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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...

Nov 4 (Reuters) - Iran's government savoured the stinging rebuke delivered to Donald Trump in the midterm elections, declaring voters had rejected the war launched by the US president even as Tehran remained on high alert for the possibility of renewed strikes. "Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR, and ‌we endorse this message," Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Iran's chief negotiator, posted on X, adding that Washington should not ignore public opinion by attacking his country again. Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written statement that US hostility would persist regardless of which...

The New York Times recently highlighted an alleged list of more than 1,000 Michigan voters, described as primarily Jewish Americans, who have endorsed Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (D) for the U.S. Senate over Republican Mike Rogers. The document, which is still available online, presents those participating as a show of support from Jewish “leaders” and community members. A closer look at the names, however, raises instant questions about the list’s credibility. One in particular would make Bart Simpson proud. Jack Mehoff. No, seriously. That name is on the list. What, was Hugh Jass not available? Conservative political commentator and online media...

Elon Musk’s shift to the right, support for Trump, and defense of free speech have turned a former liberal darling into a target of the Left’s growing hostility toward billionaires. As the midterms approach, the Left has gone nearly berserk in its hatred of trillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Yet its escalating venom would have been almost inconceivable before 2022, when Musk publicly declared that he would be voting Republican. Before Musk’s recent political reversal (he voted for both Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020), he was beloved by the Left as the first successful upstart challenger to...

A friend of mine is taking his wife on a European cruise that ends in Barcelona this week. He told me how much they love the Spanish city and how they’d normally stay an extra couple of days there before flying back. “Not this year,” he said, before stressing that they’re “gonna get outta there fast” because of safety concerns. We had this discussion before this weekend’s violent riots in Barcelona, in which hundreds of people (black clothing, masks, and Palestinian flags prominent among them) looted and damaged dozens of stores, injured at least 15 police officers, and set multiple...

Two weeks out from the November 3 election, the Democratic Socialists of America are turning on one of their own. Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, the DSA-backed challenger to Mayor Karen Bass, now faces a push from hardline Marxist caucuses that could strip her endorsement or even expel her from the organization. The New York Post reported that Reform & Revolution and Bread & Roses have joined forces to demand Raman answer for her positions on Israel and Palestine. They introduced a resolution to the National Political Committee calling for a members-only meeting by October 25, preferably with Raman...

Left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed is out with an ad featuring a "lifelong Republican" who says he has voted "nine times" for Republican Mike Rogers. The supposed GOP stalwart, Rich Perlberg, is a former newspaper publisher who endorsed John Kerry and Barack Obama for president and has since called for "embracing progressive values" on his Substack page called "White Man's Burden." In the ad, which El-Sayed began airing on YouTube this week, Perlberg, who is identified only as "Rich," says, "I'm a lifelong Republican. I voted for Mike Rogers nine times. Nine times. But years in Washington changed Mike."...

From Wikimedia Commons: Battle between Christians and Muslims (Jacques Courtois, second half of 17th century). Numbers matter. Large-scale importation of Muslim population groups from African and Asian countries into the United States has produced measurable corrosion of community trust and informal bonds that sustain civil society. Concentrated demographic shifts—conspicuous in places such as Dearborn, Michigan—have generated institutional favoritism, constrained public discourse, and fostered parallel moral frameworks that resist the shared civic identity historically required for social cohesion. Far from being incidental byproducts of pluralism, these developments represent a structural challenge to the very cultural preconditions of American self-government. Dearborn furnishes...

Real Culprit Behind the Casualties: Arab Islamist "Palestine" Genocidal Gaza Government (GGG) Urban-Warfare Strategy: When Civilians Become the Battlefield The central reality of fighting Hamas in Gaza is often obscured by images of destruction without the military context that produced it. Hamas does not operate like a conventional army that separates its fighters, weapons, headquarters and civilian population. Its battlefield strategy has repeatedly involved operating from within an extraordinarily dense civilian environment—creating precisely the conditions in which any attempt to defeat it becomes extraordinarily dangerous for civilians. Blocking or Obstructing Civilian Evacuation One of the most consequential features of urban...

Let's Examine Mass Killings in Recent History and Islamism The Muslim Turks murdered, either directly or indirectly, between 1.5 and 2.5 million Christians between 1894 and 1924. It was also a jihad, or "holy" war.Sudan, 1953–2004: Some 4 million dead. Written in September 2005: Genocide in Darfur – How the Horror Began , Sudan Tribune, 3 September 2005. Copied here: Racism and Islamism in Khartoum... Perhaps the most destructive civil conflict since World War II and one of the longest wars in Africa's history, it saw the Christian and animist South pitted against the Muslim, Arab-speaking North. As many as...

This is who Abdul El-Sayed is. He refused to disavow Hasan Piker, who had said that America deserved 9/11, he made excuses for the Muslim terrorist who tried to kill 100 Jewish preschoolers at a synagogue, and he continues attending events with outright supporters of terrorism. “I pray one day, Inshallah, Allah will bless us to raise an army and I’m serious about this. We were very close, recently. We had made intention to raise an army of 10,000 men in NY City. Muslim men to go fight…And the day is going to come, when that happens,” the ISNA speaker...

Dan Klein, who appeared in an El-Sayed spot in a yarmulke, is a 'community organizer' for Detroit Jews for Justice, while a Rosh Hashanah video featured the Jewish Voice for Peace-tied Shifman familyMichigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed has attempted to address mounting concerns from Jewish voters by rolling out ads and social media videos touting "Jews for Abdul." Featured in the spots are three left-wing "social justice" activists with ties to an anti-Israel group that excused Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, arguing it was a result of "Israeli apartheid and occupation." A September 8 El-Sayed ad features former Detroit...

Veteran investigative reporter Catherine Herridge reported during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” that a senior member of former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s Director’s Initiatives Group, known as the DIG, described a pattern in which intelligence community officials acted on the belief that they needed to protect a globalist perspective by limiting certain information provided to policymakers, including President Donald Trump. Herridge’s comments came amid discussion of recently declassified federal documents related to intelligence assessments from 2020 concerning China’s election influence operations. Those records, which were released in connection with a primetime address by President Trump the...

California Democrat starts by targeting billionaires, ends article demanding taxes on $50-million net worth — that threshold will keep dropping until it hits your 401(k)New York’s socialist mayor campaigned on taxing billionaires, immediately pivoted to hitting millionaires — same playbook progressives used with income tax over a century agoEvery dollar seized in wealth taxes gets ripped out of businesses like Walmart and Tesla, destroying jobs and innovation to fund left-wing NGOs and handouts for illegalsIf you ever wished you could be counted among billionaires, your wish might come true soon if the socialists get their way. Of course, it’s not...

Pro-Israel research group Canary Mission said Monday that a video shows several Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-aligned politicians joined an online rally where a speaker lamented that neutralizing Iran would strip Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis of their funding. The group shared the clip in an “exclusive” thread on X. It came from a March fundraiser called “Choose Your Fighter,” hosted by Progressive Victory to rally support for progressives opposed to the Iran conflict. The speaker was left-wing podcaster Kyle Kulinski. Kulinski argued the United States and Israel were building a “fourth Reich” before turning to Tehran’s regional proxies. “If...

"Persian kings did not build empires by being naive about deception; they practically invented the genre.” —Jesus Enrique Rosas. Where do the enemies of our country — including the ones inside our country — get the idea that Iran is winning this war? They wish it into existence. The wishing is necessary to put across the talking points that President Trump and his advisors don’t have a plan, don’t know what they are doing, that the USA is persecuting and oppressing Iran for no good reason. We pounded Iran over the weekend for a very good reason: Iran needs to...

The Iranian regime unveiled a shocking giant mural in central Tehran on Wednesday depicting President Donald Trump lying in a coffin and captioned with the brazen threat, “We kill Trump.” The mural, erected in Tehran’s Islamic Revolution Square, shows Trump with his hands folded across his chest and his face protruding from the coffin. It was unveiled just weeks after the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed at the outset of the U.S. and Israel’s conflict with Iran, where crowds were filmed chanting slogans calling for death to America. It remains unclear who commissioned the mural,...

According to a Pew survey, 44% of American Muslims recently surveyed expressed a favorable opinion of Hamas. The United States designated Hamas a foreign terrorist organization long before it killed 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, raped women, burned families alive, tortured civilians, and kidnapped children and elderly grandparents. Its leaders have repeatedly declared that Israel should cease to exist. Yet nearly half of Muslim Americans surveyed said they view the group favorably. Many Muslim Americans have publicly condemned terrorism while backing the rights of Palestinians. But 44% support is significant. Imagine if a comparable percentage of any other religious...

Sick trolls have responded to the death of GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham with gloating remarks and other twisted comments. But the late South Carolina pol, who died Saturday at age 71, also received support from an unlikely source: Monica Lewinsky, the onetime young White House lover of Democratic then-President Bill Clinton. “Lindsey Graham is dead. Have a great Sunday!” said “Game of Thrones” star and activist Liam Cunningham on X. Author Seth Harp posted, “I was going to go piss on Lindsey Graham’s grave, but when I got out of the army, I vowed that I would never wait in...

A banner reading “Destroy Israel” was unfurled during the opening ceremony of Spain’s annual St. Fermin Festival in Pamplona, drawing condemnation from Jewish organizations. Video circulating on social media showed the banner stretched above the crowd before the traditional chupinazo rocket launch yesterday that marks the start of the weeklong St. Fermin Festival, known for its encierro (running of the bulls through the town square to the bullring). The banner featured the words “Destroy Israel” alongside an image of an Israeli flag crossed out. The initials “EHKS” appeared at the bottom of the banner, referring to a far-left socialist organization...