Spain: Spanish Cathedral Allows Islamic Call to Prayer from Rooftop…

On Friday, April 24, five Muslims climbed to the top of Seo Vieja Cathedral, one of the most important Catholic buildings in the city of Lleida, Spain, to broadcast the call to prayer (adhan) from loudspeakers for Ramadan.

Many viewed this event as both a foreshadowing of the direction in Spain, as well as a provocation towards non-Muslim Spaniards through the reclamation of land that was once under Islamic rule.

Gatherings in Spain, including Catholic Masses, are prohibited due to the Chinese coronavirus. This prohibition has been strictly followed throughout the country, including during Easter. This prohibition, however, is being increasingly ignored by the Islamic community as special considerations are being granted to them by left-wing politicians.

Lleida was a city that had been subjected to brutal rule by Islamic conquerers until the Reconquista of 1149. Sharia law dictates that all lands that have ever been ruled by Muslims is forever legally under Islamic rule.

Tomas Samuel, a former imam, says that according to Islamic text the Muslim call to prayer “shows power and control over the country.”

Samual cites one of the most important books for Islamic law, “Omdat Al-Ahkam”; continued here

Saudi Royals affected by coronavirus.

Up to 150 members of the Saudi royal family are infected with coronavirus, it has been reported.

King Salman and Mohammed bin Salman have both gone into isolation to avoid the outbreak, reports added.

Doctors at the elite King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh that treats members of the royal family are preparing 500 more beds for an expected influx of patients. 

The operators of the facility said: ‘Directives are to be ready for VIPs from around the country’.

This was written in a ‘high alert‘ sent out electronically on Tuesday to senior doctors and later obtained by the Times. 

The message said they don’t know how many cases they will get but that all chronic patients are to be moved out as soon as possible and only top urgent cases will be accepted.   

Any infected staff members will now be treated at a less elite hospital to save room for royals.  

Salman, 84, has secluded himself on an island palace near Jeddah, while the crown prince has moved to a remote site on the Red Sea coast. more here

Ireland: Priest allows Muslims to chant Muslim supremacy prayer in the mass.

COUNTY MAYO, Ireland April 7, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Tuam, Ireland, invited local Muslims to offer an Islamic prayer during a Mass last Friday that was live-streamed by the parish and broadcast over local radio. 

Priest allows Islamic prayer during mass.

While the prayer was reportedly offered for an end to the coronavirus, Catholic sources have since confirmed that what was sung was, in fact, the “Adhan,” the Islamic “Call to Prayer” that asserts Islam’s supremacy over Christianity.

Father Stephen Farragher, parish priest of St. Patrick’s Church in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, noted that “Friday is to the Muslim community what Sunday is to Christians” before inviting local Muslims Mohammed Cherbatji and Mohammed Rahmani to offer a prayer of “blessing” for an end to the pandemic and for all frontline healthcare workers. 

Farragher said the prayer was “to pray to God, to ask God’s blessing to eradicate the virus and all who are working to do that and to give his protection to all who are working in our healthcare services.” continues here

UK: Corona virus “Despicable” act by men in supermarket.

Two “despicable” men who licked their hands before wiping them over meat, vegetables and fridge handles in a supermarket are wanted by police.

The pair walked into Sainsbury’s in Morecambe, Lancashire, on Saturday afternoon. Staff were forced to thoroughly disinfect the Lancaster Road store and destroy products, police said.

Lancashire Police has now released CCTV images of two suspects and appealed for information.

Insp James Martin, described the incident “utterly despicable“.

He said: “That anyone could think this sort of behaviour is appropriate or amusing, even in normal times, is beyond me. “But at this time of crisis when many people have been faced with empty shelves in shops it is flabbergasting.“

Insp Martin called on the men to come forward, adding: “You must surely know that what you have done is wrong. here

UK: Former Uber driver found guilty of planning terror attacks.

A former Uber driver has been found guilty of planning terrorist attacks at London hotspots and told police officers he ‘learned a lot’ from ‘likeminded’ Streatham attacker Sudesh Amman while in Belmarsh prison. 

Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, who had previously been cleared of a sword attack on police outside Buckingham Palace, was today convicted at Woolwich Crown Court.

The 28-year-old allegedly boasted to undercover police how he had deceived a jury into finding him not guilty of the attack. 

His sister Sneha Chowdhury, 25, cried as she was convicted of one count of failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism and cleared of another count of the same charge. 

Woolwich Crown Court heard Chowdhury unwittingly revealed his plans to ‘unleash death and suffering on non-Muslim members of the public’ to undercover agents.

Chowdhury said he ‘learned a lot’ from ‘likeminded brothers’ while on remand at Belmarsh with other terrorists including Streatham knife attacker Sudesh Amman more here

Hezbollah Blamed COVID-19 Outbreak on Christian Monasteries.

The coronavirus pandemic has put Hezbollah in a complex and sensitive position.

Immediately after the first infected individuals were identified in Lebanon, Hezbollah was accused of conveying the disease to the country from Iran. Air traffic from Tehran to Beirut had continued without letup as Lebanese students and their families fled the universities in Iran, particularly the madrasas of Qom where thousands of Lebanese study, and returned to Lebanon without being checked or quarantined, thereby spreading the disease from Iran to Lebanon.

These accusations sparked fear as well as intense anger at Hezbollah, which claimed that the virus had broken out in the Jesuit monasteries of Beirut and Bikfaya. Hezbollah thereby sought to place the blame at the door of Lebanon’s Maronite Christian community.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who has given several speeches over the past few weeks, stated unequivocally that the responsibility for handling the virus in Lebanon belongs to the Lebanese state and the Lebanese government. That means all residents of Lebanon, including Hezbollah members and their families, must comply with the directives of the Lebanese Health Ministry, which is headed by a Hezbollah-affiliated minister. continued here

Coronavirus: BBC begins broadcasting weekly Islamic sermons as mosques remain shut

“Local radio is all about connecting communities, and we hope these weekly reflections will go some way to helping Muslims feel a sense of community while they are isolating,” said Chris Burns, the head of BBC Local Radio.

The British government ordered all places of worship closed on 23 March as part of its measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.

Days before the announcement, more than 375 mosques and prayer facilities suspended congregational activities, according to the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).

“Safeguarding all of our communities is paramount, and it’s reassuring so many mosques and prayer facilities have heeded this advice in trying their best to minimise the spread of the coronavirus,” Harun Khan, secretary general of the MCB, said last month. read more here

Pakistan: World Worshippers attack police trying to stop Friday prayers in Karachi amid COVID-19 lockdown

Karachi, Pakistan: Worshippers clashed with security forces as they attempted to enforce a complete lockdown to prevent people congregating during Friday prayers in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in the country.

The incident took place at a mosque in Karachi’s Liaquatabad area when police were trying to stop people from attending Friday congregation prayers in view of lockdown imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19.

In a video of the incident, dozens of people can be seen chasing two police vehicles and pelting them with stones as an officer fired in the air to disperse the crowd.

Facing heavy stone-pelting, the police personnel fled from the spot in a bid to save their lives. They, however, later returned with a heavy contingent of police and controlled the situation in the area.

According to the local media reports, police have arrested four people including Imam of a local mosque for violating lockdown imposed by the government and inciting violence in Karachi. continued here

UK: Sadiq Khan STILL blames commuters for packed Tubes.

Sadiq Khan today again blamed commuters for packed Tube trains during the coronavirus crisis as he was shown footage of the cramped conditions on live TV.

The Mayor of London claims ‘too many people are not staying at home’ and again insisted they could not run any more services as he admitted only around half of all trains are now going during rush hour.

Today there are waits of up to 20 minutes between trains when usually it would be three to five minutes, leading to more busy carriages and platforms packed with key workers with no choice but to go to work.  

He added: ‘There is a concern that still too many people who really, really should not be going to work are using public transport during the rush hour and the key message is unless you really have to get to work, work from home, and if you do have to go into work, please avoid the rush hour more here