JIHAD WATCH 07/13/2020

Why Erdogan Converted the Hagia Sophia to a Mosque, and Why the State Department Should Be Concerned My latest in PJ Media: Most Western media analyses of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision Friday to convert Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque have asserted that Erdogan has wanted to do this because the move is popular among Turks and will shore up his base. But there is a great deal […] Read more 2020-07-12  •  Robert Spencer Pakistan assembly speaker says construction of Hindu temple in Islamabad is “against the soul of Islam” The legions of non-Muslims in the West who are anxious to appease Muslims and do nothing that could even be perceived as insulting to Islam should take careful note of these developments, but they won’t. The opposition to this Hindu temple is yet another indication that some Muslims virtually take any non-Muslim expression of faith […] Read more 2020-07-12  •  Robert Spencer Turkey: MP says “Decision to convert Hagia Sophia to mosque will make life more difficult for Christians here” Indeed it will, as it is a new indication that Erdogan intends to destroy Turkish secularism altogether and restore Islamic rule to Turkey, which will involve the subjugation of the country’s remaining Christians as dhimmis. “Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally makes Hagia Sophia a mosque,” by Suzan Fraser, Associated Press, July 10, 2020: …Turkey’s […] Read more 2020-07-12  •  Robert Spencer Pakistan: Muslims kidnap another minor Hindu girl and forcibly convert her to Islam These “love jihad” incidents are motivated by supremacist assumptions. The idea is that the Muslim community will always grow at the expense of the non-Muslim community. “Another minor Hindu girl kidnapped in Pakistan forcibly converted to Islam,” ANI, June 23, 2020: According to the affidavit, Reshaman`s new Muslim name is Basheeran. There have been numerous […] Read more 2020-07-12  •  Robert Spencer International Union of Muslim Scholars: “Supporting Palestinian resistance is a form of jihad for the sake of Allah” The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), “backed by Qatar and Turkey, and other Islamic organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement calling on Muslims to wage jihad and self-sacrifice” to halt the plan of the Netanyahu government to assert Israeli sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria. A large number of Muslim […] Read more 2020-07-12  •  Christine Douglass-Williams Pope Francis: “I think of Hagia Sophia and I am very saddened” The Pope’s tardy statement manifests a studied ambiguity. What exactly is he saddened about? He doesn’t say. Is he saddened because what was the foremost church in the Christian world for nearly a millennium, and the center of Eastern Christianity, has been made a mosque? Or is he saddened because this act harms the dialogue […] Read more 2020-07-12  •  Robert Spencer Turkey: Muslims scream “Allahu akbar” at news of Hagia Sophia’s conversion to mosque This is because “Allahu akbar” does not mean “Allah is great,” as AP has it here, but “Allah is greater,” i.e., superior to your god. The conversion of Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque is a simultaneous declaration that Islam is superior to both secularism and Christianity. It is a manifestation of Erdogan’s […] Read more 2020-07-12  •  Robert Spencer Erdogan’s Mischief-Making, and His Comeuppance (Part 1) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees himself as the natural leader of the Muslim world. Last year saw published in his mouthpiece, the newspaper Yeni Safak, his plan for a pan-Islamic army that, with its huge collective armory of planes and tanks, and more than a million men under arms, would be able to […] Read more 2020-07-12  •  Hugh Fitzgerald UK: Muslim Uber driver who plotted Gay Pride jihad attack and “gun and knife rampage” jailed for life, i.e. 25 years A former Muslim Uber driver who plotted to drive into an “evil” Gay Pride parade and go on a “gun and knife rampage at busy London tourist sites has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.” The Qur’an condemns homosexuality, and many Islamic countries still uphold the death penalty for gays. […] Read more 2020-07-12  •  Christine Douglass-Williams Islamic Movement and Left Join Forces in anti-American Revolution (Part 3) The Twitter account of the self-described organizer and abolitionist Hoda Katebi, (the daughter of Iranian immigrants) who mocks the Chicago Police Department and promotes leftist revolutionary material from the Black Panther Party, provides illuminating details for events organized in Chicago. Katebi advocates on behalf of Believers Bail Out, a zakat eligible, shariah-compliant organization partnered with […] Read more 2020-07-12  •  Matthew Edwards