The Legal Making of Orphans

John D. Grondelski: Surrogacy deliberately sets out to make offspring orphans – in the name of assuaging somebody’s felt want to be a “parent.”


Michigan, which in 2022 ensconced a right to abortion-on-demand into its state constitution, may be on the verge of another adaptation to the sexual revolution: adopting commercial surrogacy.

The Great Lake State, along with Nebraska and to some degree Louisiana, are the three states that still outlaw commercial surrogacy.  “Commercial” surrogacy is distinguished from “altruistic” surrogacy, where the latter is nominally a volunteer undertaking.  I say “nominally” because (a) how does one really monitor financial exchanges in such quasi-private contexts and (b) when does “compensation for care” (e.g., medical “expenses”) blur into pay?

Are you surprised that the vast majority of states allow trafficking in children?  If you are, you’re soooo 1987, when New Jersey’s “Baby M” case was decided.  As bioethics activist Jennifer Lahl has observed, America is the “Wild West” when it comes to artificial reproduction.

Amid the controversies over abortion from the 1970s-90s, many state legislators decided to steer clear of any involvement in the emerging field of artificial reproduction, including surrogacy.  And Roe fostered a perspective of treating childbearing as an “individual liberty interest” with which states should not interfere, a mindset that has perdured in the various post-Dobbs state constitutional amendments enshrining abortion-on-demand.

So, while those pushing commercial surrogacy in Michigan would like simply to suggest the state is catching up with all the others, in fact, the legislation advancing in Lansing is extreme.

Just as Obergefell redefined marriage to eliminate sexual difference, Michigan’s proposed surrogacy law redefines parenthood to eliminate genetics and the bodily.  The only “parent” in law in Michigan would be the person(s) commissioning the baby.

If there are two, they wouldn’t even need to live together or have any formal relationship to be listed as “Parent One” and “Parent Two.”  (Yeah, sexual differentiation in parentage goes away, too).  Parenthood becomes a state of mind.

We need to make ourselves fully aware of what that means.

For a child to come into existence requires genetics, gestation, and upbringing, what Catholicism once used to call procreatio et educatio.  You need a man for sperm; a woman to provide an ovum.  You need a woman – who may or may not be the woman who provided the ovum – to bear that fertilized ovum for nine months.  And you need somebody to raise that newborn.

That used to be understood as what mothers and fathers do.

Technology has allowed the genetics, gestation, and social dimensions of parenthood to be separated into unrelated components.  Surrogacy laws have decided that the only legally valued component is raising the child.  All the other elements are deemed sub-personal and legally irrelevant to what constitutes a “parent.”

Sperm and egg are not essential to parenthood: they are parts to be obtained.  A female body is just a biological incubator, necessary only insofar as our technology has not (yet) found an artificial substitute for the interval between Petri dish and viability.

Of course, if gametes become mere “parts,” one should be able to customize.  Just as car buyers may like red over black, sedan over convertible, or leather upholstery over plastic, so baby buyers might prefer blue eyes over brown, boys over girls, hirsute over smooth.  De gustibus non disputandum est.

And if female bodies simply become a temporary domicile at her “choice,” why shouldn’t we have wombs for rent?  That, of course, is the raw theoretical argument.  We know that’s not how it is in fact.

Since the woman providing the ovum also provides a permanent genetic definition to the child, she’s going to command a higher price: physically attractive, college-educated co-eds (especially Ivies) don’t come cheap.

But if all you need is a temporary dwelling, poorer women will do.  As Lahl observes, no small number of military wives, initially attracted by “helping a woman have a baby,” also decide surrogacy is supplemental income, especially with long-deployed husbands on low enlisted salaries.  And, if you can offshore the job to a woman overseas, so much the better: labor costs are cheaper abroad.

Let’s be honest about the exploitative element.  A typical American commercial surrogacy arrangement runs about $60-70,000.  That’s for 24/7 “work” for nine months, i.e., about 6,500 hours.  That comes at best to about $10.80/hour, with no overtime, below current hourly minimum wages in 24 states.

Now, let’s stop and take a step back: how have we, in 2023, come to the point of talking about the choice between getting paid to make a human being or maybe making more money flippin’ burgers?

Because that is, in fact, what the “intended parent” is commissioning.  (S)he has placed an order for a custom-made child. As Michel Aupetit, the former Archbishop of Paris once remarked, the “parental project” – the treatment of a child as a “want” rather than a gift – must inevitably turn that child into a product.  Reification is unavoidable.

Indeed, what the “intended parent” has asked of us as a society is that we make an orphan.  We are to create a child who will be cut off from his genetic parents.  Michigan says the child’s genetic mother and father do not matter. 

The child’s family and ancestry are irrelevant.  Any siblings the child might have through this man or woman are biological accidents that have no inherent value.  The physical contact of a child with his mother’s body – before as well as after birth – is merely a biological necessity of no further significance in surrogacy.  Any woman/child bonding is purely coincidental.

We are making orphans but pretend otherwise because we deliver them to “adoptive” parents.

In the Biblical world, widows and orphans receive special care because circumstances beyond their control have made them particularly vulnerable.  But surrogacy sets out to make them orphans deliberately, in the name of assuaging somebody’s felt want to be a “parent.”

One can feel for such persons. . .but is that a reason to make an orphan?

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John M. Grondelski

John Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is a former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. All views herein are exclusively his.

Seattle Middle School Teacher Made Students Write Hate Mail to Moms for Liberty

Moms for Liberty, a conservative parental rights group, received a surprise package from Jane Addams Middle School in Seattle. It consisted of letters that appeared to be written by the middle school students with phrases such as “Say Gay,” “Gay is slay, stop being a rat,” and a repeated use of “Stop bullying.”

The social studies teacher, Ann Christianson, included her own note, which read, “Dear Moms for Liberty, please read the enclosed cards from concerned middle school students in Seattle, WA.” Christianson is also the coordinator of the Gay-Straight Alliance at the school.

The mothers’ group posted pictures of the package on X, writing, “Seattle Public Schools are spending class time indoctrinating and weaponizing your children.” And the Jane Addams Middle School report card seems to affirm their claim that students’ time is not as prioritized on learning as it should be. According to The Post Millennial, “38.6 percent of students failed to meet the grade level in English. Almost half the students failed to meet the grade level in mathematics and 34.2 percent failed to meet the grade level standard in science.”

But this isn’t the first time this Seattle school district has promoted progressive ideas. Shortly after the 2020 George Floyd riots, Seattle Public Schools removed police from campuses and promoted the “defund the police” movement. Schools in the district have also offered free “gender-affirming care,” including hormone blockers and gender transition surgery referrals for middle and high school students.

Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow for Education Studies at Family Research Council, commented to The Washington Stand, “The most important lesson a school club can teach is the value of serving others. The best student clubs are the ones that serve others in love — by visiting the elderly in nursing homes, working at food banks or soup kitchens, or performing volunteer service at the school itself.”

She continued, “Are these children reading at a high enough proficiency to help kindergarteners with ABCs? Based on their test scores, one [would] think they might not be, and that a better use of their club time, rather than sending passive aggressive missives to Moms for Liberty, might be to improve their reading and writing scores.”

For Kilgannon, this controversy should prompt a lot of questions from local parents: “Who paid for the postage and supplies? How did they decide where to send the letters? Were the parents of the students who sent the letters allowed to know their child participates in such a club at school?” The Post Millennial’s Ari Hoffman attempted to reach the school to get some answers, but he received only an auto-reply message from the teacher responsible for the hate mail that stated she was on a leave of absence.

“As a mom and as someone who gets ‘love letters’ like these from time to time,” Kilgannon added, “I can assure you that the effect of these letters is to strengthen the resolve of Moms for Liberty, a group that loves ALL children and works in the tireless service of human rights. We should join with Moms for Liberty members in praying for these students and the teachers who directed this sad little project.”

Kilgannon concluded, “We live in the greatest country in the world; our school children and families deserve much more than this demeaning exploitation.”

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Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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Beware of the Pentagon’s New ‘UFO Whistleblower’ Digital Form

The Pentagon has failed its 6th annual audit at a cost of $180 million tax payer dollars to process.

Once again the Pentagon cannot account for billions of tax payer dollars. But is this money really missing ?

Perhaps it is buried in the so called black programs funneled to contractors like the Skunk Works (Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs) (ADP) or even the Area 51 contractor EG&G thus the money is still hidden from Congress.

Don’t forget the salary of the pilots and the jet fuel used for flying the Janet flights into Area 51 every day. Let’s see that flight crew and passenger log book list and monthly expenditures. It’s classified higher than Jeffery Epstein’s flight logs.

But with that said the Pentagon has initiated a digital form (see link below) authorizing current or former government employees, contractors or military service members like myself to blow the whistle (ie) report knowledge of any U.S government programs related to “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena”.

Or as we call them in Florida UFO’s.


All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)

Now let’s analyze this new so called UFO transparency whistleblower form created by the Pentagon via the AARO.

This department under various names over the last 60 years plus have been hiding from the American people the location of advanced extra terrestrial technology, alien bodies and back engineered space craft since 1947 or earlier. My opinion.

This new government whistleblower form is pure fecal propaganda and is a massive red herring to keep Congressional investigators and Senators like the honorable Marco Rubio off their backs.

It’s also a form created to test those folks holding this UFO knowledge to see who can and who cannot keep these secrets.

The Pentagon running this program is called the AARO and they state that classified information cannot be submitted through this whistleblower portal.

They also state filing false information can be punished by big fines and or imprisonment or both.

Now remember all UFO technology and it’s residual back engineered knowledge is classified way above Top Secret. It’s even classified higher than our Nuclear Weapons technology at Los Alamos laboratory’s in New Mexico.

That means this form is totally useless and if anyone does file an accurate report let’s say about the UFO incident in Roswell NM in 1947 or Kingman Arizona it will be immediately designated as a false report and off to jail you go after the government dismantles your life branding you a nut case fines you and suspends your passport.

Ask Physicist Bob Lazar about his experience after he reported to the media in Las Vegas when he back engineered a propulsion system on a UFO at S4 in Nevada in 1989.

But this digital form satisfies the wants and needs of the July Congressional House Oversight Committee investigating UFOs. I mean UAPs.

If members of Congress or the US Senate really want to expose the truth about this Extraterrestrial advanced technology they should all charter a plane and fly to Area 51 in Nellis AFB Nevada then ride the bus south to S4 for 15 miles and take a tour of the UFOs being held there. My opinion again.

If you don’t hear from me again after sending out this useful information which hopefully protects my friends who are in the “know” then so be it. Then you know I was right.

When I left the US Navy in 2002 I signed a non disclosure agreement regarding my security clearance thus I will not disclose what I know.

I like my life the way it is. But I do warn folks who work on this advanced technology do NOT fill out this digital Pentagon form. There are other ways you can report your UFO knowledge and stay alive and or out of jail.

©2023. Geoff Ross. All rights reserved.

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Meet The Senior CIA Official Caught Posting Pro-Palestinian Content On Social Media

The top CIA official who changed her social media cover photo to a pro-Palestinian image two weeks after the Hamas terrorist organization carried out attacks on Israel is Associate Deputy Director for Analysis Amy McFadden, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The original Oct. 21 photo of a man waving a Palestinian flag — often used in articles critical of Israel — is no longer publicly visible on the official’s social media, as the official, the associate deputy director for analysis at the CIA, changed the image after the Financial Times reached out Monday, the outlet reported. The DCNF identified the official as Amy McFadden, who has served in the CIA Directorate of Analysis front office since 2020, according to her LinkedIn profile.

McFadden worked in the CIA’s Counterterrorism center, 

“The officer is a career analyst with extensive background in all aspects of the Middle East and this post [of the Palestinian flag] was not intended to express a position on the conflict,” a person familiar with the situation told the FT. The person added that the official also posted Facebook posts opposing antisemitism.

The official previously oversaw the assembly of the President’s Daily Briefing and is jointly responsible for managing all analysis distributed within the CIA, the FT reported.

After the FT reached out, the official deleted pro-Palestinian content from her Facebook page going back a year and a half, the FT reported.

In a separate post, the official also posted a photo with the words “Free Palestine” overlaid on the image, the FT reported, though this image was reportedly posted years ago.

“CIA officers are committed to analytic objectivity, which is at the core of what we do as an Agency. CIA officers may have personal views, but this does not lessen their – or CIA’s – commitment to unbiased analysis,” a CIA spokesperson told the DCNF.

McFadden did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s outreach.

Former intelligence officials said the posts were unusual and expressed surprise that an official in a sensitive position would publicly post views on a charged issue contrary to the Biden administration’s overt support for Israel.

“The public posting of an obviously controversial political statement by a senior analytic manager in the middle of a crisis shows glaringly poor judgment,” one former intelligence official told the FT, adding that some intelligence community members were alarmed that the official’s public stance could undermine perceptions of objectivity in CIA.

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MICAELA BURROW

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Action Action Action: Stop the Biden-WHO takeover of our Healthcare!

Urgent! Please read this note from Mat Staver! I have been reporting on this for quite some time. Biden just gave control of the internet to the UN. Healthcare is next. This is the set up for the One World Government controlled by the United Nations. No Borders, no Elections, No Money, No Private Property, No Healthcare.


A vote is scheduled this week on language that would block funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). Congress urgently needs to hear from you to vote against the WHO. Why? Because in almost every measure of global health care, Ethiopia ranks near last. Yet Joe Biden is RACING to give Ethiopia’s former disgraced health minister control over our U.S. health care. Over your health. This is not about health care … this is about tyranny and control.

The head of the WHO is under a cloud of suspicion because of hundreds of accusations that he is guilty of crimes against humanity. And unless Congress steps in NOW, Joe Biden will sign away our sovereignty and our freedom. Biden will put a failed Third World health director in complete control of our American medical system. I’ll share below just how bad this is.

A vote on a bill to defund the WHO has been moved to this week. With the new U.S. House Speaker, my friend, Mike Johnson, we have an excellent opportunity to stop the Biden-WHO takeover. — Mat

Call Mike Johnson: (202) 225 2777 / (318) 840 0309 / (337) 423 4232

“The United States must defund the WHO and exit this organization”

The WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus should NOT be in a position of power over anyone.

Ethiopia’s then-public health minister, Tedros, was forced to admit he publicly lied about his government’s role in killing more than 700 peaceful harvest festival attendees in 2016.

Tedros’ party caused controversy when armed soldiers stormed the stage of an opposing tribe’s harvest festival, firing tear gas and machine guns at festival goers. Then-Foreign Minister Tedros declared that there was “no shooting” and that his party’s “police” were “unarmed,” despite videos and pictures of the event that showed civilian bodies riddled with bullets.

This was only one of many acts of the party that Tedros oversaw, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a U.S. State Department-designated terror group.

Beginning in 1991, the TPLF ruled Ethiopia for the better part of three decades with a bloody and iron fist. But when the Ethiopian people found out the truth, they revolted shortly after the festival massacre, forcing Tedros and his cronies from power.

Now Biden is fighting to put this same person, Tedros, in power over the whole world and all of our resources. This is like turning over a herd of lambs to the wolves themselves!

Demand that Congress STOP Biden’s efforts to abandon American freedom and give WHO the power to demand Vaccine Passports, declare emergencies and how long they will last, control lockdowns and even control what goes on inside your own body! Send your critical faxes now!

As public health minister, Tedros claimed to have eradicated cholera from Ethiopia, a highly treatable bacterial infection of the intestines. However, it was later found that the disease had not been wiped out at all. In fact, cholera wreaked havoc on Ethiopia’s population, killing thousands during outbreaks in 2006, 2008, and 2011, among others, all of which occurred during Tedros’ oversight.

Tedros had not eradicated cholera at all. Instead, he ordered Ethiopian health officials to LIE, renaming the disease by classifying cholera deaths simply as death from “watery diarrhea,” even when tests proved that the “watery diarrhea” was caused by cholera.

Even today Ethiopia continues to be riddled with cholera, despite the fact the disease is easily treatable with simple rehydration and antibiotics.

The man with scant medical training, who lied about cholera, and lied about attempted genocide somehow managed to become the director-general of the United Nations’ World Health Organization.

Some, including French diplomats involved in the process, claim Tedros’ appointment to the WHO was a direct result of Bill Gates and his foundation lobbying on behalf of the Ethiopian tyrant. That allegation may have merit, considering the vast amounts of “investment” money Gates gave Tedros to implement Gates’ health initiatives in Ethiopia.

But Tedros’ compulsion for lies and disease cover-ups did not end when he left Africa for Geneva, Switzerland. As director-general of the WHO, Tedros regularly spread propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including a 2020 social media post in which Tedros’ WHO claimed that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of novel Coronavirus 19.”

Just a few months later, millions worldwide would be dead, thanks to Tedros’ lies and refusal to endorse effective treatments like ivermectin against COVID. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is a serial liar and a member of an internationally recognized terror organization.

If Joe Biden signs the WHO’s upcoming Pandemic Treaty and revised International Health Regulations, the man whose lies killed thousands of Ethiopians and millions of people around the world will be fully in charge of AMERICA’s health system!

We must not allow WHO to control our health care decisions and everything else they have placed in this Pandemic Treaty. Tell members of Congress to do everything in their power to stop Joe Biden’s subversion of our sovereignty and block the “NEW WORLD ORDER”!

Ethiopia ranks near last in every measure of the World Health Organization’s analysis of global health care systems. Of the 194 WHO member nations, Ethiopia ranks 180 in overall health system performance, according to the WHO data.

Other data from sources as disparate as Brittanica, UNICEF, and even the U.S. State Department and Central Intelligence Agency paint an even more vivid picture of severely flawed Ethiopian health care.

  • One in 20 children born in Ethiopia will not live past 5 years old — a number, according to Brittanica, which is nearly double the world average and more than eight times higher than the U.S. child mortality rate.
  • About 65% of Ethiopian girls are forced to undergo “Female Genital Mutilation” (FGM), a barbaric practice of partial or total removal of the female external genitalia with no anesthesia or topical anesthetic.
  • The average life expectancy of the average Ethiopian is under 65 years of age.
  • Leading causes of death among all ages are bronchitis and diarrhea, both of which are highly treatable in western countries.

Given these appalling statistics, few if any would want the Ethiopian health minister making our health care decisions. But Joe Biden is working to put the entirety of U.S. health care under Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ethiopia’s former health minister who is now the WHO director-general.

If we don’t stop him, Biden will be successful. But we must stop this coup from happening to our medical field and our constitutional rights — all at the same time. Send your urgent faxes to Congress to oppose this WHO takeover.

Please also consider helping Liberty Counsel Action. Our staff has boots on the ground on Capitol Hill right now doing everything in our power to protect freedom and stop the WHO. Give today to have a hand in helping fight this tyranny. Even a small recurring monthly donation would help so much!

Mat Staver, Chairman

Liberty Counsel Action

Situation Report: Iranian-backed hacker group infiltrates U.S. water system

An Iranian hacking group targeted the water system of a small Pennsylvania town over the Thanksgiving weekend, in what may have been a test case targeting widely-used industrial control systems (ICSs).

On Saturday, November 25, the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa (PA) announced that one of their booster stations was hacked by the Iranian group Cyber Av3ngers. The group targeted and infiltrated one of the station’s Unitronics programmable logic controllers (PLCs), which are responsible for monitoring water pressure for customers in Aliquippa, as well as Raccoon and Potter Townships. According Matthew Mottes, the chairman of the board of directors for the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, despite the Iranian group’s successful hacking, there is not believed to be any impact on the safety of drinking water in the affected areas.

This hack comes in the middle of an ongoing war where Israel is up against Hamas and other Iranian proxies in the Middle East. Cyber Av3ngers has claimed to have successfully hacked 10 similar water systems in Israel as of October 30. The Unitronics system hacked in Pennsylvania is headquartered in Israel, which is likely a reason for the group targeting a system physically located in the United States. Congressman Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania’s 17th congressional district said he is “closely monitoring” the cyberattack. The Facebook post below makes it clear that Cyber Av3ngers considers “every equipment” made in Israel as a target of the group.

While the majority of cyber-attacks are focused on financial gain in the form of ransomware, the affected booster station does not contain any personal or proprietary information. Rather it is designed to operate automatically. Apparently, the hackers “wanted” to be found, and may have been infiltrating this system to simply see how the Municipal Water Authority reacted to being hacked. This is similar to some financial hacking schemes where criminals will make an initial withdrawal from an account of a few cents, and if that goes unnoticed, they will make a larger withdrawal hoping to not raise any alarms.

The cyberattack does not appear to be specifically focused on water systems, as Unitronics provides control systems to a variety of critical infrastructure, not just water. Based on Cyber Av3ngers’ track record and open hatred of Israel, it is likely they will continue to target control systems in the U.S. and elsewhere that rely on Unitronics’ technology.

According to a November 27 Shodan search, there are more than 220 Unitronics systems in the U.S. and over 1,800 worldwide. Thus there are plenty of systems for Cyber Av3ngers to target, and the Iranian group has proven indiscriminate when it comes to choosing targets.

To prevent further attacks, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) has been pushing for “infrastructure funding and finance mechanisms” to enhance U.S. water infrastructure for years due to its age and insufficient funding. AWWA has also called for policies “that advance physical and cybersecurity in effective ways while securing information about potential vulnerabilities.”

As the Center for Security Policy’s Secure the Grid Coalition has noted, local governments and emergency planners will have to be the ones making improvements to critical pieces of the United States’ critical infrastructure. The Coalition has been sounding the alarm on inadequate physical security of electric grid infrastructure for years. The U.S. electrical system, while still lacking a variety of safeguards, does have better cybersecurity standards than the water system, but this recent attack in Pennsylvania shows that control systems for critical infrastructure of all kinds remain vulnerable.

This recent attack in Pennsylvania further proves that proactive measures must be taken at all levels of government, especially locally, in order to protect services that millions of Americans rely upon daily.

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Tommy Waller and Matt Franklin

President & CEO.

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NYC: Gay Black Leftist Defaces Poster of Kidnapped 19 Year-Old Girl Hostage with ‘THIS WHORE’

This is the left in America.

Minorities (in this case black and gay) are the most vicious and vile Anti-Semites.

On a poster of a 19-y-old girl, he writes: “This whore”

WATCH: A man writes on the posters of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas.

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Biden apologizes to Muslim leaders in U.S. for questioning Hamas death toll

Why would anyone expect truth from a people who indoctrinate their children to hate and murder Israelis, spread lies including blood libels, celebrate “martyrdom” and use human shields? The nature of jihad war was revealed on October 7. Jihad is savage, and marked by deceit. The deceit is the hallmark of the stealth jihad, which skillfully employs propaganda.

Taqiyya (dissimulation) is an encouraged practice in Islam, backed by a Qur’anic verse:

And they [the disbelievers] schemed, and Allah schemed: and Allah is the best of schemers.  Quran 3:54

As accurately stated about Palestinian culture by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak:

“They are products of a culture in which to tell a lie… creates no dissonance….They don’t suffer from the problem of telling lies that exists in Judeo-Christian culture….Truth is seen as an irrelevant category……There is only that which serves your purpose and that which doesn’t. They see themselves as emissaries of a national movement for whom everything is permissible. There is no such thing as ‘the truth’.”

Yet despite copious evidence regarding the Palestinian zeal for the “resistance” no matter what, Biden is still groveling to Muslims. He’s likely trying to salvage a prior vow he made to serve Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups in exchange for their votes. Biden still faces the stark truth, as other Western leaders do: that Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood have offshoots all over America and other Western countries.

Biden offers apology to Muslim-American leaders for questioning Hamas death toll: report

by Stepheny Price, Fox News, November 26, 2023:

President Biden reportedly issued an apology to several prominent Muslim-American leaders after openly questioning the accuracy of the death toll figures from Gaza.

During a press conference on Oct. 25, President Biden openly questioned the number of causalities in Gaza, which are reported by the Hamas government.

“I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed,” Biden said. “I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s a price of waging war.”

Biden met with five Muslim American leaders the day after his Oct. 25 comments about reported Gaza deaths.

During the meeting, Biden listened to the leaders describe people they knew who were directly impacted by the conflict in the Middle East.

“I’m sorry. I’m disappointed in myself,” Biden told the group, according to the Washington Post.

The Muslim-American leaders who met with Biden urged him to show more empathy to the Palestinians and Biden allegedly hugged one of the participants at the end of the meeting….

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‘Not Paying A Single Dollar’: Wealthy Jewish Families Dump Elite Universities Over Pro-Gaza Protests

Wealthy Jewish families are not having their college-bound children apply for Ivy League schools following antisemitic incidents and protests against Israel.

Schools in conservative states, like Washington University in Missouri, Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Texas are seeing the influx of applications from Jewish students who are passing on top-tier universities like Harvard and Columbia, the New York Post reported. The parents cited protests in support of Palestinians on college campuses.

“They’re not paying a single dollar more to the schools,” college admissions consultant Christopher Rim said. “They don’t want to be associated with these schools. They are totally out.”

At one protest in support of Palestine, attendees chanted a slogan that has connotations of wiping out Israel after a Columbia University professor called the attacks “exhilarating.” Other demonstrations saw the protesters make statements like “resistance is justified” in the wake of a deadly Oct. 7 terrorist attack carried out by Hamas on multiple locations in southern Israel that killed over 1,400 people.

Rim described how one of his clients who considered Columbia his “dream school” instead chose to apply to Emory University in Georgia and Washington University.

“After everything that’s happened on campuses, this family is like, ‘You know what, we don’t want to go to any Ivy,’” Rim told the New York Post.

Rim also revealed that former clients reached out to him, seeking assistance in transferring out of colleges in the wake of antisemitic incidents.

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HAROLD HUTCHISON

Reporter.

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Border Patrol Suspends Training Activities In Tucson Sector Over ‘Immediate Need’ To Address Migrant Surge

Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector of Arizona have suspended all training activities due to an overwhelming surge of illegal immigration along that area of the border, according to an internal agency email obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Agents received the message Monday while dealing with the surge of migrants in the area that has already led the agency to call in reinforcements from other parts of the sector, according to an internal memo the DCNF obtained Sunday. The latest message acknowledges that trainings are “integral” and necessary for “mental and physical readiness.”

“This surge poses immense challenges requiring an ‘all hands-on deck’ posture to staff vital positions with security, transportation, casework, and triage. To that end, all training to include Use of Force, Firearms Qualifications, and K9, is cancelled for the remainder of this week,” the email read.

Additionally, the agency closed the highway checkpoint for vehicle inspections, according to the memo.

“Border Patrol field leaders determine how to prioritize and best deploy personnel and resources under their command,” Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement to the DCNF.

Roughly 4,600 illegal migrants were in custody as of Sunday evening in all of the Tucson sector compared to nearly 20,000 nationwide, two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials, who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, told the DCNF.

Tucson Border Patrol announced Sunday it was temporarily shutting down its social media due to the migrant surge.

“At this time, all available personnel are needed to address the unprecedented flow,” John Modlin, Chief Patrol Agent of the Tucson Sector, tweeted late Sunday. “The social media team will return once the situation permits.”

Agents have been pulled from the frontlines to largely process and transport migrants crossing illegally into the sector, one agent told the DCNF on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. As a result, agency morale continues to tank.

“The last thread of morale we have is gone. If I didn’t have so many years of service, I’d bolt. I love my job when I’m able to do it tracking groups, being on the ATV unit, but this administration has killed that,” the agent said.

“It’s extremely frustrating. Our national security is non-existent,” a second agent told the DCNF.

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JENNIE TAER

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Elon Musk Visits Hamas Attack Sites in Israel

“It was troubling to see the joy experienced by the people that were killing innocent civilians including kids and babies and defenseless people essentially…It’s another thing to revel in the joy of killing civilians.” — Elon Musk.


If there ever was a defining moment in history it was October 7th, 2023—a date that will live in infamy.

There have been those who have been warning Americans, and the world, about what Islam truly wants—us all dead!

When any Muslim shouts “death to America” it isn’t merely a chant its their sworn religious duty and their personal, and in Muslim majority nations, a public policy to carry out this death threat.

When a Muslim shouts “Allah Akbar” they are dedicating themselves to martyrdom  with the goal to kill or convert every infidel in the world in the name of Allah.

Below are the comments made by Elon Musk after witnessing the videos of the October 7th attacks in Israel by Hamas.

What Islam Truly Wants

Perhaps two of the most defining videos produced on the goals of Islam are Geert Wilders’ 2009 film “FITNA” and the 2007 Clarion Project’s film “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West.

Watch what they say. What they truly believe. But most importantly watch what they do!

The current war in Gaza against the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist organization Hamas is just the tip of the Islamic iceberg.

This is a global jihad, a war against all non-believers in Mohammed. It is a war that one side, and only one side, will win!

We are now seeing those who support Hamas’ slaughter of innocents on the streets of Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Melbourne and New York City.

They are emboldened and the jihadists will not stop, ever.

WATCH: OBSESSION: Radical Islam’s War Against the West

WATCH: FITNA – Geert Wilders’ Unedited Film

WATCH: ‘Globalize the Intifada: Mapping Project 2023

Please watch the AfD co-founder, Alice Weidel interview on Islam and Germany’s future.

THE BOTTOM LINE

After watching the above videos these are the key takeaways:

  1. There never was a palestinian state nor a palestinian people. Up to 133 AD the land was named Judea, the homeland of the Jewish people. In 134 AD the Romans, after defeating the last Jewish uprising, as an affront to the Jewish people they took the name of the ancient enemies of the Jews, the Philistines, from the Torah and renamed Judea palestine.
  2. It was the Soviet KGB in concert with PLO leader Yassir Arafat who in the 1960s came up with a propaganda campaign to create palestine. Up until that time Israel was beloved because it was the “underdog” facing the existential threat of 22 Arab nations surrounding it. The KGB deduced that the world needed a new underdog, hence they created the myth of a palestinian people and a state of palestine.
  3. Hamas is the bastard child of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is funded by the current administration, the United Nations, Iran, and others.
  4. Islam is not, and never has been a religion of peace. Rather it is bent on jihad, a never ending war against the infidels.
  5. The free world has been infiltrated by migrants from Muslim majority nations. It is this Muslim migration that is now causing all of the violence in the world.
  6. The only way to stop the jihad is to fight the jihad, just as we fought the former Soviet Union and won.
  7. Losing is not an option.

Remember that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Stop the slaughter before it is to late.

Remember when President Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” 

We are now, in 2023, a generation of patriots who are fighting to keep our freedoms under our Constitutional Republic.

Pray that we are not the last generation!

©2023. Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Hamas and the Jihadist Psychopath

How a barbaric terrorist entity is charming, seducing and devouring us.


Introduction: In the aftermath of Hamas’ horrific Oct 7th terrorist attack against Israelis, we have witnessed the standard dynamic emerge: the Jihadist perpetrators portraying themselves as the victims and painting the victims as the perpetrators. Thus, instead of blaming Hamas for its monstrous terrorism – and pinpointing Hamas’ Islamic impulses as the main culprit, a large part of the international community is, once again, pointing its accusatory finger at Israel: slandering the Jewish State with the usual libels of engaging in genocideapartheid, and other crimes and injustices.

This is the standard psychopathic “cry-bully” playbook: punching your victim in the face and then immediately crying like the injured party. It’s how totalitarian regimes and movements consistently act to achieve their objectives – and it’s what Hamas and its supporters are engaging in at this very moment. Frontpage Mag editors, therefore, see this as a crucial moment to run, below, an excerpt from Jamie Glazov’s book, Jihadist Psychopath: How He is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us.

The excerpt (from Chapter 10, titled “Jihadist Psychopath”) outlines how Jihadist Psychopathy works as a machine and lays bare all of its main tactics, and how calculating, deceptive, ruthless, and destructive they are. 

Don’t miss this essay below.


Jihadist Psychopath

Like any psychopath, the Jihadist Psychopath seeks to destroy and conquer. While he is following his religion’s mandates, he is spiritually empty inside. He therefore needs to steal the life force of the non-Muslims he victimizes—so he can temporarily sustain himself. His strategy is ruthless and cunning. He charms, deceives, and manipulates—and when he gauges that the moment is right, he entraps his non-Muslim victims and devours them.

To demonstrate how the Jihadist Psychopath is today achieving success in his malicious quest, we will now enter and unveil his morbid world. We encourage our readers to keep the previous chapter handy and to have its key themes in mind, for as we outline the Jihadist Psychopath’s main characteristics and his strategy for conquest, it will become clear, element by element, how his agenda is a mirror image of the traditional psychopath’s world—only with a Jihadist twist.

In his quest to subjugate non-Muslims, the Jihadist Psychopath has his obvious weapon of violent jihad, but he also has an equally—if not more—powerful weapon in his arsenal: the ploy of deception. It is vital for us to launch our story by examining this tactic, for it serves as the essential foundation for the Jihadist Psychopath’s warfare.

Our study of the Jihadist Psychopath’s trickery begins with the fact that Islam is, at its very core, a religion/ideology rooted in deception. The God of Islam, who goes by the name of Allah, proudly refers to himself as the greatest deceiver several times in the Qur’an.[1] If Allah is the father of lies, it becomes understandable why Islam teaches that lying is an obligation for Muslims if it serves the benefit of Islam. Islamic authorities have even created actual religious doctrines that mandate and justify lying. One of these doctrines is known as taqiyya, a principle that allows Muslims to lie to non-Muslims for the sake of subjugating them and empowering Islam.[2] Muslims are also encouraged to break their oaths if doing so will advance the cause of Islamic supremacism.[3] The prophet of Islam, Muhammad, who is considered the ideal model to be emulated by all Muslims,[4] led by perfect example in this department, breaking numerous oaths and treaties, including those he had made with the Jewish tribes known as the Banu Qaynuqa and the Quraysh. Muhammad violated the treaty of Hudaybiyya with the Quraysh, for instance, by refusing to return a woman of the tribe, Umm-Kulthum, back to Mecca.

Allah and Muhammad both laid out examples of deception for their followers to emulate. And while they commanded Muslims to deceive non-Muslims, they also deceived fellow Muslims themselves. Indeed, the Islamic paradise that is promised to Muslims if they die while waging holy war against non-Muslims is in itself a deceptive scheme manufactured by Muhammad, in Allah’s name, for the sake of luring Muslims into jihad.[5] Islam enforces jihad as an obligatory duty for all Muslims and, not withstanding Islamic supremacists’ taqiyya about what jihad is really about,[6] it is meant to be violent. In Islamic texts, jihad is clearly defined as “war with non-Muslims to establish the religion.”[7] As a result, Muslims are tricked and forced into fighting jihad. And not only do they have to kill and die for Allah, but it is highly problematic for them to try to escape this fate, since Muhammad commanded the killing of any Muslim who leaves the religion.[8]

What we have here is a structure in which Muslims are instructed to deceive non-Muslims while they themselves are deceived. To compound the pathology of this paradigm, Muslims are also commanded to take control of non-Muslims and to shame them, while Allah controls and shames Muslims themselves in the process.[9] Indeed, Allah is constantly threatening and humiliating not only his enemies, but also his followers.[10] Islamic law, after all, has extremely rigid religious rules, which include the mandate of praying and fasting, by which everyone must abide. Muslims are accountable to one another in this context, and a perpetual atmosphere of dread and terror hovers around the obligatory following of these rules. In societies that are governed by sharia, for example, a Muslim can easily be sentenced to death if he/she is caught not fasting properly during Ramadan.[11] What we basically have in this paradigm, therefore, as writer Daniel Greenfield points out, “is a hierarchy of deception and oppression with the Muslims being, first and foremost, slaves of Allah.”[12] As a result, Muslims are under perpetual pressure to control one another, while their main duty is to wage holy war. The end result is that sharia is imposed on everyone (who isn’t murdered), and no individuality or freedom remains.[13] A small loophole is sometimes left for those non-Muslims who refuse to convert but agree to live as second-class “dhimmis,” paying taxes and abiding by very strict rules.[14]

Thus, we begin to gauge how humans’ highest purpose in Islam is to sacrifice their lives for Allah—whereas conversely, in Christianity, God sacrifices His only son, Jesus, for humans.[15] The scholarship of author Nonie Darwish on this stark contrast between Islam’s Allah and the God of the Bible powerfully illuminates the physical and mental slavery in which Islam’s followers find themselves trapped. As Darwish documents, the Islamic faith confers absolutely no intrinsic self-worth upon Muslims. That is, Muslims have no “relationship” with Allah, nor any kind of two-way conversation with him. They are not welcome to approach Allah to discuss or confess what is in their hearts and minds. They are not entitled to any freedom of conscience or to use their own powers of reason. On this one-way street, a mean, angry, and sadistic Allah simply tells Muslims what to do and what not to do. Unquestioning obedience to Allah, therefore, under penalty of death and hellfire, is the core message of Islam. In the Bible, by contrast, God is a loving father with whom an individual can have a relationship and personal conversation—and through whom he can find salvation.[16]

These facts are crucial for us to digest in our study of the Jihadist Psychopath because they explain how and why jihadists are like robots that lack any humane or civilized human qualities, including conscience. Jihad is their main mission and, as Darwish reveals, jihad “is the ultimate tool for controlling others.”[17] The whole Islamic objective, therefore, is control. Greenfield also offers a profound reflection on this phenomenon:

Islam is fundamentally about power, not an interior life. It’s a collective relationship rather than a personal one. Power validates Muslims. Since Islam is spiritually empty, the only validation is power and power is a hollow and unsatisfying validation. The truth of Islam is demonstrated through the Muslim oppression of non-Muslims.[18]

As the Jihadist Psychopath pursues his goal of conquering his victims through deceit, violence, and control, he is also constantly shaming and blaming his victims—as a means of establishing his control. The Jihadist Psychopath’s philosophy is clear: his victims are badand he is good. This jihadist mindset emanates directly from Allah’s and Muhammad’s teachings that all non-Muslims are sinners, while Muslims are not sinners. In Islam, even if Muslims might sin, it doesn’t matter—as long as they make up for their transgressions by waging jihad. This reality serves as the fertile soil to the jihadists’ monopoly on victimhood, which, in turn, serves as a key gateway for the Jihadist Psychopath’s conquering path. We now take a closer look at this dynamic:

In Islam, non-Muslims are seen as evil and perverted transgressors. Muhammad made this message very clear by waging war on unbelievers and relentlessly condemning Christians and Jews for rejecting Allah.[19] As Darwish notes:

Islam is the only religion that dedicates the majority of its scriptures not to its own followers but to condemning whole groups of people outside the religion as cursed, doomed, and unforgiven sinners.[20]

To be sure, Islam defines unbelievers as the very worst of people, the guilty. Muhammad, meanwhile, as noted above, is seen as the role model of exemplary behavior, and his followers are inherently innocent. Islam sees itself as perfect, and it regards Muslims as “the best of people” who are never wrong in any way when persecuting non-Muslims.[21] Moreover, unlike for Jews and Christians in the Bible, to whom confession brings forgiveness, grace, and redemption, confessing sins in Islam is not a blessing. This is because, again, Muslims are not seen as sinners in Islamic theology, and if they do sin, they are not to confess their sins, but to conceal them.[22] For those Muslims who are guilty of wrongdoing, there is only one way to be forgiven, and that is to wage war on non-Muslims in jihad.[23] And so, since most Muslims are aware, in their own private conscience, that they are, in various ways, sinners, they know what they have to do about it. Consequently, jihad is really, in the end, all about purifying oneself not only with the blood of others, but also with one’s own blood.[24] Algerian militant Ali Benhadj crystallized this central tenet of Islam, which maintains that death and blood purify the earth:

If faith, a belief, is not watered and irrigated by blood, it does not grow. It does not live. Principles are reinforced by sacrifices, suicide operations and martyrdom for Allah. Faith is propagated by counting up deaths every day, by adding up massacres and charnel-houses. It hardly matters if the person who has been sacrificed is no longer there. He has won.[25]

The reality that emerges in this pathological paradigm is that Muslims are, essentially, taught to bring about the death of the unbelievers, and of themselves, through holy war. And they are instructed to change others, not themselves. So when anything goes “wrong,” it cannot be the fault of a perfect doctrine acted upon by the best of people, it must be the fault of non-Muslims. When jihad is waged on the non-Muslims, it is their fault, because they provoked the war on themselves by being sinners and rejecting Allah.[26] The non-Muslims are always blamed, and Muslims must never take responsibility.

Islamic theology provides yet another reason for Muslims to never be held accountable for anything in relation to the non-Muslim: unbelievers’ disbelief is regarded as being worse than murder. That is, non-Muslims’ rebellion against Allah is considered to be a greater transgression than even an act of murder committed against them.[27] The very existence of non-Muslims is regarded by Islam as offensive, and as a provocation to justifiable violence.[28] Thus, Islam is, by its very nature, a victim. As ex-Muslim writer Abu Kasem has documented, Islamic theology inspires the notion that Islam itself is offended and persecuted by any un-Islamic activities carried out by unbelievers anywhere at any time. He provides numerous examples, from a female unbeliever venturing outdoors without a hijab, to unbelievers drinking alcohol or going to a stage theatre. Anyone doing anything, anywhere, that is against what Allah wants, represents an affront to Islam. Consequently, Islam views itself as the only religion to which every person on earth must submit, and the failure to submit is considered an act of defiance against Islam.[29] And while the Jihadist Psychopath convinces us that he is the real victim, he must also convince himself. As Iranian ex-Muslim Ali Sina explains:

Islam is the religion of permanent victimhood. Victimhood justifies revenge. If you are a Muslim, jihad is prescribed on you against those who oppress you. This oppression need not be real. It can be as imaginary as perceiving insult on your belief. Criticizing Islam is consequently perceived as oppression and therefore, Muslims feel compelled and justified to take their revenge.[30]

Throughout the entire time that jihadists are oppressing unbelievers, therefore, they believe that they are the ones who are being oppressed. And the jihadists engaged in this behavior cannot be sinning, since, again, there is no sin in Islam and no need for Muslims to ever be contrite for their actions. Thus, we find the Qur’an giving permission to the oppressed to fight against their oppressors,[31] and the Islamic justification for jihad to eliminate disbelief.[32]

At this juncture, we are able to decipher numerous psychopathic traits that surface in the world of jihad, especially this fundamental one: never having to say you’re sorry. The Jihadist Psychopath never apologizes. Unsurprisingly, Muhammad led by example in this regard as well. Indeed, when Allah’s messenger hurt innocents, he never apologized and always painted his victims as deserving of their punishment. When he committed war crimes, Islamic theology sees him as innocent. When he had six to nine hundred male Jews of the Banu Qurayza tribe beheaded, they had, in the Islamic vision, asked for this fate by refusing to convert to Islam.[33]

And so, an integral element in the Jihadist Psychopath’s playbook is crystallized right before our eyes: the I am victim charade. Indeed, while pushing the notion that the victim has brought Islamic aggression upon himself, the Jihadist Psychopath perpetually paints himself as the party that is being wronged. And yes, again, Muhammad led by example here as well, since he played the victim at every stage of his war against unbelievers. In the beginning of his mission, for instance, when Muhammad and his followers were just a small-numbered group in Mecca, and their chances of conquering unbelievers were zero, Allah’s messenger posed as a persecuted and victimized minority whose message was one of peace and tolerance (i.e., Qur’an 109:1–6: “You shall have your religion and I shall have my religion”), while also proclaiming a future vengeance against his non-Muslim persecutors.[34] This set a rule of thumb for all Muslims: when you are in the minority in a country or a population, be deceitful by preaching a message of tolerance and promoting your own victim status as an oppressed minority; when you eventually grow in number and become powerful, take to the sword, as Muhammad and his followers did when they grew in number and gained power.[35]

Once Muhammad had grown in strength and was capable of subjugating unbelievers, jihad entered a violent stage, and so Muhammad waged ruthless holy war, which included his ordering of political assassinations. But even when Muhammad engaged in this terror, he still positioned himself as the victim. After all, the Jewish tribes against which he perpetrated jihad still refused to convert to Islam, and such a refusal was seen by Muhammad as an act of oppression against him and his followers—and as violence against Allah.[36] This is why Islamic commentators on Muhammed’s brutality against the Jews always stress the victimhood of the Muslims and the treachery of the Jews.[37] Author Mark Durie notes how Muhammad played the victim card:

One of the themes of Mohammed’s program was an emphasis on the victimhood of Muslims. To sustain the theological position that conquest is liberation, it becomes necessary to seek grounds to find the infidel enemy guilty and deserving of attack. Also, the more extreme the punishment, the more necessary it becomes to insist upon the enemy’s guilt. Since, by divine decree Muslims’ sufferings were “worse than slaughter,” it became obligatory for Muslims to regard their victimhood as greater than whatever they inflicted upon their enemies. The greater victimhood of Muslims became a doctrinal necessity, a feature of the “compass of faith” for Muslims.[38]

As a result, even when Muhammad commanded his followers to kill various people, he was always the victim, professing that the people whom he murdered had not only wounded him personally, but also had hurt Allah. The terrible fate of poetess Asma bint Marwan was typical in this regard. When she wrote verses criticizing Muhammad’s murder of another poet, Abu ’Afak (who was one hundred years old), Muhammad cried out about the pain she was causing him, asking: “Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?” One of Muhammad’s followers, Umayr ibn Adi, immediately went to Marwan’s house the same night, where he murdered her and her baby while she was nursing the infant in her arms. Muhammad commended him: “You have helped God and his apostle, Umayr!”[39]

Now that we see how the fundamental ingredients of the psychopath’s mindset are inherent in the personas of both Allah and his messenger Muhammad, we begin to behold the foundations of the Jihadist Psychopath’s world. We now move on to outline the other key characteristics of psychopathy that are found in the Jihadist Psychopath, and to examine how they enable him to subjugate his victims:

From the realities illuminated above, it becomes clear why, with the lack of any sense of wrongdoing, the Jihadist Psychopath possesses absolutely no shame and, in turn, absolutely no conscience. He feels no guilt, remorse, affection, or compassion. He especially does not have any sense of obligation to non-Muslims, nor is he concerned about their welfare. He is, like every psychopath, oblivious to any notion of morality, empathy, or responsibility. It is important to stress here that Islam is, as scholar Mark Durie has pointed out, an actual attack on the human conscience itself, and that it ultimately blunts any feelings of shame and guilt in its practitioners regarding the violence that their texts command them to carry out.[40] This is why the Jihadist Psychopath never apologizes. In fact, we have never seen any Muslim leaders or groups apologizing to the West for anything. Not one prominent Muslim religious or political leader, for example, has ever apologized for 9/11 or for any other jihadist attack.[41]

Meanwhile, just as the psychopath is proficient in pretending that he has a conscience and that he is a saint while wreaking his havoc, so too the Jihadist Psychopath engages in this charm offensive as well. This charade transpires through the Jihadist Psychopath’s minions—the Muslim “civil rights” groups in the West who don the nice guy mask and claim that they are separate from violent Islamic terror and totalitarian sharia jihad, and that, in so doing, they represent the real Islam. Behind this veneer, of course, these Muslim pretenders wholeheartedly support what the Jihadist Psychopath is doing because he is fulfilling Islamic obligations.

The Jihadist Psychopath’s whole matrix now comes into clearer focus: he perpetrates terror and possesses malicious goals vis-à-vis non-Muslims, while his spokespeople to the West—Muslim Brotherhood front groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and the Muslim Students Association (MSA)—throw dust into the eyes of the non-Muslim public. They camouflage their religion’s violence and its true aims with the pretense of wanting to safeguard Muslims’ “civil liberties,” combat so-called Islamophobia, and rescue unbelievers themselves from their destructive and misguided un-Islamic ways.[42] In other words, these Muslim deceivers posture as though they are acting out of compassion and empathy, and, most importantly, in the unbeliever’s own interest, the same way that the psychopath pretends he is acting in his victims’ interest—and the same way that the Serpent pretended to act on Eve’s behalf.[43]

We see, therefore, how when brave truth-tellers dare to identify the theological root cause of a jihadist attack, a certain section of what Nonie Darwish has termed the Islamic Terror Orchestra screams and whines: “We are not like that!”[44] Darwish explains how this orchestra has worked out a whole cunning symphony, with each section knowing exactly what notes to play, and at what time. She outlines how it works:

…when Islamic terrorism and beheadings anger the world and turn public opinion against Islam, that orchestra starts playing a different tune to confuse and prevent the world from uncovering their coordinated handy work. While one group proudly takes credit for the terror, another publicly denounces it. But most groups, while enjoying the power and attention the terrorists have bestowed on them, stand by with a look of victimhood saying: “I am a victim too because you condemn me and my peaceful religion when I did not do anything. That is not Islam and you are an Islamophobe.”[45]

It goes without saying, of course, that there are moderate Muslim individuals who do oppose the Jihadist Psychopath and are honest about Islamic sources of terror. Author Christine Douglass-Williams has interviewed a distinguished group of these Muslim individuals in her book, The Challenge of Modernizing Islam: Reformers Speak Out and the Obstacles They Face.[46] Some of these reform-minded Muslims, such as Dr. Tawfik Hamid and Shireen Qudosi, are truly brave, do appear sincere, and deserve the West’s support. But they are, unfortunately, small in number and remain exceptions to the rule.[47]

It also goes without saying that the argument of this work is, obviously, not that all Muslims are psychopaths. They are clearly not. As we discussed in Chapter 5, “Not All Muslims Do That,” there are many good and peaceful Muslims. The key issue here is that their peacefulness says something about their freedom and dissociation from Islam. In other words, this book’s focus is on the devout Muslims who follow Islam’s violent commands with fervent dedication.[48] Nonetheless, no matter how many times this work will emphasize this point, the Jihadist Psychopath’s minions within the Unholy Alliance[49] will definitely smear this book, alleging that it somehow labels all Muslims as psychopaths—when it is doing no such thing. This type of slander is, of course, only to be expected, since it is part of the Jihadist Psychopath’s propaganda war, which includes the tactic of making false and ungrounded accusations, which we will explore in Chapter 12.[50]

It would also be important to point out here that while many “moderate” Muslim groups pay lip service to denouncing Islamic terror and terrorist organizations like ISIS, few of them ever really actually do anything concrete about it. As author Robert Spencer has noted, we have yet to see any prominent “moderate” Muslim leaders in the United States set up, in their mosques and institutions, any honest, transparent, and inspectable programs that teach adherence to the U.S. Constitution and a rejection of jihad, sharia, and Islamic supremacism.[51] The nonexistence of such programs reveals what attitude is really at hand in a large section of the Muslim community.

All of these ingredients of the Jihadist Psychopath’s mindset make it clear that the I am victim charade is at the core of his war on unbelievers. Islamic supremacists’ manipulation of the term Islamophobia, which supposedly means an “irrational” fear of Muslims, is a central feature of this ploy. They crudely exploit this term to portray themselves as victims, while they perpetrate their aggression, and it works perfectly. Indeed, anyone who carefully observes jihadist attacks will witness that right after jihadists launch a strike, the actual victims—non-Muslims—end up bending over backwards to apologize to the Muslim world. This is because once any brave voice points to a jihadist attack and identifies its Islamic inspirations, the designated section of the aforementioned Islamic Terror Orchestra screams, “We are not like that!” and “You are an Islamophobe!” Many non-Muslims immediately get petrified, recoil, and distance themselves from the truth-tellers, profusely apologizing to their Muslim accusers so that they can prevent the labels of “racism” and “hate speech” from being affixed to them. A toxic relationship of codependence ultimately forms here, as Muslim abusers and their surrendering victims form a toxic bond. As Greenfield explains: “Muslims use victimhood and violence to create a dependent relationship in which their victims are convinced that the violence inflicted on them is caused by that victimhood.”[52]

It becomes clear why, immediately after every jihadist attack, the narrative within the West’s establishment media is quick to claim that the root cause of Islamic terror—which is not called by its name—is discrimination against Muslims. We hear endless discussions about how Muslims are the real victims, and how Islamophobia has to end because it is causing the violence.[53] Muslim Brotherhood front groups help pull the strings to enable the whole process, thereby fulfilling their role as revealed in the Muslim Brotherhood document Explanatory Memorandum, which outlines the Islamic supremacist strategy to defeat the West and the U.S. by our own hands.[54]

Some Islamic supremacists are completely open about this I am victim strategy. At the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland, in June 2016, Shaykh Omar Suleiman, a member of ICNA’s Shariah Council, boasted in his keynote session speech “Quran and Islamophobia”: “Alhamdulilah [Praise be to God] for Islamophobia! …Thank God for Islamophobia that causes us to grow and develop a strong Islamic identity[.]”[55] Suleiman made it clear that the real Islamic supremacist agenda is to push Islamophobia in order to empower Islamic identity, ideology, and, therefore, power. It is important to keep in mind here that Suleiman is one of ICNA’s leaders, that the conference at which he spoke was the largest annual Muslim gathering in the U.S., and that his comments were tweeted out to over 56,000 followers.[56]

This dark feature of Islamophobia is, essentially, the Jihadist Psychopath’s central propaganda ploy for silencing those who would tell the truth about him.[57] The whole Islamophobia charade has succeeded to such an extent that now a campaign in the UN, led by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), is making headway in its quest to criminalize any truth-telling about Islam through UN Resolution 16/18.[58] Author Stephen Coughlin has documented how Islamic supremacists exploit Islamophobia in the context of the OIC. That organization, he writes:

has taken control of the term’s usage and retains control of its application for use in hostile information campaigns. The term Islamophobia has become, in effect, a brand that is managed by the OIC.”[59]

Islamophobia, therefore, is the principal vehicle through which the Jihadist Psychopath exploits his victim status to gain power, and it enables his aggression toward unbelievers. As Coughlin notes,

When we see the word Islamophobia we should instantly be aware that it represents an OIC campaign package that seeks its implantation internationally as well as in America, with support from the Brotherhood through front groups that, as the Explanatory Memorandum says, “adopt Muslims’ causes domestically and globally…and support the global Islamic State wherever it is.”[60]

Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the ex-prime minister of Malaysia (known as a “moderate Muslim”), crystallized this whole jihadist victimhood game perfectly when, in the tenth summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in 2003, he stated: “We are all Muslims; we are all oppressed; we are all being humiliated.” Therefore, the solution to this problem, he stated, was for Muslims to acquire “guns and rockets, bombs and warplanes, tanks and warships” with which to wage war on non-Muslims.[61] Ali Sina offers keen insight into the psychological dynamic involved here:

Muslims must feel victimized. The doctrine of victimhood is essential to the survival of Islam. It is the glue that binds the ummah, the entire Muslim world into one nation. Without it they will tear each other apart. With it they direct their enmity at others. As a result, peace with Muslims is impossible because the doctrine of victimhood is fundamental to their faith.[62]

Thus, after every jihadist attack today, we see how the Jihadist Psychopath’s team takes pains to stress that Muslims are the true victims. And Western leaders and media desperately embrace this deceit—hook, line, and sinker. The examples are endless: after the Orlando terror attack of June 12, 2016, Time magazine made sure to portray the jihadist perpetrator, Omar Mateen, as the victim, because he allegedly had been bullied by his coworkers.[63] Time failed to explain why no other human being in America who had been bullied didn’t go on to perpetrate the worst terrorist attack in America since 9/11. Then, a month later, after the Nice terror attack in France in mid-July 2016, the BBC reported that Muslims were the “real victims” of that attack as well. This was because the BBC had learned that local Muslims were claiming to have perceived a great deal of Islamophobia among non-Muslims after the attack. One Muslim reported the horror: “People who yesterday would embrace me warmly are now cold towards me.”[64]

And so, it becomes transparently evident that the Jihadist Psychopath is a carbon copy of the traditional psychopath—only with an added ideological component. And it likewise becomes crystal clear how Islamic supremacism’s leaders and warriors are psychopaths themselves, while their non-Muslim victims surrender to them in exactly the same manner as the victims of the textbook psychopath surrender to him.

Now that we have deciphered how the Jihadist Psychopath is the mirror image of the textbook psychopath—especially with regard to how he attempts to wield a monopoly on victimhood—it is essential that we examine further this jihadist victimhood charade, since it is at the epicenter of our enemy’s war against us. We therefore now move forward to study several specific cases of how the Jihadist Psychopath has successfully exploited the victim card to carry out his con game and lead us into his deadly trap.

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[1] Suras 3:54, 7:99, and 8:30. See Nonie Darwish, Wholly Different: Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2017), pp. 48–49.

[2] Raymond Ibrahim, “Taqiyya about Taqiyya,” RaymondIbrahim.com, April 12, 2014. http://raymondibrahim.com/2014/04/12/taqiyya-about-taqiyya/.

[3] Darwish, pp. 47–52.

[4] Robert Spencer, The Truth About Muhammad (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2006), pp. 8–10.

[5] Raymond Ibrahim, “Islam’s Celestial Concubines—Muslim Men Die for Them, Muslim Women Envy Them,” JihadWatch.org, November 25, 2016. https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/raymond-ibrahim-islams-celestial-concubines-muslim-men-die-for-them-muslim-women-envy-them; For the Qur’an’s descriptions of paradise see Robert Spencer, The Truth About Muhammad, pp. 57–58.

[6] A typical example of Muslims’ taqiyya about the meaning of jihad is Linda Sarsour’s calling for jihad against Trump and then, after being called out on it, explaining that she was really talking about fighting for racial and economic justice—when it was completely clear what she meant. A masterpiece takedown of Sarsour’s taqiyya on this matter is Robert Spencer, “Yes, Linda Sarsour Did Incite Violence Against President Trump,” PJMedia.com, July 10, 2017. https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/07/10/yes-linda-sarsour-did-incite-violence-against-president-trump/.

[7] A teaching outlined in the Reliance of the Traveler, a classical manual of sharia law, quoted in Darwish, p. 50.

[8] For why apostates have to be killed in Islam, see Spencer, The Truth About Muhammad, pp. 147–148.

[9] Darwish, pp. 136–141.

[10] Darwish, p. 32. See also Bosch Fawstin’s article on how Muslims are the victims of Islam: “The Muslim World Is a World Where the Bad Guy Won,” Frontpagemag.com, May 2, 2013. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/188241/muslim-world-world-where-bad-guy-won-bosch-fawstin.

[11] See Pamela Geller, “Kuwait: Muslim Kills His Own Brother for Not Fasting During Ramadan,” PamelaGeller.com, June 30, 2016. http://pamelageller.com/2016/06/kuwait-muslim-kills-his-own-brother-for-not-fasting-during-ramadan.html/.

[12] Interview with Daniel Greenfield, September 18, 2018.

[13] Darwish, p. 137.

[14] The rigid rules that Christians under the Islamic State have to abide if they take dhimmi status (“protected” non-Muslim people living in inferior status) is a clear example of this one cruel loophole non-Muslims have to survive under Islam, and it is rooted in Islamic teachings. See Robert Spencer, “11 Dhimma rules that Christians must obey in the Islamic State,” JihadWatch.org, September 7, 2015. https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/09/11-dhimma-rules-that-christians-must-obey-in-the-islamic-state.

[15] Darwish, pp. 42–43.

[16] Darwish outlines these differences in the God of the Bible as a loving and forgiving God in whom there is grace, and Islam’s Allah, who is a sadistic controller who wants submission. See especially her chapter, “Healing, Salvation, and the Holy Spirit,” in Wholly Different, pp. 29–46, and for the phenomenon of submission to Allah, see pp. 62–63.

[17] Darwish, p. 137.

[18] Interview with Daniel Greenfield, September 18, 2018.

[19] Ibid., pp. 14–15. See also: Robert Spencer, “Does the Qur’an Teach Hate?” Frontpagemag.com, September 17, 2013. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/204505/does-quran-teach-hate-robert-spencer.

[20] Darwish, pp. 14–15.

[21] Darwish, p. 16–18; Spencer, “Does the Qur’an Teach Hate?” See Qur’an 3:110.

[22] Darwish, p. 22.

[23] Ibid., pp. 26–27.

[24] See Chapter 9, “Yearnings for Death and Suicide,” pp. 101–115 and Chapter 12, “Killing and Dying for Purity,” pp. 145–151 in Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror (Los Angeles, CA: WND Books, 2009).

[25] Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), p. 120.

[26] Darwish, p. 19.

[27] Surah 2:191–193.

[28] Darwish, p. 85.

[29] For Kasem’s long list of the many ways Islam views itself as a victim when an unbeliever somewhere on the planet does not abide by Islamic laws, see: Abul Kasem, “When Is Islam Oppressed?” Islam-Watch.org, November 20, 2005. http://www.islam-watch.org/AbulKasem/IslamOppressed.htm.

[30] Author’s interview with Ali Sina, February 28, 2016.

[31] Surah 22:39–40.

[32] Qur’an 2:193, 8:39. See Mark Durie, Liberty to the Captives: Freedom from Islam and Dhimmitude Through the Cross, section 4.

[33] Robert Spencer, The Truth About Muhammad, pp. 128–133.

[34] David Wood, “Three Stages of Jihad,” AnsweringMuslims.com, http://www.answeringmuslims.com/p/jihad.html.

[35] Ibid.

[36] For a discussion on the nature and roots of Muhammad’s war against Jewish tribes, see Robert Spencer, Chapter 7, “War Is Deceit, pp. 103–123, in The Truth About Muhammad.

[37] Mark Durie, The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude, and Freedom (Australia: Deror Books, 2010), p. 113.

[38] Ibid.

[39] This story is told by the first biographer of Muhammad, Ibn Ishaq. Retold and quoted by Spencer, The Truth About Muhammad, pp. 162–163. See also Robert Spencer, “Malala: Muhammad Never Advised His Followers to ‘Go Around Killing People…We Are Not Representing the True Islam,’” JihadWatch.org, April 16, 2017. https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/malala-muhammad-never-advised-his-followers-to-go-around-killing-people-we-are-not-representing-the-true-islam.

[40] Mark Durie discusses Islam’s attack on the human conscience on “The Glazov Gang: Mark Durie on ‘Our Fear of Islam,’” Glazov Gang YouTube Channel, June 13, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn0km52dCIg.

[41] Darwish, p. 23.

[42] To learn about the agendas of CAIR, ISNA, and the MSA, read the profiles of each group at DiscovertheNetworks.org: CAIR: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/cairprofilestand.html; ISNA: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6178; MSA: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6175.

[43] See Chapter 2, “The Utopian Virus.”

[44] Nonie Darwish, “The Islamic Terror Orchestra,” Frontpagemag.com, August 25, 2014. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/239437/islamic-terror-orchestra-nonie-darwish.

[45] Ibid.

[46] Christine Douglass-Williams, The Challenge of Modernizing Islam: Reformers Speak Out and the Obstacles They Face (New York: Encounter Books, 2017).

[47] Stephen M. Kirby, “Muslim Reform Group Reached Out to 3,000 US Mosques, Got Only 40 Responses,” JihadWatch.org, February 24, 2017. https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/02/muslim-reform-group-reached-out-to-3000-us-mosques-got-only-40-responses.

[48] See Chapter 5, “Not All Muslims Do That!”

[49] Unholy Alliance is the term this work uses to refer to the alliance between the Left and Islamic supremacism, a phenomenon documented by David Horowitz in his work, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2004). For more discussion and analysis on the Left’s romance with Islamic supremacism, and how this romance is an extension of the Left’s alliance with communism during the Cold War, see Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror (Los Angeles: WND, 2009).

[50] See Chapter 12, pp. 133-134, 139-140.

[51] Robert Spencer, “Obama to Visit Muslim Brotherhood-Aligned Mosque,” PJMedia.com, February 3, 2016. https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/02/03/obama-to-visit-muslim-brotherhood-aligned-mosque/.

[52] Interview with Daniel Greenfield, September 18, 2018. We expand on this codependent relationship between the Jihadist Psychopath and his willing surrendering victims in Chapter 14, “Identifying with the Abuser.”

[53] This dynamic is explained in Chapter 5: “Not All Muslims Do That!”

[54] The Explanatory Memorandum is an internal document of the Muslim Brotherhood captured by the FBI in 2005 that outlines the Brotherhood’s design to destroy America by America’s own hands as part of its overall goal of “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.” The memorandum named the front groups doing this dirty work, and revealed what they are doing: destroying the house from within with many different tactics, including Jihad Denial propaganda, interfaith tricks, etc. For more information see the Discover the Network’s profile on “The Muslim Brotherhood’s General Strategic Goal’ for North America.” http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1235.

[55] David M. Swindle, “Oops: Islamist Leader Boasts ‘Thank God for Islamophobia’ at Conference,” Islamist-Watch.org, June 6, 2016http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2016/06/oops-islamist-leader-boasts-thank-god-for#continued.

[56] Ibid.

[57] Robert Spencer, “Did the Muslim Brotherhood invent the term ‘Islamophobia’?,” JihadWatch.org, August 27, 2012. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/did-the-muslim-brotherhood-invent-the-term-islamophobia.

[58] See Chapter 1, “The Case,” pp. 11-12.

[59] Stephen Coughlin, Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad (Washington DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2015), pp. 269.

[60] Coughlin, p. 269.

[61] Ali Sina, “The Search of the Moderate Muslim,” FaithFreedom.org. http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina31107.htm.

[62]Author’s interview with Ali Sina, February 28, 2016.

[63] Trey Sanchez, “TIME Makes Omar Mateen the Victim,” TruthRevolt.org, July 18, 2016. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/time-makes-omar-mateen-victim.

[64] James Delingpole, “Muslims Were the Real Victims of the Nice Terror Attack, the BBC Explains,” Breitbart.com, July 18, 2016. http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/07/18/muslims-were-the-real-victims-of-the-nice-terror-attack-the-bbc-explains/.

4 things you were supposed to forget about ‘Trans Day of Remembrance’

For a third year in a row, the Biden Administration has laid it on thick in marking November 20 as ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’ (TDoR).

“Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the 26 transgender Americans who were killed this year,” Biden’s Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced in a video that quickly went viral last week.

In a press statement on the same day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the event as “a day to commemorate the transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming persons who are targeted and killed for living authentically and courageously”.

“Trans individuals are a part of every country, every culture, and every faith tradition,” Blinken claimed, adding, “we will continue to speak loudly and clearly to end transphobic violence and homicide”.

In his own statement, President Biden declared, “We must never be silent in the face of hate,” while mourning “the loss of transgender Americans taken too soon this year”.

In recent times, Mercator has taken considerable interest in TDoR, in particular noting the exaggerated claims regularly made about a supposed transgender murder epidemic.

While what follows provides further critique of such tall trans tales, the words of Mercator editor Michael Cook bear repeating, who in another piece on the same topic has affirmed:

“All trans murders are tragedies. All of the victims are someone’s son or daughter. They all had friends who loved them. They all had inalienable rights and deserved to be treated with respect.”

Well said.

Even so, the Biden admin’s rhetorical sleights of hand must be named for what they are. Alleging that all of the transgender-identifying people being mourned by the White House were targeted due to their sexual identity — due to ‘transphobia’ — requires more than mere words: it demands proof.

Moreover, to commemorate a day for so fractionally small a cohort of Americans is to let the ideological cat out of the bag. Only for causes that come in rainbow colours would the deaths of 0.000008% of Americans warrant so much pomp and circumstance from the Biden Woke House.

As one popular X account quipped, “When is the Victims Of Falling Vending Machines Day Of Remembrance?”

So, to mark TDoR this year, consider four things the woke establishment hoped you’d forget this Transgender Day of Remembrance.

One. ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’ is one of approximately 150 LGBT-themed days of the year that are now marked for commemoration. Conservative commentator Robby Starbuck provided a comprehensive list, noting these days now represent about 41 percent of the year.

Pray tell, what is the point of another “day of remembrance” when there are barely any days left on which one could possibly forget the ubiquitous rainbow cult?

Two. Every death is tragic. But unless I am missing something, it appears to be remarkably safe to be a transgender American.

According to the CDC, the overall homicide rate in the United States is 7.8 people per 100,000 population. By comparison, 26 transgender persons killed out of a population of 1.6 million transgender-identifying Americans yields a homicide rate of only 1.6 homicides per 100,000.

Thus, it appears to be five times safer to be transgender in the United States today.

Put another way, for the transgender homicide rate to come anywhere near the overall US homicide rate, we would have expected not 26 transgender homicides this year but 126. Where are the 100 missing transgender homicides? If they exist, we can be certain the Biden White House would have told us all about them. Shy of that, we can only conclude they did not happen — and therefore that transgender Americans are a uniquely safe identity group.

Three. Secretary Blinken claimed that transgender people are being killed for “living authentically and courageously”. However, 1 of the 26 people referenced by Karine Jean-Pierre — DéVonnie J’Rae Johnson — was actually killed after confronting a security guard with a fire extinguisher and then a screwdriver, according to LGBT online rag The AdvocateAuthentic and courageous?

Indeed, a closer look at the news stories about the violent deaths of transgender-identifying Americans reveals an alarming picture.

In 2022, Ray Muscat of Michigan was shot by his partner who was also transgender. Not long after, Kitty Monroe of Memphis was also killed during a domestic dispute with his partner. In November of the same year, Maddie Hofmann of Pennsylvania was shot and killed after aiming a gun at a police officer. The following month, Caelee Love-Light of Dallas was shot and killed by a disabled person whom he had first stabbed.

During 2023, at least three of the violent transgender deaths that made the news involved similar altercations — whether an argument over a payment for a sex acta dispute over suspected HIV infection by a sexual partner, or a during a fight that broke out at a party.

To underscore the point made earlier, each of these deaths are tragic. But they hardly count as evidence of transgender people being targeted and killed for being transgender, or for “living authentically and courageously”.

Four. The fake news media is ever eager to highlight a person’s transgender identity if they fall victim to a crime, but wilfully neglect to mention it when they perpetrate one.

Examples of this include the mass shootings carried out by a non-binary shooter in Colorado Springs, a transgender shooter in Denver, another transgender shooter in Maryland, and a cross-dressing shooter in Philadelphia.

And who can forget the Nashville transgender shooter, whose woke manifesto was buried by the authorities for months and only saw the light of day after a whistleblower leaked it to the media?

The point is not that most violent transgender deaths are somehow deserved, or that the majority of mass shootings are carried out by transgender individuals. It is not even necessarily the case that transgender ideology or transgender lifestyles are inherently more prone to violence — though others are welcome to mount that argument.

The point is this: there is no transgender murder epidemic, and transgender people who commit violence do not deserve special protection from criticism because of their transgenderism.

If anything, Transgender Day of Remembrance reveals that kowtowing to a particular ideology does more to befuddle and obfuscate than actually shed light on the serious scourge of violence and homicide in America.

How about just the plain old truth instead?

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Ben Terang is a freelance journalist writing from Milwaukee.

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EVIL: Biden Officially Removes God from Thanksgiving with 2023 Proclamation

“In keeping with the destruction of everything good and virtuous in this nation, this year, God has been removed as the recipient of thanks on Thanksgiving.”

As a nation founded on Judeo-Christian values, this disturbing omission shows how far we have strayed from the original spirit behind America’s national day of Thanksgiving.

Biden Officially Attempts to Remove God from Thanksgiving with 2023 Proclamation

By: Rachel Emmanuel, Western Journalism, November 26, 2023:

When we say the word “Thanks-giving,” it presumes the giving of thanks.

But to whom is that thanks given?

Since the first Thanksgiving on Plymouth Rock and its subsequent establishment as a day of thanks on Oct. 3, 1789, the recipient of that thanks on behalf of the United States of America has always been God.

But in keeping with the destruction of everything good and virtuous in this nation, this year, God has been removed as the recipient of thanks on Thanksgiving.

On Wednesday, President Biden released his Thanksgiving proclamation for 2023.

For the first time in American history, the proclamation completely omitted any reference to God or faith.

The pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621 were devout Christians fleeing religious persecution. Their celebration followed a brutal first year in the New World, where nearly half their population perished. Despite unimaginable hardship, their faith remained unshaken. They credited God for sustaining them and bringing them their first successful harvest.

This theme carried through the centuries, with presidents honoring God in their Thanksgiving proclamations. George Washington implored all Americans to acknowledge God’s “providence,” and to “unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations.”

On Nov. 28, 1861, Lincoln declared that all government offices would be closed on Thanksgiving Day, writing in his proclamation, “No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things…I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”

Former President Donald Trump proclaimed in his 2020 Thanksgiving address, “On Thanksgiving Day, we thank God for the abundant blessings in our lives…I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings.”

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BRYAN LEIB: The World Is On Fire And Biden’s Spineless Foreign Policy Isn’t Helping

When we look around the world, we see a world on fire and tensions at an all time high. Thousands of innocent civilians murdered in Israel on Oct. 7th by the savage Hamas terrorists.

Hundreds of thousands of pro-Hamas protests in major cities such as London, Paris, Sydney. Thousands of Americans and foreign nationals inciting violence against Jews with a Cornell student calling on his fellow students to “slit the throats of Jews” on campus. This is all happening in 2023. 

In London, Jews are being systematically targeted by the radical Muslim population.

In Paris, Jewish homes and businesses have been marked with the Jew Star’s of David.

In Sydney, protesters were shouting “Gas the Jews”.

In Russia’s southern Dagestan region, hundreds of people stormed an airport and started hunting for Jews after they learned a plane was arriving from Tel Aviv.

And here on the homefront in America, thousands of Americans and foreign nationals on college campuses have been ripping down American flags, inciting violence against Jews and calling for the destruction of America.

So yes, the world is on fire right now and that is because America has a senile and weak Commander-in-Chief at the helm right now who talks out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to foreign policy.

He supports Israel but puts pressure on them to agree to a ceasefire deal.

He provides military aid to Israel while unfreezing billions of dollars that will benefit Israel’s chief adversary, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

He condemns Hamas but hasn’t placed the Islamic Republic of Iran-backed Houthis back on the State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization list where they rightly belong.

The world is not only laughing at us right now but they are eating our breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week.

As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently said to Tucker Carlson, “The best foreign policy of the recent several decades belonged to President Trump. Trump is the man who can save the western world.”

PM Orban and President Trump both know that peace is only achieved on the world stage by projecting strength at all times. When America and our leaders project weakness and appease the bad actors around the world, they will exploit this weakness every single time.

President Biden’s failed foreign policy agenda has driven our enemies closer to each other than ever before as this new “Axis of Evil” has formed vis a vis Russia, China and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

China has never had more diplomatic strength and influence than the last three years. The Islamic Republic of Iran has never been richer and Russia has never been stronger.

Here at home, President Biden could instruct his State Department to revoke the student visas and immediately deport any foreign national that is in America inciting violence against Americans but he hasn’t done so and in all likelihood he will not.

President Biden is a weak leader and it’s not just other world leaders who know this but it’s the American people as well.

On the other side of the coin, President Trump has made a recent campaign pledge to revoke the student visas and deport anyone who was involved in the pro-Hamas protests over the last +45 days. As history has shown us, when President Trump makes a campaign promise, he delivers on it.

In closing, we all know that a peace through strength policy serves to protect not just America but our allies around the world. Projecting weakness and appeasing the bad actors around the world instead of asserting American strength is a recipe for disaster that we are seeing play out right in front of our eyes.

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Bryan E. Leib is the Founder and CEO of Henry Public Relations. He is a Senior Fellow for the Center for Fundamental Rights in Budapest, Hungary. He can be found on X @BryanLeibFL

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