Nowadays Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan frequently invokes and glorifies Turkey’s Ottoman past, reinforcing the impression that many hold, that he is intent on restoring the caliphate in Istanbul and maybe even declare himself caliph. When thousands of Muslims gather to pray at the Hagia Sophia, they are essentially demanding that it be designated a […]
Turkey bans Armenian Genocide commemoration in Istanbul, arrests three participants
As I show in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS (click here to preorder), the Armenian Genocide was abundantly documented at the time. Over a million and a half Armenians were killed. But the Turkish government has never admitted its role in the genocide, instead following the characteristic Islamic supremacist […]
Turkey: Erdogan recites Qur’an inside Hagia Sophia in honor of “Istanbul’s conqueror”
Nowadays Erdogan frequently invokes and glorifies Turkey’s Ottoman past, reinforcing the impression that many hold, that he is intent on restoring the caliphate in Istanbul and maybe even declare himself caliph. In any case, when he enters the Hagia Sophia and dedicates his Islamic prayer to “Istanbul’s conqueror,” he is inviting people to remember the […]
Turkey: Muslim stabs policeman to death for the Islamic State
Turkey does not (yet) fully implement Sharia, and it doesn’t recognize the caliphate of al-Baghdadi, and so as far as the Islamic State is concerned, it is an apostate entity. And that means it must be attacked. The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014: So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you […]
ISIS to Trump: “You have your eyes on Raqqa and Mosul, but we have our eyes on Constantinople and Rome”
You might think that Constantinople has already been conquered for Islam, but the Islamic State jihadis believe that no land is truly Islamic until it obeys their caliph. And they called it Constantinople because it is called that in ancient Islamic prophecy. “Imam Ahmad reported in his Musnad that Abdullah bin ‘Amr bin Al-‘As (may God […]
Turkey: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” violently assaults, bites female emergency room worker at hospital
“SES representative Muhsin Baygümüş also pointed out the other recent attacks on women and said the reason for the increase is also due to lack of legal deterrents.” How can there be legal deterrents against this in Erdogan’s rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey when the Qur’an tells men to beat women from whom they “fear disobedience” (4:34)? […]
Turkey: Court releases Muslim who attacked woman for wearing shorts during Ramadan
Prosecutor Mehmet Ali Yıldız “filed an objection to the decision at a higher court, the 6th Court of Peace.” The woman who was attacked says: “I have not, until now, said anything bad to justice; I thought it had a conscious [sic]. Such justice is a crying shame!” Indeed. But it will be extremely difficult […]
Video from Turkey: Muslim strikes woman for wearing shorts during Ramadan
Wearing shorts during Ramadan: an offense to Allah. Striking a woman who is wearing shorts during Ramadan: a blessed act. After all, the Qur’an commands Muslim men to “beat” from from whom they “fear disobedience” (4:34) “Outcry after Turkish woman assaulted for ‘wearing shorts in Ramadan,’” AFP, June 21, 2017: ISTANBUL (AFP) – A Turkish […]
Istanbul nightclub jihad attacker: “My aim was to kill Christians”
He wants to be put to death now so that he can at last claim, as he intended to do the night of his jihad massacre, the Qur’an’s promise of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). Note how Masharipov conflates the actions of Western governments with Christians and Christianity. No […]
Video: Robert Spencer asks, Why do Western officials even bother to condemn terror attacks?
In this new video, I explain why official pro-forma condemnations of jihad terror attacks only highlight the general futility and wrongheadedness of the West’s response to the global jihad.