.

Who was angered by the reconversion of Hagia Sophia in July 2020?

The reconversion reversed the 1934 decree that designated Hagia Sophia as a museum, a symbol of reconciliation and shared heritage among faiths and cultures.

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Sunday topic: Maple Yip is not just a victim, she is a whistleblower
(Ming Pao News) Netflix has released its latest documentary, “In the Name of God: The Betrayal of Faith, ” which features eight episodes of four brainwashing religions accused of crimes in South Korea, with the first three episodes focusing on JSC being the most discussed by Hong Kong viewers.
Cheng Ming-shih fled to Hong Kong and northeast China after being wanted by the South Korean government for several decades, while continuing to recruit local believers, which sparked media reports at the time.
Recently attracted the attention of the public, is the real name of the film accused of sexual assault of the protagonist Ye Xuan is recognized as the girlfriend of Hong Kong actor Fang Lishen, which attracted the entertainment version of questioning, Fang Lishen also confirmed this, and called on the public to watch the relevant documentary.
For a while, many eye-catching reports appeared in the public opinion space, and the words were very exaggerated: "hard on 97 minutes" "lewd recording outflow" "3 years of rape 17 times" "Fang Lishen parents do not mind"... The relevant content and details, the media, the social platform, after a few high-sounding disclaimers, the public continues to feed their own voyeurism.
But I would rather talk about the shenanigans.
I watched a documentary on this year ’ s Women ’ s Day.
The custody dispute has existed for many years, and Zheng Mingxia has also served a prison sentence. I originally thought that, like many Netflix documentaries on crime, it was a retrospective of the case that began to return after the dust of the case had settled; I did not expect that the case was still in progress, and even the moment that the documentary was on display was shocking.
The Courage of Real Accusations
In the portrayal of mass communication, Ye Xuan is the victim of brainwashing; under the vivid peeping lust, unsightly description, she is even regarded by some as the sexual property of the church master.
But almost everyone, when discussing this case, overlooked a point, from the beginning of the film appeared Ye Xuan, with great courage and motivation, and even the key whistleblower of the entire film.
At a time when the Church ’ s power is still very strong, Ye Xuan was determined to quietly leave the control of the Church in Hong Kong and secretly go to Korea to meet with the production team and accuse the Church Master, who has been followed, monitored and warned.
She initially failed twice because the church was watching her, and her actions were a key factor that could lead to the pastor ’ s imprisonment.
But she tried again and again, and even recorded her suicide note during filming.
In the film, she also bravely released a recording of her crying conversation after she was sexually assaulted, and some of the evil words are now used by some to mock her.
She recalls her horrific experiences in the church and cries out uncontrollably, then she wipes her tears and continues to calmly describe it to the camera.
Ye Xuan is almost the only person in the entire documentary to accuse Zheng Mingxia as a sexual assault victim. (Later, another Australian victim also made a sexual assault allegation under her real name.)
People who have paid a little attention to metoo, serial sexual assault allegations and other cases know how crucial it is for a real name victim to testify.
Last year's American film "She Said", adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winner's novel, tells the story of two journalists after discovering that Hollywood's top producer Weinstein is suspected of sexual assault, how difficult it is to find the victims and find the victims who are willing to make a name for themselves, a key breakthrough.
This type of witness faces the most risk, bears the most stigma, and the unknown is the most difficult to predict.
The only thing that can be predicted is the overwhelming public opinion smear.
She wants to be famous, she has been played by people, she is very serious, is to be difficult to hear hundreds of times, vie for Ye Xuan, from Ye Xuan's home Hong Kong compatriots.
One interviewee in the documentary, commenting on the atrocities that Zheng Yu and China continue to hurt women, shook his head and said, Imagine how angry we would be if a cult leader from their country came to Korea to hurt our women!
Not to shy away from admitting to being a perpetrator.
Another interesting thing about Ye Xuan is that she does not shy away from and bravely admits that she has played the role of perpetrator.
After being sexually assaulted, brainwashed, and put on a high position, she also led other ignorant women to the bed of the master, just as she had been brought by older women, in such a structure, this kind of thing is very common.
“The identity of the perpetrator and the victim has become blurred, ” as the interviewees in the documentary describe it.
And this structure, we have seen in many highly totalitarian societies, victimization and victim diversion, overlap, and even occur at the same time.
This later became an argument for some netizens attacking her.
It takes courage to fight against your own perpetrators, and it takes another kind of courage to face your own harm to others.
Some people are even willing to choose to believe a certain set of logic and beliefs because they cannot face their own mistakes.
And Ye Xuan when talking about the women she has hurt, face up to their mistakes, frankly very sorry, this may even require greater courage than resistance, which requires honesty.
Disgusted women in both directions.
However, whether it is the courage to resist or the courage to be honest, it is not the focus of local public opinion in Hong Kong.
In an international case, a Hong Kong sexual assault victim appeared, and the public did not care about her original face and talked about the details of her assault.
Public opinion emphasized who her girlfriend was, asked her boyfriend's feelings, and was surprised to pass the news that "my mother-in-law did not mind".
At the same time that women are ashamed of being victims, public opinion presents a double direction in his boyfriend: some people praise his support as “inclusive and don ’ t mind ”, and some people make fun of him, saying that he is using the old things of the Lord.
These two attitudes are behind misogyny: think that the whole person of a woman, her body, sex (including before knowing him), is the property of her male partner, her virginity is related to the male dignity, if others "use" is a great loss and shame, such a woman is flawed and needs to be "forgiven".
Think that the man has no backbone and think that the man is magnanimous, although the attitude is different, but in general, is the default of his female partner, regardless of those sexual acts that have occurred in the circumstances around him, are "dirty."
It is necessary to recognize the power of Fang Li-shen ’ s “he for she ” standing by his girlfriend in the face of predictable stigma.
But there is no need for both of them to discuss what Fang Lishen does not mind, Fang Lishen does not mind - Fang Lishen also has a lot of well-known controversial past emotions, why no one to ask Ye Xuan and Ye parents do not mind?
God can't stop her.
But in general, I still hope that when the Hong Kong society discusses Ye Xuan, it can not mention so many Fang Li-shen.
I hope that Hong Kong society can remember her name in the future, brave individual, 28-year-old Hong Kong student Ye Xuan, David against the Colombian style, with a single force against the huge group of women, not just "Fang Li-shen's girlfriend".
And mentioning the name "Ye Xuan", I was impressed by the picture, is in South Korea to attend the press conference of the accusation, she is highly nervous and gastrointestinal attack, need urgent treatment.
On the way to the meeting place, Ye Xuan continued to vomit severely.
Ask them, or they won ’ t go this time.
And this woman, who had joined the brainwashing congregation in the name of God, lay her head on the side of the car window and gritted her teeth and said, “God can ’ t stop me. ”
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No--In 1934, Ataturk turned it into a museum, making it a major tourist attraction and secular symbol in Turkey.

Why did Erdogan restore Hagia Sophia as a mosque in 2020?

Because he wanted to end its 86-year museum status to return it to its original role as a mosque.

UNESCO, which recognized the Hagia Sophia as a World Heritage Site, warned that such a dramatic change in status could impact its universal value and emphasized that any alterations require international consultation and consensus.

What was UNESCO's main complaint about the reconversion?

Some international leaders, especially from the Christian world such as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the Pope, voiced deep regret, stating the move could increase religious tensions and erode interfaith dialogue.

Who was angered by the reconversion of Hagia Sophia in July 2020?

Observers noted that the transformation was seen by many as a political strategy by Erdogan to consolidate support from his conservative and nationalist base ahead of domestic elections.

What kind of domestic reaction did Erdogan's reconversion of Hagia Sophia receive?

What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

The decision aimed to rally anti-Kemalist voters.

Opponents within Turkey accused Erdogan of using the Hagia Sophia’s status as a means to galvanize his supporters in the context of declining approval ratings and economic challenges.

Analysts highlight that the reconversion appealed to historical grievances and nationalistic pride, resonating with segments of the population who viewed restoring mosque status as rectifying a perceived historical injustice.

How did Muslims and Orthodox Christians react to the reconversion?

What kind of domestic reaction did Erdogan's reconversion of Hagia Sophia receive?

What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

Erdogan's decision was influenced by Turkey's Islamic resurgence.

Internationally, the decision was met with disappointment from Greek officials and other Orthodox Christian communities, who regard Hagia Sophia as a central monument of their religious heritage.

How did Muslims and Orthodox Christians react to the reconversion?

Who was angered by the reconversion of Hagia Sophia in July 2020?

Why is Hagia Sophia considered one of the greatest buildings in history?

Served as the central church of Byzantine Christianity,

The controversy surrounding Hagia Sophia thus reflects ongoing tensions in Turkey regarding secularism, religion, and national identity.

No--In 1934, Ataturk turned it into a museum, making it a major tourist attraction and secular symbol in Turkey.

What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

Erdogan's decision was influenced by Turkey's Islamic resurgence.

Ultimately, critics see Erdogan’s move as both a religiously motivated act and a politically calculated effort to shape Turkey’s future direction and assert his leadership.

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Content: "Pope in white down" photo crazy accused of the first large-scale AI drawing fake news
Author: United News Network
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BuzzFeed News reported that a photo of Pope Francis wearing a fancy white down jacket has become popular on social media recently, but this is actually an image generated by a netizen using the AI mapping tool "Midjourney".
The original author said in an interview that he "just thought it was fun to see the pope put on a funny jacket."
The works are welcomed and scared, the creator click to enlarge the image he used to generate with AI drawings:
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According to the report, many netizens were surprised that the photo of the Pope, which looks a little too hot, was an AI-generated image.
Prestige model Chrissy Teigen tweeted, “I thought it was true that the Pope wore a down jacket, and I can ’ t live in the future without thinking about it. ”
Ryan Broderick, author of the Garbage Day newsletter, called it “the first truly massive case of AI fake news, which honestly looks a bit cool. ”
BuzzFeed News noted that the photo was created by Pablo Xavier, a 31-year-old Chicago-area construction worker.
He declined to give his last name for fear that he might be attacked for creating the images.
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Pablo Xavier said he came up with the idea last week during a trip on shrooms.
He says he ’ s trying to figure out how to make things interesting, “because that ’ s what I ’ m trying to do, I ’ m trying to do something interesting or trippy art, which is psychedelic. ”
I just suddenly realized that I should be pope.
And then the thoughts come out like water, ‘ The Pope puts on a Balenciaga down jacket, Moncler, walks through the streets of Rome, Paris, and so on. ’
Pablo Xavier generated the first three photos on the afternoon of the 24th, and felt "perfect" when he saw the results for the first time, and posted to the Facebook group and Reddit forum, the photos quickly became popular and shocked him, "I was shocked, I didn't want the photos to become famous like this."
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Pablo Xavier grew up in a Catholic family, but now he doesn ’ t feel like a part of it, but he doesn ’ t mean anything to the Pope, “I just think it ’ s fun to see the Pope put on a funny jacket. ”
He said he posted the photo to the Reddit forum a few hours later and was blocked. “I think I ’ m going to get a backlash, I just don ’ t think it ’ s going to get that scale. ”
Pablo Xavier says that people are encouraging this kind of thing, and that it ’ s true without questioning it, which is “definitely scary, ” and he has seen his work adopted by people who want to criticize the profligacy of the Catholic Church in some posts, making him feel like“ S * * t. ”
He said of his images being used in this way, “It ’ s crazy. ”
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What political motivations influenced Erdogan's decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia?

Erdogan's decision was influenced by Turkey's Islamic resurgence.

The decision aimed to rally anti-Kemalist voters.