A Vatican correspondent thought he was sharing a heartwarming example of religions 'co-existing', but X quickly disabused him of that notion.
A practical example of how the two religions coexist: As I began my interview with the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch, Ignatius Aphrem II, about the life of Christians in Turkey, the Muslim call to prayer rose from the famous Hagia Sophia Mosque next door. We waiting a few minutes and… pic.twitter.com/es7xim0Zu7
— Colm Flynn (@colmflynnire) November 29, 2025
Actually, a religion interrupting the day of those who do not practice their religion requiring them to stop their activities and wait for them to finish, is not co-existing, they are forcing others to comply.
This isn’t coexistence. It’s subjugation. https://t.co/Jg3xWHlh7j
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 29, 2025
Also, let's talk about the history of the 'Hague Sophia Mosque'. Hint: It wasn't a mosque.
Patriarch of the church that built the Hagia Sophia is giving interviews from a hotel room next door
— CiroccoDruid (@stillnotking75) November 29, 2025
"See? We can coexist!"
Honestly beyond parody
The two religions "coexist" because one religion denominates and the other meekly accedes.
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) November 29, 2025
> Hagia Sophia Mosque
Nauseating, but I'm not an Orthodox Christian. If they can't feel enough outrage to advocate for themselves, it's difficult for anyone else to advocate for them. https://t.co/RbfOjd2CX6
The Muslims took a church from Christians.
“Coexist” sure seems like “dhimmitude”.
— Sidge S. Mondo ن (@Magister_Mondo) November 29, 2025
That “call to prayer” came from the Muslim-occupied Hagia Sophia. https://t.co/txqfak5J2F
Yes, yes it is https://t.co/sVnhzHy0g1 pic.twitter.com/OOUktQWcNp
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) November 29, 2025
Few things boil my blood so much as the phrase “Muslim call to prayer… from the famous Hagia Sophia masque”. The West has its nose rubbed in all of its perceived ills of centuries past while the Saracen sits in one of Christianity’s most sacred buildings and calls it their own……
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) November 29, 2025
— Rebecca Tucker (@RebeccaTucker85) November 29, 2025
The Hagia Sophia what? https://t.co/EwiGXBwJZQ pic.twitter.com/X7rAkeEF9n
— Dick Bertram (@Dastardlyb247) November 29, 2025
It was a stolen Christian church. Period.
If you had to reset, it isn’t coexisting. I don’t know if the Orthodox use bells, and I sorely miss them in the States, but: bells. Bells, bells, bells. https://t.co/JszC3d8y9V
— Jay (@OneFineJay) November 29, 2025
We need more bells!
showing how they “coexist” by hearing the muslim prayer from the most important christian church https://t.co/yN4vs8rDrn
— Rūm ☦︎ (@Antiochian_Rum) November 29, 2025
Coexistence in Turkey is about knowing who is supposed to wait for whom. https://t.co/VVrwcx9lFM
— Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 (@JacobALinker) November 29, 2025
Sadly, non-Muslims have been conditioned to believe that "co-existence" is an Islamic objective because non-Islamic, illegitimate authorities in the Muslim world have claimed it through the centuries. https://t.co/FrTK9qQO6m
— Abu Najm Fernando bin al-Iskandar (@IbnalIskandar) November 29, 2025
Only one side actually has any intentions of actually 'coexisting'.
"Coexist"? Clueless! He's talking to the remnant of a country that was 100pt Christian. These people are historically illiterate, yet pretend to be the intellectual elite. That's where we are! https://t.co/pqasPYKbv4
— 🏛 Kassandra Troy ☦ (@KassieTroy) November 29, 2025
Thanks for clearing that up.