Comments on: Bar in Cyprus mosque infuriates Muslims

By: Mohammad Bajwa

Mohammad Bajwa — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:36:50 +0000

Greek authorities should respect the mosque and must not do what is trying to do. It will have very serious long term effects on relations between local muslims and non muslims.

By: greek_muslims

greek_muslims — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:46:47 +0000

zw sthn kipro ke den exo proseksei tipota to idiaitero sto sigekrimeno tzami, opws kapio vandalismo i kati na ktizete… to tzami afto prostatevete apo tin ounesco ke den dikaioute kaneis na dinei tetiou idous adies! pistevo einai ka8ara turkiki propaganda! otan dume kati toso af8ereto na ktizete prepei na enimero8oun oi armodies ipiresies tou ipurgeiou politismou opos ke diplomates apo diafores xwres opos ti livi tin egipto ta aravika emirata to iran gia na to dief8etisun allios o kosmos apo monos tu 8a adidrasi an ma8eftei kati tetio(musulmanoi ke mi logo tis istorias ke tis arxitektonikis tou arxaiologikou xwrou)… an ma8ete perisoteres plirofories oste na boresume na eksakrivosume tin af8endikotita twn proanafer8endw pigwn 8a itane poli xrisimo.

By: Amir Abdullah

Amir Abdullah — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:37:16 +0000

Ali, I am not much into the stuff happening there, forgive me for my ignorance, but this was not my point anyway. Anyhow, thanks for correcting me.

By: Αλή

Αλή — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:45:23 +0000

Turkish people from Cyprus are not Cypriots but conquerors.

By: sonofsparta

sonofsparta — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:14:42 +0000

Amir Abdullah I agree with you that we should all at the very least respect other peoples places of worship and allow each individual and minority group to freely pray in their religious sites and never ‘convert’ such sites.

By: Amir Abdullah

Amir Abdullah — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:24:54 +0000

SonofSparta, the issue at hand at this moment (sticking to the article above) is not who turned the most churches or mosques of the others into whatever, but the fact that people keep putting money and pleasure before God. At least we should agree, in all ways, that temples of any kind, since built for the worship of God, should be respected even if they belong to another culture or another people or whatever. In that sense, both the Cypriot Turks and Greeks have gone wrong and should be ashamed of themselves, especially the Turks from my perspective, since they do not in any way hold up to the Islamic standards. If they had done that, no churches would have been converted to anything, most likely they wouldn’t even invade Cyprus, so anyway, this website is not to talk that much about nationalities, and who did what to whom, but religion, and how that can resolve many problems that are created by not keeping up to it (religion).

By: Anna S

Anna S — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:24:19 +0000

By now SOS you that you mingle with the Muslims you must already know that it is unacceptable in Islam to harm any church or monastery or monks according to our Prophet (saaws).
It is sad to see smart educated people like you to try to use wrong political actions of a state in order to blame Islam once again.
Turkey was very wrong Islamically when was not paying respect to the orthodox symbols but you do not seem to care that everywhere else that other 1.5 muslims live out of Turkey they respect those.
It is the same story, you are stuck with the Turks. I think you can never understand that Islam is not Turkish religion but Global.

By: sonofsparta

sonofsparta — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:26:18 +0000

Αλή you wrote:

Στη Βόρεια Κύπρο πολλές εκκλησίες έγιναν στάβλοι και πορνεία. Τί λέτε γι’ αυτό?

^^ To answer your question this indicates that the Churches in Northern Cyprus have been subjected to a great disrespect much more than Mosues in the republic of Cyprus, turned into barns for live stock, converted into night-clubs, Mosques etc. This proves that the Turkish Cypriots have absolutely no respect for the Greek Orthodox religion. Also the Mosque in Cyprus is NOT being converted, all they are doing is allowing tourist to go to a bar in the garden, how can anyone compare that to what the Turks have done to the churches in Northen Cyprus or at Constantinople. That is HYPOCRISY.

I like to ask Sotiris Kirtsides how is it as a Greek you are soo upset at “behaviour of the greek goverment” (actually it’s the Cypriot governments decision) and you fail to be upset at the fact that half the island has been occupied by Turks for nearly 40 years? All I keep reading is how ‘peaceful Islam is yet all I see is Muslim Turks converting our churches for centuries up until the present day, and taking our land.

By: Sotiris Kirtsides

Sotiris Kirtsides — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:04:16 +0000

Astaqfirullah !!!!!

This is the most typical behaviour of the greek goverment. I think this terrible and action must happen to stop this bar from being built….
[MOD EDIT] thsi is terrible and will only make things worse for the turkish and cypriots living in cyprus.
Action must be taken to stop this despicable building from going up near the mosque .

By: Αλή

Αλή — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:01:43 +0000

Στη Βόρεια Κύπρο πολλές εκκλησίες έγιναν στάβλοι και πορνεία. Τί λέτε γι’ αυτό?