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The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) says it will continue to ignore a federal directive barring the participation of biological male athletes in high school girls’ sports. Previously, the State of Maine announced it would not comply with the directive, issued as an Executive Order by President Donald J. Trump in February, and now faces a federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). ISHA’s president, Dan Tully, claims that state law preempts the federal restriction and requires Illinois high schools to accommodate so-called transgender athletes, who are biological males, by allowing their participation in girls’ sporting events....

That means their view on the "end times." Folks, back in 2004, National Review Online's correspondent Rod Dreher, interviewed David Cook, a Rice University scholar of Muslim apocalypticism. I want to share his observations with you:Rod Dreher: What are the main beliefs of Islamic eschatology? David Cook: Referring to Sunni Islam, the principal beliefs are: 1)There are a series of signs or portents previous to the end: moral and social decay, natural and cosmic disasters, and political events that will demonstrate in an incontrovertible manner that the end is about to happen. 2) A tempter, or Antichrist, called the Dajjal...