An affluent Virginia school district located just miles from where Islamic terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon issued guidance for its teachers to not “associate” the devastating 9/11 attacks “with Islam or Muslims.” 
Guidance from Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia told its teachers to be prepared to combat “anti-Muslim bias” in the classroom and to not connect the attacks with any religious motivation. The guidance, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-witness-blasts-virginia-school-districts-vanilla-9-11-teacher-guide">obtained</a> by FOX News, was issued ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. 
Fairfax County is located outside Washington, D.C., and just miles away from where the 9/11 terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon, killing over 180 people. 
“Expressions of racism, hate, and bias must not be tolerated in the classroom. Consider how you might prepare to stand against anti-Muslim racism in your classroom,” the guidance said. “Consider the classroom conditions that you can build to create safe spaces for Muslim and Middle Eastern students.”
The guidance also instructed teachers to not “associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims” and “ignore statements rooted in bias, hate, and racism.” 
“Do not focus a commemorative learning experience about 9/11 on an examination of Islam. Students deserve consistent and meaningful learning about world religions, and about Muslim perspectives and contributions, throughout their K-12 experience,” the guidance said. “But teachers who decide to take a deep dive into world religions as part of their 9/11 lesson unintentionally send the harmful message that Islam, or all Muslims, are responsible for these terrorist attacks.”
Evidence shows that the 19 terrorists behind the attacks were motivated by their adherence to Islam. Writings <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/18/AR2007111800569.html">found</a> from one of the hijackers show him praying for “guidance” and “help” and demonstrate that he believed he would be “entering paradise” after dying in the attacks. Another document found from the hijackers discussed the history of Islam and Muhammad waging war against non-Muslims. 
While recognizing that the attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda, the guidance from Fairfax County said its ideology should not be linked to “Islam or to Muslims as a religious community.” Teachers were also told to “intentionally include Muslim Americans among the heroes, helpers, and victims represented in your teaching about 9/11.”
The school district told FOX News that it was committed to remembering the victims and creating an “inclusive” school environment. 
“We remember the victims, their families, the survivors, and everyone whose lives were forever changed. We honor the first responders whose courage and sacrifice continue to inspire us,&#8221; the district said. &#8220;FCPS remains committed to creating an inclusive environment in our schools where all students feel welcome and respected as we strive to provide a world-class education and workplace.&#8221;
Reacting to the guidance, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said it should be “ripped up.” 
“On the 25th anniversary, Democrats are trying to downplay the EVIL of 9/11. ISLAMIC TERRORISTS MURDERED 2,977 AMERICANS,” he posted on X. “That shouldn’t be controversial. It’s a damn fact. This ‘guide’ should be ripped up and thrown in the garbage, along with every other socialist rewrite of history.”
While Virginia officials cater to Islamic sensibilities, Texas recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-state-history-classes-could-soon-teach-the-radical-islam-behind-9-11?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Red+State+History+Classes+Could+Soon+Teach+The+Radical+Islam+Behind+9%2F11">moved</a> to approve new curriculum standards that teach about the religious motivations behind 9/11 and the violent history surrounding Islam’s rise. The teaching would include the“Prophet Mohammed’s brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes, the normalization of slavery, and the taking of female captives as harem slaves.&#8221;

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School District Tells Teachers To Not Link 9/11 Attacks With Islam, Fight ‘Anti-Muslim Bias’

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The Democratic Party&#8217;s great white hope in Texas, Senate candidate James Talarico, visited a mosque in the days after the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks — a move that he now defends as being in the interest of &#8220;solidarity.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/james-talarico-next-great-hope-texas-democrats/">Talarico&#8217;s mother</a> was behind the trip — he was 12 years old at the time — and she took his sister Madeleine and two of his friends as well, to counter some of the distrust of American Muslims in the days after the attacks.
The Texas Democrat is an ordained pastor as well as a politician, and he often appears to blur the lines between the two. Brought up in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Talarico&#8217;s religion is rooted in activism, which in turn fuels his politics.
In 2021, Talarico sponsored a bill that would allow Imams to perform weddings in Texas. Talarico&#8217;s church has also continued to blur the lines, hosting an annual <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1364348429064065&amp;type=3">Iftar dinner</a> for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1364348429064065&amp;type=3">Muslim holiday</a> of Ramadan and inviting a local Imam to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB0qAj670VY&amp;t=29s">deliver a sermon</a> in 2022. Rigby himself has <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jim.rigby.12/posts/pfbid0BkYNNezcsFEFk13otKbktiVwEjamGDB1hoQZ7Fa1HTco72SsJR3j1KpPLYdMLkc1l">touted partnerships</a> with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Pastor Jim Rigby of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church led a politically active congregation and preached social justice from the pulpit — and was even arrested in 2017 for criminal trespass after taking over the governor&#8217;s office to protest a bill that would allow police officers making traffic stops to check immigration status as well. Talarico said that Rigby inspired him to see politics as a way to practically implement the biblical call to love one&#8217;s neighbor.
As he became more active in politics, Talarico attended seminary.
&#8220;The whole reason I went to seminary is because I had a pretty big crisis of faith in our political system and in democracy,&#8221; he said, adding that he also wanted to make sure that when he discussed religious matters he was getting things right. &#8220;I wanted to have professional training, just because you can mess up people’s lives with both faith and politics, especially when they’re mixed.&#8221;
In 2021, Talarico&#8217;s particular blend of politicized religiosity led to a strange invocation in the Texas House — &#8220;Holy mystery, you have so many names,” he said, listing off names for God in a litany of religions before declaring simply that God is love. In his prayer before the body, he asked God to help the other members of the chamber to practice not just &#8220;personal love&#8221; but &#8220;political love&#8221; by embracing policies that would &#8220;welcome the stranger.&#8221;
The invocation ruffled enough feathers that the Texas House&#8217;s practice of rotating chaplains was abruptly discontinued.

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Talarico Visited Mosque Weekend After 9/11, Defends It As ‘Solidarity’ Moment

Talarico Visited Mosque Weekend After 9/11, Defends It As 'Solidarity' Moment

2026 midterm election

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texas senate race

I was 13, sitting in a barbershop in Amman with my younger brother, transfixed by what we were witnessing on the television, when the men around us began to chant “Allahu Akbar.” It took a moment for a dozen grown men to realize what they were watching: a victory for Islam and our people.
As the towers fell, as the Pentagon burned, as the civilized world reacted in horror, we rejoiced — America, the Great Satan, had fallen.
Since then I have heard “Allahu Akbar” again and again —  from men beheading captives in Iraq, from those who burned people alive in cages in Syria, from suicide bombers who walked into Israeli and Parisian cafés, and in gay bars and synagogues in America when terrorists opened fire on innocence.
I eventually heard it coming out of my own mouth, marching with thousands through the streets of Amman against a Danish cartoonist who had dared to draw the Prophet.
Allahu akbar. God is greater. What we understood it to mean, as ordinary Muslims, not radicals, not some secret cell, but as schoolchildren, as boys in a mosque on Friday, was that we were greater. Islam was greater. It was a supremacy shot through with grievance and rage, and it was not preached to us in a back room by a masked man. It was the air. It was the curriculum. It was the sermon.
Today the West is told the lie that September 11 was a response to American foreign policy, that October 7 was a response to occupation, that tens of thousands of Islamic attacks each had some local cause. Or, in the words of a Democratic Senate <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/04/abdul-el-sayed-on-temple-israel-terrorist-hurt-people-do-hurt-people/">candidate</a>, “hurt people hurt people.”
It is a lie meant to normalize what sits at the core of the doctrine: that as a Muslim you are superior, you are just, you are right, and no one else is. The question is not whether every Muslim obeys this. Most Muslims do not. But it is the core of the ideology they follow.
Recently I listened to a German man, a former Muslim of Turkish descent, describe what he was taught at home as a child: Jews and Christians are infidels; they must know their place, pay the jizya, the tax of the humiliated, and if they refuse to convert, they die. He grew up in Düsseldorf. I grew up in Amman. We had never met, yet we had learned the same thing.
This ideology is older than America, older than Israel, older than the grievances invented to explain it away — a doctrine that spent 14 centuries erasing civilizations, enslaving Africans and Europeans, and burying the dead by the millions.
Every human being has the capacity for evil.
Most religions restrain it, setting moral boundaries against violence and cruelty. Christianity commands its followers to love their enemies and refuse vengeance. Judaism, despite its people&#8217;s long persecution, never formed a doctrine commanding global conquest or the extermination of non-Jews.
Islam does the opposite. When an ISIS fighter beheads a captive, he is not acting outside his faith. He is following the Koran and the example of Muhammad, a warlord who personally oversaw the beheading of hundreds of Jewish men in Medina and the rape and enslavement of their wives and daughters.
When Hamas slaughters festivalgoers, they are not betraying Islam; they are fulfilling the doctrine of jihad, which commands war on the infidels until Islam rules the world.
A Christian who murders violates his faith. A Muslim who kills an infidel is fulfilling his highest calling. It is a mistake to think this is just another religion, rather than the most dangerous ideology the world has ever known.
Now, 25 years later, we must acknowledge the danger in our midst.
Don&#8217;t be fooled: this doctrine rejects, and holds in contempt, the Western values of pluralism, equal rights under law, women&#8217;s equality, freedom of conscience, free speech, religious freedom, and reciprocal tolerance. Those who take this ideology’s medieval teachings seriously — those who view us all as infidels — are taking positions of power by concealing their goals in the language of a civilized society. They are using democratic and liberal language they do not believe in to disarm a society that does.
I am not warning you as an outsider. I am warning you as someone who once stood on the other side… now, as a man, changed by the grace of God, I live here in this nation that is a “city on the hill.” Islam hates our liberty and commands its followers to wage war on it.
To this doctrine, you are already an infidel, whether you know it or not. I know it, because I once thought this about you.
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Danny Burmawi is the author of “Islam, Israel, and the West” and is the founder of the Ideological Defense Institute. He is leading a coalition of former Muslims from September 11 through October 7 to mark Infidel Awareness Month, to teach the West what it means, and to stand with every infidel who has suffered.  Learn more at <a href="http://infidelawareness.com/">InfidelAwareness.com</a>

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Twenty-Five Years Ago I Celebrated 9/11. Today I Celebrate America — As A Proud Infidel.

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First, a few questions: Are you a single white woman in America in 2026? Is the only correct take on Lindsay Clancy the one you have adopted after scouring TikTok like the world’s greatest true-crime detective? Do you own one or more items of “Hot Girls For Zohran” flair?
Then this message is for you: This pumpkin spice season, don’t miss out on the must-have accessory of the season — your new jihad-adjacent boyfriend. He’s intense, he’s problematic, and his opinions on 9/11 are sure to anger all the relatives you hate the most over the holidays.
Kathy Hochul showed the way when she rocked that hijab in exchange for a group of very important Muslim men having to suffer the rare experience of listening to a woman talk. It’s a natural progression – you go from hashtagging for Gaza to embracing this inventive new idea called socialism to realizing that sure, Luigi murdered a guy, but have you noticed he’s hot?
The speediest path to Karen-izing Islam in the West is personalizing the narrative, and you have the power to do it. And trust me, the internal satisfaction of this accessory boyfriend will be immense. It comes when you post your orchard-infused Uggs-resurgence Instagram story about taking him apple picking for the first time. (For the record, you’ll be doing all the picking). It comes when you tell your mother no, it’s not that you don’t like Leinenkugel’s anymore; it’s just that it’s haram. It comes when your uncle storms out of Thanksgiving muttering about Ann Coulter (who?) and turning the Middle East into a “sheet of glass,” whatever that means. Probably something racist. Come on. It’s twenty-five years after 9/11, and it’s time people just grow up and let it go.
The best part about this move isn’t just that you’re trendsetting; it’s the emotional rush of getting ahead of where everything is going and gaining the moral authority to pass judgment on all of it. Let the weirdo right-wingers eat each other on X arguing about the cost of burritos and welfare for tradwives and the Latin Mass. You’re staking out ground that will infuse the next iteration of America’s human resources departments as part of a new protected class. And what’s the personal cost for you? Some hijab-prompted dermatitis? Big deal, your hair was shedding from the SSRIs anyway.
Some of your best friends will judge you, but that’s how you know this is so right. Someone posted a beautiful quote you saw the other day – it was from a French author; you haven’t read the book, but it’s a good summary: “the summit of human happiness resides in the most absolute submission.” Don’t you have the right to be happy? They’re just jealous they don’t have a man who believes in anything beyond prediction markets and Patagonia.
So this decorative gourd season, don’t just run things back with all the tired old tropes you embraced the past few years. Head up to a rally in Michigan. Be the first in your friend group to get that new must-have accessory. Sure, sometimes he can seem a little bossy. But what’s the worst that can happen?

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The Hottest Pumpkin Spice Accessory Is Your New Jihadi Boyfriend

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zohran mamdani

Austria began implementing a new ban on headscarves for young girls at schools as lawmakers grapple with the growing influence of Islam in the country. 
The ban, which prohibits girls 14 years old and younger from wearing headscarves at schools, went into effect on Monday as school started. Supporters of the proposal have <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyz74xn8q8o">argued</a> that the intent is to establish a &#8220;clear commitment to gender equality.” Claudia Bauer, a top Austrian official and member of the conservative People&#8217;s Party, described the headscarf as &#8220;a sign of oppression and a means of controlling girls from the earliest childhood.”
While about just 8% of Austria’s population is Muslim, data indicates that around 35% of students at primary schools in Vienna, the country’s most populous city, are Muslim. 
The law passed last year after a similar effort was struck down by a court in 2020. The new law was made more broad. When violations occur, school officials must meet with the girl and her legal guardians. Repeated violations could lead to a $929 fine and notification of child protective services, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4djk0jj4xo">according</a> to the BBC. 
Yannick Shetty, a supporter of the ban and member of the liberal Neos party, said the proposal is &#8220;not a measure against a religion. It is a measure to protect the freedom of girls in this country.&#8221;
Others, like Ricarda Berger, a spokeswoman for the Freedom Party of Austria, want the ban to be extended. 
&#8220;There needs to be a general ban on headscarves in schools; political Islam has no place here,” she said. 
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a radical pro-Islam group based in Washington, D.C., claimed Austria’s law was “fascist.” 
“This fascist legislation is a step backward from religious rights in Europe and a transparently bigoted attack on the Austrian Muslim community. This also sets a dangerous precedent for religious minorities across Europe,” the group said. “We stand in solidarity with Austrian Muslims as they pursue legal challenges to this unjust and discriminatory policy.”
The debate over the growing presence of Islam has also raged across the United States in recent months, with the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York and the selection of Abdul El-Sayed as the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan. 
Last week, New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-yorks-governor-wears-hijab-for-muslim-men-just-ahead-of-9-11-anniversary">faced criticism</a> for wearing a hijab during a speech at an Islamic center as the nation prepares to remember the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. 
While New York officials increasingly cater to Islam, Texas officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-state-history-classes-could-soon-teach-the-radical-islam-behind-9-11?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Red+State+History+Classes+Could+Soon+Teach+The+Radical+Islam+Behind+9%2F11">moved</a> last week to require students to “identify the significance of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks motivated by radical Islam.” 
Students would also learn about the violent history surrounding Islam’s rise, including “Prophet Mohammed’s brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes, the normalization of slavery, and the taking of female captives as harem slaves,” according to the document. Many of the Quran&#8217;s texts encourage violence against non-Muslims including commands to “kill the polytheists wherever you find them&#8221; and to target people who adhere to the Bible.

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Schools Ban Headscarves For Girls As Islam’s Bloody Teachings Spread

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We moved into a new house this week. I had forgotten to call ahead and arrange internet service before moving day, and when I finally applied, I was told the earliest installation date was ten days away. Both my wife’s work and mine depend almost entirely on being online. Our phone hotspots burned through their data almost immediately, so I texted our next-door neighbor, a white American Christian whom I had spoken with only briefly. I explained the situation and asked whether we could use his Wi-Fi until ours was installed. As a thank-you, I offered to pay his internet bill for the month. He apologized and said no.
As someone who grew up as a Muslim in the Islamic world, lived in several Muslim countries, and traveled to perhaps twenty more, I can say with confidence that I would be surprised to find a Muslim who would refuse that request from a new neighbor.
When I was ten years old, I lived in Jerash, Jordan, a city filled with Roman ruins because ancient Gerasa was one of the cities of the Decapolis. We saw tourists constantly. I still remember an Italian tourist who seemed lost. I found him a cab, explained where he needed to go, and paid the entire fare out of the small allowance I had, even though no one expected me to. Hospitality was simply something we were taught to do.
I doubt many cultures can compete with Arabs and Muslims when it comes to hospitality. Knock on the door of a Muslim family and, before they ask why you have come, there is a good chance they will invite you inside, offer you food and something to drink, and only then ask what brought you there. Stop a Muslim on the street and ask for help, and he will never brush you off the way people often do in the West. He may spend an hour with you if that is what it takes to make sure you find what you need.
Last week, during the CAIR summit, several speakers talked about the need for Muslims to spend more time with Americans so that Americans could see how nice Muslims are and thereby combat what they described as “Islamophobia.” I can see why they think that strategy will work.
Last year, I was invited to speak at a synagogue about Islam. Afterward, a Jewish woman objected to what I had said because, as she explained, her daughter had a very nice Muslim friend.
This is where many people in the West become confused. They hear Muslim clerics speak about Islam’s global ambitions, they see what Muslim terrorists do around the world, they remember the beheadings, the persecution of minorities, the grooming and rape gangs, and other acts committed by Muslims. At the same time, they personally know Muslims who are kind, generous, decent people. Faced with that contradiction, many resolve it by separating the Islam of their nice Muslim friends from the actions of violent Muslims and treating the latter as a fringe phenomenon with little or nothing to do with Islam itself.
When a Muslim man stopped two ISIS terrorists in Sydney, his religion was immediately emphasized. He was not “the human who stopped the Muslim terrorists” but “the Muslim who stopped the terrorists.”
The World Beneath the Surface
Muslim “niceness” belongs to a very old social world. Among Arabs, hospitality is tied to karam, generosity, honor, and the way a person presents himself before others. In traditional Bedouin life, that made practical sense. A traveler crossing an arid landscape could depend on the hospitality of strangers for food, water, shelter, and protection. Refusing a guest could have serious consequences. Over time, hospitality became part of the moral code itself. A good man was expected to receive generously, and a family’s reputation was partly measured by how it treated guests.
Islam did not create these customs. The same habits are found among Arab Christians, Druze, and other non-Muslim communities. Anyone who has spent time in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, or Iraq, knows that generosity toward guests crosses religious lines. It is Arab and Mediterranean, not Islamic. The same pattern extends beyond the Arab world. Greeks, southern Italians, Turks, Spaniards, and other Mediterranean peoples have long been known for dense family networks, animated social life, strong guest obligations, and a deep concern for reputation and honor. These societies are not identical, but they share a level of interpersonal intensity that feels immediately different from northern Europe or the United States.
But the same culture that produces extraordinary hospitality also produces problems.
The neighbor who brings you food without being asked also feels entitled to comment on your marriage, your children, or your salary. The family that would empty its savings to rescue a son also believes it has the right to control whom he marries.
This is why I do not think “Muslims are nicer” is quite the right description. They are more relational. Human life is organized around thick personal ties. That can produce warmth, loyalty, generosity, and an astonishing willingness to help. It also produces gossip, intrusion, nepotism, family pressure, emotional manipulation, and a constant concern with how one appears in the eyes of others.
In societies where institutions have historically been weak or corrupt, reputation and relationships become a kind of social insurance. In Jordan, if something goes wrong, you call someone who knows someone; in America, you call customer service. In the Arab world, a friend may spend half a day accompanying you from office to office because that is how problems get solved, while in America there is a form and an appointment.
In a corrupt society, the dependence on personal relationships can make life feel warmer because someone is visibly stepping in for you. In a just society, the absence of that personal intervention can feel cold precisely because the system is supposed to work without favoritism. One feels more human in the moment; the other is less personal but can serve millions of people who have no connection to one another.
In Arab culture, generosity is meant to be seen. Someone pays for your dinner, a family fills the table with far more food than anyone can eat, and people may argue passionately over who gets to pay the bill because generosity is tied to honor and reputation. The act does good, but it also tells everyone present something about the giver.
American generosity is built differently. Americans give enormous sums to churches, universities, hospitals, food banks, medical research, disaster relief, scholarship funds, shelters, and charities whose beneficiaries they will never meet. The donor may receive no public recognition at all, and the person helped may never know who gave the money. One form of generosity is closely tied to social visibility; the other is detached from reputation and built into durable institutions that continue doing good long after the donor has left the room.
In a religious culture built heavily around visible performance, what matters is not what a person is, but what he appears to be before the community. The woman in hijab is presumed more pious than the woman without it, even though the first may be a prostitute and the second a saint.
I can keep going, quality by quality, and every good quality a Muslim displays will turn out to be either a normal human quality shaped by education, neighborhood, class, national culture, and personal experience, or something with a theological explanation that exposes its true nature. None of those nice qualities has anything to do with Islam.
Are Bad Muslims Bad Because of Islam?
The answer is yes. You can read much of my work, which proves beyond a shred of doubt that the worst acts committed by Muslims, from the beheading of infidels to lying, rape, exploitation, corruption, dictatorship, the oppression of women, child abuse, and so forth, are rooted in Islamic teachings, not merely in descriptive passages but in prescriptive ones.
Yes, All humans have the capacity for evil, we all have within us the ability to justify unspeakable horrors, but most religions restrain human evil, they set moral boundaries, condemning acts of violence, injustice, and cruelty. Christianity commands its followers to love their enemies, forgive those who harm them, and refuse vengeance. Judaism, despite its history of persecution, never formed a doctrine commanding global conquest or the extermination of non-Jews.
Islam, however, does the opposite.
When an ISIS fighter beheads a captive, he is not acting outside the teachings of his faith. He is following the example of Muhammad, who personally oversaw the beheading of hundreds of Jewish men in Medina. When Hamas terrorists slaughter Israeli families, they are not betraying Islam, they are fulfilling the doctrine of jihad, which commands war against non-Muslims until Islam dominates the world.
Unlike Christianity, which calls for self-sacrifice, Islam calls for sacrificing others. Unlike Judaism, which focuses on preserving its own people, Islam commands the subjugation or destruction of all who reject it. A Christian who commits murder is violating his faith. A Muslim who kills an apostate is fulfilling his. A Buddhist who wages war is going against the teachings of his religion. A jihadist who slaughters unbelievers is doing exactly what his religion commands.
Islam is the only major religion that actively commands the atrocities we fear. It is the only faith where genocide, subjugation, and violence are not historical accidents, but divine commandments. It is a mistake to think Islam is just another religion, rather than the most dangerous ideology the world has ever known.
The Individual and the Crowd
A Muslim encountered alone is not the same social phenomenon as Islam activated through a group. Nietzsche described a related dynamic as “herd morality.” In groups, the same nice people you know can adopt a different morality because they begin asking: Who is more committed? Who is purer? Who has compromised? Once righteousness becomes visible, it becomes competitive. Islam intensifies this because piety can be displayed in ways everyone around you can recognize: loyalty to Islam, dress codes, public outrage, sexual rules, attitudes toward outsiders, and the willingness to defend whatever Islam regards as sacred.
If being a good Muslim is constantly communicated through things that can be seen and judged by other Muslims, then religion becomes a social ranking system. The man who condemns criticism of Muhammad more fiercely appears more zealous. The person who defends Islam immediately appears more loyal than the one who hesitates.
The nice Muslim you know privately and the Muslim acting inside a strongly activated religious group can begin to look like two different people. Collective identity converts people back into categories. You are no longer simply John, David, or Susan. You become Christian, Jew, atheist, apostate, Zionist, secularist, unbeliever.
A man alone has to explain why he believes something, in a crowd, everyone else’s certainty becomes part of his evidence. He can repeat what the group believes and feel less personally responsible for examining it. Muslims in groups see solidarity with other believers as a religious obligation. A Muslim can regard a morally corrupt Muslim as closer to him than a morally admirable non-Muslim. The reason is that one shares the sacred identity and the other does not.
A Muslim who barely practices his religion can suddenly become fiercely defensive of it when an outsider criticizes it. He may drink, rarely pray, ignore sexual rules, and know very little theology, yet react with extraordinary anger to an insult against Muhammad. That apparent contradiction makes sense once you understand how Islam is not only a religion, it is a citizenship, an identity.
The absolute majority of Muslims support Hamas. Forget the recent polls showing that almost 42% of Muslims in America support Hamas; many of those interviewed were probably afraid of ICE. Any Muslim, nice or not, religious or not, will support Hamas, except for the seven individuals who still identify as Muslims but are considered infidels in the eyes of Muslims anyway. On an individual level, if you ask them, they will use the occupation to explain their support for Hamas. But in a group setting, they support Hamas because of Islam.
Nietzsche once wrote that “madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.” A Muslim alone still has to live with his own judgment, his own doubts, and the consequences of what he believes. Inside a group, those restraints are gone. The crowd supplies certainty, rewards conformity, and turns excess into proof of loyalty. Ideas that would sound extreme coming from one person can become normal once everyone around him repeats them. The individual begins to borrow his moral confidence from the group, and once that happens, the group, especially an Islamic group, makes fanaticism a virtue.
Love Muslims. Hate Islam.
Most of the Muslims you meet are not walking around performing taqiyya. They are not actors pretending to be kind while secretly plotting against you. If your Muslim neighbor is decent to you, he is probably decent to you because he is a decent human being. His kindness is real. The mistake begins when you take that kindness and turn it into a theological argument for Islam.
The West has become so crippled by kindness and cultural relativism that the religion of the terrorist is omitted, and the religiously motivated act of violence is absorbed into the generic category of “terrorism,” alongside cartels, organized crime, and human trafficking. Islamic movements and Muslims who exploit Western freedom and democratic institutions in order to advance a destructive Islamic project are discussed without any attention to the religious doctrine motivating them.
The kindness of a Muslim friend tells you something about the friend, it tells you nothing about how Muslims believe that Muhammad is the moral model for mankind, or how Sharia must take over liberal democracy, or anything about the apostasy laws, the nature of jihad, women and non-Muslims under Islamic law, or how Islam can never coexist with a constitutional order built on freedom of conscience.
Islam must be judged by what it teaches, not by the nicest person who happens to belong to it. Islam is not only a collection of private beliefs about God, prayer, fasting, and the afterlife. It is a political ideology that contains rules about government, war, taxation, criminal penalties, family regulation, and rules governing Muslims and non-Muslims. Once Islam takes over a society your nice Muslim friend will be irrelevant.
Individually, Muslims differ enormously, but institutions, mosques, Islamic organizations, religious parties, activist networks, and clerical authorities, funded by Islamic nations, bring Muslims together. That is when what you see as “nice” is deemed by Islam as “bad,” and at that point these enclaves will be full of nice Muslim individuals and a very bad Muslim group.
When the West assures Muslims that Islam embodies Western values, it does not strengthen the humane Muslim against destructive Islam. It strengthens Islam against the human beings enslaved by it. When politicians insist that every criticism of Islam is an attack on Muslims, they merge the person with the ideology, protecting the ideology without providing any additional protection to the individual, who is already protected by Western law.
Defend the Muslim as a person and hate Islam as a set of ideas. Defend the Muslim citizen against discrimination, and refuse every attempt to convert that protection into immunity for Islam. Make it impossible to punish a Muslim for being Muslim, and equally impossible to punish someone for criticizing Muhammad, the Qur’an, Sharia, or Islamic history.
Love your nice Muslim neighbor, but to survive you have no option but to hate Islam.
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This is republished with permission by the author. The original can be found <a href="https://www.danburmawi.com/p/the-nice-muslim-fallacy">here</a>.
Danny Burmawi is an author, political commentator, and founder of the Ideological Defense Institute. His book, &#8220;ISLAM, ISRAEL AND THE WEST: A Former Muslim&#8217;s Analysis,&#8221; can be ordered <a href="https://a.co/d/0hFHZSaY">here</a>. Subscribe to his newsletter <a href="https://www.danburmawi.com/">here</a>.

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The Conflation Of Muslim And Islamic Could Be The End Of The West

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An Islamic scholar at a Dallas mosque praised Iran’s slain former leader as a martyr and said that his blood will not go to waste.
Sayed Jawad Wahedi, the resident scholar at the Metroplex Organization of Muslims in North Texas (MOMIN), made the remarks during an August 21 Friday sermon, according to footage and reporting from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
Wahedi said “the enemy” made a “huge and grave mistake” by killing him, arguing that martyrdom would ultimately advance the cause for which the former Iranian leader had lived.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in February during the opening phase of the major U.S.-Israeli offensive against Iran. A strike hit his compound, killing Khamenei and several family members and injuring his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has since succeeded him as Iran’s supreme leader.
“The enemy obviously has made a huge and grave mistake,” Wahedi said. “That when you live your life for Allah, purely for him, your death won’t be void, especially if you’re killed, especially if you’re martyred.”
He added that the blood of Khamenei “won’t go to waste.”
Wahedi told worshippers that “one of the best examples” of practicing God-consciousness in the modern era was “martyr Ayatollah Khamenei,” urging them to study his life alongside those of Islamic scholars, martyrs, and the Twelve Imams.
“One of the best individuals that we can remember is martyr Ayatollah Khamenei,” Wahedi said. “The position he had, so much responsibility, so much opportunity to make mistakes, so much opportunity for Satan to infiltrate his life. But when you look at the path he took, it&#8217;s filled with sincerity.”
Wahedi has served as MOMIN’s resident Islamic scholar since 2022. According to his biography on the <a href="https://momin.org/resident-alim/">mosque’s website</a>, he studied Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy, and Quranic studies in Qom, Iran, for nine years and has taught for more than 15 years. He also travels to Islamic centers around the United States to deliver lectures and sermons.
Wahedi has also praised Khamenei at an Islamic center in New York. On April 10, he spoke at a 40-day memorial for Khamenei at the Shah-e-Najaf Islamic Center in Brentwood, Long Island, according to footage documented by MEMRI.
Standing beside images of Khamenei and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Wahedi again described Khamenei as a martyr whose death had advanced the cause of Islam.
“This great martyr Khamenei is indeed without a doubt, one of the greatest martyrs, and without a shred of doubt he is the greatest martyr in our era,” Wahedi said, according to MEMRI.
Wahedi argued that a martyr’s death could accomplish more than his life, saying, “Sometimes martyrs do things that their lives cannot actually do, but their blood can actually achieve something greater than even their lives.”
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<a href="https://x.com/hashtag/ICYMI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICYMI</a>: Texas Shiite Scholar Jawad Wahedi at Long Island Mosque Memorial for Khamenei: His Martyrdom Served Islam More Than His Life; Mojtaba Khamenei Will Be Even Better Than His Father <a href="https://t.co/fHcFX347aD">pic.twitter.com/fHcFX347aD</a>
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) <a href="https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/2045302288940413088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2026</a></blockquote>
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He also blamed the U.S. government and Israel for Khamenei’s death, describing it as an “attack,” an “assassination,” and a “terrorist attack” against a marja, a senior Shiite religious authority.
“The Shiites are mourning a leader, someone who lost his life for the children of Palestine,” Wahedi said.
Wahedi then praised Mojtaba Khamenei, who has yet to be seen in public since becoming the leader of Iran.
“We lost a great martyr, but alhamdulillah we have Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Khamenei,” Wahedi said. “You will see his leadership, inshallah. He will be just like his father in some sense, even better, inshallah.”

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Dallas Mosque Scholar Hails Ayatollah Khamenei, Says His Blood ‘Won’t Go To Waste’

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“On September 11th, 2001, 19 Islamist extremists hijacked four airplanes and flew two of them directly into the World Trade Center at the instruction of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, killing nearly 3,000 Americans.”
That&#8217;s an example of a sentence that could get you banned or penalized on TikTok.
Over the last few weeks, I — along with countless other political content creators — have been censored, throttled, and threatened with bans on the Chinese-owned app for simply stating basic facts about Islam, political leaders who practice the faith, and/or terrorism happening in our country and around the world.
I&#8217;ve always dealt with some censorship on TikTok. I have to appeal at least 30% of my videos after they&#8217;re abruptly taken down upon posting, with no explanation beyond the red banner reading &#8220;you&#8217;ve violated community guidelines&#8221; (translation: something might have offended someone). But something has changed in the last month.
It started with a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Db8LXwnJ5NP/">video</a> about Hasan Piker and the New Left. The entire video consisted of me quoting the Twitch streamer, his friend Abdul El-Sayed, and Francesca Hong. I noted that Piker has said he believes America deserved 9/11, that he wants more immigrants to come into your countries and “f*ck” &#8220;your&#8221; sisters and daughters, and that he&#8217;s expressed a desire to see the white race and white middle class destroyed. I pointed out that Abdul El-Sayed campaigned at a mosque whose imam has openly called for the killing of &#8220;infidels,&#8221; and that former Wisconsin Senate candidate Francesca Hong has said she hates Thanksgiving.
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The video was blocked immediately. Why should I be punished for simply relaying the heinous things our new political Left is screaming into the ether?
My next video, a recap summarizing the week&#8217;s insanities, was also flagged within minutes. Likely because I mentioned Islamic foot-washing stations at Dallas airports, and the fact that two conservatives dressed as Muslims exposed how easy it is to register non-citizens to vote in Minneapolis.
Then, of course, my video about Abdul El-Sayed’s sister, an America-hating, Columbia professor, professional POS, was also quickly removed.
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Infuriating is an understatement.
I have 243,900 followers on TikTok, where viewership translates directly into revenue. When a video gets removed, and if the Chinese communist overlords put it back up on my page, it’s often days or weeks later, and my viewership is abysmal.
To avoid this, I started whispering or mouthing certain &#8220;trigger&#8221; words — Muslim, Islam, rape, sexual assault — so as not to set off Big Brother. The result is often a video where I&#8217;m mouthing half my sentences while trying to explain current events, which would be funny if it weren&#8217;t so ridiculously absurd.
For instance, TikTok did not like my video discussing the U.K. pamphlet fiasco, in which the government was forced to put out a nine-page PDF for foreigners, outlining how to act like a civilized human in their once-civilized country. I can’t help that they had to spell out, in print, dozens of times, that it’s not okay to rape, touch, or advance upon girls under the age of 16. But clearly that has to be said.
My mouthing tactics didn&#8217;t work the first two times I posted that video. On the third try (after muting several more words and phrases), TikTok finally let it stay up. It got about 10,000 views. For reference, the same video got 1.1 million views on Instagram.
The next day, my “understanding womanhood in 2026” video, where I discussed the insanity surrounding the Lindsay Clancy case and articulately laid out why it was all happening, also failed their Orwellian &#8220;community guidelines.” The appeal took days, during which my TikTok viewership stalled. While on Instagram, the same video had already been seen and shared by over five million people.
Last week I posted a &#8220;positive political news&#8221; video honoring Dolly Parton, and it still hasn&#8217;t cleared the appeal process, likely because…well, I have no idea why.
I could not hate the algorithm developers more.
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And, of course, my two most recent videos about Islam were taken down, because apparently even mentioning the word holds racist and bigoted connotations.
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This isn&#8217;t just happening to me. It&#8217;s happening to nearly every conservative creator on the app. Nate Friedman, an independent journalist who made a video exposing the &#8220;Islamic takeover of New York,&#8221; had his documentary banned and was stripped of the earnings that came with it. Xavier DuRousseau, a conservative commentator, was suspended from posting after multiple videos were removed and was forced to complete &#8220;educational training&#8221; about violent and hateful organizations.
This isn&#8217;t a Brave New World. It&#8217;s a frightening one.
The app is withholding millions of dollars from conservative creators, or anyone who points out the detriment of radical Islam or any other politically “untouchable” topics, while liberal creators are free to blabber on about anti-Christian propaganda, anti-Republican trash, and anything that melts the brain and misleads society.
One viral TikTok video could cover half my rent. Instead, they block me, dish out strikes, and never explain why.
But beyond the financial shackles they’ve bound us to, this utilitarian, dictatorial blackout is unbelievably dangerous because it creates a feedback loop where young people see only one side of the story.
Why do we think it is that a third of young voters like communism, an ideology that’s killed hundreds of millions of people? Why is it that young people have a growing affinity for political violence, Islam, and socialism?
Because young people are on TikTok.
Sixty-three percent of adults under 30 use the platform. So do 68% of teens ages 13 to 17. Gen Z users up to age 26 spend nearly three hours a day on this digital drug. And instead of seeing a variety of viewpoints and opinions, they’re getting gorged with videos by middle-aged white women explaining, for instance, that Christian Nationalism is the same as the Taliban.
We’ve literally never been more retarded in all of human history.
Which is the entire goal of our enemies. To dumb us down, neuter our brains, and keep us ignorant of their predation.
ByteDance, a Chinese company, still owns TikTok, even though U.S. operations are technically run through a majority-American joint venture, and ByteDance still controls the underlying algorithm. Weakening America&#8217;s resistance to communism serves their interests directly, and Islam is being used as one vehicle for that erosion. Which is part of why, a few years ago, it became a trend on the app to read bin Laden&#8217;s &#8220;Letter to America&#8221; and say he had a point.
Fast forward to today, we have a terror-sympathizing, communist-loving, sharia-pushing freak running for Senate in Michigan. We have a radical, anti-capitalist, anti-oil Democrat running for Senate in Texas, who <a href="https://x.com/LoneStar_PAC/status/2094167411662446629/video/1">play-preaches</a> by reciting Islamic poems in front of a pride flag. We have a political party whose number one most prominent influencer is on tape saying that he wants to wipe his *ss with the Constitution and that Hamas is “a thousand times better” than Israel.
And we have no way to communicate this to the youth on their most utilized platform.
Here in the West, Americans often believe we are untouchable. Physical war hasn&#8217;t reached our doorstep in a long time, and most of us are insulated from attacks happening elsewhere. But that doesn’t mean our adversaries have quit. They’re still chipping away at us, eroding our freedoms, and meddling in our elections by hindering our access to certain information.
This is an information war waged through an algorithm still designed and built by a Chinese company, and it disproportionately targets conservatives because we&#8217;re the ones fighting back. By shrinking our reach and amplifying the other, the Left wins. A Left that normalizes political violence, foreign interference, open borders, and blatant hostility toward constitutional norms.
A divided, historically illiterate, and increasingly radicalized generation is not a threat to Beijing, or any of our enemies who wish us dead. It’s a gift.
They’re conquering the feed so as not to have to conquer the soil. If we keep pretending this is just “content moderation,” we will lose the argument, then the election, then the country.
If we’re going to keep TikTok alive in the United States, at least don’t let it kill half the creators who use it.

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TikTok Is Shadowbanning Me To Protect Islam And Communists

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We are approaching 25 years after 9/11, and New York is now led by people who would have sided with the terrorists.
The mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, thinks the real victims of 9/11 were his auntie, who had to experience “evil American Islamophobia,” and also millions of Muslims globally, who are the true victims of American foreign policy.
The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, is a suicidally empathetic white lady who dons a hijab in honor of Islam.
This is apparently New York&#8217;s electorate now: radical Muslims and the leftists who support them.
It&#8217;s amazing to think that an entire generation of humans was not born when 9/11 happened. In the forgetfulness of the tragedy, people tend to imbibe from the well of stupidity and suicidal ideation.
Case in point: Kathy Hochul.
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Over the weekend, she brought dance back to New York City with Kevin Bacon. She has been tasked with removing regulations in New York that apparently banned dancing, and she brought Kevin Bacon along to explain how. After he chortled, “Let’s dance,” he began to dance while Hochul explained, “We couldn&#8217;t afford the rights to the original Footloose music, so whatever.”
They couldn&#8217;t afford the rights to the original Footloose music because New York is essentially bankrupt.
Why do I bring up Kathy Hochul and dancing? Because Kathy Hochul has posed as a hardcore feminist. She&#8217;s standing for the ladies. She&#8217;s standing against the patriarchy that would strip women of their rights.
You may recall that she gave a speech in Albany in 2021 in which she talked about how we need to get abortion bans off of women&#8217;s bodies. Women&#8217;s bodies needed to be free. This can&#8217;t be &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale.&#8221;
She said, “I just got in from Seneca Falls. Why did I go to Seneca Falls? Well, first of all, their rally was before yours. Okay, so that&#8217;s nothing personal here. I went there because I needed to channel the spirit of those brave, audacious women who, 173 years ago, demanded the rights to control their own bodies. They were tired of being the property of men. They stood up, they fought. And many of them did not live long enough to see the rights that they believed in and fought for in Seneca Falls at that gathering. But we are all beneficiaries of that because they had courage and stood up.”
Why is this relevant? Because Hochul was attending a mosque on Friday and decided to show up wearing a hijab.
There are many religious places all over planet Earth where women cover their hair out of respect. That is not the same thing as full-on putting on the garb.
We&#8217;ve talked about this before because a bunch of Democratic politicians have been doing this. AOC did this. She full-on donned the hijab. That is different from Nancy Pelosi when she visited Syria, putting a scarf over her hair, or women who decide to cover their hair when they go into Saint Peter&#8217;s Basilica, or to the Western Wall.
When you decide to full-on don the garb that, in the vast majority of planet Earth, is mandatory for Muslim women and whose rejection is punishable by law, you are making a statement.
There&#8217;s a reason the hijab is banned in France. Hijab, globally speaking, is typically a form of compulsion on women.
The fact that the governor of New York is not just covering her hair out of respect but full-on donning the garb says something. It is taking a position now espoused by an enormous percentage of Democratic governance and leadership.
And that position is that they are going to submit to the rules.
This is different from somebody putting a doily on their head when they go into a Catholic Mass or somebody going to a synagogue and putting on a yarmulke.
(By the way, I&#8217;m just telling all politicians: as an Orthodox Jew, you don&#8217;t have to put on a yarmulke to walk into a synagogue. The only people who ask you to do that are Reform Jews, who typically don&#8217;t wear a yarmulke in the first place. People like me who wear it full time would not ask you to do so.)
What’s happening here is all part and parcel of a willingness on the Left to not only gloss over Islam, but also to submit to it and to start repeating all the talking points of it.
This has become not just a New York issue; it is a globalized issue. Canada&#8217;s CBC News, for example, initially decided to cover 9/11 by not calling it a terrorist attack. After significant backlash, CBC attempted to <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/29/media/cbc-releases-policy-change-after-controversy-about-refusing-to-refer-to-9-11-as-terrorist-attacks/">backtrack</a> from the controversy.
This is what the West has done to itself: decide that it is guilty and that the West deserves what happened to it. People have to be imported en masse because the West is guilty.
Nate Friedman, the video journalist, went to New York and the East Village – a heavily Muslim part of New York City. Things got awkward because it turns out that streets have been taken over by Islamic prayer, and some of those people are leaving bikes in the streets without getting parking tickets. Apparently, some police officers in the traffic department there barely speak English and are essentially allowing people to get away with violations of the law.
Friedman asked one of the Muslim men in this area about sharia law. The key to the clip was not the Muslim man who wants sharia law in New York City; the key was the white lady who yelled at Nate Friedman for asking the question as she walked by.
Eighty-four percent of women aged 18-29 in New York City voted for Zohran Mamdani — 84%.
They released videos from the night of Mamdani’s victory, cheering sharia law, which none of them would want to abide by. Sharia law is not in favor of literally anything these women want to do.
We&#8217;ve seen shades of this in other countries. In 1979, a bunch of feminists protested against the Shah and ended up bringing Ayatollah Khomeini onto themselves.
Why are American women — in blue areas in particular — buying into all of this? 
 First, many of these women have been taught that tolerance is the greatest virtue, perhaps the only virtue. If you are ”intolerant” by noticing cultural differences and pointing out that Islam on a global scale is a repressive force, “That is a form of intolerance, so go f*** yourself.”
Second, they’ve been taught that their civilization is uniquely intolerant, which means sexist and terrible and evil and horrible. They will protest the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in Handmaid&#8217;s Tale outfits.
 Yet they will don the uniform of female repression across planet Earth in New York City in order to fight American intolerance. Why?
They&#8217;re using politics as a substitute for family and community, which is why they&#8217;re voting the way that they are. It provides a sense of communal solidarity. The great irony of young leftist feminists shouting for sharia law is astonishing.
This is how you end up with a New York City that is being dominated by people who believe that America is inherently evil and terrible, with people who sympathize with the ideological belief system of the people who murdered 3,000 people on 9/11.
I&#8217;m saying that advisedly, because Mamdani literally does. On September 11, 2023, not 20 years ago, but only three years ago, he tweeted, “Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers died on 9/11. 22 years later, the death hasn&#8217;t stopped. We mourn our neighbors who died that day, the hundreds of thousands who died in the wars that followed, the unknown, millions injured and displaced in their memory. In their memory, we work toward a better world.”
Did you know that 3,000 New Yorkers died spontaneously? They were simply walking around in the streets and BAM! They all had heart attacks. They spontaneously combusted. In the words of Ilhan Omar, “Some people did something.”
These people can&#8217;t acknowledge what radical Islam did, and can’t acknowledge what terrorism did. It wasn&#8217;t terrorism; the real tragedy, according to Mamdani, was the hundreds of thousands of Muslims victimized by America.
Notice what Mamdani was doing in that tweet. 1) He&#8217;s pretending that people spontaneously combusted. There was no Islamic terror attack on 9/11; it was all in our imagination. 2) The real tragedy was not the 3,000 people murdered. It was the hundreds of thousands and millions of people who were harmed by the United States. The United States is the bad guy.
This is what he truly believes. And this piece of dreck is the mayor of New York City.
Always and forever for these people, the West is responsible for the sins of Islam. The West brings it upon itself. 
This is the prevailing view among people like Abdul El-Sayed, Hasan Piker, Mamdani, and a Democratic Party that has decided it must fellow-travel with these people and agree with them.
Meanwhile, the West continues to import these people.
Their goal is to use the West&#8217;s freedoms against itself.

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Feminism’s Most Insane Contradiction Yet

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Leftism is a slippery slope. One minute they want the government out of the gay bedroom. The next they want children at a drag show. One minute it’s my body, my choice. The next they’re ending children outside the womb and calling it health care. One minute they defend private prayer. The next they’re walking your daughter through hijab etiquette at Sunday night Girl Scouts.
An <a href="https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exc-from-hijab-try-ons-to-islam-patches">investigation</a> by Natalie Winters has uncovered a national pattern of Girl Scout troops folding Islamic prayer, Quran study, and hijab lessons into programs run under the GSUSA banner.
You send your daughter to get out of the kitchen, learn which berries won’t kill her, tie a knot, and say what she thinks. She comes home an expert in covering her hair and a faith whose classical law still shrugs at child marriage. Leadership!
In 2025, at a Sacramento mosque event for Girl Scouts, girls were invited to try on hijabs, hear about “the significance of modesty,” and practice being “aware and empathetic” to Palestine. The point was to open the mosque to the “broader Girl Scout community” and deliver “strong Islamic values.” Troops have met there for years. Sleepovers, fasting, praying through the night because, as one leader put it, “we just incorporate our religion into the framework that Girl Scouts provides.” Cute!
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Call it the green-on-green alliance. Scout green. Islamist green. Not a Thin Mint in sight. Just headscarves from hairline to ankle, Orange Man’s head on a pike, and anti-border wall posters being held by children. Campfire s’more, anyone?
The Islamic Center of Naperville instructs its girl troops to bring headscarves. The Islamic Center of Long Island says combining Islamic education with scout activity is their “prime goal.” The Prince George’s Muslim Association in Maryland invites Girl Scouts to overnight Ramadan programs where they can study the Quran and Hadith, provided they wear a white hijab and cover up properly upon entry. The Girl Scouts of the USA celebrate troops that host “Open Mosque Day for Girl Scout families,” in which they receive mosque tours and presentations linking Islam to the Girl Scout Promise and Law. And if your little princess works hard enough, she can be awarded the “Girl Scout of the Islamic Faith” medals – Bismillah, In the Name of Allah, Qurat ul A’in, and Muslimeen. Fabulous. Bonus points if you “Share Ramadan with a Friend.”
But no one’s pushing Sharia on anyone else, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-canon-law-and-sharia-law-are-not-the-same-one-of-them-wants-you-dead">right, guys?</a>
Right! They’re not pushing. They’re shoving with the full force of Allah, from Long Island to Virginia to San Diego.
But no matter where you go, you can’t earn an equivalent “Girl Scout of the Christian Faith, Jewish Faith, or Hindu Faith” medal. Obviously, that would be weird. And don’t go looking for a troop worksheet that invites a “non-Christian or non-Jewish girl to Mass.” That would be too much. Modesty try-ons and salah observation, however, are diversity.
It is a strange thing to watch a religion associated with female legal inferiority, compulsory modest dress, male authority, and — in the worst regimes — the stoning of women who step out of line, get folded into an organization whose sales pitch is that girls should become stronger, more independent, and better leaders.
What could go wrong?
As for the <a href="https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/2093305091717763404">boys</a>, “Scouting America” (Boy Scouts after the rebrand) is running the male version of this. Saudi Arabia recently dumped $87 million into their World Scouting Messengers of Peace, which recently held a U.S. National Jamboree in West Virginia featuring an inflatable mosque and minaret, Islamic education, Friday worship, and “Allahu Akbar” medals for not just Muslim troops, but all “scouting families.”
Send your boy to learn knots, and he comes home a junior diplomat for a monarchy that just lifted its “national ban on women driving” in 2018. Every mother’s dream.
Across the pond, things are just as peculiar.
Britain’s Scout Association will sell any kid an Islamophobia Awareness Month badge and send him/her/they/furry home with homework from the national website. Suggested activities include: learn the Five Pillars, visit a mosque, listen to the call to prayer, invite an imam, do a joint activity with a Muslim troop.
“On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God Allah and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.” Say it with us!
One of the outfits running interference here is CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. It calls itself a civil-rights group. Federal prosecutors in the Holy Land Foundation case listed it as an unindicted co-conspirator and tied its founding circle to the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee. When a St. Louis troop sold Gaza bracelets under the Girl Scout logo, CAIR wrote to national headquarters. When the badges hit the internet, CAIR called the coverage hysteria. Civil rights group and troop publicist? These folks really do it all.
This matters, because scouting was one of the last corners of American childhood that still pretended character mattered. Courage, self-reliance, dirt under the nails. These are things you don’t get sitting in a lock-in with prayer garments or a Palestine booth.
You get a girl told covering up is empowerment and a boy told “duty to God” means a specific legal tradition that, in its classical form, does not think his sister is his equal in court, inheritance, or the prayer line.
We’re quickly sliding down the slippery slope. First the exception: optional emblems, same as the Catholics. Then the hosted troop: we just incorporate our religion into the framework. Then the outreach night: try the hijab, meet the imam, share Ramadan with a friend who didn’t ask. Then the national badge that treats skepticism as pure bigotry.
Until they send scouts camping again and teach them to start a fire without a lecture on salah, tell the kiddos there are cookies at home.

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The Islamic Conquest Of The Scouts

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The national organization Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has responded to accusations that it is promoting Islam.
“Girl Scouts is proudly for every girl. Contrary to misinformation circulating online today, Girl Scouts is not a religious organization and does not teach religion,” a GSUSA spokesman told The Daily Wire in a statement. 
“For more than a century, we&#8217;ve welcomed girls of every faith and background. Our national My Promise, My Faith pin invites girls to connect the Girl Scout Law with their own faith. Any other faith-based patches are developed by independent faith organizations, not GSUSA, and participation in these programs is always optional.”
The statement comes following a <a href="https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exc-from-hijab-try-ons-to-islam-patches">report</a> by White House reporter Natalie Winters. In it, she accuses certain mosque-based troops of “embedding ‘Islamic values’ into girl scout programs across America.” 
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EXCLUSIVE: The Islamization of Girl Scouts across America:
• GSUSA-approved “GIRL SCOUT OF THE ISLAMIC FAITH” medals 
• Non-Muslim girls invited to mosques to observe Islamic prayer 
• Hajj patches, Shahada lessons, required white hijabs and Ramadan lock-ins
Nationwide. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/HbyAXeCQoT">pic.twitter.com/HbyAXeCQoT</a>
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) <a href="https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/2091908255521845724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2026</a></blockquote>
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One example Winters provided was the troop affiliated with the SALAM Islamic Center in Sacramento. In 2025, the troop hosted a “hijab photo booth” and provided an “informative booth about Palestine” to all attendees. 
One troop leader admitted to “[incorporating] our religion into the framework that Girl Scouts provides.”
As Winters pointed out in her article, this is not an isolated incident. She discovered mosque-affiliated troops promoting Muslim practices across the nation, from Illinois and New York to several other places.
These troops are consistently using Girl Scout programming to teach Islamic practices, including prayer, Ramadan, and hijab. Individual troops and local councils are imposing these rules, meaning it’s not done through the Girl Scouts as a whole. But there also hasn’t been any attempt by the organization to shut it down. 
There are also Girl Scout-style badges available through the National Islamic Committee on Girl Scouting. As Winters noted in a post on X, “GSUSA’s linked chart says it approved the programs and allows the insignia on official uniforms.”
Former Girl Scout leader and founder of the Christian-based organization American Heritage Girls Patti Garibay said none of this is surprising to her.
&#8220;Sadly, for us, this isn’t news. We watched the Girl Scouts move away from their Christian roots decades ago, removing references to God wherever they could. That’s why American Heritage Girls was founded in the first place, because since 1995, common-sense American families wanted a place where girls could be encouraged to live out their Christian faith,” she said.
“[Girl Scout founder] Juliette Gordon Low stood for something at the heart of the organization she founded: an abiding faith in Jesus Christ. Somewhere along the way, the Girl Scouts lost that core in an effort to stand for everything, or perhaps nothing at all,” Garibay added, urging current Girl Scout members to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-happened-to-the-girl-scouts-so-many-americans-grew-up-with?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=What+Happened+To+The+Girl+Scouts+So+Many+Americans+Grew+Up+With%3F">consider an alternative</a>.

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Alarm bells are ringing across the British justice system over fears that white prisoners in the UK are being terrorized into converting to Islam by dominant, violent prison gangs.
Fresh Ministry of Justice figures expose a startling demographic shift behind bars in England and Wales: one out of every five Muslim inmates is white, <a href="https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16078107/Fears-prisoners-forced-convert-Islam-bars-revealed-one-five-Muslim-inmates-white.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=social-twitter_mailonline">compared</a> with 5.8% of Muslims in the general population, according to the Daily Mail. The disparity has triggered urgent calls from political leaders demanding an immediate inquiry into radicalization and coerced conversions reportedly taking place in prisons.
Critics warned that newly arrived inmates face a brutal choice: submit to extremist gangs or suffer violence. While some prisoners adopt the faith as &#8220;convenience Muslims&#8221; to secure extra cell time or better halal meals, legal experts and veteran prison inspectors say that sheer survival is driving them. Inmates are forced to fall in line within hours of entering a wing to buy protection from dominant radical factions.
The crisis is backed by hard evidence in the government’s <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6267f9648fa8f523bb2e51bf/terrorism-in-prisons-review-response.pdf">landmark 2022 independent review</a> on terrorism in prisons by Jonathan Hall KC.
The bombshell report revealed how extremist &#8220;emirs&#8221; run power structures inside high-security facilities, taking advantage of isolated and vulnerable prisoners. Hall reported that radical leaders enforce control through psychological manipulation, food sharing, and recruitment backed by &#8220;implicit or actual violence.&#8221;
&#8220;Even when spread out among other prisoners, there are a small number of individuals whose radicalising influence means they can draw others into their world view,&#8221; the report stated. &#8220;They can have a serious impact on the lives of those they groom, the prison wing and ultimately on the public who face an increased risk of terrorism.&#8221;
In one chilling example, London Bridge attacker Usman Khan actively pressured fellow inmates to adopt traditional Muslim names and clothes while aggressively expanding his radical group. Hall&#8217;s findings warned that without strong government intervention, these radical networks will continue to subvert prison discipline and create dangerous recruitment pipelines.
In the United States, American prisons are grappling with a massive phenomenon. Islam has long been recognized as the fastest-growing faith behind bars, as CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/islam-conversion-prison-state-of-spirituality/">noted</a>, accounting for <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-03-27/how-to-produce-fewer-terrorists-in-prison">up to 80%</a> of all religious conversions in the prison system. Tens of thousands of American inmates adopt the faith each year.

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