JIHAD WATCH 07/24/2020

Erdogan invites Pope Francis to opening of Hagia Sophia as a mosque Will his Islamic “friends” allow him to decline? Will he even wish to decline? More comments from me on this below. “Hagia Sophia: Pope’s Interfaith Time Bomb,” by Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, July 22, 2020: ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) – Greece’s president is urging Pope Francis to condemn the Islamic takeover of Hagia Sophia a day after Turkey’s radical […] Read more 2020-07-23  •  Robert Spencer Federal Judge May Release Muslim Who Pleaded Guilty in Plot to Behead Pamela Geller My latest in PJ Media: Boston’s WPRI reported Wednesday that “a federal judge is seeking alternative proposals to imprisonment for a Warwick man convicted in a terror plot to behead a conservative blogger.” The question that follows is inevitable: if Nicholas Rovinski, 29, a convert to Islam who plotted to murder Pamela Geller for the […] Read more 2020-07-23  •  Robert Spencer Muslim writer wants Christian mosaics removed from Hagia Sophia so Muslims don’t have to pray under image of “whore” Zaimoglu was likely referring, as Sofuoglu did, to “images of the Byzantine empress Zoe. The Christian ruler married several times and is said to have had different lovers.” But doctrinaire Muslims don’t approve of images of Jesus, Mary, and the saints either, so if Zaimoglu and Sofuoglu are heeded, the historic Byzantine icons in Hagia […] Read more 2020-07-23  •  Robert Spencer Indian girl converts to Islam, moves to Bangladesh, becomes recruiter for jihad terror group Where did Pragya Debnath learn about Islam? Who taught her? What has been taught in her mosque? Why isn’t her mosque being investigated? Here yet again we see a convert to Islam immediately get the idea that her new religion calls for violence against unbelievers. Authorities remain wholly uninterested in investigating this recurring phenomenon. “West […] Read more 2020-07-23  •  Robert Spencer Netherlands admits to paying jihad terrorists who killed 17-year-old Israeli The money went to the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC). This proves yet again what we have long contended here: that any aid to jihad terror-supporting entities is ill-advised (to put it mildly), because money given for humanitarian reasons just frees up funds to be used for jihad activity. The Popular Front for […] Read more 2020-07-23  •  Robert Spencer India: Muslim MP says “Coronavirus is not a disease but punishment by Allah for our sins” The solution to the virus, therefore, is to reopen the mosque and redouble one’s Islamic fervor. This is the kind of thinking that leads to jihad activity. A hadith has a Muslim asking Muhammad: “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” Muhammad replied, “I do not find such a deed.” […] Read more 2020-07-23  •  Robert Spencer Aisha, Muhammad’s Child Bride: A Rebuttal of Lesley Hazleton ‘Quick-witted’, ‘tart tongued’, ‘daring’, ‘headstrong’ and ‘assertive’ are not five phrases I would immediately attribute to Aisha when I hear them. What springs to mind is rather ‘prepubescent child-bride’; the authority for this assertion consists of multiple Islamic sources rather than speculative, cringeworthy platitudes. This is the issue we face when dissecting one of the […] Read more 2020-07-23  •  Isaac Marshall With Declining Birth Rates, Is There Nothing For the First World But “Unlimited Mass Migration”?  First world countries are suffering from a steady decrease in their fertility rates, and hence their populations. Some “experts” claim the only solution is for limitless immigration from Africa. The story is here. First world countries must respond to a “jaw-dropping” crash in fertility by totally opening their borders to unlimited mass migration, according to […] Read more 2020-07-23  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Nigeria: Muslims invade village, murder 11 Christians, set dozens of houses on fire This kind of jihad attack happens in Nigeria with numbing regularity. If the victims were Muslims, they would be the subject of a blizzard of articles and feature stories, as well as academic studies and UN commissions. But since the victims are Christians and the perpetrators are Muslims, no one much cares. “Muslim Fulani Herdsmen […] Read more 2020-07-23  •  Robert Spencer Paris: Muslim with blade and rifle attacks partygoers while screaming ‘Allahu akbar,’ passerby runs him over Yet another jihad attack in a notorious no-go zone in Paris that is being assumed to have nothing to do with Islam: “He certainly shouted Allah hu Akbar, but has no disturbing judicial record, and nothing else has been found yet that could suggest radicalisation.” No one but religious Muslims screams “Allahu akbar” while attempting […] Read more 2020-07-23  •  Christine Douglass-Williams