
_Robert Spencer is the director of_ [_Jihad Watch_](http://www.jihadwatch.org/) _and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers_ [_The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)_](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pjmedia-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0895260131) _and_ [_The Truth About Muhammad_](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pjmedia-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1596985283)_. His new book is_ [_The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520858729)_. Follow him on Twitter_ [_here_](https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS)_. Like him on Facebook_ [_here_](https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl)_._


Robert Spencer

In this social media culture of mass formation psychosis, one hysteria passes and another one comes just as quickly. And no one's paying attention to what truly matters because the weapons of mass distraction keep detonating.


	In,&nbsp;The Only Dangerous Thing About Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit is Her Boss’s Cowardice, I <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/08/only-dangerous-thing-about-pelosis-taiwan-visit-daniel-greenfield/">wrote that</a>, "American politicians regularly visit Taiwan. Six senators have visited just this year. Neither of the major papers campaigned against the Taiwan Travel Act. Nor did they condemn the series of congressional delegations that have been visiting the Republic of China. Until now.&nbsp;But when China exercised its heckler’s veto, the Biden administration ran to duck and cover. And the media suddenly decided that visiting Taiwan was suddenly very dangerous business. Communist China is likely to invade Taiwan. It will do so irrespective of whether a daffy California congresswoman sets foot in it or not."


	This was a manufactured crisis. The grifters on all sides who are really on the side of their bank accounts began shouting that WWIII was coming, just as they began shouting that we would soon be in a nuclear war with Russia.&nbsp;


	(After 150+ days plus, how's that nuclear war going?)


	&nbsp;And China is closing up its latest <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/china-reaffirms-threat-military-force-annex-taiwan-88177871">theatrical production</a> of "Final Warning 3: This Time We Mean War".

<blockquote>
	
		&nbsp;China on Wednesday repeated military threats against&nbsp;Taiwan&nbsp;while appearing to wind down wargames near the self-governing island it claims as its own territory that have raised tensions between the two sides to their highest level in years.

	
		The message in a lengthy policy statement issued by the Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office and its news department followed almost a week of missile firings and incursions into Taiwanese waters and airspace by Chinese warships and air force planes.
</blockquote>


	That doesn't mean China won't invade Taiwan. But it'll do so on its own timetable and the last thing we should let China or Russia do is blame us for their own actions.


	China is pulling out the big guns by <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/china-withdraws-promise-not-send-084146005.html">lying a little less</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		China has withdrawn a promise not to send troops or administrators to Taiwan if it takes control of the island, an official document showed on Wednesday, signalling a decision by President Xi Jinping to grant less autonomy than previously offered.

	
		China's white paper on its position on self-ruled Taiwan follows days of unprecedented Chinese military exercises near the island, which Beijing claims as its territory, in protest against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit last week.

	
		China had said in two previous white papers on Taiwan, in 1993 and 2000, that it "will not send troops or administrative personnel to be based in Taiwan" after achieving what Beijing terms "reunification".
</blockquote>


	Just ask Hong Kong how much those promises are worth.


	If the PRC takes Taiwan through non-violent means, it will put Communist apparatchiks backed by its secret police and military in charge, end political and religious freedom, the way that it did in Hong Kong and any other territory it controls.


	Beijing is run by murderous Communist tyrants and every word out of their mouth, whether it's to us or anyone else, is a lie. Stop believing them.&nbsp;

Can We Admit that the Pelosi Taiwan Visit Hysteria Was Over the Top?

In this social media culture of mass formation psychosis, one hysteria passes and another one comes just as quickly. And no one's paying attention to what

Can We Admit that the Pelosi Taiwan Visit Hysteria Was Over the Top?

Attorney Alan Dershowitz<a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3594412-justice-department-should-have-subpoenaed-documents-not-raided-trumps-home/"> had already asked</a> why Biden's DOJ decided to raid Mar-a-Lago instead of following proper procedure.

<blockquote>
	
		The more appropriate action would have been for a grand jury to issue a subpoena for any boxes of material that were seized and for Trump’s private safe that was opened.&nbsp;That would have given Trump’s lawyers the opportunity to challenge the subpoena on various grounds — that some of the material was not classified; that previous classified material was declassified by Trump; that other documents may be covered by various privileges, such as executive or lawyer-client.&nbsp;

	
		Instead, the FBI apparently seized everything in view and will sort the documents and other material without a court deciding which ones are appropriately subject to Justice Department seizure.&nbsp;

	
		Searches and seizures should only be used when subpoenas are inappropriate because of the risk of evidence destruction
</blockquote>


	We now know that the feds had asked Trump's lawyers to secure the documents and that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-legal-team-was-talks-justice-department-spring-records-stored-m-rcna42319">they were secured</a>.

<blockquote>
	
		According to Bobb, Trump’s lawyers this year searched through two to three dozen boxes of material in a storage area, looking for possible presidential records, and they turned over “a few pages”&nbsp;that might meet the definition.

	
		Bobb said she and Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran met later with a senior Justice Department official whose name she could not recall.&nbsp;Trump appeared at the beginning of the meeting, in June, and greeted investigators, Bobb said, adding that the former president was not interviewed. Federal officials then looked through boxes of material, Bobb added.

	
		Bobb told NBC News that the Justice Department officials said they did not believe the storage unit housing the documents was properly secured. She said that Trump officials added a lock to the facility and that FBI agents broke the lock when they searched the property Monday.

	
		Bobb added that she did not know what prompted the Justice Department to escalate its investigation to a court-ordered search.

	
		A source close to Trump who is familiar with the search said there are no plans to release a copy of the warrant. The source added that Trump had personally shown the Justice Department officials the room where the materials were housed during the spring meeting, which the source said took place June 3.
</blockquote>


	The argument for a raid would be that the documents were on the verge of being destroyed. Releasing a warrant might provide backing for that claim. Or note the lack of it.


	So, as per usual, the coup gang isn't releasing anything. A warrant could be released in redacted fashion if it describes classified materials. And it is highly unlikely that actual classified materials as opposed to materials that are technically classified but would be of no use to foreign adversaries are at issue.


	The DOJ had been in talks with Trump's lawyers. They had gotten some security added. The DOJ has failed to note what if any additional safeguards it wanted, but could have pursued this through the legal system.&nbsp;


	It failed to do so.


	Most likely that's because the Biden DOJ is on a fishing expedition, as Andrew McCarthy has argued, seeking to vacuum up as many documents as possible. Keeping the warrant secret also fudges the question of whether they are seizing documents that are related to the warrant or not.


	All bets are that they're taking anything useful for the Biden administration and its political operatives.

Mar-a-Lago Documents At Center of FBI Raid Had Already Been Secured

Attorney Alan Dershowitz had already asked why Biden's DOJ decided to raid Mar-a-Lago instead of following proper procedure.


	
		The more appropriate

Mar-a-Lago Documents At Center of FBI Raid Had Already Been Secured

Before the arrest, the media tackled the story with its usual "Muslims are worried take" and&nbsp;kept quoting the usual Islamist "community leaders" expressing "fear" and "worry" while mentioning the usual fictional upsurge in "Islamophobia".&nbsp;


	Readers and viewers were left to connect A to B and then to C.&nbsp;Except that A connected to I once again.


	Who was going to stalk and kill specific Muslims in New Mexico? Much like the acid attacks on Muslim women in America, which the media also keeps spinning the same way, the answer<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-mexico-police-detain-suspect-probe-slayings-muslim-men-2022-08-09/"> is all too obvious</a>. In bringing Afghan Muslims to America, we also bring along the culture and the various murderous feuds that come with it.

<blockquote>
	
		&nbsp;A Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan has been arrested as the prime suspect in the serial killings of four Muslim men that rattled the Islamic community of New Mexico's largest city, police said on Tuesday.

	
		After days bolstering security around Albuquerque-area mosques, seeking to allay fears of a shooter driven by anti-Muslim hate, police said on Tuesday they had arrested 51-year-old Muhammad Syed, one among the city's Islamic immigrant community.
</blockquote>


	In a surprise twist, the man bites dog story turned out to be another dog bites man story.

<blockquote>
	
		Authorities said the killings may have been rooted in a personal grudge, possibly with intra-Muslim sectarian overtones. All four victims were of Afghan or Pakistani descent. One was killed in November, and the other three in the last two weeks.
</blockquote>


	That wouldn't be shocking in a region and a culture where this sort of thing is the norm.

<blockquote>
	
		A search of the suspect's Albuquerque home uncovered "evidence that shows the offender knew the victims to some extent, and an inter-personal conflict may have led to the shootings," police said in a statement announcing the arrest.

	
		Investigators are still piecing together motives for the killings of the four men, Deputy Commander Kyle Hartsock of the Albuquerque Police Department said at a news conference.

	
		In response to reporters' questions, Hartsock said sectarian animus by the suspect toward his fellow Muslim victims may have played a role in the violence.&nbsp;
</blockquote>


	Just don't say the "I" word.


	What was the wonderful contribution to our diversity doing when he wasn't killing other Muslims?

<blockquote>
	
		Syed has a record of criminal misdemeanors in the United States, including a case of domestic violence, over the last three or four years, Hartsock said.
</blockquote>


	Let's bring 150,000 more.

Afghan Muslim Refugee Was Serial Killer in New Mexico Case Blamed on "Islamophobia"

Before the arrest, the media tackled the story with its usual "Muslims are worried take" and&nbsp;kept quoting the usual Islamist "community leaders"

Afghan Muslim Refugee Was Serial Killer in New Mexico Case Blamed on "Islamophobia"

New York is suffering from a massive crime wave and Gov. Hochul's answer is more&nbsp;politically correct Newspeak. These renaming efforts had already been tried, including changing criminals to "justice-involved individuals". The awkward Newspeak terminology never works or sticks for the most obvious reasons.


	But <a href="https://13wham.com/amp/news/local/legislation-to-change-the-term-inmate-for-those-in-the-prison-system">there's more here </a>than that.


	Even in the face of escalating crime and voter fears, Hochul is doubling down on pro-crime policies, after her and Cuomo's administration helped unleash that crime wave by eliminating bail. Hochul has refused to apologize or back down from it. She's up against Rep. Lee Zeldin, who is taking an anti-crime message in his campaign, and she's still ahead.&nbsp;


	Hochul is afraid of the Left, she's not afraid of a popular voter backlash and for now, New York voters are not disappointing her. The question is whether Zeldin and Republicans can break through and tell the truth about the Cuomo crime wave and the human costs of criminal justice reform.

<blockquote>
	
		A top political analyst told me Tuesday that Governor Hochul's decision to substitute the term "incarcerated individuals" for inmates in state law is her way of trying to reconcile issues of justice with issues of safety. But Dr. Lee Miringoff says it's a delicate balancing act when her opponent Lee Zeldin is accusing her of not being tough enough on crime. Hochul's critics say she is once again putting the needs of the criminal ahead of the needs of the victim, while those who approve of the change say it gives the prison population a better chance at reintegrating into society.
</blockquote>


	There's been zero safety here.&nbsp;


	And Hochul, like Cuomo, is keeping prisons and morgues open.&nbsp;

<blockquote>
	
		Dr. Miringoff of Marist College says the Governor has already chosen a clear path on the issue of crime by not bringing the legislature back to deal with bail reform, and he believes she's banking on this language change helping her with her base in November.
</blockquote>


	That's who her base is, wokes and criminals.

NY Gov. Hochul Continues Pro-Crime Push, Renames "Inmate" to "Incarcerated Individual"

New York is suffering from a massive crime wave and Gov. Hochul's answer is more&nbsp;politically correct Newspeak. These renaming efforts had already been

NY Gov. Hochul Continues Pro-Crime Push, Renames "Inmate" to "Incarcerated Individual"

There have been plenty of signs that Rep. Ilhan Omar is politically vulnerable.


	Despite being a standard-bearer for the 'Squad' and for a lot of lefty Dems, moderates hate her and so does her own community. If you're an Islamist or even a traditional Somali Muslim, you see an adulteress who married a white guy. About the only people, Omar is going to be popular with is wokes. And the Democrat establishment which backed her.


	Her <a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/the-omar-omen.php">narrow primary win </a>against a moderate black pro-police candidate shows what a missed opportunity just passed for moderate Dems to clean up their party.

<blockquote>
	
		"With every advantage in the race, Ilhan Omar narrowly emerged as the winner of Minnesota’s Fifth District (Minneapolis and inner ring suburbs) DFL primary yesterday. She defeated challenger Don Samuels by 2,500 votes out of nearly 113,000 votes cast (2.1 percent). "
</blockquote>


	Scott&nbsp; Johnson of Powerline, who's been covering Omar forever, paraphrases Orwell <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/the-omar-omen.php">and notes that</a>, "Covering the special endorsing convention that Sunday, I saw that the party activists who endorsed Omar were among the woke left successors of “every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist” identified by Orwell as the fans of Socialism and Communism in England. They make up Omar’s base, and it is substantial base, but she is not invulnerable."


	What does this mean for Republicans? Probably nothing considering the makeup of the district. But there's going to be a marked lack of enthusiasm for Democrats who will vote Omar not because she's popular, but because she's on the ballot. An effective Republican could make use of that.


	That overturns the whole premise of the Squad, that they represent a populist insurgency not another establishment rubber stamp for a terrible candidate.

Ilhan Omar Wins Primary By Only 2,500 Votes or 2%

There have been plenty of signs that Rep. Ilhan Omar is politically vulnerable.


	Despite being a standard-bearer for the 'Squad' and for a lot of lefty

Ilhan Omar Wins Primary By Only 2,500 Votes or 2%

House Speaker&nbsp;Nancy Pelosi&nbsp;(D-Ketel One) has left Taiwan, but tensions are still high. According to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/china-summons-american-ambassador-nicholas-burns-nancy-pelosi-taiwan-visit-1730456?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">Newsweek</a>, “Nicholas Burns, the top American envoy in Beijing, received a late-night summons followed by a dressing-down from a senior&nbsp;Chinese&nbsp;diplomat over Washington’s failure to block the House speaker’s plans.” Xie Feng, a vice foreign minister for the People’s Republic, “lodged stern representations and strong protests” with Burns.


	According to the Chinese propaganda organ Xinhua, “Xie said the U.S. government must be held accountable.” As far as Pelosi herself is concerned, however, all this saber-rattling has a simple explanation: her critics, she claimed Wednesday, are just sexist. Of course! How could we ever have thought that every last detail of life didn’t fit into the Left’s worldview, in which everything, literally everything, is either racist, sexist, or both?


	Xinhua’s report added that Xie “said the U.S. government has indulged rather than restrained Pelosi’s willful act, leading to the escalation of tensions across the Taiwan Strait and seriously undermined the China-U.S. relations.” Newsweek noted that “the Chinese military began to mobilize after Pelosi, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Taiwan in 25 years, landed on Tuesday, with China announcing plans to conduct military exercises around the island that prompted concerns among Taiwanese officials.”


	The Chinese Communists are ratcheting up tensions over Pelosi’s visit because they claim Taiwan as their own, and Pelosi, contradicting the appalled appeasers among Biden’s handlers,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-parliament-visit/index.html" target="_blank">declared</a>&nbsp;in Taipei that she was there to make it “unequivocally clear” that the U.S. would “not abandon” Taiwan. “We are proud of our enduring friendship,” said the vodka-soaked speaker. “Now more than ever, America’s solidarity with Taiwan is crucial and that is the message we are bringing here today.”


	The ChiComs have also chosen Pelosi’s Taiwan junket as a pretext for their rage because they see that they can. Old Joe Biden’s president act is wearing thin, America is crippled by misrule, corruption, and division, and Xi Jinping would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to see now as a time to take advantage. And so, Newsweek reported, “the Chinese military announced live-fire exercises and missile tests in six locations around the island, including in zones overlapping Taiwan’s territorial sea and airspace, to be held Thursday through Sunday.” Pelosi’s trip gives them an excuse to encroach on Taiwanese maritime territory and airspace, and what is President Double COVID going to do? What can he do?


	The ChiComs want him to act. Xinhua said: “Noting that the U.S. side shall pay the price for its own mistakes, Xie urged the U.S. to immediately address its wrongdoings, take practical measures to undo the adverse effects caused by Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.” In other words, shoot them some concessions, a few billion, maybe, or practical steps to abandon Taiwan, and all this tension will go away.


	Amid all this, Pelosi, who is now 82 and a knee-jerk, doctrinaire Leftist to the end, has claimed that it’s all really about sexism: “They made a big fuss because I’m speaker, I guess. I don’t know if that was a reason or an excuse because they didn’t say anything when the men came,” Pelosi&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/melissakchan/status/1554687746043699200" rel="noopener" target="_blank">declared</a>. She was referring to the fact that back in April, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-When It’s Convenient), Bob Menendez (D-Kyiv), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Ben Sasse (R-Impeachment), Rob Portman (R-Yawn), and Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) visited Taiwan.


	Pelosi should have stuck with her first response, as none of them are Speaker of the House, and none of them have Pelosi’s platform or influence. What’s more, the Biden administration is deteriorating so rapidly that April is a long, long way from August, and four months ago, the ChiComs didn’t have nearly as much reason as they do now to see this as a time to be more aggressive than ever and to squeeze Washington as hard as they possibly can, before a government that is remotely sane and competent returns (if indeed it ever does).


	But Pelosi is a classic example of a man (sorry! a woman) who has nothing but a hammer and sees every problem as a nail. She doesn’t see the brouhaha over her Taiwan trip as a sign of the Biden administration’s appalling weakness on the global stage or as an indication that the U.S. military should cut out the wokeness and start concentrating on figuring out how to win wars. Instead, it’s all because womyn still don’t get a fair shake. Of course.


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>.

Pelosi: People Are Angry That I Went to Taiwan

House Speaker&nbsp;Nancy Pelosi&nbsp;(D-Ketel One) has left Taiwan, but tensions are still high. According to&nbsp;Newsweek, “Nicholas Burns, the top American

Old Joe Biden’s White House issued a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/07/statement-by-president-biden-on-the-ceasefire-in-gaza/" target="_blank">statement</a> online, purportedly from Biden himself, on Sunday regarding the latest conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad forces in Gaza. Judging from its nearly flawless syntax and absence of broken sentences and malapropisms, however, this statement isn’t one that Dementia Joe actually read but which his handlers prepared to go out under his name. And since his handlers are staunchly and fanatically anti-Israel, the statement both affirms Israel’s right to defend itself and then immediately undercuts that right.

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	The statement goes on to affirm the Biden administration’s still-existing alliance with Israel:

<blockquote>
	
		My support for Israel’s security is long-standing and unwavering—including its right to defend itself against attacks. &nbsp;Over these recent days, Israel has&nbsp;defended its people from indiscriminate rocket attacks launched by the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the United States is proud of our support for Israel’s&nbsp;Iron-Dome, which intercepted hundreds of rockets and saved countless lives. &nbsp;I commend Prime Minister Yair Lapid and his government’s steady leadership throughout the crisis.
</blockquote>


	But immediately after affirming Israel’s right to defend itself, Biden’s amanuensis took it away:

<blockquote>
	
		The reports of civilian casualties in Gaza are a tragedy, whether by Israeli strikes against Islamic Jihad positions or the dozens of Islamic Jihad rockets that reportedly fell inside Gaza. &nbsp;My Administration&nbsp;supports&nbsp;a timely and thorough investigation into all of these reports, and we also call on all parties to fully implement the ceasefire, and to ensure fuel and humanitarian supplies are flowing into Gaza as the fighting subsides.
</blockquote>


	Now, wait a minute. A timely and thorough investigation of what, exactly? The Gaza jihad groups’ use of civilians as human shields is abundantly documented. Even the inveterately anti-Israel United Nations has <a href="https://cufi.org/issue/un-report-outlines-how-hamas-used-kids-as-human-shields/" target="_blank">admitted</a> it. Israel’s Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/357764" target="_blank">stated</a> Sunday: “Don’t believe the lies. I saw with my own eyes how the terrorist organizations launch rockets from densely populated civilian areas toward the cities of Israel. These war criminals use their women and children as human shields while they shoot at our citizens. We will continue to strike our enemies.”


	Biden’s one-step-forward, two-steps-back statement continued: “As I made clear&nbsp;during my recent trip to Israel and the West Bank, Israelis and Palestinians both deserve to live safely and securely and to enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity, and democracy.”


	Equal measures of freedom? Sure. The problem with that, which neither Biden nor his handlers have ever acknowledged, is the genocidal jihadi intransigence of the Palestinian side, which will never allow Israel to live in freedom and peace as a Jewish state. As <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Palestinian-Delusion-Catastrophic-History-Process/dp/1642936235/" target="_blank">The Palestinian Delusion</a> documents, the Qur’anic imperative to “drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191) foredooms any actual “two-state solution,” for, despite the fact that the claim that the Israelis drove the Palestinians off the land is more fiction than reality, it is widely accepted among Palestinians and has become the pretext for the ongoing jihad against Israel.


	Equal measures of prosperity? This, ladies and gentlemen, is pure and open Marxism, ostensibly coming from the alleged president of the United States. The Palestinians would be a great deal more prosperous if Palestinian leaders weren’t <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140803222918/http:/www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/05/report-corruption-palestine-institutions-gaza.html" target="_blank">kleptocrats</a> who are almost as <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-furious-and-fed-corruption-abbass-mafia-pa" target="_blank">corrupt</a> as Old Joe Biden <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/04/15/smoking-gun-hunter-biden-paid-joes-bills-joe-benefited-from-shady-business-dealings-n1590071" target="_blank">himself</a>, and if they didn’t devote so much of the billions they receive from the EU, the UN, and the U.S. to their jihad against Israel, rather than to the well-being of their own people.


	But even if the Palestinian leadership were as honest as the day is long, the only way to ensure that they become as prosperous as the industrious, innovative, and tireless Israelis would be to confiscate funds from those who have earned them and award them gratuitously to those who have not. Since Biden’s handlers are busy doing that in the United States, it’s no surprise that they would want to do it in Israel as well.


	Equal measures of democracy? Israel is about to hold its <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/06/21/israel-heads-toward-its-fifth-election-in-less-than-four-years-n1606802" rel="noopener" target="_blank">fifth election in less than four years</a>; Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, is in the seventeenth year of the four-year term to which he was elected in 2004. The Palestinians blame the Israelis for that along with everything else, but nothing has really prevented them from holding new elections except their own ruling kleptocrats.


	How does Old Joe propose to make sure Israel and the Palestinians have equal measures of democracy? His ghostwriter didn’t say. But one thing is certain: if Joe can find a way to penalize the Israelis in order ostensibly to ensure this Palestinian “democracy,” he’ll happily go that route.


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a> and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

Biden Says Israel Has Right to Defend Itself, Except When It Does

Old Joe Biden’s White House issued a statement online, purportedly from Biden himself, on Sunday regarding the latest conflict between Israel and Palestinian

Biden’s catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan was bad enough in itself, diminishing America’s standing in the world and projecting an image of weakness that has&nbsp;encouraged and&nbsp;emboldened enemies of&nbsp;our&nbsp;nation worldwide.&nbsp;The fallout from it, however, could be incalculably worse. A Defense Department&nbsp;(DoD)&nbsp;whistleblower has revealed that 324 of the Afghans whom U.S. forces brought to the United States&nbsp;as the disaster in Afghanistan was unfolding&nbsp;appeared on the department’s&nbsp;Biometrically Enabled Watchlist (BEWL), which&nbsp;includes&nbsp;terrorists, and yet were admitted into the country without being vetted. No one who has been watching the spreading dumpster fire that is the Biden administration could possibly be surprised.


	Senators&nbsp;Josh Hawley&nbsp;(R-Missouri) and&nbsp;Ron Johnson&nbsp;(R-Wisconsin)&nbsp;have called upon the DoD to investigate. On Thursday, they&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2022-08/Hawley%20Afghan%20Vetting%20Whistleblower%20Letter.pdf">wrote</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;DoD Acting Inspector General&nbsp;Sean O’Donnell&nbsp;about their “concern over new allegations raised by a Department of Defense (DoD) whistleblower. This information may show the Biden Administration’s failure to vet those evacuated from Afghanistan was even worse than the public was led to believe. The following allegations demand an immediate investigation by your office.”&nbsp;There should indeed be an investigation,&nbsp;but in these days of the hyper-politicization&nbsp;of everything&nbsp;and&nbsp;concomitant&nbsp;wokeification&nbsp;of the government bureaucracy,&nbsp;a genuinely illuminating investigation&nbsp;is about as likely to happen as&nbsp;Donald Trump or&nbsp;Ron DeSantis getting the Democrat nomination for president in 2024. &nbsp;


	Epoch Times&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-admin-evacuated-hundreds-from-afghanistan-on-us-watchlist-whistleblower_4645177.html">reported</a>&nbsp;Friday that&nbsp;“the BEWL identifies individuals whose biometrics have been collected and determined by analysts to be threats or potential threats to national security, including known suspected terrorists.” But instead of stopping those who appeared on this watchlist, the whistleblower contents that “White House and DoD officials instructed agency personnel to&nbsp;‘cut corners’&nbsp;and not conduct full fingerprint tests on the evacuees at staging bases in Europe,&nbsp;‘in order to promote the rushed evacuation from Afghanistan.’”


	The&nbsp;whistleblower&nbsp;also charges that “Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff were authorized to delete old biometric data at their discretion.” Really, what could possibly go wrong? Hawley and Johnson point out, with admirable understatement, that this is&nbsp;a “troubling development that could threaten national security and public safety.”


	Yeah, it could.&nbsp;And as it was all&nbsp;initially unfolding, Joe Biden was doing what he does best: lying.&nbsp;Sensitive to criticism arising from the importation of unvetted Afghans in the U.S., Biden&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/state-department-refuses-to-confirm-what-happens-to-afghan-visa-applicants-who-fail-rigorous-vetting-process">declared</a>&nbsp;in September 2021 that “planes taking off from Kabul are not flying directly to the United States. They’re landing at U.S. military bases and transit centers around the world. At these sites where they are landing, we are conducting thorough scrutiny — security screenings for everyone who is not a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident.” State Department spokesman Ned Price&nbsp;added: “Before anyone who is evacuated from Afghanistan comes to this&nbsp;country, they undergo a rigorous vet. Unless and until they complete that vet they will not be in a position to come to the U.S.”


	In reality, however,&nbsp;there appeared to be a concerted effort to bring unvetted Afghans into the United States. At least 82,000 Afghans were brought to the U.S. without being vetted. In October 2021, Senate Republicans noted in a memo,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/immigration/tens-of-thousands-entered-us-unvetted-after-kabul-airlift-officials-say-in-memo">according</a>to the&nbsp;Washington Examiner, “senior officials across the departments of Homeland Security, Defense, State, and Justice described a disastrous screening and vetting process.” Immigration officials accepted uncritically what Afghans said about who they were, without making any effort to check their stories. According to the&nbsp;Examiner, “the large majority of people, approximately 75%, evacuated were not American citizens, green card holders, Afghan Special Immigrant Visa holders, or applicants for the visa.”


	Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) had been given to Afghans who aided U.S. forces in Afghanistan. In September 2021, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/573243-lawmakers-push-for-numbers-behind-afghan-evacuation/">revealed</a>&nbsp;that “of the 60,000 Afghans who have entered the U.S., nearly 8,000 are either U.S. citizens or residents, while about 1,800 are SIV holders, having obtained visas after assisting the U.S. military.” That meant that 52,000 of the 60,000 Afghans who had come into the country were not U.S. citizens or SIV holders. In November 2021, Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) stated that only 700 of the 82,000 Afghans now in the U.S. were SIV holders.


	The&nbsp;Examiner&nbsp;noted that Biden’s reception of these Afghans “violated long-standing U.S. government policies for handling refugees.” This was a deliberate decision: “Refugees are to be screened and vetted before being admitted to the U.S. through an extensive process that&nbsp;includes&nbsp;multiple interrogations. Rather than follow the protocol, the Biden administration instructed federal law enforcement and military officials handling the evacuations and processing to adhere to less stringent standards.”


	Hawley confronted FBI director Christopher Wray about all this Thursday. According to Epoch Times, “Wray wasn’t able to give a clear answer about the FBI’s efforts to track down and interview the 324 Afghan evacuees.”&nbsp;Once again, no one should be surprised.&nbsp;Clearly this is all going the way the Leftist elites want it to go.


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;ShillmanFellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.&nbsp;


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Biden’s Handlers Released 324 Unvetted Afghan Evacuees on Terror Watchlist Into the U.S.

Biden’s catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan was bad enough in itself, diminishing America’s standing in the world and projecting an image of

Old Joe Biden’s handlers are pulling out all the stops to keep the sacrifices to Moloch going. On Wednesday, Old Joe signed an executive order that he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/08/03/remarks-by-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-at-the-first-meeting-of-the-interagency-task-force-on-reproductive-healthcare-access/" target="_blank">said,</a>&nbsp;“helps women travel out of state for medical care.” Biden added that Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra “is going to work with states through the Medicaid to allow them to provide reproductive healthcare for women who live in states where — where abortions are being banned in that state.” The alleged president added proudly that “just yesterday in Idaho, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit to make sure that pregnant women facing serious threats to their health can get the medical care they need in Medicare-funded emergency rooms.” Abortion, it seems, must be protected and fostered at all costs, and it’s easy to see why: it’s a central element of our established religion, woke Leftism.


	The First Amendment says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” but make no mistake: we do have an established religion in the United States today. Wokeism, including sexual confusion, contempt for masculinity, erasure of femininity, hatred of children (hence the focus on abortion), and obsession with racism real and imagined (mostly the latter), is the religion that the U.S. government promotes today.


	Evidence of our national religion is everywhere. There are pride flags at U.S. embassies around the world, openly “gender fluid” and transgender government officials, and fulsome praise for Leftist societal and sexual fads from officials at the highest levels, including the President of the United States himself. One thing that has become clear during the unhappy time that Joe Biden has pretended to be president is that an established religion, like religion itself, is inescapable: everyone has a religion, and every state has a state religion. Just as individuals who insist that they are atheists have some central focus and guiding force and principle in their lives — that is, something that takes the place and serves the purpose of a religion — so governments all endorse and even impose certain values. The ones ours promotes, of course, are all bad.


	Biden’s handlers moved decisively to impose our established religion back on May 5, the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fns.usda.gov/news-item/usda-0100.22" target="_blank">announced</a>&nbsp;that it was planning to “interpret the prohibition on discrimination based on sex found in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and in the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the Food Stamp Program (7 USC § 2011 et seq.), to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.” This new interpretation would mean that “state and local agencies, program operators and sponsors that receive funds from FNS must investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. Those organizations must also update their non-discrimination policies and signage to include prohibitions against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.” This Biden policy required schools that received federal funding for lunch programs to endorse and promote transgenderism, including allowing biological men to use women’s bathrooms. If any school refused to comply, it would be denied federal funds.


	That Agriculture Department decree was just one example of a myriad of ways in which Biden’s handlers were pushing the woke agenda upon the American people. On June 15, Old Joe signed what his administration&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/15/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-historic-executive-order-advancing-lgbtqi-equality-during-pride-month/" target="_blank">called</a>&nbsp;a “historic executive order” that was designed to aid in “advancing LGTBQI+ equality during Pride Month.” The White House press office stated proudly: “President Biden believes that no one should face discrimination because of who they are or whom they love. Since President Biden took office, he has championed the rights of LGBTQI+ Americans and people around the world, accelerating the march towards full equality.” To this end, the White House announced plans to end “conversion therapy,” that is, efforts to convince young people not to be homosexual, or even to convince those suffering gender confusion that they should not seek to alter themselves through surgery and pharmaceuticals so that they could pretend to be a member of the opposite sex.


	The White House proudly explained that “as a candidate, President Biden pledged to help end so-called ‘conversion therapy’ — a discredited and dangerous practice that seeks to suppress or change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQI+ people. Today, President Biden is using his executive authority to launch an initiative to protect children across America and crack down on this harmful practice, which every major medical association in the United States has condemned.” This opened the possibility that those who tried to fight the prevailing gender fantasy and madness could face criminal prosecution.


	Old Joe, or the shadowy figures who are actually making the decisions in his administration, was once again moving to protect America’s established religion, rewarding the orthodox and punishing the heretical and their institutions in ways that would make the heresy less appealing and put it on the road to extinction.


	The most obvious objection to this scenario, of course, is that secular (and, indeed, God-hating) Leftism isn’t generally recognized as a religion at all. Nevertheless, it very much is one, as can be seen all over, for instance in the transgender pronoun fantasies and hunt for heretics who dare to “misgender” a particular fantasist and the fervor with which supporters of abortion vowed to fight against all restrictions to the practice after&nbsp;Roe v. Wade&nbsp;was overturned.


	But since this secular ideology is not understood to be a religion, it is not seen as an established creed in violation of the First Amendment, as it would be in a sane polity. If it were, then the solution to it would also be found in the First Amendment, in the prohibition of such an establishment, and provisions such as school lunch money being withheld from schools that refused to indulge insane gender faddism would be seen as establishing a religion, and accordingly ended. So would federal promotion of abortion. But don’t watch for that to happen here.

Biden Moves to Protect America's National Religion

Old Joe Biden’s handlers are pulling out all the stops to keep the sacrifices to Moloch going. On Wednesday, Old Joe signed an executive order that he&nbsp;

When the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home on Monday, a key aspect of what made the United States of America great and free has been lost, and likely cannot be recovered. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson detested one another for years before their eventual reconciliation, but neither one used the agencies of the U.S. government to hound, persecute or discredit the other. Other bitter political opponents throughout the history of the republic have never before used the government’s own mechanisms of justice to do injustice to their foes. Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and their henchmen have brought America to a new phase of its history, and it is not likely to be one that is marked by respect for the rule of law or defense of the rights of individual citizens. Instead, we are entering an ugly age of authoritarianism, in which the brute force of the state is used to bend the people to the will of the tyrant.


	Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/RobManess/status/1556777103735013377/photo/1">announced</a> on Monday, “These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate.”


	The 45th president is not given to understatement, but the FBI raid on his home is much more than just unnecessary and inappropriate. It is criminal. The FBI that was heavily involved in trying to frame and destroy Trump in the Russian Collusion hoax is now trying once again to destroy him, apparently by claiming that he improperly took classified material from the White House. They never cared when Hillary Clinton misused classified material on a grand scale; what is the difference? They’re also likely trying to find something to link him more firmly to the January 6 “insurrection” that never was. The Left’s January 6 narrative has been full of holes from the beginning: Trump told the demonstrators to proceed peacefully, the people who entered the Capitol had no weapons, and no one had sketched out any kind of plan to do what the Left continues to claim that Trump was trying to do all along, overthrow the government and rule as a dictator.


	But Joe Biden’s handlers are desperately afraid that Trump will return to the White House on January 20, 2025 and that things will go harder for them next time than they did during his first term. They’re afraid that a vengeful Trump will do a genuine and thorough housecleaning of the desperately corrupt and compromised Washington bureaucracy, and that many of them will, quite justly, end up out of power, and some of them will, even more justly, end up in prison. So they’ve determined to pre-emptively do the same to Trump. If they can’t actually find anything to prosecute him for (and Lord knows they’ve tried, this is the most investigated and poked and prodded and scrutinized man in American history, and still those who hate him have nothing), then at very least they hope to taint Trump so completely in the eyes of the distracted and indifferent public that they will have a fighting chance in 2024.


	This is banana republic stuff. This is the kind of thing that moved Woodrow Wilson to intervene militarily in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua, explaining: “We are friends of constitutional government in America; we are more than its friends, we are its champions. I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men.” Wilson was an authoritarian scoundrel and one of the worst presidents we have ever endured, but much as he hated Theodore Roosevelt and feared that he would be reelected to the presidency in 1920 (instead, Roosevelt died in 1919), Wilson never had rogue government agents raid Roosevelt’s home looking for something they could use to pin some crime on him.


	Merrick Garland recently signaled that something like this was in the offing, when he emphasized that no one was above the law and anyone could be prosecuted. No one is above that law, that is, except Hillary Clinton, and Hunter Biden, and all the FBI officials who have been implicated in the Russian Collusion hoax, and all the other Leftists who have escaped and will continue to escape prosecution because they hold what the elites consider to be acceptable political opinions.


	The two-tier justice system that aggressively prosecutes conservatives while turning a blind eye to Leftists who have committed similar or worse crimes is now out in the open. Trump did nothing, but the FBI will find some crime for which the Justice Department will prosecute him. Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden did a great deal, but none of it matters to corrupt officials who share their worldview.


	The lesson is clear: in America today, in the corrupt kleptocracy of Joe Biden, you have to have the right opinions. Then all doors will open for you and you can even break laws with impunity, and have no fear of prosecution. But if you dare to dissent from the opinions of the elites, prepare to be hounded by the new super-IRS and the weaponized FBI, and you’ll face raids, and prison, and who knows what else is coming.


	Many conservatives are saying that this ensures Trump’s victory in 2024. But what makes them think that this corrupt regime will allow the man whom they fear and hate above all others return to the White House? It’s clear now. They will stop at nothing.


	This is no longer a republic, except of the banana variety. It may be a republic again someday, but for now, the great American experiment is over. Born July 4, 1776 in Philadelphia, died August 8, 2022, in Mar-A-Lago, at the hands of Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and Christopher Wray.


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

End of the Republic

When the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home on Monday, a key aspect of what made the United States of America great and free has been lost, and likely cannot be

If the Biden administration’s dumpster fire didn’t threaten to engulf us all, Old Joe and his team of tokens, clowns, hacks, and psychopaths would be good for a few laughs. Nobody expects the president’s press secretary to be a great intellect, but a rudimentary understanding of how the American government works would be nice. Instead, on Wednesday we got Karine Jean-Pierre informing the nation that the Supreme Court’s&nbsp;Dobbs v. Jackson&nbsp;decision overturning&nbsp;Roe v. Wade&nbsp;was “unconstitutional.” Yes, she really said that.

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			This is, of course, a world in which a woman who is being&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/08/02/the-ditz-vs-the-don-strategist-touts-aoc-as-dems-best-hope-for-2024-n1617805" target="_blank">touted</a>&nbsp;as a major contender for the Democrat party’s presidential nomination in 2024&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/417372-ocasio-cortez-hits-back-at-republicans-for-drooling-over-footage-of-her-to/" target="_blank">thinks</a>, or at least thought before her words were received with a torrent of ridicule, that the “three chambers of government” are “the presidency, the Senate, and the House.”&nbsp;So it’s not a huge surprise that the press secretary thinks that the branch of government that is empowered to determine whether or not a particular law accords with the Constitution can itself do something unconstitutional. Perhaps we should be grateful that anyone on the Left still cares that there is a Constitution at all.</div>
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	Jean-Pierre&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1554890865117724672" target="_blank">said</a>: “From day one, when, uh, when the Supreme Court made this extreme decision, uh, to take away, uh, uh, a constitutional right, uh, it was an unconstitul — unconstitutional action by them, a right that was around for almost fifty years, a right that women had to make a decision on their bodies, and how they wanna start their families…” This is not the sort of statement that yields to logical analysis, but it still raises questions: a constitutional right that was around for almost fifty years? Does Karine Jean-Pierre think that the Constitution was ratified in 1972?

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			Also, if Karine Jean-Pierre thinks that what the Supreme Court has done in overturning this “right” (actually, all it did was allow the states once again to make their own laws regarding abortion) was “unconstitutional,” what authority does she think exists within the American government to determine whether or not a Supreme Court is constitutional? Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recently&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3570209-kagan-warns-that-supreme-court-legitimacy-at-risk-if-it-strays-too-far-from-public-sentiment/" target="_blank">said</a>&nbsp;that “if over time the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that’s a dangerous thing for a democracy.” Does Jean-Pierre, too, believe that the Supreme Court’s decisions must accord with “public sentiment” or else the high court loses its legitimacy?</div>
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	She likely does, unless, of course, “public sentiment” tends in a rightward direction, in which case she would certainly argue, if the Court decision leaned to the Left, that the Court had to adhere to the legal principle and not bow to popular opinion. Hey, whatever works.


	This is not, however, how the United States government is supposed to work. The Supreme Court is supposed to ensure fidelity to Constitutional principles, declaring that various laws are unconstitutional not because they are unpopular or out of favor with the political and media elites, but because they do not accord with the basic law of the land. That Karine Jean-Pierre would not know this, or not care, reflects poorly on America’s educational system as well as on the Biden administration.


	For the record, Jean-Pierre graduated from Kellenberg Memorial High School on Long Island and has a Bachelor of Science from the New York Institute of Technology and a Master of Public Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. Probably somewhere in there the basics of how the federal government works came up, but the day-to-day emphasis was much more likely on pressing issues such as that ever-present nonexistent bogey, structural racism, as well as sexism and all the rest of the Left’s preoccupations. Nobody really had time for basic civics when what they were really concentrating on was how to tear it all down.


	And so now we have people at the highest levels who don’t know anything about how the government is supposed to work. Of course, it also doesn’t matter to Biden’s handlers, because if they don’t get their way in Congress, they’ll put a stack of executive orders and emergency decrees in front of Old Joe and get what they want no matter what the little people think. If the Supreme Court acts up again, Karine Jean-Pierre can just declare their decisions “unconstitutional” again. And the whole circus will roll merrily on, until, of course, one day it doesn’t.


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.&nbsp;

Karine Jean-Pierre: It Was ‘Unconstitutional’ for Supreme Court to Overturn Roe

If the Biden administration’s dumpster fire didn’t threaten to engulf us all, Old Joe and his team of tokens, clowns, hacks, and psychopaths would be good for

Inflation is skyrocketing. Gas prices, despite Old Joe Biden’s crowing about minor reductions, are still substantially higher than they were before his presidency was inflicted upon us. America’s global standing is drastically diminished by Biden’s handlers’ catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, due to the lack of preparedness of a politicized military distracted by wokeism. The Southern border is essentially nonexistent, and due to that as well as to the arrival of tens of thousands of <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/03/22/insane-now-all-the-unvetted-afghans-bidens-handlers-brought-here-cant-be-deported-n1568776">unvetted</a> Afghan migrants, there is an unknowable number of criminals and terrorists in the country who would have been kept out by remotely sane immigration policies. Amid all this and much more, Biden’s handlers are tackling the real problem facing America today: they’re expanding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the extent that, according to the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/policy/dems-poised-to-make-irs-larger-than-pentagon-state-department-fbi-and-border-patrol-combined/">Washington Free Beacon</a>, it will soon be larger “than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined.”


	Yes, it’s true. The people who run Joe Biden looked around at their dumpster fire of an administration, and the smoking ruin they have wrought, and decided that what America really needs are tens of thousands of new employees for the IRS.


	The Free Beacon reported that “under the Inflation Reduction Act negotiated by Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.), the agency would receive $80 billion in funding to hire as many as 87,000 additional employees. The increase would more than double the size of the IRS workforce, which currently has 78,661 full-time staffers, according to federal data.” The new money that the agency would receive “would increase the agency’s budget by more than 600 percent. In 2021, the IRS received $12.6 billion.”


	Why does the IRS need so many new full-time employees? Why does it need a six-hundred-percent budget increase? It’s all part of the administration’s ongoing efforts to squeeze the American middle class. The Free Beacon notes that according to “a Congressional Budget Office analysis,” the new behemoth IRS “would result in more than $200 billion in additional revenue for the federal government over the next decade.” This is because the new IRS agents would devote substantial energy to squeezing Americans and bleeding them dry: “Democrats say the hiring of additional IRS agents will help root out tax cheats and other criminals,” for “more than half of that funding is specifically earmarked for ‘enforcement,’ meaning tax audits and other responsibilities such as ‘digital asset monitoring.’”


	It’s easy to see where all this is going. The new super-IRS will be as corrupt and politicized as the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/defund-fbi-robert-spencer/">FBI</a> already is, and would use its new staff and money to go after dissenters from the Leftist regime in Washington. The IRS is already one of the most hated and feared of all federal agencies, and one that was already politicized during Barack Obama’s first two terms, when the infamous Lois Lerner <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/doj-official-named-fbi-whistleblower-complaint-involved-earlier-lois">began</a> persecuting conservative nonprofit organizations.


	Back in the heady days of April 2017, then-House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady and then-Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam asked the Justice Department to reopen a probe into Lerner’s conduct. They <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/lois-lerner-got-off-easy-in-the-irs-scandal-its-time-to-reexamine-the-targeting-of-conservatives">wrote</a>: “On April 9, 2014, the House Committee on Ways and Means voted to send a letter to the Department of Justice referring former IRS Exempt Organizations Division Director Lois G. Lerner for criminal prosecution. As indicated in the attached letter, the Committee’s nearly three-year investigation uncovered evidence of willful misconduct on the part of Ms. Lerner. Despite this fact, and for what many believe were purely partisan reasons, the prior Administration refused to review Ms. Lerner’s misconduct.”


	Indeed. And that misconduct had to do with the politicization of the IRS: “In particular,” Brady and Roskam continued, “the Committee found that Ms. Lerner used her position to improperly influence IRS action against conservative organizations, denying these groups due process and protection rights under the law. The Committee also found she impeded official investigations by providing misleading statements in response to questions from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Finally, Lerner risked exposing, and may have actually disclosed, confidential taxpayer information, in apparent violation of Internal Revenue Code section 6103 by using her personal email to conduct official business.”


	Nothing was done, of course, and now Lois Lerner’s friends and colleagues are back in power. They’re poised now with their new funding to make her look like an impartial, absolutely honest, trustworthy public official. It’s clear that Biden’s handlers, having already turned the Justice Department into a tool of his agenda, now wants to corrupt the IRS in a similar way, and turn it against those who dare to resist the implementation of his socialist, green agenda. Is there anyone among our elected officials in Washington who has the will to stop them in their ongoing efforts to corrupt the American system to its very core? 
	 
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	Previous articles on The IRS as a Partisan Weapon:


	David Horowitz and John Perazzo: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/how-joe-biden-and-irs-are-performing-criminal-acts-david-horowitz-and-john-perazzo/">How Joe Biden and the I.R.S are Performing Criminal Acts.</a> 
	 
	David Horowitz and John Perazzo: <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/how-black-lives-matter-criminals-were-enabled-irs-david-horowitz-and-john-perazzo/">How Black Lives Matter Criminals Were Enabled by the I.R.S. and the Democrat Party</a>.


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	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

IRS: Gestapo in the Making

Inflation is skyrocketing. Gas prices, despite Old Joe Biden’s crowing about minor reductions, are still substantially higher than they were before his

Yes, it seems like a joke, but Michael Starr Hopkins, who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-starr-hopkins-9a031415b/" target="_blank">says</a>&nbsp;he is an “experienced Press Secretary with a demonstrated history of working in the media industry,” is dead serious: in an op-ed in&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3583238-aoc-is-the-democrats-best-shot-against-trump-in-2024/" target="_blank">The Hill</a>&nbsp;on Tuesday, Hopkins argues that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Would You Like An Olive?), who is already renowned for her wisdom and intellect, is the Democrats’ best hope to take on the evil Trump and prevent him from forcing another pause in their ongoing efforts to destroy the United States as a free and sovereign republic.


	Yes, Hopkins is serious; so serious, in fact, that he dares to compare the winsome AOC to the light-bringer himself: “When&nbsp;Barack Obama&nbsp;came out of nowhere to win his Senate seat in 2004, it almost felt preordained,” Hopkins writes. “As if he was the person we had been waiting for to breathe fresh air into the Democratic Party.&nbsp;Flash forward to 2018, and the meteoric rise of a 29-year-old bartender from Queens feels eerily similar.”


	Maybe Hopkins has a point. Both Obama and AOC seemed to be celebrated beyond a level that would be justified by their talents and abilities. Hopkins indulges in quite a lot of that in his op-ed, boosting his heroine in terms that would never have occurred to a rational human being. AOC has, Hopkins insists, “been unafraid, unapologetic and unwilling to bend to the will of Washington. She is a force to be reckoned with, and in 2024 Democrats are going to need her force to reckon with Republicans.” Yes, because they’ve created so many disasters with their policies, what better thing to do than get behind an avowed socialist who wants to create even more?


	But AOC, Hopkins says, “is less of a personality and more of a movement.” Then he goes on to refer to her as “the smart, photogenic congresswoman.” OK, come on, now, Hopkins. Smart? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is legendary for saying things that indicate that she isn’t all that bright. Last February, she attempted to explain away skyrocketing crime rates in New York City by saying, “The surge in violence is being driven by young people, particularly young men. And we allow the discourse to make it sound as though it’s, like, these shady figures in the bush, jumping out from a corner. These are young men. These are boys. We’re also not discussing the mental-health crisis that we are experiencing as a country as a result of the pandemic.” Ah, you see? It’s a mental health crisis, not a crime crisis.


	AOC added, “The child-tax credit just ran out, on December 31st, and now people are stealing baby formula. We don’t want to have that discussion. We want to say these people are criminals or we want to talk about ‘people who are violent,’ instead of ‘environments of violence,’ and what we’re doing to either contribute to that or dismantle that.” New York City council minority leader Joe Borelli&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY5gXvh1PaU" target="_blank">called</a>&nbsp;those statements “Pulitzer-level stupidity, for someone who’s got a career in making awfully stupid things said quite frequently.” American Majority’s Ned Ryun&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ned-ryun-stupid-people-say-stupid-things-aoc-never-disappoints" target="_blank">said</a>&nbsp;on another occasion, “You expect stupid people to say stupid things, and&nbsp;Comrade Cortez never disappoints.”


	The thing is, her core constituency is just as dim as she is, so they neither notice nor care that she keeps going around saying things that reach “Pulitzer-level stupidity.” Accordingly, as Hopkins notes, she is “the face of the rising progressive movement,” and, he says, “she is also the future of the Democratic Party.” He claims that she “could out-Trump&nbsp;Trump like no other politician has been able to.”


	Warming to his topic, Hopkins takes full flight into I-want-to-date-her territory: “If Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is the Godfather, Ocasio-Cartez [sic] is Michael Corleone.” She has, he claims, “the ability to tell the story of her generation.” Not only that, but “she’s Barack Obama if Barack Obama was an actual progressive.” She “represents the possibilities and opportunities that make our country great.” She is “a symbol for her generation,” and indeed, “the face of a generation.”


	Why is The Hill publishing this fan fiction? Wouldn’t Hopkins’ time have been better spent if he bought a bouquet of flowers and showed up at AOC’s office, pleading with her to call off her engagement and marry him instead?


	He does, however, finish up with a marginally serious point: “In the age of social media and quick sound bites, no Democrat is more prepared to embarrass a bully like Donald Trump or Florida governor Ron DeSantis and return some chutzpah to the Democratic Party. There will be no going high when they go low anymore. It appears the only rule is there are no rules, and AOC is ready to enter the cage and fight for our democracy.”


	That is likely true: AOC would be much more effective debating a patriotic America-First candidate than one of the Democrats’ tired establishment hacks. But much as I hate to deflate young Hopkins’ love-bubble, she wouldn’t really be offering anything new or fresh, but just more (and more and more) of the same old tired America-Last big-government socialism.


	And that leads to the real question: It isn’t “Does America need an AOC presidency?” It’s “Would America&nbsp;survive&nbsp;an AOC presidency?”


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.&nbsp;

The Ditz vs. the Don?

Yes, it seems like a joke, but Michael Starr Hopkins, who&nbsp;says&nbsp;he is an “experienced Press Secretary with a demonstrated history of working in the

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		Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead, or at least that’s what Old Joe Biden tells us, and he wouldn’t <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/07/30/china-bidens-white-house-is-lying-joe-never-brought-up-genocide-and-forced-labor-with-xi-n1616998" target="_blank">lie</a> to us, would he? Anyway, while he and his handlers are taking a victory lap over taking out the big, scary al-Qaeda honcho, the fact is that Zawahiri was first declared dead in <a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/11/several-sources-claim-that-al-qaeda-top-dog-zawahiri-has-died-of-natural-causes-in-afghanistan" target="_blank">November 2020</a> and has only surfaced once since then. He was 71 years old and much more a man of the past than of the present. His killing, in other words, is more a matter of PR than evidence of an effective counterterror strategy. And meanwhile, Biden’s handlers are undermining the effectiveness of what little counterterror strategy they have by sending hundreds of millions over to Zawahiri’s friends, the Taliban.

	
		According to a Tuesday <a href="https://foreigndesknews.com/top-story/5-questionable-recipients-of-u-s-foreign-aid/" target="_blank">report</a> from The Foreign Desk, the U.S. “has pledged an additional $55 million in aid to Afghanistan.” This is just the latest in a more or less non-stop money train since the Taliban took over: “Over the past fiscal year, this totals to over $1 billion to humanitarian, economic, and military assistance aid to Afghanistan.”

	
		Biden’s foreign policy wonks would likely insist that this money was not sent to the Taliban but to other groups that are operating in the country. The Taliban may be in control, says Biden’s State Department, but there is still a massive humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan that we cannot ignore. Unfortunately for that narrative, however, the aid money that is being sent to Afghanistan is ending up in the hands of the Taliban despite all the denials and claims to the contrary. “Now,” says The Foreign Desk, “humanitarian aid to the Afghan people is lining the pockets of the Taliban at the expense of innocent Afghans and American taxpayers alike.”

	
		There is an important reason for this: “The Taliban’s ‘Monitoring and Control Plan of NGOs’ provides them with oversight and control of movements and work of various NGOs, including the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and the World Food Program.” Thus if the U.S. government sends money to any of those organizations, there is nothing that they can do to keep the Taliban from seizing the funds.

	
		The Foreign Desk adds: “The Afghan people are desperately in need of this aid to ensure access to basic food and water, education, and health services. However, this Taliban program requires Afghan citizens and foreign NGOs to submit to the Taliban’s brutal rule in order to ensure they receive the necessary aid to survive. The U.S. cannot ensure that its humanitarian funding is being used as it was intended. More than likely, it’s only bolstering the Taliban’s repressive regime.” So the American taxpayers are funding the Taliban’s consolidation of power in Afghanistan, thanks to Old Joe Biden.

	
		So while the administration crows over killing a septuagenarian holed up in a Kabul villa, it’s forking over hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to the very people who are allied with the old man’s group, share his goals, and want to bring about by force the same ideal society he envisioned.

	
		That’s not foreign policy. That’s not a counterterrorism strategy. That’s pure madness. Or, in other words, just a normal day in the Biden administration.

	
		Meanwhile, speaking of Old Joe Biden lying, here is Old Joe lying again on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/08/16/remarks-by-president-biden-on-afghanistan/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Aug. 16, 2021</a>, as the Taliban rolled into Kabul: “We went to Afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals: get those who attacked us on September 11th, 2001, and make sure al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again. We did that.&nbsp;We severely degraded al Qaeda in Afghanistan.”

	
		Sure, he didn’t exactly say that al-Qaeda had been driven out of Afghanistan, but the international chief of al-Qaeda was living in Kabul. That’s not exactly “degraded.” Nor is there any indication that al-Qaeda cannot use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again.

	
		Ultimately, the killing of Zawahiri, if it really happened, isn’t going to change anything. Al-Qaeda was never a movement built around a charismatic leader, and it won’t dissipate because of Zawahiri’s death. It will choose another leader and go on. The U.S. took out Yesterday’s Man. Biden may score some political points, but he certainly hasn’t done any serious damage to the global jihad. In fact, in the guise of sending humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, he’s still busy financing it.
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	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a> and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>. For media inquiries, contact <a href="mailto:communications@pjmedia.com" rel="noopener" target="_blank">communications@pjmedia.com.</a>

Biden Killed the al-Qaeda Chief -- While Sending a Billion Dollars to the Taliban

Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead, or at least that’s what Old Joe Biden tells us, and he wouldn’t lie to us, would he? Anyway, while he and his handlers are taking a

Last Thursday, a 23-year-old man named Khalid Mehdiyev was arrested in Brooklyn outside the home of Masih Alinejad. She is the astonishingly courageous Iranian dissident who so enrages the mullahs who lead the Islamic Republic that they <a href="https://pjmedia.com/columns/robert-spencer/2021/07/18/irans-attempt-to-kidnap-a-dissident-in-the-u-s-highlights-bidens-extraordinary-weakness-n1462722" target="_blank">mounted</a> an audacious plot last year to kidnap her in New York and take her back to Iran, where she would have faced unimaginable horrors. Was this a second attempt by the Iranians to rid themselves of one of their highest-profile and most trenchant critics? If so, it highlights yet again Old Joe Biden’s appalling weakness. Weakness, after all, invites aggression.


	According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/31/nypd-arrest-man-with-ak-47-outside-of-iranian-journalist-masih-alinejads-nyc-home/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&amp;utm_source=mail_app" target="_blank">New York Post</a>, Mehdiyev (which is a common Azeri name; there is a sizable Azeri minority in Iran) had a loaded AK-47 and over a thousand dollars in cash, and had been hanging around Alinejad’s home for two days before he was finally apprehended. The federal complaint &nbsp;“makes no explicit connection between Mehdiyev and Alinejad but says the accused had focused on an unnamed Brooklyn ‘residence.’”


	Mehdiyev showed all the signs of a determined and potentially lethal stalker: “Law enforcement observed Mehdiyev sitting in a gray Subaru Forester SUV with an Illinois license plate for several hours on Wednesday and Thursday. Feds said he ordered food to his car and looked inside of the windows and attempted to open the front door of the residence he was parked outside of.” Finally, on Thursday, Mehdiyev had the poor judgment to run a stop sign and was stopped by the NYPD, which found that he had no driver’s license.


	When cops searched his car, they found, apparently along with two days’ worth of takeout cartons, “the loaded AK-47 with multiple magazines, additional rounds of ammunition and a suitcase full of cash. Two other different license plates were also found.”


	But Mehdiyev insists that his odd and suspicious behavior was entirely innocent: he “told police he had been staying in Yonkers, but the rent was too high there and he was looking for a new place to live in the Brooklyn neighborhood. He said he had tried to open the front door of the residence so he could knock on an inside door to ask if he could rent a room.” He apparently didn’t explain why he sat outside the place for two days, and he had no plausible explanation for anything else, either: “He initially told officers he had borrowed the car and he didn’t know anything about the gun and said the suitcase was not his.” Yeah, you know how AK-47s can just appear in your car without your knowledge or consent, and what can anyone do about that?


	Later, apparently realizing how ridiculous his initial story sounded, Mehdiyev “confessed that the gun was his and he had been in Brooklyn ‘because he was looking for someone’” — an ominous statement when you’re carrying an AK during your search.


	Masih Alinejad is a particular thorn in the side of the mullahs because she highlights on a daily basis the pettiness and cruelty of the Islamic Republic. She routinely posts videos that have been sent to her (at tremendous risk) from inside Iran, showing Iranian women <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1546654986544840706" target="_blank">risking</a> multiyear prison sentences for the crime of taking off their hijab, the <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1553106499395878914" target="_blank">arrest</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1553506093157974017" target="_blank">torture</a> of women who have done so, and the Iranian regime’s <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1553421768244842496" target="_blank">determination</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1552709116518453248" target="_blank">punish</a> women who dare to resist their oppression. On Wednesday, she <a href="https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1552453043223928832" target="_blank">posted</a> a video showing the “unspeakable cruelty” of the Iranian regime in killing over 1,700 stray dogs. (Dogs are considered unclean in Islam, and Muhammad, the Islamic prophet, ordered that they be killed.)


	In a shame/honor culture, Masih Alinejad is doing something that the Iranian mullahs likely consider worse than death: she is humiliating them. And so it wouldn’t be in the least surprising if it turns out that they sent Khalid Mehdiyev, as they sent the kidnappers who were foiled last year. Old Joe Biden presents such an image of fecklessness and lack of control that it’s easy to see why the mullahs would think that this is the perfect time to strike within the United States: if Masih Alinejad were ever abducted or killed, Joe will stumble and mumble through some paper-tiger statement and continue his indefatigable pursuit of a new Iranian nuclear deal. So for the mullahs, there is no downside to continuing to try to get her in their clutches. The only people who would pay a price, as always with Joe’s actions and inactions, are the free people of the world.


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a> and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

Man Arrested With AK-47 Outside Brooklyn Home of Iranian Dissident

Last Thursday, a 23-year-old man named Khalid Mehdiyev was arrested in Brooklyn outside the home of Masih Alinejad. She is the astonishingly courageous Iranian

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says that the mullahs will build nukes in order to turn New York City into “hellish ruins.”&nbsp;This&nbsp;is why Iran wants nukes? &nbsp;Eight years of Bill de Blasio and no end to Democratic rule have already succeeded quite well in turning much of the once-great city into “hellish ruins”; why go to all the trouble of nuking the place when the Democrats will finish the job before too long?


	Iran expert Ben Sabti&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BeniSabti/status/1553350385166868480" target="_blank">tweeted</a> last Saturday that a Telegram channel run by the IRGC has threatened to “produce atomic war head for missiles: ‘Iran can immediately return to Emad project and build an&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ATOM?src=hashtag_click" target="_blank">#ATOM</a>&nbsp;bomb, if Natanz facilities are attacked.’” The Emad is a long-range missile.


	Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Post&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-713512" target="_blank">reported</a>&nbsp;Sunday that “the IRGC-linked Bisimchi Media (Radioman Media) Telegram channel published a video titled ‘When Will Iran’s Sleeping Nuclear Warheads Awaken.’” The video claims that “if the US or the Zionist regime make any stupid mistakes,” the Iranian mullahs will be able to develop nukes quickly.


	According to a Saturday&nbsp;<a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202207301168" target="_blank">report</a>&nbsp;from the dissident news outlet Iran International, the video “also says that uranium enrichment in secret underground facilities of Fordow, near Qom, has brought Iran to the threshold of nuclear breakout and joining the nuclear powers’ club and stresses that transforming the country’s ‘peaceful nuclear program to a nuclear weapons program’ is possible in a very short time.” The video declares: “The nuclear facilities of Fordow have been built deep under mountains of Iran and are protected against trench-busting bombs and even nuclear explosion… all infrastructures required for nuclear breakout have been prepared in it.” That breakout, the IRGC says, will soon give the Iranians the ability to transform New York into “hellish ruins.”


	The Iranian mullahs’ desire to help the Democrats complete their plans for New York City is new, but their threats of violence are nothing new. Back in&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Hassanvand/status/1481571707504705538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1481571707504705538%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Frevenge-is-definite-iran-releases-video-depicting-assassination-of-trump-at-mar-a-lago" target="_blank">January 2022</a>, the website of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, released a video showing the assassination of Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the golf course at Mar-a-Lago. This came amid a&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/columns/robert-spencer/2022/01/12/twitter-is-allowing-iranian-government-officials-to-issue-death-threats-against-trump-n1548884" target="_blank">barrage of threats</a>&nbsp;against Trump for the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in Jan. 2020.


	The threats go back years before that as well. On February 11, 2014, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Iranian Chief of Staff Hassan Firouzabadi&nbsp;<a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7854.htm" target="_blank">boasted</a>: “Iran is prepared for the decisive war against the U.S. and the Zionist regime.…Iran has been making plans, conducting maneuvers, and preparing its forces for this battle for years now.” And it still is.


	In a sermon on February 21, 2014, the head of Iran’s influential twelve-member Guardian Council of the Constitution Friday worship, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7854.htm" target="_blank">preached</a>, “The first option on our table is ‘Death to America.’ The entire people’s slogan is ‘Death to America’…Another option on our table is the defense of Palestine; other messages from the Iranian people to their officials are&nbsp;not to fear the enemy and not to fear death.”


	In May 2015, the IRGC’s commander-in-chief, Gen. Hossein Salami,&nbsp;<a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-we-welcome-war-with-the-u-s/" target="_blank">actually said</a>&nbsp;that Iran wanted war with the United States: “We have prepared ourselves for the most dangerous scenarios and this is no big deal and is simple to digest for U.S.;&nbsp;we welcome war with the U.S.&nbsp;as we do believe that it will be the scene for our success to display the real potentials of our power.”


	Nothing has changed since then except that the Iranian regime has gotten closer to producing nuclear weapons. Two weeks ago, Iran’s former&nbsp;Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Larijani&nbsp;<a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/senior-iranian-official-larijani-if-we-want-nukes-nobody-would-be-able-to-stop-us" target="_blank">heaped scorn</a>&nbsp;on the Biden administration’s ongoing hapless efforts to get a new nuclear deal with Iran. “The Westerners’ interest in the JCPOA,” said Larijani, referring to a new agreement by the name of the old one, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, “stems from their belief that it would pull out our atomic teeth, weaken us, and diminish our capabilities. [The way they see it], if one day, we decided to build a nuclear bomb, the [JCPOA] would delay us for over a year, and since this is a long process, the [JCPOA] would gradually disband the teams, since members would grow old, and their replacements would be blocked. In general, the entire nuclear business would become a pointless luxury, and we would abandon it.”


	Larijani reminded the world of one of the Iranian regime’s old deceptions: “Naturally, according to the Leader’s&nbsp;fatwa, we are religiously forbidden from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, and this includes nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, if we ever want to do this, nobody will be able to stop us, of course. They themselves know this.…Our nuclear capabilities – our access to nuclear-related knowledge and technology – are the pride of the Islamic world.” And apparently the envy of New York Democrats.


	One day the Iranian regime will come to the conclusion that it is finally time to strike. Will the U.S. military be able to tear itself away from its&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/07/30/priorities-u-s-military-base-is-hosting-a-drag-show-n1617034" target="_blank">drag show</a>&nbsp;long enough to defend the nation?

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	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.</div>

Iran Threatens to Turn New York City Into ‘Hellish Ruins’

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says that the mullahs will build nukes in order to turn New York City into “hellish ruins.”&nbsp;This&nbsp;is

It seems as if every day lately there is another reason to break out the champagne in Moscow and Beijing, and Saturday was no exception: it was the day of Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE)’s first “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion&nbsp;Summer Festival,” featuring (what else), a drag show. What does all this woke nonsense have to do with winning wars? Oh, never mind&nbsp;that; that’s the old, white supremacist military! The new diverse military has other priorities altogether


	The festival, according to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/air-force-includes-drag-show-in-woke-diversity-festival-at-langley" target="_blank">Daily Wire</a>, will feature “a series of performances and speeches, including a poem on ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ and a drag show by Joshua Kelley, who performs under the moniker Harpy Daniels.”


	This isn’t some outsider, non-military-grade drag show, either. Harpy Daniels is actually a yeoman 3rd class in the United States Navy, and you can just imagine how proud John Paul Jones and Chester Nimitz would be if they saw young Harpy in action. He actually joined the Navy in order to finance his drag career. Back in the bad old days, young men joined the Navy out of a sense of patriotism (and no doubt a desire for adventure), but for Harpy it’s just a means to an end: “With drag being my number one passion,” Yeoman Harpy&nbsp;<a href="https://www.navytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2018/08/30/sailor-by-day-performer-by-night-meet-the-navys-drag-queen-harpy-daniels/" target="_blank">explained</a>, “it quickly became costly. On top of just struggling to make ends meet and then pay college loans, the Navy became a great option to get myself situated in life.“


	They’re going to get a bravura performance at JBLE, because Harpy gives it his or her or xis all: “Doing drag allows me to embrace my feminine side and allows me to bring my diversity and creativity out. When I put on a face, it’s a face of art and creativity, not just a face of make-up. To hear people cheer, laugh or cry, or even join in with you during a performance is an absolute thrill.”


	Those straights and dweebs over at the Daily Wire note primly that Harpy’s “professional Instagram&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/harpy_daniels/" target="_blank">page</a>&nbsp;features dozens of photos of him in drag, many of them heavily sexualized. Some of the photos show Kelley nude, though the photos themselves appear to not violate Instagram’s nudity policies.” My fellow Americans, this is your United States Navy!


	The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion&nbsp;Summer Festival was the brainchild of the JBLE Breaking Barriers Alliance, a committee in the base’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. How much attention JBLE’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, or its JBLE Breaking Barriers Alliance, devotes to actual efforts to defend the United States from military threats was not disclosed. The whole thing was approved at the top: JBLE’s commander, Colonel&nbsp;Gregory Beaulieu, green-lighted the festival, and it was off to the races, er, that is, off to the drag show. And not just a drag show: the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion&nbsp;Summer Festival will also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eventcreate.com/e/jble-bba-summer-festival" target="_blank">feature</a>&nbsp;“bouncy houses and face painting for the children” who get bored with watching Harpy Daniels cavort.


	A notable stick in the mud in all this has been Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Military Personnel, who&nbsp;<a href="https://gallagher.house.gov/media/press-releases/gallagher-kirby-wrong-dod-does-have-wokeness-problems" target="_blank">dared</a>&nbsp;to point out that the U.S. military should actually devote its attention to winning wars, not to woke virtue-signaling: “Diversity may be a strength for America, but it cannot be an organizing principle for the Pentagon. Actual strength — physical strength, mental strength, and overall end strength — is our strength. DEI initiatives risk sapping this strength. By co-opting the Woke Left’s obsession with racial and gender diversity, the Pentagon’s DEI evangelists are ironically stifling the very type of diversity that might improve military performance: intellectual diversity.”


	The U.S. Air Force didn’t even have an Office of Diversity and Inclusion until Old Joe Biden started pretending to be president. But now that seems to be all that it’s about. JBLE explained in a statement that the goal of the Summer Festival was to “provide education and awareness, increase collaboration through outreach, and recognize the diverse composition of JBLE….JBLE leadership is committed to celebrating differences and cultivating an inclusive environment where every Airman, Soldier and civilian feels valued.”


	Well, heavens to betsy. We certainly don’t want our airmen or soldiers not to feel valued. Some curmudgeons might prefer that they feel equipped to defeat the enemy in combat, but come on, man! This is the twenty-first century!

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	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.</div>

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Priorities: U.S. Military Base Is Hosting a Drag Show

It seems as if every day lately there is another reason to break out the champagne in Moscow and Beijing, and Saturday was no exception: it was the day of

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		Faux-president Old Joe Biden spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping for over two hours on Thursday, but what they talked about is a matter of some dispute. The White House, understandably given Joe’s marginal grasp on the English language and rational discourse these days, released no transcript, instead giving us a terse one-paragraph “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/28/readout-of-president-bidens-call-with-president-xi-jinping-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china/" target="_blank">readout</a>” on the call. Then Karine Jean-Pierre told the assembled Leftist media sycophants and Peter Doocy that Tough Old Joe called out Xi for genocide and forced labor in China, and China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was annoyed: Joe, the Chinese said, did no such thing. Now, who are you gonna trust? The Chinese Communist Party, or Lyin’ Joe Biden?

	
		“According to White House Press Secretary,” the MFA <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-accuses-white-house-lying-biden-bringing-genocide-forced-labor-xi" target="_blank">declared</a>, “‘genocide’ &amp; ‘forced labor’ came up in last night’s call between Chinese &amp; US Presidents. That is disinformation.” MFA spokesperson Lijian Zhao said that Jean-Pierre’s claim was “pure lies. White House spokesperson said the issues of genocide and forced labor were mentioned in the call last night, that is false information.”

	
		Old Joe claiming to be tough when he wasn’t really, and brazenly lying in front of the entire world? Say it ain’t so! It’s a sad state of affairs when the Chinese Communist Party is more trustworthy than the president of the United States, but one thing Joe Biden has been since even before he was a politician is a skillful, relentless, and unapologetic liar.

	
		The record of Joe Biden’s lies goes all the way back to 1965, when the future corrupt kleptocrat was a callow law student. On Dec. 1, 1965, the faculty of the Syracuse College of Law published a report about Young Joe,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/18/us/biden-admits-plagiarism-in-school-but-says-it-was-not-malevolent.html" target="_blank">stating</a>&nbsp;that Biden “used five pages from a published law review article without quotation or attribution” and recommended that he fail a legal methods course because of his plagiarism.

	
		Biden stumbled through law school, finishing 76th&nbsp;in a class of 85. Since then, he has shown repeatedly that the primary lesson he learned in Syracuse was how to be a&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/09/04/liar-in-chief-a-brief-history-of-joe-biden-lying-about-his-life-experiences-n1475960" target="_blank">serial liar</a>. For years, he claimed the accident that took the life of his first wife Neilia was caused by a drunk driver. The real story was that&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2019/10/16/flashback-biden-lied-for-years-about-the-driver-involved-in-his-wife-daughters-death-n249427" target="_blank">Neilia drove into the path of the oncoming truck</a>. The driver’s daughter repeatedly asked Biden to apologize for lying about her father, who was driven into a deep depression by Biden’s public lies. The cheerful grifter never, of course, did so.

	
		In September 1987, Biden&nbsp;<a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1362479/joe-biden-neil-kinnock-biden-politics-donald-trump-labour-party-uk-politics-us-latest-spt" target="_blank">delivered a speech</a>&nbsp;that mixed class warfare rhetoric with his own experiences and those of his family. “Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? Why is it that my wife… is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? …Is it because they didn’t work hard? My ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of northeast Pennsylvania and would come after 12 hours and play football for four hours? It’s because they didn’t have a platform on which to stand.”

	
		It’s gripping, right? At least until you realize that those weren’t really Biden’s family’s experiences at all. He had lifted all this from a speech by British Labour leader Neil Kinnock.

	
		That lie torpedoed Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign. But that was a long time ago; when Biden&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/25/bidens-ridiculous-claim-he-was-arrested-trying-see-mandela/" target="_blank">claimed</a>&nbsp;in February 2020 that he had been arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison, the establishment media yawned, and his presidential campaign, such as it was, went lumbering on.

	
		And now he has claimed that he talked tough with Xi, just as he would have had us believe that he would be tough with Putin until the Russian autocrat demonstrated his palpable fear of Old Joe by invading Ukraine. The “readout” of his call with Xi doesn’t mention genocide or forced labor, but it does have this: “On Taiwan, President Biden underscored that the United States policy has not changed and that the United States strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”

	
		No doubt Xi trembled at the prospect of this senescent con man who is busy <a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/news/ec-republicans-lead-to-stop-biden-from-sending-americas-strategic-oil-reserves-to-china/" target="_blank">sending</a> him America’s strategic oil reserves thwarting him over Taiwan. Xi probably got an up-close-and-personal look on Thursday at just how far gone corrupt Old Joe is these days and went away from the call just the opposite of chastened. But clearly, Joe and his henchmen don’t care. If Joe can look competent in front of his rapidly dwindling number of diehard supporters, regardless of the facts, it’s mission accomplished.
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	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a> and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

China: Biden’s White House is Lying, Joe Never Brought Up Genocide and Forced Labor with Xi

Faux-president Old Joe Biden spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping for over two hours on Thursday, but what they talked about is a matter of some dispute.

After days of hemming and hawing amid Chinese threats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Smirmoff) is on her way to Taiwan: “She’s definitely coming,” said “a person familiar with the situation,” according to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nancy-pelosi-begins-asian-tour-in-singapore-as-china-again-warns-against-visiting-taiwan-11659358264?mod=djemalertNEWS" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal.</a>&nbsp;“The only variable is whether she spends the night in Taipei.” The People’s Republic, which claims sovereignty over Taiwan, is livid; Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, who said Monday that a Pelosi junket to Taiwan would be “a gross interference in China’s internal affairs,” <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/01/us-house-speaker-pelosi-is-reportedly-said-to-visit-taiwan-on-tuesday.html">warned</a> that her going there would have “very serious developments and consequences. We would like to tell the United States once again that China is standing by, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army will never sit idly by, and China will take resolute responses and strong countermeasures to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”


	Zhao Lijian wasn’t alone. Hu Xijin, former chief editor of the Chinese Communist Party organ Global Times, issued yet another in a long series of warnings: “Let her go to Taiwan. But pray before departure: wish herself a safe journey and wish herself not be defined by history as a sinner who starts a spiral of escalation process expanding military frictions to a large-scale war in the Taiwan Strait.”


	Meanwhile, Hu’s old paper, Global Times, <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1271745.shtml">recalled</a> other occasions when China issued warnings and then went to war: “‘Don’t say we didn’t warn you!’ - a phrase that was used by the People’s Daily in 1962 before China was forced to fight the border war with India and ahead of the 1979 China-Vietnam War, was frequently mentioned during a forum held Friday by a high-level Chinese think tank, as analysts warned that open military options and comprehensive countermeasures ranging from the economy to diplomacy from China await if US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gambles with a visit to the Taiwan island during her Asia tour.”


	It looks as if the gamble is on. And when he spoke with Old Joe Biden on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the faux-president: “Those who play with fire will perish by it. It is hoped that the US will be clear-eyed about this.’”


	Why is Pelosi going to Taiwan at all? Why is it so all-important that she go there now? It isn’t at all clear why Pelosi is so intent on ratcheting up tensions by going to Taiwan, but now that the Chinese have issued so many threats, some on the Right see it as a matter of national pride that she actually stumble onto the Taipei tarmac. Intent on not letting the ChiComs push us around, Trump’s best Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, <a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1551292270439059456">tweeted</a>: “.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi">@SpeakerPelosi</a>. Nancy, I'll go with you. I'm banned in China, but not freedom-loving Taiwan. See you there!” Trump’s Defense Secretary, Mike Esper, <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/07/27/nancy-ill-go-with-you-trump-allies-backing-pelosis-planned-taiwan-visit-n1616123">agreed</a>: “I think if the speaker wants to go, she should go.”


	Really? That’s all there is to it? The House Speaker should risk provoking a world war for a photo-op, or for a meeting with her business interests, or whatever it is she has planned for her Taiwan trip? It isn’t as if Nancy Pelosi has to go to Taiwan in order to clarify the U.S. position on the island; the American stance on Taiwan and the People’s Republic is perfectly clear, regardless of whether she goes there or not. So what would the U.S., or anyone besides Nancy Pelosi herself, gain from her issuing one of her English-torturing statements Taipei?


	Underlying all these questions is a larger problem: is risking a world war while our woke military is <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/07/30/priorities-u-s-military-base-is-hosting-a-drag-show-n1617034">preoccupied</a> with putting on drag shows really the best idea? Gen. Mark Milley and the rest of our woke military brass have been busy gutting our military with vaccine requirements and Critical Race Theory indoctrination. What do Milley and his henchmen think might happen when their troops, super peeved at the smallest microaggression, flounce out onto the battlefield in their high heels to meet the ChiComs? Milley might discover all too quickly that the military he has made is not quite as fabulous as he thought, at least not at the business of winning wars.


	The military’s manifest weakness and wrongheadedness, in fact, is likely a principal reason why the Chinese are being so aggressive over Pelosi’s Taiwan trip. Will she get us into World War III? Wars have been fought for stupider reasons, but it would take quite a bit of research to find one.


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

Pelosi's Showdown With China

After days of hemming and hawing amid Chinese threats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Smirmoff) is on her way to Taiwan: “She’s definitely coming,” said “a

The First Amendment says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” but make no mistake: we do have an established religion in the United States today. It’s woke Leftism.


	Wokeism, including sexual confusion, contempt for masculinity, erasure of femininity, obsession with racism real and imagined (mostly the latter), is the religion that the U.S. government backs and fosters today. There are pride flags at U.S. embassies around the world, openly “gender fluid” and transgender government officials, and fulsome praise for Leftist societal and sexual fads from officials at the highest levels, including the president of the United States himself. It became clear during the presidential administration of Joe Biden that establishment, like religion itself, is inescapable: just as individuals who insist that they are atheists have some central focus and guiding force and principle in their lives, that is, something that takes the place and serves the purpose of a religion, so governments will endorse and even impose certain values.


	On May 5, 2022, the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) <a href="https://www.fns.usda.gov/news-item/usda-0100.22">announced</a> that it was planning to “interpret the prohibition on discrimination based on sex found in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and in the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the Food Stamp Program (7 USC § 2011 et seq.), to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.” This new interpretation would mean that “state and local agencies, program operators and sponsors that receive funds from FNS must investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. Those organizations must also update their non-discrimination policies and signage to include prohibitions against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.”


	This new policy required schools that received federal funding for lunch programs to endorse and promote the transgenderism, including allowing biological men to use women’s bathrooms. If any school refused to comply, it would be denied federal funds.


	This Agriculture Department decree was just one example of a myriad of ways in which Biden’s handlers were pushing the woke agenda upon the American people. On June 15, 2022, Biden signed what his administration <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/15/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-historic-executive-order-advancing-lgbtqi-equality-during-pride-month/">called</a> an “historic executive order” that was designed to aid in “advancing LGTBQI+ equality during Pride Month.” The White House press office stated proudly: “President Biden believes that no one should face discrimination because of who they are or whom they love. Since President Biden took office, he has championed the rights of LGBTQI+ Americans and people around the world, accelerating the march towards full equality.” To this end, the White House announced plans to end “conversion therapy,” that is, efforts to convince young people not to be homosexual, or even to convince those suffering gender confusion that they should not seek to alter themselves through surgery and pharmaceuticals so that they could pretend to be a member of the opposite sex.


	“As a candidate,” the White House said, “President Biden pledged to help end so-called ‘conversion therapy’ – a discredited and dangerous practice that seeks to suppress or change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQI+ people. Today, President Biden is using his executive authority to launch an initiative to protect children across America and crack down on this harmful practice, which every major medical association in the United States has condemned.” This opened the possibility that those who tried to fight the prevailing gender fantasy and madness could face criminal prosecution.


	Joe Biden, or the shadowy figures who were actually making the decisions in his administration, was establishing a religion for his people: rewarding the orthodox and punishing the heretical and their institutions in ways that would make the heresy less appealing and put it on the road to extinction. The most obvious difference, of course, is that Biden’s Leftism isn’t generally recognized as a religion, although it very much is one, as can be seen all over, for instance in the transgender pronoun fantasies and hunt for heretics who dare to “misgender” a particular fantasist, and the fervor with which supporters of abortion vowed to fight against all restrictions to the practice after Roe v. Wade was overturned.


	But since this secular ideology is not understood to be a religion, it is not seen as an established creed in violation of the First Amendment, as it would be in a sane polity. If it were, then the solution to it would also be found in the First Amendment, in the prohibition of such an establishment, and provisions such as school lunch money being withheld from schools that refused to indulge insane gender faddism would be seen as establishing a religion, and accordingly ended. But don’t watch for that to happen here.


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

Our Established Religion

The First Amendment says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” but make no

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		Is there a single agency in Old Joe Biden’s catastrophic administration that hasn’t been completely corrupted and politicized? Apparently not. Recently, the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/25/office-of-the-national-cyber-director-announces-camille-stewart-gloster-as-deputy-national-cyber-director-for-technology-and-ecosystem-security/" target="_blank">announced</a> that it appointed Camille Stewart Gloster to the post of Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology and Ecosystem Security; she will lead the Office of the National Cyber Director’s “ongoing efforts to strengthen the security and development of our Nation’s cyber ecosystem — across people, processes, and technology.” That’s great, but Camille Stewart Gloster herself has other priorities in mind: she has repeatedly <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/bidens-cybersecurity-czar-says-systemic-racism-is-major-threat-to-us-security/" target="_blank">claimed</a> that the real national security we face is “systemic racism.”

	
		On August 24, 2020, the <a href="https://twitter.com/BetterLifeLab" target="_blank">Better Life Lab</a> (“Elevating the Value of Care. Advancing Gender Equity. Reframing the Narrative of Work-Family Justice,” you get the idea) <a href="https://twitter.com/BetterLifeLab/status/1297934192882388996" target="_blank">tweeted</a> that Stewart Gloster, among others, would <a href="https://twitter.com/BetterLifeLab/status/1297934192882388996" target="_blank">participate</a> in a “discussion about systemic racism and the major threat it poses to U.S. national security.”

	
		Stewart Gloster <a href="https://twitter.com/CamilleEsq/status/1297936069363511297" target="_blank">responded</a>: I hope all of my <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NatSec?src=hashtag_click" target="_blank">#NatSec</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ForeignPolicy?src=hashtag_click" target="_blank">#ForeignPolicy</a> colleagues join us for this important discussion. On the heels of the horrific shooting of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JacobBlake?src=hashtag_click" target="_blank">#JacobBlake</a>, it is clear there is a lot of work to be done generally &amp; our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NatSec?src=hashtag_click" target="_blank">#NatSec</a> apparatus must be a part of dismantling systemic racism.” She has&nbsp;also <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/bidens-cybersecurity-czar-says-systemic-racism-is-major-threat-to-us-security/" target="_blank">claimed</a> that Biden’s administration, not having failed comprehensively enough for her taste, should make&nbsp;“pursuing anti-racist and anti-hate policy outcomes” a focus of its national security apparatus.

	
		How Xi and Putin and the Ayatollah Khamenei must laugh at all this. It was just a few weeks ago that FBI Director Christopher Wray <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/politics/fbi-blames-iran-hospital-cyberattack/index.html" target="_blank">said</a> that Iran had attempted to hack the computer system of Boston Children’s Hospital; according to Wray, this was “one of the most despicable cyberattacks I’ve ever seen.” He added: “We cannot let up on China or Iran or criminal syndicates while we’re focused on Russia.”

	
		Maybe so, but Camille Stewart Gloster, whom Biden’s handlers hired away from Google (of course) and who previously worked in the Department of Homeland Security during the Obama administration, has an altogether different focus. In October 2020, she <a href="https://twitter.com/CamilleEsq/status/1313848678633762816" target="_blank">claimed</a> that the “U.S. Economy Lost $16 Trillion b/c Of Racism against Black Americans in a range of areas, including in education &amp; access to business loans By [sic] comparison, U.S. GDP totaled $19.5 tril last yr.”

	
		On Nov. 7, 2020, she <a href="https://twitter.com/CamilleEsq/status/1325254535619649541" target="_blank">tweeted</a>&nbsp;an apocalyptic all-caps rant: “I HOPE THIS REINFORCES YOU ALL DOING THE WORK TO ERADICATE HATE &amp; BIOGTRY [sic]. SYSTEMIC RACISM WILL RUIN THIS DEMOCRACY. AMERICA, I HOPE YOU ARE READY!!” This alleged systemic racism, of course, didn’t end when Old Joe stumbled into the Oval Office. In April 2021, Stewart Gloster&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/CamilleEsq/status/1387586945505693697" target="_blank">tweeted:</a> “We need to root out systemic racism in every institution not just the criminal justice system.”

	
		Every institution, including the one that is supposedly devoted to protecting American individuals and organizations from cyber attacks. Utterly enmeshed in her paranoid fantasies, in June 2020, Stewart Gloster&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cfr.org/blog/systemic-racism-cybersecurity-threat" target="_blank">wrote</a>&nbsp;in a column for the Council on Foreign Relations that was actually entitled “Systemic Racism Is a National Security Threat.”

	
		In it, she asserted that “technical and policy mitigations in cybersecurity need to account for the weaknesses of our society, systems, and institutions in their implementations. The places where democracy breaks down and the ugliness of our past sins are laid bare and unaddressed are where we are most vulnerable. Technical and policy mitigations to cybersecurity challenges will never reach their full potential until&nbsp;systemic racism&nbsp;is addressed and diverse voices are reflected among our ranks at all levels.” She added: “Cybersecurity professionals also need to understand how communities of color are disproportionately affected by cyberattacks that target critical infrastructure.”

	
		Shortly after the 2020 election, Stewart Gloster wrote in <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/526835-what-the-biden-administration-needs-to-do-to-strengthen-our/" target="_blank">The Hill</a>: “One thing made painfully clear through the 2020 election cycle is that race is America’s Achilles heel. The weaponization of race undermines our democracy and causes far reaching national security threats. Systemic racism also disenfranchises minority groups and is exacerbated by international and domestic policy decisions.”

	
		Well, yeah. If anyone knows about the weaponization of race, it’s Camille Stewart Gloster. And she envisions a world in which it will be weaponized much more: she called for “empowering U.S. foreign policy leaders to talk about systemic racism in the U.S on a global stage and acknowledging the detrimental effects of racism at home and in U.S. foreign policy towards regions of the world.”

	
		That’s right. While Putin moves into Ukraine and Xi eyes Taiwan, our cybersecurity czar wants American leaders to be rattling on about imaginary “systemic racism.” Yeah, that’ll restore our tarnished superpower status in a heartbeat.
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	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a> and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

Biden’s Cybersecurity Chief Says National Security Apparatus Must Focus on ‘Dismantling Systemic Racism’

Is there a single agency in Old Joe Biden’s catastrophic administration that hasn’t been completely corrupted and politicized? Apparently not. Recently, the

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		We all know that “white supremacists,” also known as “domestic violent extremists,” are the biggest terror threat the nation faces today; after all, Old&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/biden-the-most-lethal-terrorist-threat-in-recent-years-has-been-domestic-terrorism-rooted-in-white-supremacy" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a>, Gestapo chief&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/05/13/the-big-lie-again-attorney-general-garland-says-white-supremacists-top-terror-threat-n1446755" target="_blank">Merrick Garland</a>, and the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-white-supremacy-threat-testimony-b1951032.html" target="_blank">FBI</a> have told us so, and they wouldn’t lie to us, now, would they? In November 2021, FBI and Homeland Security Department officials&nbsp;increased investigations of “domestic extremists,” <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/11/08/fbi-sharply-increases-investigations-of-domestic-extremism-but-wheres-the-evidence-it-even-exists-n1530888" target="_blank">reiterating</a>&nbsp;the claim that they are today’s foremost terror threat. The only thing lacking in this scenario has been actual white supremacist terrorists in any significant numbers.

	
		Whistleblowers have revealed, however, that Old Joe’s pure-as-the-driven-snow FBI has been hard at work to make up for this deficiency, pressuring agents to classify cases as “domestic violent extremism” (DVE) when they aren’t, and rewarding them when they do. That’s how you create a white supremacist terror threat.

	
		This revelation came in a letter that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent Wednesday to FBI top dog Christopher Wray, informing Wray that the House Judiciary Committee continues to “get information from whistleblowers about ‘disturbing conduct at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.’”

	
		Jordan stated that “from recent protected disclosures, we have learned that FBI officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violent extremism’ even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification. Given the narrative pushed by the Biden Administration that domestic violent extremism is the ‘greatest threat’ facing our country, the revelation that the FBI may be artificially padding domestic terrorism data is scandalous.” Yes, but not in the slightest degree surprising. This is, after all, the same FBI that <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/05/12/fbi-used-terrorism-laws-to-investigate-dozens-of-concerned-parents-who-attended-school-board-meetings-n1597389" target="_blank">investigated</a> angry parents who protested at school board meetings against the imposition of the woke agenda in public schools.

	
		“According to you and other Biden Administration officials,” Jordan continued in his letter to Wray, “investigations into DVEs have increased ‘significantly.’ In June 2021, you testified that the FBI has a ‘very, very active domestic terrorism investigation program’ and that you had ‘doubled the amount of domestic terrorism investigations.’”

	
		Garland said the same thing, claiming that “[t]he number of open FBI domestic terrorism investigations this year has increased significantly.” When the men at the top are making claims of this kind, the subordinates know exactly what to do in order to get in good graces with the bosses, and to increase their chances for promotions and raises: “We have received accusations,” wrote Jordan, “that FBI agents are bolstering the number of cases of DVEs to satisfy their superiors.” It’s Biden’s FBI: institutionally corrupt, relentlessly partisan, and so entangled in a web of deceit and dishonesty that its corruption may be irremediable.

	
		One of these whistleblowers revealed that “because agents are not finding enough DVE cases, they are encouraged and incentivized to reclassify cases as DVE cases even though there is minimal, circumstantial evidence to support the reclassification.” According to another, “a field office Counterterrorism Assistant Special Agent in Charge and the FBI’s Director of the Counterterrorism Division have pressured agents to move cases into the DVE category to hit self-created performance metrics.” So apparently the feds decided how many “domestic violent extremists” there should be in order to make Biden, Garland, Wray and the rest look good, and then they twisted the facts to fit their made-up numbers.

	
		What’s more, “according to whistleblowers, the FBI uses these metrics to dispense awards and promotions. Every whistleblower has called it an environment of ‘pressure’ within the FBI.” This is, after all, the FBI that aided the Russian collusion hoax and more recently has been busy covering for Joe and Hunter Biden. This is the FBI that <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/08/breaking-no-convictions-in-whitmer-kidnapping-case-another-black-eye-for-the-fbi-n1588231" target="_blank">investigated</a> a “kidnap crew” of “right-wing radicals” who were supposedly plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer but who turned out to be a bunch of FBI agents LARPing as “domestic violent extremists.” This is, clearly, an FBI that doesn’t hesitate to falsify the evidence in order to fit its narrative.

	
		If the feds want to find some criminals, they should start with their own offices. This deeply corrupt organization is essentially out of control and on its own, like the CIA; after all, who has the courage or the power to step in and call a halt to all this? Biden and Garland certainly won’t, and if a Republican president is elected in 2024, these sinister ideologues will cook up some false illegality to hamstring him or her and deflect attention away from their own crimes. It’s increasingly clear, however: if the United States is going to survive as a free republic, the FBI must be thoroughly investigated, cleaned out, and maybe even shut down altogether.<a aria-label="Columnist" href="https://pjmedia.com/columnist/robert-spencer"> </a>
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	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a> and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

Whistleblowers: Biden’s FBI ‘Pressured &amp; Incentivized’ Agents to Classify Cases As Domestic Violent Extremism

We all know that “white supremacists,” also known as “domestic violent extremists,” are the biggest terror threat the nation faces today; after all, Old&nbsp;

Yes, it has come to this. History will record that the Vice President of the United States, a heartbeat away from leading what they used to call the free world, opened a meeting on July 26, 2022, by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/07/26/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-in-a-roundtable-with-disability-advocates/" target="_blank">stating</a>&nbsp;with the utmost seriousness: “I am Kamala Harris.&nbsp;My pronouns are ‘she’ and ‘her.’ I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.” She even looked down at her lapel as she said “wearing a –” and paused briefly as if to verify that the suit was still blue and hadn’t started to identify as gray or black while she wasn’t looking.


	When we were kids in the 1960s and 1970s, we thought that by the 2020s, we’d be driving around in star cruisers and flying to the moon for dinner. Instead, we have to announce to a waiting world whether we are male, female, or something else altogether, and the color of our clothing.


	Harris, of course, wasn’t being gratuitously ridiculous, or at least any more than she usually is. She was addressing a “Roundtable with Disability Advocates,” and everyone else who spoke also began by&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1551986134535884800" target="_blank">stating</a>&nbsp;their pronouns and what they were wearing. This was apparently intended to be an attempt to make blind people feel more included; when Greg Price&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1551986134535884800" target="_blank">responded</a>&nbsp;to this spectacle with “wtf lol,” Kendall Brown, who describes himself/herself (who knows these days?) as a “healthcare advocate fighting to defeat Republican supermajorities,” shot back: “It’s an event commemorating the Americans with Disabilities Act, you mean-spirited ghoul. Attendees decided to help blind participants feel more included by using visual language when introducing themselves. Straight up, there is no difference between the childhood bully mocking disabled kids on the playground and sh**ty dudes like&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11" target="_blank">@greg_price11</a>&nbsp;mocking disabled adults who are just trying to make the world a tiny bit friendlier for one another. How dead inside do you have to be to mock disabled people trying to be more inclusive of disabled people at an event for disabled people?”


	Brown might have a case if all Harris had done was announce what color suit she was wearing, although it’s silly to think that blind people will feel more “included” if everyone begins speaking by announcing his or her choice of attire. There have been blind people throughout history, including some people of immense achievement (Homer, Galileo, John Milton, Jorge Luis Borges, Helen Keller, Andrea Bocelli, Ray Charles, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Stevie Wonder, and on and on), and I’m not aware of a single one in any time or place who ever said, “I sure would feel a lot more included if y’all would tell me what you were wearing.”


	This was just silly pandering and virtue-signaling, and Harris’ adding in the pronouns made it even worse. Blind people can hear if someone is male or female, but not in the Left’s fantasy world, in which Rachel Levine and Caitlyn Jenner are women and they have to tell you so because it isn’t obvious just from hearing their voices. It was marginally reassuring that Harris acknowledged that she is a woman, but just by engaging in the act of doing so, she showed that she accepts the pervasive madness and thinks that it is altogether fitting and proper for a human being to preface his or her or xis remarks by announcing his or her or xis gender.


	The&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1551984522685829120" target="_blank">video</a>&nbsp;of Harris solemnly intoning that she was a woman wearing a blue suit was also reminiscent of some of her previous enunciations of the blazingly obvious, as when she&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1498742845196443649" target="_blank">said:</a>&nbsp;“So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, that’s wrong.” Basically. Harris, in fact, has a reputation for articulating things that others would never think were worth saying, as when she famously&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1505964846172491780" target="_blank">this,</a>&nbsp;but about what is still unclear: “The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time … there is such great significance to the passage of time.”


	Yes, and to her (checks lapel) blue suit. Our age will be remembered as one of a peculiar society-wide flight from reality, and pronouncements such as Harris’ declaration of her gender and what she was wearing will stand as indications of how pervasive the fantasies really were. One day, we’ll wake up from all this, just as Salem woke up from the witch trial hysteria. Until then, Kamala Harris and other Leftists will continue their valiant war against facts that once were and will one day again be obvious.

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‘I Am Kamala Harris. My Pronouns Are She and Her....'

Yes, it has come to this. History will record that the Vice President of the United States, a heartbeat away from leading what they used to call the free world

Inflation is skyrocketing, COVID Joe is more feeble and bumbling than ever, America is weak and rudderless on the world stage, Leftist authoritarianism is advancing, the next pandemic hysteria is breaking out (or trying to), and at the Southern Indiana Realtors Association (SIRA), they’ve got their priorities straight: they’re all upset about a display of “Islamophobia” by their president and CEO.


	As the negative effects of Leftism are increasingly obvious everywhere, it becomes all the more important for the Left to enforce its restrictions on speech, and hence on thought: the more afraid people are of committing wrongthink, the easier they’ll be to keep in line. In the process, we are seeing again and again the Left’s ugly totalitarian heart.


	The <a href="https://www.newsandtribune.com/news/sira-ceo-faces-backlash-from-islamophobic-facebook-post/article_f34cd0d4-0918-11ed-9d8d-b3ae5b90b632.html" target="_blank">News and Tribune</a>, which covers Southern Indiana, reported Thursday that “a Facebook post by the president and CEO of the Southern Indiana Realtors Association (SIRA) has been brought to the attention of the association’s board for review.” This would be fine and utterly non-newsworthy if the post had something to do with real estate in Southern Indiana, but it didn’t: “Glenda Gasparine made a post on her personal Facebook account this week that other SIRA members criticized for being discriminatory and Islamophobic.” So now apparently you have to love Islam to sell houses in Southern Indiana.


	Makenna Hall of the&nbsp;News and Tribune didn’t want to offend his readers’ delicate sensitivities, so he didn’t reproduce the offending post but summarized it thusly: “The post falsely states that imams, Muslim worship leaders, follow the idea that killing people who do not follow Islam will ensure Muslims a place in Heaven.” This was Gasparine’s crime: pointing out an aspect of Islam that non-Muslim Westerners, particularly Leftist ones, would prefer to assume did not exist.


	And indeed, the post as Hall summarized it was crudely put. In fact, Hall was correct in his unsupported assertion that it was false: Islam doesn’t teach that “killing people who do not follow Islam will ensure Muslims a place in Heaven.” However, Islam&nbsp;does&nbsp;teach that those who are killed while killing people who do not follow Islam will be ensured a place in paradise: “Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)


	That’s the impetus behind suicide bombing, and we have seen enough of those around the world to know that this isn’t some esoteric view among Muslims but an all too common one. So Gasparine was more right than wrong, but the question of whether or not she was right doesn’t enter into this controversy, which rages even though she has deleted the post from her Facebook page. SIRA member Paul Kiger is out for blood (figuratively), saying: “My hope is that our board of directors calls an immediate emergency meeting and then they ask for her resignation.”


	It’s virtually certain that Kiger and Gasparine’s other critics aren’t aware of Qur’an 9:111, or of anything else about Islam. They just know that Gasparine has said something that people aren’t supposed to say nowadays. They’re worried that she will now discriminate against Muslims, which is just more of the woolly thinking and victimhood mentality that is all-pervasive nowadays. Kiger asked: “What would happen if a Muslim buyer who lost out on a house with a multiple offer situation and then they later read a statement from the CEO that supports this kind of culture that she posted?” What would happen indeed?


	The idea that your realtor has to approve of all your beliefs, life choices, and practices before he or she can sell you a house is ridiculous on its face and wouldn’t even be asked in other contexts. If Gasparine had criticized Christianity, would her outraged colleagues be saying that she couldn’t treat Christian customers fairly? Almost certainly not. But hating Christianity is acceptable today to the Leftist intelligentsia and thus to indoctrinated sheep such as Kiger and Gasparine’s other critics; saying something largely accurate but critical about Islam is not.


	The fact that Gasparine was expressing her views on her own Facebook page, and not on SIRA’s account or its time, is not enough to exonerate her: “Though the post was made on her personal account, SIRA members still think Gasporine [sic] was in the wrong.” However, they don’t think that they can bring the feds in on this: “Neither Kiger” nor another SIRA member, Lincoln Crum, “were aware of any federal regulations specifically regarding posts made on personal accounts.” At the very least, they hope to get rid of Gasparine: “Crum said that he plans [to] run for the board of directors because he wants to ensure that behavior like Gasparine’s does not continue.”


	Yes, that’s very important. We can’t have people committing thoughtcrime right in the middle of Southern Indiana. Get back in line, you lemmings. Nothing to see here.

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Was anyone really surprised when Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chuck-grassley-fbi-justice-department-downplay-hunter-biden-information/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=174735628">announced</a> that “highly credible” whistleblowers had given him information about FBI efforts to make the Hunter Biden scandal go away? Grassley <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EuxPN1hOA9pnSuCLazVexCKzAzY32Dqj/view" target="_blank">wrote</a>&nbsp;to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland Monday that “the information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation. The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter.” Will anyone hail me as a prognosticator of extraordinary powers when I predict, correctly, that in response to this letter, Wray and Garland will do absolutely nothing, except possibly to cover their tracks more effectively? No, because anyone who has been paying attention can see that.


	The FBI has become a cancer on the American body politic. The FBI must go.


	Grassley summarized how the FBI spiked the Hunter Biden material, stating that “the allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.” He noted that a 2020 FBI intelligence assessment that was “used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation.” He added: “Based on allegations, verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation.”


	Grassley continued: “In light of these allegations, I remain very concerned that political bias by a select group of Justice Department and FBI officials has infected the Justice Department’s and FBI’s usual process and procedure to open and pursue high-profile and politically charged investigations.”&nbsp;He then concluded: “If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are – and have been – institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law.”


	That’s right. And Hunter Biden isn’t even close to being the first sign of this institutional corruption. Garland even sicced the FBI on parents protesting at school board meetings over the imposition of the woke agenda in public schools. When challenged, Garland <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-10-21/garland-defends-decision-to-mobilize-fbi-against-threats-to-school-board-members">insisted</a> that this was all on the up-and-up: “Parents have been complaining about the education of their children and about school boards since there were such things as school boards and public education. This is totally protected by the First Amendment. True threats of violence are not protected by the First Amendment. Those are the things we are worried about here. Those are the only things we are worried about here. We are not investigating peaceful protests or parent involvement in school board meetings. There is no precedent for doing that and we would never do that. We are only concerned about violence and threats of violence against school administrators, teachers, staff.”


	That sounds reasonable, but PJ Media’s Megan Fox&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/columns/megan-fox/2021/10/05/what-threats-led-to-doj-turning-fbi-loose-on-parents-protesting-school-boards-n1521793" target="_blank">did a deep dive</a>&nbsp;into the supposed “threats” that school board members had allegedly received that justified FBI intervention, and came up empty. Fox concluded, “There isn’t one legitimate threat on the NSBA’s list or a situation that wasn’t handled easily by the police.” The NSBA is the National School Boards Association, which appealed to the FBI for help, with Wray’s corrupt Bureau only too happy to oblige.


	This is the same FBI that consistently denies the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and lied outright about the jihadi who&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/01/15/breaking-brother-of-convicted-jihadi-terrorist-takes-hostages-at-texas-synagogue-n1549824" target="_blank">stormed</a>&nbsp;the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, and took hostages in January 2022, demanding the release of convicted jihad terrorist Aafia Siddiqui. FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/01/16/clueless-woke-fbi-downplays-anti-semitic-aspect-of-hostage-taking-at-texas-synagogue-n1549906" target="_blank">said</a>: “We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, uh, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community, uh, but we’re continuing to work to find motive and, and we will continue on that path.” Several days later, with the evidence overwhelming, the FBI had to <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/colleyville-synagogue-hostage-crisis-was-a-targeted-attack-on-jews-fbi-says">admit</a> sheepishly that it was a targeted attack on Jews after all.


	FBI and Homeland Security Department officials have often&nbsp;<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-white-supremacy-threat-testimony-b1951032.html" target="_blank">insisted</a>&nbsp;and <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/05/13/the-big-lie-again-attorney-general-garland-says-white-supremacists-top-terror-threat-n1446755" target="_blank">frequently</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/06/01/biden-wants-us-to-watch-out-for-white-guys-no-not-antifa-n1451371" target="_blank">repeated</a> the claim that “white supremacists” and other “domestic extremists” constitute the foremost terror threat the nation faces.&nbsp;The FBI is currently pursuing&nbsp;no fewer than 2,700 investigations of “domestic extremism,” more than twice the usual number of such investigations. The dramatic increase in investigations suggests, at least in a sane world, a response to a sharply increased threat, but Biden’s handlers have shown no evidence of a massive spike in “white supremacist” terrorism. It’s just something we’re supposed to take their word for. Timothy Langan, the assistant director of the&nbsp;FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, in November 2021&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/6/biden-crusade-against-domestic-extremism-spurs-tho/" target="_blank">presented</a>&nbsp;it to Congress as axiomatic: “It goes without saying that the threat from domestic terrorism is heightened and has significantly increased in the last 18 months.”


	Does it really? Or is that just what the feds would have us believe as the January 6 Committee continues its efforts to stigmatize legitimate political opposition as terrorism? Even the far-Left Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret-court-reveals-fbi-hunted-for-domestic-terrorists-without-a-warrant">reported</a> as far back as April 2021 that “the FBI, without any court order, sifted through the National Security Agency’s massive troves of foreign communications for information on American ‘racially motivated violent extremists,’ a newly declassified order from the secret surveillance court details.”


	And all this is aside from the FBI’s role in the Russian Collusion hoax and so much more. The FBI today is a rogue, out-of-control agency in service not of justice but of the interests of the Democrat Party. It should be shut down. But will there ever be a president with the courage to do so?


	Robert Spencer is the director of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">Jihad Watch</a>&nbsp;and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 25 books including many bestsellers, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895260131/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0895260131">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985283/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1596985283">The Truth About Muhammad</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1682616592/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1520858729">The History of Jihad</a>. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Quran-Commentaries-Contemporary-Historical/dp/1642939498/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=The+Critical+Qur%27an&amp;qid=1630783106&amp;sr=8-1">The Critical Qur’an</a>.&nbsp;Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jihadwatchRS">here</a>. Like him on Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robertspencerJW?ref=hl">here</a>.

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