Orthodox Seminary, a hotbed of radical Christian militants

Orthodox Seminary stays shut as Turkey bucks EU pressure

Now keep in mind, boys and girls, Turkey is "the only rigorously secular state in the Muslim world." And what is their logic for keeping the seminary closed?

They "cannot reopen Halki without letting Islamist groups launch their own schools that could radicalize local Muslims."

What?!?! Hold on a second, let me read that excuse again....nope, still doesn't make sense. You mean to tell me that they cannot change a law that allows Orthodox Christians to reopen a seminary without also allowing a Jihadist training school to function? They can't work in a law that forbids the training of future terrorists? You've got to be kidding me.

Of course...how many new priests does the EP need anyway? Four or five perhaps to function here in America?

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Anonymous said…
Halki is much, much more a symbol of denied rights than loss of a theological school. It was not, shall we say, Harvard on the Bosporus. THere are a vanishingly small number of aging Greeks in the country and the City (due directly to terrorism & ethnic cleansing), and any students at a reopened Halki would have to be imported. It's a talking point to embarass the Turks, who have it coming. Sort of like arguing there needs to be an Armenian (Armenians, What Armenians? NO Armenians ever lived here!) seminary in Turkey. -- Bob K.
11:00 AM
Terry (John) said…
Yes, this is so sad. I actually saw the school (from a distance) this summer. It is a massive structure, dominating Halki Island (Heybeliada). There's still something of a Greek presence on the 4 Islands (Proti, Antigoni, Halki and Prinkipo) in the Sea of Marmara. I asked a young Greek shopkeeper, next to the Patriarchate, how many Greeks were left in Constantinople. He said 1,500.

And Bob K. is correct--Armenian holocaust denial is not only alive and well, but institutionalized in Turkey. They are still bluffly attempting to stare down history.
3:20 PM
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