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Daily Digest If you would like to forward this email to a friend, please use this link  How the Hagia Sophia became a mosque on this day in 1453 Turkish President and would-be caliph Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to turn the Hagia Sophia, now a museum in Istanbul, back into a mosque. But how did the Hagia Sophia become a mosque in the first place? Today is the anniversary of an awesome tragedy. On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, once the greatest city in the […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Robert Spencer Germany: Muslim migrants rape 14-year-old, sexually assault 13-year-old, get 3 1/2 years prison Once they get out, they will become loyal, stable, productive members of German society, no? No. Because nothing whatsoever will be done while they are in prison to try to ensure that. The Islamic principles that likely contributed to their thinking this was acceptable behavior will not be challenged; to do so would be “Islamophobic.” […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Robert Spencer Palestinian-American Congressional Candidate Loses Big in Illinois’ ‘Little Palestine’ District Palestinian-American Rashad “Rush” Darwish was the first Muslim Palestinian to run for elected office in Illinois’ 3rd congressional district, an area comprising Chicago’s southern suburbs and “Little Palestine,” where thousands of Palestinian-Americans live and work. Despite this favorable constituency, Darwish’s decision to neglect local issues and prioritize the distant Palestinian-Israeli conflict may have led to […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Hesham Shehab Cameroon: Thousands of Muslims defy virus restrictions, one says obeying them would disobey Muhammad and Qur’an It is clear from this that for many Muslims, Islamic obligations supersede every other duty, loyalty, or allegiance. Western analysts should take notice of this (but they won’t), because jihad warfare against unbelievers is also an Islamic obligation (cf. Qur’an 8:39, 9:29, etc.), and the reaction of these Muslims in Cameroon to coronavirus restrictions is […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Robert Spencer Twitter censors Trump, claiming he’s “glorifying violence,” keeps up Khamenei’s tweet calling for jihad violence Twitter did this after the President’s Executive Order calling for an end to politically motivated censorship on Twitter. And so the war is on. It is clear from Twitter’s leaving up Khamenei’s tweet calling for jihad violence that they’re not censoring Trump out of concern about violence, but because he is the largest voice dissenting […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Robert Spencer Palestinian Authority Prime Minister: Paying jihad terrorists and murderers is “a sacred matter” Supporters of the “Palestinian” jihad consistently frame their war against Israel in Islamic terms, yet the first aspect of the conflict that Western analysts discount is Islam. Find out why that is so damaging in The Palestinian Delusion. “Salaries to terrorists and murderers are “a sacred matter,” says Palestinian PM,” Palestinian Media Watch, May 11, […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Robert Spencer Turkey: Muslim leaders rewriting history to glorify Ottoman Islamic rulers, downplay the secularist Ataturk “By contrast, there is the opposite Islamist view. According to this, it was Sultan Vahdettin who did everything. In fact, the Islamist discourse addresses the issue with a conspiratorial approach as if Atatürk was almost pro-British. Now that Islamists are in power in Turkey, they want to change that history.” Of course. Because Erdogan has […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Robert Spencer Update: During This Pandemic, Israel, What Have You Done For Us Lately? Israel Seen provides a useful update on what Israel has done for us lately. It’s a very long list. I’ve had to cut it way down. I was impressed. I think you will be, too. An Israeli is helping American biotech company, Moderna, produce a COVID-19 vaccine. Teva donated medicine for a US coronovirus treatment […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Germany’s Partial Ban of Hezbollah: A Half-Measure This article is cross-posted with permission from Gatestone Institute. The German government, after years of equivocating, has announced what amounts to a partial ban on the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah — Arabic for “The Party of Allah” — in Germany. The so-called ban — supported by the center-right Christian Democrats and the center-left Social […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Soeren Kern Iraq: Islamic State jihadists using video game controller explosives to murder Yazidis There are no limits to the jihadist hatred of infidels, or to their impulse to murder them. “Bomb detection units in Iraq uncovered a plot by the Islamic State to detonate bombs against Yazidi people hidden in video game controllers, a film highlighted by the UK Telegraph on Monday found.” While the Islamic State has […] Read more 2020-05-29  •  Christine Douglass-Williams David Horowitz Freedom Center P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks California 91499-1964 United States