‘We will soon establish the Caliphate, liberate Jerusalem and conquer Rome’

At an event marking the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, Palestinian preacher tells crowds at Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem that the true task of Muslims is to wage jihad for Allah.

(January 19, 2020 / MEMRI) Rome will be conquered by Islam in the near future, Palestinian preacher Nidhal Siam told an enthusiastic crowd last week at an event in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque marking the anniversary of the 1453 CE capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire.

The three prophecies, said Siam, are that a rightly-guided Caliphate will be established, that Jerusalem will be liberated and established as the capital of the Caliphate, and that Islam “will throw its neighbors to the ground” and its reach will span the globe.