Abdul El-Sayed has campaigned on reaching across the religious divide with an appeal to Christians and Muslims alike, and he boasts that over two dozen Christian leaders back his bid to replace Michigan Senator Gary Peters. Those leaders include a pastor who suggested conservative activist Charlie Kirk deserved to be shot and the senior pastor of a church that hosted a drag event for kids.
El-Sayed, who once <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/24/next-obama-abdul-el-sayed-first-muslim-governor-michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hoped</a> to be America&#8217;s first Muslim governor, is locked in a competitive primary race with Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens. While many of his positions on topics from abortion to so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; directly conflict with the Bible, that has not deterred some Christians from backing his campaign.
Included among El-Sayed&#8217;s supporters is Larry Davis, the pastor of Christian Tabernacle Baptist in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Davis, who believes that President Donald Trump faked the multiple assassination attempts, had no kind words for Charlie Kirk after his murder.
“He is being held as a hero. We shouldn&#8217;t be happy that he got killed. But we shall embrace that you REAP what you SOW,” Davis <a href="https://www.facebook.com/logosmediator/posts/pfbid02RVYALdHTR2JVwFz7KctircVUXk8dE2xCjZSq5asDDfvxwyncGSWZuKQh5sXwvGJBl">posted</a> on Facebook alongside an anti-Kirk meme the day after the popular conservative activist was gunned down at an event at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.
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In another post, Davis shared a clip of Kirk criticizing DEI and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/logosmediator/posts/pfbid0Jajkv4JjjFt7QpvXLSt6CKcjc1Jwe8bySvguuSjNNpV8BRWAZgMWrVmXsK5qXkaxl">asked</a>, “Would you give a racist out of his own mouth the medal of freedom.”
On September 19, the pastor again spread his message that Kirk reaped what he sowed.
“No man should take it on himself to take the life of another. But the scriptures says be not deceived God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man show [sic] that shall he also reap,” Davis said alongside an AI-generated image of Kirk and Jesus Christ.
The Daily Wire sent a message to Davis to ask about his support for El-Sayed. His church, which has no listed email address, did not answer multiple phone calls.
Pastor Terrance Johnson, another religious leader who endorsed El-Sayed, shared a similar animus toward Kirk. He suggested that he was not sad about Kirk’s assassination because he was a “racist bigot.”
“You will accept a black man refusing to mourn his own father but you wil [sic] not accept a black man refusing to mourn a racist bigot because….. We all know why,” Johnson posted in a long screed quoting Tupac song lyrics a day after Kirk’s killing.
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When someone commented on his post, “is this the heart of Christ,” Johnson responded by saying, “what is the heart of Christ.”
In another post, Johnson claimed that ICE was equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan.
“So ICE is the KKK rebranded. Still wearing mask it’s just that the badges are now out instead of being hid under the sheets,” he said.
Johnson’s Church, Second Missionary Baptist Church in Monroe, Michigan, recently <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Da5Kv7hgwwr/">hosted</a> El-Sayed for an event. In a Facebook post, the church <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/1008191515327976">said</a> the event was for the Democrat to share “why he’s running for office.”
During the appearance, El-Sayed claimed to attendees that he was the only candidate who could “guarantee you healthcare” and attacked America’s history as “sordid,” according to a video posted by the church.
“We just commemorated 250 years. And I know there&#8217;s a lot of sordid history in those 250 years, but I also know what my life would have been had I been born in a place that I was supposed to be born. But for an accident of history, I get born here,” El-Sayed said. “Are we willing to put ourselves back in to correct that system so that the next 250 look a lot better than the last ones did?”
“It is the many versus their money. We got a choice. Do we want them to come in and buy an election?,” he added.
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“Second Missionary Baptist Church of Monroe does not endorse or oppose any political candidate or party,” the church posted on July 17. “Our prayer is that every voter takes time to seek wisdom, research the candidates, and make an informed decision at the ballot box.”
Another pastor backing El-Sayed’s campaign is the ultra-woke Nathan Dannison of Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, which recently hosted a “queer prom” for adults and youth that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FountainStChurch/posts/pfbid0jKRtWoLiCbmbVCfLggmD7JiVrBDH99WCEtbi8S6THySZAqP78MAx7cNLHYGJnvt1l" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured</a> “12 drag performances.”
Dannison, who recently <a href="https://nathandannison.substack.com/p/preaching-about-psychedelics">said</a> that psychedelics have been part of his “spiritual discipline” for the last twenty years, said that abolishing ICE is a baseline position any candidate supported by him needs to take. In recent Facebook posts, Dannison has defended El-Sayed over his strong anti-Israel positions.
Dannison <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nscottnorth/posts/pfbid0keXseMToK1b6q7uxnda7z8Ad6MyDkAPSG3F3zWYwC48srDutvR1FUFNtJqCGpGcvl">said</a> that he’s “pretty horrified by a lot of the anti-Abdul posts I&#8217;m seeing from center-left Michigan voters that are obviously mashing the ‘fwd:fwd:fwd’ button or the copy-pasting ad copy from astro-turfed emails/sms/etc from defense lobbyists.”
“Dr. El-Sayed is not antisemitic. To the contrary, one of the reasons I support him is because he understands the real and present dangers facing Jewish Americans who are being blamed for foreign policies and wars that have absolutely nothing to do with their religion and history in this country,” he added.
Fountain Street Church <a href="https://fountainstreet.org/justice/choice-fund" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raises funds</a> for women to end the lives of their unborn children and says it is “proud to be the State&#8217;s longest standing abortion fund.”
Other pastors backing El-Sayed’s campaign included Detroit Rev. Horace Sheffield III of New Destiny Christian Fellowship and Rev. Keith Whitney of Sanctuary Fellowship Baptist Church.
Sheffield, who unsuccessfully <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Horace_Sheffield">ran</a> for Congress in 2014 and <a href="https://www.horacesheffield.com/projects/)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> in the anti-white documentary “White With Fear,” sells anti-Trump t-shirts on his ministry website that say “I will take Biden in a wheel chair over Trump standing up.”
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Whitney is the <a href="https://www.mosesaction.com/boardmembers/blog-post-title-one-gd3dr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">president</a> of Moses Action, an advocacy group that pushes for left-wing criminal justice reform and <a href="https://www.mosesaction.com/reproductive-freedom-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> a ballot initiative to make the right to end the life of your unborn child a constitutional right.
“Throughout black history, government officials — most of them white men — have made decisions about black women’s bodies and health that have been harmful, traumatizing, and often deadly. Granting our current lawmakers the ability to dictate personal health decisions feels like a dangerous step backwards,” the group said in a statement.
Several of the pastors listed on El-Sayed’s campaign website, including Bishop Alan Evans and Pastor Parris McMurray, appear to be affiliated with the Church of God In Christ, Inc. The denomination <a href="https://www.cogic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SOLife-Resolution-11_12_19-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adopted</a> a &#8220;sanctity of life” resolution in 2019 that “abortion is the killing of the innocent” and describes abortion as “genocide.”
The denomination did not respond to questions about its pastors endorsing the pro-abortion El-Sayed.
El-Sayed wants to codify the right to an abortion in federal law and suggested he will fight back on efforts to crackdown on abortion pills.
“Everyone has the right to make personal decisions about their healthcare,” his campaign <a href="https://abdulforsenate.com/priority/medicare-for-all-the-path-to-a-healthier-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> says. “That includes reproductive and gender-affirming care. I’ll fight to codify the rights once protected by Roe v. Wade into federal law.”
Earlier this month, El-Sayed earned the endorsement of the Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity, which said it supported his emphasis on “affordability” and “human dignity.” It did not respond to questions about El-Sayed leftist advocacy on social issues.
“Pastors attend to their communities in the best and worst of times, and their support is about trusting me to show up in those moments with them,” El-Sayed said. “Together, we’re building a Michigan that brings people together across faiths, regions, and backgrounds in the work of offering dignity, opportunity, and respect for every Michigander.”
The Democratic primary is on August 4.

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A knife-wielding man injured three women, including a pregnant woman, during a stabbing spree in central Paris, reportedly shouting that Allah had ordered him to do it.
The suspect attacked three women, ages 19, 24, and 36, on Monday morning with two kitchen knives near Porte de Clichy in Paris, severely wounding two of them, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/french-police-arrest-man-after-knife-attack-paris-2026-07-27/">told reporters</a>. Police have not yet released the identities of the suspect or victims. 
Two of the women remain in critical condition, <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/paris-stabbing-pregnant-woman-three-injured-knife-attack">according to GB News</a>. One woman was stabbed in the lower back, while another suffered a stab wound to the abdomen. An off-duty police officer is said to have detained the disturbed man at the scene.
<a href="https://x.com/ScopeReport_/status/2081701503203455484?s=20">Multiple videos</a> circulating on social media appear to capture moments before and after the attack. Footage shows the suspect, who has long black hair and is wearing a cream-colored tracksuit, carrying two large knives. In one clip, he is seen running down a street before appearing to lunge at a woman who is walking alone.
French outlet Le Figaro reported that the suspect shouted, “It is Allah who ordered me.&#8221; At the scene, however, police urged caution, insisting the man made &#8220;incoherent&#8221; statements and that investigators had not yet identified a motive.
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2081736070643757447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">posted</a> on X: &#8220;What was his motive? We may never know.&#8221;
The Paris stabbing spree came roughly 40 hours after another Islamic terror attack rocked a neighboring European country.
German police on Sunday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/known-islamic-terrorist-on-the-run-unleashed-machete-attack-after-plowing-van-into-crowd?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Known+Islamic+Terrorist+On+The+Run+After+Deadly+Berlin+Car-Ramming+Attack">shot and killed</a> a Muslim man who previously tried to join the Islamic State after he rammed a vehicle into Berlin’s Pride festival on Saturday and then attacked bystanders with a machete, leaving one person dead and several others injured.
The Associated Press reported 21-year-old Abdul Ballout was shot and killed by police at a complex in Spandau, one of Berlin’s boroughs.
Police said Ballout fled the “horrific scene” on foot. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2081357342902300677?s=20">connected</a> the attack to radical Islamist ideology.
The BBC reported Sunday <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3Af7bf096b-0bc4-4496-b0f8-d2def8c5a207#post">Ballout</a> was a German citizen of Lebanese background who was known to police for being part of Berlin’s “Islamist scene” and had previously “<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3A679975ea-dc63-4cff-b17e-cc95f0cbef6f#post">committed a number of crimes</a>.” Ballout was born in Germany, and his mother became a naturalized German citizen in 2002, three years before his birth, police told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-lgbtq-pride-parade-van-ramming-3ba5e3f1becffd0da5f47b29aa08da9d">Associated Press</a>.
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/26/abdul-ballout-berlin-pride-suspect-tried-join-islamic-state/">The Telegraph</a> reported Ballout was a convicted terrorist who tried to join the Islamic State terror group. Ballout was previously arrested in Lebanon after he was accused of attempting to join the Islamic State in Syria and plotting a terrorist attack. Then, he returned to Germany, where, according to Die Welt, he was arrested by German authorities and sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for plotting a “serious act of violence that threatened the state.”
“Horrendous attack in Berlin last night,” Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K.’s Right-wing Reform UK party, said of the attack. “The strange left-wing alliance between Islamists and the LGBT community in this country cannot last.”

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On the campaign trail, Democrat candidate James Talarico often describes his faith as “biblical Christianity.&#8221; But the Senate hopeful once credited Islamic mystics with shaping his faith just as much as Christian writers, audio unearthed by The Daily Wire reveals.
In a recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/james-talarico-christian.html">interview</a> with The New York Times, Talarico asserted that his faith was rooted in “biblical Christianity.” During an appearance on The State of Belief podcast in April 2024 alongside Muslim state Rep. Salman Bhojani, Talarico praised Islam for shaping his religious beliefs. Those comments could come into play as debate heats up in Texas about Islam&#8217;s growing presence in the state. 
“I know personally that I&#8217;ve learned as much about my faith from Salman&#8217;s tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers,” he said. “This kind of interfaith dialogue, it doesn&#8217;t water down your tradition, in fact it strengthens it, it brings out new flavors and new colors.” 
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Talarico later quoted the 13th-century Islamic mystic as saying “in every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.”
Talarico, looking to become the first Democrat to win statewide election in Texas in decades, has faced much scrutiny over his leftist version of Christianity and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-james-talaricos-church-its-offensive-to-respect-gods-pronouns-but-abortions-ok">uber-woke</a> church he attends in Austin. That scrutiny comes as the legacy media speculated that Talarico could sway Christian voters who ordinarily vote Republican.
On the 2024 podcast, Talarico celebrated Bhojani’s election as the “true fruition of multi-racial, multicultural, multi-religious democracy” and “a threat to those who don&#8217;t believe in a pluralistic democracy” and “those who are pushing a sectarian exclusive Christian nationalist vision for our country.” He also said that “Texas is proud to be the home of more Muslim Americans than any other state in the union” and that advocating for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms was “deeply unchristian.”
The creep of Islamic ideology into Texas has been a hot issue over the last few years, with Governor Greg Abbott <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-welcome-in-our-state-texas-governor-designates-radical-muslim-groups-as-foreign-terrorists">designating</a> the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a foreign terrorist organization in November 2025. Abbott accused CAIR of attempting to impose Sharia law on the Lone Star State. State officials have also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-says-its-halted-construction-of-muslim-centered-epic-city-outside-dallas">moved</a> to challenge planned Islamic cities, keep schools promoting Sharia law from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-bans-schools-tied-to-americas-adversaries-from-education-freedom-program">receiving</a> state dollars, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-of-americas-most-iconic-symbols-now-islamic-the-new-history-fight">pushed</a> backs on efforts to brand the Alamo as an “Islamic building.” 
Talarico, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-audio-thats-blowing-a-hole-in-talaricos-christian-persona">describes</a> himself as a “Christian who hates Christianity,” has said he believes God is “nonbinary” and that Jesus was a “radical feminist.” During a recent commencement speech at Paul Quinn College, Talarico appeared indifferent to whether people believed in God or attended church. 
“I&#8217;m not asking you to join an organized religion. I&#8217;m asking you to join something bigger than yourself. Find a spiritual practice that works for you, whether it&#8217;s meditation or fasting, gardening, or bird watching, whether it&#8217;s in a church, or a temple, or a book club, or a neighborhood group, find a community that can help you touch the ground of your own being.”

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German police shot and killed a Muslim man who previously tried to join the Islamic State after he rammed a vehicle into Berlin&#8217;s Pride festival on Saturday and then attacked bystanders with a machete, leaving one person dead and several others injured.
<a href="https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2026-07/anschlag-auf-csd-mutmasslicher-attentaeter-abdul-b-offenbar-erschossen">Die Zeit</a>, a national German newspaper, reported that 21-year-old Abdul Ballout was shot and killed by police at a complex in Spandau, one of Berlin&#8217;s largest boroughs. The Associated Press also confirmed the report a short time later.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/known-islamic-terrorist-on-the-run-unleashed-machete-attack-after-plowing-van-into-crowd?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Known+Islamic+Terrorist+On+The+Run+After+Deadly+Berlin+Car-Ramming+Attack">Police launched a massive manhunt</a> for Ballout, who police say deliberately drove a white van into Berlin&#8217;s Tiergarten park around 10 p.m., killing one woman and injuring at least 29 others before attacking festivalgoers with what authorities said may have been a machete. Ballout is said to have fled the &#8220;horrific scene” on foot. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2081357342902300677?s=20">connected</a> the attack to radical Islamist ideology.
The BBC reported Sunday <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3Af7bf096b-0bc4-4496-b0f8-d2def8c5a207#post">Ballout</a> is a German citizen of Lebanese background who was known to police for being part of Berlin&#8217;s &#8220;Islamist scene&#8221; and had previously &#8220;<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3A679975ea-dc63-4cff-b17e-cc95f0cbef6f#post">committed a number of crimes</a>.&#8221;Ballout was born in Germany, and his mother became a naturalized German citizen in 2002, three years before his birth, police told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-lgbtq-pride-parade-van-ramming-3ba5e3f1becffd0da5f47b29aa08da9d">Associated Press</a>.
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/26/abdul-ballout-berlin-pride-suspect-tried-join-islamic-state/">The Telegraph</a> reported Ballout is a convicted terrorist who tried to join the Islamic State terror group. German authorities previously arrested Ballout in Lebanon after accusing him of attempting to join the Islamic State in Syria and plotting a terrorist attack. Then, he was returned to Germany, where, according to Die Welt, he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for plotting a “serious act of violence that threatened the state.”
This is a breaking story. Stay with The Daily Wire for updates.

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An LGBTQ activist is doubling down, blaming white men after a Muslim man with known Islamist associations rammed a vehicle into Berlin’s Pride festival on Saturday before attacking bystanders with a machete, leaving one person dead and several others injured.
A viral video circulating online shows an <a href="https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2081229875361325146?s=20">unidentified pink-haired woman</a> lamenting not the terror attack, but the public&#8217;s reaction to it.
“I&#8217;m getting really, really sick of this. I&#8217;m getting really tired of having to repeat myself over and over again,” she said. “So the suspect is an Islamic extremist. That&#8217;s their suspect right now. That&#8217;s what I read. Okay, I&#8217;m not going to say anything about the rest of the Muslim population because of actions of this one person.”
Then, the leftist shifted her focus and hurled unfounded accusations towards another demographic: white Christian men.
“But what I can say is the people who were celebrating about this were all white men, young white men with crosses in their profiles because we&#8217;ve all seen it. We&#8217;ve all seen how you guys react towards gay people, and how you wish harm on them constantly,” she said. “I get a constant hate on my videos, especially about trans people. You&#8217;re not going to hide behind another scapegoat group and pretend that they&#8217;re actually the violent ones when it&#8217;s you.”
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OMG. Liberal women are blaming “white men” for the Islamic extremist who ran over people at an LGBTQ parade in Berlin.
“You’re not going to scapegoat the Muslim community like they’re the violent ones, when it’s actually you (white men).”
Can’t make this sht up. 💀💀 <a href="https://t.co/0nbsKYgqys">pic.twitter.com/0nbsKYgqys</a>
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) <a href="https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2081229875361325146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2026</a></blockquote>
The woman claimed white Christian men share the same ideology as Abdul Ballout, who police say deliberately drove a white van into Berlin’s Tiergarten Park around 10 p.m., killing one woman and injuring at least 29 others before attacking festival goers with what authorities said may have been a machete. The 21-year-old convicted terrorist had previously attempted to join the Islamic State in Syria and was released from German custody just months before Saturday’s attack, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/known-islamic-terrorist-on-the-run-unleashed-machete-attack-after-plowing-van-into-crowd?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Known+Islamic+Terrorist+On+The+Run+Unleashed+Machete+Attack+After+Plowing+Van+Into+Crowd">The Daily Wire reported</a>.
Migration levels in the European Union remain high, with approximately <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20260227-1">4.2 million</a> immigrants arriving in 2024 and total foreign-born residents reaching roughly 64 million. Spain and Germany recorded the largest absolute numbers of new arrivals, according to the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Migration_to_and_from_the_EU">European Commission</a>.
“You hold the same exact beliefs that this man who did this attack did, and you&#8217;re trying to distance yourself from it. And you know why you&#8217;re trying to do that? Because you&#8217;re ashamed, and you should be,” she said in the video.
The passionate defense highlights the growing, confounding alliance between LGBT activist groups and Islamic ideology in Western countries.
“Ahmad attacks people at a Pride Parade because Islam. White liberal woman with aposematic hair coloring concludes white men are to blame. Suicidal Empathy is a fatal disease of the human spirit,” Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist, <a href="https://x.com/GadSaad/status/2081359046775275807?s=20">said</a> on X.
“Queers for Palestine real quiet about this one,” Kangmin Lee, a conservative digital content creator, <a href="https://x.com/kangminlee/status/2081243091629904336?s=20">reacted</a> on social media.
Germany’s latest terror attack, which is said to have left a “horrific scene,” left Pride attendees reeling, including Ricarda Hofmann, a presenter at one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ celebrations.  “What happened today has changed something in me,” she <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DbPTNq6iDz4/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1">wrote on Instagram</a>.
On Sunday, organizers of the Berlin Pride festival vowed not to allow the Islamic terror attack to be used &#8220;for political ends.&#8221;
&#8220;People are trying to divide our society and set some people against others. As the CSD in Berlin, we will not allow this,&#8221; a representative for the group <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2081393662244646936?s=20">said</a> at a press conference.

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A Muslim man with known Islamist associations reportedly rammed a vehicle into Berlin&#8217;s Pride festival on Saturday before attacking bystanders with a machete, leaving one person dead and several others injured, according to German authorities.
A massive manhunt is underway for 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, who police say deliberately drove a white van into Berlin&#8217;s Tiergarten Park around 10 p.m., killing one woman and injuring at least 29 others before attacking festival goers with what authorities said may have been a machete.
Ballout is said to have fled the &#8220;horrific scene” on foot. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt <a href="https://x.com/SkyNews/status/2081357342902300677?s=20">connected</a> the attack to Islamist ideology, according to CBS News. 
&#8220;Everything we see here indicates that this was an Islamist terror attack,&#8221; Dobrindt said at the scene. 
The BBC reported Sunday <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3Af7bf096b-0bc4-4496-b0f8-d2def8c5a207#post">Ballout</a> is a German citizen of Lebanese background who was known to police for being part of Berlin&#8217;s &#8220;Islamist scene&#8221; and had previously &#8220;<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt?post=asset%3A679975ea-dc63-4cff-b17e-cc95f0cbef6f#post">committed a number of crimes</a>.&#8221; Ballout was born in Germany, and his mother became a naturalized German citizen in 2002, three years before his birth, police told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-lgbtq-pride-parade-van-ramming-3ba5e3f1becffd0da5f47b29aa08da9d">Associated Press</a>.
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/26/abdul-ballout-berlin-pride-suspect-tried-join-islamic-state/">The Telegraph</a> reported Ballout is a convicted terrorist who tried to join the Islamic State terror group. German authorities previously arrested Ballout in Lebanon after accusing him of attempting to join the Islamic State in Syria and plotting a terrorist attack. Then, he was returned to Germany, where, according to Die Welt, he was sentenced to one year and 10 months in prison for plotting a “serious act of violence that threatened the state.” Prosecutors had sought a sentence of two years and 10 months, the newspaper reported. He was released just months prior to Saturday&#8217;s attack.
With the manhunt underway, German authorities warned the suspect may be armed and dangerous, and issued a stark warning to the public. 
&#8220;We cannot rule out the possibility of copycat attacks,&#8221; the interior minister said, announcing the country’s threat level will be raised as a result, according to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt">BBC</a>. 
The terror attack left Pride attendees reeling, including Ricarda Hofmann, a presenter at one of Europe&#8217;s largest LGBTQ celebrations.   
“What happened today has changed something in me,” she <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DbPTNq6iDz4/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1">wrote on Instagram</a>.
International leaders across the political spectrum swiftly condemned the attack, with some arguing it highlighted what they described as a growing alliance between Western LGBTQ activist groups and Islamist ideology.
&#8220;Horrendous attack in Berlin last night,&#8221; Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K.&#8217;s right-wing Reform UK party, said. &#8220;The strange left-wing alliance between Islamists and the LGBT community in this country cannot last.&#8221;
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Multiple people reported struck after vehicle rams into crowd at Christopher Street Day event in Berlin -BILD <a href="https://t.co/heweK6iW41">https://t.co/heweK6iW41</a>
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) <a href="https://x.com/Osint613/status/2081117590743552148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2026</a></blockquote>

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A New York town is facing backlash from residents over a proposal to place an Islamic all-boys school in a Long Island residential neighborhood. 
Residents of the hamlet of Bay Shore raised concerns over a plan from the United American Muslim Association to convert a former Catholic school building into an Islamic boarding school for boys. Members of the neighborhood <a href="https://www.facebook.com/saxonsaysno/">group</a> “Saxon Says No” showed up in force to a zoning meeting Tuesday to voice their opposition to the school. 
The group says that the Town of Islip, which oversees the hamlet, would be bypassing zoning regulations if it approves the project without input from locals. 
“This appeal is about zoning, due process, and protecting a residential neighborhood. We respect every person&#8217;s constitutional right to worship,” the opposition group <a href="https://communitywatch.ai/the-appeal/">said</a>. “This appeal is not about religion — it is about whether the Town of Islip is properly applying its own zoning laws.”
Many residents believe that the proposed 120-student boarding school would bring increased traffic to the area as well as lead to groups of roving teenage boys running throughout the neighborhood. 
“The proposed use by the new property owner is far more intensive than what is appropriate for a quiet residential neighborhood,” Saxon Says No leader Kevin Colgan said during a meeting on the project, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/24/us-news/long-island-residents-fume-over-all-boy-muslim-boarding-school-in-residential-neighborhood/">according</a> to The New York Post. 
“This is about protecting the integrity of our zoning laws — not opposing any individual or organization — zoning laws exist to preserve the character, integrity, and quality of life within our neighborhoods while ensuring that land uses are appropriate for their surroundings,” Colgan added.
The building being proposed for the school was sold to the United American Muslim Association for $5 million by the Roman Catholic Montfort Missionaries. It used to be a Catholic school, but has not been used for that purpose in decades. 
The New Jersey-based United American Muslim Association describes itself as an organization seeking to “provide permanent solutions” for Muslims in North America “primarily by providing appropriate places to worship and providing an Islamic education for the youth.”
One local, Anna Chan, said her family purchased a home in the neighborhood with the belief that it would remain a residential area. 
“When my family chose to purchase this home 10 years ago — we relied on the zoning protections when making one of the largest investments of our lives — a community of single-family homes where the zoning was intended to preserve its residential character,” she <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/24/us-news/long-island-residents-fume-over-all-boy-muslim-boarding-school-in-residential-neighborhood/">said</a>. 
Bay Shore resident Elizabeth Byrne argued that the school would completely reshape the neighborhood’s family-focused feel. 
&#8220;I just feel like it&#8217;s going to totally compromise the environment and the history that has been here for years,&#8221; she <a href="https://longisland.news12.com/2026/07/22/islip-town-to-hold-public-hearing-today-on-proposed-islamic-boarding-school-in-bay-shore/3W9QjN4ZmFuV115h2DgbLQ">said</a>. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to destroy it.&#8221;

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Investigators have not ruled out arson in the fire that destroyed a historic Brooklyn church last month, the latest in a series of recent incidents involving New York City churches. 
The June 19 fire destroyed the steeple of South Bushwick Reformed Church, causing it to collapse. Investigators are reviewing surveillance footage of a person seen leaving the area shortly before the fire,  according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/12/us-news/investigators-probing-possible-arson-in-blaze-that-tore-through-landmarked-173-year-old-nyc-church/">New York Post.</a> 
The church, which was built in 1853, sustained extensive damage, complicating investigators&#8217; efforts to determine the cause of the blaze.  
On July 8, a man was arrested after allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at two different houses of worship in Queens, according to <a href="https://abcnews.com/US/man-arrested-allegedly-throwing-molotov-cocktails-queens-houses/story?id=134617313">ABC News</a>. Around 11:35 p.m., the NYPD 102nd Precinct received a call about a man throwing an &#8220;incendiary device” at the Iglesia Bautista El Mesias Church in Ozone Park. 
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A man has been arrested for allegedly firebombing two New York City churches late Wednesday night. The suspect, identified only as a 36-year-old male, was caught on video throwing Molotov cocktails at the Iglesia Bautista El Mesias church and the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah&#8217;s… <a href="https://t.co/mvAkurXU7R">pic.twitter.com/mvAkurXU7R</a>
— D. Scott @eclipsethis2003 (@eclipsethis2003) <a href="https://x.com/eclipsethis2003/status/2075565066699632955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Authorities arrested a 36-year-old man after he allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at two Queens churches and another nearby building.  
In April, a 138-year-old church in Astoria was destroyed by a five-alarm fire that remains under investigation. 
The recent incidents have prompted criticism on social media from users who questioned why Mayor Zohran Mamdani has not publicly commented on the fires. 
Another post again highlighted Mamdani’s silence over the church fires adding, “I wonder why.”
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Not a single word from Mayor Mamdani on 4 recent &#8220;church fires&#8221; in NYC
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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2076143618151141447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2026</a></blockquote>
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While Democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used America&#8217;s 250th birthday to criticize capitalism, ICE, and what he described as an &#8220;arena of supremacy,&#8221; his wife, Rama Duwaji, spent the nation&#8217;s milestone celebration thousands of miles away at a luxury Islamic spiritual retreat in Spain.
Duwaji departed from Newark Liberty International Airport earlier this week for Mallorca, a Mediterranean island off of the western coast of Spain.
Far from simply vacationing abroad, Duwaji is serving as the artist-in-residence and one of the featured hosts for the sold-out Women&#8217;s Sanctuary retreat. Attendance costs roughly $3,400 per guest. The <a href="https://thewomensanctuary.com/retreats">program</a> centers on &#8220;Plants of the Quran&#8221; through art, botanical workshops, and Islamic spiritual reflection. She is also scheduled to help host a second sold-out retreat in Corsica later this month exploring &#8220;Mary in the Quran.&#8221;
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Funny how when <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ZohranKMamdani</a> was telling New Yorkers to lower their AC his wife Rama Duwaji was boarding a flight to party in Mallorca
Reminder that I can’t tag her because she deleted her account after her insanely offensive tweets were discovered
Champagne socialists <a href="https://t.co/aD1XmiMXNe">pic.twitter.com/aD1XmiMXNe</a>
— Arynne Wexler (@ArynneWexler) <a href="https://x.com/ArynneWexler/status/2073055796095484295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
The timing of the trip drew criticism as Americans celebrated the nation&#8217;s 250th anniversary over the Fourth of July weekend. Republican New York City Councilwoman Joann Ariola told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/04/us-news/mamdanis-wife-rama-duwaji-ditches-america-250-bash-for-islamic-spiritual-wellness-retreat-in-spain/">New York Post</a> the decision reflected poorly on the city&#8217;s first family. &#8220;Nothing says &#8216;America 250&#8217; quite like skipping the celebration for a Mediterranean vacation,&#8221; Ariola said. &#8220;I am not surprised because she has made her hatred for America very evident.&#8221;
Councilman Frank Morano similarly criticized the optics, &#8220;it&#8217;s disappointing that the First Lady chose to be overseas instead of taking part in one of the biggest civic events our city and country will mark this year,&#8221; Morano said. &#8220;No one is saying elected officials and their families can&#8217;t take vacations, but this was a moment to show up for the city and for the country.&#8221;
The Mayor&#8217;s Office declined to respond directly to the criticism but confirmed Duwaji was not accompanied by officers assigned to the family&#8217;s NYPD security detail.
The trip also renewed scrutiny of Duwaji&#8217;s past social media activity. Earlier this year, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/zohran-mamdanis-wife-celebrated-palestinian-terrorists-including-plane-hijacker-in-social-media-posts-from-early-adulthood/">deleted posts resurfaced</a> in which Duwaji criticized the United States and American foreign policy. In one post, she shared a message claiming American soldiers &#8220;are not brave&#8221; and accused them of &#8220;slaughtering 3rd world civilians&#8221; in pursuit of American hegemony. Other deleted posts reportedly praised Palestinian militant organizations and criticized U.S. support for Israel.
Mamdani previously defended his wife, arguing she should not be judged by past social media activity because she holds no official role in his administration. Duwaji later apologized for a number of the posts.
Her overseas retreat came as the mayor himself marked the nation&#8217;s semi-quincentennial with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-paints-sinister-picture-of-america-in-speech-honoring-250th-anniversary">speech</a> that focused less on the country&#8217;s founding than on what he views as its present shortcomings.
Speaking from behind George Washington&#8217;s former desk at New York City Hall, Mamdani criticized the Trump administration’s immigration policy, condemned economic inequality, and argued that America had become &#8220;an arena of supremacy.&#8221;
&#8220;We see masked agents terrorizing our streets,&#8221; Mamdani said, referring to ICE officers, while also criticizing what he described as monopolies and oligarchs controlling the nation&#8217;s wealth.
Although Mamdani concluded his remarks by saying &#8220;God bless America,&#8221; much of the speech centered on America&#8217;s failures rather than the anniversary being commemorated.
The mayor later participated in several official America 250 events in New York, including the Parade of Sail and a Fourth of July lighting ceremony at the Empire State Building, while Duwaji remained overseas.

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Zohran Mamdani’s Wife Skips America’s 250th Celebration For Luxurious Overseas Islamic Retreat

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A pastor and dozens of Christians were killed in an overnight attack on a Nigerian village, the latest massacre in a region where targeted violence, land conflict, and terrorism have increasingly converged around Christian communities.
The assault began around 2 a.m. on June 22 in Kawel village in Bokkos County, Plateau State, where Fulani herdsmen killed 28 Christians, including Rev. Markus Nyam, pastor of the Church of Christ in Nations, according to <a href="https://www.christiandaily.com/news/fulani-terrorists-kill-28-christians-in-central-nigeria" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Christian Daily International</a>.
Resident Jesse Peter Dukut said villagers were trapped inside their homes as gunmen moved through the community.
“We were inside our houses when the Fulani herdsmen invaded our village,” Dukut said. “If anyone came out of their houses, they were shot at sight. And a sound from any of the houses in the village attracts shooting from the terrorists.”
Dukut said phone and telecom services had been cut, preventing residents from calling security agencies for help. He also said the attackers spoke in Fulani and Hausa and called out the names of Christian leaders, leading him to believe they were being guided during the attack.
“They killed my uncle and brothers,” he said. “I narrowly escaped being shot.”
Nyam was killed alongside members of his congregation. Church leaders in Bokkos later confirmed his death, saying they received the news “with deep sadness” and offering prayers for his family, friends, and community.
Premier Christian News <a href="https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/reverend-among-those-killed-in-latest-attack-on-christian-village-in-nigeria">reported</a> that the attack was part of a documented pattern of escalating anti-Christian violence across Nigeria’s Middle Belt. According to Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List, 3,490 of the 4,849 Christians killed globally for their faith between October 2024 and September 2025 were Nigerian, representing 72% of the worldwide total.
Christian leaders in the region say Fulani herdsmen attacks are driven by efforts to seize fertile farmland as desertification pushes herders south, while also being shaped by radical Islamist ideology.
The distinction matters. Most Fulani people do not hold extremist views, but a radical faction has adopted tactics comparable to Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province, according to a 2020 report from the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief.
“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the report states.
Open Doors U.K. reported that at least 20 people were killed in the Kawel attack, including a church leader and a pregnant woman, and said police arrived only after daylight despite the attack beginning around 2 am. Bishop Ayuba Matawal, a church leader in Bokkos, said the late arrival of police “left the defenseless community entirely at the mercy of their assailants for the duration of the raid,” according to <a href="https://www.opendoorsuk.org/news/latest-news/20-killed-in-latest-devastating-attack-in-nigeria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open Doors U.K</a>.
The attack also comes as violence has spread beyond Nigeria’s north. Christian Daily reported that a new jihadist terror group, Lakurawa, has emerged in the northwest with advanced weaponry and a radical Islamist agenda. The group is affiliated with Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin, or JNIM, an Al-Qaeda-linked insurgency originating in Mali.
The massacre shows the brutality of Nigeria’s Middle Belt crisis, where religiously targeted violence and terrorism are no longer separate stories, and where Christian communities continue to bear a devastating share of the bloodshed.

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Pastor Among Dozens Of Christians Slain By Muslim Herdsmen

Nigeria’s Middle Belt faces renewed fears of a deepening Christian persecution crisis.

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The Texas State Board of Education voted on new curriculum that requires public schools to teach the historical context of the Bible, impacting more than 5 million public school students. 
Building on America&#8217;s foundation in Judeo-Christian values, Texas wants to include Bible passages along with other classic literature in the K-12 education curriculum. This comes just after Texas won the fight to mandate posting the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
Multiple titles will be mandated at each grade level, including a “picture-book adaptation of the David and Goliath story for elementary students,” and the story of Adam and Eve for older students. Other biblical stories include the Book of Jonah, the Book of Psalms, and excerpts from the Book of Genesis and Lamentations, according to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/texas-bible-required-reading-public-school">Guardian</a>. There will also be an increased emphasis on classic literature and culturally significant readings such as Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.”
The board of education gave its final <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/texas-bible-required-reading-public-school">approval</a> to the curriculum during Friday’s vote. 
This new curriculum is based on “a 2023 Texas law requiring state education officials to designate at least one literary work for every grade level, with the state board expanding on that mandate by recommending multiple texts for each grade,” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/texas-bible-required-reading-public-school">The Guardian</a> reported.
The decision has led to both praise and criticism.
Parents in favor of the new curriculum believe that it will help students better understand the Judeo-Christian values that founded the nation and Western history. 
Those opposed claim it will be a violation of the separation of church and state. Saying the curriculum lacks diversity and favors Christianity over other faiths, they complain it will “infringe on parents’ ability to lead their children’s religious education &#8230; particularly in non-Christian households.”
However, many public schools already teach stories tied to the Hindu and Islamic faiths despite the fact that there is a “church and state separation.” 
Policymakers have assured parents that the curriculum is not teaching a religion, but providing historical context within the state education code already requiring K-12 to teach “religious literature, including the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and its impact on history and literature.” 
Susan Perez, founder of a Christian parent advocacy group, Citizens for Education Reform, argued in Monday’s school board meeting that not every religious belief needs to be incorporated into public school education because “our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian values.”

Supreme Court Rules Issues Mixed Rulings On 10 Commandments Displays

The Major Move Putting God Back In America’s Classrooms

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Denmark is preparing to <a href="https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15926817/Denmark-plans-ban-Islamic-call-prayer-Shouldnt-sound-like-suburb-Islamabad.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=social-twitter_mailonline">outlaw</a> the public broadcast of the Islamic call to prayer.
Immigration Minister Morten Bødskov announced this week that the government would relaunch an inquiry into whether a nationwide prohibition on the Adhan — the traditional summons to prayer broadcast five times daily from mosque loudspeakers — could be enacted without violating constitutional protections for religious freedom. Bødskov, a Social Democrat, framed the move in blunt terms, arguing that parts of Denmark risked losing their cultural identity to what he called a slow creep of Islamization. He said the country should sound and feel distinctly Danish, not like a neighborhood in a Pakistani city.
Some Danish localities, including Copenhagen, already effectively silence outdoor calls to prayer through strict noise regulations. A new investigation would seek to determine whether a uniform national ban could be written to survive legal challenge under Denmark&#8217;s constitution, which protects the right to public worship while already permitting limits on anti-democratic religious speech.
The move fits a broader pattern in Danish policy. Under Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Denmark has cultivated some of the most restrictive immigration rules in Europe, including laws that allow authorities to resettle migrants out of neighborhoods deemed to have too high a concentration of foreign-born residents. Denmark is home to roughly 270,000 Muslims and around 100 mosques in a general population of about six million.
The Danish debate is one front in a wider international conversation about the call to prayer&#8217;s place in Western cities. In Australia, a Sydney-area local government is <a href="https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/former-cumberland-mayor-pushes-planning-changes-to-prevent-outdoor-islamic-call-to-prayer-broadcasts/news-story/0f4083cd302952096c41094e56267e81?amp">weighing planning rules</a> that would bar mosques from installing outdoor loudspeakers for the call to prayer as a preemptive response to a pending application from a mosque in Lakemba.
The picture looks markedly different in parts of the United States. New York City moved in 2023 to <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/muslim-call-to-prayer-can-now-be-broadcast-publicly-in-nyc-without-a-permit/4633760">eliminate permit requirements</a> for mosques to broadcast the Adhan on Fridays and during Ramadan, with Mayor Eric Adams describing the change as an overdue step toward inclusion. Minneapolis that same year became the first major American city to allow <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/29/minnesota-islamophobia-muslim-mosque-attacks-prayer">unrestricted outdoor broadcasts at any hour</a>. But in Dearborn, Michigan — home to one of the country&#8217;s largest Arab-American communities — residents have lodged noise complaints against mosques, and city officials have <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/complaint-dearborn-mosque-noise-call-to-prayer/">confirmed</a> that at least one mosque was found in violation of local ordinances following decibel testing.

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European Country Moves To Ban Islamic Call To Prayer

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