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It was an actual scare quote free mosque from 1453 to 1934, so if anything the secular museum phase was out of character.
by resolutebat 3y ago
It was an actual scare quote free mosque from 1453 to 1934, so if anything the secular museum phase was out of character.
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoIt's not a coincidence that the conversion to a museum coincided with Ataturk's sweeping reforms in making a secular state. The reversion is a mark of a return to fundamentalism and a decline into theocracy.
- Scarblac 3y agoHopefully there's something in between a pure secular state vs fundamentalism and theocracy that they'll settle on.