Father Manuel Muslim, President of the International People's Committee for Justice and Peace in Jerusalem, said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "raised the fate and dignity of Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque in which the name of God is swimming" after it was a museum that was trampled by the feet of nations.

On the other hand, Muslim reviewed "historical disasters" that took place in Palestinian churches and mosques, and said, "We Palestinians are Muslims and Christians in conflict, but in the eye of the hurricane with Zionism, from wars, massacres, prisons, burning, demolition, field executions, displacement and desecration of our churches and mosques."

Judaizing the antiquities of Palestine

In a video broadcast on his Facebook page, a number of Muslim disasters occurred in Palestinian mosques and churches that were transferred to other purposes, such as museums, cattle sheds, Jewish synagogues, wedding halls, nightclubs, and animal garages.

He also reviewed examples of some of the tragedies of converting mosques and Christian churches to Jewish churches, including "the conversion of the Yonesi Souk Mosque in the city of Safed into a museum. The Shaara Mosque in Safed into a synagogue, the Ain Zaytuna Mosque in Safed into a barn, the Khalsa Mosque in Safed into a museum, and the Red Mosque To a wedding hall with a platform and a wine room transformed into a settlers' nightclub.

And Muslim continued, "In Caesarea, the occupation turned its mosque, which overlooks the Mediterranean, into a khabara and restaurant. The Tahir Mosque in Tiberias to a museum, the Beer Sheba Grand Mosque to a museum, the Aweinat Mosque in the occupied Golan to a cowshed barn; Abu Huraira in the abandoned village of Yebna near Ramla to a small synagogue, and the Al-Omari Mosque in the village of Beit Jibreen, Hebron District, has become used as a cowshed.

"Just as they attack daily our lands, our stones, our sand, our water, our trees, our birds, our fish, our seas, our airspace, and our wealth. Everything we possess is threatened not only by annexation but by demolition and tolerance."

Age of custody

Father Muslim continued, "The most beautiful witness in Palestine on the tolerance of a lifetime is building a" State Writer Mosque "in Gaza and St. Porphyrios Church, one wall unites them and raises them in prayer every day. And Christians, also, note that President Erdogan raised the destiny and dignity of our Church, any of Sofia, from a museum that tramples feet Nations are to greatness, love, respect and universal appreciation, in which the name of God is glorified and its name glorified. As long as a Muslim respects my church, he respects me. ”

"It was fate and history that this great church moved with its people to Islam. As it happened in Spain and our Arab lands, some of our churches turned into mosques and some of their mosques into churches, and its people read in the Hagia Sophia the Gospel and today they read the Quran."

"In many Arab countries from which the colonial occupation was defeated, the church handed over the churches, and it descended from its people to Islamic governments to turn into mosques, and in some city sweepers in Europe Christians and Muslims rotate the prayer. People move and change their language and religion, and with peoples, mosques enter into Christianity as it happened. In Spain, churches and Christians enter Islam. "

And he recalled the age pledge saying, "We Christians in Jerusalem have invited the caliph Umar ibn Al-Khattab to pray at the resurrection. We accepted that the Muslim should pray in our dearest churches, he did not accept for fear that Muslims would take over because they are a symbol of Christians and he did not want Muslims to rob them of this symbol; but he went to Bethlehem and prayed in the Church of the Nativity, and there Muslims were not allowed to pray in congregation, Muslims prayed in our homes, our churches, and Christians prayed in the Holy Prophet's Mosque.

Addressing the Christians, he said, "Do not prevent them from praying in our churches. They are our people and we are their people and they are our blood and our flesh and we are their blood and their flesh. The Christian has to protect the Muslim and the Muslim must protect the Arab Christian, we in this holy land have not been protected by the United Nations or the Security Council nor international law, We, the slain sword of Jerusalem, resist our enemy to liberate our entire soil from the sea to the river, and protect each other. "

The struggle of the Muslim father

Father Manuel held many religious and political jobs and responsibilities, working as an assistant pastor for the Latin parish priest in Zarqa and Rusaifa in Jordan for the period between 1963 and 1968, then a priest for the parish of Anjarah in Jordan (1968), then a priest for the parish of Jenin (Palestine) and a teacher for Christian education at the Terra Santa School in Nazareth .

In 1975, Manuel Muslim became a priest of the Catholic Parish in Zababdeh (Palestine), then a priest of the Catholic Parish in Gaza from 1995 to 2009, and in that year he retired in his hometown of Birzeit, and Pope Benedict gave him the 16th Pope Benedict in January. The second 2006.

Father Manuel is known for his continuous activities against the occupation and his positions in defense of the resistance. He assumed the presidency and membership of many bodies and institutions active in the field of resisting the occupation and defending the Palestinian cause inside and outside Palestine.

He is a member of the Christian-Islamic Committee for the Support of Jerusalem and Holy Sites, a president of the Palestinian Independent Commission for the prosecution of Israeli war criminals (Hakam), a member of the Gaza National Action Authority, a founder member of the House of Wisdom in Gaza, a founding member of the Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza, and an active member also in Committees concerned with Palestinian national reconciliation.

Father Manuel is known for his desperate struggle against the Israeli occupation and inciting him to resist, and his pride in the role of Palestinian Christians in resisting the Israeli occupation, and he is the famous owner of “If they demolish your mosques, lift the ears from our churches,” as he said during the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in 2014.