That Emperor Justinian built Hagia Sophia in Singidunum and not Constantinople, and that at the beginning of the 20th century, King Alexander of Yugoslavia, as a sign of the creation of a new multi-confessional state SHS, turned that Orthodox place of worship into a museum, for all people, visitors, locals, guests, and that then 100 years later, in 2020, a corrupt master builder of a hybrid regime like Aleksandar Vučić, the best friend of Milo and Erdogan, that he, therefore, decided by AV decree to return Hagia Sophia, that imagined Belgrade, to its original purpose and make it a religious building again, only for the Orthodox - what would happen?!
You can imagine that howling after our eternal, new series of Pobjeda, CDM and other Đukanović's analytics, where the self-proclaimed champions of the civic and anti-fascist movement, supposed fans of open society and Karl Popper, from Podgorica to Belgrade, from Pristina to Zagreb, from Moscow to Chicago, from Mi Boxer to Latinka, from Biserko to Vlasi, from Sisojev to Servero, where all of them would line up for days and months in whining for the Hagia Sophia museum, for secular Serbia, condemning AV and his nationalism for attacking the entire region and its stability?!
This is how it turned out to be strange and completely unusual, thanks, of course, to history, but also to hypocrisy and transparent propaganda - first Emperor Justinian built Hagia Sophia on the Bosphorus (and not on the Danube), as a Christian temple of course, then the great conqueror Mehmed II turned Hagia Sophia into a mosque, of course, that many centuries later, at the beginning of the 20th century, the magnificent Kemal Ataturk would put that same temple "out of order", presenting to his people and then to the whole world instead of a place of worship - a museum! As a symbol of the new secular and European Turkey! So that this year, 2020, unbecoming of the time, therefore, a soft dictator Erdogan, who filled Turkish prisons with thousands of his dissidents and extinguished all free media, the sultan of the 21st century, friend of Milo and AV, decided to return everything to the previous setting . Thus Hagia Sophia became a mosque again, and Turkey sailed down the sea, even further from Europe.
And here - silence! Muk in our eternal. But not in Europe either. The greatest Turkish intellectuals, writers, directors, scientists, almost all of whom live far from their country and Erdogan's boots, their European counterparts, write and cry for Ataturk's Hagia Sophia, that is, secular and European Turkey. Still silence here. There is no petition, no feuilleton, no fake champion of anti-fascism and Western values, no Davorjanka comes forward, Tito died, no Milo and his mercenaries are heard, no one from the circle of the duo, no one from Pristina, Sarajevo, Split, no one from New York and Chicago, no one of the unmemorable to write one word about Erdogan's act and its possible consequences for the stability and future of the region?!
But don't be misunderstood by the hybrid autocrat Vučić. And not to run and cry in his own style over yet another "anti-Serbian injustice". This is not a consolation for him, let alone a support for his policy because - he is the same Erdogan. And just as the latter provokes and participates in conflicts in the Middle East, the Caucasus, and has started poking around in the Mediterranean, AV would do the same, if he could, in his region. And only Vulin and his saber from the Seventh Battalion. All of them are from the same story of the already quoted Umberto Eco - eyeless manipulators, without moral scruples, ready to propagate the supremacy of their nation or religion, wrapped in the flag of false patriotism.
Let me return to the point of the text. Where did the double arsin come from?! Or even more important - when will the on-duty healers and paid DPS patriots stop scaring us with whites, Chetniks, pops and other symbols of Greater Serbia and incorrigible Belgrade?! It is clear, but also concluded a long time ago - Serbian nationalism dominated Yugoslavia, with the support of the SPC, caused war and crimes and led to what we live in today - to captive institutions, endemic corruption and organized crime. So, I understand someone's frustration or fear, especially those who lost loved ones in the wars of the 90s, but I just ask - when will the professional "Westerners" from the country and region stop spinning and falsifying? Vucic didn't primarily problem and danger for the region, but for Serbia itself.
And our problem and the question that the recent government and its promoters are running away from, trying to reformulate it in their favor, is - where does this fear of losing the secular and civil state come from now, right after the elections on August 30 and the fall of the multi-decade government?!
Isn't that a process that has been going on for three decades?! How much Milo?! Where have you been?! While the DPS persecuted and threatened, the Church gathered and offered consolation. While Milo was counting coins, Amphilochius was gathering the faithful. There were five of us, said the metropolitan in the spring, when I came to Montenegro in 1990. And look at how many children in our church today are only under 10 years old!
Therefore, the attack on the secular state of Montenegro did not start with the new government, but with the DPS. 30 years ago. First, the politics of wars and crimes, and then wars and crimes, made the Church dominate all these years in public opinion surveys as the most trusted institution. Because all other addresses were captured and made meaningless by the corrupt regime. Social differences, misery, poverty, injustice, crime and murder, drugs and bookies, all these attributes and main products of the time of the untouchable and all-powerful DPS government, simply drove ordinary people to the church. To save children from the streets, heroin, quotas, the party's collapsed education system, neglected schools, confused and frightened parents pushed them to church. And this one welcomed them readily and with open arms.
And that is one of the hot potatoes that the new government gets its hands on from the outgoing regime. How to strengthen the secularity of the state that DPS started and almost destroyed?! How to create the conditions for the Church and all religious communities to live and work as in any normal society, and for the state and its institutions to strengthen and offer citizens security and perspective - economic and physical. Only when the streets are cleared of clans and murders, when the economy rises and provides jobs for all who want and know, only when the schools are freed from the hands of the party, will secular Montenegro begin to strengthen. And then they will go to church for prayer and personal needs, and not for general, as the Police Directorate would say, security challenges and reasons.
In parallel, in Montenegrin society, instead of the hysteria of Đukanović's swindlers and mercenaries, a dialogue of all parties should be opened on the subject of the secularity of the state, which the DPS has called into question. And to look for solutions.
What would "our faithful people" say - death to fascism, freedom to citizens. And not Slobodan. Or Milo, that is Vučić. Sorry, Erdogan.
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