An upcoming Congressional hearing on banning sharia in the USA

Janet Levy talks about an upcoming panel in Congress on banning Islamic sharia in the USA:

Whenever patriots rise to defend America from radical Islam, liberals dismiss them as alarmist or Islamophobic. Therefore, criticism is likely to increase after the February 10th Sharia Free America hearings of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government. But not only is the threat real, it also grows stronger from apologists who insist that Islam is a religion of peace, even though Islamist groups openly swear by its medieval tenets of world conquest.

Fortunately, many House Republicans are standing against this growing threat. In less than a month, 26 representatives from 17 states have joined the Sharia-Free America Caucus, led by Representatives Keith Self (R-TX-3) and Chip Roy (R-TX-21). Their goal is to protect the Constitution and defend individual freedoms and the American way of life by passing laws to prevent sharia from invading our civic life and courts.

Read more. This is something that must also be taken to Europe, Africa, Asia and even Latin America, because who knows how much horrific influence of the Religion of Peace can be found in any part there? The time's come to deal with this properly, and the House hearings are just the beginning of what's needed.

NYC high school promotes hijabs to female students

In another horrific example of the effect Zohran Mamdani's election as first Muslim mayor of NYC has had, a local high school promoted "world hijab day" to female students:

A New York high school encouraged non-Muslim girls to try wearing hijabs to “dispel misconceptions.” But the event seems rather aimed to reinforce misconceptions, since it is obvious the girls were not informed about the violent misogyny inherent in and praised by Islam.

Domestic abuse, rape, bigamy, sex slavery, child brides, and honor killings are all allowed or endorsed by Islamic "sacred" texts, and the most minimal honest study of Islam makes it painfully obvious that females are always considered inferior and subject to men. For all these reasons, Islam is not compatible with the Judeo-Christian Western ethic. Yet Western leftists continue to lie to young people about Islam, particularly young women. [...]

Because Islam teaches that men are superior to women, it encourages men to "discipline" women as parents used to do to children. This includes explicit domestic abuse. Quran 4:34, for instance, reads, "Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them." In the hadith Sahih Muslim 2127, Aisha — the girl the 50-year-old Muhammad married when she was six — mentions how Muhammad struck her and called it just.

In the Ten Commandments of the Torah/Bible, it says "thou shalt not God's name in vain", yet that's tragically what the Religion of Peace has done for centuries now, and with people like Mamdani in charge, this propaganda is clearly just beginning, all at the expense of the fairer sex.

UN could be on the verge of bankruptcy

It looks like the awful UN is short on cash:

The United Nations is going broke and needs member nations to stump up cash. Lots of it. That is the plea from Secretary-General António Guterres who fears the globalist body is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to member states not paying their fees.

The former leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party said Friday the U.N. faces a financial crisis which was “deepening, threatening programme delivery” and money could run out as soon as July leaving the unaccountable globalist cabal destitute.

Such is the financial drama unfolding at U.N. headquarters in Geneva, signs warning of the situation have reportedly been put up everywhere. In an almost desperate attempt to save cash, the escalators are regularly turned off and the heating turned down, the BBC reports.

Guterres sent a missive to all 193 member states outlining his fears and pleading they had to honor their mandatory payments or overhaul the organisation’s financial rules to avoid collapse.

It comes after the U.N.’s largest contributor, the U.S., refused to contribute to its regular and peacekeeping budgets and withdrew from several agencies it called a “waste of taxpayer dollars.”

Let's hope this'll eventually spell the UN's closure, because they were practically ill-conceived from the start, and the USA should not have to pay any tax dollars to finance it. Interesting that Guterres is a socialist, because that ideology's caused only so much damage, just like Islam has, and the UN's undoubtably been serving as an indoctrination arm for promoting socialism as well. One more reason we don't need the UN continuing to cause trouble the world over anymore.

Long after the 1st and 2nd world wars, Americans unwilling to consider freedom isn't free

A poll was taken revealing a sad double-standard in the USA when it comes to Iran's dire situation:

New polling conducted by J.L. Partners provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of its public release shows Americans, especially Republicans, by and large support toppling the regime in Iran but are unwilling to put any American lives at risk to do so.

The stunning new data shows that, yes, Americans do not like the regime in Iran and would love to see it wiped out. But it also has bright warning lights for the White House as the president considers his options because the data suggests that Americans broadly, and Republicans specifically, do not want to risk even a single American life to accomplish that.

J.L. Partners is one of the few pollsters to nail the outcome of the 2024 presidential race, correctly predicting that President Donald Trump would win the national popular vote against Democrat Kamala Harris.

Overall, the new poll obtained by Breitbart News exclusively shows, more Americans support the U.S. toppling the regime in Iran than oppose doing so, with 36 percent supporting such an action — 18 percent strongly supporting and 18 percent somewhat supporting — compared to just 21 percent opposing. Eleven percent strongly oppose and 10 percent somewhat oppose, with 24 percent of Americans indifferent offering neither support nor opposition.

Among Republicans specifically, support for the U.S. toppling the Iranian regime goes up even higher with 60 percent—36 percent strongly and 24 percent somewhat — supporting the move. Just 8 percent are opposed, 4 percent apiece somewhat and strongly, while 21 percent of Republicans are unsure.

While that seems strong on both accounts — among Americans broadly and among Republicans specifically — it’s in the follow-up questioning where things get dicey. Almost everyone who supports the U.S. toppling the Iranian regime only does so if zero American lives are at risk in so doing.

When asked how many American fatalities are an acceptable number to stomach for the U.S. to topple the regime in Tehran, a majority of all Americans and specifically Republicans said zero. Among all Americans, and among Republicans specifically, 51 percent of each group said they would tolerate no American casualties to achieve the mission. Among all Americans, an additional 5 percent said they would tolerate less than 10 American casualties and another 6 percent said they would tolerate less than 100 American fatalities.

I'm guessing the Federalist editor John Daniel Davidson is quite likely of the crowd that's strongly hinting they refuse to even so much as go to war themselves. Let's be clear. Of course it's always terrible when even a single innocent life has to die in battle. That's what happened over here in the past 2 and a half years since October 7, 2023. But if nobody's willing to make sacrifices for the sake of other less fortunate people, then how does anybody expect in the long run to prevent Islamofascists in Europe from gaining the ability to build additional nuclear arsenals over there? Something vice president J.D. Vance warned about as well a short time ago. Now, we have a most disturbing situation where it's the WW2 isolationist stance all over again. And that's going to be costly in the long run. Especially if the same crowds in America who don't want to go to war against tyranny also don't want to get adherents to Islam to stop practicing the religion.

This devastating mentality is also why the war against racism was lost in the 19th century, even after slavery was abolished by Lincoln. It's also why China was taken over by communism, leading to the dire situation they're in now, with a collapsing birthrate. Most disgusting thing about such commies is how in contrast to the Religion of Peace, they don't want many children, if at all. Now, almost a century after WW2, it's sad to discover we have another case of whole generations who don't want to show the courage it takes to make a difference, and it's not just leftists, but also rightists who're balking.

What makes this additionally sad is that the USA public, Republican or otherwise, are letting down even figures like Reza Pahlavi's family, whose daughter Noor wrote an article about how he hopes to restore a civilized leadership. And while of course nobody should have to rely solely on the USA for backing against evil entities, that doesn't mean anybody in America should act like it's literally wrong to aid the persecuted. What matters is whether they have what it takes to make clear anybody who's practicing Islam can't do so anymore, and not be embarrassed to make the vital point. The same goes for Communism.

Trump's been sending military forces to the area near Iran to practice for any possible attack on Iran's horrormeisters. It's to be hoped he doesn't let these pollings get in the way of better judgement if the soldiers who've deployed are themselves ready to enter battle. But somebody must make clear to the public that, if they're not willing to recognize that moral sacrifices have to be made when darkness is looming, how will anybody be able to defend the USA itself properly if, in the future, Islamists take over Europe and gain access to nuclear technology? And, do they take a naive view to the point they believe it's virtually impossible for jihadists to penetrate the USA's defenses in such a way? No doubt, many leftists do. But if rightists also buy into naive visions, then they too have failed from an altruistic standing, and nothing's going to be solved.

The point is: freedom isn't free. Will the conservative movement begin to understand that, and if they do, will it be too late?

New documentary in the works about Zohran Mamdani that's bound to be sugarcoated

It appears the leftists in Hollywood decided to give NYC's first Muslim mayor more backing for the sake of it, by producing a documentary all about him that's bound to be mega-biased as can be:

A new documentary will chronicle openly socialist Zohran Mamdani’s rise to become Mayor of New York City, a journey that began in 2023.

The documentary will be directed Julia Bacha, who also serves as the creative director of the non-profit Just Vision, which reportedly tells stories that shine “a spotlight on the Israel-Palestine conflict,” per TheWrap.

“It was her interest in Israel and Palestine that led Bacha to Mamdani three years ago,” noted the outlet. “The Brazil-born filmmaker heard in 2023 about a group of New York activists who were calling for charities to stop using tax-deductible donations to fund Israeli settlements.”

Bacha said the documentary began as a focus on whether Mamdani and his team of pro-Palestinian lawmakers will be able to hold their assembly seats through New York’s next election cycle, but it instead morphed into him climbing to become mayor. She reportedly captured over 200 hours of footage chronicling this rise and was especially captivated by the influence of his filmmaker mother, Mira Nair.

For now, this is certainly telling enough. Another disturbing thing about Mamdani was his being "sworn in" to position as mayor on a koran instead of a bible. That says all you need to know what's going wrong in the USA, much as in Europe. This looks to be yet another documentary that gives the whole concept a bad name.

Theater play about October 7, 2023 will be shown at Kennedy Center

The playwrights who developed a theater show about October 7, 2023 will soon be bringing it to the Kennedy Center, which Donald Trump made efforts to renovate for the better:

Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, producers of the Breitbart movie My Son Hunter, will soon be bringing their acclaimed play about the horrific October 7 terrorist attacks to the Kennedy Center this year.

“The play, which the New York Post has described as ‘spellbinding… powerful and a sanctuary for truth,’ will be the first controversial play to be performed in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since the Trump administration took it over,” said the announcement from Phelim McAleer.

[...] The play ran for six weeks during its 2024 run in New York City and reportedly “required a permanent police presence” due to its sensitive subject matter. Theater Scene called it “incredibly powerful” while Stage and Cinema hailed it as “a snapshot in time, as remembered by eyewitnesses,” insisting that audiences “see what is there in the moment.”

Speaking with Breitbart News prior to its release, writer Phelim McAleer said the world must not forget the tragedy of October 7.

“The progressive elites seem to want the world to forget about October 7 and what happened that day. And they are being successful,” McAleer told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement. We were in Ireland on October 7 and right away. People started talking about the need for a cease-fire and how terrible it was that they were ‘Turning off the electricity in Gaza.’”

“Everyone wanted to move on from October 7 but there would be no War in Gaza if it wasn’t for October 7,” he added.

What was especially disgraceful is how violence was being incited outside a theater by repulsive creeps who obviously didn't want anybody to be informed. The same movements involved doubtlessly oppose any such play about September 11, 2001. Of course, ever since Zohran Mamdani was elected NYC mayor, that's added insult to injury. I'm glad the Kennedy Center's running this play now, as it definitely needs to be run in many more venues, even overseas.

Communists in NYC accompany the increasing Muslim street prayer

From Christine Williams at Front Page, we see NYC seems to be quite a haven for communists:

🚨 JUST IN: Communist-funded paid protestors and WHITE LIBERALS are ALL OVER New York City right now, they are demanding Nicolas Maduro be freed and returned

EVERY SINGLE ONE is a traitor to America.

Sponsored by Communist funders. DEPORT THEM!pic.twitter.com/xJ2dd1nR7C

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 4, 2026

No doubt, these traitors will be protesting in front of the federal court where Nicolas Maduro will face trial soon enough. A vital query in all this mess is, who's funding these neo-communists? And lest we forget, Times Square appears to have become a leading prayer area for Muslims in NYC:

Times Square is fully BLOCKED by Muslims praying.

I can't believe this is New York.

pic.twitter.com/hDJQPllgox

— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) January 3, 2026

Unfortunately, I can believe it is. With the worst part being how NY state has clearly become a leftist bastion over the years, one of the main reasons it's at such a dismal level now. And it's sickening to wonder what any leftists in NY today think of the victims of September 11, 2001.

Zohran Mamdani sworn into office on the koran

NYC's first Muslim mayor was sworn into office, and perhaps unshockingly, on a koran instead of a bible:

Socialist Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City just after midnight Thursday, taking the oath of office as he placed his hand on the Islamic Quran in a private ceremony.

In doing so Mamdani, a Democrat, was confirmed as the first Muslim leader of America’s biggest city.

“This is truly the honor and the privilege of a lifetime,” the 34-year-old said in a brief speech, AP reports.

The strictly invitation-only gathering, overseen by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a political ally, took place at the old City Hall station, one of the city’s original subway stops known for its stunning arched ceilings.

Mamdani’s wife, the artist Rama Duwaji, held out the Quran over which Mamdani took his oath of office.

It's not hard to guess he had a private ceremony for starters because he didn't want any booing taking place if he did it publicly. That said, it's almost fitting the ceremony was held down in a subway station no longer in use, because that's where his whole agenda belongs. Down in the dumps. Also note, lest we forget, that he's the first politician in New York, if anywhere, who's been sworn into office on the koran itself.

Anyway, he's soon bound to cause disaster in more ways than meets the eye. He recently appointed Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who defended one of al Qaeda's jihadists, to a prominent position on his staff. That's certainly another red flag. NYC faces dark days indeed.

Brigitte Bardot passes away at 91

The French actress who later became a political activist has died at 91:

Brigitte Bardot, the French screen legend who walked away from the film industry to support animal rights and lead opposition to open borders and mass immigration, has died. She was 91.

The Guardian reports Paris-born Bardot shot to international fame with the 1956 film And God Created Woman, written and directed by her then-husband Roger Vadim.

For the next two decades she embodied the idea of the archetypal “sex kitten.”

But what's amazing is that she did recognize the Muslim threat:

Bardot’s outspoken support of animal rights evolved into comments about ethnic minorities and open support for France’s Front National, resulting in a string of convictions for racial hatred.

Acknowledged as a symbol of woman’s liberation, Bardot told Le Figaro in 2015 she was against the Muslim face veil.

“Communitarianism takes on too much importance. It is the culmination of thirty years of laxity.”

A committed free speech activist, the actress faced trial five times between 1997 and 2008 for “inciting racial hatred” including for comments criticising mass Muslim immigration in France.

On one of these occasions, she was convicted for “decrying the loss of French identity and tradition due to the ‘multiplication of mosques while our church bells fall silent for want of priests’.”

She always maintained she simply respected the French way of life and sought to protect it and its inheritors.

Bardot was also a vocal opponent of Muslim halal slaughter, which often involves slaughtering an animal without stunning it, causing pain and distress before death.

And she also said years ago:

– “I am against the Islamisation of France! Our ancestors, our grandfathers, our fathers have for centuries given their lives to push out successive invaders.”

– “I like Marine (Le Pen, the leader of the French far-right) a lot. I won’t hide it. She is the only woman … who has balls.”

So much that the courts are now seeking to ban Le Pen from running in the next election. If there's anything we can appreciate from Bardot, it's that she was a realist on the topic of the Religion of Peace. And we should thank her by helping to defend her country from the Islamic invasion. No country should have to fall victim to such a horrific ideology.

Western safety continues to be under threat

Actress Noa Tishby lit Hanuka candles with Carla Bruni, and the latter said

Talking about her Jewish heritage, Bruni noted that her name is Bruni Tedeschi, and the Tedeschi is the Jewish side of the family.

“On my passport, I still have Tedeschi. My grandfather on my father's side was [from the] Jewish-Italian community,” recalled Bruni, who said that her grandfather went to study in Germany between the First World War and the Second World War. It was during this time that he felt the rise of antisemitism and ended up converting to Christianity in order to completely erase his Jewish identity.

On what is happening vis-à-vis antisemitism today, Bruni said, “I really feel terrible. I thought it was over. I thought we learned something from the past, but obviously someone is sort of canceling the past. Also, the historical past. People don't know what happened anymore, as if we forgot what happened. All my friends that are Jewish don't feel safe anymore. People are changing their name when they're ordering Uber or when they're ordering a pizza. I would never think that this would happen, never, and they're basically all leaving France.”

Asked by Tishby what she thinks the Jewish community should do in times like this, Bruni replied that they should “resist” through education and talking.

Well they also have to start pushing back against Islamic indoctrination, and show the courage for doing so. And they also have to condemn magazine writers who take blame-the-victim positions, and that includes "kapos" who use their ethnic background as a shield for what they're doing.

USA state secretary Marco Rubio followed up on this news by warning that Europe is not just destroying their culture, they're also wearing security links with the USA:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that Europe risks destroying the “shared culture” of the West and in turn weaken bonds with the United States.

At a press briefing from the Department of State in Washington DC on Friday, Secretary of State Rubio doubled down on the assertions made in the White House’s National Security Strategy memo, which declared that Europe faces “civilizational erasure” if it continues globalist policies of mass migration and attacks on fundamental liberties such as freedom of speech.

The memo has riled feathers in Europe, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz saying that many aspects of the document were “unacceptable to us from a European perspective”. Meanwhile, the unelected head of the European Commission — the executive arm of the EU — Ursula von der Leyen demanded that the United States not “interfere” in European democracy.

Responding to the pushback, Secretary Rubio said on Friday: “You go to these NATO meetings and you meet with people, what they will tell you our shared history, our shared legacy, our shared values, our shared priorities. That’s what they talk about as the reason for this alliance.

“Well, if you erase your shared history, your shared culture, your shared ideology, your shared priorities, your shared principles, then what – then you just have a straight-up defense agreement. That’s all you have.”

One that may not even exist any longer as a result of leading to a caliphate on European soil. Something vital to consider is that if an Islamic caliphate is established in Europe one day, it could lead to multiple times the danger Iran's nuclear development imposes, and still does. They can't go easy on Europe's governments, based on how they continue to drag the quality of life down with them for the sake of Islamofascism.

Update: see also this article and this one too on how Iran's tyrants are still not willing to surrender.

Update 2: a new poll's discovered that 1 in 3 Muslims in France want sharia applied globally.

More of the Mamdani effect in motion, at NYC schools

A Holocaust survivor was denied a chance to give a speech at a New York school, because the principal didn't like his messages:

The principal of a Brooklyn middle school created controversy this week by turning down the opportunity to have a Holocaust survivor speak to students.

Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement Thursday that he has met with that survivor, Sami Steigmann, in the past, and that "he is absolutely the right person to speak with kids about the atrocities of the Holocaust."

The snubbing of Sami Steigmann

Last month, a parent in the Boerum Hill section of the borough wrote Arin Rusch, the principal of Middle School 447, asking to bring Steigmann in as a speaker, saying he's "very relatable, especially with youth."

Rusch responded, in part, "We've had Holocaust survivors speak in the past," adding, "It can really help build empathy and counter antisemitism."

However, she also said, "In looking at his website materials, I also don't think that Sami's presentation is right for our public school setting, given his messages around Israel and Palestine. I'd love to explore other possible speakers."

"I wish I was able to talk to her to find out why she feels that way, what is the reason, because just being proud of being Jewish does not disqualify me to be a speaker," Steigmann said.

Based on what the principal brings up, it's clear on the one hand, she buys into the palestine propaganda as an Arab/Islamic state hook, line and sinker, and it wouldn't be shocking if she'd refuse to accept it was all a concoction of the Roman empire in remote times. On the other hand, she doubtless despises Mr. Steigman's respect for the actual country his ancestry originated from, and believes he's not allowed to be proud of his ethnicity. On which note:

On Steigmann's website, aside from two Q&A slides that have the Israeli flag as the backdrop, slide number 57 explains Zionism. One bullet point reads, "No other state would accept Jews before Israel was created, during the time of the Holocaust and beyond."

No doubt, she also opposes anything to do with Zionism, which is just a synonym for patriotism and nationalism. And this is also obviously the Zohran Mamdani effect, even before he's begun his term of office as NYC's first Muslim mayor.

Moshe Spern is the president of United Jewish Teachers.

"There seems to be a movement of separating Jews from Israel and now there seems to be a movement of separating the Holocaust from Jews and separating the Holocaust from Israel," Spern said. "We cannot allow New York City to continue down a path that censors and shuts out Jews for their viewpoints and especially Holocaust survivors."

I would also strongly recommend making a similar case for Armenian historians on Turkey's genocide during WW1, and 911 Families/survivors, who're doubtless censored and blacklisted by many school systems too in New York. Sadly, this is bound to get worse under the incoming Mamdani, and victims of October 7, 2023 could also be blacklisted.

In the meantime, the NY Post notes that without a doubt, Mamdani will also cancel an anti-BDS order issued by outgoing mayor Eric Adams. And while NY governor Kathy Hochul may have distanced herself from Mamdani's positions, it wouldn't be shocking if she took no proper action to prevent him from destroying NYC as he's bound to do soon enough.

7/10 of French voters support a ban on Islamic veils

More opposition to Islamic niqabs is growing among the French public:

Opposition to outward displays of devotion to Islam appears be growing among the French people, with a survey finding that seven in ten voters would back a ban on the wearing of veils in public.

The liberal secularist values of the Fifth French Republic look set for a collision course with the burgeoning Muslim population, which has been imported mainly from France’s former colonies in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

With surveys suggesting that second and third generations of migrants are becoming more radical in their adherence to the Qur’an as groups like the Muslim Brotherhood take advantage of the emerging parallel societies fostered in ethnic minority enclaves, the issue of assimilation has become more pressing.

One integrationist proposal which appears to be gaining ground is to expand the restrictions on Islamic garb in public. In 2011, the government prohibited full face covering veils such as the burqa or niqab, and now some argue that this should be extended to head coverings such as the hijab.

According to a CSA survey for Le Journal du Dimanche, 69 per cent of French voters would support a ban on the Islamic veil in public. This, the paper noted, was an increase of eight points since 2022, when 61 per cent said that they were in favour of such a move.

Unsurprisingly, supporters of right wing parties such as the populist National Rally and the establishment centre-right Les Républicains were most in favour of a law to bar veils in public, at 82 and 80 per cent respectively. This was followed by supporters of the liberal Macronist coalition, 65 per cent of whom backed a ban.

Overall, 51 per cent of leftist voters also favour a ban, yet, supporters of the hard left Greens or the radical France in Revolt (La France Insoumise/LFI) party of Morocco-born Jean-Luc Mélenchon were both opposed at 65 and 56 per cent.

I think that can tell quite a bit about modern communists, and that perhaps they don't consider their positions as good as those of the Religion of Peace. Suggesting they consider more barbaric ideologies better than their own. That's one of the main reasons the 21st century resurgence of communism is such an awful thing - because it's clearly willing to align itself with the Religion of Peace, which does consider socialism acceptable, and has thus led to considerable disaster for many years now.

This is good to know much of the French public does consider it bad that Islamic veils have become a wide influence. And serious action must be taken against that, along with immigration from countries run by the Religion of Peace too.

French senators urge action against Islamofascist infiltration

Some senators in the French parliament are urging increase of defense against Islamofascist infiltration:

This week, a working group of 29 French senators submitted a 107-page report to the President of Les Républicains (LR) in the Senate, Mathieu Darnaud, warned that “Islamism is an obstacle to our national cohesion” and that fresh measures will be required to combat the infiltration by groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Le Figaro reported.

The report, led by LR Senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, said that its research, which consisted of interviews with former intelligence officers to former radical Islamists, “revealed that Islamist infiltration strategies rely on systematic double-speak, infiltration of public institutions (administration, education, sports), and the instrumentalization of democratic freedoms.”

Islamist networks, including the Muslim Brotherhood, are “structured around a secret pyramid of about one hundred sworn members” who are tasked with influencing the mind of at least 100,000 Muslims in France through between 100 and 200 mosques tied to the radical cause, the report claimed.

Thus, there is an urgen[t] need for a “comprehensive republican rearmament in the face of the Islamist offensive. This rearmament must be intellectual, legal, administrative, and political,” they argued.

It comes after a major report published in May from French intelligence found that the Muslim Brotherhood has been engaging in a “Western conquest strategy” in France over the past seven decades, placing operatives in national and EU level government posts, in NGOs, and within community institutions of Muslim minority enclaves with the purpose of advancing Sharia law.

This week, the Trump adminsitration in the United States announced the review of designating certain branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, including its founding branch in Egypt, as foreign terrorist organisations.

The Brotherhood, which specifically targets young Muslims in France, has apparently been successful in promoting hardline interpretations of the Qur’an and radicalising the youth.

A major survey earlier this month from the French Institute of Public Opinion (Ifop) found that 18-25 year old Muslims are not only more radical than their parents, but are also significantly more radical than 18 to 25s of the past.

The survey, which Ifop said exceeded “the most pessimistic estimates” about assimilation, found that six in ten young Muslims would prefer Sharia Law over the laws of France and four in ten are supportive of at least one radical Islamist group, with the Muslim Brotherhood being the most popular.

In line with the Brotherhood’s agenda of imposing strict adherence to Islamic codes, the survey found that the number of young Muslim women who weir [veils] increa[s]ed from 16 per cent in 1989 to 45 per cent today.

The French senate report described the Islamic veil as the “banner of sexual apartheid, an instrument of social control and territorial marking” and an instrument that allows “entire territories to experience ghettoization with the creation of parallel societies that escape republican norms.”

Therefore, the lawmakers called for the “the prohibition of the veiling of girls and young girls before the age of 16” and to ban the wearing of the veil by school officials “to preserve the neutrality of the school environment.”

Trump is correct to designate the Muslim Brotherhood the monster they are. Now, other countries, France in particular, must follow suit if they really want to reverse the horror that's going to continue resulting from failure to take action. This will have to include exiling the offenders, including the indoctrinated.

Zohran Mamdani's transition team includes quite a few anti-Israel activists

NYC's soon to be 1st Muslim mayor has predictably arranged for a number of anti-Israel activists to be on his transition team:

Waleed Shahid describes himself as a democratic political strategist. He has a track record of mocking Jewish outlets and making anti-Israel comments on social media.

On October 7, 2023, the day of Hamas’ massacre, Shahid tweeted, “Similar to violent militias in Ireland, South Africa, and many places around the world, Hamas is also a byproduct of Israel’s violent policies of occupation and the second-class status of Palestinians.”

Responding to his appointment, the current mayor Adams administration said, “Waleed Shahid’s role in Mamdani’s transition team isn’t a surprise - it’s confirmation. Shahid’s track record of mocking Jewish outlets aligns perfectly with Mamdani’s own silence on antisemitism.”

“Mamdani didn’t just hire Shahid - he built a pipeline for activists who treat Jew-hatred as a punchline. Meanwhile, Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn can’t walk safely, and Mamdani’s response is more committees stacked with the same extremists who cheer BDS.”

That's one beginning example of what Mamdani's staff is bound to look like very soon. Another is Tamika Mallory, and there's more about her here too:

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team announced on Monday includes a prominent activist with a history of alleged antisemitism.

Tamika Mallory, a leader of the Women’s March movement, stepped down from the board of the feminist group in 2019 amid allegations of antisemitism among the organization’s leadership.

Mallory had lionized the antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and refused to condemn his discrimination against Jews. Mallory also reportedly said that Jews were responsible for the oppression of people of color, a charge she denied.

If that's the kind of libel she's going to spew, it's chilling to think, what if she's fully okay with Islamic regimes normalizing slavery? No doubt, there'll be plenty of repellent figures on the municipal staff and in Gracie Mansion soon enough, one more reason why NYC is clearly a most insufferable place to be at this point.

Joe Sacco minimizes the seriousness of Islamic terror in India

The Washington Post wrote some fluff-coated takes on GNs published this year, and it includes one by the anti-Israel cartoonist Joe Sacco, who's now apparently trying to downplay the seriousness of Islamic terrorism in India, in the pages of a GN titled "Once and Future Riot":

For decades, Sacco has carved out a space for rigorous, fact-based journalism in comics, with books on the Palestinian territories, the Bosnian war and other topics. Here he examines the Muzaffarnagar riots that tore through Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2013. Interviewing survivors and perpetrators on both sides, he carefully depicts how relations between the region’s Hindu and Muslim communities broke down. In the process of telling the story of these few days of violence and pain, he lays out a larger narrative about the rise of Hindu nationalism that is all the more troubling for the evenhanded way he explains it.

When he attacks Indian nationalism, it's harder to believe his approach is "evenhanded", especially when the following panel suggests otherwise:

So the Muslim figure on the panel is denying there's such a thing as "love jihad", even though there have been cases of this occurring in what could be described as one of the worst forms of coercion, and attempts to force women to convert to Islam. Also notice how the panel depicts non-Muslims attacking one who is Muslim, and it's set up to make it look like they're doing it out of false accusations. What "careful depictions" is Sacco working on here? This is shameful, right down to how the non-Muslims assaulting the Islamist are made to look nasty, while the cleric, by contrast, is depicted as calm and sympathetic. The riots in Muzaffarnagar were sparked by the murder of 2 men by 7 culprits who were Islamists (and certainly had names often used by followers of the Religion of Peace), and were handed down sentences eventually for their repugnant crimes. It won't be shocking if Sacco obfuscated all that. What's drawn in the panel is anything but "fact-based".

Sacco continues to prove he's one of the worst pro-Islam propagandists in the political comics business, and I hesitate to think what disfavors he's done for 9-11 survivors in the USA in the near quarter century since the tragedy in NYC. The Wash. Post is similarly doing disfavors by sugarcoating his works, and only make clear they're one of the worst papers to talk about the comics medium in any format.

Trump did not take an objective position with Mamdani at White House meeting

When president Donald Trump met NYC's first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, at the White House for a special meeting, no firm stance on the latter's negative leanings was taken:

President Donald Trump offered an optimistic view of the direction of New York City after meeting with Democratic socialist Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday.

During a press conference that followed, Trump said the two found common ground in their desires to reduce the cost of living, while also cracking down on crime. He also acknowledged that Mamdani has “views that are a little out there,” adding that he’s likely to change.

“I feel very confident that he could do a very good job. I think he is gonna surprise some conservative people, actually,” Trump told reporters from the Oval Office.

Forget it, this does nothing to properly address the bad things Mamdani said during his campaign, and only excuses him for the offensive statements he made about Trump too. In fact, it dampens the impact of Trump's previous meeting with South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa, where the POTUS took a more objective stance regarding some of the most awful things going on the country Ramaphosa's leading, including, but not limited to, anti-white racism. Sure, Trump may have hinted he's ready to withhold funding for NYC if Mamdani follows through on anything bad, but even so, this is not the tour de force White House meeting many may have been hoping for. And that's a real shame. It won't improve the USA's situation.

Update: as noted here, Trump also failed to address Mamdani's anti-Israel rants:

After the meeting, Mamdani repeated his claims that the government of Israel is carrying out "genocide in Gaza," and said that the U.S. government is funding those actions.

"“I shared with the president in our meeting about the concern that many New Yorkers have about wanting their tax dollars to go toward the benefit of New Yorkers and their ability to afford basic dignity. There’s a desperate need not only for the following of human rights but also the following through on the promises we’ve made New Yorkers. We've spoken about the Israeli government committing genocide and I’ve spoken about our government funding it."

President Trump did not respond to those remarks during the meeting with reporters. When Mamdani was asked about the president's efforts to advance agreements in the Middle East, he replied "I appreciate all efforts toward peace. We’re tired of seeing our tax dollars fund endless wars, and I also believe that we have to follow through on the international human rights, and I know that still today those are being violated, and that continues to be work that has to be done, no matter where we’re speaking of.”

Later, Trump was asked about Mamdani's threat to detain Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to New York, and he briefly answered, "We did not discuss that."

In addition, Mamdani's spokeswoman Dora Pekec, referenced his recent objections to the Nefesh B'Nefesh event held in a New York synagogue: "The Mayor-elect has discouraged the language used at last night’s protest and will continue to do so. He believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation, and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law."

Through his spokeswoman, Mamdani continues to take a double-standard on the issue of immigrating to Israel, and Trump's failure to discuss Mamdani's use of a forked tongue approach is hugely disappointing.

Siege of NYC synagogue by pro-jihadists calling for murder makes clear the Mamdani era has just begun

A crowd of pro-jihad monsters in NYC besieged a synagogue, making calls for murder, almost 2 months before Zohran Mamdani begins his undeserved career as the Big Apple's first Muslim mayor:

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists besieged Manhattan’s prestigious Park East Synagogue on Wednesday night, chanting, “Globalize the intifada,” “Death to the IDF,” and “take another settler out,” in what critics warned is “just the beginning” of a radicalized climate under socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

The nighttime demonstration targeted an event about Jewish immigration to Israel hosted inside the synagogue, which has stood on East 67th Street since 1890 and also houses a prominent Jewish day school. Organizers from Pal-Awda New York and New Jersey, Within Our Lifetime, Jewish Voice for Peace New York, and allied anti-Israel groups promoted the rally as “No settlers on stolen land” and a “protest to stop the settler recruiting fair,” branding the program as a “settler recruiting” event.

Radical pro-Palestinian activists pounded drums and unleashed a barrage of incendiary chants, including “Resistance is glorious,” “Intifada revolution,” “No peace on stolen land,” “We don’t want no two states, we want forty-eight,” and “From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada,” while signs declared, “Zionism is a death cult” and “No settlers on stolen land.” [...]

Cantor Benny Rogosnitzky, who serves as both the cantor of Park East Synagogue and the director of the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School, described the scene as “very disturbing,” noting that demonstrators shouted phrases such as “Kill the Jews,” “Destroy Israel,” and “No Jews in America.” He said many members of the community were “very, very concerned” by the language and by the decision to target a synagogue, according to the New York Post. [...]

Rabbi Elchanan Poupko, who first posted video of the protest, wrote that “antisemites showed up outside Park East Synagogue and are chanting for intifada,” stressing that the synagogue’s senior rabbi is a Holocaust survivor who vividly remembers Kristallnacht and now sees “the same human material” outside his own shul. He insisted that “this is not about Gaza and has never been about Gaza” and that the demonstration “is an attack on the Jewish people.”

That any authorities in NYC would allow such a demonstration to go ahead when chants of murder are present is no better than any UK authorities who allowed similar language to be used by Islamofascists who were demonstrating against the Danish Mohammed cartoons 2 decades ago. Even before this particular case, there was a most disturbing incident a few months ago where the NYPD welcomed policewomen wearing hijabs, as seen in the following video clip:

The NYPD Has Been Conquered From Within

Twenty-four years after 9/11, the NYPD parades Sharia-adherent female officers in uniform, pimping the hijab to non-Muslims.

The very force sworn to protect New Yorkers now pushes Islam’s flag of submission.

No planes. No bombs. Islam… pic.twitter.com/yadEbzcLj3

— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) September 3, 2025

This is a disgrace to the uniform, and should rightly have people wondering what kind of people are running the outfit in the Big Apple. It's bound to get much worse under Mamdani, of course, and leftist New Yorkers who're okay with this are also responsible for delivering a blow to 9-11 Families by extension.

Update: here's more about the topic from Daniel Greenfield.

Far-left Twitch streamer supposedly likes Jewish-created comics despite his hostility to Gal Gadot and Israel

Warner Todd Huston at Breitbart reported about a left-wing Twitch streamer named Hasan Piker, who attacked Gal Gadot for all the wrong reasons, with the most bizarre part being that he supposedly likes a franchise originally sheparded by Jewish publishers:

Left-wing, antisemitic streaming personality Hasan Piker is attacking Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot, calling her a “dog shit actress,” and blasting her for her steadfast support for Israel.

The radical Twitch streamer was interviewed by Variety and asked about the campaign signed onto by New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s mother to have the Israeli-born Gadot banned from the Oscars for daring to support Israel. The paper asked Piker “if such a campaign was fair.”

Hasan responded by taking a swipe at the Fast and Furious star’s acting abilities.

“I think she should be banned from the Oscars for being a dogshit actress. I think she has no business being there for the crime of what she has done to not only the DC franchise, but really any movie she’s been a part of,” Piker said.

He followed that attack up acting as if he was joking with that broadside and then blasted Gadot for her support for Israel, couching it in a sexist diatribe.

“All jokes aside, Gal Gadot serves an important role in normalizing Israel as not a fascist ethno-state, but instead a place where a lot of beautiful women come from,” he continued. “And those beautiful women happen to serve in the IDF, because there’s also this weird sexualization of the forces as well that takes place, and it plays another role in normalizing Israel and its activities and actions, and whitewashing it.”

So he blames Gadot for doing...what exactly to the DC franchise? What's ironic is that the 1st WW movie had a Turkish soldier as one of the members of Steve Trevor's group, and the 2nd had anti-American propaganda making it look like the USA was to blame for all the troubles that could be found in the middle east/north Africa, yet all the creep cares about is Gadot, and he even says exactly what sex-negative wokesters would want to hear, about Israeli soldier girls. Another thing that's also horrific about this Piker is that:

Piker has also said that American ”deserved” to be attacked on 9/11.

“America deserved 9/11, dude. Fuck it I’m saying it,” Piker said back in 2019 during an expletive-laced tirade.

Piker later doubled down on blaming America for 9/11, a terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 in New York, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon.

This is exactly why it's stunning Variety would ever give this man a platform, seeing how he's desecrated the memory of thousands of 911 victims. In the interview itself from Variety, Piker even opportunistically sought to laud James Gunn's Superman movie (which is based on the classic creation of 2 Jewish 18-year-olds, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster):

Gadot may have ruined the DC franchise for Piker, but James Gunn is redeeming it. When “Superman” opened on July 11, Piker made viral the idea that the fictional nation of Boravia is a stand-in for Israel. In the film, Boravia, backed by U.S.-made weaponry, drops bombs on and oppresses its desert neighbor, prompting Superman to intercede. Gunn has since denied that the plotline has “anything to do with the Middle East.”

“James Gunn is a lot more woke than he lets on. And he lets on how woke he is all the time,” Piker says, still certain of the director and DC chief’s intention all these months later. “Come on, man, you made the [Boravian leader] look like David Ben-Gurion. He just straight-up looks one-to-one like the first prime minister of Israel. We don’t even care what you say about this. We know exactly what we’re looking at.”

Well, like I said before, this is exactly why I don't find these modern live action superhero movies worth wasting dough on. But it's definitely a bizarre oxymoron how somebody that antisemitic actually wants anything to do with Jewish-developed franchises. Though WW's own creators may not have been Jewish, the editors/publishers certainly were, and Superman's having Jewish creators is already old news. Which beggars the query - aside from how Variety wasted tons of space giving a platform to somebody who led to sponsors withdrawing their support for Twitch, was even accused of electrocuting a dog, and was accused by another streamer of sexual misconduct with a minor in Germany. What is so special about such awful people that they simply must be given a platform to spew their repellent drivel? Addtionally tragic is that Piker has feminist defenders at sites like The Mary Sue, and one exploited the opportunity to attack Gadot in turn:

We also can’t forget when she blamed the box office flop of 2025’s Snow White on how the cast was asked about Israel. Gal, it bombed because Rachel Zegler was the only good thing about it, and she can only carry it so much.

Frankly, it’s tiresome to listen to her continuously deflect blame. Maybe look inside yourself and see where the real problem is. More people should speak out like Piker is doing.

Frankly, it's tiresome and disgusting how the writer even normalizes his repulsive screeds, right down to the use of profanity. Though it does make clear that, no matter how left-leaning the screenplays for movies like the two WW movies could be, it won't convince antisemites and racists to abandon their loathsome ways. Perhaps this is exactly why it's atrocious in retrospect that the film studio and Patty Jenkins applied anything potentially woke to the screenplays for the WW movies, and Gadot approved/went along, because it's clear that, in the long run, it will not change the minds of anti-Israelists.

Anyway, again, it's bizarre how men like Piker could actually embrace anything to do with entertainment franchises, whether comics, movies or both, that originally had Jewish overseers decades ago. But, chances are he's not really a fan, despite what he's saying, so much as he is a fan of the politics Gunn stealthed into the Superman movie. There do indeed appear to be quite a few unpleasant people out there who, if they do read/watch certain corporate-owned products, it's only because they agree with the politics applied, not because they actually admire the Israeli-descended creators and publishers who originated specific comics in their time. But all men like Piker do is indicate they really don't have any solid positions, and apart from the loathsome things they say, they're laughable in the extreme.

An anti-Israeli movement encourages murder for money

In most horrific yet unshocking news, an anti-Israeli movement is offering bounties for murdering Israeli academics:

Bounties for the murder of Israeli academics are being offered on an anti-Zionist group's website, with profiles and personal details of targets also provided to potential contract killers.

The Punishment for Justice Movement website offers $50000 for murdering a targeted Israeli academic, $100,000 for the murder of "special targets," and other financial awards for providing information on them or committing acts of intimidation.

The group lists the alleged home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social media accounts, and even identification numbers of hundreds of academics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Harvard University, and European Organization for Nuclear Research.

Some of those listed reside outside of Israel, including in the United States of America.

And who exactly is hosting the website in discussion? Isn't that aiding and abetting a crime? The terrorist organization in question must be shut down and arrested for encouraging murder and jihadism. This is very serious, and sites like what's reported about cannot be allowed to remain on the web, nor can the terrorists running them be allowed to continue with their repulsive criminal activities.

Far-left Twitch streamer supposedly likes Jewish-created comics despite his hostility to Gal Gadot and Israel

Warner Todd Huston at Breitbart reported about a left-wing Twitch streamer named Hasan Piker, who attacked Gal Gadot for all the wrong reasons, with the most bizarre part being that he supposedly likes a franchise originally sheparded by Jewish publishers:

Left-wing, antisemitic streaming personality Hasan Piker is attacking Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot, calling her a “dog shit actress,” and blasting her for her steadfast support for Israel.

The radical Twitch streamer was interviewed by Variety and asked about the campaign signed onto by New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s mother to have the Israeli-born Gadot banned from the Oscars for daring to support Israel. The paper asked Piker “if such a campaign was fair.”

Hasan responded by taking a swipe at the Fast and Furious star’s acting abilities.

“I think she should be banned from the Oscars for being a dogshit actress. I think she has no business being there for the crime of what she has done to not only the DC franchise, but really any movie she’s been a part of,” Piker said.

He followed that attack up acting as if he was joking with that broadside and then blasted Gadot for her support for Israel, couching it in a sexist diatribe.

“All jokes aside, Gal Gadot serves an important role in normalizing Israel as not a fascist ethno-state, but instead a place where a lot of beautiful women come from,” he continued. “And those beautiful women happen to serve in the IDF, because there’s also this weird sexualization of the forces as well that takes place, and it plays another role in normalizing Israel and its activities and actions, and whitewashing it.”

So he blames Gadot for doing...what exactly to the DC franchise? What's ironic is that the 1st WW movie had a Turkish soldier as one of the members of Steve Trevor's group, and the 2nd had anti-American propaganda making it look like the USA was to blame for all the troubles that could be found in the middle east/north Africa, yet all the creep cares about is Gadot, and he even say exactly what sex-negative wokesters would want to hear, about Israeli soldier girls. Another thing that's also horrific about this Piker is that:

Piker has also said that American”deserved” to be attacked on 9/11.

“America deserved 9/11, dude. Fuck it I’m saying it,” Piker said back in 2019 during an expletive-laced tirade.

Piker later doubled down on blaming America for 9/11, a terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 in New York, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon.

This is exactly why it's stunning Variety would ever give this man a platform, seeing how he's desecrated the memory of thousands of 911 victims. In the interview itself from Variety, Piker even opportunistically sought to laud James Gunn's Superman movie (which is based on the classic creation of 2 Jewish 18-year-olds, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster):

Gadot may have ruined the DC franchise for Piker, but James Gunn is redeeming it. When “Superman” opened on July 11, Piker made viral the idea that the fictional nation of Boravia is a stand-in for Israel. In the film, Boravia, backed by U.S.-made weaponry, drops bombs on and oppresses its desert neighbor, prompting Superman to intercede. Gunn has since denied that the plotline has “anything to do with the Middle East.”

“James Gunn is a lot more woke than he lets on. And he lets on how woke he is all the time,” Piker says, still certain of the director and DC chief’s intention all these months later. “Come on, man, you made the [Boravian leader] look like David Ben-Gurion. He just straight-up looks one-to-one like the first prime minister of Israel. We don’t even care what you say about this. We know exactly what we’re looking at.”

Well, like I said before, this is exactly why I don't find these modern live action superhero movies worth wasting dough on. But it's definitely a bizarre oxymoron how somebody that antisemitic actually wants anything to do with Jewish-developed franchises. Though WW's own creators may not have been Jewish, the editors/publishers certainly were, and Superman's having Jewish creators is already old news. Which beggars the query - aside from how Variety wasted tons of space giving a platform to somebody who led to sponsors withdrawing their support for Twitch, was even accused of electrocuting a dog, and was accused by another streamer of sexual misconduct with a minor in Germany. What is so special about such awful people that they simply must be given a platform to spew their repellent drivel? Addtionally tragic is that Piker has feminist defenders at sites like The Mary Sue, and one exploited the opportunity to attack Gadot in turn:

We also can’t forget when she blamed the box office flop of 2025’s Snow White on how the cast was asked about Israel. Gal, it bombed because Rachel Zegler was the only good thing about it, and she can only carry it so much.

Frankly, it’s tiresome to listen to her continuously deflect blame. Maybe look inside yourself and see where the real problem is. More people should speak out like Piker is doing.

Frankly, it's tiresome and disgusting how the writer even normalizes his repulsive screeds, right down to the use of profanity. Though it does make clear that, no matter how left-leaning the screenplays for movies like the two WW movies could be, it won't convince antisemites and racists to abandon their loathsome ways. Perhaps this is exactly why it's atrocious in retrospect that the film studio and Patty Jenkins applied anything potentially woke to the screenplays for the WW movies, and Gadot approved/went along, because it's clear that, in the long run, it will not change the minds of anti-Israelists.

Anyway, again, it's bizarre how men like Piker could actually embrace anything to do with entertainment franchises, whether comics, movies or both, that originally had Jewish overseers decades ago. But, chances are he's not really a fan, despite what he's saying, so much as he is a fan of the politics Gunn stealthed into the Superman movie. There do indeed appear to be quite a few unpleasant people out there who, if they do read/watch certain corporate-owned products, it's only because they agree with the politics applied, not because they actually admire the Israeli-descended creators and publishers who originated specific comics in their time. But all men like Piker do is indicate they really don't have any solid positions, and apart from the loathsome things they say, they're laughable in the extreme.

Why all these Mamdanis keep getting spawned in the USA

Liel Liebovitz looks at how a serious defeat was suffered in east coast elections in the USA, what with Zohran Mamdani now NYC's first Muslim mayor, and how such awful politicians end up elected. And something to consider is that Republicans are blowing it badly, which only serves to draw attention away from these pressing topics:

On one side stand figures like Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who promise a return to classical conservatism: a muscular foreign policy, aggressive free-market economics, and an unrelenting fight against the progressive chaos that took root in America under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. On the other side are candidates like Vice President J.D. Vance, pulling the party in a very different direction.

A troubling example of that direction came just last week. Vance spoke at a Turning Point USA event, the conservative movement founded by his late friend Charlie Kirk, who was murdered earlier this year by a left-wing gunman. A student in the audience asked Vance: "I'm a Christian," he said, "and I don't understand why we support Israel, a Jewish state that doesn't seem to share our values."

Vance could have easily explained the importance of the US-Israel strategic alliance. He could have emphasized the obvious point that, in a war between a Jewish democracy and an Islamist terrorist organization, there should be no question where America stands. Instead, Vance mumbled something about Trump and how Israel doesn't tell him what to do, then veered into theology: "The reality is that Jews don't believe Jesus Christ is the Messiah," said Vance, a Catholic convert baptized in 2019. "My approach has always been that if we have disagreements, we should discuss them publicly."

Imagine for a moment a serious presidential candidate declaring that Americans should publicly debate whether Catholic politicians can be trusted to represent voters rather than follow the pope's orders from Rome. Or whether Hindus, who don't believe in one God, should be allowed to run for office. Such questions sound absurd, and rightly so. The separation of church and state is a bedrock principle of the American constitution. So what made the vice president, one of the GOP's highest-ranking figures, think that the right response to a political question was to turn it into a religious one?

The answer, in short, is Tucker Carlson.

The popular television host was ousted from Fox News in 2023 under complex circumstances. He launched his own podcast and wasted no time steering it in a new ideological direction. In February 2024 he traveled to Moscow for a warm interview with Vladimir Putin, who claimed, among other things, that Poland was to blame for the Nazi invasion in World War II and that Volodymyr Zelensky was the villain in his war with Ukraine. Carlson then toured Moscow's subway and shops, telling his audience that such order and cleanliness couldn't be found in any American city.

Some raised eyebrows, lavish praise for Russia and propaganda that demeaned the US hardly sound conservative. But Carlson was just getting started. Months before the presidential election, he hosted online influencer Darryl Cooper, who told viewers that Hitler was the real victim of World War II and that Winston Churchill refused to compromise with the "peace-loving" German chancellor only because a small group of people—no need to specify who, but they control the banks and the media—pressured him.

Last month, Carlson invited an even viler guest: Nick Fuentes, a social-media personality who has repeatedly expressed admiration for Hitler and Stalin.

What drove the supposedly conservative pundit to such extremes? The reasons are many, but the overall direction is clear: Carlson, and now Vance after him, understand that to capture the imagination of young and apathetic voters, one must sound extreme and exciting.

What's told about Vance is certainly galling, because his complaint about Jews not believing in Jesus was entirely uncalled for. It would be wrong to complain that far eastern countries like India and Japan don't believe in one god, so why is Vance dampening the impact as he is? What matters is whether even non-monotheists can be vigilant and realists. Doesn't that matter to Vance any more than anybody else?

It's also troubling that the movement founded by Kirk, a pro-Israel guy who was tragically murdered, appears to be hosting somebody with "values" that are anathema to what Kirk stood for. Is Turning Point USA deteriorating? Who knows? But Vance is certainly not setting a good example here, and if he keeps this up, it will only make things worse, and take away attention from the next Mamdanis who're planning their run for office in the USA. Division on the right is one of the problems that led to where we are now.

Resignations of New York authority employees begin as result of Mamdani election

The election of Zohran Mamdani as NYC's first Muslim mayor has now led to significant resignations of city officials who find his policies and other positions abhorrent. For example, the fire department commissioner:

Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker handed in his resignation Wednesday morning — just one day after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor, The Post has learned.

Tucker, a proud Jewish philanthropist and businessman, informed Mayor Eric Adams that he would step down from the role he has held for just over 12 months on December 19, according to sources.

The FDNY boss was concerned about Mamdani’s anti-Israel hostility, with a source noting that Tucker’s support of the Jewish state “does not align with the new mayor.”

Tucker may have only held his position for about a year, but his departure from the job is understandable. Also significant is the number of police officials resigning:

In one of the least surprising developments since Zohran Mamdani won election to become mayor of New York City, the New York Post is reporting that the exodus of NYPD cops is already beginning. The Post reports that there was already a surge in police officers resigning or taking retirement in the month prior to election day.

The NYPD saw a 35% hike in cops of all ranks leaving in October – 245 police officers compared to 181 in the same month last year, according to Police Pension Fund data.

’Morale is down because everyone is concerned about the policies Mamdani wants to put in place,’ said Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro.

This is in response to comments Mamdani has made during his campaign, where he said he would get rid of New York’s Strategic Response Group (SRG), which handles crowd control when there are riots, protests, “civil disorders,” and big events. You often see them clad with neon-green and black uniforms, sometimes riding on bicycles or using bicycles for crowd control. SRG is housed within New York’s Special Operations Bureau.

[...] The Post added that compounding the “plummeting post-Election Day morale is that Mamdani has also said he would create a new Department of Community Safety (DCS) that would dispatch mental health professionals to 911 calls about people in crisis, rather than cops.

“’How’s that going to work when the person pulls out a gun or a knife?’ a Bronx cop pondered.”

What's also chilling, as mentioned before, is if Mamdani turns whatever's left of the police into a sharia patrol movement. Of course, even before this, there were signs the police were more than perfectly willing to arrest all the wrong people and take blame-the-victim positions, recalling an Israeli women was arrested for defending herself from Hamas supporters a year ago, so some could find it hard to feel sorry if they weren't doing much to differentiate themselves from district attorney Alvin Bragg, whose policies have already precipitated disasters for NYC.

The Big Apple used to have such a good reputation. Now, it's destined to become rotten, and an utter fiasco clogged with all the worst of criminals, misogynists and racists.