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00:05 Introduction: The Growing Debate Over Israel on the Right 00:46 Why Conservatives Are Suddenly Split on Israel 04:13 The Role of Evangelicals in Supporting Israel 08:42 Islam as an Ideology, Not Just a Religion 10:28 The West’s Awakening to the Threat of Islamism 17:11 Claims of Islamist Influence Inside U.S. Institutions 23:22 The Importance of Citizen Activism 27:30 Sharia Law and Its Impact on Women’s Rights 31:20 Immigration, Assimilation, and National Security 35:51 The Growth of Mosques and Cultural Change Brigitte Gabriel returns to Hearts of Oak for a wide-ranging and urgent conversation examining growing divisions within the Republican...

Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek recently interviewed Nissar Hussain at the International Religious Freedom Summit. Hussain has a great deal to tell the world about religious freedom, as he converted from Islam to Christianity and nearly lost his life for doing so, not in Iran, or Pakistan, or Afghanistan, but in the new, diverse, multicultural Britain that the left has bestowed upon a grateful world. Hussain told Jekielek that the situation in Britain is, in a word, dire, and it will be in the United States if we don’t wake up to reality regarding Islam and Sharia. In a...

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Muslim Brotherhood, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (“CAIR”), and CAIR’s Austin, Houston, and DFW chapters to ban the terrorist organizations from operating in Texas and to stop their violent ideology from spreading across the state. The Muslim Brotherhood is a radical terrorist organization that exists to usurp governmental power and establish dominion through sharia law. For three decades, it has covertly operated in the United States under the name “CAIR”—the Council on American-Islamic Relations—as its American chapter. The terrorist ties are unquestionable. For example, CAIR-Texas's founding board member was convicted in...

Hillary Clinton took to social media to express support for the rioters in Minneapolis even as the disgraced former candidate and her husband were dodging a congressional subpoena looking into their relationship with family friend and Clinton Foundation co-founder Jeffrey Epstein. After condemning the Trump administration’s push to deport illegal alien criminals from Minneapolis, despite the obstruction of violent leftist rioters who had tried to murder federal law enforcement agents and bit off an agent’s finger, Clinton urged directing funding to the rioters. “In Minnesota, scores of ordinary people are bravely looking out for their neighbors, defending their communities, and...

A Minnesota-based nonprofit focused on aiding Somalis and other East Africans is hiring someone to follow immigration agents and prevent them from making arrests. The Awood Center, named after the Somali word for “power,” released a job posting on Facebook Jan. 14 seeking an employee to assist in “rapid response,” a term activists use to describe following or recording suspected Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions in-person. The group’s rapid response program will “reach hundreds of Somali residents within days,” “prevent unlawful or coercive detentions” and conduct outreach at relevant facilities such as mosques, the job posting says. The Awood...

Two years ago, Zakia Khan and her son Ahsan Ijaz hosted an NYPD promotion ceremony for the first Pakistani inspector in the New York City police department. After an Imam recited a prayer and everyone, including NYPD personnel, rose and put their hands on their hearts for the Pakistani national anthem, hailing Pakistan as the ‘citadel of Islam’ in the “shadow of Allah.” Last year, Khan pleaded guilty to a $68 million Medicaid fraud scheme involving her adult day care centers, which had been the sponsors of the NYPD event, and earlier this year more members of the Muslim fraud...

Austin, we have a problem. Even as many in Texas are pushing back against the rising presence of Islamic Supremacist organizations and hate groups trying to spread their hateful views and calls for the conquest and mass murder of non-Muslims, Austin is welcoming them in. Fresh off declaring January to be ‘Muslim Heritage Month’, the city of Austin, Texas also decided to declare Jan 22nd, “CAIR-Austin” day after the local chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood organization (a violent Islamist movement originally funded by Nazi Germany) whose national organization celebrated the Hamas massacres of Oct 7 and was named an unindicted...

Jaylani Hussein, the Somali leader of Islamist group CAIR Minnesota, told a far-left crowd that they didn't accomplish what they needed to after George Floyd's death. "We have a second chance...by any means necessary." Video by @YaakovStras:

Former FBI official Bongino defends support for Israel. The podcaster, who is not Jewish, said antisemitism is behind accusations that he took $6 million from AIPAC. Dan Bongino, who announced a podcast after leaving his role as deputy FBI director, responded to online accusations that he is a “traitor” who received $6 million from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. That’s not “even remotely true,” he said. When one exposes the liberal agenda, the “demon savages” scream back about the Jews, he wrote. “Of course, none of what’s included below in this pile of human waste’s post is even remotely...

A proposed mosque and commercial development in Broken Arrow is drawing statewide attention as Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced an investigation into the project. Drummond cited public concern and questions about funding and oversight as reasons for the probe. The investigation comes just four days before the Broken Arrow City Council's special meeting on Jan. 12. Drummond's office plans to review the project's ownership, governance, and financing, describing it as a matter of substantial public concern. “Oklahomans deserve confidence that local land-use decisions are being made lawfully, transparently and in full compliance with state and federal law,” Attorney General...

Here’s a clear, sourced summary of the organizations and groups identified as leading or involved in the Minneapolis “ICE resistance” movement (largely in response to federal ICE enforcement actions and the fatal shooting of a local activist): ⸻ 1) Indivisible Twin Cities • A local chapter of the national Indivisible Project — a progressive activist network originally formed after the 2016 election. • Reportedly a key organizer of anti-ICE demonstrations in Minneapolis, including resistance to enforcement actions and broader calls to end ICE operations locally.  2) ICE Watch / Minnesota ICE Watch • A local activist network focused on...

As the U.S. military carried out a daring operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, a second front opened up within minutes in the United States an information warfare, psychological and propaganda operation run by a hardened cell of self-described Marxist, socialist and communist leaders. For years, this cell has fomented anti-American hate in the U.S. under the cover of "anti-war" protests, rallying activists after the 9/11 attacks to condemn the U.S. response, appropriating "anti-racism" protests after the 2020 killing of George Floyd, marching with Antifa agitators, organizing antisemitic campus encampments after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas...

Gov. Ron DeSantis didn’t flinch when the Council on American-Islamic Relations sued Florida over his executive order labeling CAIR a terrorist organization. In fact, he welcomed it, framing the case as a vehicle for discovery that could expose the group’s funding sources. CAIR, which has never been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the federal government, argues the order violates due process, free speech, and federal authority over terror designations. The lawsuit tees up a constitutional showdown with implications well beyond CAIR itself: whether a Governor can unilaterally impose sweeping punitive restrictions on an American civil rights organization without criminal...

Tampa, Florida, is not simply experiencing immigration. It is being actively marketed abroad as an Islamic settlement hub, and newly uncovered Arabic-language footage shows exactly how.In promotional videos circulated to Arab and Muslim audiences overseas, Tampa is presented not as an American city to integrate into, but as a destination where incoming families can immediately plug into a fully Islamic parallel infrastructure—mosques, schools, markets, healthcare navigation, and social services—without meaningful interaction with broader American civic life.The footage is covert by design. Delivered entirely in Arabic and aimed at foreign audiences, it operates outside public scrutiny while providing step-by-step instruction on...

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Governor Abbott Designates Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR As Foreign Terrorist Organizations. November 18, 2025 | Austin, Texas | Press Release. Governor Greg Abbott today designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. This designation authorizes heightened enforcement against both organizations and their affiliates and prohibits them from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas. “The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’" said Governor Abbott. "The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support...

It wasn’t long after Florida declared CAIR a foreign terrorist group, with an Executive Order blocking certain activities in Florida before they hit back with a lawsuit. As a former JAG Officer in the Navy, he didn’t even flinch at the threat of a lawsuit. In fact, he almost seems to be looking forward to it. For anyone jumping into this story partway through, let’s get everyone up to speed. His executive order got the ball rolling, but the Florida Legislature will likely be enshrining this into law. CAIR, to nobody’s surprise, pushed back immediately. They took the bait!

DeSantis designates CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist entities. Florida Governor designates CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations, directing agencies to block support and prevent unlawful activities.

A Dallas Muslim community leader will be deported after an immigration judge ruled he provided “material support” to the Holy Land Foundation, the Richardson-based charity whose leaders were convicted in a major terrorism financing case. Marwan Marouf, 54, a Jordanian national who has lived in the United States for roughly 30 years, has served as the public relations and fundraising director for the Muslim-American Society’s DFW chapter. He has been held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since September. The Dallas Express previously reported that ICE arrested Marouf in September and charged him with lacking a valid entry...

President Trump ignites the final assault on the Muslim Brotherhood, branding them terrorists to dismantle their pro-Hamas "civilization jihad" and expose Qatar's billions flooding US campuses with radical influence, will democracy's defenders prevail against this global menace? Gila Isaacson. Nov 23, 2025. In a significant development, President Donald Trump announced today that his administration is advancing the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), with paperwork in its final stages. Supporters argue this move is critical to address the Brotherhood's alleged inspiration of groups like al-Qaida, ISIS, and Hamas, and to curb its global influence across...