JIHAD WATCH 07/14/2020

Criminal Investigation of Trump Coming: Supreme Court Rules He Must Turn Over Tax Records My latest in PJ Media: The U.S. Supreme Court voted Thursday to uphold a subpoena from a grand jury in New York for President Trump’s tax returns and related records. The president’s attorneys had argued that presidents are immune from criminal investigation while in office, but seven justices, including the Trump-appointed Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, voted […] Read more 2020-07-13  •  Robert Spencer Islamic Republic of Iran executes man for drinking alcohol and four others for “enmity against Allah” But remember: if you suggest that Sharia may not be compatible with the principles of a free society, you’re a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.” “Man executed for drinking alcohol is one of 123 executions in Iran in 2020,” by Donna Rachel Edmunds, Jerusalem Post, July 10, 2020: Iran has executed a prisoner for the crime of […] Read more 2020-07-13  •  Robert Spencer US State Department lists 101 “Palestinian” acts of violence against Israelis in 2019, when there were actually 1759 This is a reminder that there are entrenched and unaccountable bureaucrats within the State Department and other U.S. agencies who do not have the best interests of the nation or its allies at heart. “Why did US report on Palestinian terrorism get the numbers wrong?,” by Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom, July 7, 2020: Data published […] Read more 2020-07-13  •  Robert Spencer As Palestinian Authority calls for jihad against Israel, US House Subcommittee votes to give it $250,000,000 “PA-affiliated TV channels have been running a video including a song with an explicit call for ‘jihad’ — a holy war — against Israel until ‘it is too late.'” — i24News, July 6, 2020 No problem! If the House Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs gets its way, money for that jihad is […] Read more 2020-07-13  •  Robert Spencer “We congratulate Turkey and ourselves for converting Hagia Sophia back to a mosque, it belongs to all Muslims” Hagia Sophia was a cathedral for 900 years and was seized from Christians in 1453. But it doesn’t belong to Christians, as far as Ekrema Sabri is concerned, because conquest by jihad confers right of ownership. No Western authorities at all, none, are pondering the wider implications of this. “Arab World hails Turkish decision to […] Read more 2020-07-13  •  Robert Spencer Bangladesh: Muslims dig up three-day-old girl’s body from cemetery and leave it by road because she was Ahmadi Yet in the West, Ahmadi spokesmen like the oleaginous and dishonest Harris Zafar and the arrogant and hate-filled Qasim Rashid carry water for the same Islamic supremacists who would cheerfully destroy their homes and places of worship and charge them with blasphemy if they were in Bangladesh (or Pakistan or Indonesia). Instead, Zafar and Rashid […] Read more 2020-07-13  •  Robert Spencer Pakistan: Muslim cleric tells supporters of Hindu temple “Your heads will be laid at the temple and fed to the dogs” “A video has also surfaced on social media in which a Pakistani cleric can be seen threatening to behead those supporting the construction of the Hindu temple in Islamabad. Addressing a congregation, the Muslim cleric said, ‘Your heads will be laid at the temple and fed to the dogs.'” Imagine if a cleric of any […] Read more 2020-07-13  •  Robert Spencer Erdogan’s Mischief-Making, And His Comeuppance (Part 2) Turkey’s foreign minister has said that Israel’s annexation plan “destroys all hopes” of lasting peace in the Middle East. Turkey has long hosted Hamas and sought to have Hamas play a larger role in Palestinian issues. Turkey’s foreign minister also refused to refer to Israel by name in the meeting of the Islamic Cooperation Executive […] Read more 2020-07-13  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Nigeria: Muslim leader says “O Kuffar, you have time to repent to Allah before Allah punishes you with our hands” The Qur’an explicitly says that Allah will punish people by the hands of the believers: “Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people, and remove the fury in the believers’ hearts.” (9:14-15) But just close your […] Read more 2020-07-13  •  Robert Spencer Italy: Muslim says coronavirus is ‘something from Allah, a positive thing,’ because ‘people are going mad’ “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to strike terror into the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not; Allah knows them. And whatever you spend in the way of Allah shall be repaid you in full; you will not be wronged.” (Qur’an […] Read more 2020-07-13  •  Robert Spencer