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		<a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/08/meet-the-hadids" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Recently</a> I profiled the two supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, those catwalk-sashaying girls who really don’t like Israel, or Zionists, or – let’s face it — Jews. In this hatred, they’re just like their father: Mohammed Hadid is the Palestinian-American theatre-of-the-absurd real estate developer of monstrous Xanadus that he builds on spec in Bel Air. His houses are the kind that have 17 bedrooms and 23 bathrooms, contain 5000-bottle wine cellars and 70-seat IMAX theatres, and are put on the market for anywhere from $100 to $200 million. Hadid is even more famous as the proud father of Gigi and Bella, but Mohamed, unlike his daughters, is careful to say that he only hates and fears the “Zionists.” Occasionally he lets the word “Jews” slip out, for that is clearly what he means; in the Bel Air real estate business, however, you need to watch out: naked antisemitism can be bad for business. It’s useful to recall that some time ago, he told his 1.3 million followers on Instagram that the “Zionists control the world.” A report on his protocols-of-zion vaporings is here: “Zionists control the world, buy up media outlets, says Mohamed Hadid,” by Michael Starr,&nbsp;<a href="https://ww.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-706812" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Jerusalem Post</a>, May 16, 2022:
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			“Zionists control the world, buy up media outlets,” says Mohamed Hadid.

		
			“The Zionists have the world under their control, unfortunately. They even want to kill the the [sic] journalists and buy the outlets…” wrote the father of supermodels Bella and Gigi.
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		Apparently Hadid was thinking of the death of the journalist Shireen Abu-Akhleh, for which the Palestinians and their supporters were quick to blame the Israelis. The Israelis believe there is a good chance it was a stray Palestinian bullet that killed her, but the Palestinians initially refuse to turn over the spent bullet to Israel, or to any other investigative body that might be able to settle the matter, and then turned it over smashed, so as to preclude any possibility of determining its origin. When one side welcomed a thorough investigation, and the other side refused to permit any investigation at all, we know which side had something to hide.

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			Zionists control the world – and to get around their sway over news outlets, one should follow a controversial BDS figure that has promoted violence and intifadas – Mohamed Hadid, father of International supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid, said in an Instagram post on Sunday.

		
			“How long the world can be so silent?” asked Hadid. “The Zionists have the world under their control, unfortunately. They even want to kill the the [sic] journalists and buy the outlets…”

		
			Hadid made the comments on a post featuring an image made by the Shehab news agency of his daughter Bella, with the caption: “How long will we remain silent, as Israel kills journalists?”…
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		Journalists have been killed all over the world, but especially, it seems, in the violence-prone countries of the Arab world and Iran. Between 1992 and 2022, twenty journalists were killed in Egypt, and twenty in Lebanon. Since 2015, 56 have been killed in Yemen, while in the last two decades 190 were killed in Iraq. Seven hundred journalists have been killed in Syria during its civil war. More than 1,000 journalists have been arrested, detained, murdered, disappeared or executed by the Iranian regime since it came to power in 1979. Since 1992, in Israel and the territories, a total of 19 journalists have been killed, almost all of them caught in the crossfire between Israel and Arab terrorists, or by stray bullets fired in the fog of war. “As Israel kills journalists”? Fewer journalists have died in Israel than anywhere else in the Middle East.&nbsp;

	
		What was Mohamed Hadid talking about?&nbsp;The Zionists “buy [all] the [news] outlets”?&nbsp;They haven’t “bought” the BBC, which is the world’s largest media outlet, and has for decades been reliably anti-Israel. They haven’t “bought” Al Jazeera, which is now the world’s second largest media outlet, owned by the deep-pocketed government of Qatar; Al Jazeera is even more virulently anti-Israel than the BBC. “Zionists” don’t own the major wire services, including AP, Reuters, and Agence France Presse. A Jewish family, the Sulzbergers, does own&nbsp;The New York Times,&nbsp;but the Sultzbergers remain resolutely unsympathetic to the Jewish state, and so does their newspaper. Mohamed Hamid’s dreamy belief that “Zionists,” or Jews, “own the media” takes us back more than a century, to the 1904 forgery produced by the Czarist secret police –the infamous&nbsp;Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which set out the “plans” of Jewish bankers to rule the world.

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			To circumvent what Hadid described as Zionist media control, he implored others to follow Within Our Lifetime leader Nerdeen Kiswani.

		
			Kiswani led WOL at a rally in front of the Friends of the IDF offices on March 30, in which participants chanted “globalize the intifada” – armed uprising – and “there is only one solution, intifada, revolution.”…

		
			In 2020, Kiswani shared a video of herself threatening to set a man’s IDF sweatshirt on fire. That year she was named by the NGO StopAntisemitism as their “antisemite of the year.”
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		So the person Mohamed Hadid holds up for emulation, the person he admires and who has shown us, in his view, the way to circumvent the powerful Zionists who own all the media, is Nerdeen Kiswani. Kiswani is an annihilationist, who has called for the complete “eradication” of Zionism from Palestine – that means, of course, eradicating the Zionists.&nbsp;Kiswani has been deemed too extreme even for the Students for Justice in Palestine. On social media, Kiswani has shown images of herself with the PFLP terrorists Leila Khaled and Rasmea Odeh. She has also posted videos that show her threatening to set fire to a man wearing an IDF sweatshirt – a clear case of go-thou-and-do-likewise incitement to murder. Israelis. And Nesreen Kiswani is the person Mohamed Hadid thinks we should try to be like.

	
		I have two questions for Mohamed Hadid.

	
		First, If the “Zionists” control the media, how is it that you, Mohamed Hadid, with your oft-expressed antipathy to Israel, have been given such extensive coverage – much of it admiring, for your apparent ability to make money – in that same media? Why don’t the Zionists simply shut down all coverage of your comings and goings, your real estate exploits, your expensive antics from Rodeo Drive to the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré?

	
		If the Zionists control the world, and own all the media, how did Gigi and Bella ever manage to become known, to have their spectacular careers as supermodels, and to make tens of millions of dollars, as creatures who depend for their fame and fortune on that very media? Once you, or Bella, or Gigi, began to denounce Israel on every conceivable occasion –- why didn’t that cabal of Jews who own all the media outlets just shut down the coverage of both you and your daughters? Why do they still allow news about you — the houses you’ve built, or lived in, or put on the market, the Charles-Morgan three-wheeler you took for a spin with one of your now ex-fiancées? Why don’t they shut down both your coverage in the media, and your own access to social media? With their power over all the “media outlets,” that should be easy. And why is that Zionist-controlled media still so admiring of Gigi and Bella, despite both girls being so full of hate for Israel?

	
		Second, if the “Zionists” control the world, and own all the media, why is Israel pilloried in that same media? Why do the&nbsp;New York Times,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Washington Post, the BBC, CNN, Reuters, AP, Agence France Presse, Deutsche Welle consistently carry stories that are critical of Israel and so insistently sympathetic to the Palestinians? Why is the “Israeli side” of a story so seldom provided as, for example, in the coverage of the property disputes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, or of the Israeli police attempting to halt Arab rioters on Temple Mount from hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails onto Jews worshipping at the Wailing Wall far below? Why does the world media never discuss the contents of the Mandate for Palestine, or the Treaty of San Remo, or Article 80 of the U.N. Charter? Why is it that the all-powerful Zionists who control the world can’t prevent the endless series of anti-Israel resolutions at the U.N.? Why couldn’t those Zionists stop the adoption of Agenda Item #7 by the UN Human Rights Council, which requires the Council, at every one of its sessions, to discuss the “Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories”? Why couldn’t those Zionists who control the world prevent the General Assembly from establishing an unprecedented open-ended war crimes probe of Israel by a Commission of Inquiry, which can investigate any alleged Israeli human rights violations on either side of the Green Line, going all the way back to 1948? This would include both sovereign Israel, as well as the West Bank and Gaza. No other country – not China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran — has been the object of such a far-reaching and permanent investigation.

	
		Mohamed Hadid, you wrote on Instagram that “the Zionists have the world under their control.” Kindly respond, then, to the two questions I’ve posed just above. I’ll wait right here for your answers.
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Mohamed Hadid: 'Zionists Control the World'

Recently I profiled the two supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, those catwalk-sashaying girls who really don’t like Israel, or Zionists, or – let’s face it —

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

Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis underscored the rule of law in his state by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Executive-Order-22-176.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660081759264000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1FAdmCRCNyd9KyMMNAKNeM" href="https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Executive-Order-22-176.pdf" target="_blank">suspending the top prosecutor in Tampa</a> last week, Andrew H. Warren, for refusing to enforce certain laws that did not comport with Warren’s progressive social justice agenda. Mr. Warren is the elected state attorney of Hillsborough County, but the governor in Florida has the constitutional power to suspend him if, as in this case, the governor finds that Mr. Warren’s actions amounted to “incompetence and willful defiance of his duties.” New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul has similar powers but refuses to remove, or at least suspend, Manhattan’s District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his reckless soft-on-crime policies.


	“When you flagrantly violate your oath of office, when you make yourself above the law, you have violated your duty, you have neglected your duty and you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to perform those duties,” Governor DeSantis said in explaining his suspension decision.


	Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said that law enforcement officers are resolved to "apprehend the criminals who prey on law-abiding citizens in our community. The governor's suspension of State Attorney Andrew Warren is not political to me. It's about law and order. It's about ensuring our loved ones are safe. It's about the victims and their voices."


	Warren’s soft-on-crime approach has frustrated Hillsborough County's law enforcement officers. Sheriff Chronister pointed to an instance where Warren’s office decided not to charge a gang member for allegedly shooting a victim and then firing into a home where women and children were living. One of the women, according to Sheriff Chronister, felt “as though her status as a victim doesn’t matter, and the state attorney simply does not care.”


	Andrew Warren defiantly declared in a statement that his suspension “spits in the face of the voters.” But it was Mr. Warren who spat in the face of his constituents by refusing to fulfill his responsibilities to enforce the law. Warren showed contempt for the citizens of Florida and their duly elected state legislators when he decided unilaterally to flout criminal laws that the legislators passed, and that the duly elected governor signed, by pledging not to enforce them. These include laws relating to abortion restrictions and the banning of gender transition medical procedures for children.


	"We don't elect people in one part of the state to have veto power over what the entire state decides on these important issues," Governor DeSantis explained. He excoriated prosecutors such as Andrew Warren who promote a “woke” agenda, "where you’re deciding that your view of social justice means certain laws shouldn’t be enforced.”


	Andrew Warren is associated with a leftwing network of prosecutors across the country whose mission, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/fair-and-just-prosecution/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660081759264000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1hy7O6ojR5G4mXLe4V0oSB" href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/fair-and-just-prosecution/" target="_blank">according to Influence Watch</a>, is “to implement lenient left-progressive approaches to criminal justice.” This network is known as “Fair and Just Prosecution,” a Tides Center sub-entity. Many of the prosecutors in the network, including Mr. Warren, have received financial support in their elections from groups supported by the radical Left billionaire George Soros.


	Miriam Krinsky, the executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution, called Warren’s suspension “an unprecedented and dangerous intrusion on the separation of powers and the will of the voters.” Ms. Krinsky needs to take a refresher course in the basics of constitutional law. Separation of powers refers to the division of responsibilities and authority between the co-equal legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. Florida’s governor heads the executive branch of Florida's government - the same branch that Andrew Warren was a member of until he was suspended. Florida’s constitution specifically authorizes the governor to suspend state officials, such as state attorneys, on certain stated grounds that include malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, and incompetence.


	Pledging in advance not to enforce whole categories of laws passed by the legislature, rather than exercise reasonable prosecutorial discretion on an individualized case by case basis, is an intrusion into the legislature’s sphere of authority under the separation of powers principle. That is precisely what Andrew Warren has done.


	In June 2021, Andrew Warren signed a joint letter promulgated by Fair and Just Prosecution in which the signatories pledged not to enforce laws restricting or prohibiting gender transition medical procedures for children. Andrew Warren’s co-signers included Chesa Boudin, former San Francisco District Attorney who was recalled by the voters; Kim Foxx, the state's attorney in Cook County, Illinois; and George Gascon, Los Angeles District Attorney, who is facing a possible recall.


	In June 2022, Mr. Warren signed another joint letter promulgated by Fair and Just Prosecution. This letter took the same defiant stand against prosecuting violators of criminal laws that the progressive prosecutors who signed the letter do not like, this time involving laws restricting abortions. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who took office on January 1, 2022, joined the list of other leftwing prosecutors who signed this letter.


	Who does Andrew Warren believe should be prosecuted? One example occurred back in April 2020 in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, when he favored going after a pastor for holding in-person services. After Governor DeSantis signed an executive order allowing in-person services to continue, Mr. Warren criticized the governor’s action as “weak” and “spineless.” On the contrary, standing up for the First Amendment's protection of the right to the free exercise of religion is a demonstration of strength and moral courage.


	Andrew Warren has insisted that he still remains on the job despite his suspension, claiming that the suspension was “unconstitutional.” He snarked that if Governor DeSantis “thinks he can do a better job, then he should run for state attorney and not president."


	Governor DeSantis spokesperson Christina Pushaw said that Warren was being “delusional,” adding that “in Florida we live in the real world. His badge won’t even work to access his former office today.” Warren’s name no longer appears on the state attorney’s website. His replacement, at least for the time being, is Hillsborough County Court Judge Susan Lopez.


	Andrew Warren deserved to be suspended for refusing to enforce laws that offended his personal sense of social justice. Now that Warren is no longer a state attorney, he is free to run for a seat in the Florida state legislature on his leftwing, progressive agenda. If elected, he can try to change the laws he does not like through the democratic legislative process instead of subverting it.

DeSantis Suspends Soros-Backed State Attorney

Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis underscored the rule of law in his state by suspending the top prosecutor in Tampa last week, Andrew H. Warren, for refusing to

Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.


	Last week marked the <a href="https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/statement/remarks-for-yazda-seventh-annual-commemoration-of-the-yazidi-genocide-on-the-theme-towards-a-sustainable-future-for-yazidis-and-minorities-in-iraq-and-kri-2-3-august-202/">seventh annual commemoration of the Yazidi genocide</a>, though you wouldn’t know it from watching establishment media. Nor would you know that there is an ongoing <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/jihadist-genocide-christians-nigeria-intensifies-raymond-ibrahim/">genocide of Christians</a> taking place in Nigeria, nor that throughout the Islamic world countless women and girls are enduring kidnapping, forced marriages, forced conversions of Christians to Islam, genocidal rape, and/or widespread sex trafficking even in countries that are supposedly our allies in the War on Terror.


	To keep abreast of these crises, one needs to seek out the work of such concerned journalists as the Freedom Center’s own <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/author/raymond-ibrahim/">Raymond Ibrahim</a> or Dutch journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/sonjadahlmans?lang=en">Sonja Dahlmans</a>, who work desperately to bring international attention to the plight of the victims of an actual war on women.


	I recently interviewed <a href="https://twitter.com/sonjadahlmans?lang=en">Ms. Dahlmans</a> about these issues. She currently writes (<a href="https://palnws.be/author/sonja-dahlmans/">in Dutch only</a>) for the conservative political news site<a href="https://twitter.com/PALNWS"> PAL NWS</a>, and is studying Islam at the Melbourne School of Theology, where she will be starting her thesis.


	For those readers who would like to help make a change - and to participate in the effort to protecting and liberating the victims of Islamic Jihad, sex slavery and rape, please contact Sonja on her Twitter at: <a href="https://twitter.com/sonjadahlmans?lang=en">@SonjaDahlmans</a>.


	Mark Tapson: Sonja, please tell us what the focus of your journalistic work has been in recent years, and why you’re passionate about it.


	Sonja Dahlmans: I focus mainly on Christian persecution, but I have also written about persecution of the Yazidis in Iraq and Syria and of Hindu girls in Pakistan. Women and girls from these groups are often targeted in Islamic countries or regions. The abduction, rape, forced marriage and forced conversion (to Islam) of non-Muslim women and girls is a widespread problem. This is the subject I write about the most, because I am afraid it is still underestimated, although lately there has been more attention to it. Unfortunately not often in the mainstream media, the subject is almost only discussed on Christian (or other religious minority) pages or reports.


	MT: This past week was another annual commemoration of the Yazidi genocide, but it’s not over, is it? Western media give this little attention, but there are still literally thousands of women and girls missing today, aren’t there?


	SD: No, it is not over at all. First of all, ISIS is still active in Iraq and Syria as we have seen for example in Syria (last February) when they helped jihadists within al-Sina prison to escape. There are so called sleeper cells too and they still carry out attacks. With regard to the Yazidi women and girls that they took captive, there are still around 2.700 of them in the hands of ISIS, or at least they are missing and we don't know where they are. This is devastating for them and their families, as you can imagine. While there is only a little attention to this, the Yazidi women and girls that are probably still in the hands of ISIS, let's not forget that there are also Christian women and girls who were taken by ISIS and are still missing. That is a subject you hardly hear anything about, but it does not mean it doesn't exist.&nbsp;


	I still hear and read that women and girls are being bought back, sometimes for a lot of money, and brought back to their families. This is really gruesome; these men, jihadists, have already earned money by trading these women, sexually exploiting them, and now earn money by selling them back to their own communities. There should be a lot more media coverage on this; it is not over, not by far for these victims and their families.&nbsp;


	Then I would also add that in my opinion what happened under ISIS to Yazidi and Christian women and girls was not rape, but genocidal rape, as I have argued in an article that I wrote in 2017. There is a difference between rape during wartime and genocidal rape. The latter is often used for rape on the basis of a group’s race or ethnicity, but I think that in the case of the Yazidis and Christians we could say that this happened because they are part of an ethnic-religious group.&nbsp;A UN report states that ISIS came to destroy the Yazidis through sexual slavery. Genocidal rape is a strategy, it is organized from above, meant to make a group or community fear the rape of their women and daughters so much that they will try to escape the region. We know this has happened. And Yazidi victims are also telling stories of forced conversions or at least that they were being put under pressure to do so.


	This is not new at all, unfortunately. The Sayfo, what is known as the Armenian genocide (but included Aramaic, Greek and Assyrian Christian women and girls as well) was also – according to many scholars – gender specific. Some even called it “a fate worse than dying.” During this period we have also seen forced conversions, abductions, planned, organized rape of women and very young girls.


	MT: Can you tell us a bit about how sex trafficking is a problem even in countries that are supposedly American allies in the War on Terror, like Turkey?


	SD: First of all, sex trafficking of Christian women and girls is a huge problem in several Islamic countries such as Nigeria, Syria, Egypt and Iraq. With regard to the women and girls ISIS took, we know from witness statements, from several reports, that some of them were held captive and/or were freed from a place in Turkey (Ankara, for example). Not just in Turkey; these women and girls were also sold to men from other countries in the Middle East, but Turkey certainly plays a huge role in this. This is also a claim the Yazidi Justice Committee makes in their report in which they say that Turkey, Iraq and Syria could and should be held responsible for not preventing genocide of the Yazidis within their own borders. This committee also states in their report that Turkey, bordering both Iraq and Syria, failed to take all available measures to protect Yazidi women and girls from transportation, trade and enslavement on Turkish territory.&nbsp;


	Then there currently are Turkish-backed groups, supported by Ankara, operating in Syria who are – according to many observers – committing human rights violations. Some reports say that they are committing war crimes. Rape and torture, kidnapping too,&nbsp;of women are certainly huge parts of these violations.


	According to a report by the UN, women and girls have been sold to men from Morocco, Libya, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria. In an interview on Dutch national radio I said a few months ago that I think it is time we hold these countries accountable for what their citizens have done. And this is, as I said during the interview, something we hardly read or hear about in the media nor in the political arena and I think it is high time we do. Some of these countries – all Islamic – are so called “allies in the war against terror” or even NATO allies. Where are the restrictions, where is the demand that these countries will find these men who purchased women for their own pleasure and hold them accountable for it?&nbsp;


	MT: There is an ongoing, literal genocide of Christians being carried out right now in Nigeria, which the Western media largely ignores. Can you talk a bit about that and how Christian women and girls are being especially targeted?


	SD: Yes, the situation in Nigeria is a huge problem right now. I not only read about this in reports from experts, but also hear it from Nigerian friends within the police force and journalists. According to a report by Aid to the Church in Need, 95% of the victims being held by Islamists in Nigeria are Christian. We know there are several groups active: Boko Haram is well known to the public, I think, but there is also Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) and the militant form of the Fulani Muslims. Very young girls can get abducted and sold for example, but boys too, which makes parents decide to keep their children at home. Many children in Nigeria do not attend school due to fear for these abductions that actually happen on a daily basis. A few years ago we talked to each other about the situation of Leah Sharibu. She was one of the Dapchi girls that were abducted from school by Boko Haram, and Leah, being the only Christian girl, was never released. She was 14 at the time, she is still in captivity, although I believe she is now in the hands of ISWAP, a splinter cell of Boko Haram. They have declared that she, for refusing to deny Christ, will be their slave for the rest of her life.&nbsp;


	I hear stories, but haven't been able yet to dive into this, that some of these rapes are being filmed and sold for example to pornography sites. That is a horrible thing; this would mean that this horrible act will be online, probably forever, and relatives might see their loved ones being brutally raped, might be confronted with these brutal acts. Obviously for these women and girls this is a nightmare; their dignity is completely stolen from them by these groups that have no respect for human life at all.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;


	Abduction of women and girls – boys too – is a huge problem in Nigeria that is done not only by jihadist or Islamist extremist groups but also by bandits who are doing this to benefit financially. Then we must also not forget that Nigeria is, regardless of any specific religion, a transit and destination country for human trafficking. There are also, for example, so-called “madams” within Pentecostal churches who are trafficking young, underaged girls. But because Christians in almost every Islamic society are marginalized and/or discriminated against, Christian women and girls are much more vulnerable to be exposed to this type of violence and abuse.


	MT: What are a few other problem areas around the world that people might not be aware of, where women and girls are targeted for abuses like sex trafficking and child marriage?


	SD: This is a very, very big problem around the Islamic world in particular. For example in Egypt and Pakistan the situation for Christian girls – mostly underaged – is particularly problematic. In Pakistan an estimated 2.000 girls, Christian, Hindu and Sikh, “disappear” every year. They are abducted, forced to marry a Muslim man and then forced to convert to Islam. Within Islamic Law (sharia) a non-Muslim parent cannot be the guardian over a Muslim child. So by forcibly converting these girls to Islam, it is much more difficult, not impossible, for parents to get their daughters back.&nbsp;In Pakistan Christian (and Hindu) girls are also abducted and trafficked to China. Some are victims of sexual exploitation, others end up being “married” to a Chinese man. In some cases, both have happened: a girl or woman first being forced to marry a Chinese man, then forced to have sex with other men.&nbsp;This just adds to the vulnerability of religious minority women in Pakistan.


	We see similar things happening in Egypt where Christian girls and women are taken from the streets into a car and married off to a Muslim man and converted to Islam. They then often appear in the media, veiled, claiming they have converted to Islam freely. That is most of the time not the case; it happens by force. Some girls from poor families are groomed with gifts, fancy dresses or nice meals, and lured into a relationship/friendship with a Muslim man. I also hear stories of women being abducted and having their clothes stripped off and then they are filmed which makes them very vulnerable for blackmail, threats to expose this type of material online or show it to their communities.&nbsp;


	With regard to these forced conversions, don't forget that in many Islamic countries your religion is mentioned on your ID card. So once they have converted, under pressure, it will be really difficult to convert back to Christianity or Hinduism, due to the apostasy laws in Islam. And another important thing I would like to mention, is that this abduction and marrying fertile women and girls, converting them to Islam, also changes the demographics of a country. These Christian or Hindu or Sikh women and girls will now have Muslim children.&nbsp;


	Don't forget that child marriage, including abduction, is also an issue within the Islamic communities in these countries as well. For example, wealthy men from Saudi Arabia are traveling (and have been doing so for at least decades) to poor Islamic regions or countries to "marry" minor girls under Sharia for a short period of time. This could be a couple of days, a week or a month. We know this is happening in Egypt, Mauretania, Indonesia, Yemen and many other countries as well. So there is also abuse of Muslim women and girls.&nbsp;


	Bride kidnapping happens for example in former Soviet states such as Kazakhstan,&nbsp;Kyrgyzstan and others. During the Soviet Union it was suppressed, but during the fall of the Soviet Union and since we have seen an increase of that custom again, unfortunately. Women's rights, girls' rights, are a problem in the countries I have mentioned, but we can definitely say that being a woman from a religious minority group makes women and girls even more vulnerable.


	MT: Is there anything the ordinary American citizen can do to have an impact on any of these urgent issues?


	SD: I think it all starts with getting the message out, speaking about it to each other, within your church, community, friends, family. Write to your congressman (or -woman) and ask what will be done for the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, for example, that are still held captive. Make sure nobody can hide from the responsibility to help these women and girls, that they are not forgotten.

Inside the Horror of Islamic Sex Slavery - and the Real War on Women

Mark Tapson is the Shillman Fellow on Popular Culture for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.


	Last week marked the seventh annual commemoration of the

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article first appeared on <a href="https://www.copticsolidarity.org/2022/08/03/turkey-backed-terrorists-bomb-hagia-sophia-church-replica/">Coptic Solidarity</a>.


	An underreported but fatal terrorist attack on a symbolically important church recently took place in Syria.


	During an inauguration celebration on Sunday, July 24, 2022, an Islamic terror group <a href="https://www.albawabhnews.com/4618787">fired rockets</a> at a newly constructed church, the Hagia Sophia, in the predominantly-Greek Orthodox city of al-Suqaylabiyah, Syria.


	Initial reports indicated that at least one or two of the many Christians gathered to celebrate the opening of the new church were killed and about a dozen seriously wounded in the Sunday attack.


	A <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/68454-ASIA_SYRIA_The_construction_of_a_Syrian_copy_church_of_Hagia_Sophia_is_being_studied_with_the_support_of_Russian_sectors">report</a> from &nbsp;July 29, 2020—nearly two years to the day before this attack—offers background on the significance of this development:


	[T]he construction of a church dedicated to Divine Wisdom [English translation of hagia sophia] could soon enter the operational phase, erected with the declared intention of reproducing, albeit at a reduced size, the architectural profile of Hagia Sophia, the ancient Byzantine Basilica of Constantinople—today Istanbul—recently converted into a mosque by the Turkish authorities….&nbsp; [T]he operation [is seen] as a sort of Russian-Syrian response to the Turkish choice to reopen Hagia Sophia to Islamic worship….&nbsp; [T]he laying of the first stone of the future church apparently has already taken place in al Suqaylabiyah (a town in the governorate of Hama inhabited before the war by about 20 thousand Orthodox Christians), in the presence of representatives of the Moscow Duma (the Russian Parliament) and with the placet of the hierarchies of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch (based in Damascus). According to reports, Russian soldiers stationed at the base near Latakia are already preparing plans for the construction of the new church.


	Nadel al-Abdullah, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/68454-ASIA_SYRIA_The_construction_of_a_Syrian_copy_church_of_Hagia_Sophia_is_being_studied_with_the_support_of_Russian_sectors">who</a> is “known for leading a militia that presented itself as a self-defense force composed of Orthodox Christians” deployed against “the militant jihadists of the Islamic State or of Jabhat al Nusra,” had provided the land on which the church was recently erected.


	The initiative to build a “mini” Hagia Sophia, as it was locally known in Syria, was especially supported by Russian parliamentarian Vitaly Milonov, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/68454-ASIA_SYRIA_The_construction_of_a_Syrian_copy_church_of_Hagia_Sophia_is_being_studied_with_the_support_of_Russian_sectors">who</a> is known for trying to restore “the ancient name of Constantinople in Russian official publications to indicate the current Turkish city of Istanbul, and for having worn shirts with the inscription ‘Orthodoxy or death,’ according to which the Russian Orthodox are ready to generously support the construction in Syria of a church with the features of Hagia Sophia.”


	In other words, the new Hagia Sophia church was supposed to be a defiant response to the Erdoğan regime’s slap in the face of millions of Orthodox Christians, when he declared, and then transformed, the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople—which was originally built, and for a millennium functioned, as a Christian cathedral—into a <a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2021/05/31/hagia-sophia-a-true-center-of-knowledge-about-islam/">trophy mosque again</a>.


	The new Hagia Sophia church was also erected in record time: two years.&nbsp; The extent of damage to the church was not immediately clear from reports.


	Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, the Muslim terrorist group responsible for bombing the church, is believed to be backed by Turkey.&nbsp; As one <a href="https://syriacpress.com/blog/2022/07/25/two-dead-dozen-wounded-in-turkish-allied-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-attack-on-hagia-sophia-church-inauguration-in-suqaylabiyah-syria/">report</a> explains,


	Although designated a terrorist organization by the Turkish government in 2018, in recent years the relationship between Turkey and HTS [Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham] has dramatically shifted.&nbsp; HTS has fought alongside the Turkish-backed and funded Syrian National Army (SNA) and several Turkish military outposts have been constructed inside HTS-controlled Edleb.


	In other words, it seems that Turkey has, once again, managed to kill Christians and devastate yet another Hagia Sophia, while the West looks the other way.

Turkey-Backed Terrorists Bomb Hagia Sophia Church Replica

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article first appeared on Coptic Solidarity.


	An underreported but fatal

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.


	Israel's ceasefire with Islamic Jihad was supposed to kick in at 11:30 PM local time.


	The 11:30 PM deadline was reached after an original 8:00 PM deadline fell through. The negotiations for a " ceasefire" had been brokered by Egypt and also involved UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland.


	Islamic Jihad sent off what was billed as a “final wave” of rockets around a half hour before the ceasefire and then more rockets were launched <a href="https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-714110">eight minutes </a>after the ceasefire.


	That rocket attack probably broke records as the shortest ceasefire with the terrorists.


	Since the beginning of this latest terror campaign, some 1,000 rockets have been fired at Israel. Israelis have been forced to head down to bomb shelters during the Sabbath and then on Sunday, which is known as Tisha Ba'av, a fast day which commemorates the destruction of the two holy temples. The timing is not a coincidence. Islamic attacks on Israel, whether it was the Yom Kippur War, or regular summer attacks, are often timed with sacred fast days in Judaism.


	Even most of the “international community” has abandoned the fictitious peace process with the terrorists. All that’s left are the equally fictitious ceasefires in which terrorist groups launch attacks on Israel, make demands in exchange for a ceasefire, which they don’t keep anyway.


	The UN's Tor Wennesland, in between bouts of bashing Israel, has vowed to bring about a ceasefire by meeting with Bassam al-Saadi, the local Islamic Jihad boss, who is in Israeli custody. The Israelis had hunted down the Jihad boss but it was actually a <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/b1dys6waq">military dog</a> who seized him by the ear and kept him pinned down until he could be taken away.


	Rallying against Israel<a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-714087"> were members </a>of Mistaklim or “Looking the Occupation the Eye”, and the Islamo-Communist Joint List with banners reading “Free Gaza” and “Occupation Kills”.


	Communist flags could be seen flying at the Tel Aviv anti-war rally.


	Islamic Jihad is a hybrid terrorist group formed by Muslim Brotherhood members but operated by Iran. Before and during the rocket attacks, Islamic Jihad leader&nbsp; Ziyad al-Nakhalah toured Iran, getting<a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-714148"> photo ops</a> with the Iranian president and the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's terror hub. Al-Nakhalah was another one of the terrorists released by Israel as part of a “deal” and became a vital link in turning Islamic Jihad into an Iranian proxy.


	That ought to make Israel reluctant to release yet more Islamic Jihad terrorist leaders.


	The search for a ceasefire has pulled in the Egyptians, the UN, and Hamas and the Russians. And the takeaway so far is an 8-minute ceasefire because terrorists don’t actually obey ceasefires. The Iranians are not backing Islamic Jihad so that they can stop attacking Israel.


	That hasn’t stopped the anti-Israel Left from finding new and exciting ways to blame Israel.


	The UN’s Wennesland, anti-Israel activists and the media accused Israel of killing children, but the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-714127">actual cause of death</a> was a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket.


	A popular narrative circulating in the media is that Israeli strikes on Islamic Jihad leaders are taking out the “moderates” and undermining the “moderating” Hamas influence on Islamic Jihad.


	That's the same moderate Jihadist group whose former interior minister last year <a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/snr-hamas-official-fathi-hammad-urges-people-jerusalem-cut-off-heads-jews-knives-day-reckoning-moment-destruction">gave a speech on</a> Hamas TV in which he urged, "People of Jerusalem, we want you to cut off the heads of the Jews with knives. With your hand, cut their artery from here. A knife costs five shekels. Buy a knife, sharpen it, put it there, and just cut off. It costs just five shekels."


	Or, a Hamas TV commentator declaring <a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/gaza-resident-cannot-coexist-with-the-jews-must-fight-them">more recently,</a> "Some people say that life is all about negotiations. Not true. Life is about fighting. Life is about fighting and not about negotiating with the Israelites, or the Jews. It is all about fighting, more fighting, and then some more fighting."


	Or a Hamas<a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/children-hamas-tv-kids-show-criminal-jews-are-plotting-replace-al-aqsa-mosque-their-false"> kids TV show</a> urging children to defend the Islamic occupation of Jerusalem "to our last drop of blood".


	But Muhammad Shehada, an official at the <a href="https://www.ngo-monitor.org/ngos/euro_mediterranean_human_rights_network_emhrn_/">Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor</a>, an anti-Israel group funded by George Soros, claims that now, "whatever chance Hamas had of containing the PIJ is now gone!"


	As if Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which both work for Iran, were in the containment business.


	Shehada, whose work appears at Al Jazeera, and The Forward, spins a conspiracy theory in which Israel's decision to take out Khaled Mansour, another terrorist leader, would "damage chances of a ceasefire; empower Nakhallah &amp; Abu Al-Atta's group; make the PIJ more impulsive &amp; violent in the long-term; &amp; weaken Hamas' ability to contain them".


	According to the Israeli Defense Forces, Khaled Mansour had been plotting an <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/357755">imminent attack</a> against Israel. And had been responsible for numerous attacks in the past.


	Terrorists are not moderates and the only thing negotiating with them leads to is more terror.


	The Abraham Accords demolished the myth that the only way to achieve peace was by reaching a deal with the terrorist proxies in order to have peace with their state sponsors.


	The terrorists are just agents of various states who use them to carry out attacks against Israel.


	The Accords have temporarily narrowed the field of state sponsors of terror leaving Iran and its ally Qatar, which responded to the Islamic Jhad attacks on Israel with “strong condemnation and denunciation of the recent Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip” and called “for the international community to move urgently to stop the occupation's repeated attacks”.


	The real reason that the Abraham Accords exist is because Iran’s rising power threatens many of the Sunni Muslim countries that used to be in the business of sponsoring the terrorists. Unlike ceasefires with terrorist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Accords temporarily work because they are based around mutual interests and a common enemy. That’s also why no peace agreement could ever be achieved with the terrorist groups inside Israel’s borders.


	As long as terrorists are allowed to operate inside Israel, the killing will continue. No deals, negotiations or 8-minute ceasefires will change that.


	But it’s a lot easier to kill terrorists than it is to kill a lie.

Israel’s 8-Minute Ceasefire with the Terrorists

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic

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

Glazov Gang: Miracles - in Christianity's Self-Defense against Islamic Jihad

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Bob Ferguson serves as Washington State’s Attorney General. He was elected in 2012 and came to national media attention in 2017 when he successfully blocked the Trump administration from implementing the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Protecting_the_Nation_from_Foreign_Terrorist_Entry_into_the_United_States" title="Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States">Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States</a> act (Executive order 13769), forcing the administration to repeal and rework the order (EO 13780 and Presidential Proclamation 9645) before it passed Supreme Court scrutiny. Ferguson, however, proceeded to sue the Trump administration 96 more times and was named one of <a href="https://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4742678/bob-ferguson/">Time Magazine’s 100</a> most influential people of 2017 for his efforts.


	Back in the day, Washington state business owners proudly hung signs which stated: “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.” Under Bob Ferguson’s leadership, however, business owners in Washington State no longer have that right. He successfully argued the case against a Christian florist, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene%27s_Flowers_lawsuit">Arlene's Flowers</a>, who declined to make floral arrangements for same sex weddings. For maximum effect, he argued before the State Supreme Court in an open setting at Bellevue College’s auditorium. What a show! This further burnished Ferguson’s bona fides as one of the political left’s favorite prosecutors and he was elected for a third term in 2020.


	With his power and reputation growing as a star-prosecutor for Left-wing causes, AG Ferguson was nevertheless plagued by a conservative political gadfly by the name of Tim Eyman who has been a thorn in the side of the liberal establishment in Washington state for the past 22 years. Mr. Eyman’s strategy is simple: go over the heads of the politicians and appeal directly to the people through various tax-reducing ballot initiatives. Eyman estimates his initiatives have <a href="https://timdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-tax-savings.pdf">saved taxpayers over&nbsp;$54.864 billion&nbsp;</a>and this, of course is deeply resented by the ruling establishment.


	Ferguson, in his role as defender of the elite, set to work using his office of more than 600 attorneys targeting Eyman. As the head of Stalin’s secret police (the NKVD), Lavrentiy Beria, once said: “Show me the man and I will show you the crime.” Ferguson has used the full power and force of the state judicial system to bring down this man, even vowing never to settle the case. The state previously did, however, reach a plea deal with the Green River killer in which he avoided the death penalty for 48 murders. Tim Eyman must be bad, very bad indeed. However, according to Eyman’s attorney, the case boils down to:


	[W]hether two transactions…needed to be included on 2012’s campaign reports. The Attorney General believes they should, we do not.


	On the hypocrisy front, the democratic party in Washington state has played fast and loose with election laws for decades and have done so with little or no consequences. Glen Morgan <a href="https://www.wethegoverned.com/the-states-creepy-persecution-of-tim-eyman/">explains</a>:


	[W]hen I forced the AG’s office to sue former Speaker of the house Democrat Frank Chopp for breaking the law, there was a quiet settlement with neutral press language.&nbsp;&nbsp;The same outcome occurred when Democrat State Senator Sam Hunt was sued, Democrat Senator Morris, and many others.&nbsp; All quiet at the AG’s office.&nbsp;&nbsp;When I forced the AG to sue the Pierce County Democratic Party for their campaign finance violations, Ferguson’s office created a payment plan for the minor judgement&nbsp;(the first time in state history this had ever been done).&nbsp; When forced to sue the Spokane County Democratic Party, Kittitas County Democratic Party, Thurston County Democratic Party, King County Democratic Party, San Juan Democratic Party, among others (all political supporters of Ferguson) – the AG was largely quiet about the settlements. Ferguson created generous payment terms, avoided most motion practice, didn’t ask many questions, and conducted almost no formal discovery.&nbsp;&nbsp;These were friendly lawsuits with patty cake litigation among friends.


	In contrast, during <a href="https://www.wethegoverned.com/eyman-wins-major-court-motion-against-attorney-general-ferguson-could-be-first-ag-in-state-history-forced-to-testify-under-oath/">one of many press conferences</a> about the Eyman case, Ferguson spoke with emotion about “silencing Tim Eyman” and “removing” Eyman from the political process.&nbsp; He is clearly on a crusade to crush Mr. Eyman in the belief that he would be removing an obstacle to the political left’s agenda. Ferguson is pressing forward regardless of the constitutionality of his actions. Ironically, Ferguson fundraises off the publicity of his prosecution of Eyman for his own campaigns.


	As Tim Eyman continues to fight, the absurdity of the case continues to grow. Glen Morgan <a href="https://www.wethegoverned.com/the-states-creepy-persecution-of-tim-eyman/">wrote in February</a>:


	For&nbsp;the first time in American history, as far as I know, a person has been defined by the state as a walking, talking Political Action Committee.&nbsp; Not an activist, not an officer of a PAC, but a PAC itself.&nbsp; This was just one part of&nbsp;a very disturbed ruling by Thurston County Superior Court Judge Dixon&nbsp;which reads like a rubber stamped, cut-and-paste ruling written by Attorney General Bob Ferguson himself.&nbsp; The judge’s signature was just the afterthought and formality of the event.&nbsp; The ruling can be found&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wethegoverned.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tim-eyman-findings-and-injunction-Feb-10-2021.pdf">linked here</a>.&nbsp; While former Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders did an admirable job defending Mr. Eyman and&nbsp;<a href="https://permanentoffense.com/maybe-this-is-why-the-ag-sabotaged-my-defense-read-richard-sanders-brilliant-opening-statement/">pointing out</a>&nbsp;the obvious legal flaws and logical problems with this prosecution (see&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruRLCCgc0s&amp;feature=youtu.be">video of Sander’s closing argument here</a>), one would never know a defense was even made looking at the final ruling.&nbsp; Judge Dixon did exactly what AG Ferguson told him to do, and Judge Dixon dutifully ignored everything the State told him to ignore.&nbsp; Fortunately for Mr. Eyman, the State didn’t ask for Eyman’s public execution, because Dixon would have granted that as well. After reading the ruling, it is hard to pretend anyone involved in drafting this document is aware the 1st&nbsp;Amendment or Free Speech actually exists in Washington State at all, even if only as a theory rather than a right.&nbsp;


	As it stands now, Mr. Eyman has been fined $5.4 million and received a lifetime ban on future political activity. His attorney, former Supreme Court justice Richard Sanders, is working diligently and aggressively to appeal this absurd ruling which will certainly take years, during which time Mr. Eyman must abide by its laundry list of First Amendment restrictions.


	We have seen this kind of judicial abuse play out on the national level after corruption at the FBI falsely instigated the Mueller investigation of President Trump and his campaign, and we have witnessed the unfair treatment of the January 6th defendants, but how many cases are there at the state level which are also being used to grind the Left’s political opponents into the dirt?


	Mr. Eyman has been forced into bankruptcy, lost his house, and even lost his wife (who is still being targeted by Ferguson's office which is trying to confiscate her IRA account). He's been drained dry: the AG's 10 years of litigation has cost Mr. Eyman every dollar he's ever earned in his lifetime. The AG harassed and deposed some of Mr. Eyman's top supporters and even targeted his sister-in-law as she allows Mr. Eyman to rent her condo. Shockingly, Ferguson has spent over three million dollars in taxpayer money on this one case -- that's more than all other cases over the last ten years combined!


	Still, Tim Eyman refuses to lie down and die as Ferguson clearly hopes he will. Mr. Eyman is currently working on ballot initiatives for election integrity in several swing states (he recently traveled to Michigan) and continues to qualify ballot initiatives in his own state. He is truly a happy warrior and indeed there must be a freedom in knowing the state has thrown everything at him and yet, he has not backed down.


	AG Ferguson will be up for re-election in 2024. Whether he runs for Attorney General again or opts to run for an even higher office, it is hoped that his abuse of power and process at the AGs office will be spotlighted by the opposition and that voters take note.


	To donate to the Tim Eyman Legal Defense Fund to help Tim and his family fight back against this AG, go to <a href="https://timdefense.com/">TimDefense.com</a>.


	Rebecca Bynum is publisher for New English Review and New English Review Press and author of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Allah-Dead-Why-Islam-Religion/dp/0578073900/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1309531683&amp;sr=1-1">Allah is Dead </a>and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Real-Nature-Religion-Rebecca-Bynum/dp/0991652150/ref=sr_1_1" target="_blank">The Real Nature of Religion</a>. Ms. Bynum is also the Executive Director of the <a href="https://americanmideast.com/">American Mideast Coalition for Democracy</a>, a grassroots NGO designed to give a political voice to Americans of Middle Eastern descent.

Washington State’s Tyrant: Bob Ferguson

Bob Ferguson serves as Washington State’s Attorney General. He was elected in 2012 and came to national media attention in 2017 when he successfully blocked

Farmers around the globe are feeling unfairly targeted and unfortunately, they are right. From the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/dutch-farmers-form-freedom-convoys-protest-governments-strict-environmental-rules">Netherlands</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-40928765.html">Ireland</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/07/26/justin-trudeau-and-the-dangers-of-eco-posturing/">Canada</a>, nations are increasingly targeting their respective agriculture sectors under the banner of climate change. Going after farmers could not come at a worse time as the war in Ukraine has triggered an international food shortage, which one United Nations official recently&nbsp;<a href="https://press.un.org/en/2022/dsgsm1752.doc.htm">stated</a>&nbsp;is “threatening global hunger on an unprecedented scale.”&nbsp;


	For example, the Netherlands, while a relatively small country, is the&nbsp;<a href="https://dutchreview.com/culture/innovation/second-largest-agriculture-exporter/">second-largest agricultural exporter</a>&nbsp;in the world, the largest exporter of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2021/25/the-netherlands-is-the-eu-s-largest-meat-exporter">meat</a>&nbsp;among all EU nations, and the third largest&nbsp;<a href="https://www.darigold.com/third-largest-dairy-producing-country-sustainability/">dairy</a>&nbsp;exporter in the world. The Dutch climate proposal up for consideration would close up to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-farmers-block-food-distribution-centers-over-new-environmental-rules/a-62356217">30% of their farms</a>&nbsp;and force farmers to&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-the-hague-climate-and-environment-fcc706577d9e2e5d221141286f573158">kill off livestock</a>&nbsp;in order to comply with European Union (EU) environmental rules. When the newly created Dutch Minister for Nature and Nitrogen Policy announced the plan, local farmers were given&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dairyglobal.net/world-of-dairy/country-focus/the-netherlands-nitrogen-should-be-slashed-70-in-key-areas/">three options</a>—(1) Comply; (2) Relocate; or (3) Shutdown. There was no sleight of hand, the government made it&nbsp;<a href="https://apps.fas.usda.gov/newgainapi/api/Report/DownloadReportByFileName?fileName=Government%20Presents%20National%20Program%20to%20Reduce%20Nitrogen%20Greenhouse%20Gas%20Emissions%20in%20Rural%20Areas%20_The%20Hague_Netherlands_NL2022-0035.pdf">clear</a>&nbsp;“there is not a future for all [Dutch] farmers within [this] approach.”&nbsp;


	Dutch farmers are&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-blockades-climate-and-environment-1a5ac6c802fcd641f53ff277a7e72194">pushing back</a>&nbsp;and have&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-wildlife-the-hague-a0809b0fb37e8923ac9184b86325d2e3">expressed</a>&nbsp;anger at being unfairly targeted compared to other industries in their country. They are also frustrated that the proposal did not include more moderate alternatives to reduce nitrogen without putting farms out of business.&nbsp;


	Similar scenarios are playing out elsewhere. After the Irish&nbsp;government made climate standards more stringent, one local farmer explained it “made&nbsp;<a href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-40928765.html">whole classes of farms unviable</a>.” Canadian farmers are worried Prime Minister Trudeau’s nitrogen reduction proposal will significantly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-27/trudeau-spars-with-farmers-on-climate-plan-cutting-fertilizer-grain-output">cut yields</a>&nbsp;to canola, corn, and spring wheat that are extremely important to global food supplies.&nbsp;


	This is no coincidence and will likely expand.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-takes-on-food-industry/a-57633673">Extreme environmentalists</a>&nbsp;have long agitated to transform the agriculture sector, especially livestock farmers, and the global diet in the process. At the United Nations, this concept is referred to as the Food System Transformation, which will&nbsp;<a href="https://un-food-systems.medium.com/transition-steps-for-food-system-transformation-924de079c399">develop</a>&nbsp;“essential steps needed to transition to healthier, more sustainable food systems.” This includes the establishment of an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.glopan.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/FSS_Brief_Food_System_Transformation.pdf">International Panel for Food System Science</a>&nbsp;(IPFSS)—akin to a global food police—which would “provide support in justifying difficult or controversial decisions,” like shutting down livelihoods and exacerbating a food crisis. A future IPFSS would also be charged with reducing “misinformation” online as the quickest way to force acceptance of bad ideas is to quash dissent.&nbsp;


	A key component of a global food transition is to reduce meat consumption, either by convincing people to become vegan or by purposefully limiting supply to consumers. The fact that livelihoods may be ruined—and some may starve in the process—is just a necessary part of this global transition to stop climate change, so the extremists say.&nbsp;


	There are also efforts to create protein or meat alternatives including a push to make&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/worlds-largest-cricket-processing-plant-coming-to-london-1.5655813?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar">eating crickets</a>&nbsp;mainstream. Ontario, Canada, will soon be home to the world’s largest insect farm owned by a company that cites the bugs as “an excellent-value protein at a fraction of the environmental impact.”&nbsp;


	The Biden administration is also pushing these disastrous policies. Like a wolf in sheep's clothing, the innocuous-sounding “climate smart ag” hides a much more extreme agenda. Biden administration official Samantha Powers recently commented on ongoing fertilizer shortages,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1520859760634961926?s=20&amp;t=oDiqA645vHKeNe4H_9xJbg">stating</a>&nbsp;coldly that it may “hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually anyway” such as “natural solutions like manure and compost.”


	Sri Lanka&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/fertiliser-ban-decimates-sri-lankan-crops-government-popularity-ebbs-2022-03-03/">embraced</a>&nbsp;this “natural” approach in April 2021, when the government banned the use of chemical fertilizers to “<a href="http://www.colombopage.com/archive_21A/Apr29_1619712437CH.php">protect the soil and biodiversity</a>.” As a result, crop production fell by an average of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/07/collapse-of-sri-lanka-is-a-failure-of-leftism/">30 to 50 percent</a>, and today the country is in&nbsp;<a href="https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/green-dogma-behind-fall-of-sri-lanka">shambles</a>. The Sri Lankan people are starving, the economy is collapsing,&nbsp;and the&nbsp;President and Prime Minister have fled the country after citizens breached the official residences.


	Like much of the green agenda, green agriculture as pushed by extreme environmentalists at the UN, the EU, and in the Biden administration is very dangerous. It purports to “solve” environmental problems by shutting entire industries down, rejecting the benefits of modern farming, and dismissing the resulting consequences that largely impact marginalized populations.


	There is a better way to improve the environmental impact of agriculture. It will be solved by technology and by working alongside farmers, not shutting them down.&nbsp;


	Mandy Gunasekara is a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum and former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.&nbsp;


	Reprinted From <a href="https://townhall.com/">Townhall.</a>

‘Not All Farmers Have a Future’ Is a Recipe for Famine

Farmers around the globe are feeling unfairly targeted and unfortunately, they are right. From the&nbsp;Netherlands&nbsp;to&nbsp;Ireland&nbsp;to&nbsp;Canada,

When Chris Wray, the current director of the FBI who has served under Republican and Democrat administrations, emphatically speaks out about the greatest threat to America, people should listen. Director Wray has said repeatedly to different audiences around the country: “There is just no country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, innovation, and our economic security than China… Chinese government hackers have stolen more of our personal and corporate data than all other countries combined.”


	To obtain the most coveted data and information, which is defense and military-related, the Chinese employ multi-level strategies involving what they call United Front operations and infiltration in diverse sectors from political associations to individual politicians, from industry associations to specific businesses, and from academic institutions to the media. The circumstances leading up to the entry of a Chinese company, Fufeng Group, into the U.S. market is particularly instructive in showing how the CCP United Front operates through infiltration.


	Creating a false front, as the ancient Greeks did in 1184 B.C. in building a Trojan horse to clandestinely enter the city of Troy to bring its downfall is a good analogy to what is likely going on in Grand Forks North Dakota, with the Chinese Company Fufeng getting a foothold with property acquisition and obtaining a permit for the construction of their first wet corn mill processing plant about 13 miles from the Grand Forks Air Force Base (GFAFB). That base plays a central role in America’s defense, providing home to the 319th Air Base Wing, the only Air Mobility Command to have remotely piloted aircraft systems, such as RQ-4 Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, that contain the military’s most sophisticated military drone technology. Having a location some 13 miles from GFAFB can enable the Chinese to intercept digital uplinks and downlinks inherent with unmanned drones and air systems and their interactions with space-based assets. Since the Chinese PLA drone and space-based technology is well behind that of the U.S. this of course is one of the highest value targets for Chinese espionage.


	So how did this come about?


	The Chinese penetration of North Dakota and other states follows classic United Front strategy that gained enormous momentum during the Obama administration, which expanded student exchanges and Sister City Friendship programs to some 200 American cities. In 2010, then North Dakota Governor Hoeven struck a deal to establish a Confucius Institute at Dickinson State University that greatly expanded the enrollment of Chinese students. That program ended up in egregious enrollment irregularities, faked grades and diplomas being awarded to hundreds of Chinese students who failed to meet the basic qualifications for graduation. In addition, there was a massive coverup of missing money and hundreds of students who obtained F1 Education visas, but were not accounted for and appear to have disappeared into America.


	While this huge scandal brought about the firing of DSU President Richard McCallum and the suicide of DSU Dean Doug LaPlante, no one ultimately faced any charges, prosecutions or fines. Those involved at DSU carried on as though the fraud never happened, and the state’s elected officials harbored the same inclinations.


	It’s likely that none of this missed the attention of the Chinese. At a minimum, the Chinese were emboldened by what they could see as free floating standards of morality and lax law enforcement by people in authority positions at Dickinson and in the North Dakota government.


	During this time the CCP United Front group known as the Chinese Peoples Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries continued its annual meetings with the U.S. association known as the State Legislative Leaders Foundation. In addition, the U.S. Governors Association was meeting with its Chinese counterparts (most of whom are likely members of the CCP). Relations between the Chinese and state government officials grew through these meetings, laying the foundation for the Chinese Fufeng Group to establish its American subsidiary, Fufeng USA in Chicago in 2020 and then make entry into Grand Forks in 2022. Fufeng Group’s primary products include monosodium glutamate and xanthan gum. Neither of those products will be manufactured at the proposed Grand Forks plant.


	Fufeng USA’s quiet entry into Grand Forks enabled the 330-acre land purchase made up from adjacent parcels from three sellers to get executed early in early 2022 without much fanfare. But that all began to change in June 2022, with numerous dissidents and opponents testifying at the Grand Forks City Council meetings. Eric Chutorash, the Chief Operating Officer of Fufeng USA in charge of the Grand Forks plant project, was asked about why Grand Forks was chosen as their first foray into the U.S. market. He acknowledged that of the 25-odd sites under review, Grand Forks was not an ideal location, but by their calculations they could make it work.


	It’s no secret that China has been aggressively buying up farmland in America. But Fufeng USA's purchase in Grand Forks is not in keeping with that model, being a relatively small parcel of less than ideal cropland. It is, however, a suitable site for commercial building with relatively close proximity to a US Air Force Base that now hosts a vital unit of the US Space Force, which together are responsible for America’s most sophisticated drone and space-related technology.


	Another person testifying before the City Council meeting expressed concern that Chinese people might be brought in to work in the plant in various capacities including engaging in espionage on the Grand Forks Air Force Base. Chutorash was quick to answer that there were no Chinese people working for Fufeng USA now, nor would there be in the future. In his testimony, Chutorash also expressed a lack of understanding about how the CCP controls Chinese companies like Fufeng, and its American subsidiary.


	It was observed off the record that Chutorash was seen in Grand Forks being accompanied by two native Chinese. On the video recording of the Chutorash testimony before the City Council meeting, those two Chinese men are sitting in the front row, off center, which is often a preferred observation place for enforcers.

A Chinese Trojan Horse in Grand Forks, North Dakota?

When Chris Wray, the current director of the FBI who has served under Republican and Democrat administrations, emphatically speaks out about the greatest

For 42 years American school children have been subject to a barrage of misinformation about our American history. This has helped cause many of them to hate America. And virtually every day we read about the results.


	For example, there’s a curriculum clash in one of our nation’s most conservative states. On Friday, Gary Bauer <a href="https://ouramericanvalues.org/stuck-past%C2%A0polling-propaganda%C2%A0combatting-crt">reported</a> that the Oklahoma Board of Education decided to downgrade the Tulsa Public School District’s accreditation. This is because in Tulsa, they’re still teaching Marxist critical race theory---which is now against the law in the Sooner State.


	Oklahoma’s Secretary of Education is Ryan Walters, who <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0018I8w07_W8lYZLr5J0USGUAUjqtzvAKlmgiZURXoJeTGe1ikor8MMrvZsTeDibWTNMX6WYkrk8aksORoMy4MoR9UUvX0DAyhQyJrQxXafI4sMWznqjzRPnI_dgsELnBrPz9RivT57SUZKWRQ9O6ASTEGl7rbY2gLFoP0N9sBahVATGTe8c4hw49tiOGiEYpxJ5AcA0MfyDOpFhm9KOWAHOBJ17glqN5UeVnjuOvwPp9rm_BfWHo50No_lRyaf9RhGzUMxVW-rtowJPTqNKPwCpw==&amp;c=Eit3KM2pY9EfJ0nA7onAfargmENKA2neqPMwMoriyR-ZRQMvBCFt4A==&amp;ch=queudHhgtJgtwfYDbuO-Xwhae2K04OjQEff9269ugjAo2LfAVlwD5g==">told</a> Fox News: "What we've got to do is go back to teaching our history and ensuring that every young person has the ability to be successful and be inspired by our history."


	He added, “We’re the greatest country in the history of the world, and our kids need to know that.”


	But how will children in Oklahoma, and all the other states, learn to appreciate our country when so many have been brainwashed with a false view for so long?


	“Howard Zinn died in 2010, but [his book] A People’s History of the United States lives on and carries the rhetoric of past decades of leftist politics forward with it.” So writes Dr. Mary <a href="https://www.marygrabar.com/">Grabar</a>, author of the book, Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America (2019).


	Grabar is a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and is the <a href="http://www.dissidentprof.com/">founder</a> of Dissident Prof Education Project, Inc. She has taught at the college level for two decades, including at Emory University.


	Grabar describes the late Howard Zinn, the American history professor who would’ve turned 100 this year, as a “communist propagandist.”&nbsp;


	In her <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fake-History-Generation-Against-America/dp/1621577732">book</a>, Grabar observes, “Zinn’s pervasive influence is a national tragedy, especially considering just how distorted, manipulative, and plain dishonest A People’s History of the United States is.”


	Zinn’s work has been widely read by many who assume it is truthful. Indeed, A People’s History remains among the most widely-assigned history textbooks in America. But Zinn was a self-described Marxist, and author Daniel Flynn once described him as an “unreconstructed, anti-American Marxist,” whose book was a “cartoon anti-history.”&nbsp;


	Grabar quotes many reputable historians who similarly find Zinn’s historical standards sub-par.


	I spoke with Dr. Grabar for a <a href="https://providenceforum.org/blog/podcast-with-dr-mary-grabar-on-howard-zinns-revisionism/">radio</a> segment on Zinn and his influence. She told me, “I don’t think there’s another book on American history that has sold as many copies as Howard Zinn’s has. It has been in constant publication since 1980 when it first came out…. His view of American history…has become the dominant one.”


	I asked her if there is a link between Zinn’s teachings and the mobs in the streets tearing down historical statues related to American history. She answered “Absolutely.” She noted that readers of Zinn tend to “get this very jaundiced picture of the founders, of Christopher Columbus. These people are presented as enslavers, committing genocide.”


	For example, in her chapter, “Columbus Bad, Indians Good,” Grabar states, “Zinn was instrumental in the sea change that has transformed Columbus from the discoverer of America into the genocidal villain whose murder and enslavement of the Indians is the original sin that makes America a crime.”&nbsp;


	Zinn leaves out such facts as the explorer’s log <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6610884.Mary_Grabar?page=3">entry</a> for October 12, 1492: “I warned my men to take nothing from the people without giving something in exchange.”


	Graber <a href="https://providenceforum.org/blog/podcast-with-dr-mary-grabar-on-howard-zinns-revisionism/">told</a> me: “It’s all done through lies about American history. Very little of it is accurate, so there’s this false picture of the people we have justly honored.”&nbsp;


	Graber continued, “We have generations of people who have grown up disillusioned with this country---thinking there is something better off on the horizon. And what they think is better is socialism.” And Zinn deserves a great deal of the credit—or rather, blame—for that.&nbsp;


	This is all astounding when you think about it. Zinn was a propagandist for the Communists, who were guilty of far worse atrocities than the men and women who founded America. The records are not comparable.&nbsp;


	A couple of disillusioned former communists <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/genoveses-question">summarized</a> the legacy of seven decades of the atheistic U.S.S.R. in one phrase: “tens of millions of corpses.” And yet Zinn continues to poison the minds of millions of Americans against our country.&nbsp;


	This reminds me of the famous <a href="https://herald-citizen.com/stories/liberals-knowing-so-much-that-isnt-so,36531">quip</a> from Ronald Reagan: “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”


	What is America in its essence? Very simply this: self-rule under God. Both of those phrases are necessary for a free and prosperous future for our country. May God spare us from the propagandists who withhold that information from present and future generations.

Falsely Teaching Our Children That America is Evil

For 42 years American school children have been subject to a barrage of misinformation about our American history. This has helped cause many of them to hate

In the first week in August, roads in southern Israel were closed, summer vacation activities for children were held close to bomb shelters, communities adjacent to the Gaza fence were under lockdown, and the train from Ashkelon to Netivot was suspended, following the arrest overnight on August 3, in Jenin, of the senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader in Samaria, Bassam al-Saadi, and his son in law. Al-Saadi was the main PIJ figure in the West Bank, in charge of relations with Iran, and in training PIJ recruits in acts of terrorism. Israel had learned of his part in planning upcoming terror attacks and decided to haul him in before he could launch his attacks.


	After al-Saadi’s arrest, all the PIJ had to do was threaten retaliation for that arrest, and the lives of tens of thousands of Israelis living in the South were disrupted. PIJ’s secretary-general Ziad al-Nakhala, who was being welcomed in Tehran on August 3 by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, was gleeful. His organization was able to shut down a large part of the “Zionist entity” just by issuing a threat. “Israel is weak,” he reportedly boasted.


	Although the initial expectation was that the precautions taken by Israel in the South would last only a few hours and would then be lifted, that was not to be, and the high state of alert continued. Residents complained that because of the arrest of one terrorist leader in Samaria, their lives were turned upside down for days. The residents of Israeli towns near the border with Gaza were forced to stay at home, or in shelters, even before any rockets had been launched by PIJ. A “special situation” was declared in the 80-kilometer zone stretching from the Gazan border into central Israel. Iron Dome anti-missile defense batteries were deployed throughout the country.


	The PIJ gloated that even without firing a shot it had “terrorized” Israelis all along the Gazan border, and even as far as central Israel. As the lockdown in Israel along the border continued for three days, without any response from the IDF, the PIJ assumed it had faced down Israel.


	But the PIJ leaders did not count on the ability, and determination, of the IDF to deal them a crushing blow. The IDF in response to PIJ’s threats launched a preemptive attack – the opening salvo in what Israel called Operation Breaking Dawn, on Friday, July 5. It targeted two anti-tank squads, as well as the commander of PIJ’s northern region, Tayseer Jabari, who had been behind a string of recent projectile attacks on Israel, according to the IDF. The Israelis destroyed the anti-tank squads. And they not only killed the PIJ commander for northern Gaza, Tayseer Jabari, in that strike, but also killed 15 of his fellow terrorists and wounded at least 55.


	Jabari was the successor of former PIJ commander Baha Abu Al-Ata, who had been assassinated by Israel during “Operation Black Belt” in November 2019, which saw PIJ and Israel engage in a three-day conflict as Hamas remained on the sidelines.


	After the killing of Tayabi and fifteen of his PIJ collaborators, the PIJ fired more than 100 rockets into Israel. They did little damage, with almost all having been intercepted and destroyed by Iron Dome anti-missile batteries, or landing harmlessly in open fields.. A total of three Israelis were lightly wounded from these rocket barrages. Several of the PIJ rockets fell short, and landed in Gaza, where they wounded Palestinian civilians. “IDF launches Gaza op after detecting Islamic Jihad attack squads approaching border,” by Yaakov Lappin, <a href="https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/idf-launches-gaza-op-after-detecting-islamic-jihad-attack-squads-approaching-border/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">JNS</a>, August 5, 2022:

<blockquote>
	
		…Since Aug. 2, the IDF has kept swaths of the western Negev under tight security, limiting road and rail travel and keeping gatherings small. This, as it monitored PIJ attack squads—including anti-tank, sniper, and shooting cells—moving close to the border.

	
		The IDF had been receiving concrete intelligence that PIJ was interested in conducting revenge attacks for Monday’s arrest of PIJ senior member Basaam Al-Sa’adi in Jenin. The options included rocket fire on the Israeli home front, anti-tank fire or sniper fire. Israeli forces worked to prevent all of those options from being realized in the past week….

	
		Meanwhile, the IDF has called up 25,000 reserve troops….
</blockquote>


	PIJ’s leaders, so boastful a few days ago of how they had “frightened” the Israelis with their threats of attacks, must now be worried sick. Will they end up like Baha Abu Al-Ata, or Tayseer Jabari? The calling up of Israeli reserves means the IDF has no intention of stopping its attacks, but is preparing for a longer campaign in Gaza against the PIJ.


	But what about Hamas? So far it has failed to show solidarity with the PIJ. Not a single Hamas rocket has yet been fired into Israel from Gaza. The IDF has made clear it has no intention of attacking Hamas; as long as that terror group remains quiet, it will be left alone. In 2019, during “Operation Black Belt,” a three-day conflict between the IDF and PIJ, Hamas stood on the sidelines. After all, Hamas has long seen the PIJ as its trouble-making hot-headed rival. The PIJ can afford to be more aggressive toward Israel than Hamas because it does not have the responsibilities of rule, among which is the need to maintain quiet in Gaza for long periods. Last April, after the IDF killed three PIJ terrorists in Jenin, the PIJ was ready to launch large-scale attacks from Gaza, but was persuaded by Hamas not to do so. For now, Hamas wants quiet in Gaza, though it has no objections to anti-Israel attacks in the West Bank. It no doubt wants Israel to make quick work of the PIJ — its rival — in Gaza, so that the Strip returns to a relative calm and the PIJ will have been dealt punishing blows.


	The longer that Operation Breaking Dawn continues, however, the more embarrassing it will be for Hamas to remain outside the fray; the PIJ can present itself — in contradistinction to a reluctant Hamas — as the “true and only resistance” force In Gaza. Hamas may at that point decide that it has to join the PIJ in the fight against the IDF, in order to protect its image and retain the support of the Gazans. If the war goes on for more than a week or two, it may be impossible for Hamas to remain above the fray. We know how this will end, as these Gazan conflicts always do, with Israel victorious. But how many casualties each side manages to inflict, and what roles are played by the PIJ, Hamas, and the PA, are yet to be determined.

IDF Strikes Back at Palestinian Jihad

In the first week in August, roads in southern Israel were closed, summer vacation activities for children were held close to bomb shelters, communities

"Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?" asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 5-year-old son six decades ago.


	A Baltimore family recently filed a $25 million class action racial discrimination lawsuit against Sesame Place, a Muppets-themed amusement park outside Philadelphia. A video showed a Muppet character named Rosita high-fiving white kids while appearing to blatantly ignore the extended hands of little black kids. Other black families said the same thing happened to their kids, too.


	The park apologized. But this failed to appease the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who, in a letter accusing the park of "racist characters snubbing black kids," made several demands, including appointing blacks to its board of directors, that it spend money on black-owned businesses and require its workers to undergo sensitivity training.


	There's a lot we don't know. Who was in the costumes? Were black kids intentionally mistreated? But let's assume that these black kids were, in fact, snubbed because of their race. How these kids deal with this slight will be entirely dictated by their parents. Does Rosita reflect "systemic racism," a microcosm of blacks' second-class status?&nbsp;Or do the parents teach their children to put this incident in perspective by instructing their kids that not everybody behaves properly, and that people like that win if you become bitter and view life through race-tinted glasses?


	In April 1963, King, while in a Birmingham, Alabama jail following a minor traffic offense, wrote his famous letter in which he described the emotional toll of being second class, especially in the Jim Crow South. It read, in part: "When you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking: 'Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?'"


	That&nbsp;was a very different time, a world before a black president, a black female vice president, black secretaries of state, black U.S attorneys general, black governors, black Supreme Court members, a black secretary of defense, black U.N. ambassadors and black mayors of nearly every major city.


	Philadelphia has had black mayors. In 1988, a black man became the city's first black Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, a position currently held by a black woman. In 2006, a black man was the Republican candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. A black man is a Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in the 2022 election. The Philadelphia superintendent of public schools is black. Pennsylvania's population is 11% black, and blacks make up 9% of the state legislators.


	Not exactly the Jim Crow South.


	Meanwhile, in 2021 Philadelphia had a record number of homicides, and this year is on track to exceed last year's number. Most of the perps and victims are black. While nationwide about 10% of American families have their kids in private school, a 2004 study by the Fordham Institute found that 44% of Philadelphia government schoolteachers with school-age kids put them in private schools.


	Recent videos show a black toddler attempting to strike black Minneapolis police officers, with one little kid calling a black cop an "Oreo." A black 16-year-old with a criminal record who fought violently with an NYPD officer in a subway station was released in less than 24 hours. He asked the judge whether&nbsp;he&nbsp;could press charges against the cops. As for Baltimore, the hometown of the family that filed the lawsuit, 2017 tests show 13 public high schools in Baltimore where 0% of students were math proficient and another half-dozen where only 1% were math proficient.


	Has Jesse Jackson said a&nbsp;word&nbsp;about any of this?

Don't Confuse Sesame Place with Jim Crow

"Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?" asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 5-year-old son six decades ago.


	A Baltimore family recently

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

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.


	Ayman al-Zawahiri, the chief ideologue and for a decade leader of al-Qaeda, was finally killed, 21 years after the terror strikes of September 11, 2001.&nbsp; This is certainly welcome news, if only because someone like al-Zawahiri deserved his fate.


	But while we can all celebrate, his death will, unfortunately, and despite Joe Biden’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/08/01/remarks-by-president-biden-on-a-successful-counterterrorism-operation-in-afghanistan/">August 1 speech</a>, have zero impact on the global jihad.&nbsp;&nbsp;This dismal prognostication is fortified by the fact that, for nearly 17 years now, every time an Islamic terror leader has been killed, politicians and media exulted, portraying the death as a “<a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react-al-qaeda-chief-ayman-al-zawahiri-is-dead-whats-next-for-us-counterterrorism/#ali">major blow</a>” to the jihad; and, for nearly 17 years now, I have responded by recycling an article that I first wrote in 2006, titled “<a href="http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=5559">The West’s Multi-Headed Monster</a>.”


	Although I changed the names of the jihadi leaders killed to suit the occasion—first&nbsp;<a href="http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=5559">Abu Mus‘ab al-Zarqawi</a>, then&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2007/05/03/hydra-of-war/">Abu Hamza al-Masri</a>, then&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/terrorists-die-but-ideology-lives/">Abu Laith al-Libi</a>, then&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/defeating-radical-islam-the-herculean-strategy/">Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Misri,</a>&nbsp;then&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/bin-laden-and-the-eternal-hydra-of-war/">Osama bin Laden</a>, then <a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2019/10/29/a-dead-caliph-vs-the-eternal-jihad/">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a>, and now Ayman al-Zawahiri—my conclusion always remained the same:


	The West’s plight vis-à-vis radical Islam is therefore akin to Hercules’ epic encounter with the multi-headed Hydra-monster.&nbsp; Every time the mythical strongman lopped off one of the monster’s heads, two new ones grew in its place.&nbsp; To slay the beast once and for all, Hercules learned to cauterize the stumps with fire, thereby preventing any more heads from sprouting out.&nbsp; Similarly, while the West continues to lop off monster heads like figurehead Zarqawi [or Zawahiri, bin Laden, al-Baghdadi, et al] it is imperative to treat the malady—radical Islam—in order to ultimately prevail.&nbsp; Victory can only come when the violent ideologies of Islam are cauterized with fire.&nbsp; But alas, the Hydra-monster is myth, while radical Islam is stark reality.


	Consider, for instance, all the exultation that took place in 2006 after al-Zarqawi—the forefather of the Islamic State, or “<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/exposed-decade-old-plan-to-create-islamic-state-and-obama-helped/">Al-Qaeda Second Generation</a>”—was killed.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800114.html">almost every major politician</a>, including President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki, gave some sort of victory speech. &nbsp;The&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;called his death a “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/world/middleeast/08cnd-iraq.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">major watershed in the war</a>.”


	Similarly, in 2008, after Abu Laith al-Libi was killed, Congressman&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/31/alqaeda.death/index.html">Peter Hoekstra</a>&nbsp;issued a statement saying that his death “clearly will have an impact on the radical jihadist movement.”


	More myopic triumphalism was in the air after Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri were killed in 2010 during a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation.&nbsp; Then, none other than Joe Biden, serving as vice president, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20100419-two-leading-qaeda-chiefs-killed-abu-ayyub-masri-maliki">said</a> the “deaths are potentially devastating blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq [the embryonic form of the Islamic State],” adding “This operation is evidence in my view, that the future of Iraq will not be shaped by those who would seek to destroy that country”—a prediction that proved to be woefully wrong.


	Similarly, U.S. commander Gen.&nbsp;Raymond Odierno&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/25/iraq.militant.leaders.killed/">asserted</a>&nbsp;that “The death of these terrorists is potentially the most significant blow to&nbsp;al-Qaeda in Iraq&nbsp;since the beginning of the insurgency,” adding that it would be “very difficult” for the al Qaeda network to replace the two men.


	And who could forget all the media triumphalism, if not hysteria, surrounding&nbsp;<a href="https://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/osama-bin-laden-chicken-or-egg/">the 2011 death of Osama bin Laden</a>?&nbsp; Then,&nbsp;<a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/04/bin-ladens-theology/">CNN</a>&nbsp;security analyst&nbsp;<a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/02/bergen-time-to-move-on-from-war-on-terror/">Peter Bergen declared</a>&nbsp;that “Killing bin Laden is the end of the war on terror. We can just sort of announce that right now.” Insisting that the “iconic nature of bin Laden’s persona” cannot be replaced, Bergen further suggested that “It’s time to move on.”


	Another CNN analyst,&nbsp;<a href="http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/02/al-qaeda-is-dead/?hpt=T2">Fareed Zakaria</a>, assured us that “this is a huge, devastating blow to al-Qaeda, which had already been crippled by the Arab Spring. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is the end of al-Qaeda in any meaningful sense of the word.”


	In retrospect, surely all these assertions and assurances have proven to be immensely puerile—even for “mainstream media analysts.” &nbsp;The only significant development following the killing of bin Laden was the birth, spread, and subsequent hegemony of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”)—an organization that made al-Qaeda pale in comparison when it came to savagery and atrocities.


	To recap, for years, Americans were repeatedly told that al-Qaeda was suffering “devastating blows”; that the killing of individual jihadis were “major watersheds in the war”; that “the end of the war on terror” occurred in 2011, when bin Laden died (“it’s time to move on,” counseled Peter Bergen); and “that the future of Iraq will not be shaped by those who would seek to destroy that country,” according to Biden.


	Yet, lo and behold: an Islamic State, a caliphate engaged in the worst atrocities of the twenty-first century, was born—despite the deaths of individual jihadi leaders, including the notorious bin Laden.


	In light of this, should one expect the jihad to disappear now that al-Zawahiri is dead? &nbsp;Joe Biden seems to still harbor such hopes.&nbsp; During his recent victory speech, and after opening with a typical contradiction—“You know, al-Zawahiri was bin Laden’s leader.&nbsp; He was with him all the — the whole time.&nbsp; He was his number-two man—the U.S. president <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/08/01/remarks-by-president-biden-on-a-successful-counterterrorism-operation-in-afghanistan/">said</a>: “He [Zawahiri] will never again—never again allow Afghanistan to become a terrorist safe haven because he is gone.”&nbsp; Newsflash: with or without al-Zawahiri, Afghanistan has been and continues to be a “terrorist safe haven.”


	When it comes to the significance of the killing of this or that jihadi leader, the most accurate prediction I have ever read—one that has proven too true—comes not from U.S. politicians, “experts,” or media.&nbsp; It comes, rather ironically, from Ayman al-Zawahiri himself. Asked in a 2005 interview about the status of bin Laden and the Taliban’s Mullah Omar, he confidently replied:


	Jihad in the path of Allah is greater than any individual or organization. It is a struggle between Truth and Falsehood, until Allah Almighty inherits the earth and those who live in it. Mullah Muhammad Omar and Sheikh Osama bin Laden—may Allah protect them from all evil—are&nbsp;merely two soldiers of Islam in the journey of jihad, while the struggle between Truth [Islam] and Falsehood [non-Islam] transcends time&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UOJTY4/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000UOJTY4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=raymondibrahi-20&amp;linkId=c5ed99666036d165fa834bc300b10fc6">The Al Qaeda Reader</a>, p.182, emphasis added).


	And there it sadly is: jihad “transcends time” and is not predicated on this or that leader.&nbsp; Muslim warlords, ideologues, emirs, sultans, caliphs—even the prophet of Islam himself—have come and gone&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306825554/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0306825554&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=raymondibrahi-20&amp;linkId=0f925201768b161ae319879bb3fdf1d7">for nearly 1,400 years</a>, but the jihad continues.


	From here we return to my aforementioned Hercules/Hydra analogy of 2006: While the West continues to lop off&nbsp; “monster heads,” most recently al-Zawahiri, it must also comprehend that to achieve true and lasting victory over Islamic terrorism, nothing less than cauterizing those Muslim doctrines/ideologies that give birth to jihadis will ever do.

A Dead Terrorist vs. the Eternal Jihad

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.


	Ayman al-Zawahiri, the chief ideologue and for a decade leader of al-Qaeda,

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.


	"On summer nights, star of stars, Orion’s Dog they call it, brightest, of all, but an evil portent, bringing heat, and fevers to suffering humanity," Homer lyrically described it in The Iliad.


	The ancient Greeks believed that heat waves were caused by heat from Sirius: the dog star. We postmoderns don’t believe in any silly superstitious nonsense like that knowing all too well that the ‘dog days of summer’ are caused by styrofoam containers and a lack of carbon taxes.


	To bring attention to this urgent crisis, the Spanish city of Seville, the Spanish Office for Climate Change and the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, decided to start naming heat waves. This one was named “Zoe”, which was how assimilated Alexandrian Jews in Egypt rendered “Chava” or “Eve”: meaning the mother of all life.


	Postmoderns are also too smart to believe in the Bible or the story of G-d creating the world. They know that the world emerged accidentally out of chaos and is always on the verge of being destroyed by mankind. Instead a foundation under the aegis of CIA officials, named after a leading oilman and the widow of JFK’s premier opposition researcher will name the heat.


	To pagans, the minutiae of the natural world, heat and cold, the position of the stars, were the revealed religion that they could experience. Postmodern pagans feel the same way. Global warming is the old pagan climate religions, the worship of rain and sun, tree and wave, animal and earth, not out of a desperation to survive, but a spiritual void in a culture that has lost its moral capacity.


	Naming the heat and blaming it on man’s sinful refusal to appease the natural forces by abandoning his technology is a postmodern paganism that sees summer heat as an ill portent. What we lack in the arts of a Homer, we more than make up for in a panicked bureaucracy.


	According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, every year is the warmest year on record and this is no exception though one might query the hippos whose skeletons were found in the Thames and the lions who roamed where London now stands, the remains of elephants have been found in Seville, and giraffes lived in Italy long before Caesar brought one over and the Romans took to eating the long necked creatures as a delicacy.&nbsp;


	Europe tried to stop global warming by abandoning its domestic energy capabilities, turning to solar and wind energy, and when that failed, to Russian gas delivered through Ukrainian pipelines. The resulting war between the two countries has now lasted over 150 days and one can only imagine how much heat the destruction of cities and the endless bombing has unleashed.


	One of the things that the ancient Greeks understood that the modern greeks don’t is hubris.


	Much has been made of 'Zoe' giving Seville whopping 110 degree temperatures, or what Arizonans call mild summer weather, but the intemperate Spanish city hit 116 in August 1946, and 123.8 in 1876. The latter, like most temperature records made before Earth Day, has been withdrawn for its heretical implication that there were any hot days before the advent of Al Gore.


	Weather is as much an art as science. It has objective measurements, but subjective experiences.


	“This is a bad country, this America, where you always have to drink, either to get warm, or to get cold,” a Hessian mercenary fighting against Americans during the War of Independence complained.


	A more contemporary European visitor, French Ambassador Philippe Etienne, <a href="https://alaskapublic.org/2022/08/01/in-first-alaska-visit-french-ambassador-talks-climate-change-russia-and-the-case-of-the-missing-french-sled-dog/">arrived </a>recently in Alaska and began by opining, "We had just, in Europe, two heat waves already this summer... So it’s really important for all of us in the world, reaching our goals, limiting the global warming."


	If you’re going to limit global warming, Alaska would be the place to start.


	Back in Europe, the Globe Theater, which has gone both woke and broke, marked Earth Day with "Shakespeare and Climate Emergency", examining the works of the Bard through climate panic, or the other way around. We are told however that Shakespeare "would have had no conception of the scientific link between emissions and climate change."


	That seems unlikely considering that he wrote of “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Shakespeare’s monarch was not apt to spend billions paying researchers to claim that the sky is falling unless everyone takes to biking to work and eating soy patties.


	But apocalyptic scams were nothing new even in his time.


	That was the era when the Prophetia Merlini or prophecies of Merlin, mostly forgotten today, were still seen by some as predicting the future. “Oak trees will burn in the forests and acorns will grow on the branches of lindens. The Severn estuary will flow through seven channels and the river Usk will boil for seven months. The heat will kill its fish and snakes will take their place.”


	“Sometimes he angers me with telling me of the moldwarp and the ant, of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,” Shakespeare comments in Henry VI. “And such a deal of skimble skamble stuff.” The skimble skamble stuff of dreams is all around us now. In the hot noonday sun where only mad dogs and Englishmen walk, climate prophets cry, “Doom” and do BBC interviews.


	Bill McGuire, a British academic who blogs for the eco-terrorist group Extinction Rebellion who have taken to glueing themselves to things like Oxford Circus, the Science Museum and the European Commission headquarters, has a new book out, “Hothouse Earth”.


	"There is now no chance of dodging a grim future of perilous all-pervasive, climate breakdown," he declares in a book that will be out in paperback for only $16.95.


	This follows up on his 2002 book, "A Guide to the End of the World" looking at the "frightful prospects that await us in the 21st century" and "Surviving Armageddon" from 2005 about "massive earthquakes and super-eruptions, collision with vast boulders from space."


	Now this is the sort of skimble-skamble stuff to set off idiots gluing themselves to things.


	“This is a call to arms. So if you feel the need to glue yourself to a motorway or blockade an oil refinery, do it. Drive an electric car or, even better, use public transport, walk or cycle. Switch to a green energy tariff; eat less meat," McGuire raves.


	Notably he leaves off suggestions about environmentalist nutters gluing themselves to bookstores selling his book or interrupting his speaking engagements the way that they seem to have taken to gluing themselves to classical works of art. He urges fans to order his book at local bookstores and kill some trees and emit some fumes, instead of buying it on Kindle.


	The end is always near. And from the earliest literature of mankind, it makes for good book deals. Zoe will be the first of the named heat waves sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Any ambassadors from Paris or barbers from Seville who fly to Alaska will be deemed climate refugees and allowed to move into igloos. The heat waves of summer will give way to the storms of the fall and the snowfalls of winter. And all will be heralded as climate change.


	People with nothing to believe in must turn to something. They find ill omens and portents, conspiracy theories and rumors, they bow down and worship the earth and the sun.


	It’s far more appealing than turning to G-d.


	But as Shakespeare wrote, "The day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the King, and the Dukes; it is no time to discourse."

The Hot Pagan Nights of August

In a recent House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg proclaimed “the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/19/buttigieg-begs-for-electric-car-subsidies-as-americans-feel-pump-pain/">more pain we are all experiencing</a> from the high price of gas, ​the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.” That evoked a response from Florida Rep. <a href="https://carlosgimenezforcongress.com/">Carlos Gimenez</a>.


	“So you’re saying the more pain we have, the more benefit we’re going to get?” the Florida Rep. wondered. “Of course — no,” said Buttigieg with a laugh.&nbsp;


	“I think that’s what I heard you say,” countered Gimenez, who later tweeted “the more pain Americans felt, the better for electric vehicles. It’s an evil way of governing.” The Havana-born representative has seen it before.


	Sado-Stalinist dictator Fidel Castro took great delight in imprisoning and torturing political opponents, many of them black, such as <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRECB-2006-pt8/html/CRECB-2006-pt8-Pg10103-8.htm">Eusebio Penalver</a>. As Cuban cinematographer Nestor Almendros (Days of Heaven) showed in <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087696/">Improper Conduct</a>, Castro imprisoned homosexuals in labor camps.


	Sado-socialism is now mounting a surge in America, inflicting pain on the people to benefit the agenda of the Biden Junta. Secretary Buttigieg is the perfect exponent for this evil way of governing, and he models other dynamics now in play.


	The late C.S. Lewis exposed the trick of saying “we” when the speaker really means “you.” This empowers the speaker to put down others while pretending to display self-criticism. That is the dynamic going on with Pete Buttigieg, as CNN put it in 2019, “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/politics/religion-and-hypocrisy-are-clashing-with-sexuality-in-2020/index.html">a gay Christian</a>” who is “driving the religious right nuts.”


	As a man who often speaks “at length about his faith,” Secretary Buttigieg is surely familiar with the empirically verifiable Christian doctrine that human beings are deeply flawed. In the socialist view, human flaws and vices somehow disappear when someone is elected to public office or employed by the government. The flaws and vices don’t disappear, and access to the levers of government power, with little or no accountability, can easily amplify the flaws.


	Under socialist superstition, virtually everything government does is for the greater good. The people are to believe that no politician or bureaucrat would ever use the power of the state against political opponents, or people they simply don’t like. By saying “we” must experience pain when he means “you,” Buttigieg exposes that ruse in fine style.


	Pete Buttigieg is a gay Christian involved in a same-sex marriage. The Secretary appears to regard these conditions as accomplishments and job qualifications. In similar style, when fired by new San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins, attorney Alicia Hurtado claimed “I am <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/24/boudin-battalions-booted/">the highest ranking/LGBTQ member</a> of the management team at that office.” In the woke view, this status somehow overrides actual job performance, an issue that came up for Buttigieg in his run for president.


	“At a time when economic inequality and racial justice are at the nation’s political forefront,” <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/south-bend-poor-say-democrat-pete-buttigieg-left-them-behind.html">CNBC noted</a>, “Buttigieg’s candidacy could be hamstrung by the impression that he has not tried hard enough to improve the conditions of South Bend’s poor and minority communities.” According to resident Shawn White, 24, “Ain’t shit changed. How is he gonna run the whole country if you can’t even get your city right first?”


	In the view of many others, mayor Buttigieg didn’t get South Bend right. His performance as Transportation Secretary, to say the least, hasn’t exactly proved stellar.


	During a crippling <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/17/buttigieg-defends-being-on-paternity-leave-amid-supply-chain-crisis/">supply-chain crisis</a>, Buttigieg was off on a two-month “maternity leave,” a move he defended as work, “not a vacation.” The former mayor evidently believed his job was to model gay marriage, not to keep the vital supply chain moving. When it stalled, the federal Transportation Secretary blamed the people.


	“Supply, demand and the pandemic” are the main forces behind the supply chain bottlenecks, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pete-buttigieg-defends-paternity-leave-supply-chain-issues/story?id=80670846">Buttigieg explained</a>. “Americans have more money in their pockets compared to a year ago. Where they used to maybe spend it on going to shows or travel, they've been more likely to spend it on things, which is why actually we have a record number of goods coming through our ports.”


	As embattled Americans might note, Biden’s Transportation Secretary failed to quantify the money now in their pockets compared to a year ago. Buttigieg failed to pin down the rise in the rate of inflation, a big issue for American workers, and he did not put a number on the cargo ships waiting to unload. Americans might think the federal Transportation Secretary should be forthcoming with such vital information.


	Like Voltaire’s Dr. Pangloss, Buttigieg tells Americans they live in the best of all possible worlds, if only they would deny what their own experience tells them. If the people regard Pete Buttigieg as a complete bust it would be hard to blame them. On the other hand, there are grounds for gratitude.


	For the Dictatorship of the Subjunctive Mood (DSM), reality dysphoria, and the sado-socialism now inflicted on the people, sanctimonious incompetent Pete Buttigieg is the perfect instructor. &nbsp;

The Biden Administration's Sado-Socialism

In a recent House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg proclaimed “the more pain we are all

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

During a recent FBI oversight hearing on Capitol Hill, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) pointed out that FBI training materials identify patriotic symbols like the Betsy Ross flag as evidence of "militia violent extremism."


	Watch Cruz destroy FBI director Christopher Wray over this perverse focus of the FBI in the short video below:

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