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Will Xi Jinping Attack America to Prevent His Political Demise?

by Gordon G. Chang  •  July 14, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • "Xi is obviously in some sort of trouble. The smoke keeps pouring out." — Charles Burton, Senior Fellow, Prague-based Sinopsis think tank, former Canadian diplomat, to Gatestone Institute, July 2025.

  • The world is at great risk... if Xi is now engaged in no-holds-barred fighting for his political life. In this case — the most probable in my view — he might feel he has every reason to stop at nothing to save himself.

  • It is apparent that Chinese agents are now in place in America. Toward the end of the Biden administration, U.S. Border Patrol officers noticed packs of military-aged Chinese males coming from Mexico, all outfitted in identical kit. Border Patrol apparently knew that some pack members had links to the Chinese military. In addition, Border Patrol suspects that China's military was orchestrating the infiltration.

  • Why would Xi Jinping order an attack? Perhaps to show other Communist Party figures that he has the strength to take on the United States — or to create a crisis during which no one would dare to depose him.

Why would Xi Jinping order an attack? Perhaps to show other Communist Party figures that he has the strength to take on the United States — or to create a crisis during which no one would dare to depose him. Pictured: Xi speaks at the Great Hall of People, on May 13, 2025 in Beijing. (Photo by Florence Lo/Pool/Getty Images)

Rumors say mighty Xi Jinping will lose his Communist Party and Chinese state posts in the next few months. There is, however, also a large group of China watchers and academics who say that little or nothing is out of place and Xi is fine.

Whatever the truth, the U.S. and other countries need to prepare for the regime to lash out without warning. Xi may now have reason to take the world by surprise.

There are clear signs that Xi has lost control of the People's Liberation Army, the most important faction in the Communist Party of China. A series of articles, beginning on July 9 of last year, in PLA Daily, the military's main propaganda organ, praised "collective leadership," a clear criticism of Xi's one-man style of rule. At the same time, many of Xi's loyalists were removed from their posts.

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Call It Another Dreyfus Moment for the French Government

by Lawrence Kadish  •  July 14, 2025 at 4:00 am

Pictured: Employees of the Paris Air Show work on blocking and censoring the Israel Aerospace Industries exhibit, on June 16, 2025. (Photo by Mathieu Rabechault/AFP via Getty Images)

While much of the mainstream media failed to focus on it, the French government recently blocked off the exhibitions of all Israeli defense companies at this year's annual Paris Air Show, held last month.

With echoes of the cynically rigged trial of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French Army officer falsely convicted of treason in 1895, the French exclusively targeted the Israeli displays amidst the many corporate booths displaying the military wares manufactured by defense firms from around the world.

Israel Aerospace Industries CEO Boaz Levy told Aviation Week and Space Technology, "We are shocked by the behavior of the Paris Air Show organizers and the French authorities..." But perhaps we shouldn't be, because anti-Semitism has deep roots in France. Some historians believe that it was Dreyfus being "railroaded" to the infamous prison colony, Devil's Island, that helped inspire Theodor Herzl to found the modern Zionist movement in 1897.

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France and Europe: Increasingly Submitting to Islam

by Guy Millière  •  July 13, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • "We have imported another civilization."– Former MP Philippe de Villers, YouTube, "eight months ago."

  • "[W]here do those who do this come from? And why are they still here?" -- Éric Zemmour, president of Reconquest, a right-of-center party he created in 2021. When he spoke out, he was sentenced to heavy fines, X, June 1, 2025.

  • When illegal immigrants are arrested, all of them are given an "Obligation to Leave French Territory" (Obligation de Quitter le Territoire Français/OQTF) and ordered to leave France immediately. No one, however, including the police, deports them, so most do not go.

  • France is being ravaged by the rise of Islam.

  • The United Kingdom, with a smaller proportion of Muslims than France or Belgium, seems also to be undergoing a slow submission to Islam.

  • Political parties in power for decades in all Western European countries -- except Italy -- seem deliberately blind to the danger facing them. Any party willing to take on the "great replacement," is deliberately kept out of power.

  • The Dutch election will be closely watched. Wilders's chances of winning again in October could promise a revival for the Netherlands -- a second Enlightenment -- and a regeneration for Europe.

For years in France every celebration has led to riots, looting and violence. The police rarely intervene. If a rioter is injured by a policeman, the policeman could end up in prison. Arrests are few. Often those who are arrested are immediately released. Pictured: Riot police detain a man as Paris Saint-Germain supporters celebrate by rioting, after PSG won the UEFA Champions League soccer match, on the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris on May 31, 2025. (Photo by Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images)

Paris. June 21, 2025. Annual Music Festival. Ten years ago, orchestras played peacefully in the streets. Families strolled and stopped to listen. Security reigned and was taken for granted. In recent years, the atmosphere has changed -- radically. Families no longer go out. Young men coming from the Islamic suburbs flood the city, prevent musicians they do not like from playing by shouting insults and threats, and by attacking anyone who gets in their way. This year, more than a hundred rape complaints were filed with the police. Countless knife attacks have left dozens injured. Stores are looted. What took place in Paris also took place in every major city of France.

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The Iran Ceasefire: A Dicey Intermission

by Amir Taheri  •  July 13, 2025 at 4:00 am

  • [T]he recent flare-up has deeper reason than a concern about Iran building a nuclear arsenal, something which all directors general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from Hans Blix to Muhammad Al-Baradei and Rafael Grossi have repeatedly said they cannot confirm.

  • Tehran's fourth demand may be the hardest for any American administration to even contemplate accepting: Accepting the Islamic Republic's right to "export" its model of governance, its Islamic values and its campaign for "global justice" just as the US does by propagating its values. In other words, Tehran says: Let us do what we please and we promise not to make the bomb that we have always said we never intended to build.

  • [M]id-term election in the US... could transform Trump into a lame-duck president if Elon Musk's new political Tesla manages to rob the Republicans of just six seats in the Congress and two or three in the Senate. At the same time, Israeli Prim Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's numerous political enemies may eventually manage to bring him down.

  • Thus, regime insiders believe it is imperative to prolong the current ceasefire, even through negotiations, until the two big clouds shaped like Trump and Netanyahu disappear like morning mist.

  • The current political situation doesn't have only two sides: steadfastness and surrender. The third side is change, of course. which means giving the enemy a victory it didn't win with war.

With varying degrees of intensity and a diversity of locations, the war of Iran vs Israel and the US started more than four decades ago. Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian watches a military parade during a ceremony marking the country's annual Army Day on April 18, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

The recent attack by Israel and the US on parts of Iran's nuclear project has already been dubbed by some commentators as the Twelve Day War.

However, that cut-off time was chosen by Tehran to back a claim that Iran managed to fight twice as long as Arab states led by Egypt did in the Six Days War of 1967.

In fact, with varying degrees of intensity and a diversity of locations, this war started more than four decades ago when the new revolutionary authorities raided the Israeli diplomatic mission in Tehran and handed it over to PLO leader Yasser Arafat on a visit as special guest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A few months later, the new revolutionary regime repeated the exercise by raiding the US Embassy and seizing its diplomats as hostages.

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Iran's New Trap vs. Trump's Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance to Transform the Middle East

by Majid Rafizadeh  •  July 12, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • President Donald J. Trump, through a bold and unapologetic foreign policy, has emerged in just a few short months, as the only leader in recent history capable of reshaping the region and challenging Iran's theocratic dictatorship with real consequences. His actions have already produced historic results...

  • If Trump settles into believing that setting back Iran's nuclear program by a few years is enough, the world will soon fall into the very trap that Tehran has set. The regime will rebuild, rearm, and reemerge stronger, angrier, and even nearer to having its bomb. The world will then once again face the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran—with perhaps no leader to stop it.

  • Now is not the time to offer the regime a lifeline in the form of negotiations or sanctions relief. The regime will doubtless try its old tricks—sending diplomats to Western capitals, promising temporary compliance, and begging for centrifuges for "peaceful energy" and a new "deal." This is a trap

  • Any deal now will not benefit the United States. It will only help the Iranian regime recover, rebuild its economy, and ultimately return to its path of terror. The time has come to "finish the job."

  • The Iranian regime must not be allowed to survive long enough to recover. The goal is not to delay the problem but to solve it.

President Donald J. Trump, through a bold and unapologetic foreign policy, has emerged in just a few short months, as the only leader in recent history capable of reshaping the region and challenging Iran's theocratic dictatorship with real consequences. His actions have already produced historic results. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

It took decades — across multiple presidencies, wars, and failed negotiations — before the United States finally had a president who understood, with both clarity and conviction, how to confront the Iranian regime and transform the trajectory of the Middle East.

President Donald J. Trump, through a bold and unapologetic foreign policy, has emerged in just a few short months, as the only leader in recent history capable of reshaping the region and challenging Iran's theocratic dictatorship with real consequences. His actions have already produced historic results — from crippling the regime's nuclear infrastructure to fostering unprecedented peace deals.

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Warnings to President Trump on the Future of Gaza

by Robert Johnson  •  July 11, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • The Trump administration is being sent early warnings of the priorities of its possible "partner," Qatar, for the future of the Gaza Strip.

  • "His Excellency" Mohammed al-Rumaihi, Qatar's former ambassador to the United States, and former Minister of Municipality and Environment, noted on July 5 that he is concerned about "keep[ing] the Palestinian cause alive – and its people," and slammed Israel: "No major capital—neither Beijing, nor Moscow, nor Washington—has labelled the Gaza campaign as 'systematic killing,' let alone moved to punish Israel under Chapter VII of the UN Charter."

  • You are not left to guess which side of the conflict he is on.

  • Meetings currently appear to be underway to create a possible "consortium" of Arab and Muslim nations to govern the Gaza Strip – basically leaving in place many of the same radical Islamic adherents of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, of which it is an offshoot, as before -- most likely to make sure that Israel can be attacked again in the future as many times as necessary to ensure its extinction.

  • "Qatar is at the top of funding terrorism worldwide, even more than Iran." — Udi Levy, former senior official of Israel's Mossad spy agency, who dealt with economic warfare against terrorist organizations, Ynet, April14, 2024.

  • President Donald Trump -- whose initial instincts are often perfect until "advisors" try to talk him out of them – originally suggested an American-built "Riviera" on the Gaza Strip. Combined with a military base, it would greatly serve the interests of the United States as well as Israel – similarly to how the US stations the forward HQ of Central Command and Air Forces Central Command at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, to protect the oil-rich peninsula. American forces at Al-Udeid, the largest US military base in the Middle East, effectively serve as Qatar's private air-force. Qatar might even have snookered some US bureaucrats into thinking that they are doing the US a favor by allowing its troops to be there.

  • Trump's original idea of a US "Riviera" in Gaza, stems from an "America First" point of view, may be the most constructive way to successfully deter further military engagement for the United States in the Middle East.

  • At the moment, however, it is crucial not to allow Qatar, Egypt or any Arab state to get anywhere near Gaza. "His Excellency" al-Rumaihi from Qatar is clearly telling you so.

The Trump administration is being sent early warnings of the priorities of its possible "partner," Qatar, for the future of the Gaza Strip. Pictured: U.S. President Donald J. Trump speaks with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani as he departs the Al Udeid Air Base on May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The Trump administration is being sent early warnings of the priorities of its possible "partner," Qatar, for the future of the Gaza Strip.

"His Excellency" Mohammed al-Rumaihi, Qatar's former ambassador to the United States, and former Minister of Municipality and Environment, noted on July 5 that he is concerned about "keep[ing] the Palestinian cause alive – and its people," and slammed Israel:

"No major capital—neither Beijing, nor Moscow, nor Washington—has labelled the Gaza campaign as 'systematic killing,' let alone moved to punish Israel under Chapter VII of the UN Charter."

You are not left to guess which side of the conflict he is on.

He goes on to suggest "political engagement.... in negotiation rooms and policy forums."

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Muslim Leaders Who Oppose Terrorism: The New Heroes

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  July 10, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • "You [Israelis] represent the world of brotherhood, the world of humanity, their world of affection, the world of democracy, the world of freedom." — Hassen Chalghoumi, imam from France and head of the visiting delegation, at a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, July 7, 2025.

  • When Muslims say they support the Palestinian "resistance," they are actually voicing support for terrorism and Hamas's October 7 atrocities against Israelis and others.

  • Undoubtedly, there are some Muslims who are in favor of these kinds of visits and interfaith dialogue, but they either prefer to remain neutral or are afraid to voice their opinions in public. Muslims should applaud, not condemn, Muslim leaders who reach out to Israel and Jews and speak out against Islamist terror groups, for their own future: they can choose, instead of a life of fear a life of freedom, prosperity and opportunity.

A group of brave Islamic religious leaders from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Britain who are visiting Israel this week are being condemned and ridiculed by many Muslims. The leaders are being accused of "treason" and promoting "normalization" with Israel. Pictured: The delegation tours the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, Israel, on July 8, 2025. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)

A group of brave Islamic religious leaders from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Britain who are visiting Israel this week are being condemned and ridiculed by many Muslims. The leaders are being accused of "treason" and promoting "normalization" with Israel.

The Muslim leaders did not come to Israel to stand against Muslims or the Palestinians. Rather, they came with a message of peace, coexistence and tolerance. They came to Israel out of a belief that interfaith dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims is imperative. Interfaith dialogue, which promotes peace and harmony, is important because it allows people to learn about different religions and cultures, and to appreciate the similarities and differences between them.

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Iran: Will the West Finish the Job?

by Amin Sharifi  •  July 9, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • Iran's suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran's decades-long strategy -- deny, delay, deceive -- continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability.... It has never stopped.

  • The problem is not that Iran has "suspended cooperation." The problem is that the West keeps treating each step as if it is a fresh crisis that can still be reversed with enough diplomacy.

  • Iran will not stop, and diplomacy has an extremely low probability of working for a serious, long-term solution. Forty-six years of sanctions, deterrence, and inspections have all failed. Regime change appears the only realistic solution. It is what many Iranians still risk their lives demanding, what most of Iran's neighbors would welcome, and what the broader international community would ultimately benefit from.

Iran's suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran's decades-long strategy -- deny, delay, deceive -- continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability. Pictured: Reza Najafi, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, speaks to journalists shortly at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on June 23, 2025. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran's suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran's decades-long strategy -- deny, delay, deceive -- continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability. Some commentators are now warning that Iran has suspended cooperation and may finally pursue the bomb, as if that is not already taking place. Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons for decades. It has never stopped.

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A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions

by Daniel Greenfield  •  July 9, 2025 at 4:00 am

  • Jackson received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year. These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice's biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out. And while books can become unexpected successes once released, there was little sign of that happening.

  • Penguin Random House will be publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett's book for which she received a $2 million advance. That's money the publisher seems even less likely to recoup considering that Barrett is hated among leftists and has a mixed approval rating among conservatives. Past polls show that the majority of the country can't even name a single Supreme Court justice, yet they are receiving celebrity level advances for books no one cares about.

  • Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her over $3 million.

  • Penguin is actually Bertelsmann: a German ex-Nazi publishing giant that has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist", Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility", Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Between the World and Me", and, during WWII, "The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth" all came out of Bertelsmann.

  • While the ex-Nazi foreign corporation operates under familiar names like Penguin, Random House, Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf, Viking, Putnam, Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and many others, it's actually a foreign company pushing deeply destructive products. Even as parents tried to stop their children from being exposed to sexually inappropriate content, former CEO Markus Dohle went to war against them with a $500,000 legal fund.

  • [A] foreign company that has tried to completely monopolize American publishing by seizing control of Simon and Schuster, and has intervened in American politics, is ... troubling.

  • Bertelsmann millions have gone mostly unexamined even as ProPublica, a leftist advocacy group, launched a smear campaign against Justice Thomas. The Thomas smears were repeated by every media outlet in the country which pursued the 76-year-old justice's 96-year-old mother to find out where exactly she lives and who paid the tuition for his grandnephew, yet shrug when the Supreme Court can't even form a quorum over millions from a multinational giant that has business before the court being directed to justices

  • Justice Jackson making millions for a ghostwritten memoir after spending less time on the bench than most dustcloths is an equally obvious exercise in cashing in, not literary inspiration.

Pictured: Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo, in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

Last year, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, despite being in her early 50s and having an undistinguished career before her affirmative action appointment, published a memoir.

You might be forgiven for having missed it when "Lovely One" came out. As the media politely notes, it was "briefly" on the New York Times bestseller list and is now going for half price on Amazon. That is mostly to be expected of the ghostwritten memoir of an obscure judge.

Except that Jackson received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year. These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice's biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out. And while books can become unexpected successes once released, there was little sign of that happening.

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The Judge-Emperor: The Global Coup of the Courts

by Drieu Godefridi  •  July 8, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging.... [T]his judicial imperialism... [has] become a judicial tyranny....

  • These innovations... have gradually established the Israeli Supreme Court as the ultimate arbiter of all questions, not only legal but also political. Any Israeli citizen -- and any NGO, even one funded from abroad -- has the right to ask the Supreme Court to overturn any democratic decision.... There is no decision of the Israeli government and parliament that cannot be overturned by unelected judges.

  • [Marine Le Pen and her supporters] argued, accurately, that the judges were essentially preventing the French people from voting for Le Pen.

  • There is effectively no longer a single "right-wing" measure that can be adopted in any field by Parliament or the government without being struck down by the Constitutional Council or the courts. When the left loses at the ballot box, it is certain to win in the courts. In France, the judge reigns and the people no longer seem to have sovereignty over anything.

  • The torrents of universal rules and requirements deriving from articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (e.g. privacy, dignity), and the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights are probably the worst modern example of tyrannical judicial imperialism. The anarchy of immigration in Europe is entirely of its making.

  • The US Supreme Court decided last week that the district court judges had jurisdiction over specific cases and plaintiffs in their districts -- not across the nation.

In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging. The torrents of universal rules and requirements deriving from articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (e.g. privacy, dignity), and the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (pictured) are probably the worst modern example of tyrannical judicial imperialism. (Photo by Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images)

"The judges of the nation are only the mouth that pronounces the words of the law, inanimate beings who can neither moderate its force nor its rigor."
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (1748), Book XI, Chapter VI

From Israel to the United States, via Europe, the judicial coup d'état has become permanent. In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging. Here are four salient examples of this judicial imperialism -- which have become a judicial tyranny -- and a proposed American solution.

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Do Not Rely on Egypt or Any Arab State to Bring Security to Gaza

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  July 7, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • There are also concerns that the tunnels could be used to smuggle terrorists into Gaza.

  • The Egyptians chose to ignore the smuggling as long as the weapons were making their way into the Gaza Strip and not staying in Egyptian territory. After all, these weapons were being used against Israel, not Egypt. The weapons did not pose any threat to Egypt's national security. In addition, Egyptian military and police officers apparently benefitted by accepting bribes.

  • By turning a blind eye to the massive smuggling industry, Egypt significantly contributed to transforming the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip into a major base for Islamist terrorism, paving the way for the October 7 attack on Israel.

  • Egypt never did anything to stop Hamas from staging a coup against the Palestinian Authority and seizing control of the Gaza Strip. Egypt failed to stop the flow of weapons into the Gaza Strip. Egypt does not care about the Palestinians or Israel. It only cares about its own interests, and that is why it would be a big mistake to rely on the Egyptians or any Arab state to bring security and stability to the Gaza Strip.

By turning a blind eye to the massive smuggling industry, Egypt significantly contributed to transforming the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip into a major base for Islamist terrorism, paving the way for the October 7 attack on Israel. Pictured: A large Hamas tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, beneath the Philadelphi Corridor, discovered by the Israeli military, photographed on September 13, 2024. (Photo by Sharon Aronowicz/AFP via Getty Images)

Since the Hamas-Israel war began on October 7, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have discovered an estimated 90 tunnels crossing under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The tunnels have been used by Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups to smuggle rockets and weapons into the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli military sources, there may be additional tunnels that have not been discovered. There are also concerns that the tunnels could be used to smuggle terrorists into Gaza.

The smuggling, which increased after Hamas's violent and brutal takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007, took place under the watchful eyes of Egypt, if not with its willing assistance.

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'Only Islam Is the True Religion': The Persecution of Christians, May 2025

by Raymond Ibrahim  •  July 6, 2025 at 6:00 am

  • "This is not a farmer-herder clash. It is a genocidal campaign. Our communities are being wiped out methodically. The international community must not remain silent." — Dr. Joshua Riti, a local administrator, persecution.org, May 25, 2025 - Nigeria

  • "Typically, kidnapped girls... some as young as 10, are abducted, forced to convert to Islam and raped under cover of Islamic 'marriages' and are then pressured to record false statements in favor of the kidnappers, rights advocates say. Judges routinely ignore documentary evidence related to the children's ages, handing them back to kidnappers as their 'legal wives.'" — Morning Star News, May 28, 2025 – Pakistan

  • Despite fierce opposition from Pakistan's top Islamic authority and other Islamist groups, on May 29, President Asif Ali Zardari, signed into law a landmark bill banning child marriage, setting the minimum age for marriage for both genders at 18 years, but only in the Islamabad Capital Territory, not the entire country.

  • "Somalia's constitution establishes Islam as the state religion and prohibits the propagation of any other religion... It also requires that laws comply with sharia (Islamic law) principles, with no exceptions in application for non-Muslims. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to mainstream schools of Islamic jurisprudence." — Morning Star News, May 27, 2025

  • That there are so many "accidental" fires of churches in Egypt suggests one of two things: either the extremists have...become more sophisticated... in their attacks on churches... or else Coptic Christians, for some inexplicable reason, have become the most careless, fire-prone people in the world: more Coptic churches than any other kind seem to keep "accidentally catching fire."

  • A Christian woman managed to record the savage destruction and arson the Muslims carried out. (She was ordered by State Security to remove the video, which she did; some copies, however, evaded censorship.) — Egypt

  • This is hardly the first time in Berlin that Muslims target and attack people for being Christian. — Germany

  • "Posters on the fences of the Christian and Alawite city of Tartus in Syria: Either you immediately change your religion from Christian to Muslim and convert to Islam, or you pay protection and tribute fees with your lives. Unknown individuals are distributing posters throughout the city, and at the end it is written: All religions are infidels, and only Islam is the true religion." — X, May 20, 2025 -- Syria

  • "We live like refugees in our own country." — Monsignor Najeeb, Assyrian International News Agency, May 29, 2025, -- Iraq

On May 16, a judge in Lahore handed Jessica Iqbal, a 16-year-old Catholic girl, back to her 32-year-old Muslim abductor, despite clear signs that she was coerced into claiming she had converted to Islam and married him. Pictured: The Lahore High Court. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of May 2025.

The Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Nigeria: In the opening days of May, Muslim Fulani militants killed six Christians in Plateau State. "They hacked dead three Christians... and injured four others," said a local, adding that their aim is "to drive away Christian victims of terror." A pastor warned of "a grand design... to wipe out more than 200 Christian communities." The same report notes that over 3,100 Nigerian Christians were murdered last year.

On May 7, Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians in central Nigeria, "after killing 10 others in the same area the previous month."

On May 12, the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, killed two Christian educational workers near an army base.

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An Interview on the Ouija Board

by Amir Taheri  •  July 6, 2025 at 4:00 am

  • When I propelled Ali Aqa into the imamate slot by claiming Khomeini had chosen him, he was honest enough to publicly say he didn't merit the job.

  • He even added : If you choose me as Supreme Guide, we must cry blood for Iranian nation!

  • Yet, nobody listened. World leaders, including US presidents, wrote flattering letters to him. Leftist intellectuals praised him as hero of anti-Imperialism. Our operatic generals saluted him as commander-in-chief and told him he had conquered Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen and won the hearts of European and American youths.

  • Here is the bitterest part: Many Iranians chose to treat him as a passing bad odor and didn't join those brave young men and women who at the cost of their lives challenged him in the streets of over 900 Iranian cities

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Do you have an oujia board?

No? Well, I have one and think everyone should also have it. It is a board through which you communicate with the ghosts of the past, even in the deepest recesses of Hades.

The board's name comes from a mixture of "oui" (yes in French) and "ja" (yes in German) but you could use any of the 6000 languages still in use in our shrinking Tower of Babel.

Tokok, you Morse a name on the board and the ghost you invite responds.

The other day I used the board, acquired from an old Kalmuk Ishan in Kyzilyar in Caucasia, to summon Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Bahremani Kermani.

At first, there was some confusion because the late President of the Islamic Republic used many different names to disguise his identity and protect his secret bank accounts.

In the end, however, the board shook with his answer: "Yes! What do you want?"

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Iran's Terrorist Regime Is Wounded, Not Dead —Watch It Carefully

by Majid Rafizadeh  •  July 5, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • Now comes the more difficult and longer-term task: making sure Iran's regime does not rise again.... Iran is still a revolutionary Islamist state that sees the US as the great Satan, sees Israel as a cancer, and believes that its divine mission is to conquer and export its Islamist revolution to the West.

  • Khamenei's declaration was that of a theocrat who thinks that Trump's Western talk of "you often get more with HONEY than you do with VINEGAR" is laughable, pathetic and that of a "loser." In Khamenei's view, if Trump were not weak or stupid or both, Trump would have killed him. Khamenei no doubt believes that Allah is on his side; that Allah, not Trump, saved him; and that his regime is therefore invincible.

  • Anyone who knows this part of the world understands that Khamenei will not thank Trump. Khamenei clearly does not see Trump's reprieve as mercy. Khamenei doubtless sees his survival as a confirmation that Allah protected him, and that it is infidel America that is worthy of contempt and being eliminated.

  • The Iranian regime has a long history of attacking and killing Americans, starting with having kidnapped the members of the US embassy and held them for more than a year.

  • There is also the possibility that other countries might be eager to sell Iran nuclear components -- for "peaceful purposes," of course.

  • There appears to be a dangerous tendency in the West — especially among liberal elites and international bureaucrats — to celebrate ceasefires as solutions. A ceasefire with a regime such as Iran is not a solution or "peace." It is a pause, a breathing space, to regroup, re-arm and resume plotting.

  • This must be the end of the Iranian regime. Not a pause. Not another "negotiation." The end. Would the US have let the Nazi Party remain in power after World War II? Anything less, really, is a betrayal of the American people, the amazing Israelis, the extraordinary American pilots, and the West.

Pictured: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vows in November 2023: "Death to America will happen. In the new order I am talking about, America will no longer have any important role." (Image source: MEMRI)

Thanks to the courageous and unapologetic leadership of US President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, severe and long-overdue blows were dealt to the Iranian regime.

The United States and Israel reminded the world that tyranny can be confronted. Now comes the more difficult and longer-term task: making sure Iran's regime does not rise again. That means crippling sanctions, backed by military readiness. That means exposing and dismantling Iran's war machine, propaganda machine and foreign influence operations in Europe, America and Latin America, and preferably the regime itself. Iran is still a revolutionary Islamist state that sees the US as the great Satan, sees Israel as a cancer, and believes that its divine mission is to conquer and export its Islamist revolution to the West.

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Is Trump Abandoning the Iranian People and Guaranteeing War?

by Robert Williams  •  July 4, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • "Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of prisoners might be at risk of executions." — Mahmood Amiry Moghaddam, director of the Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organization, June 26, 2025.

  • Iran... has reportedly executed 1,700 people in 2025 alone -- and it is not even August.

  • US President Donald J. Trump deserves every credit for bombing the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan uranium enrichment plants. However, forcing Israel to terminate its "Operation Rising Lion," just as it was finally giving the Iranian people a glimpse of hope for freedom in the course of destroying Iran's nuclear program and its key institutions of oppression, was a terrible move. It left Iranians abandoned to a gruesome fate under a regime that had been likely weeks away from facing total destruction. Why? For another 46 years of "fake talks"?

  • The Trump administration cannot thank Qatar enough for "helping" to negotiate every transition. Qatar is doubtless delighted to help, to make sure that none of its well-funded clients gets hurt. Qatar does not want regime change in Iran. Qatar has also promised Trump more than a trillion dollars in investments in the US.

  • By rescuing Iran's regime, is Trump signaling to the people of Iran that actual peace in the Middle East might be just a dream; that more than 90 million Iranian people are seemingly not worthy of the same freedom that other nations have and that they should suffer unspeakable persecution forever?

  • Throughout the war, most Western leaders aside from Trump, from their comfortable clubs, called for "ceasefires" and "de-escalation", while Israel was fighting for its existence -- and theirs. Would they have preferred to wait for the ballistic missiles Iran was launching at Israel to be nuclear-tipped?

  • Iran's mullahs are not going to put their country back in shape: they are going put their nuclear weapons program, war machine and private militia, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), back in shape. The mullahs must be congratulating themselves on how much better it is to be America's enemy than its friend.

  • Trump's newfound generosity towards the Islamic Republic of Iran -- whatever happened to "maximum pressure"? -- will only allow it to strengthen its hold on power, rebuild its terrorist proxies, establish additional terrorist sleeper cells in the West, continue arming Venezuela, all while the Iranian people will see neither freedom nor prosperity. In addition, it will guarantee further war later on, not only in the Middle East, but also in the West.

US President Donald J. Trump deserves every credit for bombing the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan uranium enrichment plants. However, forcing Israel to terminate its "Operation Rising Lion," just as it was finally giving the Iranian people a glimpse of hope for freedom in the course of destroying Iran's nuclear program and its key institutions of oppression, was a terrible move. Pictured: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine watch a video of a bombing test of the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) used in the attack on the Iranian Fordow nuclear installation at the Pentagon on June 26, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The day after Israel began to strike Iran on June 13, the Islamic Republic ratcheted up its crackdown on the captive Iranian people The only activity at which Iran's regime seems to excel is brutally attacking its innocent, unarmed population.

Since then, at least 1,295 people have been arrested on security-related charges, including "espionage for Israel," according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency. In addition, it noted, "at least 301 individuals were detained nationwide for sharing content, expressing opinions, or participating on social media."

The Iranian regime also began to round up its Jewish citizens and other minorities. They interrogated at least 35 Jews over their ties with Israeli relatives, while security forces raided at least 19 homes of the minority Baha'i community. Fox News reported that "in the past 48 hours, the Iranian Regime has executed more of its own civilians than were killed in the entire Twelve-Day War with Israel."

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