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I was sitting in my home office not far from the Pentagon when it happened. The TV behind me had the sound lowered, but I suddenly became aware of a major development. I reached for the remote and cranked up the audio.A plane had struck one of the twin towers in New York. TV anchors initially speculated it must have been a small plane that had run off course, but a much larger plane struck the building, and then a second one hit the other tower. It quickly became clear America was under attack. I saw smoke rising from the...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order recognizing 9/11 Friday — and then gave the symbolic pen to his controversial aide who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist with links to the attack on the Pentagon.Administration officials were gathered at City Hall for a pair of executive orders — ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks — one establishing a Day of Remembrance and another beefing up security against future terror threats. After Mamdani signed the last of the documents, Hizzoner gave Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch the ceremonial pen, and whispered, “Can you pass this?” Tisch awkwardly handed...

Archive link: https://archive.is/3pNvb Source: Palestine Today TV (Palestinian Islamic Jihad). In an August 22, 2026 address at an event organized in Turkey by the Quds International Institution, which was aired on Palestine Today TV (Palestinian Islamic Jihad), Ali Al-Qaradaghi, secretary-general of the Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), said that if it were not for the October 7 Al-Aqsa Flood, events in Europe and America would not be unfolding as they are. He said that Zohran Mamdani would not have been elected in New York, and Abdulrahman El-Sayed would not have defeated a $73 million campaign in the Michigan...

If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. That is the mantra of the modern Democrat Party, which for decades posed as the champions of "female liberation," but now kowtows to an Islamist ideology that infamously oppresses women. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is the latest to submit to Muslim men, indulging their preference that women cover their heads when going out in society. On Friday, Hochul readily jettisoned her feminist garb and adopted the Muslim one to impress an audience of New York City Zohran Mamdani's friends. This is what Hochul says in the clip: "I want to...

California could soon formally recognize two of Islam’s most important holy days under legislation that would give state workers greater flexibility to take them off and allow public schools to close in observance of the holidays. The measure, which overwhelmingly passed the state Assembly and is awaiting Senate action, would recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha in state law and could soon head to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Assembly Bill 2017, introduced by Democratic San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney, passed the Assembly 64-1 in late May. It must clear the Senate before the legislative session ends Monday to reach...

The call to prayer is sounding across America. From Hamtramck, Michigan, to Paterson, New Jersey, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, rooftop amplifiers remind growing numbers of Muslim faithful five times a day of their duties with the Arabic message that “Allah is the Greatest! There is no god but Allah!”… Like Polish, German, Irish, and Italian immigrants before them, American Muslims now control several small cities. These include Hamtramck, which has an all-Muslim city council, as well as midsize cities like neighboring Dearborn. They are also wielding influence in large metropolises like New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s top staff is...

Bishop Eleganti says Islam ‘cannot be integrated’ into West ‘There is no such thing as an apolitical Islam,’ Bishop Marian Eleganti said in a new interview. ‘It is a system of domination.’Bishop Marian Eleganti, in an interview published Thursday, said that Islam cannot be integrated into Western political systems that the Christian faith has shaped.During the interview with La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana published August 13, the auxiliary bishop emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, emphasized that it’s impossible for Islam to be integrated into the Western world, which holds Christian foundations. The bishop further highlighted the “anti-Christian” agenda of both Islamists and...

The Dallas airport is now installing dedicated Islamic “Wudu” foot-washing stations inside bathrooms. Sharia financing is coming to dozens of states. Sharia compliant community centers. USDA funded halal public school pipelines. TX public school students being bused to mosques to experience Islam firsthand.

You might ask what the problem is, since the United States celebrates freedom of religion. The problem with Islam is that it not only promotes a religion, but also its followers often support political Islam and its spread worldwide, particularly sharia law. Despite our concerns, most states have not been able to figure out how to legally ban the construction of these Islamic Centers:

How to be a DhimmiIn late July, some 60,000 migrants surged into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. The migrants were mainly young males. And since 99 percent of Moroccans practice Islam, most were almost certainly Muslim. Ceuta is not a Spanish colony. It’s an “autonomous city” integral to the Spanish state, with Spanish sovereignty dating back to 1580. It’s thus a (hoped for) gateway to the European Union, and a priority target of “undocumented” immigration.Spanish police pushed most of the migrants back across the border. They left behind – as the Wall Street Journal noted –...

Texas Republicans are turning years of warnings about political Islam into a state policy campaign focused on foreign money, land, financial practices, public institutions, private tribunals, and terrorism laws. The Republican Party of Texas made “Don’t Sharia Our Texas” one of its official 2026-2028 legislative priorities on June 13. The party is calling for new investigations, expanded attorney general authority and laws aimed at organizations and practices it says could establish a competing political and legal system inside Texas. Republican lawmakers carried that effort into the True Texas Project’s August 1 conference in Fort Worth. The official program included sessions...

Abdul El-Sayed blasted his Michigan Senate race opponent Mike Rogers, labeling him a “coward” after the former congressman and other Republicans launched Islamophobic attacks against El-Sayed after his victory in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. “Mike Rogers should never see the inside of the U.S. Senate,” El-Sayed told MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff on Wednesday, adding, “His ideas are old, his perspective on politics is old — and he’s going to find that people don’t want that perspective anymore. So, of course he’s going to do the same thing that MAGA always does, which is try to divide us.” El-Sayed, a physician, also...

“Because of our unity, we have three Muslim councilmembers sitting on the council at the same time. And because of our unity, one of our brothers, who was the councilman of the Sixth Ward, is now representing us in the 35th legislative district.” — Councilman Shahin Khalique A shocking transformation is unfolding in Paterson, New Jersey, where local officials are rapidly reshaping the city into an Islamic stronghold. Once a beacon of American industry and blue-collar resilience, Paterson has become a case study in how unchecked Islamic immigration, demographic shifts, and political pandering can erode a city’s original identity....

A total of 25 men mostly of South Asian descent have been sentenced to a collective 346 years in prison over the “abhorrent in the extreme” rape, sexual abuse, and trafficking of girls between 1999 and 2012 in the North Kirklees area of West Yorkshire. Operation Tourway, an investigation starting in 2015 focussing on the towns of Batley and Dewsbury, has jailed 25 men in connection to the “absolutely shocking offending” sexual abuse, rape, and trafficking of eight girls, whom the police said were treated as “defenceless commodities to be abused and traded at whim”. The arrests took place in...

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Despte Macron’s ban on social media posts and news about the jihad violence in France, reports continue to leak out of the country. Rumble is currently unavailable in France. ... A 16th century church in France is set ablaze and burns to the ground during the riots that have engulfed France, spurred on by groups of migrant men. ... A 16th-century church was attacked and set on fire in Drosnay in the North-Eastern region of France as fresh violence erupted in the country recently. A video showing the church engulfed in massive fire has surfaced online.

BFM TV reported that the attack had happened in a park and that the assailant had been a Syrian asylum seeker. A Syrian national wounded four children and an adult in a knife attack in a French park on Thursday, police said, leaving some of the victims critically ill in hospital. The attack, which happened in the French alpine town of Annecy, was carried out by a Syrian national with legal refugee status in France, a police official told Reuters. ... Two children and one adult are in life-threatening condition, while two children were slightly hurt, police said. Witnesses said...

Spain seeks help to relocate children from Ceuta migrant crisis Some 1,500 children and teenagers arrived from Morocco this week, as part of a surge of thousands of migrants swimming or climbing a fence into the enclave Hundreds more people tried to force their way into Ceuta on Wednesday despite tightened security from Spain

Rather than giving something back to those Western nations taking them in, Muslims willingly residing in the West are exhorted to hate, disavow, cajole, and spy on their benefactors. Not only are Muslims living in the West supposed to hate their “infidel” host nations and neighbors; they are supposed to spy on them by serving as Islam’s “eye” on the West. As discussed here, numerous online fatwas -- that is, decrees written by authoritative Muslim scholars (ulema), appearing on respected Islamic websites -- insist that Islamic law (shari‘a) requires Muslims living in the West to maintain “enmity and hatred” for...

Another telling story about the Decline of the West that we briefly noted here: the French ambassador to Sweden, who bears an ancient French title of nobility, has declared that “France is a Muslim country” during an interview on Swedish television. The French Ambassador to Sweden, Etienne De Gonneville, was interviewed on the public channel SVT in the Agenda program. There, he was asked if there was a risk of conflict between France and the Muslim world following the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on October 16. “First of all: France is a Muslim country. Islam is...