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Historian, MidEast, Islamism & US foreign policy analyst. @MEForum president, @CIS_org senior fellow. Thatcher pic from 1996, Brunei 2018. Opinions personal.
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So,
#TommyRobinson
got sent to a high-security UK prison for a trivial & usually-ignored civil infraction. But Koranic teacher
#SulemanMaknojioa
sexually abused a girl & was spared jail time.
Anyone else note an inconsistency in the UK "justice" system"?
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About a 1K people milled about
#PhiladelphiaCityHall
this afternoon, centered around a cone-shaped pillow-like item bearing Trump's face.
People ritualistically kicked, slammed, and punched it to much applause.
It's disturbing because symbolic violence leads to actual violence.
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It looks like
@LSarsour
has engaged in fraud, pretending to raise money for 11
#Jews
murdered in a Pittsburgh
#synagogue
but really sending the money to an
#Islamist
mosque.
Why am I not shocked? And why will the mainstream media not report on this news?
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So, the first
#Palestinian
ever to enter the
#USCongress
announces on her 2nd day in office her intention to impeach
#Trump
, publicly uses the most vulgar term in the history of Congress & stands by her obscenity.
Me: Americans now get to enjoy a version of what
#Israelis
face.
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Yes, the official name of the virus is
#COVID19
. But that hides the Chinese government's responsibility.
Vote here for your preferred name.
(CCP = Chinese Communist Party)
China virus
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Xi virus
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One Mukhlis bin Muhammad was lashed 28 times for adultery in the Islamically v strict
#Aceh
region of
#Indonesia
.
What makes this global news is that Mr Mukhlis was part of the Aceh
#Ulema
Council that helped impose flogging for adultery.
Too delicious.
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#Israel
's "Deposit Law" deducts 20% from the salaries of illegal migrants, handing over this money only when they leave. This encourages them to deport voluntarily. As the funds pile up, It's working better & better.
Hello, Europe & US. Paying attention?
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A remarkable & heart-warming headline from the UK's
@Independent
:
"Muslim women wear
#kippahs
over their
#hijabs
in solidarity with Jewish community after antisemitic attack: 'Kippah march' triggered by assault in Berlin of 2 young men wearing skullcaps"
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I really like the new direction of
#SaudiArabia
under
#MbS
:
As part of
@Vision2030Saudi
, its students now learn about Hindu epics like
#Ramayana
&
#Mahabharata
.
A parent responds: This "will help build a future that is inclusive, liberal, and tolerant."
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On reaching home, after 2 outrageously unjustified months in jail,
#TommyRobinson
released a thank-you video. After hugging his children, his first expressions of gratitude were to
@EzraLevant
,
@RaheemKassam
,
@GeertWildersPVV
& the
@MEForum
.
See -2:58 at
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in 2008, Pres.
#Obama
's first phone call went to
#MahmoudAbbas
. In contrast,
#Trump
’s first call as Pres-elect went to
#BenjaminNetanyahu
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#AlexeiNavalny
argues that the West needs to look beyond the defeat of
#Putin
's forces in
#Ukraine
to use its influence to turn Russia into a parliament democracy. It's a brilliant statement from a man sitting in one of Putin's prisons, and worth heeding.
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I attended a small but poignant rally today not far from the
#WhiteHouse
in DC to "Stop the
#Tigray
Genocide."
Me: There is no public event sadder than a demonstration protesting genocide.
#TigrayGenocide
#StopWarOnTigray
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In 2011, Israelis invented
#IronDome
to destroy rockets & artillery shells fired from 4 to 70km away. Amazing.
In 2020, they invented an electric laser that reduces the cost per interception from the Iron Dome's $49,000 to a mere $3.50. Doubly amazing.
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I agree with
@DavidFrum
that the
#ComeyFiring
presents a crucial test for all Republicans: Do you stand with
#Trump
or by the rule of law?
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I have been following the remarkable Malaysian politician
@AnwarIbrahim
for nearly 50 years (note the page from my 1983 book, "In the Path of God"); today he became prime minister of
#Malaysia
.
He's a canny
#Islamist
who apparently moderated. Now, we shall see if he really did.
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Fun fact should
@BernieSanders
win the Democratic nomination: In 1979, he sided with Khomeini & the Iranians who seized the US embassy & held American diplomats captive for 444 days.
Just wondering how well that will go over in the 2020 general election.
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French
#Islamist
responses to the
#NotreDameDeParis
fire? Insults, derision, joy.
@Valeurs
: "On social networks, 100s of Internet users, Muslims especially, have made fun of it or congratulated each other with hate messages, mostly ignored by the media."
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The
@MEForum
hosted
@ImamOfPeace
Mohamad Tawhidi today and learned much from this courageous & insightful anti-Islamist Muslim leader.
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Solidifying her impressive
#antisemitic
credentials, Rep Ilhan Omar (
@IlhanMN
) will speak with
@IslamicRelief
's
@YAbdallah1
, who has shared a "very beautiful" story about "martyrs" who provide guns to "kill more than 20 jews" & "fire rockets at Tel Aviv."
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For daring to report on a grooming gang court case, the brave
#TommyRobinson
has been sentenced to 13 months in prison, which in his case amounts to a possible death sentence.
Sign the petition to PM
@Theresa_May
to reverse this outrage at via
@Change
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#TommyRobinson
is out of jail - a victory for the
#FreeTommy
movement!
See my statement below about the extraordinary decision by the Lord Chief Justice of England & Wales himself rejecting the "fundamentally flawed process" of the
#Leeds
kangaroo-court that threw Tommy in jail.
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#Israel
is the only wealthy country that can claim this: Not one illegal migrant entered the country in 2017, while 4,012 illegals left it.
Me: The time has come for other governments to study what Israel has done to deal with their own illegal migrants.
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The municipal government in Konya, Turkey's most
#Islamist
city, dominated by the AKP, posted billboards quoting Koran 5:51: "Do not take Jews & Christians as allies. … God does not guide wrongdoers."
Me:
- Turkey is becoming Iran
#2
- When will the world awaken to the danger?
Konya Büyükşehir Belediyesi reklam panolarına "Yahudileri ve Hristiyanları dost edinmeyin. Allah zalimler topluluğunu doğru yola eriştirmez" ayeti yazıldı.
(Maide Suresi - 51. Ayet)
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In the space of a single tweet,
@YasMohammedxx
cuts to the core of the "
#Islamophobia
" nonsense:
- When
#Muslims
follow medieval-style
#Islamic
laws, insist
#Islam
is totally irrelevant
- When Muslims perceive any kind of slight, assume it's prejudice & rancor against Islam.
A woman was beaten to death by her brother in an an honor killing...
NOTHING TO DO W ISLAM
90% of these girls have undergone FGM...
NOTHING TO DO W ISLAM
A woman is in prison for not wearing hijab...
NOTHING TO DO W ISLAM
A barista got my name wrong...
EVERYTHING TO DO W ISLAM
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Why, contrary to
#Trump
's wishes,
@IlhanMN
&
@RashidaTlaib
should be let into
#Israel
:
- They don't gain a new argument
- They might even learn something
- Israel looks friendly
- Israel controls the narrative
- Excluding political opinions will harm Zionists more than help them
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The
@IDF
apparently faked a ground assault on Gaza by making announcements & moving troops. This brought
#Hamas
troops out of their tunnels & exposed them to a heavy air attack.
- That's the IDF of old–clever & innovative
- Go Chief of Staff
#AvivKochavi
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My father's parents, Marek and Zosia Pipes, got married in Poland 100 years ago this week. He was 29, she was 19.
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From
@DineshDSouza
, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left (2017)
Never forget that "Nazi" comes from National Socialism
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.
@UCBerkeley
claims it spent $600K on security for
@BenShapiro
's talk yesterday.
Good. That means less money for "
#Islamophobia
" studies.
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Ironic: In the 1970s, US Democrats like
#JerryBrown
&
#JoeBiden
imposed a "Vietnamese Ban" on refugees from the war.
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For close to 50 years, I have seen Bernard Lewis & my father, Richard Pipes, as parallel figures in MidEast and Russian history. Both were major historians & public intellectuals. How sadly ironic that they died 2 days apart.
My condolences to
#MichaelLewis
and the whole family.
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There are few things more naughtily fun in public life than watching the Left squirm as its adepts fail to keep up with the ever-changing & ever-more-demanding strictures of identity politics.
Yes,
@JustinTrudeau
, I'm talking about you. And you too,
@RalphNortham
. Who's next?
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#Europe
’s greatest problem is not climate change, the EU, or Russia, but the cluster of problems around
Demographics
Immigration
Multiculturalism
Islamization
Acronym: DIMI. Easy to remember - it's just like "dhimmi", the status of being a protected minority under Muslim rule.
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More & more changes in
#SaudiArabia
. Now, a leading
#Islamic
figure tells Islamists in France to cool it: "You must respect the constitution, the laws, and the prevalent culture … if you do not like it, you may choose another country more to your liking."
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#AramHamparian
of the Armenian National Committee of America (
@ANCA_DC
):
“A lot of people have bought a lot of summer homes and fishing boats and put their grandkids through college by lying about Armenia and covering up for Azerbaijan.”
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News item: "How Ethiopia used a Turkish drone in
a strike that killed nearly 60 civilians."
Me:
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ürkiye's dictator
@RTErdogan
spreads joy around the world, including Ethiopia, where the central government genocidally attacks some of its own citizens.
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My blurb: "Faithful to its origins in the
#MuslimBrotherhood
,
@CAIRnational
since 1994 has constantly purveyed uninhibited bigotry against Jews & Israel. Fortunately,
@TheIPT
has tracked & exposed CAIR’s long, ugly record. No one can again claim ignorance.”
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Doing the math,
#SrdjaTrifkovic
reports that "a
#Christian
living in a majority-Muslim country is 143 times more likely to be killed by a
#Muslim
for being a Christian" than the reverse.
Me:
- Sounds about right
- Wonder what the ratio was in earlier eras
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I just rediscovered
@MitchellGBard
's Nov. 2021 study, "Arab Funding of American Universities: Donors, Recipients & Impact."
According to
@USEdGov
figures, colleges and universities in 1986-2021 "received nearly $8.5 billion from [official] Arab sources."
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Tehran pretends to be outraged by Israel's attack on a building near its embassy in Damascus. But Iran has often attacked Israeli diplomatic facilities, including Argentina 1992, India 2012 & 2021, Georgia 2012, and Azerbaijan 2023.
It's your turn to suffer the loss, Khamene’i.
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Good to see Dalia al-Aqidi (
@Dalia4Congress
) is running as a Republican against Ilhan Omar (
@IlhanMN
) for the
#USHouse
.
Dalia is everything Omar is not: a serious person, an anti-Islamist Muslim, a grateful refugee & a patriotic American. It's a tough climb but she can do it.
It's time to defend America! I'm running for Congress because we're not as divided as Ilhan Omar and the far-left would have us believe. I'm running to bring us closer together.
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,
@RT_Erdogan
personally manages some $12 million a year to "prevent the Judaization of
#Jerusalem
," i.e., undermine Israeli sovereignty in its eastern parts.
Israel's government has finally declared 'The days of the
#Ottoman
Empire are over." About time.
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Exciting to see a Muslim woman,
@LydiaGuirous
, become a top figure in the Républicains (
@lesRepublicains
) party in
#France
& now lead the effort to designate the
#MuslimBrotherhood
as a terrorist organization.
Of course, the know-nothings will (wrongly) dismiss this as
#taqiyya
.
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Thanks to
#Erdo
ğan's DC thuggery, it looks like Congress will block sales of police weapons to his security services
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Former mufti of Jerusalem
#EkramaSabri
: Foreign Muslims coming with Israel's approval are not welcome at Al-
#AqsaMosque
.
Me: I've heard of Muslims being unwelcome at a mosque for religious reasons but never for political ones. This may be unprecedented in all of Muslim history.
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I agree with Nerses Kopalyan (
@hyepatriarch
) that Israel should reassess its close relations with Azerbaijan.
Yes, this connection has many practical advantages—especially energy & proximity to Iran—but Baku has become a brutal & aggressive dictatorship.
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Good to see the
#FreeTommy
campaign getting such strong support.
I sense that this moment could be a turning point for the British people, the point when it finally realizes that its freedoms are slipping away & it wakes to the dangers of
#Islamism
.
Well, I can hope, can't I?
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President
@RTErdogan
of
#T
ürkiye threatened PM
@KMitsotakis
of
#Greece
in a truly unique way:
"If you make a mistake, you know that the crazy Turks will attack. But if you stay smart and well-behaved, we have no business with you.”
#KickTurkeyOutOfNato
.
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I take conservatives to task today at the
@TheDispatch
for indulging in 3 conspiracy theories:
- Trump won 2020
- Vaccines do harm
- U.S. has bioweapons in Ukraine
These beliefs "imperil U.S. political institutions, public health, and national security."
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There's so much anti-Zionism in Europe's north - think Sweden, Scotland, Iceland. But there's one grand exception: The tiny
#FaroeIslands
(pop. 52K). Says its FM, “the Faroe Islands loves
#Israel
” as he prepares to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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#Canada
's Yasmine Mohammed (
@ConfessionsExMu
), forced as a child to wear a
#hijab
& then a
#niqab
, has penned one of the strongest anti-Islamist headgear articles that I have ever read in today's
@NationalPost
.
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If
#France
were
#Israel
… drawing the same political conclusions in favor of appeasement from acts of terrorism.
http://t.co/kRKm6LNjsI
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Old news: Ilhan Omar (
@IlhanMN
) apparently engaged in a fraudulent marriage with her brother Ahmed to get him into the USA ().
New news: She also violated MN campaign finance rules to pay for personal travel & help with tax returns.
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The Belgian police have prevented
@GeertWildersPVV
from entering the
#Molenbeek
district of Brussels, a heavily Muslim area.
What's next? Maybe they should ban Wilders from eating
#hummus
.
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.
@MonasterioR
(a
@Vox_es
leader) points to identical colors at the Madrid city hall in 2015 (under a communist mayor) and 2021 (under an establishment-right mayor):
"The left proposes new ideas, the center adopts them, and the so-called right administers them."
So true, so sad.
📢 Recordamos las palabras de
@monasterioR
:
"La izquierda propone ideas, el centro las asume y esta supuesta derecha las gestiona"
❌ Encuentra las diferencias:
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#TommyRobinson
just appeared on
@TurckerCarlson
's show where he detailed the "mental torture" he underwent in prison & (at 6:12) thanked the
@MEForum
,
@RepGosar
,
@IRF_Ambassador
Sam Brownback & Carlson.
Me: Tommy, we thank you for your courage & strength.
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It's been precisely a year since the death of my father,
#RichardPipes
. We today unveiled his memorial stone in Waltham, Mass.
Note the epitaph: "Historian. Architect of Cold War Victory." It's a large but justified claim.
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Shocking but not surprising (because sadly typical of
#Muslim
attitudes):
In
#Turkey
, "many celebrate the burning of the Cathedral of
#NotreDame
." E.g.: "May the whole of France burn down. They're enemies of
#Islam
, enemies of humanity."
@GatestoneInst
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Shame on you,
@Twitter
, for suspending
@CanaryMission
's account.
Are you ideologues driving away conservative and pro-
#Israel
users? Are you trying to lose money for your investors? Or do you just like playing censor?
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Just 72 years late, the U.S. government has accepted reality and decided today that
#Jerusalem
actually is in
#Israel
.
Bravo to Pres. Trump &
@SecPompeo
.
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How charming.
#Iran
's dictator responds to a week of unrest not by resolving to fix the mess but by banning English from being taught in schools. That will, supposedly, prevent a Western "cultural invasion."
Actually, how typical of totalitarians.
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All those synonyms for the surging parties of
#Europe
!
-Anti-immigration
-Antisemitic
-Far-right
-Insurgent
-Islamophobic
-Nationalist
-Neo-fascist
-Populist
-Ultra-conservative
May I propose a better word?
#Civilizationist
, because sustaining Western civilization is the goal.
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Major riots in
#France
followed the
@FIFAWorldCup
victory. But French media (1) downplay the extent of violence & (2) assiduously avoid any mention of ethnicity - it's just plain "youths."
Me: Here we go again, with the
#6Ps
hiding bad news. But will the populace wake up anyway?
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Accused of "
#Islamophobia
,"
@Amazon
removed the "
#SexyBurka
" (L). But it ignored
#Catholic
protests against the "
#SexyNun
." I so wonder why.
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Appalling statement of criminal intent by Lara Kollab (
@LaraKollab
) and doubly as bad because she went on to study at the Touro College & University System (
@WeAreTouro
), an explicitly
#Jewish
institution.
Kollab should be thrown out of the medical profession. Anyone disagree?
Recent
@WeAreTouro
med school grad Lara Kollab
@LaraKollab
said this before enrolling: "ill purposely give all the yahood [Jews] the wrong meds…”
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Today is the
#Israel
-related centenary almost nobody's noticing.
On Dec. 9, 1917,
#British
troops conquered
#Jerusalem
from the
#Ottomans
, turning the
#BalfourDeclaration
from words into policy and starting the almost exactly 30-year march to statehood.
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Well, that's rich: UK's
@JeremyCorbyn
just accused Hungary's
#VictorOrban
of "pandering to
#antisemitism
."
Suffice to say that Corbyn befriends the murderers of
#Israelis
and Orbán befriends the prime minister of Israelis.
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.
@mrubin1971
: "A war with Greece is likely coming, not because of anything Athens has done but instead because Erdogan is desperate to distract from failure and bankruptcy."
Me: Also, perhaps, because Putin would like nothing better to distract
@NATO
from his assault on Ukraine.
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My sympathies go to the 45% of Chileans who voted against the left-wing extremist,
@GabrielBoric
, just elected as Chile's next president.
- Chile has gone down this road before (in 1970-73) & it ended very badly
- Venezuela provides a more recent example of socialist catastrophe
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@NYTimes
headline: "U.S. Asks Taliban to Spare Its Embassy in Coming Fight for Kabul."
- Kabul under Biden in 2021 resembles Saigon under Ford in 1975
- What a humiliation now to be an American
- 20 years of errors in
#Afghanistan
finally come to a head
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#MalcolmX
:
“The white liberal is … the worst enemy to the black man. …[They] have perfected the art of selling themselves to the Negro as a friend of the Negro. … Then the Negro sides with the white liberal, and the white liberal use the Negro against the white conservative."
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Oh no, the international Zionist plot against
@TariqRamadan
continues: Today, he was charged with raping another 2 women, in addition to the 2 prior charges of rape. He, memorably, is the author of a book titled "Islamic Ethics."
Marvelous hypocrisy, no?
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#AnjemChoudary
was sentenced to 5½ years in prison for recruiting Britons to
#ISIS
. His imminent release, despite the UK prisons minister calling him “genuinely dangerous,” points to an abiding Western incompetence in dealing with the threat of
#Islamism
.
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.
@GordonChang
at
@GatestoneInst
:
China is now pouring ~$3bn into the
#Bahamas
. This makes no economic sense, but unless the US stops it, the
#CCP
will control a naval base 87 miles east of
#PalmBeach
.
Me: That's like 1962, when the
#USSR
was in Cuba, 90 miles south of
#KeyWest
.
Everyone wants friendly relations with every other country, but we cannot maintain friendly relations with a country trying to subvert us.
#China
is an existential threat to
#America
. See: .
#CCP
#CCPChina
@GatestoneInst
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After 3 murders of workers,
#Pakistan
's government suspended its anti-
#polio
campaign “for an indefinite period.”
Me: This is the first time I know of
#Islamists
forcing a government to shut down an anti-polio campaign. It's very worrisome for all humans.
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News from
#Spain
: Due to heightened uncontrolled immigration,
1. The
#civilizationist
party Vox (
@Vox_es
) likely to enter parliament.
2. The narrow margin of difference between the 2 major blocs means Vox' leader
@Santi_ABASCAL
could emerge as kingmaker.
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.
@SebGorka
at the
@Jerusalem_Post
conference: "We know we have won when the
#ISIS
black jihadi flag is as reviled … as the
#Nazi
swastika."
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I published "Israel's Opportunity to Destroy
#Hamas
" at
@WSJopinion
.
Summary passage: "The Hamas charter of 1988 calls for Islam to 'obliterate' Israel. After Saturday’s vicious assault, the time has come for Israel to obliterate Hamas."
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.
@kumaraswamyJNU
: So wretched were
#Gandhi
's writings on
#Jews
&
#Zionists
, his secretary hid them from the public.
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Hey,
@CAIRNational
, here's someone you want to hire pronto:
For reasons unknown, a waiter in Texas named
#Khalil
faked a note on the receipt from a customer: "We don't tip terrorist."
But the waiter got caught & was fired; the customer got a free meal.
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I've estimated for years that the number of real Palestine refugees (which
@UNRWA
counts as 5.3mn) is about 20K. Reports have it that this is also the number the
@StateDept
has found fit its definition of refugee.
Note: That's ⅓rd of 1% of UNRWA's total.
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