Asked by a reporter about Catholics in Europe believing that Islam is a threat to Christianity and whether they were right, Pope Leo XIV <a href="https://x.com/SlimWiggy/status/1996425827454763287">responded</a> by saying they were often people who were against immigration and should be less fearful.
“All of the conversations that I had during my time both in Turkey and in Lebanon, including with many Muslims, were precisely concentrated on the topic of peace and respect of people of different religions,” Pope Leo stated, adding the understatement, “I know that as a matter of fact, that has not always been the case.”
“I know that in Europe, there are many times fears that are present, but oftentimes generated by people who are against immigration and trying to keep out people who may be from another country, another religion, another race,” he declared. “And in that sense, I would say that we all need to work together. One of the values of this trip is precisely to raise the world’s attention to the possibility that dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians is possible.”
The pope turned to Lebanon, which was a beautiful country in the 1960’s, but started to be torn apart with the entrance of the Palestine Liberation Organization, headed by Yasser Arafat.
As <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2025/05/06/lebanons-ossified-left-and-its-stance-on-palestine/">FDD</a> has noted:
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The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded at a conference in East Jerusalem in 1964 under Jordanian sovereignty. The organization started recruiting Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, training them, arming them, and launching attacks across the southern border with Israel, inviting Israeli reprisal. Lebanon’s Christian establishment was enraged, saw the Palestinian militias as a threat to the sovereignty of the Lebanese state, and sided with global capitalism against the PLO and the now-defunct Eastern Bloc. Christians thus became Lebanon’s Right.
Meanwhile, many Lebanese Muslims took the side of fellow Muslim Palestinians and their armed factions. These Lebanese connected with the world’s leftist organizations and governments and emerged as the country’s Left. By the time the Lebanese civil war ended in 1991, the Muslim Left had prevailed over the Christian Right.
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“I think one of the great lessons that Lebanon can teach to the world is precisely showing a land where Islam, Christianity are both present and are respected and that there is a possibility to live together, to be friends, “ the pope pronounced. “Stories, testimony, witnesses that heard even in the past two days of people helping each other, Christians with Muslims &#8212; both of them had their villages destroyed, for example &#8212; of saying, we can come together and work together. I think that those are lessons that would be important also that we heard in Europe or North America that we should perhaps be a little less fearful and look for ways of promoting authentic dialogue and respect.&#8221;
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Pope Leo’s perspective would seem to be at odds with Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, who wrote in <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/50582876">Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ</a>, “If you really understand Islam, you understand that the Church really should be afraid of it.”

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Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) suggested on Wednesday that Trump supporters might use violence against Somali migrants, while she brushed off a massive Somali-connected fraud scandal in Minnesota that cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Omar <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/us/video/donald-trump-immigration-somali-somalia-ice-deportation-border-illegal-jake-tapper-lead">told</a> CNN host Jake Tapper that Trump&#8217;s comments about the fraud scandal, and, in particular, Somali immigrants, &#8220;creates fear.&#8221;
&#8220;And there is a possible danger that a lot of the people who follow the president have exhibited violence in many cases, especially in my case, whenever he has said something about me that is derogatory or says I&#8217;m a threat to the country, I have gotten death threats,&#8221; the Democrat said.
&#8220;There are so many people that have been incarcerated over the years that have been encouraged by the president&#8217;s words,&#8221; Omar claimed. &#8220;And so there is fear for Somalis, not just in Minnesota, but across the country, that some of these people might attack and harm them.&#8221;
&#8220;And so, to me, it is important for us, one, to remind folks that we are Americans,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We’re not going anywhere, and we will continue to be in this country. And two, that Minnesotans are resilient, and we will continue to thrive.&#8221;
Further, Omar brushed off the fraud scandal when she was pressed about its concentration in Minnesota by Tapper. The rep merely blamed a lack of &#8220;guardrails&#8221; because the schemes started during COVID, though Omar notably did not condemn the fraud during the segment.
The fraud scheme in Minnesota deals with billions of stolen taxpayer dollars during the tenure of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz. Notably, it&#8217;s been largely tied to the Somali community, and some stolen money was allegedly funneled to Al-Shabaab terrorists, according to <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/minnesota-welfare-fraud-somalia-al-shabaab">City Journal</a>.
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🚨🇺🇸 JAKE TAPPER ASKS OMAR WHY MINNESOTA FRAUD GOT SO OUT OF CONTROL&#8230; SHE BLAMES &#8220;GUARDRAILS&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper pressed Rep. Ilhan Omar on why the $1 billion Feeding Our Future fraud scheme involving mostly Somali perpetrators spiraled so badly in her state.
Her answer… <a href="https://t.co/wacQffwL8S">pic.twitter.com/wacQffwL8S</a>
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1996395142001864889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
Trump on Tuesday railed against Somali migrants, who he said &#8220;ripped off&#8221; taxpayers and, generally, contribute &#8220;nothing&#8221; to the U.S., citing a welfare rate of 88%.
&#8220;I hear &#8230; Somalians ripped off that state for billions of dollars, billions, every year,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;And they contribute nothing. Their welfare [rate] is like 88% — they contribute nothing.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want &#8217;em in our country, I&#8217;ll be honest with you. Some will say, &#8216;Oh, that&#8217;s not politically correct.&#8217; I don&#8217;t care,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want them in our country.&#8221;
&#8220;Their country is no good for a reason, their country stinks, and we don&#8217;t want them in our country. I could say that about other countries, too,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to rebuild our country — our country is at a tipping point. We can go one way or the other, and we are gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.&#8221;
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Referring to Omar and &#8220;her friends,&#8221; Trump added, &#8220;These aren&#8217;t people who work; these aren&#8217;t people who say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go, let&#8217;s make this place great.&#8217; These are people who do nothing but complain, and from where they came from, they got nothing.&#8221;
&#8220;When they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but b****, we don&#8217;t want them in our country. Let them go back from where they came from and fix it. We don&#8217;t want them in our country,&#8221; he said.
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🚨BREAKING: President Trump has HAD IT with these illegal aliens that are RIPPING-OFF our Country.
&#8220;Somalians—They contribute nothing!&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want them in our country, I&#8217;ll be honest with you. Some will say that it is not politically correct. I DON&#8217;T CARE!&#8221;
&#8220;Their country… <a href="https://t.co/SjUf4M8XT6">pic.twitter.com/SjUf4M8XT6</a>
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/1995934088042082811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
Reacting to Trump&#8217;s comments, Omar claimed Trump often uses &#8220;very bigoted, xenophobic, Islamophobic, racist rhetoric.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m not shocked, because we know that the president oftentimes resorts to very bigoted, xenophobic, Islamophobic, racist rhetoric when he is trying to scapegoat and deflect from the actual failures that he has himself,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We know that this administration has not fulfilled the majority of the promises that they’ve made, whether it is bringing costs down, whether it is the tariffs that are decimating businesses in the United States, whether it is the possible war crimes that his defense secretary is committing.&#8221;
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Rep. Ilhan Omar responds to Trump&#8217;s attacks: He&#8217;s trying to &#8216;deflect&#8217; from his &#8216;failures&#8217; 
Watch the full video: <a href="https://t.co/v0DRknaiiC">https://t.co/v0DRknaiiC</a> <a href="https://t.co/bpZ0KxMxLf">pic.twitter.com/bpZ0KxMxLf</a>
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1996373733494382763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
Omar has notably used extreme language when it comes to President Trump. Just last month, the rep seemed to openly threaten anyone &#8220;collaborating&#8221; with the Trump administration.
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Shockingly dangerous: Ilhan Omar openly threatens anyone &#8220;collaborating&#8221; with the Trump administration during a recent organizing call for May Day Strong.
She tells her radical base to make them &#8220;pay a costly price&#8221; at a time when their &#8220;price&#8221; is increasingly assassination. <a href="https://t.co/NpAghfrAV1">pic.twitter.com/NpAghfrAV1</a>
— Tudor Dixon (@TudorDixon) <a href="https://twitter.com/TudorDixon/status/1996583701744959943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A packed and emotionally charged zoning board meeting this week in Hoover, Alabama, ended with <a href="https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2025/12/heated-alabama-zoning-meeting-ends-with-rejection-of-islamic-school-plan.html?outputType=amp">unanimous rejection</a> of a proposal to relocate a Muslim K-12 school.
The Hoover Planning and Zoning Commission <a href="https://hooversun.com/news/hoover-zoning-board-votes-against-islamic-academy-in-meadow-/">voted</a> 7-0 to deny rezoning the property on Corporate Drive from office use to accommodate the Islamic Academy of Alabama, citing concerns about traffic congestion, adherence to long-term city development plans, and the precedent such a zoning change might set. The meeting drew nearly 200 residents, filling the city council chamber and spilling into hallways as opponents voiced their objections — some focused on practical issues, others on cultural unease.
The potential move has sparked both practical and cultural debate in the community.
Several residents insisted their opposition stemmed from concern over already clogged roads. Meadowbrook resident Nancy Cooper pointed out that six schools serving more than 5,600 students already feed traffic into Highway 119, often turning it into what she called “a parking lot.” A petition opposing the plan gathered over 1,700 signatures. “It’s not about religion,” said resident Jeff Wilson, who started the petition. “It’s about traffic.”
Some attendees held signs warning of an Islamic “100-year plan” and comparing Hoover’s future to the Muslim-majority city of Dearborn, Michigan. Others openly suggested the school’s presence would drive away business or hurt property values.
The last speaker read a prepared statement in which she said Muslims had implemented a “long-term cultural takeover” in Britain, drawing applause. Commission Chairman Mike Wood interrupted to say that what she was saying was not germane to the discussion, saying, “We are here to look at whether this school was appropriately placed. We’re not here for that. I’m sorry. We’re not going to listen to that.” Some members of the crowd yelled in response, coming to the woman’s defense.
Though Monday’s vote is only advisory, it sends the proposal to the Hoover City Council, where a final decision will be made.

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The first time I met Cory Pesaturo, he had just hijacked the stage at a wedding in Boston with an accordion strapped to his chest. Little did I know he would do the impossible: make me a fan of the accordion.
Cory is — and I’m not exaggerating — the world’s best accordion player. He’s won the accordion World Championship three times. He holds the Guinness World Record for playing the accordion for the longest continuous time. He brings his accordion with him <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DPY132wkTkt/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">everywhere</a>, and can play just about anything, including the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CknQsS8uqcW/?hl=en&amp;img_index=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accordion tracks</a> in the feature film “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.”
Most recently, he took his talents to Saudi Arabia, which is now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-officially-designates-saudi-arabia-a-major-ally-of-united-states?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Officially+Designates+Saudi+Arabia+A+%E2%80%98Major%E2%80%99+Ally+Of+United+States" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officially</a> a “major ally” of the United States. The Saudi Arabia he presents is much different from the Saudi Arabia most Americans probably imagine. — Brent Scher
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Earlier this month, I arrived in Saudi Arabia for my second visit to a country which has always seemed like a forbidden land to the West. I’d been invited again as a guest star to play accordion in the “Riyadh Season” concert series — this time with Egypt’s biggest singing sensation, Angham.
What struck me, on both trips, was how aggressively the Saudis are betting on capitalism.
Everywhere you go, the top Western brands are visible: Dunkin’ Donuts, Texas Roadhouse, Bath &amp; Body Works, Chuck E. Cheese, and yes, Randy’s Donuts, with the giant donut on the roof are there for you in Riyadh. There is even a Disney castle and theme park.
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On every corner there seem to be concerts, tourist attractions, and massive development projects. The music you hear playing through the speakers of high-end locations? Jazz, Lady Gaga, or Burt Bacharach. The style of filming for major concerts?  Straight out of CBS’s Grammys playbook.
Could a country truly hate America if this is what I was seeing?
When I first traveled to Saudi Arabia two years ago, I didn’t even tell my father. You can’t lie to an Italian mother, of course, but my father? If he had known I was flying to a country he associated with the worst terror attack in American history, he would have tied me to my bed. Many of my friends felt the same, judging by their reactions when I returned: “Saudi Arabia? Are you insane? Are you trying to get arrested or killed?”
But over the past decade, the Kingdom, under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has charted a different course. One built on peace, prosperity, and a surprisingly familiar engine: Western-style capitalism.
It is true that in Saudi Arabia, you have no real rights against the state — no First Amendment protections, no guarantee of a fair trial, a mandatory dress code, and laws that make smoking pot or ordering a margarita about as plausible as Cardi B performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto on the accordion — a stunt I once pulled to win a national title.
Yet, regardless of this different universe of ideas from the United States, I wasn’t afraid.
The free market being unleashed in Saudi Arabia, even if still in a more state-run manner, is the greatest modern example of how a country thought to be an untrustworthy foe can turn into an important ally.
What struck me most, though, was that while I was in Saudi Arabia, a Muslim socialist won the mayor’s seat in the financial capital of the world, New York City. Three different Saudis during the trip (including a Syrian security worker at the venue who had fled Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime) asked me some version of the same question: “What on earth are you Americans doing electing Mamdani? He’s crazy.” This, again, from inside the very center of Islam. And even they aren’t at all sold on the politics that Zohran Mamdani represents.
My insight is anecdotal, but the friendships I’ve formed in Saudi Arabia reveal a people not so different from my own friends back home. They want peace. They want prosperity. They want their families to be happy. They want to travel. They want to have fun.
I asked them everything — about Israel, Islamic extremism, terrorism, drinking, drugs, dating, hating their boss, weekend plans, and which video games keep them up until 4:00 a.m.
Watching a group of young men in Riyadh blast pop music at 1:30 a.m. as they inched through a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-through, talking about girls and killing time, looked the same as you’d see in America. Different faiths, different cultures, same very human scene.
A handful of companies profit from global conflict. But 99.9% of businesses in a free-market economy — from Nike and Coca-Cola to Apple and Tesla — depend on global stability and rising disposable income. Peace is profitable.
In just a decade, Saudi Arabia has gone from a place many Americans fear to visit to a place I can’t recommend enough to go see. If that’s the result of “greedy capitalism,” then count me in.
Cory Pesaturo is a three-time World Champion accordionist and Guinness World Record holder who has performed on six continents and at the White House four times. In addition to giving five TEDx Talks, he is also active in the motorsports world, bringing his signature blend of innovation and artistry to audiences around the globe.
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In a scene that laid bare the extraordinary double standards governing Australia’s political class, Senator Pauline Hanson of the One Nation Party walked into the chamber wearing a burqa after Parliament refused even to allow her bill banning full-face coverings to be introduced.
Within seconds, the Left erupted. Senators shouted for her removal, called her “racist,” and shut the Senate down. Senate leader Penny Wong called for a vote on removing Hanson from the chamber as senators continued to shout, “Get her out.”
“I rise to ask that you reflect the ruling of Senator Parry, when in the President’s chair, in relation to a similar stunt by this senator in this place, and I will remind those who may not have been here of what the then leader of the government, Senator Brandis, said at the time,’’ Wong said. “He says to Senator Hanson, ‘Senator I’m not going to pretend to ignore the stunt you have tried to pull today by arriving in the chamber dressed in a burqa, when we all know you are not an adherent of the Islamic faith.&#8217;”
“As soon as I started to introduce the bill, I was shut down,” Hanson responded. “And for Penny Wong to get up and say this is a place where we may have differences in policies and that type of thing. Well, that’s an absolute joke, because they won’t accept my policies.”
“I respect people’s religions, okay, and I adhere to Section 116 of the Australian Constitution about religious observance,” she continued. “I’ve had no problem with that, but the burqa is not a religious requirement, and that’s been called out by Islamic clerics. These people don’t assimilate, and it’s controlling women. Here they constantly talk about, in the Greens and everyone else, women’s rights. We’re fighting for women’s rights, equal pay, equal you know, domestic violence, we’re clearly calling that women’s rights. If you ban the burqa, some of these men cannot force their women to wear the burqa.”
Hanson wrote on X after the incident in the Senate: “Today I wore a burqa into the Senate after One Nation&#8217;s bill to ban the burqa and face coverings in public was blocked from even being introduced. The usual hypocrites had an absolute freak out. The fact is more than 20 countries around the world have banned the Burqa because they recognise it as a tool that oppresses women, poses a national security risk, encourages radical islam and threatens social cohesion. If these hypocrites don&#8217;t want me to wear a burqa, they can always support my ban. Listen to my right of reply to what happened today, because I was blocked from saying anything in Parliament.”
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Today I wore a burqa into the Senate after One Nation&#39;s bill to ban the burqa and face coverings in public was blocked from even being introduced. 
The usual hypocrites had an absolute freak out. 
The fact is more than 20 countries around the world have banned the Burqa… <a href="https://t.co/8ZZ0Sin1hG">pic.twitter.com/8ZZ0Sin1hG</a>
&mdash; Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 (@PaulineHansonOz) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/1992886488300966251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“If this isn’t peak irony, I don’t know what is,” commentator Rukshan Fernando pointed out. “This is Australia, if the burqa is not banned, then anyone should be able to wear one and do with it what they like. There would be zero objections right now to a Muslim politician wearing a burqa in Parliament House. All sorts of props have been used in Parliament, including, most recently, the keffiyeh worn by people who are clearly not of that culture or background. We are constantly told that wearing a burqa is a freely made choice and that it is just a garment, so what exactly is the problem with Pauline Hanson wearing one? How can one group of people have exclusive rights over a style of garment in Australia? If the burqa is such a controversial garment, and these blatant double standards mean people can’t wear one for whatever reason they choose, then how is Pauline Hanson attempting to ban its use in public such a big deal?”
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Today, Senator Pauline Hanson was banned from wearing a burqa in the Senate while attempting to introduce a bill to ban the burqa in Australia. If this isn’t peak irony, I don’t know what is.
This is Australia, if the burqa is not banned, then anyone should be able to wear one… <a href="https://t.co/ixUSUpiB94">https://t.co/ixUSUpiB94</a> <a href="https://t.co/7AAzdEDp1S">pic.twitter.com/7AAzdEDp1S</a>
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Hanson’s stance is part of her party’s broader, unapologetic defense of Western values. One Nation has been one of the strongest voices in Australia firmly supporting Israel after the October 7 Hamas atrocities, calling out the Albanese government for backing a United Nations push they say effectively legitimizes a terrorist-controlled Palestinian authority. One Nation argues that Labor and the Greens speak out of both sides of their mouths—condemning Hamas when convenient while advancing policies that embolden anti-Israel sentiment at home.
Against that backdrop, Hanson’s protest was no “stunt.” It was a demonstration meant to force a conversation Australia’s elites would rather avoid.
In that sense, it succeeded.

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Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations on Tuesday, citing each group&#8217;s ties to Islamic extremism and accusing them of seeking to &#8220;forcibly impose Sharia law.&#8221;
Abbott&#8217;s <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/PROC_declaring_Muslim_Brotherhood_and_CAIR_Transnational_Criminal_Organizations_IMAGE_11-18-2025.pdf">action</a> bans the Muslim groups from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas and subjects anyone affiliated with them to heightened state penalties.
“The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’&#8221; Abbott <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-designates-muslim-brotherhood-cair-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations">said</a>. &#8220;The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable. Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. These radical extremists are not welcome in our state and are now prohibited from acquiring any real property interest in Texas.”
For years, the Muslim Brotherhood has advocated for extremism and been connected to Islamic terrorists. The Muslim Brotherhood, which started as a militant group in Egypt in 1928, has spread throughout the world and is tied to numerous jihadist groups, according to a 2018 Congressional <a href="https://www.congress.gov/event/115th-congress/house-event/108532/text">report</a>. The Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s founder, Hassan al-Banna, was outspoken about fighting non-Muslims through jihad and wrote that &#8220;Jihad is an obligation from Allah and every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded.&#8221; In recent years, the Brotherhood condemned the United States for killing terrorism mastermind Osama bin Laden, and one of its most influential leaders, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070612234906/http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&amp;Area=jihad&amp;ID=SP79404#_edn1">called</a> for terrorist attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a self-described civil rights organization, has been criticized over its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. U.S. authorities have also posited that CAIR was established as a front for Hamas. In a 2008 case, which was the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history, the council and its co-founders were named as unindicted co-conspirators in a plot to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas. Multiple people who have worked for CAIR have also been sentenced for planning to aid terrorist groups, such as Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
The council has denied the allegations tying it to Hamas and responded to Abbott&#8217;s move to designate it as a foreign terrorist organization.
&#8220;We have consistently condemned all forms of unjust violence, including hate crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide and terrorism. In fact, we condemn terrorism so often that ISIS once put a target on our national executive director,&#8221; the council said. &#8220;Although we are flattered by Greg Abbott&#8217;s obsession with our civil rights organization, his publicity stunt masquerading as a proclamation has no basis in fact or law. By defaming a prominent American Muslim institution with debunked conspiracy theories and made-up quotes, Mr. Abbott has once again shown that his top priority is advancing anti-Muslim bigotry, not serving the people of Texas.&#8221;
Abbott&#8217;s move comes as Muslims plan to develop a massive compound in North Texas, which is being <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/epic-city-muslim-community-doj-investigation-ends/">investigated</a> by state and federal authorities. The compound aims to create a Muslim-centered community on 400 acres of land and is spearheaded by the East Plano Islamic Center, the largest mosque in Texas.
The Muslim development plans are not connected to the Muslim Brotherhood or the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The Justice Department launched an investigation into the plans after Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn raised concerns about religious discrimination surrounding the housing development.
&#8220;Religious discrimination and Sharia Law have no place in the Lone Star State,&#8221; Cornyn <a href="https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-announces-doj-investigation-into-epic-city/">said</a> in May. &#8220;Any violations of federal law must be swiftly prosecuted, and I know under the Trump administration, they will be.&#8221;

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is designating Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) due to the relentless persecution of Christians conducted by &#8220;radical Islamist&#8221; terrorists.
The designation, which the president announced as he arrived at Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, means that Nigeria has engaged in &#8220;severe violations of religious freedom&#8221; under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998.
&#8220;Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria,&#8221; the president said in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115470116607441456">post</a> on Truth Social. &#8220;Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.&#8221;
&#8220;I am hereby making Nigeria a &#8216;COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN&#8217; — But that is the least of it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;When Christians, or any such group, is slaughtered like is happening in Nigeria (3,100 versus 4,476 Worldwide), something must be done! I am asking Congressman Riley Moore, together with Chairman Tom Cole and the House Appropriations Committee, to immediately look into this matter, and report back to me.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_994417" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-designates-nigeria-a-country-of-particular-concern-after-untold-slaughter-of-christians/president-trump-spends-weekend-at-mar-a-lago-estate-in-palm-beach" rel="attachment wp-att-994417"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-994417" class="wp-image-994417 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2244362653-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2244362653-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2244362653-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2244362653-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-2244362653.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport on October 31, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump is spending the weekend at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)</div>
&#8220;The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries,&#8221; the president added. &#8220;We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian population around the World!&#8221;
Congressman Riley Moore of West Virginia and Tom Cole of Oklahoma did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire, but in a <a href="https://x.com/RepRileyMoore/status/1984331412573438044">post on X</a>, Moore thanked the president for the designation.
&#8220;You have always been a champion for Christians around the world, and I&#8217;m grateful for the opportunity to work with you and Chairman Cole @houseappropsgop to defend our brothers and sisters in Christ who are being slaughtered by radical Islamists in Nigeria,&#8221; the West Virginia congressman said.
<a href="https://www.state.gov/countries-of-particular-concern-special-watch-list-countries-entities-of-particular-concern">Other countries of particular concern include</a> Burma, the People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
Nigeria was formerly designated a CPC under the first Trump administration. Under President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, Secretary of State Antony Blinken <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/01/26/state-department-still-wont-say-why-it-doesnt-classify-nigeria-india-as-countries-violating-religious-freedom/">had determined</a> that Nigeria was not a CPC, despite pleas from religious freedom advocates to recognize severe violations of religious freedom.

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Trump Designates Nigeria A ‘Country Of Particular Concern,’ After Untold Slaughter Of Christians

Trump Slams Nigerian Slaughter Of Christians, Designates Nigeria 'Country Of Particular Concern'

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There is some good news out of New York. It&#8217;s not a lot of good news out of New York, but it&#8217;s some good news.
There&#8217;s a brand new poll from Suffolk University showing that in New York, Andrew Cuomo — who is really the only hope of stopping Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race — is catching up to Zohran Mamdani. The poll found that Mamdani no longer leads Cuomo by 20 points or 15 points, but the lead is down to ten, and Mamdani is stuck at 44%.
Typically, when somebody wins the New York mayoral race, they win well over a majority. Here you have Mamdani at 44%. You have Cuomo at 34%, and you have Curtis Sliwa at 11%. There will be a lot of talk if Mamdani ends up mayor about why Curtis Sliwa stayed in the race.
The reality is that Curtis Sliwa is not going to be the next mayor of New York. And if his vote share is larger than the margin of victory for Mamdani, that will leave some questions to be asked. 
<ol>
<li>   Why is the New York City population so insipid?</li>
<li>   Why didn’t Sliwa drop out?</li>
</ol>
As David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, says, Sliwa “is one person in New York City whose voters could have an outsized impact on the outcome.”
This is the first poll since Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the race.
Most of his support has bled to Cuomo.
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Mamdani is running a terrible final week of this campaign. He has decided that his closing message is going to be that New York City is famous for Islamophobia and if you don&#8217;t elect him, it&#8217;s because you don&#8217;t like Muslims, which is a wild statement in a city that suffered 9/11 (where apparently the only victim of 9/11, according to Zohran Mamdani, was his own female relative, who was wearing some sort of hijab on the subway and somebody gave her a mean look).
So now his final closing pitch is, “Why won&#8217;t you give me the mayoralty? If you don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re mean to Muslims.”
That is the mark of a person who truly feels entitled to everything. If you won&#8217;t give him the mayoralty of the financial center of planet Earth, it must not be because he&#8217;s a bad candidate, an out-and-out communist, a sympathizer with jihadists, but because you are mean to Muslims.
Lest you truly believe that Mamdani is some sort of soft-hearted, wonderful person, I want to point out a <a href="https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1982974662175752646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1982974662175752646%7Ctwgr%5Ea2e8d1de8daa0c8f2de3ff7e8ee90b7b4f37eb71%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fmedia%2Fnews%2Fzohran-mamdani-bashes-the-cops-and-israel-in-wild-unearthed-video-when-the-boot-of-the-nypd-is-on-your-neck-its-been-laced-by-the-idf%2F">clip of him from 2023</a>. You want to know where his ideology comes from? His ideology is deeply, deeply ensconced in the Red-Green alliance between communists and radical jihadists that is characteristic of so much of the Left these days.
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September, 2023.
Zohran Mamdani: &#8220;We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it&#8217;s been laced by the IDF.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/sr8pQyKvCq">pic.twitter.com/sr8pQyKvCq</a>
— MAZE (@mazemoore) <a href="https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1982974662175752646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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That quote from him in September 2023 shows him explaining that basically, his hatred for capitalism springs from his dislike of the “Zionists.” 
Mamdani stated:
<blockquote>The importance for me of international solidarity is that it takes me out of the American political landscape and reminds me just how tame some of the things that I’m actually calling for in the next board. And it reminds me of the necessity of grounding ourselves in the struggles as opposed to the fights around the struggles. For anyone to care about these issues … We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF. We’re in a country where those connections abound. Especially in New York City, you have so many opportunities to make clear the ways in which that struggle over there is tied to capitalist interests over here.</blockquote>
So you see, it&#8217;s really the Jews in Israel who are tied to the capitalist interests in New York City. And capitalism, of course, is bad. If you missed it, he said, “When the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”
This was not 15 years ago. This was two years ago. He was a full grown-ass man when he said this sort of garbage.
But if you point this out, you’re “Islamophobic.”
He only cares about “affordability.” How is he going to deliver affordability? No one knows. But if he just says “affordability” over and over and over, then affordability will magically appear in New York City. It&#8217;s like Beetlejuice. If you say affordability three times, then magically all of the rents go down.
He has no idea how he&#8217;s going to do anything. But that doesn&#8217;t matter. The reason people support Mamdani is because he&#8217;s “fetch” and he&#8217;s “brat.”
There are a lot of idiots in New York, and those idiots in New York are fully on board with the idea that if you don&#8217;t vote for Zohran Mamdani, it must be because you are some sort of racist, or because you hate gay people, or because you are one of those “capitalist tools.”
One can only hope that the non-idiots in New York will show up to vote.
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​​Cuomo Closes The Gap As Mamdani Plays Victim

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Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani lamented on Friday that — after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States — his Muslim aunt could no longer take the subway because she wore a hijab.
Mamdani made the comment while delivering a speech on Islamophobia in front of a mosque one day before early voting begins for the heated NYC mayor&#8217;s race. The speech focused on condemning attacks against him from his opponents, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, that he claims are &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;baseless.&#8221; During the speech on Islamophobia, Mamdani fought back tears when he talked about his aunt.
&#8220;I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab,&#8221; he said.
The remark unintentionally evoked the famous Norm Macdonald quip, when the late comedian <a href="https://x.com/normmacdonald/status/809637479674281984?lang=en">said</a>, &#8220;What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims?&#8221;
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He did the meme. <a href="https://t.co/pb3KIRMI3J">https://t.co/pb3KIRMI3J</a> <a href="https://t.co/le7xEG1fNa">pic.twitter.com/le7xEG1fNa</a>
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyRedfernFL/status/1981797310217527719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Later during the speech, Mamdani spoke about his own experience as a Muslim and again brought up 9/11.
&#8220;Growing up in the shadow of 9/11, I have known what it means to live with an undercurrent of suspicion in this city,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;To be Muslim in New York is to expect indignity, but indignity does not make us distinct. There are many New Yorkers who face it. It is the tolerance of that indignity that does.&#8221;
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On Thursday, Mamdani called an exchange between Cuomo and a conservative radio host &#8220;disgusting&#8221; after they <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-sept-11.html">discussed</a> what a terror attack on New York City would look like with Mamdani leading the city.
“God forbid another 9/11, can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?” Cuomo asked.
“Yeah, I could,” replied radio host Sid Rosenberg. “He’d be cheering.”
Cuomo chuckled and then responded, saying, “That’s another problem.&#8221;
Mamdani decried the exchange, saying that Cuomo &#8220;in his final moments in public life is engaging in rhetoric that is not only Islamophobic, not only racist, is also disgusting, and is his final closing argument with less than two weeks before Election Day.”
Mamdani, who is pushing a socialist platform, has long taken strong anti-Israel positions, such as advocating for boycotting Israeli institutions. Mamdani, who was once a rap artist, <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/look-em-up-mamdani-praised-men-found">praised</a> men in a song who were convicted in the United States of providing material support to Hamas.
During his speech on Friday, the socialist mayoral candidate said that recent &#8220;racist&#8221; attacks on him have shown him that he was &#8220;wrong&#8221; for thinking that he could become more than his faith.
&#8220;I thought that if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough in the face of racist, baseless attacks, all while returning back to my central message, it would allow me to be more than just my faith,&#8221; Mamdani added. &#8220;I was wrong. No amount of redirection is ever enough.&#8221;

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Florida Congressman Randy Fine and Texas Rep. Keith Self on Friday introduced legislation that would ensure that Sharia law cannot be implemented anywhere in the United States.
The “No Shari’a Act” would prohibit the application of Sharia “where such application would violate constitutional rights,” according to a copy of the legislation shared with The Daily Wire. Both Fine and Self said that the measure was intended to protect Western culture and ensure that the United States would not be taken over by Islamic radicals. 
“We are not going to become a Muslim nation. There are plenty out there,” Fine told The Daily Wire. “If you want to live under Sharia, return to where you came from, but we’re not interested in you coming here and conquering our country.”
Self said the influence of Shariah was already present in Texas. 
“We cannot have two sets of laws,” he told The Daily Wire. “There is one in the United States. It&#8217;s called the U.S. Constitution and the state laws under states of course, but we cannot have two different civilizations with different laws.”
The issue came to a head in Texas with controversy over the planned EPIC City development outside Dallas that was intended to be a Muslim community. Critics worried that the development would implement Sharia.
The legislation says that the “the Constitution of the United States is and must remain the supreme law of the land, and no foreign law or legal system may be permitted to undermine it” and that “no court shall enforce a judgment, decree, or arbitration decision if it relies, in whole or in part, on Shari’a or any foreign law that violates the constitutional rights of any party.”
Fine referenced the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/muslim-mayor-in-dearborn-michigan-tells-christian-resident-you-are-not-welcome-here">recent confrontation</a> in Dearborn, Michigan, where a Christian resident was told he was not welcome in the city by Muslim Mayor Abdullah Hammoud after he spoke out in opposition to naming a street after Arab American publisher Osama Siblani.
“We do not want to replicate this barbaric Middle Age philosophy in this country, and we need to make that clear, this is not welcome in the United States,” Fine said. “We need to respond to the Islamists saying Christians are not welcome in Dearborn by saying, no, you are not welcome here.”
Self said that Sharia allows for child marriages, husbands to beat their wives, honor killings, and genital mutilation. He said these practices were “not compatible with U.S. law, U.S. Constitution, and our civilization.”

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Florida Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Sharia Law: ‘We Are Not Going To Become A Muslim Nation.’

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