“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pope Francis: “I think of Hagia Sophia and I am very saddened”
As I stated to Church Militant, 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 […]
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 […]
Christian theologian: “Christians should be delighted” at Hagia Sophia becoming a mosque
Useful Idiots such as Giles Fraser, who couch their capitulation in the guise of being broadminded, tolerant, and generous, will be the death of us. Giles Fraser has offered an argument from authority, which is the weakest of all arguments: Christians and Muslims worship the same God because the Pope Francis and the Second Vatican […]
European Court of Human Rights rules against Greece for applying Sharia inheritance laws
In fall 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that insulting Muhammad was not “free speech.” The ruling involved the free speech case of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff (ESW), who had been fined and given a jail sentence in Austria for calling Muhammad a pedophile. The ECHR “noted that the Austrian courts had held that […]
Turkey: Muslim breaks into venerable Armenian Orthodox cathedral, recites Islamic call to prayer
Legend has it that when the Muslims conquered Jerusalem in the year 637, Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, invited the caliph Umar to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Umar declined, explaining that if he did, the Muslims would convert the church into a mosque, as Muslim prayers had been uttered there. It […]
Australia: Muslima in coronavirus lockdown complains that the free food she received wasn’t halal
Even the Qur’an allows Muslims to eat non-halal food in cases of necessity: “And why should you not eat of that on which Allah’s name has been pronounced, while he has explained to you in detail what is forbidden to you, except under compulsion of necessity?” (6:119) But it isn’t good enough for this young […]