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Islam’s Paradise: An Eternal Bacchanalia

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Dedicated to the “we all believe in the same God” folks.

In this article, we shall be looking at how Islam’s Paradise is described, the promise of beautiful virgin wives, beautiful immortal boy servants, and Muslim women in Paradise. Let’s begin.

Muhammad said the gates of Paradise were only open on Monday and Thursday, and it was on these two days that the deeds of people would be presented to Allah; but those who associated anything with Allah (Shirk) would not be admitted to Paradise.[1] However, some of the Muslims would be very lucky, because Muhammad said that 70,000 of them would enter Paradise without even having to account for their lives.[2] And the people who enter Paradise would be 60 cubits (90 feet) tall with hairless bodies.[3]

What is the nature of this Paradise? It is a Paradise of sensual pleasures.

Physical Description

Muhammad said that there were one hundred levels of Paradise, and the distance between two levels was either one hundred years or “like what is between the heavens and the earth.”[4]

There were pavilions with women in Paradise:

Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Qais: Allah’s Messenger said, “In Paradise there is a pavilion made of a single hollow pearl, sixty miles wide, in each corner of which there are wives who will not see those in the other corners; and the believers will visit and enjoy them.”[5]

And Muhammad said these pavilions were 30 miles high.[6]

Muhammad said there was a river in Paradise named Al-Kauthar, the banks of which were made of tents of hollow pearls;[7] although in another narration he said the banks were made of gold.[8] The riverbed was made of rubies and pearls.[9] This river was so wide that it took a month to cross it, its water was whiter than milk, and whoever drank from it would never be thirsty again.[10]

There were even oceans in Paradise:

Hakim bin Mu’awiyah narrated from his father, that the Prophet said: “Indeed in Paradise there is a sea of water, and a sea of honey, and a sea of milk, and a sea of wine, then the rivers shall split off afterwards.”[11]

Muhammad said that every tree in Paradise had a trunk of gold.[12] He told Muslims not to wear silk or use silver or gold plates or cups – those were for the disbelievers in this world and for the Muslims in Paradise.[13] And according to 18:31 of the Koran, the inhabitants of Paradise would wear bracelets of gold, green garments of thick fine silk, and recline on raised thrones.

Food and drink would be plentiful, but with no ill effects:

Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said that the inmates of Paradise would eat therein and they would also drink, but they would neither void excrement, nor suffer catarrh, nor pass water, and their eating (would be digested) in the form of belching and their sweat would be musk and they would glorify and praise Allah as easily as you breathe.[14]

And clothes would never wear out; nor would youth decline:

Abu Huraira reported that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) had said: He who would get into Paradise (would enjoy such an everlasting) bliss that he would neither become destitute, nor would his clothes wear out, nor his youth would decline.[15]

Beautiful Virgin Wives

Muhammad said that each Muslim male would receive two beautiful wives from among the Hur[16] in Paradise:

Narrated Abu Hurairah: Allah’s Messenger said, “The first group (of people) who will enter Paradise will be (glittering) like the moon on a full-moon night. They will neither spit therein nor blow their noses nor relieve nature. Their utensils therein will be of gold and their combs of gold and silver; in their censers the aloeswood will be used, and their sweat will smell like musk. Everyone of them will have two wives; the marrow of the bones of the wives’ legs will be seen through the flesh out of excessive beauty…”[17]

And

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet said, “…everyone will have two wives from the Hur, (who will be so beautiful, pure and transparent that) the marrow of the bones of their legs will be seen through the bones and the flesh.”[18]

And these two wives were especially a reward for one who died as a martyr fighting in Allah’s Cause:

He [the martyr]was brought to the apostle and laid behind him and covered by his shepherd’s cloak. The apostle, who was accompanied by a number of his companions, turned towards him and then turned away. When they asked him why, he said, ‘He has with him now his two wives from the dark-eyed houris.’ ‘Abdullah b. Abu Najih told me that he was told that, when a martyr is slain, his two wives from the dark-eyed houris pet him, wiping the dust from his face, saying the while, ‘May God put dust on the face of the man who put dust on your face, and slay him who slew you!’[19]

The Koran further describes these women in paradise:

  1. Chapter 55, Verse 56

Wherein both will be Qasirat-ut-Tarf [chaste females (wives) restraining their glances, desiring none except their husbands], with whom no man or jinni has had Tamth [sexual intercourse] before them.

The Muslim scholar Ibn Kathir explained:

Wherein will be, meaning on these couches or beds, Qasirat At-Tarf, chaste females, wives restraining their glances, desiring none except their husbands, seeing them as the most beautiful men in Paradise…Allah said, whom never deflowered a human before nor Jinn, meaning they are delightful virgins of comparable age who never had sexual intercourse with anyone, whether from mankind or Jinns, before their husbands.[20]

  1. Chapter 56, Verses 34-37

And on couches or thrones raised high. Verily, We have created them (maidens) of special creation. And made them virgins. Loving (their husbands only), (and) of equal age.

Ibn Kathir explained these verses:

The Ayat describe the women who will be on the beds and couches…Verily, We have created them, meaning, in the other life, after they became old in this life, they were brought back while virgin, youthful, being delightfully passionate with their husbands, beautiful, kind and cheerful.[21]

The Tafsir Al-Jalalayn noted that these verses referred to “houris who were created without being born” and “whenever their husbands come to them, they find them virgins.”[22]

  1. Chapter 78, Verses 31-34

Verily, for the Muttaqun [pious Muslims], there will be a success (Paradise); Gardens and vineyards, and young full-breasted (mature) maidens of equal age, and a full cup (of wine).

The Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan explained:

The idea is that these maidens will have swelling bosoms, an index of their voluptuous beauty.[23]

Ibn Kathir wrote:

…meaning wide-eyed maidens with fully developed breasts. Ibn ‘Abbas, Mujahid and others have said…“This means round breasts. They meant by this that the breasts of these girls will be fully rounded and not sagging, because they will be virgins, equal in ages. This means that they will only have one age.”[24]

The beautiful female virgins waiting in Paradise are mentioned in additional verses of the Koran: e.g. 37:48-49, 38:52, 44:54, 52:20, 55:70-76, and 56:22-24.

And if you met a certain requirement, you could actually have your choice of the beautiful women of Paradise:

It was narrated from Sahl bin Mu’adh bin Anas, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah said: “Whoever restrains his anger when he is able to implement it, Allah will call him before all of creation on the Day of Resurrection, and will give him his choice of any houri that he wants.”[25]

The modern commentary for this hadith pointed out that:

In Paradise, every man will get beautiful women, but whoever controls his anger and avoids being unjust to people, then for him is a special reward. Such a person is allowed to select beautiful women of Paradise for himself. [26]

And not only was the Muslim male to be given beautiful wives in Paradise, but he would also be given sexual prowess:

Anas narrated that the Prophet said: “The believer shall be given in Paradise such and such strength in intercourse.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah! And will he be able to do that ?” He said: “He will be given the strength of a hundred.”[27]

The modern commentary for this hadith pointed out that:

All the bounties bestowed upon the people of Paradise will be endless with no fear of their dwindling or diminishing. No weakness, therefore, shall occur for the male partners after having conjugal relations umpteen times with their consorts.[28]

There was a similar report from a different narrator:

Abu Al-Qasim At-Tabarani recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah was asked, “O Allah’s Messenger! Will we have sexual intercourse with our wives in Paradise?” He said, “The man will be able to have sexual intercourse with a hundred virgins in one day.”[29]

It is evident that each Muslim male will have at least two wives in Paradise. But Muhammad said that he could actually have seventy-two wives if he died as a martyr. This is not in the Koran, but it is in an authoritative hadith:

Al-Miqdam bin Ma’diykarib narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “There are six things with Allah for the martyr: He is forgiven with the first flow of blood (he suffers), he is shown his place in Paradise, he is protected from punishment in the grave, secured from the greatest terror, the crown of dignity is placed upon his head – and its gems are better than the world and what is in it – he is married to seventy-two wives among Al-Huril-‘Ayn of Paradise, and he may intercede for seventy of his closest relatives.”[30]

And it was reported in another hadith from a different narrator:

Abu Sa’eed Al-Khudri narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘The least of the people of Paradise in position is the one with eighty thousand servants and seventy-two wives…”[31]

However, the reward of seventy-two wives does not mean a female Muslim who dies as a martyr will get seventy-two husbands in Paradise; she will still only get one, like the rest of the females, “and she will be satisfied with him and will not need any more than that.” [32]

So, it would appear that the Muslim male will be given the sexual stamina to have daily intercourse with one hundred virgins in Paradise. As luck would have it, however, he will apparently only be given between two and seventy-two virgins. Nevertheless,

…the man in Paradise will have the enjoyment of his wives from this world and al-hoor al-‘iyn, in a manner that will suffice him and give him everlasting and unceasing pleasure, and will also give his wives joy and pleasure, without anything to spoil it, and with no end to the pleasure and no tiredness or boredom.[33]

Beautiful Immortal Boys Serving Wine

Muhammad said that although Muslims were forbidden to drink wine in “this world,” they could drink wine in Paradise.[34] However, the Koran stated that this wine would not cause headaches or intoxication (e.g. 37:47 and 56:19). And it is interesting to note that a number of verses in the Koran state that this wine would be served by beautiful, immortal boys:

  1. Chapter 52, Verses 23-24

There they shall pass from hand to hand a (wine) cup, free from any Laghw (dirty, false, evil vain talk between them), and free from sin (because it will be lawful for them to drink). And there will go round boy-servants of theirs, to serve them as if they were preserved pearls.

Ibn Kathir explained about the boy-servants:

This is a description of the servants and aids, the believers will have in Paradise. Their servants will be beautiful, graceful in appearance, clean and neat as well-preserved pearls.[35]

The Tafsir Al-Jalalayn noted that the “beauty and fineness” of these servants was like that of “hidden pearls.”[36]

  1. Chapter 56, Verses 17-18

Immortal boys will go around them (serving), with cups, and jugs, and a glass of flowing wine.

Ibn Kathir said that these “immortal boys” would “never grow up, get old or change in shape.”[37]

Many Muslim scholars believe that these boys were created by Allah especially for this purpose.[38]

  1. Chapter 76, Verse 19

And round about them will (serve) boys of everlasting youth. If you see them, you would think them scattered pearls.

Ibn Kathir explained that this verse meant

…young boys from the boys of Paradise will go around serving the people of Paradise, everlasting youth, meaning in one state forever which they will be never changing from, they will not increase in age…when you see them dispersing to fulfill the needs of their masters, their great number, their beautiful faces, handsome colors, fine clothing and ornaments, you would think that they were scattered pearls. There is no better quality than this, nor is there anything nicer to look at than scattered pearls in a beautiful place.[39]

The Tafsir Al-Jalalayn said that

Ageless youths – who never grow old…because of their beauty and how they are dispersed – you would think them scattered pearls – detached from a necklace or from a shell, or more beautiful still.[40]

And Muhammad said:

There is none from among the dwellers of Paradise who will not have a thousand boy-servants. Each of them will have a responsibility different from that of another.[41]

Muslim Women in Paradise

The focus of the Islamic Paradise seems to be on pleasing the Muslim men. What about the Muslim women? According to Muhammad, their prospects for getting into Paradise were not good:

Imran b. Husain reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Amongst the inmates of Paradise the women would form a minority.[42]

And where was the final destination for most women?

Narrated ‘Imran bin Husain: The Prophet said, ‘I looked at Paradise and found poor people forming the majority of its inhabitants; and I looked at Hell and saw that the majority of its inhabitants were women.”[43]

But Muhammad said there was one guaranteed way for a woman to get into Paradise:

It was narrated from Musawir Al-Himyari from his mother that she heard Umm Salamah say: “I heard the Messenger of Allah say: ‘Any woman who dies when her husband is pleased with her, will enter Paradise.’”[44]

And although being in the minority, that woman will also possibly enjoy physical aspects of Paradise. To begin with, Allah will make each of these Muslim women a young, beautiful virgin:

Chapter 56, Verses 34-37

And on couches or thrones raised high. Verily, We have created them (maidens) of special creation. And made them virgins. Loving (their husbands only), (and) of equal age.

Ibn Kathir explained these verses:

The Ayat describe the women who will be on the beds and couches…Verily, We have created them, meaning, in the other life, after they became old in this life, they were brought back while virgin, youthful, being delightfully passionate with their husbands, beautiful, kind and cheerful.[45]

The modern Tafsir Ahsanul Bayan said that these verses referred to both the Muslim women and to the houris in Paradise:

The people of paradise will be given these houris as wives, in addition to women of the world. The latter may have been dark-complexioned or ugly in the world but Allah will make them fair and lovely. Old women will become young. Every woman will become a virgin.[46]

This Koran verse also stated that the women and their husbands would be of equal age. According to Muhammad, the age of the inhabitants of Paradise was either 30 or 33.[47]

Muslim women would be married in Paradise. A 2008 legal ruling (fatwa) by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America explained this:

…for the women who die before getting married, for widows, for women whose husbands were not admitted to Paradise, and for divorcees; Allah…will let them marry the men of Paradise.

As for those who die while married, or whose husbands die and they do not remarry, they will be the wives of their husbands in Paradise.[48]

In Paradise there are two types of females: the Muslim women from this world and the hoori. Here is how their relationship is described:

The situation of the believing woman in Paradise will be better than the situation of the [hoori]; she will be higher in status and more beautiful…if a righteous woman from among the people of this world enters Paradise, then she will do so as a reward for her righteous deeds and as a honour from Allaah to her for her religious commitment and righteousness. As for the hoori who is one of the delights of Paradise, she has only been created in Paradise for the sake of someone else, and has been made the reward for the believing man for his righteous deeds.

There is a great difference between one who enters Paradise as a reward for her righteous deeds and the one who was created as a reward for one who did righteous deeds. The former is a queen and a princess, and the latter, no matter how beautiful she is, is undoubtedly lower in status than a queen, and she is subject to the command of her believing master for whom Allaah created her as a reward.[49]

In comparison to Muslim men, there are not a lot of details available about what women will experience in Paradise. Modern Muslim scholars ascribe this lack of details to the “modesty” of Muslim women:

It is not appropriate or befitting to the modesty and dignity of women, to speak of what there will be for them in Paradise, in a manner similar to what a man will have of al-hoor al-‘een. Undoubtedly the Arab character and modesty respects women too much to mention what they will have in that regard [my emphasis]. It is sufficient to note that she will have of bliss in Paradise whatever her heart desires and will delight her eyes.[50]

A similar point regarding the modesty of Muslim women and their reward in Paradise was made in a 2008 ruling by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America:

According to the culture of the people during the lifetime of the Prophet…it was embarrassing for women to express their sexual feelings or to declare their desire to get married. This is why…the Quran itself did not mention anything in regards to that which is prepared for women in Paradise as far as marriage is concerned…However, other verses show clearly that the dwellers of Paradise will be completely satisfied…[51]

This ruling concluded with this comment:

…there is nothing wrong with Muslims, whether male and female, to seek Jannah [Paradise] because of its ultimate pleasure, including sexual pleasure.

Conclusion

Islam’s Paradise, just like Islamic society on earth, is a man’s world and is well-described in the Koran and in the teachings of Muhammad. In the Koran and those teachings, we find an emphasis on repeated sexual relations with specially created women who are always virgins when approached, regardless of the number of prior occasions, and on the amazing sexual stamina the Muslim male acquires in Paradise. This is combined with plentiful food and drink, including wine, served to the Muslim male by beautiful boy servants who never grow old.

On the other hand, the shortage of information from these sources about Muslim women in Paradise, and Muhammad’s comments about women being the minority in Paradise and the only guaranteed way for them to get into Paradise is if their husband is pleased with them, is telling. In spite of the modern effort to excuse this lack of information because of the “modesty” of Muslim women, I think it simply reflects the historically subordinate status of women in Islam.

We’ll end this look at Islam’s Paradise with a plea made to Allah by the male author of Description of Paradise in the Glorious Qur’an; a plea no doubt joined in by many Muslim men:

Therefore, it is expected of whoever hears these great descriptions [of Paradise] to endeavour and not to leave any stone unturned in ensuring that he attains Paradise. He should also know that it is only those who suppress their anger who will be given the privilege of choosing from Al-Hoor Al-‘lyn, as it is authentically established in the Sunnah…We beseech Allah to bestow upon us honor and success out of His infinite Mercy and not to deprive us of Al-Hoor Al-‘lyn in Paradise of Bliss [sic].[52]

AUTHOR

Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of six books and numerous articles about Islam. His latest book is Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials.

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[2]           Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah al-Bukhari, Sahih Al-Bukhari, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Vol. 7, Book No. 77, No. 5811, p. 387; and Vol. 8, Book No. 81, No. 6541, pp. 293-294.

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[4]           Abu ‘Eisa Mohammad ibn ‘Eisa at-Tirmidhi, Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, trans. Abu Khaliyl (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), Vol. 4, Nos. 2529-2530, pp. 518-519.

[5]           Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 6, Book No. 65, No. 4879, p. 335.

[6]           Ibid., Vol. 4, Book No. 59, No. 3243, p. 291.

[7]           Ibid., Vol. 6, Book No. 65, No. 4964, p. 411.

[8]           Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 6, No. 3361, p. 92.

[9]           Muhammad bin Yazeed ibn Majah al-Qazwini, Sunan Ibn Majah, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), Vol. 5, No. 4334, p. 420.

[10]         Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 8, Book No. 81, No. 6579, p. 310. A somewhat similar description is given in 47:15 of the Koran.

[11]         Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 4, No. 2571, p. 554.

[12]         Ibid., No. 2525, p. 515.

[13]         Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 7, Book No. 70, No. 5426, pp. 210-211.

[14]         Sahih Muslim, Vol. 8, No. 2835R2, p. 311.

[15]         Ibid., No. 2836, p. 311.

[16]         Hur: “Very fair females created by Allah as such not from the offspring of Adam, with intense black irises of their eyes and intense white scleras.” See Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 9, Glossary, pp. 410-411. They are also referred to as Al-Huril-‘Ayn, Al-Hoor Al-‘lyn, and Houris.

[17]         Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 4, Book No. 59, No. 3245, p. 292.

[18]         Ibid., No. 3254, p. 295.

[19]         Muhammad ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad (Sirat Rasul Allah), trans. Alfred Guillaume (Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 519.

[20]         Abu al-Fida’ ‘Imad Ad-Din Isma’il bin ‘Umar bin Kathir al-Qurashi Al-Busrawi, Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged), abr. Shaykh Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, trans. Jalal Abualrub, et al. (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2000), Vol. 9, p. 400. Jinns (Jaann, Jinniyy) were beings created from fire by Allah.

[21]         Ibid., pp. 428-429.

[22]         Jalalu’d-Din al-Mahalli and Jalalu’d-Din as-Suyuti, Tafsir Al-Jalalayn, trans. Aisha Bewley (London: Dar Al Taqwa Ltd., 2007), p. 1161.

[23]         Salahuddin Yusuf, Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan, trans. Mohammad Kamal Myshkat (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2010), Vol. 5, p. 630.

[24]         Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 10, pp. 333-334. Ibn Kathir stated that some scholars said this “one age” was 33 – see Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 9, p. 430. The reason for this age was that it “is the average age of youthfulness, beauty and perfect physical built” – see Abdul-Halim ibn Muhammad Nassar As-Salafi, Description of Paradise in the Glorious Qur’an (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2010), p. 207.

[25]         Muhammad bin Yazeed ibn Majah al-Qazwini, Sunan Ibn Majah, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), Vol. 5, No. 4186, p. 331.

[26]         Ibid.

[27]         Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 4, No. 2536, p. 523.

[28]         Ibid., p. 524

[29]         Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 9, p. 429.

[30]         Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 3, No. 1663, p. 410.

[31]         Ibid., Vol. 4, No. 2562, p. 548.

[32]         “The female martyr and the male martyr’s reward of seventy-two hoor al-‘iyn,” Islam Question and Answer, July 7, 2000, https://islamqa.info/en/answers/11419/the-female-martyr-and-the-male-martyrs-reward-of-seventy-two-hoor-al-iyn.

[33]         “She is asking a number of questions about al-hoor al-‘iyn in Paradise,” Islam Question and Answer, March 8, 2015, https://islamqa.info/en/answers/173281/she-is-asking-a-number-of-questions-about-al-hoor-al-iyn-in-paradise.

[34]         Sahih Muslim, Vol. 6, No. 2003R4, p. 348.

[35]         Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 9, p. 292.

[36]         Tafsir Al-Jalalayn, p. 1130.

[37]         Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 9, p. 418.

[38]         Description of Paradise in the Glorious Qur’an, pp. 311-312.

[39]         Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 10, p. 297.

[40]         Tafsir Al-Jalalayn, p. 1274.

[41]         Description of Paradise in the Glorious Qur’an, p. 309.

[42]         Sahih Muslim, Vol. 8, No. 2738, p. 253.

[43]         Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 4, Book No. 59, No. 3241, p. 290.

[44]         Sunan Ibn Majah, Vol. 3, No. 1854, p. 64.

[45]         Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 9, pp. 428-429.

[46]         Tafsir Ahsanul-Bayan, Vol. 5, p. 340.

[47]         Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 4, No. 2545, p. 530.

[48]         Dr. Main Khalid Al-Qudah, “Maidens and nymphs in Paradise,” Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America, September 18, 2008, https://www.amjaonline.org/fatwa/en/76459/maidens-and-nymphs-in-paradise.

[49]         “Description of al-hoor al-‘iyn in the Qur’aan and Sunnah,” Islam Question & Answer, August 25, 2005, https://islamqa.info/en/answers/60188/description-of-al-hoor-al-iyn-in-the-quraan-and-sunnah.

[50]         “Does the Qur’an mention the bliss of the believing women in Paradise?,” Islam Question & Answer, September 12, 2018, https://islamqa.info/en/answers/295137/does-the-quran-mention-the-bliss-of-the-believing-women-in-paradise.

[51]         Dr. Main Khalid Al-Qudah, “Why do men get to have so many women in Paradise when women have to be with one man?” Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America, December 7, 2008, https://www.amjaonline.org/fatwa/en/77057/why-do-men-get-to-have-so-many-women-in-paradise-when-women-have-to-be-with-one-man.

[52]         Description of Paradise in the Glorious Qur’an, pp. 215-216.

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A Small-Town Immigrant Takeover In Realtime? Local Officials Don’t Want You To Know About It, Residents Fear

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Rural Texas residents claim that a Muslim city is being built in their backyard and accuse local officials of being very secretive about the deal.

Kaufman, Texas, residents didn’t think much of it when Kaufman Solar LLC bought a massive parcel of land in 2022. However, now that a mysterious buyer from the Middle East is looking to purchase an estimated 2,000 acres of land right next door to the planned solar farm to establish a sustainable city, they are worried about the impact.

Residents first became aware of the potential new settlement through a Facebook post from a concerned citizen Friday, Jan. 30.

“Serious question and maybe one of you all can help answer this or maybe be made aware? A few weeks ago, I was told that a Geocity was coming to Kaufman, Texas. This would be funded by Saudi [Arabian] investors,” the post stated.

“They plan on bringing over 20,000+ people into this giant city they are making. Now this could just be a good ole rumor. But it also could be true? Partly true? Semi true? Who knows? But I would love to be educated. And after watching this and seeing this post (video of the county commissioner’s November meeting) … I am thinking maybe the public should be aware of what could be coming to Kaufman,” the post continued.

Shortly after the post went live, a source who wished to remain anonymous confirmed to the original poster that the company seeking to build a sustainable city plans to buy land in an unincorporated area of Kaufman County.

“‘Hey that Arab city thing is real. The commissioners met with the school so admin and the board are aware. Seems like Kaufman city/county have been trying to keep it quiet,’” the text reads. The Daily Caller confirmed the text’s authenticity.

The Kaufman County Commissioner Court meeting Jan. 20 confirms that a buyer, through a Dallas, Texas, law firm, is seeking to purchase the land, contingent on the county approving three new municipal water districts for a potential sustainable city. The lawyer verified that the potential developer is SEE Holding, a UAE-based, privately held global holding group headquartered in Dubai, apparently focused on sustainability and spearheading a net-zero emissions future.

Republican Rep. Lance Gooden also told the Daily Caller that the buyer is based in Dubai, which he says raises serious concerns that need to be addressed before any approval for the city is potentially granted.

“The group reached out to me, and I said under no circumstances would we accept any planned community that included mosques or religious buildings or schools. 20,000 foreigners is news to me, but that would also be a nonstarter, obviously,” Gooden said.

“They said they would put that in writing and agreed with me, and I suggested they delay their hearing. We have a lot of crappy, run-down developments in Kaufman County and would welcome something nice, but this group will need to convince the community before I get on board,” he continued.

“If they were from New York and not Dubai, then we likely wouldn’t be concerned, but considering what our neighboring counties have been through, they’re going to have to actively involve the community to get buy-in, and that has yet to happen,” Gooden said.

A source familiar with the planned sustainable city in Kaufman County claims that when they first contacted Kaufman County Commissioner Terry Crow about the deal, he said he was unaware of it. That source later confirmed that Crow allegedly had detailed knowledge of the proposed city before citizens became aware of it.

The Daily Caller reached out to Kaufman County Commissioner Terry Crow for comment. Crow has not responded as of Wednesday afternoon.

The Kaufman County Commissioners Court had originally planned to bring the approval of the new water districts up for a vote Feb. 10. However, it later removed the item from the agenda during its Feb. 3 meeting.

“Next week, we were supposed to have a hearing on the freshwater District for the sustainable city. I’ve been visiting with Congressman Gooden and myself with the principal involved here from Dallas, and they have asked to pull that from the agenda for next week,” County Judge Jakie Allen stated.

“They will be coming later with a full set of plans so that people can ask questions and any questions would be answered at that time; and we’ll go wherever in the county we need to go cause it affects the entire county,” he continued.

“Last night when I spoke with the man in Dallas, he said they would go as far as … I know some people worried about it being a Muslim community, so he guarantees it’s not; and they would put in the deeds that there will be no mosque ever built on the location, so anyway, so that will not be on the agenda for next week,” Allen said.

“It seems like they’re canceling the public hearing just to buy time to think of ways to convince us it’s not what we know it is,” a source familiar with the planned sustainable city said.

“I do know that all officials are being very careful and not putting anything in writing. Only phone calls are being answered and made. No one has had any luck communicating in writing at the moment. Which makes it super hard. Very smart on their part,” the source said. “I pretty much don’t believe anyone anymore with what they say they will do.”

A resident of Kaufman County, speaking anonymously to the Daily Caller, said they have three major concerns: whether the local water supply can meet the demand of three new water districts, especially during drought season; what the potential social impact is with having 20,000 Arab residents in rural Texas after seeing construction of the highly contentious East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC City or The Meadow) and the new viral video out of Wylie, Texas; and why local officials have seemingly been secretive about the deal.

In the video, Marco Hunter-Lopez, president of the Wylie East High School Republican Student Club, claimed that female high school students were approached during lunchtime by an Islamic organization called “Why Islam?” The female students were offered hijabs, copies of the Quran, and pamphlets explaining Shariah Law.

“The district was not made aware of this incident until a video referencing it began circulating on social media later that evening, around 8:30,” Wylie ISD said in a statement.

“Once we became aware, we immediately began an investigation. While that investigation remains ongoing, we have confirmed that district protocols for guest speakers and student club interactions were not followed. Ultimately, this issue stems from a failure to follow established procedures,” the statement continued.

Texas residents have become increasingly frustrated with the seemingly blind eye Texas elected officials have turned to residents’ concerns about their changing communities and an influx of immigrants.

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THE REAL CEASEFIRE: “Peace, peace, when there is no peace.”

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What does “peace, peace, when there is no peace” mean in Jeremiah 8:11.

It means believing promised words over actual events, deaths, horrific injuries, years of surgeries, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, relentless brutal attacks on civilians, deadly ambushes anytime and anywhere, …. It means no choice other than total victory, as Divinely decreed.

WATCH: Terror at Gush Etzion: Two Knife-Wielding Attackers Neutralized After Ramming and Stabbing Spree

Palestinian terrorists kill one, wound three in ramming, stabbing attack at Gush Etzion junction

Kiryat Arba resident Aharon Cohen, 70, was killed in the attack. Cohen, a widower, leaves behind six children and several grandchildren.

By YANIR YAGNA, DARCIE GRUNBLATT

Kiryat Arba resident Aharon Cohen, 70, was killed, and three others were wounded in a ramming and stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion junction on Tuesday.

One woman in her 40s was severely wounded, and two others, a 30-year-old and a 15-year-old, were moderately wounded in the attack.

Cohen, a widower, leaves behind six children and many grandchildren.

Two terrorists arrived in a vehicle at the junction, drove into the civilians standing nearby, then exited the vehicle and attempted to stab them.

They were killed by reservists who happened to be in the area. The terrorists were identified as Ibrahim Imran al-Atrash, 18, from Hebron, and Walid Muhammad Khalil Sabarneh, 18, from Beit Umar, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad took credit for the attack and congratulated the terrorists in a social media post. They also called on Palestinians to escalate their attacks against Israelis.

The three terror victims were evacuated by medical personnel to Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem for treatment.

The military cordoned off Palestinian towns in the area of the attack and set up roadblocks.

A ‘serious and complex incident’

“When we arrived at the scene, we identified that this was a serious and complex incident,” MDA paramedic Uriel Lavi said.

“We located several injured individuals suffering from penetrating wounds. We provided them with initial medical treatment on-site, and after stabilizing their condition, we evacuated them for further treatment at the hospital.”

Highway 60 was reopened to traffic approximately three hours after the attack took place.

“Security forces arrived very quickly at the scene,” Gush Etzion spokesperson Akiva Speigelman said. “The terrorists were neutralized quickly, thanks to the initiative of those at the station.”

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett called the attack “Oslo on steroids.”

“Any government that, after the most horrific massacre in the country’s history, awards the enemy a Palestinian state, bears responsibility for reigniting terrorism against Jews. We will fix it soon,” he promised.

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Who is the Enemy?

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Is the GOP more concerned with fighting MAGA and Trump than winning elections? Because of their egos and arrogance, they gave New York City, New Jersey and Virginia to the communists. Is the GOP more afraid of being called racist than they are of running a decent campaign? It appears that the only thing the GOP excels at is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Since the 2025 election, the polls are showing that the youth 18-39 and “highly” educated have little or no understanding of socialism but yet they will vote for a socialist. In addition, they will vote for a socialist president regardless of party. Curiously, their parents have the greatest influence on their decision.

My question, as always, is WHY? Basically, they want something different. They have been taught that capitalism is bad and although we no longer have real capitalism in the US, they see it not working. If the programs are not working and they are in despair for their future, they seek change and that change is socialism.

When it comes to that demographic, the GOP is MIA. The GOP might have the greatest ideas but they have the worst messaging and explanations. Ignoring the students will create a void which will be filled by Communists/Socialists/Islamists. Groups like CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) and other anti-American groups like DSA (Democrat Socialist of America). These people don’t play. They are the real enemy with one goal: Divide and conquer. By going after MAGA and Trump, the GOP RINOS are slipping into their hands. 600,000 MAGA supporters did not vote in VA and NJ. What happens if the same is done in Florida, Texas or Tennessee?

Listen to these America haters who sell themselves as the answer to all the troubles of the world by giving free stuff. In their own words

DSA wants to take over the DNC

Mamdani’s network of influence

Speaker: Abdullah H. Hammoud, the Mayor of Dearborn, Michigan. Meeting Date: September 9, 2025.This was a Dearborn City Council meeting

This clip is addressing the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Florida, aka CAIR Florida. It addresses the ability to engage and take over every community. This exposes what their real goals are. You saw how they have taken over and destroyed the Middle East, Minnesota and Michigan. Now they want to do the same and Implement Sharia Law on 30A which is comprised of towns along the Gulf of America in the FL Panhandle.

Did you think they would stop at NYC?

30a Floridaman on Instagram: “Ive been debating reposting this …

https://cairflorida.org/

Alex Newman information on CAIR Florida starts at 6:10

Mamdani’s victory speech of HATE

Drip, Drip, Drip. The void is being filled. The DNC is already lost to these radical corruptocrats, Is the GOP next? Will the RINOS still choose to go after MAGA and Trump instead of recognizing that without MAGA and Trump they will not get elected? Tell me how that makes sense?

Special Guests today, Segment 1 Alex Newman. Alex has experienced modern communism first hand and he gives insight into what is coming next if we allow the communist/Islamists reign. Join us

Andy Bernstein will join me in segment 2. After we answer why, the next question is what can we do about it.

Will you fiercely defend America’s founding principles such as the protection of individual rights, the rule of law, freedom of speech, election integrity, the free market system, equal opportunity and meritocracy? Will you defend freedom of religion? Or will you stand by and watch, doing nothing – as the haters of America take over our country?

Is America worth saving?

If not you, who? If not now, when?

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Guest: Alex Newman,, author, journalist, editor, speaker, director

Website: libertysentinel.org, publicschoolexit.com

Guest: Alex Bernstein, Andrew Bernstein holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He is the author of “The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic, and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire”; ”Heroes, Legends, Champions: Why Heroism Matters”; “Why Johnny Still Can’t Read or Write or Understand Math—and What We Can Do About It”; and numerous other books. He lectures around the country and all over the world.

Website: https://andrewbernstein.net/

Join me today with guests, Alex Newman and Andrew Bernstein, as we expose America’s enemies and discuss solutions for keeping America great!

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Applying Knowledge is Power

Trump Defies Expectations: The Peacemaker the World Never Saw Coming

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President Donald J. Trump has once again done the unthinkable — demonstrating his willingness to pursue peace over conflict and proving his critics wrong. For years, Democrats and the liberal media painted Trump as a reckless leader who would strip away freedoms and plunge the world into chaos. During the 2016 presidential debates, Secretary Hillary Clinton warned that a man with Trump’s temperament would “create more wars than peace.” Yet today, history tells a different story.

Rather than ignite conflict, President Trump has worked tirelessly to prevent wars and resolve long-standing disputes. The recent truce between Hamas and Israel stands as a testament to his resilience and his relentless desire to achieve peace at all costs. In an era where many world leaders have struggled to restore stability in the Middle East, Trump has once again proven that decisive leadership and unconventional diplomacy can deliver results.

Democrats, who once mocked his foreign policy, must now confront a hard truth: the war that spiraled under their watch could have been avoided if the United States had maintained its rightful position of global leadership. Some prominent Democrats — including Secretary Hillary Clinton, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Bill Clinton, President Joe Biden, and Senators John Fetterman and Tim Kaine — have acknowledged Trump’s historic achievement. Their recognition, though belated, underscores the magnitude of this moment in American and global politics.

However, not everyone within the Democratic Party seems ready to face reality. Members of the far-left congressional group known as The Squad — Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and former members Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush — were once vocal advocates for a “Free Palestine” and demanded an immediate ceasefire during Trump’s administration. Yet now, when a genuine ceasefire has been achieved, their silence is deafening. It raises the question: were their protests truly about peace, or about the attention and political theater that came with them?

In the end, one fact stands tall above the noise — the real president has made peace. Whether Democrats choose to align with this new reality or continue down a path of denial will determine not just their party’s future, but America’s standing as a global leader in peace and diplomacy.

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The Birth of a Jihadist

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Astounded by what fanatic Muslims do, some conclude that Muslims are brainwashed. Otherwise, how can their totally illogical belief system and barbaric behavior be explained? But the notion of “brainwashing” that is bandied about is the stuff of science fiction and Hollywood movies such as The Manchurian Candidate.

The human person arrives in this world with his brain already washed in the sense of being what John Locke called tabula rasa, blank slate—ready for experience to imprint its script on it. John Locke was only partly correct. The brain also arrives with numerous predispositions already in place. It is a combination of life’s influences and a person’s own decisions that determine which of these dispositions develop and which ones fail. It is through this process that a unique human being is formed.

Many animals come with already in-place programs that automatically run much of their lives. Birds’ migration, mating, courtship, and thousands of other complex behaviors are instances of this type of specific programming. A catchword for this type of behavior is “instinct.” As a general rule, the higher the organism, the less its rigid pre-programs and the greater its latitude to exercise choices.

Making choices depends on what there is to choose from and to what extent a given choice appeals to the person. And the human newborn enters the arena of life without the means of being other than a passive recipient of “things” already chosen for him. It is like the old joke by Henry Ford, who reportedly told his customers that they could have the choice of color for their car as long as it was black. Things are almost as bleak for the new arrival. He didn’t have a say in choosing his parents, his socio-economic condition, his environment of birth, and much more. All are already in place, and he is to start in life from the context of his birth.

The development of a newborn in any family is importantly influenced by many factors, among them how hands-on the parents are, how religious they are, and how severely they micromanage him in an attempt to make him not only a good person but also a person better than they themselves. Parents tend to live vicariously through their children by programming them, the best they can, so that the children become or achieve much of what they themselves had failed to become or to accomplish. This attitude covers all areas of life, such as giving the child the education they didn’t have, helping him with fame and fortune, nurturing him to become a top-notch athlete, and so forth.

It is a fact that early influences play a cardinal role in shaping the person. For this reason, for instance, the overwhelming majority of Muslims have been born into Muslim families, Catholics into Catholic families, Hindus into Hindu families, and so on. It is also a fact that the degree of religiosity ranges from mild to strong, with most people falling somewhere between the two extremes. Interestingly, two siblings raised by the same set of parents under the same influences may end up at opposite extremes in their religious views and practices. It is here that the human dynamic of freedom of choice comes into play and steers one to one extreme and the other to the other extreme.

Occasional extreme deviations notwithstanding, the great majority of siblings of a given family end up with various degrees of that family’s overall religious and other values. The same general principle of subscribing to a set of common values exists in all human groupings, in some cases with a broad flexibility and inclusiveness, while in others with rigidity and exclusivity.

In order to enjoy the privileges of belonging to a group, the person must also pay their dues of membership. The very young human faces, beginning with the minute he can make some sense of the world, a bewildering array of mysteries, challenges, and enticements. There are questions at every step, fears, and hopes entangled with the need to survive and possibly thrive. Who am I? What is this world all about? What’s the purpose? What am I supposed to do and how? Where am I headed? People die. Where do they go? And on and on and on.

The information booths available to him in the fairground of life provide answers that may help relieve his innate existential anxiety. And it is here that religion plays its critical role and holds great appeal. Religion offers a sure answer to those willing to accept it on faith. And Islam is a powerful magnet for the masses, unable to cope with the uncertainties of life and death on their own. Many from this population—many already thoroughly indoctrinated from birth—are the ones who most often become diehard jihadists.

It is the bargain the jihadist makes. He surrenders totally to the religion of surrender in exchange for blanket security. Islam gives him all the answers he really seeks for dealing with this world and promises him a most lush and eternal paradise of Allah once he leaves it. And leaving this world in perfect submission as the foot-soldier of the paradise’s creator gives the faithful unimaginably glorious, sensual, eternal reward in their next life. It’s a bargain that some buy in whole, some in part, some refuse and seek other means of dealing with their questions and the unrelenting existentialistic anxiety.

The great majority of jihadists emanate from the ranks of those born into the religion of Islam, simply because they are the ones who are most thoroughly indoctrinated and influenced by the Islamic dogma in their most receptive early years. Yet, others embrace Islam in adulthood, on their own, and enlist themselves as devoted jihadists for the same rewards that Islam offers them.

Islam has a great advantage in the first call to the new arrival. It is an omnipresent system with masses of believers, mosques and madrasahs, and a host of other social and economic organizations that overpower the person and steer him into the same fold; it is a sea of people who seem to know what they are all about, what life and death are all about, and what one must also do. Within this sea of surging humanity composed of some 1.5 billion Muslims, each believer—a drop—through a combination of choice and forces beyond his control, ends up in one of its many waves. It is the jihadist wave that is highly attractive to the deeply indoctrinated and poorly adjusted in dealing rationally and independently with life. Here, he finds the iron-clad perfect solution to his anxieties and perplexities.

To a jihadist, death is nothing more than casting off a shell of the worthless earthly existence and donning the suit for winging joyously to the life of bliss promised by none other than Allah’s beloved final emissary, Muhammad.

Eradication of jihadism is a daunting task, since Islam is truly a virulent, persistent pandemic disease. Massive education efforts, combined with resolute confrontation of all sources and people that support and promote this deadly philosophy, hold the best promise of dealing effectively with this affliction of humanity. In addition to the family, places such as mosques and madrasahs, Islamic associations and charitable organizations, prisons, and the like are incubators of jihadists. Massive efforts are required, on the one hand, to drain the breeding swamps of the Islamic virus, while on the other hand, helping Muslims adopt an alternative perspective of life that addresses their perplexities and offers a degree of comfort that religions dispense without pitting one segment of humanity against another.

In the monumental task of dealing with jihadism, every individual, group, and government must combine their resources and energies to prevail. The destiny of civilized life hangs in the balance. It is an unpardonable act of shirking responsibility for anyone to adopt the attitude of “let Trump do it.” Trump, is you. Trump is I. Trump is every enlightened human being and organization that values human liberty and dignity.

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The Hijrah Comes for Texas

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“And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many [alternative] locations and abundance. And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him—his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah.” — Qur’an 4:100 

Gov. Abbott halts impending construction of 402-acre EPIC City near East Plano pending results of a half dozen investigations, including one by the U.S. Justice Department for religious discrimination

“Muslim leaders themselves now identify Texas as one of the most desirable destinations for Hijrah—the religious migration commanded by Islamic tradition to spread Islam and establish its influence. And they’re not hiding that ambition. On social media, in fundraising campaigns, and in mosque programming, they openly describe Texas as fertile ground for Islamic growth.” (source URL)

From Twitchy: In explosive public testimony, Deaton warned Texas officials that this wasn’t some future plan—it’s already happening. And worse, it’s being replicated on a massive scale just outside Dallas.  Here’s what he exposed:

  1. 74 homes—sold only to Muslims affiliated with EPIC
  2. A massive mega-mosque anchoring the enclave
  3. Sharia-adherent Islamic schools enforcing religious doctrine
  4. UIF Corporation offering only Sharia-compliant financial services
  5. A fortress-like home built beside the Plano Police Academy—overlooking SWAT vehicles, bomb trucks, and tactical zones (see maps and photos in article below)
  6. The owner? A senior EPIC leader and co-founder of the controversial Yaqeen Institute—a group that openly advocates Sharia in the West
  7. “I urge everyone to visit their website and see for yourself what they say about instituting Sharia.” — Lt. (Ret.) Douglas Deaton
  8. “This is not about radicals hiding in plain sight. They’re not hiding. They’ve been open about their beliefs and their intent.” Plano was Phase One. EPIC City is Phase Two.

“No one can claim innocence anymore concerning the intentions of these mega-mosques and the infiltration of stealth jihad into our country.” (source URL)

It’s not just EPIC City:  A video was posted on X of another Islamic community developer (not EPIC) talking about their plans for development in the United States. He discusses naming streets after Islamic conquerors, and the group laughs about Islam “taking over” the United States. The developer, for a community not related to EPIC, also mentions how he bought out the city by hiring “everyone the township knows.”

It’s not just Texas:  X post with MEMRI video:  Muslim man says he is buying churches all over Florida and converting them into mosques: “We convert 3 churches into mosques and we looking for more. One day Florida will become Muslim. May Allah give victory to Islam in this country.”

Hijrah by Any Means Necessary – May 23, 2025, Dallas, TX: Two Texas residents, Abdul Hadi Murshid, 39, and Muhammad Salman Nasir, 35, both originally from Pakistan, a law firm, and a business entity were charged by indictment with conspiracy to defraud the United States, visa fraud, money laundering conspiracy, and Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) conspiracy. These defendants are charged with engaging in extensive measures to hide a massive, multi-year, immigration fraud scheme through which they reaped substantial personal financial gain.

Attacks on the Homeland

May 14, 2025, Warren, Michigan : A Melvindale man – and former member of the Michigan Army National Guard – was arrested after he attempted to carry out a plan to conduct a mass-shooting at a U.S. military base in Warren, Michigan, on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization. Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said, 19, is charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and distributing information related to a destructive device.

May 21, 2025, Washington, DC: A pro-Palestinian man is in custody after allegedly killing two Israeli embassy staff members who were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., authorities confirmed. A 30-year-old man identified as Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, is believed to have committed the act alone and is in custody, adding that his gun was also recovered. While in custody, he yelled “Free, free Palestine!”. “Elias Rodriguez was reportedly associated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

April 23, 2025, Fairfax, VA: On April 23, 2025, at 2:36 p.m., an officer with the Fairfax County Police Department conducted a traffic stop in the 4000 block of Majestic Lane after noticing an expired safety sticker on the front window of a 1999 Toyota Corolla. The car was being driven by 36-year-old Jamal Wali of Fairfax. Wali informed the officer he was armed before going on an insane rant about how much he hates the United States. At one point Wali, who was allegedly brought to the US in 2014 after working as an interpreter for the US forces, shouted, “I should have served with the fucking Taliban! Wali grabbed his firearm and fired shots at the police officers on the driver’s side. Two officers were each hit in the arm with the same bullet.

April 30, Orlando: Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, 44, a Jordanian national residing illegally in Orlando, was sentenced on April 30 to six years in federal prison for threatening to use explosives and destruction of an energy facility. A restitution hearing will be held at a future date to address the more than $450,000 in damages Hnaihen caused.

April 17, Mankato, MN: Mohamed Adan Mohamed, 24, of St. Peter, faces several charges after a shoplifting arrest led authorities to find what they believe were plans and supplies for a coordinated attack. Left behind in the store he fled, Mohamed was carrying a list labeled, “Survival Gear with Alternative” that included a sleeping bag, lighters, eight magazines, knives, pepper spray, a “6-mag chest right,” bows and arrows. Law enforcement believes there were “strong indicators that Mohamed was preparing to conduct some sort of mass casualty event in the next 24 hours.”

April 6, 2025, western US: Zimnako Salah planted fake bombs across four churches in Arizona, California, and Colorado and worked separately to construct a real one, according to a U.S. jury that found the 45-year-old guilty. At two of the churches, Saleh was confronted by security before he was able to plant the fake bombs. However, in two instances, he was able to strap the items to bathrooms and call in a fake bomb threat to incite panic. While causing bomb scares,  Salah had been constructing an IED capable of fitting in a backpack, the department said. An FBI Bomb Technician seized items from a storage locker belonging to Salah that an FBI Bomb Expert testified at trial served as component parts of an improvised explosive device.

April 17, 2025, Yonkers, NY: Ahmed Al Jabali, 34, pleaded guilty Thursday, April 17, to second-degree assault as a hate crime after he was promised a prison term of six years with three years of post-release supervision. On Aug. 29, Al Jabali was in the Yonkers Avenue barbershop of Slava Shushakov to get a shave when he grabbed a pair of scissors and began attacking Shushakov while calling him a “[expletive] Jew.”

April 25, 2025, Pittsburgh, PA: A Pennsylvania Air National Guard member, who prosecutors say supports the Hamas terrorist group, has been federally indicted for lying on a top-secret security clearance application and making explosive devices. Mohamad Hamad, a 23-year-old Coraopolis, Allegheny County, resident; Tayla Lubit, 24, of Pittsburgh; and Micaiah Collins, 22, of Pittsburgh have been charged in a superseding indictment. Hamad is charged with conspiracy, making false statements, defacing and damaging a religious building, and possession of destructive devices, including two pipe bombs. In July 2024, Hamad drove to State College and tested the explosives with a friend at Rothrock State Park. Lubit is charged with conspiracy and defacing and damaging a religious building, and Collins is charged with conspiracy. Prosecutors said Hamad applied for a top-secret security clearance and lied during three separate interviews. [2024 article]

April 25, 2025, Oklahoma : Abdullah Haji Zada, 18, a native and citizen of Afghanistan and U.S. lawful permanent resident, pleaded guilty today to a criminal information charging him with knowingly receiving, attempting to receive, and conspiring to receive a firearm and ammunition to be used to commit a federal crime of terrorism. Zada and a co-conspirator received two AK-47-style rifles and 500 rounds of ammunition, knowing that the firearms and ammunition would be used in connection with a terrorist attack on Election Day in November 2024 on behalf the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Zada was arrested with co-conspirator Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, also a citizen of Afghanistan, in October 2024.

April 12, 2025, Atlanta, GA: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested 25-year-old Aliakbar Mohammed Amin in Georgia for making direct threats against President Donald Trump, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and the White House. Amin was taken into custody in Lilburn, a suburb of Atlanta, where FBI agents reportedly confiscated a firearm during the arrest.

25 JAN 2025; Orion Township, Michigan: A caseworker has been hospitalized after authorities say he was stabbed in Orion Township. The sheriff’s office said the suspect was identified as a refugee from Afghanistan and the caseworker was employed by a company that assists refugees. Authorities said the victim, who is employed by Samaritas, was taken into surgery. Samaritas, which was set up to help Swedish immigrants come to America and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church decided to instead embark on a course of bringing Afghan Muslims to America.

U.S. Based Organizations

Tablighi Jamaat – recruiter for Al Qaeda, jihad, and Islamic conquest – anchors new headquarters in Garland, TX

  • the group is also known as the ‘Army of Darkness’ and is believed to be focusing on Texas because the squishy RINO Republicans who run the state will let them get away with things
  • more on the group here

“Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance (MECA), a California nonprofit that designs K–12 curriculum material, has fiscal and personnel ties to U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations”

Detroit pro-Palestinian conference exhorted audience to continue building a mass Muslim movement in North America, praised terrorists

Corrupt Enablers

Pennsylvania awards $5 million to increase the size of Al-Aqsa Islamic Academy by ten-fold:

  • Ignorant fools.  No amount of gushing by a Jewish Governor about ‘bridge-building’ and ‘inclusion’ can cover up the doctrinal imperatives to global domination and violent jihad as the means to achieve it found on any page of the Quran.  Why would we want to ‘include’ people who want to kill us?
  • The school is part of the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society which is notorious for its anti-Semitic sermons and associations with terrorism and sex slavery. 

Corrupt U.S. universities have taken $6.3 billion from Qatar since 1986 and the pace is accelerating.  Qatar is governed by sharia law and exports jihad.  What is Qatar getting for its money – silence?  complicity?

  • Harvard Law School is known for taking Middle Eastern cash.  Recently, radical Harvard Law students went into Wikipedia to change the descriptions of law firms in retaliation against firms that announced they would not hire Harvard graduates if Harvard and its law schools continued down the anti-Semitic path.  

Princeton has sheltered Seyed Hossein Mousavian, former Iranian ambassador to West Germany for 15 years.  Mousavian, who has been the subject of congressional investigation, endorsed the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and is implicated in assassinations of Iranian dissidents.

In Their Own Words

The “imperial Western powers must fall, and inshallah, they will fall…. “  There are “people here who are willing to fight and put their lives on the line to bring these empires down, because they must come down.” – attendee at a Palestinian fundraiser in Dearborn Heights, MI (March 2025)

Tayyab Yunus, currently CAIR National Development Director, said in 2000: “How many of you can actually say that you want to send your youth to fight in Jihad….?”

Just So You Know

The Hijrah in France…
New report shows Muslim Brotherhood burrowing into French state institutions; Macron asks for proposals to stop it; Muslims play dumb

… And Austria
Muslims now largest religious group in Vienna schools (41.2 percent) – “This Is Displacement, Not Immigration”

… And Spain
Muslims intend to sue Spain in European human rights court because Catholic Holy Week processions ‘offend Islam’

It can’t happen here?
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EU to provide $11 Million to Highlight the Contribution of the Qur’an and Islam to European Civilization

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The study will cover the period between 1150 and 1850, when Islam had no influence on European civilization except as a constant existential threat. This is wasted money that will be spent on fantasy and provide evidence of nothing more than modern Europe’s capitulation.

“‘The European Qu’ran [sic]’: Falsifying European History With Funding from the EU,” by Hélène de Lauzun, European Conservative, April 16, 2025:

The European Union is preparing to provide €10 million in funding for a scientific research project aimed at highlighting the contribution of the Qu’ran [sic] and the Muslim religion to European civilisation. The influence of the Muslim Brotherhood is evident behind this undertaking.

The objective of this programme, entitled ‘The European Qur’an,’ the idea of which was launched six years ago and which is due to last until 2026, is to “challenge traditional perceptions of the Qur’anic text and well-established ideas about European religious and cultural identities” through travelling exhibitions, conferences, and book publications. The starting point of the project’s initiators is that the influence of Islam on European culture is greatly underestimated. “Our project is built on the conviction that the Qur’an has played an important role in the formation of medieval and early modern European religious diversity and identity and continues to do so,” reads the website homepage. The project aims to cover a chronological span of seven hundred years, from 1150 to 1850, from the Iberian Peninsula to Hungary.

All of this could be part of a field of scientific research (almost) like any other, if a clearly militant design were not at work in the background, as revealed by an investigation conducted by the French conservative newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche: several academics involved in the process are notoriously close to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The French academic Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, known—and persecuted—for her work on the entryism of the Muslim Brotherhood into both academic and political circles, warns against this organisation, which has gradually established itself as an essential “institutional interlocutor,” particularly in its interactions with European programmes, as she explains in an interview with Le Figaro….

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‘One Bad Apple for Another’: Islamist Rebels Topple Syrian Dictatorship

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Islamist rebels backed by Turkey abruptly toppled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad on Saturday, ending a 50-year family dynasty in a little over a week. After a decade-long civil war, a coalition of jihadist groups captured Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, last weekend before advancing rapidly south with swelling ranks. To everyone’s surprise, the rebels arrived in Damascus on Saturday, hours after Assad secretly fled the country.

With his generals planning to hand over power peacefully, Assad escaped Syria, skipping a prepared address to the nation and leaving his cabinet with no idea of his whereabouts. Hours later, he turned up in Moscow with his family, where they received political asylum. The Russian foreign ministry announced that Assad had resigned and that his prime minister would facilitate a peaceful transfer of power.

As instructed, Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali called for free elections, while the rebels declared Syria “free of the tyrant” and released hundreds of prisoners held in Saydnaya prison, dubbed the “human slaughterhouse,” where as many as 13,000 people were executed since 2011.

The Assad regime was brutal and inhumane, and its swift collapse underscores just how fragile it had become, after years of corruption, civil war, and an economic crisis. The regime was “in worse shape than we thought,” said Swedish government think tank security analyst Aron Lund.

Its sudden collapse also underscores just how fragile its allies have become. The Assad regime had been weak for years, propped up only by the aid of Russia and Iran. Now, Russia’s military might is so tied up in Ukraine that it is renting soldiers from North Korea. Consequently, Russian air strikes against the rebels tailed off after only a few days, with some speculating that Russia cut a deal to maintain its military bases. Now it suffers the international embarrassment of abandoning a close ally without even putting up much of a fight.

For its part, Iran’s network of terrorist proxies has suffered heavy losses in their unjustified war against Israel, particularly Hezbollah, which operates out of neighboring Lebanon. Iran declined to send reinforcements due to the threat of Israeli air power, and it ordered its militias to stay out of the fight. Still, rebels, who allowed the Iranian embassy in Damascus to be looted after they seized the city, may prove far less cooperative with Iran. Assad’s fall takes a hefty bite out of Iran’s regional security plan, cutting off routes to resupply and rearm Hezbollah in Lebanon.

It’s unclear what sort of government will succeed the Assad regime, and who will run it. The rebel coalition that toppled his regime represents a hodge-podge of factions that lack unifying interests. A key leader of the rebel march southward was Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani. Wanted by the U.S. government to the tune of $10 million, al-Jawlani is affiliated with al-Qaeda and leads a faction of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Meanwhile, other parts of Syria remain under the control of U.S.-backed rebel factions, including northeastern Syria, where a Kurdish government holds sway.

In other words, someone threw a cup of dice into the middle of the geopolitical chessboard. And, while we’re still counting the score, it’s safe to assume that no one can declare Yahtzee!

As for establishing a free and fair democracy, there are precious few examples where jihadist rebels toppled a dictator, and the result was a stable, Westernized system of government. Even if such a government was established, there is always the danger of leaving a power vacuum that might be filled by remnants of ISIS, bringing further chaos and suffering to the region.

As happened in Libya and other toppled dictatorships, “We might see a big, quick victory, and then the problems start,” an unnamed Western diplomat suggested to The Wall Street Journal.

All we can say for sure is that Russia’s and Iran’s influence in Syria has waned, while Turkey’s influence has increased. As the state sponsor for the rebel groups that toppled Assad, Turkey will likely have some influence over the government that takes shape on its southern border. “What is significant is the fact that these rebels were Turkish-backed, and so this is an extension of Turkey’s influence southward into the former borders of Syria,” Travis Weber, vice president for Policy and Government Affairs at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand.

A NATO member with an Islamic maverick streak, Turkey is not fully aligned with either the U.S. or with its adversaries, and Turkish leader Recep Erdogan has ambitions to recapture the glory of the Ottoman Empire.

As the Islamist rebels marched on Damascus, foreign ministers from Russia, Iran, and Turkey met at a conference in Qatar to discuss the future of Syria.

“Many will be taking note of the fact that … that continuous string of Iranian and anti-Israel influence from Iran to the Mediterranean has been broken,” Weber observed, but “those who are celebrating this as some universal win … [are] taking the wrong approach.”

“We must be under no illusions that the rebel forces are somehow a friend of Western values,” Weber warned. “Their posture towards Israel, ideologically, is likely very hostile as well.”

“So,” he concluded, “we will have to see how things shake out regionally, but in a sense, we’re trading one bad apple for another.”

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Rasmus Paludan: Who he is, and why he does what he does, despite a criminal conviction in Sweden

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Hamas top dog Sinwar’s instructions for holding hostages included Qur’an quotes on the subject

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Just in case you still weren’t convinced that this was an Islamic jihad, not a conflict over land that can be solved through negotiations.

“Now when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks until, when you have subdued them, then make fast the bonds, and afterward either generosity or ransom until the war lays down its burdens. That, and if Allah willed, he could have punished them, but so that he may test some of you by means of others. And those who have been killed in the way of Allah, he does not make their actions useless.” (Qur’an 47:4)

“Sinwar’s instructions for holding the hostages revealed,” Israel National News, October 25, 2024:

The Palestinian Arab newspaper al-Quds published three documents in the handwriting of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar which contain instructions regarding the guarding of the Israeli hostages, their distribution in each area, and the names of the hostages, including those who were released in the first deal last November.

The first document includes the instructions regarding the hostages and it states that the lives of the abductees must be preserved because “they are an important card” to free terrorists imprisoned in Israel. Sinwar included quotes from the Koran on the subject.

The second document included a statistical breakdown of the hostages in each area – men, women, soldiers, civilians, young people, people over sixty or under sixty. This document also specifies where Bedouin hostages were held….

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Islam Was Not For Me

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My breach with Islam started as far back as I could discern things. More to the point, I never embraced Islam in the first place, although I was born and raised in a Muslim family.

For one thing, I had a tough time following a so-called religion whose founder and followers had butchered my ancestors, raped and sold our women, burned our libraries, and destroyed our magnificent culture. Islam was forced down the throats of Iranians with the sword of Allah. In my heart, I never considered myself a Muslim.

However, I didn’t reveal this until later in life for fear of retribution by radical Muslims.

Sharia law stipulates that any Muslim who turns his back on Islam should be given a chance to revert to the faith. For an unrepentant male apostate, death is the prescribed punishment, and life imprisonment for the female apostate.

“Kill whoever changes his religion.” __Sahih al-Bukhari 9:84:57

Islam considers an apostate as a person who unilaterally breaks the covenant he has made with the faith. An apostate is condemned as guilty of turning his back on Allah’s immutable, eternal religion.

I realized that the root cause of my people’s degradation and suffering was Islam. It was a creed imposed on an enlightened, tolerant, and free people at the point of the sword by savages hailing from the Arabian Peninsula during the seventh century with promises of booty and women in this world and glorious eternal sensual rewards in the promised paradise of Allah in the next. With each passing day, I rejoice more and more in my good fortune, in my ability to avoid the yoke of Islamic slavery and its blinders that imprison a billion and a half people by walls of superstition, hatred of others, and a celebration of death.

Things Islamic not only did not resonate with me, but they often clashed head-on with what I valued and loved. What appealed to me and even enchanted me were, more often than not, taboo in Islam or anathema to the creed. I loved life, beauty in all its forms, poetry, ancient Iranian culture, and traditions.

I loved laughter and celebrations of joy, such as birthdays and my favorite yearly festivities, Nowruz, for the last thirteen days. This ancient festival has been celebrated for thousands of years by my people; it ushers in the spring, welcomes the renewal of life, and expresses optimism for the year ahead, blessing us with good health, abundant food, family, and friends in the land of a civilized and free people.

I have always believed one cannot possibly be a Persian, hold to the lofty tenets of the ancient Iranian Zoroastrian triad of good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, and remain a Muslim.

In the same fashion, one cannot cherish American values, the Bill of Rights, and the United States Constitution and be a true Muslim. They are inherently and comprehensively incompatible with Sharia Law.

Iranian Muslims are victims of the Islamic virus that has destroyed their traditional respect for diversity. It is the Iranian ancient fundamental belief in the validity and value of diversity that is enshrined in the Cyrus the Great Cylinder, the unconditional respect for the complete rights of all the people of the world (an anathema to the Islamists’ credo) that has held the nation together over the millennia.

Although Islam was imposed on Iran some 1,400 years ago, Iranians deeply value their own ancient non-Arab identity and have never fully surrendered to the Arab culture.

Currently, a large number of Iranians are entirely fed up with Islam, and they want to leave this dogma of hate and violence. Many already have, but they aren’t able to come forward and announce it for obvious reasons.

Such duplicity exists within the Iranian culture. Initially, Iranians were forced to accept Islam to save their lives from Arab invaders, but deep within the heart of every single Iranian alive today exists a burning resentment of the Arab-Islamic invasion of their homeland and culture. Ironically, many Iranians may confess to being Muslims, yet an overwhelming number of Iranians have never read the Quran or understood its language. The events in history have toughened present-day Iranians. They have become great pretenders. But the totality of 1400 years of Islamic barbarity and savagery must end. We no longer need to pretend that we are practicing Muslims when, in fact, we are not.

Realistically speaking, perhaps 10-15 percent of the population supports the clerical system in varying degrees. Many in this group are government employees, Mullahs, and hired thugs such as the Basiji. Also, the regime has some backers among the poor, the less educated, and the deeply religious. Yet, the alienation from the government and Islam spans the entire spectrum of Iranian society, with the intelligentsia and the university students leading the determined opposition to end Islamic rule.

Masses of Iranians are irreparably alienated from a corrupt and oppressive Islamic rule. The rule of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is crumbling. The previously solid tower, or at least its appurtenance, is finally showing many cracks that continue to grow. There are just too many fault lines to list here.

My fellow Iranians and I have indeed done, and continue to do, what we can to help our compatriots in Iran, who are on the front line fighting Islam and the Islamic Regime.

The 2009 protests were just as much against the Islamic Republic as they were about Shi’a Islam. Much of it was against Islam itself. People have experienced what a primitive and defective system of belief Islam is and aim to abandon it for good. Many will still hang on to it to some extent for some time. Yet, a great many would leave Islam and even actively oppose it.

There are still those who foolishly claim that Muhammad was a messenger from God and that the Quran is a divinely revealed book. I suggest that they use their intellect and read the Quran fully for themselves without assuming that the book is the literal word of God and that Muhammad was their messenger. Without this assumption as their starting point, they will find better than 90% of the book is about violence, threats of hell, exclusion of people, and the like. What kind of God would dictate things like what you find in the Quran? It took Muhammad 20 years to reveal this hodge-podge book that reads more like expressions of a delusional individual with dissociative identity disorder.

Hatred, not love, drives Islam.

I lament the plight of my native land and the people who have suffered and continue to suffer under Islam. Without Islam, there wouldn’t be any Muslims to hoist the banner of hate and violence against non-Muslims. A few claim that Islam has done some good in the past. Well, that’s debatable. Some are equally convinced that Islam has inflicted a great deal of suffering on others from its inception to the present. What we all must agree on is that Islam and its Sharia laws, at the very least, do not fit in today’s world.

Islam is a creed of an ignorant people in a primitive and barbaric age. It is fixated on time and place; it harbors the ambition of taking the 21st-century world back 14 centuries and ruling it by its dogma of violence, intolerance, injustice, and death. Yet, Islam is not only an obsolete vestige of a defunct era but is an infinitely fractured belief that can hardly put its own home in order. The numerous Islamic sects are at each other’s throats; sub-sects and schools despise one another as much as they hate non-Muslims. Hatred, not love, drives Islam.

I am not against Muslims. I condemn Islam with all its derivatives and those who support and promote it.

Muslims are patients, and Islam is a disease. You want to help the patients to rid themselves of the affliction. You want to eradicate a horrifically communicable disease. Although many prefer to tackle the militant version of Islam, “Islamism,” for all intents and purposes, there is no sharp boundary between Islamists, Jihadists, and Islamists. One and all are the progeny of Islam itself. Any differences among the three are of degree and not kind. When one addresses Islamism and jihadism, their source is also addressed.

Regrettably, Islam cannot be reformed. Remember that Islam claims to be the perfect eternal faith for humanity. Splits have occurred and will continue to appear in Islam. Reformation has yet to happen in nearly 1400 years and will not occur. Islam is carved in granite, just the way it is. There will be no change. Allah’s book is sealed.
In dealing with Islam and its variations, every individual, group, and government must combine their resources and energies to prevail. We must urge all people to resist Islam’s encroachment and not be deceived by its sanitized version presented in non-Islamic lands.

The destiny of civilized life hangs in the balance. Shirking of this responsibility would be an unpardonable act of every enlightened human being in an organization that values human liberty and dignity.

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Kamala’s Radical Islamist Crew

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Friends, this is one of the rare times I’m sharing the full version of a story to convey the true danger of a Kamala-Walz administration, which already surrounds itself with dangerous, radicalized Islamic leaders that defy belief.

Kamala’s Islamists

Daniel Greenfield | Frontpage Mag | 9-10-2024 | Condensed

“During the blessed last ten days of Ramadan, we celebrate our Administration’s incredible Muslim team,” Vice President Kamala Harris announced, posing on the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with some of the most controversial figures in the administration.

There right behind Kamala was Nasrina Bargzie, her deputy counsel and future Muslim liaison, who had been interviewed by the FBI after 9/11, wore orange for the Islamic terrorists at Gitmo and had fought a lawsuit Jewish students over harassment by pro-terrorist activists at Berkeley.

Second from Kamala’s right was Mazen Basrawi, Biden’s current Muslim liaison, who had attended a conference honoring one of the unindicted co-conspirators of the World Trade Center bombing, and whose appointment was hailed by Muslim Brotherhood groups.

Second from Kamala’s left was Brenda Abdelall, who had taken part in anti-Israel protests in college, and had falsely accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” as part of a “brutal occupation”. Abdelall became the “assistant secretary for partnership and engagement” at the Department of Homeland Security in the Biden-Harris administration and then appeared at a convention where speakers had called for a caliphate ruled by Islamic law and freeing Islamic terrorists.

Abdelall was recently chosen to head Kamala’s Arab-American outreach. And the campaign refused to part ways with her over past comments accusing Jews of controlling America.

Also allegedly present was Yousra Fazili, who had studied Islamic religious law or sharia at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, notorious for its terrorist teachings,  and represented the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations co-founded by figures tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden, before becoming the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs and now serves as the Chief of Staff to the Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer of the Pentagon.

Yousra’s sister, Sameera Fazili had served as the deputy director of the National Economic Council despite being a member of Stand With Kashmir (SWK) “which was founded by her cousin, Hafsa Kanjwal” and which had “praised and defended the actions of a number of violent Islamists” including one who had “met with Al Qaeda figures” and praised Osama bin Laden.

Other members of Kamala’s “incredible Muslim team” included Maher Bitar, a former executive board member of Students for Justice in Palestine, a campus hate group which has since endorsed Hamas and the atrocities of Oct 7, and an organizer of a conference by the Palestine Solidarity Movement, which worked with Hamas, and whose previous event had reportedly included chants of “Kill the Jews”.

Under the Biden-Harris administration, Bitar became the Senior Director for Intelligence on the National Security Council and then the chief coordinator for intelligence and defense policy making him, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, “the senior-most official responsible for coordinating U.S. Government intelligence and defense policy.” Reporting tips Bitar as a likely Director of National Intelligence or “some kind of senior role” in a Kamala administration.

Reema Dodin, who had described suicide bombings against Jews by Muslim terrorists as “the last resort of a desperate people”, was brought on as the deputy director for the Office of Legislative Affairs.

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To Hate a Jew: How Jew-hatred serves as one of the key bonds in the Leftist-Hamas romance.

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Editor’s note: Ever since Hamas’ Oct 7th savage terror attack against Israel, we have observed – in horror – how the Left has risen up in rabid support of the terror group and engaged in ferocious hatred of Jewish people in general – and of the state of Israel in particular. The examples have been unending: Harvard student organizations rallied around Hamas, Black Lives Matter endorsed Hamas’ murder of Israeli babies, and leftist groups and individuals everywhere have vociferously supported the Hamas massacres.

And just recently, the Left has even engaged in denouncing Israel for rescuing its hostages.

This is all nothing new, of course. Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov has documented the Left’s long traditional dance with Islamic jihad and Jew-Hate in his critically-acclaimed and best-selling book, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror. Now, because of the Left’s current passionate alliance with Hamas, our editors have deemed it vital to run a chapter from Jamie’s book, titled “To Hate a Jew.” The chapter explores how and why anti-Semitism serves as one of the core bonds between the Left and Islam in the Unholy Alliance.

Make sure to read the eye-opening chapter below and to order United in Hate, which reveals the shocking truth of what really lies behind the Left’s dark love affair with Hamas’ bloodthirsty jihad against Israelis.

Chapter 13: To Hate a Jew

“Behind the doctrine of atheistic materialism was a Jew; behind the doctrine of animalistic sexuality was a Jew; and behind the destruction of the family and the shattering of sacred relationships in society…was a Jew.” —Sayyid Qutb

The hatred of Jews serves as a central underpinning to the Islamist death cult—as it does to most death cults. Like its ideological cousins, fascism and communism, Islamism wages war against Jews in its effort to secure its own survival. Totalist ideologies detest modernity, individual freedom, and any value placed on individual human life—notions with which Jews are strongly identified. Jews also personify the enduring struggle to survive, rather than the impulse to destroy and perish. For Islamists—as for leftist believers, as delineated in the believer’s diagnosis and documented throughout Part II—such a disposition is tantamount to a declaration of war.

In Islamists’ eyes, not only are Jews guilty because, as a people, they are synonymous with liberty and the veneration of life on earth; they are also guilty for being the creators and inhabitants of the state of Israel—the very existence of which is an affront to Islam’s quest for dominion over all the lands of the Middle East and, ultimately, the world. The fact that Israel is an ally of the United States only magnifies the “crimes” of the Jews. Consequently, the Jewish state serves as a nearby stand‐in for the West in general, and for America in particular. As Kenneth Timmerman notes, “much of today’s anti‐Semitism, while aimed at Jews, stems from a belief system that equally rejects America and indeed Western civilization as a whole.”[i]

As will be demonstrated in this chapter, Islamist Jew hatred is, first and foremost, rooted in Islamic theology and culture. At the same time, it is important to stress that, as shown in chapter nine, since Islamism is partly an outgrowth of the European ideological virus that spawned communism and fascism, so too is its Jew hatred an outgrowth of those two death cults.

Many Muslim Arabs adored Hitler and were enchanted with his Final Solution. As mentioned in chapter nine, the Muslim Brotherhood’s founder, Hassan al‐Banna, was a devout admirer, and the Nazis helped create the organization as a weapon against the British in the Middle East.[ii] By the end of World War II, the Muslim Brotherhood had a half million Arab Nazis as members.[iii] The grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al‐Husseini, met with Hitler on November 28, 1941, to request German assistance in engendering a Middle Eastern Final Solution, and he offered to form an Arab army to help carry it out.[iv] Al‐Husseini became the Arabic voice of Nazi Germany in all of its broadcasts to the Arab world, exhorting Muslims to murder Jews.[v] Hitler’s Palestinian disciple understood, however, that direct assistance could be provided only after the Führer had finished the job in Europe— an objective the Nazi dictator never achieved. Yasser Arafat was one of al‐Husseini’s most admiring disciples, even claiming that he was his nephew.[vi]

Sayyid Qutb, meanwhile, helped frame the Jew hatred of the Islamic world in the modern era. For Qutb, the Jews represented the “eternal enemy” of Islam. Behind every evil, in Qutb’s view, were the Jews: “Behind the doctrine of atheistic materialism was a Jew; behind the doctrine of animalistic sexuality was a Jew; and behind the destruction of the family and the shattering of sacred relationships in society…was a Jew.”[vii]

Al‐Qaeda and all other Islamist terrorist organizations have emerged, clearly, from traditional political Islam. But they also have evolved from the Nazi‐Arab World War II generation, through the connection with the Muslim Brotherhood, which remains the backbone of al‐Qaeda and the parent of nearly every other Arab terrorist group.[viii] As Timmerman has noted, “If today’s Muslim anti‐Semitism is like a tree with many branches, its roots feed directly off of Hitler’s Third Reich.”[ix] Mein Kampf was and still is circulated widely in the Muslim world. It is, for instance, a bestseller among Palestinians and it has also recently been on the bestseller lists in Turkey.[x]

Just as it has Nazi‐Fascist roots, so too the Islamist death cult has communist origins, as we saw in chapter nine, and the communist death cult was also rife with Jew hatred. The Soviet regime viciously persecuted its Jews, and newly discovered evidence indicates that Stalin was planning a second Great Terror, his own version of the Holocaust, to rid the Soviet Union of its remaining Jews.[xi] Shortly before his death he authorized the construction of four large death camps for this purpose in Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the Arctic north.[xii]

The Soviet regime consistently used its power and influence to channel Islamism’s Jew hatred into a ferocious anti‐Americanism.[xiii] Former Romanian intelligence general Mihai Pacepa has revealed how the Soviet‐bloc espionage community’s main objective was to transform Yasser Arafat’s war against Israel and its main supporter, the United States, into a central doctrine throughout the whole Islamic world. Pacepa writes:

According to KGB theorists, the Islamic world was a petri dish in which we    could nurture a virulent strain of America‐hate. Islamic cultures had a taste for nationalism, jingoism, and victimology. Their illiterate, oppressed mobs could be whipped up to a fever pitch. Terrorism and violence against America would flow naturally from their religious fervor. We had only to keep repeating, over and over, that the United States was a “Zionist country” bankrolled by rich Jews. Islam was obsessed with preventing the infidel’s occupation of its territory, and it would be highly receptive to our dogma that American imperialism wanted to transform the rest of the world into a Jewish fiefdom.[xiv]

This explains why the Soviet bloc flooded the Islamic world with Arabic translations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, along with other “documentary” materials, “proving” that Jewish money governed the Zionist United States, whose aim was to extend its domination over the rest of the world.[xv]

Soviet communism, therefore, fueled the energy and hate with which Islamism, its ideological cousin, would fight modern liberalism and freedom. The totalitarian virus was simply transported into a new theater. As Pacepa powerfully observes, “the hijacked airplane was launched into the world of contemporary terrorism by the KGB and its puppet Yasser Arafat, and it is significant that this became the weapon of choice for September 11, 2001.”[xvi]

Islamism’s Jew hatred also has numerous other sources. One significant ingredient is the humiliation phenomenon delineated in chapter eleven. Muslim Arabs experienced excruciating shame in losing three wars to the Israelis (1948, 1967, 1973) and in observing the success and prosperity of the Jewish civilization right in their midst. For generation after generation, Arabs in the Middle East have known nothing but backwardness, poverty, dictatorship, and cultural impotence. Yet they have had to witness a comparatively small number of European and American Jews migrate to a tiny stretch of desert a half century ago, to join the Jews already living there and, within a single generation, build the most powerful economic and industrial nation in the entire Middle East. This is an agonizing dose of reality for many Arabs, causing them to try to destroy the reminder of their own impotence—i.e., the Jews—rather than to acknowledge the flaws of their own civilization and admit that they might profit by learning something from the hated “infidels.” In the Arab world, Israel’s creation is Nakba—the Catastrophe.

But despite the Nazi and communist reinforcement, Islamist Jew hatred is primarily founded in Islamic sources, which will always take precedence for Muslims. And one of the key problems is that Muslims do not see Jews as merely their enemies; they see them as the enemies of God. The Koran attributes many negative characteristics to Jews, especially falsehood and distortion,[xvii] and it teaches that Allah, as well as David and Jesus, has cursed the Jews.[xviii] In fact, Allah was so disgusted with Jews that he transformed them into apes and pigs.[xix] The hadiths also contain many anti‐Jewish teachings. A hadith collected in Mishkat Al‐ Messabih, for instance, says, “When judgment day arrives, Allah will give every Muslim a Jew or Christian to kill so that the Muslim will not enter into hell fire.”[xx]

It is important to point out, of course, that there are some Islamic leaders, such as Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, director of the Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic community, who seek to abolish Jew hatred within Islam.[xxi] But they have a great struggle ahead of them.

The Prophet Muhammad taught Jew hatred explicitly by example. He commanded his followers: “Kill any Jew that falls into your power.”[xxii] In his later years, Muhammad himself persecuted Jews and sanctioned the killing of the males of large Jewish tribes, notably in the brutal massacre of the Jewish tribe Banu Qurayza. Muhammad ratified a judgment that saw as many as nine hundred men from this tribe beheaded and their decapitated corpses buried in a pit while he looked on. The Muslims then sold most of the murdered men’s wives and children into slavery, while distributing some of them as gifts among Muhammad’s followers (Muhammad took one Qurayza woman, Rayhana, for his own pleasure).[xxiii] In his 1895 biography of Muhammad, which relied entirely on the original Muslim sources, the scholar Sir William Muir observed: “The massacre of the Banu Coreiza was a barbarous deed which cannot be justified by any reason of political necessity…. [T]he indiscriminate slaughter of the whole tribe cannot be recognized otherwise than as an act of monstrous cruelty…”[xxiv]

These crimes by Muhammad himself serve as a foundation for Muslim hatred and persecution of Jews throughout history. In AD 807, for instance, Harun al‐Rashid, the caliph of Baghdad, enforced Muhammad’s directive to humiliate Jews by mandating that they wear a yellow belt and dunce cap. If they failed to do so, they faced execution. In different periods of dhimmitude, Jews were also forced to wear the image of an ape on their clothes and to nail onto their front door a board bearing the sign of a monkey.[xxv] This was the inspiration for the yellow star later used by the Nazis.[xxvi]

We get a clear picture of how Islam’s ancient hatred of the Jews has fused with present‐day resentments. Israel, like the United States, has become a symbol of modernity, freedom, corporate capitalism, and globalization—all things that are reviled by Muslim fundamentalists. And it is no coincidence that the Left despises modernity, freedom, corporate capitalism, and globalization as well. Jew hatred, therefore, serves as an indispensable element in the leftist‐Islamist romance.

AUTHOR

Jamie Glazov

Notes:

[i] Kenneth R. Timmerman, Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America (New York: Crown Forum, 2003), p.2.

[ii] Loftus, “The Muslim Brotherhood.”

[iii] DiscovertheNetworks.org, Hasan al-Banna profile.

[iv] Robert Spencer, “Islamo-Fascism Denial.”

[v] For an excellent account of the al-Husseini story, see Chuck Morse, The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini (Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, 2003).

[vi] See Kenneth Timmerman’s comments in Jamie Glazov, “Symposium: Islamic Anti-Semitism,” FrontPageMagazine.com, October 31, 2003.

[vii] Quoted in Timmerman, Preachers of Hate, p.122.

[viii] Loftus, “The Muslim Brotherhood.”

[ix] Ibid., p.104.

[x] David Pryce-Jones, “Their Kampf: Hitler’s Book in Arab Hands,” National Review, July 29, 2002.

[xi] Scholars have comprehensively documented the brutal realities of Soviet Jew hatred. See Elie Wiesel, The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry, trans. Neal Kozodoy (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966); Theodore Freedman, ed., Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union: Its Roots and Consequences (New York: Freedom Library Press of the New York Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 1984); and Ronald I. Rubin, ed., The Unredeemed: Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1968).

[xii] Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov, Stalin’s Last Crime: The Plot against the Jewish Doctors, 1948–1953 (New York: HarperCollins, 2003).

[xiii] For a comprehensive account of the KGB’s propaganda activity in the Middle East and its influence on Islamic anti-Americanism, see Andrew and Mitrokhin, The World Was Going Our Way.

[xiv] Ion Mihai Pacepa’s comment in “Symposium: The Terror War: How We Can Win,” Frontpagemag.com, November 15, 2004.

[xv] Ibid.

[xvi] Ibid.

[xvii] Suras 3:71 and 4:46.

[xviii] Suras 2:61–58 and 5:78–82.

[xix] Suras 5:60–65, 2:65, and 7:166.

[xx] Mishkat Al-Messabih, vol. 2, no. 5,552.

[xxi] Jamie Glazov, “The Anti-Terror, Pro-Israel Sheikh,” Frontpagemag.com, September 12, 2005.

[xxii] Muhammad, as quoted in Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah, translated by A. Guillaume as The Life of Muhammad (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), p.369.

[xxiii] Andrew G. Bostom, “Muhammad, the Qurayza Massacre, and PBS,” Frontpagemag.com, December 20, 2002.

[xxiv] Ibid.

[xxv] Christians were forced to wear the image of a pig. See Bat Ye’or, The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam, trans. David Maisel, Paul Fenton, and David Littman (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985), pp. 186–187, 420, and 440.

[xxvi] Timmerman, Preachers of Hate, p.99.

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In Portland, the Islamic Revolution Begins in Kindergarten

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Mirroring the Jew hating indoctrination of children in Gaza, Portland’s public school is brainwashing American children to hate and kill Jews. Kindergarten through high school. Hitler youth.

In Portland, the Intifada Begins in Kindergarten

The local teachers’ union encourages students to resist “Zionist bullies.”

By: Christopher Rufo, City Journal, June 5, 2024:

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I have obtained a collection of publicly accessible documents produced by the Portland Association of Teachers, an affiliate of the state teachers’ union that encourages its more than 4,500 members to “Teach Palestine!” (The union did not respond to a request for comment.)

The lesson plans are steeped in radicalism, and they begin teaching the principles of “decolonization” to students as young as four and five years old. For prekindergarten kids, the union promotes a workbook from the Palestinian Feminist Collective, which tells the story of a fictional Palestinian boy named Handala. “When I was only ten years old, I had to flee my home in Palestine,” the boy tells readers. “A group of bullies called Zionists wanted our land so they stole it by force and hurt many people.” Students are encouraged to come up with a slogan that they can chant at a protest and complete a maze so that Handala can “get back home to Palestine”—represented as a map of Israel.

Other pre-K resources include a video that repeats left-wing mantras, including “I feel safe when there are no police,” and a slideshow that glorifies the Palestinian intifada, or violent resistance against Israel. The recommended resource list also includes a “sensory guide for kids” on attending protests. It teaches children what they might see, hear, taste, touch, and smell at protests, and promotes photographs of slogans such as “Abolish Prisons” and “From the River to the Sea.”

In kindergarten through second grade, the ideologies intensify. The teachers’ union recommends a lesson, “Art and Action for Palestine,” that teaches students that Israel, like America, is an oppressor. The objective is to “connect histories of settler colonialism from Palestine to the United States” and to “celebrate Palestinian culture and resistance throughout history and in the present, with a focus on Palestinian children’s resistance.”

The lesson suggests that teachers should gather the kindergarteners into a circle and teach them a history of Palestine: “75 years ago, a lot of decision makers around the world decided to take away Palestinian land to make a country called Israel. Israel would be a country where rules were mostly fair for Jewish people with White skin,” the lesson reads. “There’s a BIG word for when Indigenous land gets taken away to make a country, that’s called settler colonialism.”

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AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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