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Under the banner of fighting “Islamophobia,” groups like MPAC are quietly gaining direct access to local police departments and municipal power. By embedding hand-pick members of mosques into law enforcement, they are effectively rewriting threat priorities and silencing critics from the inside. During an August 2026 webinar hosted by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)’s Center for Security, Technology, and Policy (CSTP), speakers outlined a practical strategy for Muslims to enter local police forces using hand-picked members from their own mosques. The webinar was presented as an effort to train mosque security against alleged “Islamophobia” perpetuated by the “right-wing” and...

Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel highlighted a controversial campaign strategy used by Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, noting that his campaign is airing advertisements featuring conservative commentator Tucker Carlson in the final stretch before the election. Appearing as a guest on 'BBC News America' 11/2/26 with host Sumi Somaskanda, McDaniel explained that the tactic is an attempt to chip away at the Republican base by utilizing talking heads popular with conservative voters. Key Facts About the Strategy: • The Ad's Content: The official campaign ad features clips of Tucker Carlson stating he "wouldn’t vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint"....

I Wish I Would’ve Killed You!’ El Sayed Supporter Attacks Jewish Student ...Liz Benichou was participating in a campus stop with Liberty Under Fire USA when the confrontation erupted Sunday in Ann Arbor, according to The Rothman Report. Police identified the alleged attacker as a university student; Benichou is not affiliated with the school. The dispute escalated after Benichou questioned how a woman dressed like her would be treated in Iran, the New York Post reported. Footage circulating online showed the student pushing Benichou down before officers intervened. While being placed into a police vehicle in handcuffs, the student shouted...

It is outrageous that Michael Che uses his enormous platform on Saturday Night Live to mock Israel while casually invoking one of the most inflammatory accusations imaginable: genocide. During Saturday’s “Weekend Update,” Che joked about Israelis voting “on the right side, or the left side, or the genocide.” The punchline was apparently that Israel is committing genocide. Very funny—if you consider demonizing an entire country and its people comedy. Advocacy group StandWithUs called him out, pointing out that Israelis of every background—Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Druze and others—participate in the country's democracy. The election saw the highest voter turnout since 1999,...

On October 22, the energy analysts at Kpler reported a number that the drive-by media refused to report. The volume of Iranian crude floating outside the blockade zone had fallen to zero, down from roughly 136 million barrels when the war began in February. No new Iranian cargo had loaded since August 25. Because payments lag deliveries, Kpler expects the associated revenue to dry up by mid-December. For a regime that has spent 45 years converting oil into terror and rockets, that is the sound of the register closing. President Trump’s decision to finish what the June 2025 strikes began...

How nice of Judge Mohammed. Dahir Ibrahim, West Midlands Police. Nothing to see here. Just one of those misunderstandings that seem to happen with people from a society and a belief system that says raping women is okay as long as they’re not Muslims and not wearing hijabs or burkas. Meet Dahir Ibrahim: the UK’s most prominent Somali Muslim figure. A convicted Somalian rapist who managed to overturn a deportation order went on to rape two more women in Birmingham, with his lawyer arguing ‘he had a lack of understanding of what is acceptable in the UK. This made for...

U.S. intelligence officials are warning that Iran has intensified efforts to assassinate Americans overseas, prompting the Trump administration to reduce diplomatic staffing across the Middle East amid escalating threats from Tehran and its terrorist proxies. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton issued an unclassified memo Friday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, warning that Iranian assassination plots targeting U.S. citizens have reached dangerous levels. “Lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against U.S. citizens have reached advanced stages,” Clayton wrote. Clayton said Tehran has significantly expanded operations targeting American personnel abroad and warned that the danger extends beyond individuals currently authorized...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked former U.S. President Barack Obama for campaigning for Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, labeling him a “Muslim Brotherhood Jihadist.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump said El-Sayed “hates Jews and Blacks and Americans and Trump. “Michigan doesn’t want an arrogant, open borders, fake doctor, jihadist,” Trump wrote. He urged voters to back Republican nominee Mike Rogers.

A 17-year-old McKinney resident has been arrested and charged by the FBI for planning to assassinate U.S. Rep. Keith Self and carry out an allegedly ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in North Texas. According to reports, the bureau arrested the would-be assassin on October 5 after the individual obtained a firearm. Investigators said they believed the suspect planned the assassination for October 17. The suspect had been monitored by federal agents for some time at that point, and was believed to have been radicalized by online ISIS material. In a post to X on Wednesday, Self (R–McKinney) expressed his gratitude to the...

Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi: Terrible but sadly predictable. Was in Marseille earlier this week. Beautiful, vibrant but also in decay. You see more Palestinian flags than French ones.Oct 17, 2026 Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: Men draped in Palestinian flags loot stores across France. What has France done to itself?Oct 18, 2026. Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: Why is the media working so hard to avoid showing any Palestinian flags in the riots in France?Oct 19, 2026

The announcement of the scheduled December 3 execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan for his "Fort Hood" murder of 13 people and wounding of another 32 in 2009 has inspired Al Qaeda "to avenge this unwarranted slaying of a righteous Muslim. If the US dares to go through with this evil deed we will respond in kind by abducting Americans, killing them, and showing the video of their deaths to the world." "Trump may think that executing Hasan for successfully carrying out a jihad attack on infidels will deter us from our goal of conquering the world for Allah,...

Look who is talkin'! El-Sayed’s hypocrisy is hard to ignore: after accusing Haley Stevens of dual loyalty over her support for Israel, and bashing AIPAC, he suddenly (Oct/2026) becomes defensive when asked about his own views on the Muslim Brotherhood. If he believes politicians should be held accountable for their affiliations, loyalties, and political connections, that standard must apply equally to everyone—including himself. You cannot demand transparency and accountability from others while treating legitimate questions about yourself as off-limits. That is not principled scrutiny; it is a double standard. Typical el Sayed. But it's far worse, because the Muslim Brotherhood...

President Donald Trump warned Monday that Paris is on course to become a “Muslim city very soon,” blaming France’s escalating unrest on mass immigration and saying he had repeatedly urged French President Emmanuel Macron to close the country’s borders. “Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon, and that wasn’t the deal,” Trump told reporters at the White House as France grappled with days of violent riots, looting, and arson. Trump said he had warned Macron about the consequences of his immigration policies years before the latest unrest. “Emmanuel, he’s a friend of mine. I told him a...

The mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, will apparently have to leave office after revised election results gave his opponent a 12-vote lead. Nearly a year after voters cast their ballots in a local mayoral election, a new candidate has taken the lead after 37 disputed ballots were finally counted. Adam Alharbi became the mayor of Hamtramck, a Detroit suburb of about 28,000, after last year’s election results showed him defeating Muhith Mahmood by just 11 votes. But those results did not include 37 absentee ballots that were mistakenly excluded from the initial count. Now, after a prolonged court battle, those ballots...

April 03, 2009, 2:00 p.m. Imperial Judiciary Goes GlobalBy the Editors In 2004, the Supreme Court sowed the seeds for a national-security upheaval when it ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that war prisoners held outside the United States had a right to challenge their detentions in federal court. Last year, in Boumediene v. Bush, the justices continued the seismic shift, holding that the right they had invented in Rasul — a right extended to aliens whose only connection to the United States is in waging war against it — was somehow rooted in our Constitution. Thursday, the inevitable earthquake...

One key rule in politics is: If you're explaining, you're losing. If you're denying, you're really losing. And if NBC News questions you about your ties to an international terror network on national television, the denial doesn't actually help – even if it's sincere. And in the case of Abdul El-Sayed, this denial is utter nonsense. Kristen Welker posed the question on yesterday's Meet the Press, highlighting just how much of an issue El-Sayed's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood have become in Michigan's Senate race. El-Sayed's terse denial to Welker's repeated and direct queries doesn't exactly settle the matter, either:...

Oct 12, 2026. WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home on Monday as part of a criminal investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter.

London | The co-pilot accused of attempting to hijack a passenger jet full of Israeli passengers watched terror videos and glorified attackers as part of his radicalisation while studying in Melbourne almost a decade ago, the United Arab Emirates top prosecutor said on Friday (Saturday AEDT). The Omani co-pilot planned to crash the plane into the passenger terminal at Tel Aviv airport to kill the most number of people in a September 11 style plot, UAE Attorney-General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi revealed. The co-pilot told investigators he had acted alone, the attorney-general said. Omani pilot Hamam al-Hammami is accused of...

Hamas is generating as much as $5 million a day from goods entering Gaza while rebuilding tunnels, accumulating weapons, and planning possible attacks on Israeli troops, including attempts to kidnap soldiers, according to separate Israeli television reports this week citing security officials. Neomi Neumann, a former head of research at Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, told the Kan public broadcaster on Thursday that Hamas continues to exercise effective control over Gaza’s population through a decentralized system of taxation, aid distribution, and covert enforcement. Neumann, now an adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, estimated that Hamas earns...

The French Education Ministry said classes were totally or partially suspended at 891 schools after widespread damage occurred to schools and mounting injuries among staff, students and police. French Education Ministry suspended classes at nearly 900 schools nationwide Tuesday amid an increase in rioting over the country's school system and a lack of air conditioning in classrooms. The demonstrations in Paris have devolved into confrontations with law enforcement, and video footage has shown rioters clashing with police, who have deployed tear gas. Protests in Strasbourg, Lyon and Rennes have also turned violent at times, with demonstrators lighting fires and hurling...