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Let us be truly Muslim:
let us return the Hagia Sophia to our Christian brothers.
By His Highness Prince Morad AL KHATTAB, Al-IBRAHIMI Al-CHERIFI Al-IDRISSI,
Essayist and geopolitician.
Strategic
investments and Competitive Intelligence Expert Adviser.
Graduate
of the French Arts, Sciences and Humanities Academy.
Last published work
: « Saïf al-Islam Kadhafi – Un
rêve d’avenir pour la Libye
[Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, A dream of the future
for Libya]», (éd. Erick
Bonnier, Paris, octobre 2019).
Mr. President of the
Republic of Turkey,
Dear Mr. Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan,
I write to you today in a context of serious geostrategic tensions, in which Turkey, which you
preside, is involved.
Since 2003 and your
arrival in power, you have succeeded in making your country an important player
today, both economically, geopolitically, and also culturally. You were able to
take advantage of favorable economic circumstances, but it was under your tenure
that Turkey regained a level of power that it had not seen since the end of the
Ottoman Empire. This achievement honors you, and will make you go down in
history as the architect of Turkey's return to the international stage.
Of course, we would have
some disagreements over Libya, in which your army is engaged today. You are
playing a role there that could potentially backfire on Turkey, which would be
damaging to the entirety of your presidential work and the role you will have
played in History.
Turkey's action in Libya
is indeed becoming problematic, because it is acting against an understanding
between several major Nations of our world. For several historical reasons, you
should instead be at the sickbed of Libya today, working for peace in memory of
the late Muammar Gaddafi. The Libyan Guide awarded you by the way the Libyan
Human Rights Prize in November 2010, in honor of your action in support of
Gaza. And above all, he had previously granted you with over $ 30 billion in
various forms, with the agreement of the United States, to help you come to
power, which also played an undeniable role in the economic development of
Turkey, and you know it. Therefore, and knowing the terrible situation for the
Libyan civilian population, Turkey could work for peace and thus position
itself as the only credible Muslim country both in the Middle East and in the
Mediterranean Sea. Such an attitude would mark Turkey's big comeback in the
concert of nations, and give it a lasting credible voice for the decades to
come.
Taking note of this
disagreement between us, and hoping to see you come back to more reason in the
coming months, please be aware that for my part I will always stand next to
Saif al-Islam Kadhafi, who is a brother for me. Today he does represent the
only real hope for a political solution and a return to a lasting peace for
Libya, and has been designated as such by the Supreme Council of Libyan Tribes.
But the main subject of
my letter today is your unfortunate decree intending to turn Hagia Sophia into
a mosque on July 10, 2020.
Because of its strategic
location, your country has been involved in three recent major geopolitical
crises: in Syria, Libya and Ukraine. Turkey was in fact pushed to become
involved in these crises, at a time when the United States were engaged in some
hawkish adventurism in the Middle East. But that was first and foremost
because the United States themselves had suffered the most serious political
crisis since their birth, in the form of an attempt to hijack the American
Republic leaded by an internal cabal, on the part of what we call today the Deep
State. It is this same Deep State which, from the United States, has pushed
Turkey on several occasions to indulge in provocations that could have led to a
new world war, especially in Ukraine and Syria ...
However, major changes
have taken place in the meantime, and not the least: the restoration of the
American Republic by American patriots. These changes have resulted in a
general de-escalation in the Middle East, gradually reducing tensions and
making a new understanding among nations possible to avoid a general war.
However, Turkey has certainly not yet taken the measure of these changes, and
still finds itself embroiled in an unwelcome escalation process, while the
situation around it has changed in the meantime. It is against this
background that your recent decision to convert Hagia Sophia into a mosque comes
about. And in a context of general de-escalation, it is therefore Turkey
which places itself alone in a conflicting logic that could greatly harm its
future.
In this sense, as a descendant
of Ali Ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be satisfied with him), son-in-law and cousin of Prophet Muhammad (Salallahu 'Alayhi Wa Sallam),
I
will put the case very clearly to convey to you my
disapproval of your recent decision, claiming to effectively transform the
Hagia Sophia into a mosque. But the importance of this decision and its
dangerousness can only be understood by referring to the little-known History
of relations between Islam and Christendom, and the often unfortunate role that
Turkey has played in it.
As opposed to this
decision which I consider unfortunate, and which could be understood as nothing
but a provocation, it is therefore necessary to return to the historical
foundations of the relations between Islam and Christendom.
The absurdity of any frontal opposition between Christianity and Islam
In this sense, it should
first be remembered that the first wife of Prophet Muhammad (SAWS), Khadija (may Allah be
satisfied with her), was of Christian descent. She
was an extraordinary woman, who supported him against all odds, and whom the
Prophet himself (SAWS) said she was "... the best woman in my
community". The story of this noble woman in fact illustrates a continuity
that was established between Christendom and Islam, rather than an opposition.
A continuity that is not well understood by Christians today, because it
must be understood in the specific context of the Middle East at the time,
where several old types of fanaticism had clashed, especially in Alexandria,
since the Greco-Roman period and even well before.
Another fact which
illustrates in an extraordinary way this absence of opposition between
Christianity and Islam, it was the Ashtiname: the Charter which was
concluded in 625 between the Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) and the Christian monks of
the monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai in Egypt. In this firman,
it was a real pact that was concluded between Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) and
Christians, which was not limited to monks and nuns. It is regrettable that
today so many Muslims have forgotten it, but also many Christians, and even
more regrettable that there are sometimes attempts to question its historicity.
For it was precisely an alliance with Christians that was officially
concluded, without any real counterpart on the side of Christians, by which the
Prophet of Islam undertook to protect Christians considered to be his allies.
No Muslim was to break this covenant until Judgment Day. It was a true
universal and everlasting promise which was thus formulated by Prophet Muhammad
(SAWS), making unlawful any attempt to subsequently alienate or revoke the
rights of Christians in the land of Islam.
From this founding
historical event, let us say it very clearly: any attempt to oppose Islam and
Christendom head-on can only be a manipulation and a major misunderstanding,
both historical and above all spiritual. Moreover, it should be remembered today: Islam grants an absolutely
crucial place, both to the Virgin Mary and to the Prophet Jesus / Issa (may
Allah be satisfied with him). And all pious Muslims know the meaning of the
expected return of the Messiah (al Masîh) in the fight against the Dajjâl /
Antichrist… The Russian political theorist Alexander Dugin does not say
anything else in his famous work, The Fourth Political Theory: "We
must firmly oppose any kind of confrontation between different religious
beliefs… Wars and interfaith tensions are working for one cause: the
establishment of the kingdom of Antichrist, who tries to divide all traditional
religions in order to impose its own pseudo-religion, a parody of eschatology."[1]
On the other hand,
putting the historical and eschatological Truth in perspective, then comparing
it with the dramatic exactions of Daesh that have occurred in recent years,
with the multiple destruction of mausoleums and holy places, both Muslim and
Christian, leaves no doubt about the total absence of legitimacy and
legality of this artificial terrorism. The only oppositions between
Islam and Christianity exist only on minor points, while these two religions
are in agreement on fundamental points:
"Venerated as one of the great messengers of God, he cannot on the
other hand be considered as a son of God as indicated by the following verses :
"The Messiah Jesus, son of Mary is only a messenger of Allah "(IV 171
and V 72) or “It is not appropriate for God to give himself a son” (XIX 92).
Jesus did not die on the cross; the Quranic verse (IV 157) resumes the claim of
the disciples of Basilides (c. 130) that Simon of Cyrene was substituted on the
cross for Jesus. Jesus would announce the future mission of Mohammad: "I
am the messenger of God to announce the good news to you of a Messenger who
will come after me and whose name is Ahmed"; the commentator Razi (died in
935) says that this verse takes up the text of the Gospel of Saint John 14,17: "I
will pray to God and he will give you another comforter so that he may abide
eternally with you the Spirit of Truth ”. This comparison shows how much in the
Middle Ages Muslim exegetes knew Christian texts well."[2]
More generally, the real
History is only too rarely understood in its context, in the Middle East and
North Africa at the time of the Prophet: the most learned researchers today
understand that the various ancient fanaticisms, that Christianity had already
tried to reduce, were in fact restricted only with the advent of Islam.[3] Likewise, we often forget that the conquest of the Byzantine Empire by
Islam was facilitated by a context in which the Eastern Roman Empire was
weakening itself, by persecuting certain Christian currents with the help of
unfortunately not very Christian methods ... It is in this context, moreover,
that in his time already, our Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) himself invited the
Nestorian Christians to come and celebrate Easter in the mosque of Medina.
“During the life of Prophet Muhammad (570-632) “Nestorian” Christians
(diaphysites) took refuge in Arabia and their Christology appeared compatible
with the Koranic revelation. So, in the Quran, Jesus is really "The
Messiah" announced to the Israelites, and whose mother is blessed. In the
Koran, the birth of Jesus is announced by the angels to Mary (III 45); he was
born "pure" ((XIX 19) of an immaculate mother. "The Word of God
was cast by HIM into the womb of Mary" (IV 169). "[...] Sura IV,
verse 171, recalls that: “The Messiah Jesus… is the Word of God whom He cast
into Mary.” In sura V, verse 75, Mary is awarded the title of “Siddiqa” (the
most sincere): “the Mother of the Messiah was sincere par excellence”.[4]
Another illustration of a
lingering fanaticism among the Christians of that time: it was thanks to its
isolation and its security guaranteed by Islam, that the monastery of Saint
Catherine escaped the Iconoclastic Period of the Byzantine Empire in the
8th century, and was able to preserve its iconic heritage. It was also
protected during the Crusades which, contrary to what is too often said today, were
not a head-on opposition between Christianity and Islam. They were in fact
sparked off by the regrettable Turkish persecutions against Christian pilgrims,
whereas before Muslims had always respected Christianity.
Turkey today should
certainly remember the lessons of that time, in order to avoid repeating its
past mistakes over and over again ... For the Holy Crusades of that time could
indeed be considered a "holy" war. But those who see the Crusades
as a head-on opposition between Islam and Christendom are either ignorant or
ideologues with subversive intentions, aimed at starting a new war between
Islam and Christianity today. On the contrary, there were powerful and
virtuous esoteric exchanges that lastingly bound Christians, especially the
French Templars, with Muslims and Christians of the Middle East. But these
efforts were unfortunately ruined by a certain fanaticism on both sides: instead
of the deep reforms that would have been necessary within the Catholic Church,
it was in fact a thousand years of Christian reformism that was assassinated
with the regrettable and iniquitous massacre of the Order of the Temple
(1307-1312). Thus, Western Christendom weakened itself durably,
dramatically facilitating the future subversion of the West that we can see
being so strong today ...
As opposed to this major misunderstanding
that would constitute a frontal opposition between Christendom and Islam, and in
which sense the conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque could constitute a
casus belli as absurd as it could be avoidable, it seems to me today
necessary to recall some ancient truths.
The double Islamic-Christian reform against an old fanaticism, that is still active today.
This absence of
fundamental opposition, and even more precisely this continuity
between Christendom and Islam, could in fact be analyzed faithfully as an
anti-fanatic reform which would have taken place in two stages: with
Christianity first of all, then with Islam, in a context where the results of
Christianity had not always been sufficient in the Middle East. Refuting any
idea of frontal opposition, the Holy Qur'an instead evokes a fundamental and
superior idea, aimed at integrating on an equal level all true believers
practicing good and virtue in everyday acts.
Islam corresponded in
this sense, not to a new religion regarded as opposed to others, but rather to
the reiteration of the message of the true Prophets who had preceded it. A message that had to be repeated with a renewed vigor in the time of
Prophet Muhammad (SAWS), due to local necessities and the continued existence
of some ancient fanaticisms in the Middle East: it was simply the genuine
self-discipline of the pious believer, putting in coherence his thoughts and
his actions in his daily life, which was thus recalled. Righteousness and
nobility of heart, the prospect of a reward in the Hereafter understood as a
retribution for those who believe and do good here below, is indeed the main
message of the Holy Quran, and it is unassailable in himself:
“Those who believe [Muslims], those who practice Judaism, Christians,
Sabeans - those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and do pious work - have
their retribution from their Lord. No fear of them, and they will not be
grieved.” (2, 62 ; 5, 69)
Many translations, often
partial, fallacious or disconnected from their real context, have often been
presented as calling into question this general principle. These temperaments have, however, been stated in other contexts, but we
readily agree that it is always possible to endlessly divert any text so that
we end up with apparent contradictions, and that the same would apply at least
as much to the Christian Bible and especially for the Old Testament... The
order to fight the "disbelievers", for example, concerned only the
misguided humans and stubbornly in their fanatical errors (9, 29), but only a
realistic study of the very context in the Middle Eastern during that period can
allow us to understand it.
In the same way that
American Christian patriots fight today against "disbelievers" (in
the etymological as well as theological sense), without necessarily realizing
that they are in fact fighting, too, against reminiscences of a very old
fanaticism that was perfectly identifiable at the time of the Prophet Jesus (think for example about the persecution of Saint Paul narrated in the Acts
of the Apostles...), or of the Prophet Muhammad (SAWS), a situation which
was also understood as such by Luther himself… Beyond this erudition
necessary to understand the historical truth, only those who believe in their
hearts will be able to sort the wheat from the chaff and the Truth from
the lies. But we must agree on a more global reality: the resolution
of humans to always practice good and virtue is fragile, not only in the land
of Islam, and not only in prophetic times... Only a religion advocating
rigorous self-discipline could have some chance of bearing good fruit, but only
at the end of a long evolution which begins above all in the heart of every
human.
“Godly goodness does not consist in turning your face towards the East
and the West, but the good man is one who believes in Allah and the Last Day,
the Angels, the Book and the Prophets, who gives good - however much love he
may have for them - to the Relatives, to the Orphans, to the Poor, to the
Traveler, to the Beggars and for the emancipation of the Slaves, who perform
the Prayer and give Alms. And those who fulfill their commitments when they
have contracted them, the Constants in adversity, in misfortune and at the time
of danger, these are the ones who are true, these are the ones who fear God.”
(2 : 177)
Many other verses in the
Qur'an are exhortations and encouragements "to truth and to patience"
(103: 3), "to leniency" (90:17), to "nobility through
godliness" (49:13). The Holy Quran encourages sincere believers to
seek and develop those admirable divine attributes of peace, justice, mercy,
patience and forgiveness.
In this sense, Islam
should not be seen so much as the imposition of a religion (2: 256), but much
more as the reiteration of a message of individual self-discipline, an
inevitable prerequisite opening the way to a collective social discipline, in a
given geographical area and a given era which were in a great need of this.
Both this personal discipline and collective social discipline remain necessary
today. In the context of the birth of Islam, where many communities clashed, it
was an exhortation not to standardize, but to emulate the virtues that was
launched by the Holy Quran:
“If Allah had willed, He would have made you a unique community. [He did]
however [not], in order to test you in what He has given you. So get ahead of
each other in good deeds” (5, 48).
It is really because the
historical truth was artificially obscured for centuries, that we do not
understand anymore this verse as the acceptance of an inevitable pluralism
of the communities and of the religious impulses, and a recognition of the
virtues of the interreligious dialogue to achieve a new harmony between the
humans. The "spiritual emulation" under the gaze of God
was to be the consequence, justifying for Allah the qualifier of "the
Gatherer" (al-Jâmi'), without ever understanding "Allah"
as being restrictively only the "God of Muslims. ". Do Christians
speaking in Arabic not also call their Christian God "Allah"? The
Koran is only a call to conscience, just like the New Testament or some of
the best passages of the Old Testament: the reiteration of the unique, unknowable God but whose attributes are
Peace, Justice, Forgiveness, Reconciliation and above all, righteous action on
a daily basis among truly pious humans.
Therefore, any frontal
opposition between true Christian and Muslim believers can only be a misinterpretation...
But a bloody misinterpretation, as recently witnessed by the artificial
fanaticism of the so-called "Islamic" State, which was only a
mercenary, terrorist business actually hiding other destabilizing intentions...
Let us note by/in passing
that the greatest statesmen understood the true meaning of Islam, as being
founded on the principles of collective self-discipline and the search for
knowledge, the only ones capable of establishing harmonious societies.
The Emperor Napoleon in
this sense, who considered that a "society without religion is like a
vessel without a compass",[5] noted the social effectiveness of the principles of the Koran as early as
the Egyptian campaign.[6] But it was especially during his exile in Saint Helena that he was able to
draw his conclusions about a great cause of weakening the West.
Having directly witnessed the manipulations of the Catholic Church in Italy,
having witnessed for himself the interpolations added by the Catholic clergy to
ancient manuscripts, he had developed an intuitive mistrust against the
political misuse of religions. Under the influence of the Muslim point of view
encountered in Egypt, he recognized that a certain idolatry had been the
consequence of Catholic clerical excesses, thus weakening the West by
introducing severe oppositions between religion and politics. Some Muslim
sources go further, ascribing to him a desire to convert to Islam, but Napoleon
was above all a realist who, as a measure of efficiency, understood the
necessary link between religion and politics.[7] This understanding was a long raising awareness for him because he himself
was the product of revolutionary anti-Christian ideas, and not just
anti-clerical. But in Egypt, he understood the link between religious peace
and political appeasement, exhorting his soldiers to the necessary respect for
the Muslim faith, recalling that the Roman legions also protected all
religions.[8]
Bonaparte in Egypt, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1867
Despite the context of a
terrible struggle for influence against the British, who had an interest in not
seeing the establishment of friendly links between the French and the Muslims,
Napoleon also arrived with another army made up of the best French scholars:
linguists, archaeologists and many other scientists who thirsted for knowledge.
This is how he began to reconnect the lost threads of Western history,
and it was later renowned French archaeologists such as Auguste Mariette or Emile
Amélineau, who re-taught the Egyptians to watch over their heritage, including
pre-Islamic and pre-Christian. Thus was initiated the rediscovery of ancient
French knowledge inherited from the Frankish Kingdoms in the Holy Land, which
hatched during the colonial era to become a solid scholarly expertise very
favorable to Islam. Islam was in fact considered by scholarly French
sources as an unmistakable factor of civilization, in areas which were in great
need of it because they had known the worst fanaticisms, and which remained
marked by the aftereffects of latent violence, which only Islam had managed to
temper.[9]
It is ironic that the
Emperor Napoleon, who was himself the heir of the “Lumières” and of a
structurally anti-Christian French 1789 Révolution, was able to come to the
conclusion that his military campaigns had matured within him: the
impossibility of obtaining a political harmony without underpinning it with
spiritual and religious precepts working in favor of this political harmony.
This had indeed been the great weakness of the Old Testament Writings, which
modern History and archeology still struggle to understand today. But this
weakness was also visible in the West, in the form of a chronic and regrettable
two-thousand-year struggle between spiritual power and temporal power. This
is the reason why the Emperor Napoleon tried to reform the Catholic Church,
both in Rome and in France, in the name of a better understanding of this
interdependence between political and religious harmony, an idea which was
already at the base of ancient Egypt before its decadence... But if Napoleon
came to this conclusion after his exile, it was also certainly because he
had seen the excesses of the French Révolution and the violent crowds of men at
work, in whose souls all idea of God had been wrested. During the
reorganization of French Universities, he left to posterity his conclusion
which could be inscribed on the pediment of both Christian schools and Koranic
schools:
“Make me students who know how to be men. And do you believe that a man
can be a man if he doesn't have a God? The man without God, I saw him at work
in 1793! This man, we do not govern him, we can only shoot him [modification
volontaire sinon pas assez clair]. I havve had enough of this kind of man. To
form the right man, I will put myself [unite] with God."[10]
A historic chance to rebuild a Universal Alliance against fanaticism
In this universal
struggle against fanaticism, as evidenced by both the Bible and the Koran,
there were still other episodes which are very little studied today. There was indeed
an old major geopolitical alliance that is seldom understood, in a
context that Western Christians today have often forgotten. The Muslims and
Vikings in the West on the one hand, and the Muslims and Varangians in the East
on the other hand, were long ago allies of convenience against the serious
developments that were then taking place, both in Western Europe after the
death of Charlemagne, and in Eastern Europe facing the Khazar Empire. It
was in this context that a certain Christian renaissance could take place in
Western Europe, which later became the Gregorian reform, while in Eastern
Europe the Ros' of Kiev was born, the embryo of the future Holy Russia which is
being reborn today ...
The Riourikid dynasty, illustrated on the occasion of the exhibition «
Моя история. Рюриковичи », 2016.
Today in Western Europe,
only the last traditionalist Jesuits have retained a distant memory of this
time; but in Eastern Europe, after the terrible anti-Christian Bolshevik
Revolution that Russia endured, it was through suffering that Orthodox
Christians rediscovered their religious heritages. And since the 1990s, in
the context of the terrible destabilizations that hit both the Caucasus and
Central Asia, and the Middle East, it is the old spiritual alliance between
Christianity and Islam that has been rediscovered, by force of circumstances,
and understood as being the only one capable of restoring peace in these regions.
It should also be
remembered that Turkey itself was struck by the same dynamics of destruction
that Russia underwent during the Bolshevik Revolution: it is too rarely said today, how far the Ottoman Empire suffered many globalist destabilizations
too, in the years preceding the First World War and then after…[11] The Russian philosopher Ivan
Ilyine wrote as such that “the whole history of humanity can be summed up in
this, that at different times and in various communities the best people died
from the blows of the worst.” [12] This is the reason why Christians have often been massacred in History, but
also Muslims as we have seen recently with Daesh, and even Jews refusing fanaticism,
at the start of the Judeo-Roman wars or during the Bolshevik Revolution in
particular… This is also the reason why force is sometimes necessary to avoid
the worst to happen…
Today we have a chance to
not let a recent History of unnecessary carnages repeating itself again. Today
we see a kind of rebirth of this old alliance between Christians and Muslims,
which is still not sufficiently understood today. And it turns out that, in turn, American Christians have come to
realize the existence of an intense fanatic subversion within the United States
themselves, which they are fighting today, while Orthodox Christians allied
with Muslims in Central Asia, questioned the attempted destruction of the
Middle East that was hatched by the fanatical Deep State from the United
States.
It is now the entire
Muslim world which must understand this new development and accompany it,
instead of the old "jihadist trap" which has been set for Muslims for
decades, and which France was the first
Western country to denounce as early as 1930.[13] A jihadist trap which could have given reason to the artificial
ideology of the "Clash of civilizations", leading to a conflict in
which both Christians and Muslims around the world would have had everything to
lose...
On the contrary, since
the rebirth of Russia at the dawn of the 2000s, then with the election of
Donald Trump in 2016, supported by genuine American Christian patriots, it is a
combined Christian action that has created the conditions for a completely
different context today: that of a new evolution in the Middle East, in
which the Trump Administration supports Saudi Arabia to modernize itself on a
way that could now appease the entire region. It is still little understood
that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is indeed making a bold and courageous
turn in Saudi Arabia, after years during which Saudi Arabia was in a delicate
situation because of the internationalist oil companies interests at stakes.
This shift will consist in integrating the Arab world into the race for
future technological challenges, while preserving a necessary dose of
traditionalism, but without confusing it with the jihadism which has
wreaked so much havoc in recent decades. In the near future, with the help of
senior Muslim dignitaries and scholars, I will lay what could mean the new
foundations for a renaissance of the Muslim world as a whole, instead of the
great attempt at manipulation that Daesh constitutes today.
Turkey's grave misguidance may kill the Hope of our era
In all this hopeful
context, what is Turkey choosing to do? Despite the basic theological reality of what should mean a renewed
alliance between Christendom and the Muslim world, Turkey is once again acting against
the tide of History ...
The rebirth of Russia,
and its heroic action in support of Syria, was the cause of a serious globalist
destabilization that struck Ukraine.
Ukrainians and Russians
are brothers, as President Putin recalled on July 23, 2013 in Kiev: “Kievan
Russia is at the origin of the huge Russian state. We have a common tradition,
a common mentality, a common History, a common culture. Our languages are
very close. In this sense, I want to repeat it again, we are one people.”
Russia and Ukraine were in fact only separated by an "accident of
History": a lingering consequence of the anti-Tsarist but above all
anti-Christian Bolshevik Revolution, which especially wreaked havoc in Ukraine.
The after-effects of these massacres are still being exploited to further
harm Orthodox Christian unity again and again. The destabilization of
Ukraine, which was in fact aimed at Russia, was also accompanied by an illegal
embargo in 2014, weakening Russian civil society and therefore the beneficial
action of Russia, particularly in the Middle East. That was the main goal, and
History teaches that embargoes very often precede wars, which only the combined
power of the Russian army is able to avert today. But it is in this context
that, unable to attack Russia head-on, multiple destabilizations have targeted
it in order to gradually weaken it. And this is where both Ukraine and
Turkey have been dangerously instrumentalized against Russia in this sense...
Worse, the
destabilization of Russia from the Ukraine was not limited to geopolitical
aspects. It is a much more serious attempt to divide that targeted Christian
orthodoxy, and which was hatched from Ukraine, but also from Turkey: by
creating an artificial schism between on the one hand, the Ukrainian Orthodox
Patriarchate but also the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and on the other hand
the Russian Orthodox Church.
In this context, Turkey's
sudden decision to transform the Hagia Sophia into a mosque can only constitute
an increase in pressure against Russian Orthodox Christians, but also against
Christians in the Middle East. It can therefore only
arouse the legitimate concern of the Russian Orthodox Church, and both the
Patriarchate of Russia and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem have already urged you
to reconsider your decision.
Because this Turkish
decision can only be considered as a new provocation, as Constantinople is
not one of the holy places of Islam, and it will cause an enormous discredit
against Turkey. Who then pushed you, Mr. President, to such a prodigiously
unwelcome provocation? It is a logic of world war that is triggered by your
decision, while the general trend had moved towards de-escalation since 2016…
Genuine Muslims around
the world must speak out against this double attempt to destabilize all the
Orthodox Christendom, in which Turkey plays a role that should not be its own.
Because in the Caucasus,
in Central Asia, in the Middle East and as far as Libya, Russia has not only
defended the Christians of the Middle East, but it has also defended the real
Islam against Daesh and its powerful supporters: we have seen it especially
in the Caucasus, where jihadists artificially imported by the US Deep State have
been wiped out by a renewed alliance between Orthodox Christians and true
Muslims. And nowhere else has the result been more evident than in Syria, where
Chechen Muslim shock troops have been engaged alongside Russian Orthodox
Christian troops, against the "false" Muslims of the Islamic State
and their "advisers ”.
The picture would not be
complete of this war in Syria, without mentioning the fact that during the
subversive times of the Clinton / Bush Jr. / Obama era in the United States, it
was the American Christian patriots and even some important figures of Jewish
origin (General Wesley Clark, Steve R. Pieczenik…), who openly disclosed the
subversive agenda that was unfolding in the Middle East, and discreetly favored
the action of Russia, which was encouraged to resolutely act to defeat it.[14]
In this context, American
Christian patriots, like Russian Christian patriots, must be seen as allies of
the true Islam. Both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump must be considered today
by Muslims around the world, as part of their own community, by virtue of the
precepts recalled above: it is right action and emulation in the personal
spiritual requirements, which should be the only criteria for judging where our
enemies are and where our friends are.
So it is in all this
context that Turkey is acting in the worst possible way. It is unfortunate that
while your country was historically responsible for the "clash of
civilizations" during the Crusades, the Turkey that you preside once again
shows such a serious lack of foresight. So it seems undoubtedly necessary to
develop here the fundamental reasons why Hagia Sophia should not only, not
in any case be transformed into a mosque, but beyond that I even believe that
the Hagia Sophia should above all be returned today to Orthodox Christians.
Allow me, Mr. President, to expand on my point here.
Hagia Sophia, or the Sacred Mother of true early Christianity.
The Basilica of Hagia
Sophia in Constantinople was intended to be as a representation of heaven on earth,
an architectural achievment reflecting in materiality, the highest aspirations
of Orthodox Christian spirituality. But Hagia Sophia is more than a basilica,
it is a symbol of an incalculable power which is at the base of the true
Christianity, which is to be sought on the side of the Christian orthodoxy,
as many Christian mystics have understood. Because it is the only
Christianity that did not forget Sophia until today: that is to say the Wisdom
in Greek, including the powerful and nuanced heritages of the Greek thought
inherited from Egypt. In its metaphorical and allegorical version, Sophia has
three daughters: Pistis or Vera, Faith; Elpis or Nadedja, Hope; Agape or
Lioubova, Charity. The metaphor is thus obvious: it is the divine Wisdom which
engenders in the hearts of Christians these three theological virtues which are
Faith, Hope and Charity.
But Sophia is actually
much more than Wisdom alone. In the initial belief
of true primitive Christians, which has hardly survived up to the present day, Sophia
is the archaic universal soul: the emanation of the one and unknowable
God in matter, the primitive architect as a feminine principle, from which all
things visible and invisible ensue. This matter understood as the daughter of
the supreme divine Spirit, is what was perfectly understood by the ancient
paganisms in their pure and undisturbed version, and it is what our present
science understands only gradually. Today we need a certain dose of
metaphysical abstraction to understand the double divine emanation in its
revealed aspect, through the two male and female principles from which emanate Christos
and Sophia.
First of all, the
initial genuine "Trinity inside the Unity", is an idea common to
all nations: from the one and unknowable God originate two principles, one male
and the other female. “It is the union of the male Logos or wisdom, the
revealed Divinity, with the female Aura or Anima Mundi ([…] the primordial
Sophia of the Gnostics) which produces all things visible and invisible."[15]
Sophia, the Divine Wisdom, being the feminine principle, is the mediator between
the intellectual and material worlds, between the supreme God and the Matter. Sophia is in fact twofold: on the one hand, the primitive
"upper" Sophia, the feminine principle emanating from the initial
supreme God (the intellectual "Mother of all things"). And on the
other hand, the imperfect “inferior” Sophia, divine wisdom “fallen into
matter”, the universal mother of all material and revealed forms, physical
nature, the mediator between the Great Cause and the Matter, inevitably
imperfect because the material world is only a state of probation dedicated to
the progression of souls. Christos, the Anointed of the Lord, is the
emanation of the male principle of Wisdom: the mediator and guide between the
Supreme God and all what is spiritual within the human being. Christos
and Sophia are both divine emanations which descend into the man Jesus,
allowing him his expression in matter through Sophia, while being
inspired by Christos who overshadows him, turning him into a Prophet in its
genuine sense.
Russian icon from 1812 representing Sophia, the "Holy Wisdom".
From this comes the
origin of the Trinity (actually several trinities at several different
levels), as understood by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, then by their
Gnostic heirs, but which was regrettably interpolated and modified later by the
first Christian theologians. Major disagreements arose from these
interpolations, let us cite at least two here.
First, because of Irenaeus'
stubbornness in wanting to equate Jesus with the Supreme God, a terrible
misinterpretation was thus created in the minds of Christians up to our time,
and unfortunately not only in the West:
"It was only the stubbornness of this one [Irenaeus], wanting in any
case to associate Jesus, even in his 'Against Heresies', with the 'Supreme
God', that led him to commit so many falsifications. The idea of identifying
the Unknown God even with Christos, the Anointed One - the Aeon who
overshadowed him - not to speak about Jesus as a man, never entered the minds
of the Gnostics or even of the direct apostles or of Paul, despite what later falsifications
may have been added."[16]
Second, the constant mistreatment
that Sophia has suffered as a female principle for at least 2000 years: both in
the metaphysical and spiritual sense, as in the material sense, with an
artificial degradation of women under supposedly religious but in fact spurious
pretexts. This made Christians lose the sense of the true complementarity
between the two male and female principles in the metaphysical sense, and
between men and women in materiality. This problem is in fact old within History,
going back to a duality between two paganisms and not just one... Muslims too,
in their overwhelming majority, have not always understood the deep
implications of this more correct understanding of the relations between men
and women in everyday life, however there is for sure a link between the degree
of civilization and respect for Women ...
Sophia, the feminine
principle of the Trinity, was eventually replaced by the Holy Spirit in
Christian dogma. Worse, she was generally mistreated by reminiscences of old phallic cults which were
deviations born from ancient degenerations, along the course of the struggles of influences as witnessed by the Old
Testament in particular,[17] and of which we find astonishing reminiscences behind the worst scandals
of our present time… This was also one of the reasons why the ancient
Gnostics opposed the Old Testament head-on against the new Christian teachings:
“They argued that the Old Testament was the revelation of an inferior
being, of a subordinate deity, and that it did not contain a single phrase from
their Sophia, the Divine Wisdom. As for the New Testament, it had lost its
purity when the compilers were guilty of interpolations, and they sacrificed
divine truth for their selfish ends, and to maintain quarrels. This accusation
is not without foundation for one who is aware of the constant struggle between
the champions of circumcision and the "Law", and the apostles who had
abandoned Judaism."[18]
It is in this sense that
the old French expertise relating to Islam, indirectly reconnecting with the
Templar heritages, was able to move away from Catholic dogmas by understanding
an analogy and even a continuity between the ancient Egyptian pagan heritages,
and Islam. Because the Prophet Muhammad
(SAWS) indeed respected the old Egyptian paganism (which also had ramifications
in the south of Arabia), based on the recognition of a complementarity between
the masculine (Osiris) and feminine (Isis) principle,[19] whereas Western Christendom had for its part forgotten these very sound
pagan origins. This is what made later say in the oil era, by the best French
connoisseurs of these great ageless geopolitical and religious struggles for
influence, that Islam had been able to take over from the former Aramaic world,
especially in North Africa and the Middle East: by resolving internal
contradictions within Christianity which had become locally fanatic, because
Christianity had previously weakened itself by forgetting some of its own
Gnostic teachings...[20]
It is indeed all of
Christendom that has artificially weakened itself as a result of these dogmatic
quarrels, of which Western Christians were especially victims, and which later
facilitated the subversion of the West, both Catholic and Protestant.
Orthodox Christians were also
handicapped by the consequences of these numerous theological quarrels which
agitated Christendom, but much less than Western Christians, because they still
saved a place for Sophia. This, certainly, was not
always visible, but we have every reason to believe that the most learned
monastic communities having preserved the oldest manuscripts, have not
forgotten the meaning of the Schism between Western and Eastern Christianity. For
the cause of the Great Schism of 1054 was precisely because of the hazardous
elaboration of new Christian dogmas for political reasons. A hazardous
elaboration which did not cease afterwards, justifying fundamental criticisms against
Western Christendom such as we can read today in the Russian mystical
literature: from Nikolai Fiodorov who notably inspired Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy
and Soloviev, to Alexander Dugin with his “myth of 'the solar man'”, animated
by “true spirituality, supra-rational thought, the divine logos, the ability to
see His secret soul through the world”[21]. Here is Orthodox Christianity finding its way back to its historical
and pagan heritage, not cut off from Greek thought and therefore from its
Egyptian inspiration...
During an interview for
French television (TF1) on February 11, 2003, Vladimir Putin himself recalled
that "Russia is a European state and by geography, and by mentality",
defining Europe as "the culture of ancient Rome, of ancient Greece, it is
the culture of Byzantium, that is to say of Eastern Christianity.” This view
would readily be refuted or misunderstood by Western Christians today, having
themselves forgotten how Christian dogmas were awkwardly stabilized during the
first four centuries of the Christian era. However, this vision clearly
expressed the reality of the true Western European Christian civilization,
deducted from clerical excesses which became Catholic, generating in reaction
the Protestant Reformation which was in good part legitimate, but which was
also the victim of struggles for influence in the West, which then caused
Protestantism to drift insidiously towards materialism...
It is therefore by taking
the measure of all these developments that the importance and danger of your
decision, Mr. President, to transform Hagia Sophia into a mosque must be
understood. Hagia Sophia should be understood as the great beacon of true
Christians, that is to say, of the Christians who have preserved the most part
of the early Christian teachings and their previous heritages. And it happens
that these Christian teachings are the closest and the most compatible with the
precepts of the Holy Quran, which allows us to see a fundamental alliance
between true Christians and true Muslims.
And in this sense, the
Hagia Sophia basilica should be returned to Orthodox Christians, so that it
could become the epicenter of a new, reshaped relationship between Islam and
Christendom: this would be a symbol of colossal importance, and a strong signal
allowing a new international prestige for Turkey.
Mosaic of the south gallery of the Hagia Sophia
Turkey must learn from History and choose better fights
However, despite this
point of disagreement between us which
justifies my letter today, urging you to reverse your decision, we have one
thing in common, in the current context of a standoff between Turkey and France.
I do not approve neither this showdown against France, nor your action in
Libya. But I could approve your action in the future if it were to fit into the
real issues of our time.
I am indeed
fighting in France, against the hijacking of the French State and the
infiltration into the French anti-terrorist forces of malicious elements, who
have forgotten the old French expertise and who see Islam as a threat. Worse, among these French security forces, have infiltrated child
sexual offenders and criminals who rape children of Muslim parents,
including Turks, and even Chechens. For now, Muslims in France feel very much
alone in this fight, as the non-Muslim French have become accustomed to a
certain submissive powerlessness, although it is a sacred fight that must be
waged with resolution.
In the United States, on
the contrary, President Trump and the American patriots are also fighting with
all their might right now against the same powerful pedocriminal networks,
which have tried to hijack the American State. Ivanka Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are also involved, openly or
subtly, in this fight against human trafficking. I detailed all this in a
recent article that I invite you to consult.[22]
The same struggle is
taking place in France at this very moment, although still too little
understood by the French themselves. However, these are proven cases which have hit the headlines recently,
with in particular a Commander of the Directorate of Internal Counterterrorism
Services (DGSI) in the Ardennes, who took advantage of his situation to abuse
children of Muslim parents, under the pretext of "de-radicalization".
You must well understand
that the real issues of our time are there. An alliance of good men is taking
shape at this very moment, in which Turkey could find its place today, because
it has in fact been involved in it for thousands of years through its occult History ... However, in order for Turkey to find its
place in this fight today, it would still require that you do not act against the tide of History ...
Does Turkey want to fight
today for a better cause, rather than preempting the Hagia Sophia in defiance
of all realistic considerations, both geopolitical and spiritual? Likewise, rather than a showdown over Libya in which Turkey does not choose
the right side, it would be far more inspired for it to hold President
Macron's France into account for and about these pedophile networks, which are
wreaking havoc in France.
Indeed, it is neither the
American patriots nor the Russian patriots who rape children all over the
world, but there are subversive networks present everywhere, and whose action
of unimaginable ignominy gives a renewed meaning to the expression
"geniuses of evil". The Holy Quran like the Holy Bible commands us
to take sides against this evil incarnated on earth, and not to take sides in
this struggle would make us impious: "God vomits the lukewarm"[23] and "Allah hates transgressors"…[24]
All over the world, the power of
the United States is now used to target pedophile networks: whether in France,
Germany or South Korea. American Christians find here a missionary spirit
that has been lost in Europe, and especially in France, which today appears to
be the last subversive bastion and the first pedocriminal State in the world.
This, while France seems to become fast the country in Europe in which the
greatest number of anti-Christian acts are committed, and the “at least”
suspicious fire of Notre-Dame de Paris has given a horror vision of this
that shocked the whole world.[25] Because like the Hagia Sophia,
Notre-Dame de Paris was an epicenter of Western Christianity, the very one that
has been so severely affected since the French Révolution, and two centuries of
more or less subtle anti-Christian subversion that have followed-up… The
spiritual revitalization of France is long overdue, and don't be afraid to
remind all this to the French President when he dares to try to reason with you
about Hagia Sophia…
Census of anti-Christian acts in France since December 2016 (including
vandalism, murders / assaults, arson, theft, attacks, kidnappings).
Source: Observatory of Christianophobia.
Source: Observatory of Christianophobia.
The most lucid minds had
already understood what the worst representatives of subversive globalism
have been boasting about for years: States are gradually being replaced by the
“market”, and the French President no longer has any power anyway. There no
longer exists a sovereign ultima ratio, because no more death penalty,
no more control of the monetary tool, no more control of the money market which
has become all-powerful, therefore no more investment capacity, no more real
military sovereignty, no more real power. Its power is no more than an illusion
for the French people, and in the long term, the power of the market will have
no limits and will also extend to all other areas: health, education, justice,
police, foreign affairs, as well as illegal and criminal areas today.
Prostitution, organ trafficking, arms trade, racketeering, drugs, including
life and the limitless transformation of human beings into commodities: all
this is intended to be subject to the iron law of the market. It is the
result of Globalism, born of the decadence of the Western economic and
spiritual system: the political authorities are nothing more than obedient
puppets, used to deliver the peoples as food eaten by the market, even if it
means subjecting the people by some exceptional legislation under the pretext
of "terrorist threat", or by gigantic social engineering operations
such as the recent Coronavirus crisis. All this in order to concentrate
capital more and more and glorify Maamon, who in the end only feeds the
Antichrist, the Dajjâl ... True believers all over the world instinctively
feel that we are living in eschatological and apocalyptic times, in which in
any case, the confrontation between Good and Evil is an everyday reality. And
in this struggle, we know that we must take sides ...
This is the reason why it
is now incumbent on Turkey to urgently understand that it must stop acting
against the tide of History, especially when a move is getting tried against
all this odd-looking future, in a manner which would irreparably endanger its
strategic interests.
On the contrary, by
choosing to wage the good fight alongside Russian and American Christians,
Turkey could gain a great legitimacy by supporting this new development, both
in the Middle East and in Libya and even in France. It could thus regain an influence throughout the Mediterranean Sea, and
even an influence greater than that which it may have previously had, since it
would then be based on a new legitimacy. Likewise, don't forget that in the
summer of 2016, you yourself were saved from a coup d'état hatched by the
American Deep State, thanks to the intervention of Russia and Iran.
In this sense, it would be a regrettable misevaluation to forget this alliance
of good men, which allowed your political survival.
More generally, Turkey
should finally learn from History from its presence in Europe, and from the way
it was repeatedly chastised when it forgot that violence must never be freed
from spiritual considerations. Despite the state of
dechristianization and advanced subversion of western Europe today, Turkey
would be wrong to forget that European History did not lack mystical protection.
There was indeed a connection between the Order of the Rose Cross and the Crusades of General Hunyadi Janos of Transylvania, who drove the
Turks back away from Belgrade in 1456. During the alliance with France from the
16th century, however, a lull had seemed possible between Christian Europe and
Muslim Turkey. The signing of the Capitulations or Treaty of Friendship
between Francis I of France and Suleiman the Magnificent, which was renewed
eight times, allowed the introduction of European missionaries who created
schools primarily intended for Christians, which raised their standard of
living and qualified Christians for administrative positions and for the role
of intermediaries between the West and the Ottomans.[26]
Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent, painted separately by Titian around
1530.
But later, when France
was at the time Turkey's best European ally since the 16th century, the violent
methods of the Turks in Balkan Europe resulted in an inevitable backlash from
all over Christendom. France was then, with Austria, the architect of the first
crushing defeat inflicted on the Turkish Janissaries, who were then feared
throughout Europe (Battle of Saint-Gothard, August 1, 1664). Less than twenty
years later, the most extraordinary cavalry charge in European history, that of
the legendary Polish winged hussars, forced Turkey to definitely retreat from
Vienna (September 12, 1683). Then from the end of the 19th century, without the
internationalist support which nevertheless subverted the Ottoman Empire at the
same time, the Holy Russia would have been able to take back Constantinople in
the name of all Orthodox Christendom ...
Having forgotten the
causes of its historical pullback, does now Turkey hope today to provoke Orthodox
Christians with this Hagia Sophia affair, while hoping to intimidate in order
to extort the European Union by instrumentalizing the migrant crisis, which it
know perfectly well it has contributed to beget? This short-sighted double-counting is nothing but an adventurism that will
ultimately endanger Turkey. Because in this context, true Muslims will be on
the side of Orthodox Christians, but also on the side of European Christians
who will not have totally forgotten European history, the history of
Christianity and the real History of its relationship with Islam...
Likewise again, Turkey
should also learn another lesson from History as to its current role in North
Africa: by ceasing to behave like a mafia-style and violent "cash
collector", and to start behaving like a builder, within the framework of
an international cooperation which could revive hope in an entire area which is
in great need. Instead, Turkey is taking over from Qatar's activism, creating
the conditions for a jihadist destabilization of all of North Africa, which
will inevitably generate reactions from Egypt, and potentially from Algeria too...
Turkey at a crossroads: a reconciliation is still possible.
It is in this context
that, as a Muslim dignitary descended from Prophet Muhammad (SAWS), I therefore
urge you today to take stock of the new, and virtuous historical dynamic
that has been unfolding before our eyes since 2016.
In the name of this
brotherhood of good men, which has united Christians and Muslims in History in
a much deeper way than it is today understood, I ask you today to reconsider
your decision concerning the Hagia Sophia, the beacon of Eastern Christendom.
In this perspective, I
suggest that we should agree together on a tripartite meeting in Moscow with
President Vladimir Putin, in order to come back together to more reason, and
potentially make Turkey the pivotal country of this new relationship between
Christendom and Islamic world.
My dear President, let
us be truly Muslims: let us return the Hagia Sophia to our Orthodox Christian
brothers, in order to seal this new alliance between Islam and Christianity.
Such a decision would be
of absolutely historic importance. It would make it possible to ratify a New
Alliance of Nations for Peace, and to put a lasting check on a destructive
cycle that could have for several years already been able to send all the
countries of the Middle East, including Turkey, and even the whole world, back
into the Stone Age...
History opens out its
arms to you, and I hope with all my heart that you will be able to embrace it
as the man who will have given back his power to Turkey, without falling into
the trap of the hubris, the intoxication of power...
I implore the Most High to give you comfort and compassion.
Prayer and peace of Allah be upon you and your people.
We belong to Allah and to Allah we return.
Please accept, Mr.
President of the Republic, the expression of my highest consideration.
His Highness
Prince Morad Al-KHATTÂB Al-IBRAHIMI Al-CHERIFI Al-IDRISSI
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Theory, Alexander Dugin, 2009, in English: Arktos
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[2] « Ce que les musulmans pensent des chrétiens : opinions
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[3] Histoire de l’Afrique du Nord [History of
northern Africa], Bernard Lugan, éd. du Rocher, 2016.
[7] Guerre
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général Bertrand [Eastern War. Campaigns of
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dictated by himself at Saint Helena, and published by General Bertrand].
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[10] Revue
du monde catholique, Volume 15, Librairie Victor Palmé, 1806, p.7.
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[12] Sur
la résistance au mal par la force [On
resistance to evil by force], 1925.
[13] Xavier de Hauteclocque, Le Turban Vert, 1930 (réédition
Energéïa, 2013).
[14] « Trump,
Poutine, Xi Jinping, Boris Johnson et Mohammed ben Salmane : Un autre Ordre
Mondial imprévu émerge. » (Saker/CVR, 22 mai 2020), https://lesakerfrancophone.fr/un-autre-ordre-mondial-imprevu-emerge
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BLOCHET, 1902.
[20] La
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[22] «Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping, Boris Johnson and Mohammed
bin Salman: A New,
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[23]Revelation 3:15-16 (paraphrase).
[24] Surah Al Maidah 5-87.
[25] « Vu d’Espagne. Une vague de profanations d’églises en
France » (Courrier International, 20/03/2019) ;
« Des centaines d’actes de profanation d’églises sont passés
inaperçus en 2018 » (Le Temps[Suisse], 22-3-2019).
