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Rep. Chip Roy has introduced a new bill to remove tax-exempt status from 'charities' with terror ties. He joins BlazeTV Host Sara Gonzales to discuss why this is a necessary move as the threat of radical Islamic influence within America continues to grow.
Residents in Dearborn are complaining about being woken up at 5 in the morning by the Muslim call to prayer. Because that’s what life in an American city is like now.
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What is happening in Los Angeles these days is insurrection enough, but Sa’ad al-Awlaki, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), wants much more. If he gets his way, America will be awash in blood, with the principal leaders of the Trump administration, above all the president himself, all assassinated. Al-Awlaki sees such assassinations as an Islamic religious duty, and made his case to Muslims in America, some of whom are already out on the streets in Los Angeles, on the basis of their Islamic responsibilities. Whether any will take heed remains to be seen.
In a video published on Sunday, al-Awlaki asserted that assassinating non-Muslim leaders was a form of Islamic jihad: “Anyone who can revive the tradition of assassinations and is near the leaders of apostasy – those who support the war in Gaza with money, aid, and logistics, the Jewish Arabs, like the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and all the rulers of the Arabian Peninsula – should not hesitate even for a moment. By Allah, [assassinations] are the greatest form of jihad today.” The “Jewish Arabs” are the Muslim leaders whose countries have accords with Israel, or who have, like Saudi Arabia, been working toward a rapprochement with the Jewish state largely behind the scenes.
As for assassinating leaders, that is indeed an Islamic tradition. As “The History of Jihad” explains in detail, in the twelfth century, a Shi’ite Muslim sect, the Nizari Ismailis, came to be known as the Assassins. With their planned murders of many of their individual opponents, the Assassins gave the English language its word for one who commits planned, premeditated murder, and foreshadowed the individual jihad terror attacks of the twenty-first century.
The word “assassin” is derived from “hashashin,” or hashish smokers, a name given to the group by its foes and based on stories about their novel method of recruiting new members. Recruits would be given hashish and taken into a garden where beautiful women awaited them. Later, when they came to their senses, they were told that they were in paradise and that they could return there by killing Allah’s enemies and being slain in the process, thereby taking hold of Allah’s promise of paradise to those who “kill and are killed” (Qur’an 9:111).
Today, al-Awlaki has some very specific targets in mind. He called upon observant Muslims in countries that aren’t attacking Israel, and who “fear Allah’s punishment for abandoning their brothers in Palestine,” to take matters into their own hands and “strike the Jews, the American military bases in the region, and the American aircraft carriers that are looming in the sea here.”
Al-Awlaki was just getting warmed up. He issued a direct call to the “4.5 million Muslims in America,” telling them they didn’t need special permission to kill: “Do not consult anyone about killing infidel Americans.” He had some extremely specific targets in mind:
You should have a lot of determination and the list of your targets should be effective. Go after the scum of the earth and its greatest criminals. This is Trump and his VP. This is Elon Musk, his advisor and his supporter in terms of finance, administration, and technology. These are his Secretary of State and his Secretary of Defense. Go after their families, and all those who have any ties or are close to the politicians of the White House. There are no red lines after all that has been happening to our people in Gaza – the genocidal war, and the systematic and deliberate killing of women, children, and the elderly. Reciprocal responses are lawful, especially because they are continuing to kill our women and children in Palestine, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. When they cease doing that, we will cease as well.
Not even that was all. Al-Awlaki added: “Go after the Senate – the parliament of the real Zionists. It is a den of evil and lair of pus and filth. Go after the institutions that support the Jews and the American government, like Microsoft, and all the companies that support the American Army, Air Force, or Navy, and any company that manufactures ammunition or other things. Go after Elon Musk’s companies. They are legitimate targets, and so are all the similar companies that participate in the war against Muslims.” Was there anyone in the U.S. that al-Awlaki did not want Muslims to attack violently? If there was, he didn’t say so.
These were not the ravings of a madman. Al-Awlaki was a respected leader of a jihad group that has been on the scene for well over two decades. American law enforcement and intelligence officials should pay careful attention to his words, and watch carefully for any indications that anyone wants to heed his call. Otherwise, the Los Angeles riots will end up looking like a placid prelude to a far bloodier conflagration.
The last two pro-Hamas terrorist attacks, the arson at Gov. Shapiro’s mansion and the murder of two people at the Capital Jewish Museum in D.C., were carried out by leftists. But actual Muslim terrorists weren’t going to be left out.
Shortly after the media pushed the Hamas hoax of an Israeli massacre at an aid distribution site, and on the eve of a Jewish holiday, Mohammed Soliman attacked a group of people holding a ‘Run for Their Lives’ walk to bring attention to hostages held captive by Islamic terrorists.
Mohammed, who is reportedly an illegal alien from Egypt who overstayed his visa, threw Molotov cocktails at the walkers, burning a number of people. Six marchers between the ages of 67 and 88 years have been hospitalized with burns. Some of the injuries were reportedly horrific.
🚨 BREAKING: Jewish protestors have been set on fire in what is being reported as a terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado.
The attack occurred at 13th and Pearl, with reports of several victims, including children, caused by the throwing of incendiary devices. WARNING – GRAPHIC pic.twitter.com/Ks1oqKspPC
“One elderly woman was so severely burned that her hair was charred and she wasn’t moving while others cared for her. Others were sitting/lying down in shock, skin melted off their legs with their skin even split open and bleeding in some areas.”
Ed Victor, who participated in the walk, said they’ve been holding these silent marches every week since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack to raise awareness for the hostages still in Gaza. They stop at the courthouse to sing songs, tell stories and read the names of the hostages each week. He said around 30 people were participating in Sunday’s walk.
“So we stood up, lined up in front of the old Boulder courthouse, and I was actually on the far west side. And there was somebody there that I didn’t even notice, although he was making a lot of noise, but I’m just focused on my job of being quiet and getting lined up. And, from my point of view, all of a sudden, I felt the heat. It was a Molotov cocktail equivalent, a gas bomb in a glass jar, thrown. Av [another marcher] saw it, a big flame as high as a tree, and all I saw was someone on fire,” said Victor.
Victor said they tried to put the fire out. As another marcher with medical experience stepped in to take care of her, Victor stayed with her husband to comfort him. He said volunteers also rushed in to help, bringing water.
But despite the horrific nature of this act, look for it to get far less media attention than the Burlington Islamophobia hoax.
Islamic terrorism is always with us. The particular vectors may change, but the underlying reality is that it’s cruel, vicious and evil. It derives its power from the conviction that Islam must be made superior over all other religions. Whether the targets are Jews, Christians, Hindus, or any other group, each attack is a horrifying testimony to the clash between Islam and civilization.
The longer this goes on, the worse it will get. Without immigration reform, the number of attacks will only increase.
FBI: Boulder attack was planned for a year, Soliman wanted to kill 'Zionist people'
The suspect in Sunday’s attack in Colorado told investigators he “wanted to kill all Zionist people” and had planned the attack for a year, according to an affidavit. If convicted on all 16 counts of attempted murder in the first degree, he could face 384 years in state prison, according to Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty. Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, provides more insight.
A planned development called EPIC City has caught the attention of the Texas government. Some officials have alleged that the city, being developed in connection with the East Plano Islamic Center in an area east of Dallas, Texas, will enforce Sharia Law over state and federal laws (something the development denies). Glenn speaks with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s one of many Texas officials investigating EPIC Cities. Paxton argues that similar communities in Europe have turned into “no-go zones” for local officials. Paxton also addressed what actions he might take against EPIC City and whether there’s a conflict of interest between him and EPIC City’s attorney. Additionally, Paxton discusses his Senate run against Texas Senator John Cornyn and why the Republican establishment has promised to oppose him.
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Duluth, Minnesota, a place that most liberals would agree was too white, finally made history when the otherwise boring 87% white city elected its first Muslim lesbian councilwoman.
Azrin Awal, a Bangladeshi immigrant, moved to Duluth to attend the University of Minnesota, got a degree in gender and sexuality studies, co-founded the local NAACP chapter (despite not being black), was part of the Muslim Students Association and decided to run for public office because Duluth was Islamophobic and needed to fundamentally change to suit her tastes.
And that’s after only being there for 5 years.
But they were busy years in which the Bangladeshi immigrant claimed she was a victim of Islamophobia because she was called a 'terrorist' and had a hijab snatched from her head.
She also came out as ‘queer’ and her pronouns are either “She/They” or “She/Them/Theirs”. She took part in ‘drag shows’ and discussions about ‘Islamophobia’, telling students that “Islam means peace”, but not telling them what happens to ‘queer’ people under Islamic Sharia law.
But that’s probably because, despite the list of pronouns, Awal is married to a white guy.
Much like her neighboring role model, Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Awal got a job working at the DEI office at the UM Duluth which she still holds, to help ‘queer’ students. A year before her marriage, Awal told her colleagues that she was working “on self-actualizing her identities as Muslim, Bengali, Asian-American, and queer woman.”
The ‘queer’ part apparently still needs more ‘actualizing’. Or will be around election time.
The LGBTQ+ Victory Institute listed her as ‘Queer’ and so did election materials and pitches. Even while married to a former fellow white male classmate at UM Duluth, a waste engineer working for a state government agency, her official City Council bio states that “Azrin identifies as a Muslim, Bengali, Asian-American, and queer woman dedicated to equity and social justice.”
Much like men who identify as women, Arzin is a married woman who identifies as ‘Queer’.
It was always implausible that a Muslim Students Association member, an Islamist group with roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, was going to have an openly lesbian member.
But the pronouns came in handy when building her woke credentials for public office: Awal also claimed that she understood homelessness because had been homeless when she had to sleep on other people’s couches for a few months in between finding housing.
And with the promise of being the first Muslim woman, the first Asian woman, and the first ‘queer’ woman on the Duluth City Council, Awal was endorsed by the DSA and local lefties. She campaigned by accusing Duluth of suffering from “Xenophobia and Islamophobia”.
“I’m getting a lot of pushback,” Awal complained during her campaign. “But I’m also opening people’s minds and forcing people to reevaluate what equity means.”
At a council meeting in February, Awal demonstrated her definition of ‘equity’ by praising a call from an anti-American activist to banish the Pledge of Allegiance from council meetings.
“It’s becoming increasingly clear that our flag doesn’t necessarily stand for freedom for everyone in the nation,” Awal claimed.
Azrin Awal did not discuss the superior level of freedom to be obtained in her native Bangladesh, which recently underwent a brutal Islamist coup against the minority Hindu population, and where homosexuality is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Awal has claimed that her family in Bangladesh were “spiritual leaders, they were freedom fighters”. While she didn’t go into any details, her father Mohammed Awal came to America in 1991. A year earlier, Bangladeshis had overthrown the Islamist regime of General Hussain Mohammed Ershad. It is unknown what side of the conflict Awal’s family was on, but the description of them as “spiritual leaders” raises the possibility that they were Islamists.
While advocating against Israel’s battle with Hamas, Awal claimed that the issue was ‘deeply personal to her, citing her ancestors who fought oppression in Bangladesh.’
Awal and her family lived in the formerly bucolic Maple Grove suburb of Minneapolis, which was targeted for refugee resettlement by Lutheran Social Services, among other ‘resettlers’, and now has a sizable Muslim population. Some are worried that Duluth may go the same way.
After the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, Azrin Awal took to denouncing Israel and drafted a ‘ceasefire’ resolution falsely accusing Israel of “genocide”, citing fake Hamas propaganda numbers and calling for an end to military aid to Israel, which the Duluth council rejected by a margin of 5-4.
She falsely claimed that Israel is an “apartheid state” and Hamas-run Gaza an “open-air prison”.
In response to Oct 7, she posted a video by an affiliate of Minneapolis pro-terror group member who claimed that Israel controls the media. Awal later joined with the Marxist and Islamist-led ‘Uncommitted’ movement to protest Biden’s failure to completely withdraw support from Israel in order to enable a Hamas victory.
Azrin Awal promoted and took part in an event featuring Mariam El-Khatib of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) who had promoted Hamas propaganda and justified the stabbings of two Rabbis along with a mother and her two-year-old daughter. AMP has been accused of having ties to Hamas. While claiming to want ‘peace’, Awal was promoting Hamas sympathizers.
Terrorist sympathizers who described a stabbed 2-year-old girl as an “extremist”.
When Awal claims that “our flag doesn’t necessarily stand for freedom for everyone in the nation”, the real question may be how the Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant defines ‘freedom’.
America is free enough that even Muslim immigrants who hate this country can get elected to higher office across Minnesota and everywhere else ‘refugees’ from terror states are ‘settled’.
But it’s never free enough until it can be entirely destroyed and replaced with something else.
Those who want to destroy America can wear the costumes of social justice over their hijabs, can pretend to be woke and even use pronouns, but underneath it all, they hate us.
In episode # 116 of The Testing the Spirits Podcast we examine the statements made by JD Greear in his book "Breaking The Islam Code" where the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) seems to teach that Islam & Christianity worship the same deity despite what the Bible says in the epistle of 1st John. Greear and his cohort Neil Shenvi both of Gospel Coalition (TGC) did they get this idea from the man they say was instrumental in their Christian walk the late Billy Graham? The Televangelist did have some eye raising things to say about Mohammad Ali. You won't want to miss this episode!
This past week, a group of U.S. imams publicly endorsed Kamala Harris, but beneath the surface, this move reveals a strategic effort to use her policies to advance Islamic influence in American politics, challenge U.S. security, and erode foundational American values.
On Monday, a group of imams from across the U.S. published an open letter endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. But this endorsement isn’t simply about political preference—it’s a calculated move within a broader strategy to further an Islamic expansionist agenda in American politics. These imams recognize that Harris’s policies, particularly her alignment with the radical left, offer the best opportunity to advance their long-standing goals: increasing Islamic influence, undermining Western values, and gradually gaining control over governmental power.
Islamic Expansionism: A Strategic Play
The imams’ support for Kamala Harris reflects their understanding that this is a critical moment for Islam’s strategic incursion into the American political system. The letter paints Trump as a divisive figure who would reintroduce oppressive policies. In reality, this letter is a call to Muslim communities to seize the moment and consolidate power. By warning against Trump, they seek to shift Muslim voters toward Harris, who they believe will open doors to policies that advance Islamic law and migration, further embedding Sharia into the cultural and political fabric of the U.S.
Islam’s history is one of manifest destiny through conquest, where every opportunity is used to gain control over societies, either through voluntary conversion or by force. From the early Islamic conquests in the 7th century, which spread across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, to modern-day political strategies, the goal remains the same: submission. The very word “Islam” itself means submission, and historically, Islamic leaders have sought to subdue non-Islamic regions by imposing Islamic law and governance. This strategy has not changed; it has simply adapted to modern democratic processes.
The imams who signed this letter are fully aware of this history and are using Harris’s platform to advance the next phase of Islam’s agenda. By securing positions of influence, Islamic leaders aim to gradually undermine American institutions from within, focusing on key areas such as immigration, judicial appointments, and education, all while maintaining a veneer of concern for human rights and anti-discrimination. In reality, their goal is to establish a system where Islamic law and values hold sway over American policies.
The Weaponization of Victimhood
In their letter, the imams frame their opposition to Trump as a moral stance, invoking the language of human rights and likening his policies to a revival of Jim Crow laws. They claim that Trump’s return to office would inflict great harm on Muslim communities, drawing exaggerated parallels to racial segregation to stoke fear. For example, the letter states, “Trump is funded by pro-settlement donors who support Israeli annexation of the West Bank” and warns that he has “promised to deport pro-Palestinian students and activists he refers to as ‘jihadists.’” Isn’t this subtly admitting a pro-Hamas stance by defending activists who support Hamas? These incendiary claims are designed to galvanize Muslim voters and cast Trump as an existential threat.
This manipulation of victimhood is a calculated tactic to galvanize Muslim voters by stoking fear and positioning imams as defenders of the oppressed. Their goal is not just to protect their communities, but to position Harris as a key to advancing Islamic law under the guise of social justice. In reality, they are exploiting the left’s narrative to further their own agenda, positioning Harris as a pivotal ally in this strategy.
This is a clear manifestation of the Red-Green alliance, where the radical left and Islamic supremacists find common cause. By weaponizing shared grievances, this alliance seeks to weaken America’s borders, reduce national security protocols, and push policies that align with globalist and Islamic objectives. Politicians like Harris are instrumental in dismantling traditional governance structures, not through mutual respect, but a temporary partnership aimed at eroding the foundations of American sovereignty and replacing them with policies favorable to Islamic expansionism.
Securing Power Through Key Government Appointments
A central piece of this strategy is the imams’ desire to position Muslims in key government roles. By rallying support for Harris, they aim to ensure that more individuals aligned with their vision of Islamic governance are appointed to influential positions in law enforcement, education, and the judiciary. This isn’t about fair representation—it’s about strategically placing people who will champion policies that prioritize Islamic law and interests.
This is not a new strategy. Imams and Muslim organizations have previously endorsed candidates like Joe Biden and Barack Obama, recognizing their favorable stance toward Islamic immigration and foreign policy. Biden’s administration, in particular, was seen as backing policies beneficial to Muslim-majority countries, including his approach to Iran, the Taliban in Afghanistan, his special immigration allowances for Muslims, and his downplaying of Islamic terror threats. Similarly, imams supported Obama for resettling large numbers of refugees, advancing Iran’s nuclear program, his support for foreign Islamic governments—often hostile to America—funding mosques within the U.S. These are just some examples of how imams use political endorsements to further their broader agenda of embedding Islamic governance into the fabric of the United States.
Islamic groups like the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have long pushed this agenda, openly stating their goal of installing Muslims in political offices to influence domestic and foreign “policy.” The imams’ endorsement of Harris is just the latest move in a larger game of political chess aimed at embedding Islamic governance into the fabric of the United States.
Muslim Migration as a National Security Threat
At the core of this political push is the issue of immigration. The imams’ call for open borders not only signals their desire for Islamic migration into the U.S., but it also aligns with Hijrah, the Islamic command to emigrate for the cause of Allah. This concept, rooted in Muhammad’s own migration from Mecca to Medina, has historically been used as a strategic tool to expand Islamic influence. Today, migration remains a key method for spreading Islam, particularly in non-Islamic lands, where the goal is not to assimilate but to transform societies from within.
Muslim migration into Western countries is not about blending into host nations but about altering the cultural and political landscape to bring them closer to an Islamic state. Europe has already borne the brunt of this reality. Countries like France, Germany, and the United Kingdom have experienced rising demands for Sharia, the establishment of Islamic banking systems, and the erosion of traditional Western customs. Islamic elements in these migrant communities often refuse to adopt local laws, instead advocating for the implementation of Sharia, slowly transforming the fabric of their host countries.
From demands for Halal food systems to enforcing niqab-wearing in public and rejecting Western holidays, these incremental shifts work to gradually Islamize societies. High birth rates and continued migration further accelerate this process. Muammar Qaddafi’s prophetic remark, “We Muslims don’t need to use force… our emigration and high birth rates will accomplish our objectives,” underscores the patient but deliberate strategy at play.
The imams’ endorsement of Harris fits perfectly into this broader agenda. They view her open-border policies as a way to destabilize American society, erode national security, and ultimately transform the nation into a more Islamic-friendly entity—much like what is already happening in parts of Europe.
The Threat to American Values
The imams’ letter is not simply an endorsement of a candidate—it’s a declaration of their intent to erode the values that make America strong. By aligning with the radical left, Islamic leaders hope to weaken the core principles of individual freedom, equality, and constitutional law, replacing them with policies that favor Islamic governance. The open borders policies they advocate would bring in populations that do not share America’s values and would push for laws incompatible with the U.S. Constitution.
If left unchecked, this growing alliance between Islamic leaders and the far left will threaten both U.S. security and the freedoms Americans hold dear. Their ultimate goal isn’t just political influence—it’s a transformation of the United States into a society where Islamic law dominates, and the very fabric of American life is fundamentally altered.
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Do people in the West have a negative view of Islam because of a campaign of “Islamophobia”? That’s the assumption of an old article that remains relevant, and that we have been accordingly revisiting: “Obsession with Islam blinds West to real problems,” by Omer Taspinar, Asia Times,
The result has been to reinforce the tendency in the West to look at the Middle East through the prism of religion. From Turkey’s transformation under Recep Tayyip Erdogan to what has been called the Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict, the focus invariably is on Islam, at the expense of almost all other economic and political drivers of conflict. The verdict this delivers is ominous: Islam is not compatible with democracy, secularism, modernity and many other progressive achievements. Islam also is perceived as an autocratic, intolerant, violent and belligerent religion.”…
But everything that goes on in the Muslim Middle East has to do with Islam. Erdogan’s transformation of Turkey has focused on undoing the Kemalist reforms that have helped to secularize a large part of the Turkish urban population; Erdogan is doing what he can to re-Islamize the country. Between 2006 and 2009 Erdogan built 9,000 new mosques. How many more has he built in the decade and a half since? He has also built more than 4,000 Iman Hatip schools, which were originally founded to educate young men to be imams and preachers, but now accommodate a curriculum for both boys and girls that is heavy, but not exclusively, religious in nature. Why shouldn’t discussion of Turkey focus on religion, when that has been the focus of the Turks themselves? As for “what has been called the Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict,” is Taspinar suggesting that it really doesn’t exist (but is merely “what has been called…”)? Several hundred million Muslims, in dozens of countries, apparently think otherwise
Taspinar thinks that Western “obsession” with Islam can lead to some very wrongheaded conclusions: that Islam is seen as an “autocratic, intolerant, violent and belligerent religion.” What could have given anyone that idea? Could the treatment of non-Muslims, who, according to the Sharia, must either convert to Islam, or die, or submit to the onerous conditions imposed on the “tolerated” non-Muslims known as dhimmis, possibly lead to that view? Could 1,400 years of history, right up to the present day, suggest an intolerant religion because non-Muslims — Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Hindus, Buddhists — have all been persecuted and tens of millions killed by Muslims? Might Islam be perceived as “violent” because of its long history of conquest of many lands and the forcible subjugation of their peoples? Or could that perception also be prompted by intra-Islamic violence that has pitted Sunnis against Shia, Salafists against mainstream Muslims, Deobandis against Barelvis, orthodox Muslims against Ahmadis? Could Islam be thought a “belligerent” religion because of all the verses commanding jihad — mainly through war — in the Qur’an, and all the wars that Muslims have engaged in to spread their faith?
There is not so much a “Western obsession with Islam,” though it is certainly merited — too little attention has been paid in the West both to Islamic history, and to Islamic doctrine — as there is an obsession among Muslims about the Infidel West. In the lands of the enemy Infidels, Muslims have now been allowed to settle in great numbers. But they seldom integrate, for they are taught in the Qur’an to regard those Infidels as “the most vile of created beings,” and are instructed not to take Christians and Jews as friends, “for they are friends only with each other.” How is the West supposed to persuade Muslims to ignore those Qur’anic verses and to integrate into their societies? And Muslims in the West cannot help but recognize that, despite being peopled by “the most vile of created beings,” the advanced West seems to be thriving. It is maddening for Believers to compare that success with the Muslim world, which stagnates politically, economically, and socially. Politically, monarchs, despots, and generals rule in more than half of the Muslim countries. Economically, the Islamic world’s only important source of wealth consists of the revenues from the sale of oil, that is, wealth that results not from industriousness or entrepreneurial flair, but only from an accident of geology. Socially, the mistreatment of women and of minorities continues to hold back, in many Muslim lands, more than half of the population. This sense of failure maddens Muslims, who have been told in the Qur’an that they are “the best of peoples.”
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“During the blessed last 10 days of Ramadan, we celebrate our Administration’s incredible Muslim team,” Vice President Kamala Harris announced, posing on the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with some of the most controversial figures in the administration.
Right behind Kamala was Nasrina Bargzie, her deputy counsel and future Muslim liaison, who had been interviewed by the FBI after 9/11, wore orange for the Islamic terrorists at Gitmo and had fought a lawsuit Jewish students filed over harassment by pro-terrorist activists at Berkeley.
Second from Kamala’s right was Mazen Basrawi, Biden’s current Muslim liaison, who had attended a conference honoring one of the unindicted co-conspirators of the World Trade Center bombing, and whose appointment was hailed by Muslim Brotherhood groups.
Second from Kamala’s left was Brenda Abdelall, who had taken part in anti-Israel protests in college, and had falsely accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” as part of a “brutal occupation”. Abdelall became the “assistant secretary for partnership and engagement” at the Department of Homeland Security in the Biden-Harris administration and then appeared at a convention where speakers had called for a caliphate ruled by Islamic law and freeing Islamic terrorists.
Abdelall was recently chosen to head Kamala’s Arab-American outreach. The campaign refused to part ways with her over past comments accusing Jews of controlling America.
Also allegedly present was Yousra Fazili, who had studied Islamic religious law or sharia at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, notorious for its terrorist teachings, and represented the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations co-founded by figures tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden, before becoming the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs and now serves as the Chief of Staff to the Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer of the Pentagon.
Yousra’s sister, Sameera Fazili, had served as the deputy director of the National Economic Council despite being a member of Stand With Kashmir (SWK) “which was founded by her cousin, Hafsa Kanjwal” and which had “praised and defended the actions of a number of violent Islamists” including one who had “met with Al Qaeda figures” and praised Osama bin Laden.
Other members of Kamala’s “incredible Muslim team” included Maher Bitar, a former executive board member of Students for Justice in Palestine, a campus hate group which has since endorsed Hamas and the atrocities of Oct 7, and an organizer of a conference by the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, which worked with Hamas, and whose previous events reportedly included chants of “Kill the Jews”.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, Bitar became the Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council and then the chief coordinator for intelligence and defense policy making him, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, “the senior-most official responsible for coordinating U.S. Government intelligence and defense policy.” Reporting tips Bitar as a likely Director of National Intelligence or “some kind of senior role” in a Kamala administration.
Reema Dodin, who had described suicide bombings against Jews by Muslim terrorists as “the last resort of a desperate people”, was brought on as the deputy director for the Office of Legislative Affairs.
Near the top of the stairs was Abdullah Hasan, a recipient of a CAIR Islamic Scholarship Fund who defended BDS for the ACLU and claimed that “Islamophobia is rampant even in our highest democratic institutions” like the Supreme Court” before becoming an assistant press secretary for the Biden-Harris administration.
Uzra Zeya worked at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: an informal arm of the Arab Lobby started by former diplomats to Muslim countries where she helped compile material for a book claiming that Jews secretly control the United States. In the Biden-Harris administration, Zeya became the Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.
Kamala’s pose with the record number of Muslim staffers, estimated to be over 100, in the Biden-Harris administration was also a measure of her personal relationships with some of them, like Nasrina Bargzie, one of her “fabulous four” staffers who had stayed with her throughout her time in office, as well as others, like Brenda Abdelall, with whom she had a developing relationship that would make her part of her future presidential campaign.
As the attorney general of California, Kamala had developed longstanding ties with CAIR, whose founder has since endorsed the Oct 7 attack, along with other Islamist groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. In Congress, she defended Rep. Ilhan Omar’s antisemitic remarks and her sympathy with activists who assailed Israel during her remarks after Oct 7 was not feigned.
The Kamala campaign continues to cultivate ties with extremist figures, including a reported private meeting between the candidate and Mayor Abdullah Hammoud of Dearborn, known as the nation’s Jihad Capital, who had told a pro-Hamas rally after Oct 7 that this was “the city of resistance”.
Before the rally in Detroit, Kamala spoke with Layla Elabed, Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s sister, and Abbas Alawieh, a former Tlaib staffer, who runs an anti-Israel movement, and told them, according to a New York Times report, that she was open to discussing an arms embargo on Israel. (The paper and her campaign later claimed that she was only open to speaking to them.)
And while Kamala’s opposition to Israel has often been seen as a response to the necessity of winning Michigan, her solidarity with Islamists was not a response to the 2024 election.
Kamala has built a Muslim team whose views are extreme and whose hostility to America and Israel, as well as their ties to foreign governments and Muslim Brotherhood groups, raise troubling questions, especially as some figures, like Maher Bitar, are expected to rise further in her administration, while others we may not yet know about will arrive on the scene.
Vice President Kamala Harris is not a critic of Israel’s campaign against Hamas because of the pressure out of Dearborn, but because she has built up relationships with terrorist supporters.
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Campus antisemitism is a problem, but reports focus on the experiences of Jewish students rather than the identity of the perpetrators. Media reports hesitate to name anyone. Jewish organizations zero in on campus hate groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, but that only tells us so much about why antisemitism has become so widespread at certain universities.
Brandeis University’s Center for Modern Jewish Studies recently conducted a survey asking college students about their views of Jews and Israel. And the results are revealing.
66% of students, the vast majority, did not hate Jews or Israel.
While leftist students only make up 14% of overall students (less than the 17% who identify as conservative), they make up a full 43% of students who are hostile to Israel. The remaining 46% of those hostile to the Jewish State identified as “liberal”. The activists associated with campus encampments and other forms of harassment are a small minority of leftist extremists who have used student organizations and political complicity to wield disproportionate power.
Liberal Jews have embraced diversity as the solution to hate, but diversity causes antisemitism.
White students were surveyed as the least likely to hate Jews. Twice as many black, Hispanic, and Asian students as white students ranked as “hostile to Jews”. While black students were slightly ahead in the small “extremely hostile” group, Asians were slightly more hostile to Jews than any other minority group. This may reflect academic competition between Jewish and Asian students, Chinese government support for Hamas or some Muslim students being grouped together with Asians.
Only 10% of white students were hostile to Jews, however 23% of Asian, 22% of black and 22% of Hispanic students were hostile to Jews. That meant they agreed with statements such as “Jewish people talk about the Holocaust just to further their political agenda” and “Jews should be held accountable for Israel’s actions”. 26% potentially held favorable views of Hamas.
And that brings us back to the question of which group of students hates Jews the most.
Christian students were overall the least hateful toward Jews and Israel. (4% of Christians were more antisemitic than the average but this may reflect the inclusion of some minority students or the impact of ‘Groypers’ and other social media influencers like Candace Owens.)
72% of Christian students, 65% of atheists and agnostics and 60% of ‘other religion’ students were not hostile to Jews or Israel, so the majorities of every belief system were not antisemitic.
Muslim students were the only group where the numbers were the exact opposite.
65% of Muslim students either hated Jews or Israel. Only 29% were non-hostile.
These numbers represent a complete break from those of any other group. Not a single group on campus, even leftists, hates Jews nearly as much as Muslims do.
Revealingly, more Muslims hate Jews than hate Israel.
36% of Muslim students, over a third, hated Jews, 29% hated Israel, and 6% hated both making it clear that this is not about politics, territory or Gaza: it’s really about Islamic antisemitism.
The wholly artificial distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism falls apart here, as it has throughout the general normalization of assaults and harassment of Jews after Oct 7.
Not even a third of Muslim students were tolerant of Jews. What does this mean on campus?
While hard data on Muslim demographics at universities with the largest antisemitism problems are hard to find and even more difficult to break down, we know that Muslim student populations have increased sharply, in some cases doubling within a decade. Muslims now make up 2% of the students at the University of California, 3.7% of Yale’s undergrads, 2.4% of Princeton seniors, 2.7% of students at the University of Michigan, and 3.6% at colleges overall.
These may be relatively small percentages (and some are out of date) but they represent over 75,000 students concentrated at key campuses. A previous survey found that encampments and other pro-terrorist activity had been concentrated at elite universities. Some of those same universities draw in large numbers of Jewish and Muslim students. What does it mean when a disproportionately antisemitic group grows its share of the student population?
The growing Muslim student demographics lead directly to hostile campuses for Jews.
At Harvard, the number of Muslim students in the freshmen class increased from 2.6% in 2013 to 3.9% in 2021. During that same period, the number of Jewish students fell by 2%. Would the harassment of Jewish students at Harvard have played out the same way if the number of Muslim students hadn’t been rising and the number of Jewish students wasn't falling?
At Yale, the number of Muslim students doubled from 1.5% in the oughts to over 3% in the previous decade. During this same period, the Jewish student body also declined.
Muslim immigration, sharp population growth and foreign students are changing campus demographics. A decade ago, there were twice as many Jewish students as Muslim students at UCLA. The numbers are likely reversed now. This helps explain what happened on campus.
The sustained harassment of Jewish students is not just ideological, it’s racial and religious.
Ideological leftist opposition to Israel has come together with the traditional Islamic antipathy to Jews, and the propensity toward dislike of Jews among more ‘diverse’ minority groups in an alliance of hate. Political extremism, support for terrorism, and antisemitism have come together in a toxic atmosphere where Communist and Hezbollah flags fly side by side, and black nationalists and third worldist academics explain why Hamas and Oct 7 are progressive.
Muslim students and Islamist organizations tie together an alliance between white leftists who want to destroy America, Europe and Israel, as well as some black, Latino and Asian students who ethnically and racially detest Jews by drawing on the destructive tendencies of both worlds.
Where white people have learned to feel guilty about hating others, minority ethnic nationalists take pride in their racism. Critical race theory, third world discourse and orientalism are just ideological permission structures for bigotry. The moral inversion of terrorism turned the Marxist and then Islamic perpetrators into victims and the victims into perpetrators who had it coming.
Islamic nationalism, hate and even genocide are portrayed as moral because they are the work of the oppressed even if the oppressed are a racist, totalitarian majority of over a billion people persecuting not only Jews and Christians, but also Buddhists, Hindus and nearly every religion.
While anti-Zionist discourse pretends that Israel was created and sustained by a few European immigrants, the majority of Israel’s population (and the vast majority of its nationalist voters who have kept Netanyahu in power) are Middle Eastern Jewish refugees fleeing Muslim oppression.
Muslim antisemitism is why Israel exists and why it’s still subjected to Islamic terrorism.
The same hate faced by Jewish students on campus has led millions of Jews to flee Muslim countries to Israel, America, France and other parts of the free world. That hatred is not a response to Gaza, to the Six Day War or to any event more recent than the rise of Islam.
Islamic antisemitism is at the heart of the Koran and Islamic scripture. Islam was born in part out of the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Arabia. And it teaches that Jews are its primal enemies.
Muslim students are far more hostile to Jews than any other group of students because of religious prejudice. That prejudice has been around for over 1,000 years of Islamic oppression and will not disappear no matter what negotiations take place in the Middle East.
Liberal Jews have long championed diversity, but a diverse population is statistically more antisemitic. Combining diversity with a free pass for bigotry aimed at ideologically deserving white people and Jews is turning university campuses into no-go zones for Jews.
And what’s true of campuses is also true of American cities.
The multicultural and immigration policies of liberal Jewish organizations led directly to this crisis. It’s time for them to look at the numbers and do the math before it’s too late.
Keffiyeh is the Arabs’ Swastika; And leftists are wearing it proudly.
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Like everything that is “Palestinian,” the keffiyeh comes from somewhere else. Its name is derived from an Italian word, cuffia, or headdress. It originated among the Bedouins as a protection from the sun, and not just Palestinians, or Arabs in general, wear it; Kurds and Yazidis sometimes sport it as a non-political statement. Nevertheless, the close identification of this headdress with the Palestinian jihad against Israel has made it unmistakable: the keffiyeh is today what the broken cross of National Socialism was in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a symbol of an irrational and violent hatred of Jews, and a determination to destroy them.
On Saturday morning, yet another incident made this clear. The man went to the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the seaside French resort of La Grande-Motte, where he set two vehicles on fire. The fire spread to the doors of the synagogue and injured a police officer. A French intelligence official stated: “The suspect is Arab with a Palestinian flag tied around his waist and a handgun on his belt.”
Surveillance video, however, showed that he was also wearing a keffiyeh, and that was no surprise at all. Wearing the keffiyeh is an indication today that one stands for the principle that is so succinctly and clearly enunciated in the ubiquitous battle cry “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” As all of Israel lies between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, this is a call for the total destruction of the Jewish state and a new genocide of the Jews.
The association of the keffiyeh with this genocidal cause began about ninety years ago. Initially, some Jews who moved to British Mandatory Palestine donned the keffiyeh, as they saw it doing so as part of trying to fit in with their neighbors. However, during the 1936-9 Arab Revolt against British rule, Arab commanders ordered Arab men to wear the keffiyeh as a symbol of their “resistance.”
In a report to the British Foreign Office, Harold MacMichael, the British Mandatory High Commissioner in Palestine, wrote: “This ‘order’ has been obeyed with surprising docility and it is not an exaggeration to say that in a month eight out of every ten tarbushes in the country had been replaced.” Keffiyeh-wearing jihadis murdered around 500 Jews, and the Jews of the region, as they were the targets of those who were wearing the keffiyeh, stopped wearing it themselves.
No one at the time of that uprising called the Arabs “Palestinians.” The Palestinian people, as a distinct ethnicity and nationality, was invented by the KGB and Yasir Arafat in 1964. According to Ion Mihai Pacepa, who had served as acting chief of Cold War–era Communist Romania’s spy service, “the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat’s birth in Cairo, and replaced them with fictitious documents saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth.”
Arafat and his fellow jihadis worked to popularize the propaganda fiction that the “Palestinians” were a people who were distinct from the other Arabs of the region, the keffiyeh became the national symbol of the spurious new people. Arafat cemented the link by making a black-and-white keffiyeh with a fishnet pattern his personal trademark. Wearing the keffiyeh became a symbol of one’s “solidarity” with the struggle of this new and yet supposedly indigenous people, and so it has remained to this day.
The association of the keffiyeh with the Palestinian Arab jihad has become so universally accepted that it is now commonplace to see leftists who are not “Palestinians” or Arabs wearing it to demonstrate their loyalty to the left’s cause du jour. Arabs and Kurds who wear it today will likewise be assumed, especially in the West, to be expressing their support for the jihad against Israel, even if that thought never crossed their mind.
The Palestinians as a people were invented in order to be used as a weapon against Israel. Instead of fighting to destroy the world’s only Jewish state in order to establish a twenty-third Arab state, the Palestinians were a people even smaller in numbers than the Jewish people, fighting for their indigenous homeland. Instead of being given refuge and starting new lives in neighboring Arab lands, the Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 remain perpetual refugees. So do their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, longing for a fictional homeland that none of them have ever seen. Aside from the jihad against Israel, these new people have no existence.
It is fitting that the symbol of this fake nationality would be a headdress that has been appropriated from elsewhere, and which Palestinian Arabs themselves did not wear for the most part until less than a hundred years ago. Nonetheless, the association is now unbreakable. The person who put on a keffiyeh is now endorsing Jew-hatred, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. The keffiyeh is this century’s Nazi symbol.
Whitewashing Muhammad: A steady diet of propaganda for kids on campus.
Nothing can inflame the Islamic community in some parts of the world more quickly than perceived insults of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Few people in history, if any, command this kind of ardent loyalty. This loyalty has been playing out again of late in India.
Muslims in India are demanding the arrest of a Hindu leader over what the Free Press Journal recently delicately termed “disparaging remarks about Prophet Muhammad and his wife Ayesha.” The situation was extremely tense, for “the Raza Academy, a Sunni group, which was among the groups that met the DGP [the Director General of Police], has asked Muslims to observe Friday as ‘Day of Protection in the Honour of the Prophet.’” Another Islamic group complained that the Hindu leader had not yet been arrested, despite the fact that India is not a Sharia state, and warned ominously that there could be a “serious law and order problem in society” if he were not arrested.
Why would perceived insults to Muhammad so enrage some Muslims that they would issue not-so-veiled threats of violence? This question vexes Westerners, including observant Christians, as they would never start wrecking buildings and burning things down because of insults of Jesus. Islamic apologists, however, have stated that this is because of the weakness of Christians’ faith; if Christians really loved Jesus, they say, they wouldn’t stand for his name being besmirched.
Many Muslims also maintain that Muhammad himself had such a singularly wonderful personality that insults of him are particularly upsetting. The Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research states: “God combined in Muhammad the most illustrious qualities, as evidence that he was in fact authorized by the Divine. His character sparkled from every angle, and this was noticed both by those who experienced him firsthand and those who later read his biography. They all found in Muhammad a lifestyle of extraordinary sincerity, conviction, and virtue that posed a formidable challenge to any doubter in his prophethood.” Another Islamic organization agrees: “He is the embodiment of the perfect human being." There are so many things we can learn from him. His whole life serves as a guide for us.”
Western non-Muslim scholars have abetted this impression. Karen Armstrong, in her acclaimed “Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet,” claims fancifully that Muhammad “abjured violence and pursued a daring, inspired policy of non-violence that was worthy of Gandhi.” Another scholar, Eric Ormsby, has written fondly that Muhammad “loved to laugh, we are told, to the extent that when he did laugh – admittedly, not often – he did so ‘until his back teeth showed’. These are charming reports; they make a figure remote in time and place startlingly present and credible.”
Both Armstrong and Ormsby, however, were being astonishingly disingenuous. Muhammad never abjured violence. Islamic tradition states that not only did Muhammad lead jihad warriors into battle on numerous occasions; he also ordered the assassinations of several people for the crime of making fun of him, and rewarded the killers.
And as for Muhammad’s hearty laugh, “Muhammad: A Critical Biography” tells the full story that Ormsby omits, or may not know. According to the earliest Islamic traditions, Muhammad was laughing not at a marvelous joke or quip, but because he ordered one of his expert archers to shoot an enemy warrior, whereupon the enemy “fell down, exposing his buttocks.” The archer recounts: “I saw the Messenger of God laugh then, until his teeth could be seen.” Another version of the story, which situates it as taking place during a different battle, has a couple of bystanders discuss the incident after Muhammad’s archer shoots the rival warrior: “I asked: ‘What made him laugh?’ He replied: ‘What he did to the man!’”
Ormsby’s “charming” tale thus turns out to be Muhammad exulting in the humiliation and destruction of one of his enemies. This is in keeping with the aggressiveness and bellicosity that runs through the Islamic accounts of Muhammad’s life. It is therefore no surprise that the believers in Muhammad in India and elsewhere would so quickly threaten violence when their prophet was insulted. After all, that was how he himself behaved, and he is, according to the Qur’an, the Muslims’ “excellent example” (33:21), to be emulated in all possible circumstances.
Armstrong and Ormsby, however, represent the dominant view of Muhammad among Qatar-funded U.S. academics today. It’s no wonder, in light of that fact, that American universities have become hotbeds of support for Hamas, Hizballah, and other jihad terror groups. Kids on campus for over a generation have been fed a steady diet of propaganda, and it’s bearing fruit. “Muhammad: A Critical Biography” is a corrective.
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Born in the West Bank to a Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan Yousef was groomed for a legacy of terror. But he made the dangerous choice to reject violence and escaping the oppression and bloodshed inflicted by Hamas. Now in the U.S., he warns that the ambitions of the Muslim Brotherhood threaten Western civilization. If we let them succeed, it could mean the fall of America and the West.
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The diocese of Buffalo, New York, which is in the process of shutting down approximately half of its churches, has sold another historic sanctuary at a bargain-basement price.
The scandal-plagued diocese, which has been buried under an avalanche of clerical sex abuse lawsuits, has traded its historic Gothic St. Ann’s Church and Shrine for $250,000 to Buffalo’s Muslim community, for conversion into a mosque and an Islamic Center.
CATHOLIC BACKLASH
Catholics reacted with outrage after well-known Catholic priest, Fr. Ronald Vierling, drew attention to the sale on Monday. Vierling’s post on the social media platform X has attracted over 10 million views at the time of writing.
“No anger should be directed against the Islamic community,” wrote Vierling. “No doubt the changing demographics of the area and the inability to financially support the complex made the continuance of St. Ann as a viable parish impossible.”
“This scenario is being played out in once large, urban dioceses across the country,” the priest warned.
“Terrible. I know a dozen Catholics who would have pulled together to buy the building instead of letting it get sold off,” Catholic award-winning radio show host David J. Reilly replied, adding: “Sometimes the diocese chooses to not sell to certain groups like the SSPX & FSSP.”
“Muslims get a church for $250k but I can’t buy a house in a decent neighborhood for less than $500k,” a Catholic lamented.
Saint Ann’s Church, built by German immigrants in 1886, had fallen into disrepair and was decommissioned in 2013. Bishop Richard J. Malone – who in 2019 resigned as head of the diocese over allegations of sex abuse cover-up – had slated the building for demolition, as the diocese had estimated repairs could cost at least $12 million. Malone, however, changed his mind and said that the new plan was to put the property up for sale.
The Downtown Islamic Center, which purchased the property from the diocese through its affiliate Buffalo Crescent Holdings, said it would spend the millions of dollars necessary to renovate the historic structure.
“We’re looking to put several million dollars into this in the next year, in the church alone,” Talha Bakth, president of the Downtown Islamic Center, told the Buffalo News. “The space will be able to be used for worship within a year or two.”
Buffalo Crescent Holdings is also purchasing a former rectory at the complex that had been converted to apartments in a separate transaction, the media added.
QUEEN OF PEACE CHURCH CONVERTED TO JAMI MASJID
In 2007, the diocese sold the Queen of Peace Church for $300,000 to the Muslim Society of Buffalo, which converted the building into the Jami Masjid (mosque).
Since Islam prohibits the depiction of a human or living being in sacred iconography, Muslim volunteers painted all the Catholic murals sky blue, removed statues at the altar, and replaced the church’s well-preserved stained-glass windows with plain, frosted glass.
The main altar was removed entirely and replaced by a carpeted space for reading. The church’s former apse, the area behind the main altar where the choir would sing, has been screened off as a prayer space for women.
Today, the Jami Masjid has Turkish carpets instead of pews and Arabic calligraphy adorns the Gothic brackets. The orientation of prayer has changed so the imam stands along the eastern wall of the building, so that when worshippers can face Mecca when they offer their prayers and bow.
ST. AGNES CHURCH CONVERTED TO BUDDHIST SHRINE
In 2009, the Buffalo diocese sold St. Agnes Church to the International Sangha Bhiksu Buddhist Association for conversion to a Buddhist temple and meditation center. The historic church, which was consecrated on December 9, 1883, had served German and Italian immigrants for over a century.
The church closed its doors on October 21, 2007, and remained empty for two years before Vietnamese monk Thich Minh Tuyen bought it in 2009 for $250,000. It reopened in 2012 as a Buddhist temple after the iconography, including the crucifix and images of the Stations of the Cross, was removed.
The Buddhist occupants also added three 2,000-pound sitting Buddhas shipped from Canada, and six standing Buddhas, that cluster around a shrine in the narthex. The monks also replaced six pews with carpets for worshippers, but left the remaining pews intact for those who cannot sit on the floor.
The new owners also hung Buddhist banners alongside the intact stained glass windows, intending to combine Buddhist iconography with the existing Catholic themes.
‘CHURCHES ARE NOT POKER CHIPS’
Attorney Brody Hale, co-founder and president of the St. Stephen Protomartyr Project, which works to preserve Catholic churches for sacred use, lamented the sale and conversion of churches into non-Christian places of worship.
“A church as defined by canon law is a sacred edifice,” he toldFrontPage Magazine. “Churches as sacred buildings have fundamentally more protections under canon law than parishes.”
“This is not what churches are supposed to be used for according to canon law. Churches are not poker chips a bishop can use to cash out when he’s in a bind,” Hale stated.
MILLIONS SPENT ON CLERICAL SEX ABUSE SCANDALS
Earlier in May, the Buffalo diocese announced plans to merge approximately 34% of the 160 parishes across Western New York and reduce places of worship by 38%.
Bishop Michael Fisher said the mergers were due to financial pressures brought about by the filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020, after scores of clerical sex abuse lawsuits were filed under the Child Victims Act; as well as a priest shortage, aging congregations, and declining Mass attendance.
The consolidation would bring the number of parishes from 160 to a projected 106, and the number of worship centers from 196 to a projected 121.
Last year, the Buffalo diocese offered $100 million, in addition to any insurance funds, to settle 891 clerical sex abuse cases. The diocese said it would sell its 795 Main Street headquarters, the former Christ the King Seminary campus, and other “non-essential” property to cover half the settlement.
More than $15 million has already been paid to attorneys for the diocese in its bankruptcy and the state Attorney General’s investigation.
DIOCESE FAILS TO EVANGELIZE THE LOST
Interestingly, the diocesan website has a drop-down menu titled “How We Evangelize” on its opening page, but the word “evangelization” seems to be re-defined with no mention of any attempts to reach people of other faiths or no faith.
Instead, the subcategories under the menu lists buzz phrases such as “Cultural Diversity,” “Catholic Education,” and the controversial “Catholic Charities,” with events like a diocesan “Multicultural Mass” and an annual “Cultural Diversity Celebration Dinner.”
Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral. This article is cross-posted with the author’s permission from Souls & Liberty.
CBN NEWS: Amid talk of a broader war in the Middle East, there is also news that a Jesus Revolution may be underway. An unprecedented number of Muslims are choosing to follow Christ, especially in Iran as people search for a better life. Iranians are growing tired of the ayatollahs and a nation led by the empty promises of their Islamic theocracy. An anonymous internal poll found that 80% now prefer a democratic government, and many are leaving Islam.
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As of now, Vice President Kamala Harris looks to be Donald Trump’s opponent in November. She’s secured the pledged support of enough delegates to the DNC for the nomination, and Biden’s $100 million war chest for now will go to her campaign, on top of the donations starting to pour in, and the Democrat Committee’s $91 million. Murkier are her chances against Donald Trump, who leads her in head-to-head polls, and whose campaign has been turbocharged by a spectacular Republican convention and a unified party.
But as Hillary Clinton learned in 2016, and Joe Biden just a few weeks ago, events and contingencies we often cannot predict can change everything in a day. That’s why in politics, as in war, one should heed Sun Tzu’s advice to “know your enemy as you know yourself.”
Harris’s weaknesses are well known from her stints as the District Attorney for San Francisco, Attorney General and Senator for California, and Vice President. All three offices are revealing of her leftist bent, “woke” prejudices, and big-government proclivities, but the latter is the most important job for revealing what kind of president she’ll be.
She is certain to follow Biden’s tax-spend-redistribute economic policies. As the Wall Street Journalwrites, “So mark her down as endorsing the spending blowouts that caused inflation, the Green New Deal, entitlement expansions and student loan forgiveness." Until she says otherwise, we should also assume she’s in favor of Mr. Biden’s $5 trillion tax increase in 2025.”And don’t expect a President Harris to increase much-needed defense spending to restore our military’s dangerous deficits in both personnel and materials.
In other words, her mind, like that of most Democrats, is filled with received progressive wisdom and shibboleths. And based on her public pronouncements––at least those that are coherent––she lacks the moral intelligence and critical thinking skills necessary for recognizing when policies are chosen for their political advantage rather than thenation’s long-term flourishing and security.
Considering her short stint as the “border czar.”Apart from one trip to El Paso, she never visited the region to see first-hand the damage Biden’s policies are inflicting on our country.
Instead, she simply mouthed cliches like “root causes” such as the left’s all-purpose “climate change” as the reason for the influx of illegal aliens. Such ignorance gives force to the comment by Brandon Judd, past president of the National Border Patrol Council, that Harris has shown a “complete disregard to border security by either political ambition or incompetence.” Under Harris’ and Biden’s “leadership,” illegal entries during their term exploded to more than 10 million unvetted illegal aliens.
Border policy also reveals how far left Harris is: as theMake America Great Again PAC pointed out, in 2019 she was the most leftist Senator, ahead of comrade Bernie Sanders. “That year in the Senate, Kamala Harrisco-sponsored legislationto protect illegal immigrants from deportation andbackedBernie Sanders’ Medicare for All legislation. Kamala even backedbanningprivate health insurance andgivingtaxpayer-funded coverage to illegal immigrants.” Farther left than Joe Biden, Harris is likely to pursue other policies equally harmful to our economic health and national security.
When it comes to foreign policy, Harris followed Biden’s program. But according to the Journal, “While she has backed the Administration’s military assistance to Ukraine, she has equivocated about support for Israel. In March, she chastised Israel for not doing enough to ease a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’”one of the most egregious of Big Lies that Israeli-haters have been peddling for decades.
Her juvenile ignorance of the need tostrengthen our power of deterrence is a dangerous sign.As the Journal continued, “She lambasted the Trump Administration for killing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen.Qassem Soleimani, claiming it could lead to bigger war in the Mideast. The killing chastened Iran’s rulers instead, at least until the Biden administration began to ease sanctions and tried to repeal the 2015 nuclear deal.”
But such leftist orthodoxy still might not be good enough for the “woke” pro-Hamas, anti-Israel lobby in Congress, especially if, as is likely, she has to shift towards the center, despite the leftistpromises in her first campaign rally. The Squad ingenue Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, when asked if she supported Harris, replied,“If you think that there is consensus among the people who want Joe Biden to leave that they will support Vice President Harris, you would be mistaken,” she said, according to The Hill. “A lot of people don’t love that we have the same exact match-up all over again, which is to say that the debate didn’t change much at all. It didn’t really change a lot in terms of people’s perceptions, in terms of where the electorate is at.”
The implication is that the leftist Demswould be as put out with Harris as they have been with Biden for any support of Israel, and would pressure President Harris to abandon our most important ally in the region.Fearing that possibility may be why Harris snubbed Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress last week, the only visiting foreign head of state she’s ignored her whole term. Will she indulge in such immature grandstanding when she’s president?
Then there are questions regarding Harris’s toxic leadership style. Often a boss’s treatment of underlings is a telling of his or her character. As Eli Lake reports on The Free Press, “People who know her best also seem to consider her a terrible boss. In June 2021, White House staffers told Politico that people in the vice president’s office ‘are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it’s an abusive environment.’ By early 2022, four of her most senior advisers had bolted for the exits, prompting The Washington Post to report that many of her critics and supporters ‘worry that her inability to keep and retain staff will hobble her future ambitions.’”
Such intemperance in the Cabinet Room or meetings with legislators, especially coming from an insecure president with few achievements and an “any means necessary” modus operandi, could magnify her weaknesses and discourage useful advice.
Finally, Harris’s third-rate intellect, bankrupt left-wing ideology, and lack of gravitas–– obvious in her grating cackling, “see-Spot-run syntax,”banal obiter dicta, and “word–salad” buffets––maycompromise her effectiveness at governing, especially when meeting with global leaders.
But first she has to get elected, and the same weaknesses make her vulnerable, especially from the albatross of Joe Biden’s destructive record of failure that contrasts so starkly with Donald Trump’s successes with the issues that concern voters such as border security, inflation, andour tattered prestige abroad.In addition, the Journalobserves, “she’s stuck with the White House’s embrace of Hillary’s malpractice of condemning Trump voters as fascists and racists.”
And don’t forget, despite the regime media’s current puffery PR hyperbole, many Democrats don’t like her, especially those who are disturbed by Biden’s feckless border policies that treat law-breakers better than their own citizens. The Dem conspirators who kicked Joe Biden out of the 2024 race didn’t remove him from office,perhaps because that would have automatically made Harris the president.Wouldn't the disenfranchisement of 15 million Democrat primary voters create a toxic “selected, not elected” charge for the candidate and that party that boasts they’re “protecting our democracy”?
But none of that means she can’t win, especially now that the media are lavishing her with Obamalevelsof adoration and praise, and Democrat plutocrats spooked by Biden are opening their wallets. That’s why it is even more important thatHarris be kept out of the White House, and why Republicans need to hammerher and Biden’sfailures, and make her defend them, as well as her own complicity in lying to the American people about Biden’s cognitive and physical decline.
"They can start, for example, with her mendacious comment about Special Council Robert Hur’s report that confirmed Biden’s decline: “The way that the president’s demeanor in that reportwas characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated,” Harris said of Hur’s report. As Eli Lake observes, “Harris will have to find a way to walk back her comments at the same time that Trump will be sure to torment her for her past hypocrisies.”
Not just Donald Trump, but the whole party should “torment” Harris with her lies,failed policies, and left-wing ideology.This election may be the last chance to undo Barack Obama's and Joe Biden’s malign “transformation” of the United States and its Constitutional order of unalienable rights, and balanced and limited government power.
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The media isn’t going to tell you this. The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) describes itself as “America’s largest Muslim civil liberties organization.” In that guise, and as it has championed numerous far-left causes, it has become a respected member of the leftist establishment, with numerous ignorant and self-serving politicians lavishing praise on this unsavory gang in hopes of gaining Muslim votes. Among them has been, not surprisingly, Kamala Harris.
This has been known for years, but no one has cared. Back in Oct. 2020, the Washington Free Beacon reported that “as California’s attorney general and then as U.S. senator, Harris forged a relationship with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the nation’s top anti-Israel groups and advocates for boycotts of the Jewish state.” After the Hamas massacres of Oct. 7, 2023, this matters more than ever.
CAIR, the Free Beacon added, “advised Harris on community issues during her time in California politics, and she later offered the group her ‘gratitude and admiration’ in a 2018 personal letter to the group.” Specifically, “Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR’s Los Angeles office, praised Harris in 2015 for including the group in an interfaith meeting with law enforcement officials. Harris, he said, ‘exemplified leadership’ by vowing to tackle Islamophobia at a time when the state’s Jewish institutions were facing threats.”
That was bad enough, since “Islamophobia” is a propaganda weapon designed to intimidate people that it is wrong — somehow “bigoted” — to oppose jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. Even worse, long before he praised Kamala Harris, Hussam Ayloush had repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. In 2017, with Donald Trump in the White House, Ayloush called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. Yet the following year, Harris wrote to CAIR: “Please accept my gratitude and admiration for your tireless work to promote peace, justice, and mutual understanding.”
That was not all. “As California’s top cop,” the Free Beacon noted, “Harris partnered with local CAIR officials and relied on them to advise her on community matters. In 2015, for instance, Harris hosted CAIR for an interfaith community event following a deadly terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In 2016, as Harris ran for the Senate, CAIR’s political action committee donated $1,750 to boost her campaign.” That may not be much in the larger scheme of things, but imagine the outcry if Donald Trump had taken a small fraction of that amount from a group linked to the Ku Klux Klan.
Harris’ ties to CAIR take on a new urgency now that she is a presidential candidate, and now that this self-proclaimed “civil rights organization” is more forthright than it used to be about where it really stands: CAIR’s cofounder and longtime executive director Nihad Awad infamously said that he was “happy” about Hamas’ Oct. 7 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis. In April 2024, Awad eulogized a Muslim Brotherhood cleric, Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, who had ties to al-Qaeda as well as Hamas: “The Islamic nation has lost one of its biggest emblems and men with the passing of Sheikh Alam and worker Abdul Majeed Al-Zindani after he dedicated his life to the service of the Quran and the manifestation of its miracles that never cease. He remained tall and firm in the face of challenges, tribulations, pressure, and rankings until he met the Almighty Allah. Our condolences to his family, Yemen, and our nation. We ask Allah, the Merciful, the Merciful and the Forgiving, to have mercy on him, forgive him and reward him with the best of rewards.” Al-Zindani was on the UN Security Council’s list of specially designated terrorists.
If Trump had similar ties to any of the groups that the leftist establishment claims are made up of “right-wing extremists,” including a group that opposes CAIR and jihad terror and got added to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate group” list for doing so, the media outcry would be shrill and intense. Trump would be hounded everywhere until he disavowed the group and returned its donations.
No one, however, is asking Harris about CAIR. That’s because Harris, CAIR, and the media are all part of the same leftist establishment. Surely you don’t expect them to police themselves, do you? Politicians can associate freely with groups that are on the left’s approved list, and be secure in the knowledge that there will be no accountability. Responsibility for the American people? Come on, man! This ain’t 1776 anymore!
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“The idea that terrorists attack because they hate freedom, however, is misguided,” Philip Gordon wrote in ‘Winning the Right War." “Even most of the Muslims who support terrorism and trust Osama bin Laden favor elected government” and “personal liberty.”
Gordon, Obama’s future Middle East coordinator, explained in his book that Muslim terrorists weren’t “born evil” or “hate our freedoms”, but rather they feel “shame” over the state of “a once great Islamic civilization” surpassed by other cultures including “the local upstart, Israel.”
America was “creating conditions” that “generate” Islamic terrorism by detaining Al Qaeda terrorists, failing to punish American soldiers and “justifying any Israeli military action”. Gordon urged the White House to assure Iran that we have “no intention of using military force against Iran or fomenting internal dissent” because “Iran’s concerns about such issues are legitimate”
Published in 2007 by an imprint of the New York Times, Gordon’s book was a blueprint for the policies that the Obama administration would adopt, including blaming America and Israel, appeasing Iran and Islamists, and making Muslims feel better about themselves. These are the building blocks of the policies that led us to Oct 7 and an Iranian war across the region.
Today, Gordon is Kamala’s National Security Advisor and possible future Secretary of State.
Gordon’s hostility toward Israel and sympathy for Islamic terrorists is a longstanding matter. Even before joining the Biden administration, he had co-written an article with Iran lobby figure Robert Malley, under FBI investigation for mishandling classified documents, urging Biden to reverse Trump’s possible recognition of Israeli territory, and to cut political and economic support for Israel to punish it for its diplomatic successes under the Trump administration.
Recently, Gordon urged Israel to stop seeking victory against Hamas and accept a hostage deal that would allow the Islamic terrorist group to hang on in Gaza and free thousands of terrorists.
In his book, Gordon had claimed that “though Hamas refuses to recognize Israel today, it is not hard to imagine an eventual change in that position”. And in 2014, he had argued that a reconciliation deal between the PLO and Hamas “isn’t necessarily a bad thing”.
In 2016, Gordon, speaking on behalf of the Clinton campaign, appeared at a conference by the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), widely regarded as the Iran Lobby, and promised that Hillary Clinton would veto new sanctions on Iran. He was described as assuring the Iran Lobby of the “potential for collaboration with Iran”. The New York Times even appeared to list him as a “tour guide” on its Iran trips.
But Gordon is not the only terror booster on Kamala’s team.
Ilan Goldenberg, a key member of the Kerry team who played vital roles in the Obama administration’s campaigns against Israel and for Iran, serves as her Middle East adviser, and would have a more prominent role in any administration.
Goldenberg complained that the Trump administration had taken Israel’s side during the Hamas border riots that served as a prep for Oct 7, objected that moving the embassy to Jerusalem had not been packaged with similar concessions to the terrorists and co-authored a paper with Hady Amr, who acts as Biden’s point man to the terrorists and had threatened Israel with violence after the assassination of a Hamas leader, urging a deal with Hamas.
The paper proposed that “the United States, UNSCO, and Egypt should work quietly in concert, engaging with Israel, the PA, Hamas, and a “long-term ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas, with Israel accepting that “Hamas would retain some of its military capabilities”.
At one session Goldenberg urged, “you used to have 25,000, 100,000 Gazans working inside Israel." That needs to happen again. The Israelis know who these guys are. They can start with a few thousand work permits. And there’s a lot of support for that in all of the Israeli communities around Gaza.”
That became policy. Gazans flooded Israel, scouted those “Israeli communities around Gaza” and when Oct 7 began, they came back with maps of the communities so that they knew where the security teams were, which houses had dogs and where the children could be found.
Gordon and Goldenberg, who are set to play major roles in any Kamala Harris administration, have expressed no regrets or retractions of their past policies and positions. Even as the Middle East burns due to Iranian terrorism, all they have done is double down on them.
In a co-written op-ed headlined, “Relax, Israel – if your ally is working with your enemy, it doesn’t make them friends:, Goldenberg envisioned that “iIn the aftermath of a successful nuclear deal, U.S. relations with Iran should shift from that of an adversary to that of a competitor.” His position on Israel was rather different with op-eds like “Why Israel’s Settlement Construction Must Be Stopped” and “How Israel Brought U.N. Resolution on Itself With Irrational Settlement Push”.
Under a Secretary of State Phil Gordon, the Abraham Accords and normalization with countries like Saudi Arabia, which one of his op-eds described asn “Arabian fantasy” would be swept aside in a return of Obama’s non-stop pressure campaign on Israel to create a terrorist state.
“How will it have peace if it is unwilling to delineate a border, end the occupation, and allow for Palestinian sovereignty, security, and dignity?” Philip Gordon had warned at a conference in Israel right after terror rockets began to fall. “It cannot maintain military control of other people indefinitely. Doing so is not only wrong but a recipe for resentment and recurring instability.”
After the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens by Hamas, Gordon equated Israel and the terrorists, claimed that both sides suffered from “racism”, told “both sides to demonstrate reason and calm” and warned that “calls for retribution and revenge have no place on either side”. Finally, he falsely contended that “neither side” was “ready to make the difficult decisions required for an agreement”.
Ilan Goldenberg had similarly argued that, “half the root causes are Israeli actions, in terms of — especially just focusing on Gaza, on the blockade. And the other half is Hamas’ choice to use violence and arm itself in response.”
That false paradigm has been markedly present in Kamala’s attacks on Israel after Oct 7.
Kamala’s relentless criticism of Israel’s self-defense is a preview of things to come. Behind her escalating rhetoric is a group of anti-Israel figures from the Obama administration. Goldenberg was one of the radicals brought into the Warren campaign and then injected into the Biden administration. Philip Gordon is a longtime State Department anti-Israel figure from a faction whose fingerprints are all over the policies that empowered Iran and set the region on fire.
What would Kamala’s foreign policy look like? The presence of Gordon and Goldenberg as her close advisors on the region shows that it would be the Obama administration on steroids.
Opposing the swarm of illegals into Western countries is a duty of citizens who care about the future of their countries, yet globalist governments are encouraging the migration. The case below of Oumar Ball, a Mauritania man — an 86.3% Muslim country — who is facilitating “the flood of illegals” into Cincinnati is just one such case. Chances are that there are many such similar cases, even outside of Cincinnati.
Despite Oumar Ball’s actions, even he says “the federal government is just letting too many people come to the U.S. all at once.” It’s an obvious statement that anyone should be able to see. Everyone should also be able to understand that consequences will be seen and felt down the road. Leftists continue to push open-door immigration policies. Note how the article below starts: “The Washington Post is celebrating a man from the African country of Mauritania who is helping more poor Muslim migrants crowd into Cincinnati apartments and houses.”
What is there to celebrate? Helping people is one thing, but not at the expense of others. Many Americans are cash strapped as it is. Yet the Associated Press reported last year that thousands more Mauritanians were “making their way to the US, thanks to a route spread on social media,” through Nicaragua. And who is paying their bill? Most American taxpayers:
A lot of the money comes from the American taxpayer.
At every stage of a migrant’s journey, U.S. tax money smooths the way for people planning to enter and live in the United States illegally.
Start with the United Nations. The United States gave all the U.N. agencies $18 billion in 2022, representing about one-third of the total budget. The U.N. does many different things with that money, but one thing is to help wannabe border-jumpers make it to the border.
At a recent press conference, the Leftist Ohio Immigrant Alliance called on members of Congress to bring deported family members “back home to the United States,” despite the fact that the US is not their “home.” Among the attendees advocating for the return of deported family members is a woman named Wafaa Hamdi, who addressed the crowd. Her sister, Tina Hamdi, was deported in 2017 to Morocco “after serving a drug-related sentence.” Such immigrants believe that it is their right to live in America, not a privilege.
According to the Heritage Foundation, “the Biden Administration wants even more money to distribute illegal aliens throughout the United States.”
If Western citizens want their countries to turn into the very horror that illegals are running from, that is exactly what is slowly happening as they keep supporting globalist regimes.
“Migrants Invite More Migrants to Cincinnati: 50 People in One House,” by Warner Todd Houston, Breitbart, June 11, 2024:
The Washington Post is celebrating a man from the African country of Mauritania who is helping more poor Muslim migrants crowd into Cincinnati apartments and houses, straining the town’s resources and apparently breaking occupancy laws.
Even this man, who is working to facilitate the flood of illegals into the U.S., says that the federal government is just letting too many people come to the U.S. all at once.
Oumar Ball, a man native to the small majority Muslim West African country of Mauritania, arrived in Cincinnati in 2000. By 2010, he had become a U.S. citizen. Now, he is working to settle as many of his fellow Muslims in Cincinnati’s Mount Airy neighborhood as he can. However, he has often encountered a problem in Queen City: housing.
The city does not have a shelter system, and there is no “right to shelter” like there is in Massachusetts and New York. Ball has struggled to find places for his migrant friends to stay. The housing issue has caused him to stockpile them illegally in tiny apartments and homes of volunteers, including his own.
“It’s not uncommon to find apartments with 10 or 14 people in a two-bedroom apartment,” said fellow Cincinnati Mauritania activist Ousmane Sow. “And it’s all because none of us want to see Mauritanians out in the streets.”
The problem is growing, too. Doug Wehmeyer, the administrator and fire chief in Lockland, says that the number of migrants from Mauritania has doubled to 3,000….
Mayor Cherelle Parker recently announced the creation of Muslim City Hall Day 2024. "Advertisements went out encouraging Muslim residents to join CAIR Philadelphia and EMGAGE PA for a day of lobbying at City Hall “Make your voice heard by meeting with Elected Officials to advocate for policy issues that are important to Muslim Philadelphians,” the notice read.
Muslim City Hall Day 2024 takes place on June 10th, from 10:00AM to 2:00PM.
In March of this year, Mayor Parker also announced the appointment of the city’s first Director of Muslim Engagement, Quaiser Abdullah.
“…Dr. Abdullah’s appointment reflects our commitment to inclusivity and community-driven governance. "His expertise and dedication will play a crucial role in ensuring that the voices and concerns of Philadelphia’s Muslim residents are heard and valued,” Mayor Parker said in a statement.
As director of the Master of Science in Communication Management program at Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication, Abdullah, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, who resides in West Philadelphia, has been associated with Temple University since 2000.
As a member of the Muslim Students Association, he published a letter to Temple News in October 2009 condemning the appearance of Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, who had just produced a 15-minute film explaining why so many atrocities had been committed in the name of Islam.
Abdullah wrote that Wilders “touched on the concept of free speech, however, it came over as a mere ruse in an effort to spew his anti-Islam, anti-Muslim rhetoric." Free speech,” the then adjunct professor added, “is valued; however, free speech should not be used as an umbrella for hate speech."
“Muslims deplore when people who have political or social agendas use religion as an excuse for inflicting harm and pain on others,” he stated.
While Temple University refused to cancel Wilders’ speech as Muslim students demanded, during the Q and A he was heckled and berated severely by so many student activists that he chose to leave the stage.
The difference between 2009 and today is that Geert Wilders would never be invited to speak at Temple.
This is because Muslims are the city’s latest hot political concern. Keep in mind that for decades the city’s LGBT community fought for recognition—often to berating comments and heckles inside City Hall, yet when gay rights became de rigueur and mainstream and rainbow flags began to fly next to statues of William Penn, mayors couldn’t do enough to go one step further in proving to the formerly “underclass” citizens that it couldn’t do enough to affirm their rights.
Even as woke theories of “systemic racism,” the transgender and gender movements kept changing the rainbow flag—the multiple incarnations of the flag has turned it into an ugly kitchen table cloth—Islam as the next underclass to be venerated was gaining fast traction in the woke political mind.
A little show indicating this ballsy change occurred at Philadelphia’s June 2024 pride parade.
For years—decades even—the only protesters at pride parades in Philadelphia were evangelicals with Bibles on a mission to evangelize. But after the legalization of same-sex marriage and the mainstreaming of all things LGBT, those protests eroded. Yet on June 2, the date of the Philadelphia 2024 parade, Queers4Palestine executed a ‘coitus interruptus’ march that literally stopped the pride parade in its tracks.
Queers4Palestine and their cohorts, some in keffiyehs, leather straps and vests, shouted “PPD! KKK! IOF!” (Israel Occupation Force) while carrying the usual banners and slogans: “From the River to the Sea,” “Long live the Intifada!” and “No Pride, no genocide!”
Some international news reports cited the irony of left-wing intersectional politics having a physical blowout at a real intersection in downtown Philadelphia. Progressive news outlets were quick to lambaste the right for turning the incident into “a right wing meme,” as in, “Here’s another case of the left eating the left.”
The Philadelphia Gay News, while spelling out the obvious and perverse contradictions in a Queers4Palestine group– and rightfully praising Israel– nevertheless went on to say that LGBTQ+ rights were under attack in America.
“Currently, the LGBTQ+ community is fighting a backlash that wants to make us once again invisible,” the editorial stated. “In Florida and other states, they have passed the so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws. This is intended to keep us invisible. Pride keeps us visible. Your [Queers4Palestine] tactics do exactly what Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump want: "To make us invisible again at a time when our trans community — especially our trans people of color — are literally being killed.”
No mention of course that Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws apply to the teaching of sexual orientation and gender until the 12th grade, but not the teaching of LGBT history. Many have argued that Florida’s law came about because of abuses by gender activists who were trying to convince gay children that they were really transgender. Furthermore, so-called anti-trans laws do not involve restrictions or discrimination against adults who opt for transgender transition, but children and the rights of parents when it comes to this issue.
Unfortunately, since the transgender and gender ideology movements have hijacked the gay movement, “anti-LGBTQ+” has come to mean a lot of things that have nothing to do with being gay, such as the participation of biological men in women’s sports.
And yet according to LGBTQ+ “leaders,” to raise questions about these things—the use of pronouns, or the rights of parents when it comes to so called trans children—is tantamount to supporting the “hate” and backlash mentioned in the PGN editorial.
A new book addressing this issue, ‘Gay Shame; The Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia,’ by Gareth Roberts, makes the case for the reemergence of homophobia under the guise of gender ideology.
Publicity for the book states,
“The enforcers of this new creed insist that attraction to people of the same sex is hateful. They argue that effeminate men and butch women can’t just be gay, but must really be trans. Worse, this ideology has colonised the gay rights movement, capturing institutions like Stonewall and the gay press completely. Anyone who disagrees risks professional suicide.”
Although Queers4Palestine members would be ideal candidates for the psychiatrist’s couch, the PGN editorial goes further in the credibility-losing department when it states that Queers4Palestine “actually have something in common with Log Cabin Republicans.”
Yes, what you’ve just read is true: Log Cabin Republicans are just as bad as LGBTQ+ activists supporting Islamic terrorists who show their thanks by throwing gays off rooftops.
This is a tired, old PGN trope that supports the myth that gays who object to the various cultural manifestations of gender ideology, such as biological men in women’s sports, and the trans mutilation of children, are “self hating” individuals.
Which brings us back to the arguments presented in the book, “Gay Shame,” which calls for the birth of a new gay liberation movement, but one thoroughly divorced from gender and trans issues.
Regarding Philadelphia Pride 2025, by then the rainbow flag may be reconfigured yet again to include some sort of Palestinian motif; or the flags flying in June at City Hall will be Islamic and not rainbow, especially since the institution of Muslim Day, which is likely to grow like Gay Pride into a 30-day holiday, with both factions, LGBTQ and Muslim, competing—but the latter in a not-so-quiet Christian fundamentalist way– for intersectional dominance.
Just as protesters screaming “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free” want Israel to disappear, in order to be replaced by a 23rd Arab state, some people in a New Jersey town wanted to make Jews disappear from this year’s high school yearbook. More on that sinister removal of a photograph of a Jewish group, and its replacement by a Muslim group in the yearbook, can be found here: “‘Blatant Antisemitic Act’: High School Yearbook Erases Jewish Students’ Names, Replaces Photo With Muslim Students,” by Jack Elbaum, Algemeiner, June 6, 2024:
A town in New Jersey has become the center of controversy after the local high school’s yearbook removed the names of Jewish students from a page and replaced their photo with one of Muslim students — an incident that the town’s mayor called a “blatant antisemitic act.”
The 2023-2024 yearbook for East Brunswick High School replaced a photo of the Jewish Student Union (JSU) with Muslim students and erased the names of the members of the JSU, leaving a large blank space on the page.
East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen expressed outrage over the incident and said new yearbooks would be ordered.
"At a minimum, I have … been assured that new yearbooks will be ordered and distributed with the correct pictures and names,” Cohen wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “Hate has no place in East Brunswick and antisemitism will not be tolerated.”
Of course, it’s good that those yearbooks will be swiftly replaced. But what remains is the shock and pain felt by Jewish students and their parents when they first discovered the sinister replacement of a photograph of a Jewish student group and the removal, too, of their names.
Cohen announced there would be an investigation into the incident.
“The administration will need to determine: 1. How did this happen? 2. What person or persons are responsible? 3. Who are the yearbook advisers and who signed off on this page? 4. Did this act occur on the publisher's end? 5. How will perpetrators be held accountable? 6. "Does this constitute a hate crime and how will this be prosecuted?” the mayor added.
Dr. Victor Valeski, superintendent of the East Brunswick Public School System, has also addressed the incident.
“We are aware of an error in the yearbook,” Valeski said in an email on Tuesday. “We are working with the publisher to correct the yearbook. We are also investigating how the error occurred and will address that as appropriate at the conclusion of this investigation.”…
Was it merely an “error,” a slip by someone who by mistake removed a photograph of Jews and replaced it with one of Muslims, or was it, which is far more likely, a deliberate attempt at antisemitic sabotage, a way to remove Jews from the yearbook, which represents the collective memory of the students, so that those memories will be Judenrein?
This Case-of-the-Judenrein-Yearbook takes place at a time of steep rises in antisemitic acts that between 2022 and 2023 increased by 135 percent in K-12 schools, and by 321 percent at colleges and universities. Outside of schools, antisemitic acts among the general public soared by 140 percent.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation into the Berkeley Unified School District in California based on a complaint that it has allowed “severe and persistent” antisemitism since Oct. 7, with Jewish students experiencing bullying and harassment.
In January, OCR also opened an investigation into the Oakland Unified School District after it hosted a “teach-in” that gave educators guidance on how to address Israel and the Middle Eastern conflict in their classrooms. Resources included the website “Decolonize Palestine,” which claims Israel is not a democracy and does not have the right to exist. It also claims that the creation of the state of Israel was a result of the “transference of Europe’s guilt onto the Palestinians.”…
Here we have Jewish students in the Berkeley School District enduring harassment and bullying, with no help provided to them by school administrators. And next door to Berkeley, things are even worse at the Oakland Unified School District, that distributes materials for classroom use, putting on a “Teach-in” to provide teachers with “Resources” for classroom discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Among other things, those teachers were provided with the dreamy misinformation that Israel is not a democracy, and what’s more, the Jewish state “does not have the right to exist.” The Teach-in concluded by claiming that Israel was created not by the Zionists themselves, but by Europeans, who wanted to “transfer Europe’s guilt” for having allowed the Holocaust to happen by laying that guilt on the innocent Palestinians, who had done nothing to warrant Israeli enmity.
That Oakland School District Teach-in further calls for supporting the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, whose aim is to isolate Israel from the rest of the world (the so-called “international community”), by way of preparation for the eradication of the Jewish state and its replacement by a 23rd Arab state. A pseudo-documentary that was also part of the Teach-in, claimed — with a straight face — that Israel wants to take over not just the West Bank and Gaza, but also parts of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, a preposterous charge for which there is not the slightest evidence. But the anti-Israel cabals working quietly across the land to gain power in our school systems, so that they can brainwash both the teachers, and the children, to hate Israel, are only just now being uncovered. And only now are pro-Israel groups beginning to fight back.
