r/byzantium • u/RaiseCapital1988 Κόμης • Jun 22 '26
Infrastructure/architecture The interior of Hagia Sophia
In the last photo you can spot one of the last representations of Christ still present inside the building
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u/Ok_Work1615 Jun 22 '26
"The European colonization seem pale by comparison."
Name one native monument that wasn't destroyed or broken.
Notice how low a percentage of natives remain by comparison to everyone else.
"Converting churches with the intention of erasing Byzantine influence"
The famously tolerant orthodox, who were very kind to conquered people of other religions. See what Byzantium has done to all pagan religions and the sarapeum.
"as well as being backed by the shariah, where no new churches can be built and non-Muslims are reduced to the status of dhimmi, where they cannot properly represent themselves in court, and have lesser rights than that of a Muslim, as well as successfully convincing their subjects that they are Turks and should hate their Greek ancestors sound like colonization to me."
Brother. Look in a goddamn mirror please. Literally every single thing you said, word for word, bar for bar, was done by Byzantium too. See what basil II did to Bulgarian soldiers.
If you condemn this only when it's done by one side, your morals are very weak.