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Shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks, my wife and I realized that her only brother, Douglas, used to work at the World Trade Center. Was it possible he was among the victims?Tragically, although he no longer worked there regularly, he was doing a trade show there that day and he perished along with 3,000 others, leaving behind a wife and two young children. Four years ago, a graduate from our ministry school was assassinated by Islamic terrorists while serving in an impoverished Muslim community in the Middle East. He was like a spiritual son to us, and he also left...

Islamic militants will try to choose targets to fragment us and make it easier to divide and conquer us. While I have no respect for the homosexual lifestyle and find it rather desperately sad, these are our brother and sister Americans, and we must defend them with every ounce of our being, even as if we were defending a school full of innocent children. Not by trite, half-hearted calls for "common sense" gun control, (read; confiscation of legal arms)but by vigilance and strength at the frontiers of our Nation, and by the impartial and vigorous enforcement of our laws. If...

Ronnie Dunn took to Facebook to criticize the President's speech and leadership calling it "unbelievable." The post resulted in several thousand shares and reactions from Dunn's Facebook followers, many of whom agreed with the singer's observation. But, others criticized Dunn calling him "another Republican Obama hater."

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump early Monday lashed out at President Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the wake of a mass shooting at an Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub. "There's never been anything to this extent," Trump said during a phone call on Fox News's "Fox and Friends." "There's no uniforms involved, but it's war, it's absolute war." "We better get smart or it's only going to get worse," continued Trump, who on Sunday said that Obama should step down as president and suggested that Clinton withdraw from the White House race. "This man has no clue," Trump...

Truncated title. Full title: Philip Haney: Orlando Shooting ‘Remarkably Similar’ to San Bernardino, ‘There’s a Lot of Overlap in the Two Networks’ Department of Homeland Security whistleblower Philip Haney, who said an investigation into radical Islam that might have stopped the San Bernardino jihad attack was scuttled by DHS for politically-correct reasons, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon for a special edition of Breitbart News Sunday on the evening after the Orlando shootings. Haney said he had some “devastating things to share” with the Breitbart News Daily audience about the Orlando case, based on his “expertise on the global Islamic...

I haven't seen patrons of the club on the sidewalks and streets kneeling with hands behind their heads for police to make sure a second shooter wasn't among the crowd. Has anyone seen such pictures? At other incidents like this, that is what is seen always.

So let’s be perfectly clear: the massacre at the Pulse club was an act of “terrorism” and “hate” - which is redundant. Butt we still don’t want to use either of those icky and oh-so-definitive adjectives: “Islamic” and “radical.” So, while we’re all in agreement that we must Make America Great Again, as usual we disagree on how to go about it. The Donald thinks we should begin by calling “it” what “it” is and closing our borders to the people most likely to practice “it”. Crooked Hillary thinks we need to throw more gun control at it: Clinton, meanwhile,...

If the shooter’s suspected motivations are indeed confirmed, we call upon President Obama and the presumptive nominees of both parties to condemn the attacker and acknowledge in no uncertain terms the cause of this massacre: Radical Islamic terrorism.”

In a surprising discovery, the Palm Beach Post first reported that according to state records, Orlando shooter Omar Mateen - who as we reported earlier was licensed as a security guard and also holds a firearms license - was employed by the US subsidiary of G4S plc, a British multinational security services company, whose US-headquarters are located in Jupiter, Fla, and which also happens to be the world's largest security company by revenue.

It’s not surprising that, after the first responders, the first response to the horrific attack that killed 50 or more people at gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando was a sometimes vicious debate. The instant anger to President Barack Obama’s statement about the attack reflects a deep and growing distrust over how this administration responds to the threat of global terrorism.

I was driving from Sarasota, Florida, to Washington in the pre-dawn hours Sunday morning when my iPhone chirped a news alert. More than 50 people dead at a nightclub shooting in Orlando. The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. And later, news that the gunman reportedly called 911 to declare his loyalty to Islamic State before committing the act, investigators said. The preceding Monday, less than a week earlier, I had returned to the United States for only my second visit in about two years. In the intervening time I had been on the front lines in Ukraine, in Iraq,...

7AM FBI Press Conference On Orlando Massacre.

As another new moon heralds the start of the holy month of Ramadan, Michelle and I extend our best wishes to Muslims across the United States and around the world. For many, this month is an opportunity to focus on reflection and spiritual growth, forgiveness, patience and resilience, compassion for those less fortunate, and unity across communities. Each lesson is profound on its own, and taken together forms a harmonious whole. It’s also a time of year that brings some of the best dishes to the table across the world as families and neighbors gather for iftar. Here in the...

It was the worst mass shooting ever on American soil: Omar Mateen, 29, opened fire at the Pulse, an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub, on Saturday night. Mateen murdered at least fifty people and wounded another 53. The death count is almost certain to go higher, as many are quite gravely wounded. Mateen was a Muslim who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and mentioned the Boston Marathon jihad killers in a 911 call just before he started shooting. Thus in the wake of the jihad massacre, it was time for the Leftist political and media elites to do what...

Liberals like to believe that radical Islam exists as a reaction to "imperialism," the Crusades, blah blah blah. Or because they have some right to be angry about Israel and "Palestine" or whatever. Smart people know that Islamic fundamentalists are actually irredentists for the Muslim caliphate. Now that Islamic terrorists have attacked a liberal entity, a gay club, instead of a capitalist entity, like the World Trade Center, its fitting that maybe people ought to better see how radical Islam wants to kill everyone who isn't a Muslim, be it comedians, writers, cartoonists, Jews, Christians, Bahaiis, Hindus, etc. This isn't...

The media said no one cheered 911.

The Orlando nightclub terrorist who pledged allegiance to ISIS worked almost a decade for a major Department of Homeland Security contractor, raising alarms that ISIS sympathizers and agents have infiltrated the federal agency set up after 9/11 to combat terrorists. Officials say Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, an Afghan-American who held two firearms licenses and a security officer license, was employed by the security firm G4S Secure Solutions USA Inc. since Sept. 10, 2007. The Jupiter, Fla.-based company merged with the Wackenhut Corp. after 9/11 and assumed federal contracts.

Prosecutor of jihadists Andrew McCarthy joined Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM Channel 125 Patriot with host Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon following the Orlando terror attack. McCarthy told listeners that Islamic Sharia law goes beyond Islamic terror group ISIS, and the problem of “massive migration by an assimilation-resistant Sharia supremacist culture” will ensure radicalization for years to come.

A coalition of civil rights groups planned to hold an event Monday attacking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his rhetoric against Mexicans and Muslims, but cancelled it after 50 people were killed and at least 53 more wounded in a reported Islamic terrorist attack Sunday. The event was supposed to include leaders from several top rights groups including National Council of La Raza and Muslim Advocates, an advocacy group founded by American Muslim lawyers. The groups said in a press release promoting the event they planned to condemn Trump for “demonizing” certain groups and would demand an apology. The...

An American-born man who'd pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 50 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation's worst terror attack since 9/11, authorities said. * The gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Florida, was interviewed by the FBI in 2013 and 2014 but was not found to be a threat, the FBI said. * Mateen called 911 during the attack to pledge allegiance to ISIS and mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, according to a U.S. official. * Orlando police shot and killed Mateen.