Hagia Sophia is a monument to *eternity*, not a museum to the past. Though I have mixed feelings on the matter, and on President Erdogan, I ultimately support the cathedral's transformation into a mosque and being put into the care of Muslims.

Hagia Sophia first became a "museum" in the time of Atatürk, and thus its transformation was part of the modernizing process toward secular nationalism and global individualism, recognized as such by the United Nations.

Hagia Sophia's transformation into a mosque marks a coming to an end of 20th-century liberalism. It now returns to being a sacred place, as well as a place of conquest—not a "neutral" site for fat tourists longing to take selfies outside various "world heritage" destinations.

Constantinople must be the capital of the coming Empire—announcing the death of liberalism and Western nihilism and the rebirth of Europe and politics on the greatest scale.

Until that day, Muslims will be tasked with maintaining this sacred place.