Israel quietly letting Jews pray at Al Aqsa Mosque in break with status quo

[arifkarim]

To that end, I also don't condone what Erdogan did with Haga Sofia in Turkey.

You don't condone but as sovereign in Turkey, he did it anyway. He also had Muslim majority's backing and court order behind the move, despite international condemnation. Similarly Hindus in India and Jews in Israel take back or will take back their holy sites that are currently occupied by Muslim structures, because as you said yourself, history and rules are written by victors.

 

[The Sane]

You don't condone but as sovereign in Turkey, he did it anyway. He also had Muslim majority's backing and court order behind the move, despite international condemnation. Similarly Hindus in India and Jews in Israel take back or will take back their holy sites that are currently occupied by Muslim structures, because as you said yourself, history and rules are written by victors.

Precisely so, and by doing that all the victors of today ran a risk of meeting with the same fate tomorrow if they become oppressed. You could have saved at least myself some precious time by circumventing to concurring with me right at the onset of this tangential discussion.
as per your court ruling conjecture, your defense is also brittle, since no court is inherently flawless. The same Indian court exonerated a Nazi sympathizer of genocide of its people, whom US had blacklisted from their flight list. Courts in Pakistan have upheld verdicts made by lower courts on weak interrogation and witness accounts regarding blasphemy. So why lament then?
Courts are the extension of the victor, and their rulings hold no sway outside the realm.