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Post by Sublime Porte on Feb 20, 2015 15:54:45 GMT
"And so he pokes the Lion of Islam, naming it a dog..." muttered the acting Vezir in Constantinople, while reporting on the Russian decree to the Sultan.
It is reported that the Sultan has not been hunting in a week, but has been spotted praying with his people five times a day in the public mosques (instead of privately in Palace facilities, where he would normally pray unless it were Holy Friday) for the delivery of justice to the Russian butchers, and mercy to the suffering Tatars and Ruthenians under the tyrannical rule of the Tsar.
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Post by Sublime Porte on Feb 20, 2015 16:41:43 GMT
One Friday, in the Mosque of the Conqueror, Fatih Mehmet Sultan, namesake of the current Sultan, the Caliph of Islam joins a congregation of his subjects. In the mosque, all are equal, and even the Sultan lies prostrate before God, as a brother of the faith and not as master of the world.
A special lesson has been prepared for the sermon, where a special prayer is to be made for the war against Russia. The war is to be portrayed as long overdue and is to cite the countless Russian atrocities against man and God alike, going back all the way to the reign of Ivan the Terrible, referred to in the lesson as Ivan the Bewitched. Ivan is chosen in particular to add weight to an announcement. Ivan, who conquered a free Sunni state centred around Astrakhan, had started the oppression and exploitation of Turcomans and Tatars that continues to this day in the lands of Peter. A prayer is offered for the descendants of the last Khan of Astrakhan, Dervish Ali Astrakhani, who had his throne unjustly taken from him by the demonic Tsar, and whose descendants the Imam is proud to announce were to be joining the Yellow Army in its campaign to bring justice to the Tatars!
OOC: I don't know much about the extent to which Islamic religious services can be politicised beyond prayers for the Sultan, but I assume there's at least some wriggle room, considering how it must have been the most obvious way of sending a message to an entire community.
Also, I looked up the last Atrakhani Khan and he is said to have moved to Azov at first, and then gone to live in the holy land near Mecca, so his descendants will be pious subjects of the Sultan, although probably heavily Arabic-Turkic in culture after a century of exile from Tatar-Nogay lands.
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