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In a recent article, the Pakistan-based Urdu-language pro-Taliban daily Roznama Ummat examined the Qatari government's preparations for da'wa ("preaching," "invitation to Islam") at the FIFA World Cup beginning on November 20, 2022. Da'wa is an important part of Islam whereby Muslims are expected to invite non-Muslims to embrace the religion. The article, titled "FIFA World Cup And Da'wa Of The Religion," and written by Islamic religious scholar Zia Chitrali, explains various media activities and events planned to explain Islam to non-Muslim spectators and to try to persuade them to convert. As part of these events planned by Qatari officials, thousands...

Billionaire and new Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted a poll on Friday evening, asking if Twitter should finally reinstate former President Donald Trump. Musk added, “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Latin for “the voice of the people is the voice of God.”Trump responded to the poll on his TruthSocial platform on Saturday. He messaged a screenshot of the Twitter poll showing that 52% of respondents wanted him back on Twitter with the comment, “Vote now with positivity, but don’t worry, we aren’t going anywhere. Truth Social is special!”Twitter originally banned Trump in January 2021, following the events of Jan. 6, claiming...

The White House recently announced that it was funding a five-year research plan for a controversial proposal to fight climate change by geoengineering — i.e., technologies and processes that can be used to artificially modify the Earth's climate.This research would be dedicated specifically to a form of geoengineering known as "solar radiation management," which involves spraying fine aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away from the Earth. The hope is that, once the sunlight is reflected, less heat will be generated, and ergo temperatures will go down. Presto: actual anthropogenic climate change! A global SPF 100, as it were!The...

Republicans have secured a U.S. House majority, barely. Barely is better than not at all. But a slim margin will pose daunting challenges to Republicans, who will be led by Kevin McCarthy. The Californian will win the speaker’s gavel with the full backing of his conference. He’ll notch a win because the stakes are enormous. Even, finally, tough-nosed conservative Matt Gaetz knows this. McCarthy wins because he’ll cut a deal with Freedom Caucus members who backed Arizona’s Andy Biggs for speaker. Biggs won 31 votes to McCarthy’s 188. Biggs was trounced but really not, because those 31 votes loom large....

The official anniversary of the Yellow Vests protest is November 17, 2018 and there were observances on Thursday including this one in Paris at a replica of New York's Statue of Liberty... The protests began in response to the decision of the government of President Emmanuel Macron to raise gasoline taxes in France as a means of fighting "climate change"... The issue of the "Ocean Viking" migrants continued this week... On Friday the notion of electricity being cut in France starting in January was unveiled... And from Paris today live video from the Yellow Vests protest. A large crowd in...

Poor Jim Cramer is on record calling FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried the JP Morgan of this generation. Is there anything Jim gets right?

This stockpile of cruise and ballistic missiles was likely used to deliver massive air strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in recent months. “They apparently have a withhold for a notional NATO attack, which we would regard as absurd, but they regard it as a real possibility,” Cancian said.“So they’re holding back some part of their inventory for that.”The report further suggests that Russia has built up a stockpile of microchips and other technological components for domestic missile production before invading Ukraine on Feb. 24. In October, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin announced a set of measures to ramp up output of...

This is really a stunning report. House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy used FTX funding to sway GOP primaries away from Trump supporters. The National File originally reported on this on Friday. Kevin McCarthy Used #FTX #SBF Stolen to Defeat Conservatives in 2022. Which Destroyed the so-called “Red Wave.” pic.twitter.com/TDwJpKbRd4 Of course, it is widely know that the now bankrupt FTX US funded millions into Democrat campaigns through Ukraine. But at least one FTX player funded hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kevin McCarthy to take out MAGA lawmakers. Most of the rest of the money, $700,000, came from Ryan Salame,...

With this year's Thanksgiving the third since the onset of the pandemic, there are now many tools to help manage COVID-19 risk, including safe and widely available vaccines. But this coronavirus still presents a danger, especially to older people and those with chronic medical conditions. There are also other viruses circulating across the United States, including influenza and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) that are causing some pediatric hospitals to be overwhelmed. What are steps people can take to protect themselves and their loved ones against COVID-19 during Thanksgiving dinners and other gatherings over the coming holidays? Is it still important...

France and Germany on Friday hailed the conclusion of a deal to build a new European fighter jet after months of disagreements between two companies involved -- Airbus and Dassault Aviation. Launched by France and Germany in 2017 and since joined by Spain, the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) aims to have a next-generation jet in service by 2040, along with integrated drone fleets. But progress on the new delta-wing stealth aircraft has been plagued by fighting over the sharing of the industrial work as well as intellectual property for the cutting-edge technologies. "After intense negotiations, a deal between manufacturers...

On November 19, 1720, Edward Hunt was hanged in Philadelphia. He was the only Pennsylvanian executed for treason prior to the American Revolution — that treason being not the betrayal of the state (in the sense we might think of it today), but counterfeiting. In the bitterness of his scaffold speech, which disdains the customary acknowledge-my-guilt, pray-for-my-soul form of the genre to complain about his case, Hunt made plain that he was not reconciled to the justice men had rendered him. The American Weekly Mercury of Thursday, November 24 published “this extraordinary Piece” only with a preface complaining that “it...

Japan, Britain and Italy are expected to reach a formal agreement in December to develop a next-generation fighter jet that will be used by the Air Self-Defense Force, Japanese government sources said. Japan plans to deploy the new fighters by around 2035, when the ASDF’s current F-2s will start to retire. The airframe of the new fighters will be mainly developed by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) and BAE Systems Plc, a major British defense contractor. Italian aviation and defense company Leonardo SpA will join in this part of the project, the sources said. Japan’s IHI Corp., Britain’s Rolls-Royce...

Tiger Woods & Elin Nordegren - $750 Million Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt - $400 Million Kevin Costner & Cindy Silva - $80 Million Alec & Jocelyn Wildenstein - $2.5 Billion Jocelyn managed to get $2.5 billion out of her ex-husband Alec Wildenstein, French businessman and billionaire. Michael & Diandra Douglas - $45 Million Robert & Sheila Johnson - $400 million After 33 years of marriage to his partner, Sheila Johnson, co-founder of BET Robert Johnson separated in 2002. Dr. Phil McGraw & Debbie Higgins - Approx. $1 Million Andre Agassi & Brooke Shields - $130 Million Bernie & Slavica...

Days after saying he is “strongly recommending” masks indoors, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health was seen at an indoor party without one. Dr. Kieran Moore was attending a party for those on local magazine Toronto Life’s “50 most influential” in 2022 list, where he ranked 12th for “keeping COVID under control.” A photo circulating online shows Moore standing among a group of people at the party, all of whom are not wearing masks. Moore made the recommendation for masking indoors in a Nov. 14 press conference, warning about the combined threats of COVID-19, seasonal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and...

CBS News is halting its activity on Twitter over Elon Musk’s turbulent and potentially devastating moves following his takeover of the company. “In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform,” Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News national correspondent, said in a report about the latest chaos at the company on the “CBS Evening News” Friday.

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 18, 2022 / 17:30 pm A contest called #SíALosNacimientos (Yes to Nativity Scenes) seeks to fill public property throughout Mexico with Nativity scenes in response to an attempt to ban them. Promoted by the platform Verdades Claras y Falsas Máximas A.C. (Clear Truths and False Maxims), the contest proposes that Mexicans “place Nativity scenes on public property and send photographs to our social media.” “The material will be received from Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, to Dec. 11, the Third Sunday of Advent,” the platform explained to ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language sister news agency....

[Video] The video triggered fierce backlash online. HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Big Island man is publicly apologizing after starting an uproar for posting a video of himself urinating on Mauna Kea. After a torrent of criticism, he told Hawaii News Now he learned a valuable lesson and now wants to work to help educate others. Travis Upright gave permission to share a video he recorded, asking for forgiveness. “I never meant to hurt anyone. I never meant to create so much harm but that’s no excuse. It still happened and I’m sorry,” said Upright. In the six-minute apology video, Upright...

Saturday's men's basketball game between New Mexico State and New Mexico has been postponed after a player on the Aggies was reportedly involved in an on-campus homicide early Saturday morning. Multiple reports say junior forward Mike Peake was the player involved, but he is not the one deceased. New Mexico State Police did not respond to Fox News' inquiry for confirmation. New Mexico State Police said there was an altercation between a 19-year-old — now deceased — and a 21-year-old (Peake is 21), where both men suffered from gunshot wounds. The 21-year-old was transported to a hospital, and his current...

The results of a local election in a major Georgia county have been reversed after officials discovered a memory card with hundreds of uncounted votes on it. Madelyn Orochena was originally declared the victor of a race for a seat on the Kennesaw City Council in Cobb County, "Looking forward to me being sworn in on Monday," she said at the time, according to Fox 5 Atlanta. Yet 24 hours later, Orochena got a call from the county's Board of Elections about a memory card from one of the precincts had not been uploaded, the network reported. The results were...

Moscow, November 17, Interfax - Russia bailiffs have opened another case against TikTok to forcibly collect a 2-million-ruble fine for propaganda of non-traditional sexual values. According to the databank of the Federal Bailiff Service, the new enforcement procedure is based on a ruling from Judicial District No. 422 of Moscow's Tagansky District dated August 11, 2022. The motion against TikTok derives from a video with propaganda of non-traditional sexual values. Earlier, the Federal Bailiff Service opened two cases against TikTok to forcibility collect 1-million-ruble and 3-million-ruble fines handed down by a court. The total sum the bailiffs are planning to...