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Thursday, October 31, 2024

The Reality of Islam, Part VI

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: Christian Persecution, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, , Persecution of Christians Is Now Pandemic, My Gazette: Christian Heresy, and

As the years go by it boggles my mind at these nitwit leftists and their media catspaws screaming about Islamophobia.  Let's try and get this once and for all.  There's no such thing as Islamophobia, nor is it possible to be Islamophobic.  Why? Because a phobia is a mental disorder and an unnatural fear, and we have almost 1500 years of vile Islamic practices to justify being afraid.  Real fear, legitimate fear, historically foundational fear, and that's not imaginary, nor is it a mental disorder, because their vile actions are going on right before our eyes now.  How much violence must we behold before we grasp just  how dangerous Muslims are?

Islam isn't a religion.  It's a criminal political movement masquerading as a religion.  History and current events demonstrates the truth of that.  Crime, murderrape, kidnapping, corruption of the rule of law, and violence is rampant throughout the world where Muslims migrate, and most of Europe's leaders are covering it up, and worse yet, they're persecuting and prosecuting those who stand up to all this.  Islamized Netherlands: Pegida Leader Edwin Wagensveld Sentenced for Comparing Muslims to Nazis, and this is going on right now in America, and the Democrats are supporting it. What's worse is American churches are suicidally abandoning their Christian faith and heretically supporting this, with the support of a totally corrupt media.  Which makes one wonder if they were believers in the first place, and the same is true in Europe, Major Scandal Rocks the Italian Catholic Church: Bishops Accused of Funding Illegal Immigration.

The Islamization of Europe isn't a conspiracy theory, it's factual, it's history, that history is incontestable, and it's insane.  

Islam has no concept of world peace until the world is converted to to Islam, preferably with the sword.  As a result, Islam has been at war with the rest of the world in varying degrees for almost 1500 years.   Any harmony that exists between Islam and any other nation or group in the world, is never anything except temporary, and it only exists to allow Islam to reorganize and attack once again.  

Nor is there any harmony within Islam.  

The foundational values of Islam are hate, greed, envy, lust, and violence.  And the only ones they hate more than kafir (non believers) are Muslims of different sects, as each sect considers the other sects heretics, and the Koran demands the death of heretics.   

This is what Islam brings:

  1. Absolute authoritarianism without accountability. 
  2. Zero tolerance for criticism or questions.
  3. Unreasonable fears about the outside world that often involve evil conspiracies and persecutions. 
  4. A belief that former followers are always wrong for leaving and there is never a legitimate reason for anyone else to leave (apostasy is punishable by death).
  5. Followers feeling they are never able to be “good enough” (Muhammed is considered the “perfect man” and is to be emulated). 
  6. A belief that the leader is right at all times (Muhammed is considered inerrant). 
  7. A belief that the leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or giving validation.

If someone tells you they hate you and wants kill you, and do it in the name of their religion, then you should believe them and must accept they really are barbarian savages

 "The barbarism of murdering women and children, taking them as hostages, and posting photos of their dead bodies to social media, is not a byproduct of Islamic warfare, it’s the whole point.

They're a medieval tribal culture with modern communications, transportation, and weapons, all of which means they must be contained and isolated, because they cannot, and will not, be assimilated. 

Our Electoral College

By Robin Itzler

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors. Any cartoons appearing will have been added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK

 The more you listen to Marxist Democrats speak, the more you realize their goal is to dismantle our country and create a gulag utopia. Should President Trump win the electoral college but not the popular vote, expect more chatter and possibly protests about scraping the electoral college.

Our Founding Fathers wisely created the electoral college, which is why we are the United States of America and not just America. Since our nation’s founding, there have been five times when the electoral college and popular vote did not coincide:

  • 1824—Andrew Jackson vs John Quincy Adams Jackson won the popular vote by 7.8 percent but lost the electoral college.
  • 1876—Samuel Tilden vs Rutherford Hayes Tilden won the popular vote by 3 percent but lost the electoral college.
  • 1888—Grover Cleveland vs Benjamin Harris Cleveland won the popular vote by 0.8 percent but lost the electoral college.
  • 2000—Al Gore vs George W. Bush Gore won the popular vote by 0.5 percent, but “hanging chads” anyone?
  • 2016—Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump Clinton won the popular vote by 2.1 percent but, well you know that story!

Don’t lose sleep over Marxist Democrat threats to remove the electoral college. It would be extremely difficult for Democrats to get rid of the system that has served us well since our nation’s founding. 

First, it would require a constitutional amendment approved by two-thirds of the House of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate AND three-fourths of all states. 

What some have proposed is for states to proportionally allocate electoral votes. Currently, Maine and Nebraska have forms of proportional assignment of electoral votes. Do you think more states will choose to do this? It is doubtful that blue states like California or New York would want to give any of their electoral votes to a Republican. This is another reason why Democrats have their eyes on Texas. If they can flip that state, it wouldn’t matter how other red or swing states vote.

Greens detest ‘little guys’ who get in their way

Rural and coastal little guys delay and block massive ‘green’ energy projects

By Paul Driessen

Environmentalists and their allies in the Climate Industrial Complex are becoming increasingly frustrated with the farm families, rural communities, Native American tribes and other “little guys” that are challenging and often blocking the massive wind, solar, battery, transmission line and other projects the Complex insists are needed if we are to prevent a “worsening climate crisis.”

However, resistance is absolutely essential, because these installations hurt property values, raise electricity rates, wreck vital croplands and habitats, ruin scenic vistas, kill birds and other wildlife – and create major fire risks from electricity storage batteries – while doing nothing for greenhouse gas levels or the climate.

Environmentalists insist they love “little guys.” At least in the abstract, until those folks get in the way, raise inconvenient questions, or try to block “renewable energy” projects intended to “save the planet” from “manmade climate cataclysms.”

Then the little folks learn the environmentalists are really working with (and for) Big Wind, Big Solar, Big Utilities, Big Finance, powerful politicians and crony bureaucrats – the Climate Industrial Complex. Stand in its way, and farm families, small rural communities and even Native American groups can face protracted, expensive battles. But they often emerge victorious.

Energy analyst and journalist Robert Bryce reports that these little guys have rejected or restricted 735 US wind and solar projects since 2015, including 58 solar and 35 wind proposals so far this year. Transmission line, grid-scale battery and other plans also face growing resistance.

Rural Americas don’t want these huge installations destroying traditional ways of life, hurting property values, raising electricity rates, wrecking vital croplands and habitats, ruining scenic vistas, killing birds, bats and other wildlife – and creating serious fire and toxic gas risks from lithium-ion electricity storage batteries.

They don’t want their countryside dotted with huge landfills, piled high with billions of tons of broken, storm-destroyed and obsolete solar panels, wind turbine blades and other renewables trash.

The number and scale of many proposed projects is daunting – and the Complex’s dream of “transitioning” the entire United States from fossil fuels to an all-electric energy, transportation and industrial system would require vastly more.

Before being scaled back in a failed effort to reduce local and state opposition, the Lava Ridge Wind Project would have installed 400 huge turbines on some 200,000 acres of federal land in Idaho. That’s 310 square miles; 5.5 times Washington, DC. Most of its output would go to California, which already imports nearly one-third of its electricity.

The Koshkonong solar project near Christiana, WI would cover 6,400 acres (10 sq mi) and put a 667-MWh battery storage system near a local elementary school.

The Biden-Harris plan for 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy translates into 2,500 12-megawatt turbines rising 850 feet above the waves. But all those turbines wouldn’t provide enough electricity (31,541 MW) to power New York State on a hot summer day, if the wind is blowing.

The state’s plan to spend $2 billion for 24,000 MWh of backup batteries for windless/sunless days would provide enough electricity to run the state for barely 45 minutes! Sufficient batteries would cost trillions.

Each offshore blade is 350 feet long and 140,000 pounds; 2,5000 turbines would mean almost 500 miles of blades weighing 1,050,000,000 pounds! Imagine cleanup and landfill costs after a major hurricane.

And yet a 2020 Princeton University report called for massively expanding US wind and solar capacity, to fight climate change and rebuild America.

However, as Mr. Bryce points out, those plans would require solar projects blanketing an area the size of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut combined – plus wind installations sprawling across lands equal to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee!

That’s without factoring in wind and solar power needed to charge grid-scale backup batteries to store enough electricity to power America for even a day or week of windless, sunless days.

Other projects are equally enormous, expensive and fanciful.

Summit Carbon Solutions wants to build a pipeline to carry carbon dioxide from 57 ethanol plants in five states – and inject the CO2 into geologic formations beneath North Dakota. Summit can provide no guarantees that the pressurized gas will stay in the ground, and not erupt suddenly and violently, killing wildlife and people by rapidly replacing breathable air – as a natural CO2 reservoir did at Cameroon’s Lake Nyos in 1986.

The cumulative impacts of all these wind, solar, battery, transmission line and other projects would be incalculable – on lands, wildlife, families, budgets and human health.

Adding to the cost, construction and raw material requirements, home, neighborhood and regional grids would have to be expanded and upgraded to handle the ballooning electricity demands, and the surges and plummets associated with unpredictable, weather-dependent wind and solar power. 

All this is irrelevant to Climate Industrial Complex members, who want to virtue-signal and  extol the “pivotal role” they are playing in driving America’s “renewable energy transformation,” meeting arbitrary greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, and preventing “climate catastrophes.”

Property rights advocate Tom DeWeese says concerned citizens can fight back by asking tough questions about these policies and projects. For example:

* What benefits has our community gotten from the massive solar and wind farms we already have? From the taxpayer subsidies and rate hikes we already have to pay? What benefits will we receive from the huge new projects you are promoting now?

* Why are you trying to end local land use controls, use eminent domain to take our property, and destroy small local and minority businesses to build these enormous projects?

* How will ruining our wild and agricultural areas, killing wildlife and reducing our living standards reduce global greenhouse and “save the planet,” if China and India alone emit 38% of the world’s greenhouse gases (versus 11% by the USA) and are building new coal-fired generating plants every week?

Proud, principled, vocal resistance is essential, if citizens are to defend their jobs, lands, health, living standards and freedoms.

Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environmental, climate and human rights issues.

 This article originally appeared in the Washington Times online (10/22/24) and print (10/23/24) editions.


The DOJ’s Unprecedented Election Intervention

@ Sultan Knish Blog

In Ohio, US Attorney Rebecca Lutzko, a Biden nominee opposed by Republicans, announced the appointment of two federal prosecutors to serve as “election officers”. In Utah, US Attorney Trina A. Higgins, a Democrat donor and Biden appointee, appointed a “district election officer” to stop any “interference or discrimination in voting” and “threats” against election officials.

Events in Ohio and Utah are part of a larger unprecedented level of Justice Department intervention in the 2024 presidential election in support of the administration’s party.

The DOJ recently sued Virginia and Alabama to ensure that non-citizens would not be removed from voting rolls before Election Day, but those are only a prelude to a more ambitious plan.

Shortly after taking power, the Biden-Harris administration created an Elections Threats Task Force to suppress any scrutiny or criticism of election officials. According to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Elections Threats Task Force was launched in response to a “dangerous increase in violent threats against the public servants who administer our elections.”

And yet after 3 years of operating, the Task Force monitored 2,000 threats, opened 100 investigations and only convicted 18 people. The vast majority of claims behind the supposed “dangerous increase” proved to be unsubstantiated, impossible to investigate, let alone charge.

Less than a percent of the basis for the Elections Threats Task Force had any substance at all.

Furthermore those 18 convictions included the case of a mentally unstable career criminal and Lyndon LaRouche supporter who allegedly shot at the residences of New Mexico officials and assorted threats of violence that included a woman sentenced to 30 days in jail and a man sentenced to 18 months of home detention which did not require a special task force.

The Election Threats Task Force includes the heads of the FBI, the DOJ’s Criminal Division and National Security Division and the Department of Homeland Security. That’s a good deal more resources than are needed to cope with a few threats in which no one actually got hurt.

The most striking thing about the Election Threats Task Force was that with one exception, every conviction targeted perceived MAGA activists and candidates. The one exception was a BLM activist’s attempt to assassinate the Democrat mayor of Louisville, Kentucky.

While the Biden-Harris Election Threats Task Force chased down every threat by a Republican that it could verify, the DOJ wilfully allowed threats against Republican officials to continue.

Rep. Jim Banks warned that the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana refused to prosecute threats to his family including a message warning, “three daughters. Hey, hey, hey, three bullets hey, hey, hey one wife yay. Oh yeah, yeah, we’ll give her two bullets.”

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana is Clifford Darnell Johnson, a Biden appointee, who has announced the appointment of an election officer to stop political threats.

But the supposed threats were never the actual purpose of the Elections Threats Task Force.

All of this is leading up to the DOJ’s Election Day Program deploying FBI agents and DOJ officials nationwide and running a command center to “address events… related to the election in real time.” What sort of election events have to be addressed in real time?

A hotline will go live within a week and every field office will have two FBI agents tasked with responding to reports of local events. First up on the FBI’s list of ‘election crimes’ is “voter suppression” which the Bureau defines as “deceiving qualified voters” by providing them with “false claims about voting qualifications or methods”. The DOJ’s Election Threats Task Force warns that while AI “is not inherently criminal”, it’s a potential “disinformation” threat.

This is not about threats of violence, but about federal control of local elections.


The Department of Justice is directly intervening in local elections to monitor and respond to everything from memes to ‘qualified voters’ being prevented from voting. And to quickly suppress any attempts to scrutinize and demand transparency during and after the election.

Attorney General Merrick Garland claimed that the “founding purpose” of the Justice Department was “protecting our democracy and protecting our elections”. After failing to pass HR1 and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act to federalize elections, the Biden-Harris administration appears to be using the DOJ to influence local elections as much as possible.

The Grant administration founded the Justice Department to stop violence against Republicans by Democrat Party KKK thugs. The last time voter intimidation of that kind happened was during Obama’s first presidential campaign when members of a black supremacist hate group wore uniforms, carried weapons and threatened white voters that “you’re about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.” While the Justice Department brought charges under the Voting Rights Act, the Obama administration decided to give the racist thugs a pass for voter intimidation.

Tom Perez, Biden’s senior advisor, then serving as the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, was a key player in the Philly voter intimidation case and subsequent cover-up.

The Elections Threats Task Force and Election Day Program are not about fighting that actual kind of voter intimidation, but providing federal backup to partisan election officials against state and local officials, intimidating poll watchers and election integrity activists, suppressing political speech and working to ensure that the election outcome is the one sought by the administration.

The DOJ’s unprecedented election interference is based on inventing an imaginary threat which the Department, even with the support of the section heads and the administration, couldn’t even rack up a 1% conviction rate after years of investigations, and exploiting that crisis to closely insert federal forces into elections in a systematic way that threatens the Constitution.

The rapid growth of federal power has eroded the constitutional balance of state power.

The Justice Department has invented a crisis that does not exist to further sideline state authority and the integrity of locally controlled elections. Even while claiming that it is preventing election interference, it is engaging in it. The Elections Threats Task Force’s track record of partisan prosecutions does not inspire any confidence that its election intervention has any purpose other than to serve the partisan agenda of the administration calling the shots.

The DOJ is not the solution to election integrity, instead it is quickly emerging as the threat.

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Daniel Greenfield is a columnist, an investigative journalist and a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Cuba: The Collapse Accelerates

@ Manhattan Contrarian

Less than three weeks ago, on October 10, I had a post about Cuba with the headline “What The Hell Is Going On In Cuba?” The post noted that it is difficult to get real information from Cuba, and that there had recently been almost total silence about that island from the mainstream media. But if one researched some out-of-the-way sources, it turned out that there is some sort of sudden economic collapse going on there. Besides economic production declining significantly, and pervasive shortages of basic goods, there was also information from a source in Spain (El Pais) that Cuba’s population had suddenly dropped by close to 20% over just the past two to three years. Moreover, the 20% who had departed were not randomly distributed, but rather were concentrated among those in their prime working years, meaning that Cuba had suddenly lost around a third of its working age population.

In the short period since that post, the collapse has accelerated. Just over a week later, on Friday October 18, Cuba’s electrical grid failed, causing a blackout of the entire island. Reuters reported that story on the day of the blackout:

Cuba's national grid collapsed on Friday, leaving the entire population of 10 million people without electricity and underscoring the precarious state of the Communist-run country's infrastructure and economy. Restoration of service is under way but long-term challenges will remain.

But OK, blackouts can happen anywhere. For example, Western North Carolina has just had some extensive blackouts in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Is this new Cuba blackout just one of those things caused by a sudden natural event, or does it represent something more systemic in the economy? Clearly, in the case of Cuba it’s the latter.

A few days after the blackout started — Tuesday October 21 — the Cuban authorities began to report that the grid was being rapidly restored. For example, there was this from CBC on October 22:

Cuba made fast progress restoring power to swaths of the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday, both in Havana and outlying provinces. . . . Upwards of 70 per cent of Cuba had electricity on Tuesday, and officials said they expected several more power plants to come online shortly, boosting that total.

That just goes to show why you shouldn’t believe anything coming from Cuban “officials.” The sad truth took a few days to manifest itself. By the middle of the following week, the blackouts were back, and it was becoming clear to anyone who looked that Cuba’s electricity failure was the result of years, indeed decades, of under-investment and under-maintenance. The island’s entire electricity system had fallen into a hole that may well be impossible to dig out of, at least without bringing back capitalism. From the BBC, October 25:

Electricity generation in Cuba has recently fallen well below what’s required, only supplying some 60-70% of the national demand. The shortfall is a “huge and serious gap” which is now being felt across the island, says [Cuban economist Richard] Torres. By the government’s own figures, Cuba’s national electricity generation dropped by around 2.5% in 2023 compared to the previous year, part of a downward trend which has seen a staggering 25% drop in production since 2019.

On October 26, the Guardian reported on how things were going eight days into the blackouts:

A week after the blackout, the island has returned to the status quo ante with regular power cuts of up to 20 hours a day. But the crisis has left a deep, melancholy dread about the future. . . . [On October 18] Antonio Guiteras, one of the main power stations, shut down, crashing all the other big generating stations in the system. “It’s very hard to restart a power station,” said a retired engineer from Antonio Guiteras, who asked to remain anonymous. . . . Antonio Guiteras was built in 1989, and is now battered and obsolete. “The truth is that it was built rotten,” said the engineer. He told harrowing stories of working with faulty safety equipment, political management who would disappear when problems arose and a system long pushed to its limit.

According to a 2023 report from Power magazine, Cuba has a total of eight thermal power plants that are the backbone of its electricity generation system. All but one of those are over 30 years old, and all have been poorly maintained, meaning that they are at or past the end of their useful lives. There are no new thermal plants under construction.

The prospects of bringing the eight old plants suddenly up to top operating condition are about nil. What’s to keep Cuba from just continuing its slide into ever increasing darkness until, at the end, electricity is no more on the island? The communist government thinks it has the answer: Solar! From the Guardian:

In a televised address, Cuba’s prime minister, Manuel Marrero, said . . . the government looks to renewables to secure its future energy needs. The island is blessed by sunshine, but the multiple attempts to start solar projects have nearly all failed when the companies involved failed to get paid. . . . Instead a deal has been cut with a Chinese firm to provide the materials for a slew of solar farms in return for access to Cuba’s nickel deposits.

They’re going to try powering the country with solar panels from China without having any functioning fossil fuel backup for cloudy days or, for that matter, nights. Good luck with that. And then there’s the problem that all the people with relevant expertise have left the country:

[W]ith well over 10% of Cuba’s population having fled the economic crisis on the island in the last two years, there is scepticism whether the expertise remains to build such systems.

The Guardian finishes up by throwing in that it’s not just Cuba’s electricity system that has collapsed; the water system has failed as well:

Meanwhile, one crisis begets another. Failures have been reported in the equally obsolete water supply system. Six hundred thousand people lack regular running water, but the blackouts appear to have multiplied that number by damaging pumps and pipes. Much of Havana is dry.

And on top of it all, they have given up on trying to stop people from leaving. I’d say that the last person out should turn off the lights, but it looks like the lights are already off.

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

There's No Joy in Mudville Tonight. The Mighty Media Has Struck Out!

By Rich Kozlovich

 

The title is a paraphrase of the 1888 poem "Casey at the Bat", ending with this paragraph:

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.

Well, there's a lot of joy around the nation because in Washington, aka, Mudville, the mighty media has struck out.  The L.A. Times refused to endorse Kamala, but it wasn't because she was so far left.  It was because she wasn't far left enough, and the Hollywood crowd railed about it cancelling their subscriptions, but does it really matter?  

The L.A. Times is dying, and in January they laid off 20% of the staff, with the owner "writing $3 million-plus checks every month to produce a newspaper no bigger than Applebee’s menu..... bankruptcy, humiliation, and unemployment all put a smile on my face and a song in my heart."

The Washington Post has refused to endorse Kamala and that's caused a bit of a furor among WaPo employees.  It appears writer Michele Norris has resigned.  So, who's Michele Norris? I never heard of her before this, so who cares?  However, this mentality is contagious at WaPo, which lost two hundred thousand subscribers as a result of not endorsing Kamala.   So, maybe that's why Jeff Bezos wants more conservative columnists at the Washington Post?  Imagine that.   I wonder if his employees will allow him to hire white conservative writers?  And who will define a conservative writer?  Oh wait, I know, John Kasich who says he has the right to define conservatism as he see fit, and his definition would work well for the Pravda media.  But does it really matter?

It seems he's tired of funding a bunch of Woke losers dragging his paper down the toilet having already lost a "whopping $77 million" just last year, and has been losing money hand over fist for years.  And Bezos should be worried all these nobody "journalists" are leaving?

Conservative readers are not coming back if for no other reason WaPo's list of hoaxes are legion, and it's already clear leftist readership can't sustain them, and if he brings in "conservative" writers, leftist readership will continue to drop until the financial situation makes continued publication unsustainable, even for Bezos, and hopefully followed down the toilet by CNN and MSNBC.   Bezos wrote an article defending his decision to not endorse Kamala, but what he actually showed is their irrelevancy, and the growing irrelevancy of the media as a whole, and he clearly must understand the Post is toast.  And that's true poetry! 

No one can save these corrupt institutions.  They've been exposed for their lies, their corruption, their treason, and while Americans can be easily fooled, once made aware of how they've been deceived, Americans will not forget or forgive.  They might be able to fool the younger generation for a while, but since they don't read newspapers, books, or anything that make their little snowflake heads ache with critical thought, the end result will be the same.

But let's not kid ourselves, this corruption didn't just start.  Those who read history books know the media has been the feeding the public this corrupt poison forever.  Stalin's murder by starvation of millions of Ukrainians was dismissed by the NYT, the explosion of the USS Maine was blamed on Spain by the Hearst media empire, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.  

The era of big media is over, trust in them has tanked and hard times lay ahead.    Their lies, misinformation, disinformation, censorship, corruption, and propaganda in support of insane leftist goals the last sixteen years has now been totally exposed.  Their deliberate covered up of criminal activity by Democrats, and their corrupt reporting on Trump, conservatives, Republicans, Israel, and this election, is a suicidal dagger in their heart.     

One more thing.  It's long overdue for the New York Times v. Sullivan to be overturned.  They need to be made accountable for their lies, and then:

"Everywhere in this favored land the sun will be shining bright, the bands will be playing, hearts will be light, and people will be laughing, because in Mudville, the mighty media has struck out."

The Vice President’s Radical Plan to Tax Unrealized Capital Gains

October 29, 2024 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

What’s the most radical part of Kamala Harris’ agenda?

I’m tempted to say it’s what she has said about wanting the Marxist notion of “equality of outcomes.”  But I suspect (or hope!) that’s just empty campaign rhetoric. If we look at the specific ideas she has proposed, she was definitely radical when she rain in 2020, embracing crazy ideas like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All.

For the most part, she has been more cautious this year. She has a leftist agenda, but it’s mostly focused on incremental statism, such as partial price controls, more redistribution, and higher corporate tax rates.

But she has one idea that is breathtakingly bad. She wants the IRS to tax unrealized capital gains, which means that if you own an asset that increases in value from one year to the next, the government would tax that difference.

I opined about the Harris proposal for the U.K.-based Telegraph newspaper. I started by warning that both presidential candidates have been furiously trying to buy votes (last month, I wrote that this is America’s “Santa Claus election”).


Election years can be dangerous because politicians have extra incentive to push bad policies. Donald Trump has floated all sorts of gimmicky tax cuts, such as ending taxes on tips, Social Security, and overtime pay. …Needless to say, Trump has not proposed a single penny of savings on the spending side of the budget. To the contrary, he actually wants to further expand the burden of government. …What about Kamala Harris? She’s also playing Santa Claus, having proposed several trillion dollars of additional redistribution spending. She intends to finance some of that new spending with various class-warfare taxes such as higher personal tax rates and higher business tax rates.

I then explain that one of her tax increases is the radical scheme to tax gains that exist only on paper.

…Harris is also proposing to impose a 25 per cent tax on unrealised capital gains. If an affected taxpayer owns an asset that increases in value from Year 1 to Year 2, that “gain” would be subject to the 25 per cent tax even though nothing has been sold and the taxpayer doesn’t have any additional money.

I give five reasons why her proposal is absurd.

First, it will reduce investment, which will reduce productivity, which will reduce wages.

…it is bad for workers to impose higher taxes on investment and entrepreneurship. The Veep’s proposed tax on unrealised gains would exacerbate the US tax code’s bias against saving and investment… This means less money being set aside to finance productivity-enhancing inventions, innovations, and industry.

Second, the plan would dramatically increase the complexity of a tax code that already is a convoluted nightmare:

…the tax would be an administrative nightmare. Taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service would have to squabble every year over the value of a taxpayer’s assets. …Tax lawyers and accountants are probably salivating at the thought of this plan becoming law.

Third, it is disturbingly close to a punitive wealth tax:

…a tax on unrealised capital gains could be viewed as a backdoor wealth tax. …The only difference is that it would be a tax on changes in wealth rather than a tax on the stock of wealth.

Fourth, it is so radical that no other country has made this mistake:

…no nation in the world has ever tried to impose a tax on unrealised gains. Even hard-core Leftist governments such as Venezuela have never contemplated such an intrusive and destructive levy.

Fifth, Harris says only rich taxpayers will be affected, but experience teaches us that it will merely be a matter of time before others are hit as well.

…supporters of the tax claim that it would only apply to…less than 1 per cent of the population. That may sound reassuring to ordinary voters … until they realise that the first income tax back in 1913 also applied to less than 1 per cent of households. Yet that “tax on the rich” eventually morphed into the monstrous internal revenue code.

The bottom line is that there should not be any capital gains tax. It’s a very destructive form of double taxation. As such, the Harris plan to expand this destructive levy is a “nutty idea.”

P.S. A lot of my lefty friends are upset that the Washington Post is not endorsing Harris. My personal theory is that the owner, Jeff Bezos, is very aware that the Vice President’s plan would be very bad for his personal finances and (since we already know he seeks to protect his money) he has rationally responded.

P.P.S. One of the worst features of the capital gains tax is that there’s no protection against inflation, so politicians win from bad monetary policy. That unfair policy will be exacerbated by the Harris proposal.

We're Coming to the End of the Story

Let's hope it's not a nightmare

By Robin Itzler

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors. Any cartoons appearing will have been added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK

“The Democrats have been telling us Trump's reelection is a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned of this threat, they staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent, and installed Kamala Harris. Sometimes [all her] prayers take 3.5 years and a George Clooney op-ed." —Jim Gaffigan, SNL comedian; October 17, 2024 Emcee—Alfred Smith Catholic Dinner

As we go to print, polls show that Donald Trump is AHEAD in the seven battleground states. Consider that Texas, with a population of over 30 million and Florida, with a population over 23 million people, will announce their election results on Election Night. If Texas and Florida can do it, so should the swing states with much less population: Arizona – 7.3 million North Carolina – 10.5 million Georgia – 4 million Pennsylvania – 13 million Michigan – 10 million Wisconsin – 6 million Nevada – 3.2 million This is why President Trump must declare victory on Election Night.

Crime Really is Up:

FBI revises its report The Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly jobs report are frequently revised, months after Joey has come to the podium to tout how thrilled he (and Corn Pop) are with the numbers. 

Well, guess what! The FBI did the same with its crime statistics! The FBI revised its 2022 crime data that now shows VIOLENT CRIME increased by 4.5 percent. We believe the number is even higher since many major (almost all Democrat) cities do not report its crime statistics as the FBI now uses a different computer system. The update shows that in 2022 there were 80,029 more violent crimes than in 2021. 

This means that there were thousands more murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults. It also means that Trump was correct on September 10 when he “debated” ABC News Anchor David Muir.

Senate Races:

These are the senate races where Republicans have a good chance of winning according to Utah Senator Mike Lee. Think judgeships! Think Supreme Court justices! Consider donating to one or more. 

Arizona—Kari Lake Michigan—Mike Rogers Montana—Tim Sheehy New Mexico—Della Domenici Nevada—Sam Brown Ohio—Bernie Moreno Pennsylvania—David McCormick Texas—Ted Cruz Virginia—Hung Cao Wisconsin—Eric Hovde If your state is not listed, it could be looking very good for the Republican candidate (Florida and West Virginia). 

Or it could be a senate race that’s uphill (such as in California where it is Democrat Adam “Liar” Schiff versus Republican Steve Garvey). Maybe Californians will surprise naysayers and elect Garvey to the U.S. Senate!

On the Republican Side:

Tulsi is Now a Republican! We will see many “Trump Democrats” proudly board the Trump Train. How many will re-register as Republicans? Former Democrat, then Independent, Tulsi Gabbard, announced during the October 22 North Carolina Trump rally that she was proudly joining the Republican Party. The former Democrat representative (Hawaii) told the cheering crowd: 

“It is because of my love for our country and specifically because of the leadership that President Trump has brought to transform the Republican Party that I'm proud to stand here with you today and announce that I'm joining the Republican Party.” 

Gateway Pundit reports Senate Minority Leader McConnell REFUSES to financially help (through his PAC) incumbent Florida Senator Rick Scott or incumbent Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Nor is McConnell financially helping Arizona Senator Kari Lake. McConnell probably wants Scott, Cruz and Lake to lose. Do you know who McConnell is financially helping? RINO Larry Hogan in his losing Maryland senatorial race. 

On the Democrat side:

They are losing solid support among Arabs and/or Muslims, which will especially hurt them in Michigan. Comments from an online call with reporters: 

Dearborn Heights Mayor Bill Bazzi “Just look where we’re at right now and look where we were before.” “I can tell you, a lot of people are actually swaying to voting for Trump because they really don’t like what’s going on. They think their future doesn’t look bright with the administration and the way they’re heading.” 

Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib, who has endorsed Donald Trump (nation’s only Muslim-run city) "The current administration has done nothing, and the war is expanding to other countries, and it could be a regional war and maybe even World War III. President Trump keeps saying that he will end the chaos in the Middle East, and I talked to him personally, I told him ‘your strength is that no wars happened during your term, so we want it to stay that way.’" 

Dearborn’s Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center founder and Imam Husham Al-Hussainy "I lean towards Mr. Trump because I found him closer to the Bible, the Torah, and the Quran. Because I support peace, no war.” Adding that the country "deserves to have a strong leader where he can bring peace in this world." 

On the Independent Side:

These candidates know they aren’t going to win, but they refuse to step aside even if they only receive 1 percent or less of the vote. They are: = Libertarian Chase Oliver = Green Party Jill Stein = Constitution Party Randell Terry = Independent Cornel West

Election 2024 — The Pollsters Are Wimping Out

Pollsters are talking loud and saying nothing. By Oct 29, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags Articles, Opinion, Politics

It’s often been said that in the age of the internet, there is a lot less meaningful information available, and nowhere is this more evident than in the morass of Election 2024 polls. The closer the nation gets to Election Day, the more pollsters appear to be providing the American electorate with mountains of inconsequential data. Here is some hard evidence to back up this premise.

Beginning on Oct. 21 until yesterday, Oct. 28, 14 national polls were released by the supposed best and brightest polling firms in the United States. One can only imagine what it costs to find out so little. Of the nationwide surveys released in this short time, seven claim that only one point or less separates the presidential candidates:

  • New York Times/Siena: TIE
  • Emerson: TIE
  • TIPP: TIE
  • CNN: TIE
  • CBS News: Harris +1
  • Rasmussen: Harris +1
  • USA TODAY/Suffolk: Harris +1

Four ties. Really? Could it be that some folks fear putting their stamp on something meaningful? Have pollsters come down with a severe case of the gun-shy flu? Meanwhile, the other seven results are not precisely earth-shattering but at least provide the reader with some information:

  • CNBC: Trump +2
  • Forbes: Trump +2
  • WSJ: Trump +3
  • Economist/YouGov national multi-candidate: Harris +3
  • Reuters/Ipsos: Harris +3
  • Morning Consult: Harris +4
  • ABC News/Ipsos: Harris +4

Election 2024 – Is it Really That Close?

Anyone with a pulse remembers the giant mea culpa pollsters had to issue after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. However, in 2020, they mostly got it right, and then in 2022, they mostly got it right again. So why do the pollsters appear to be hedging their bets this time around?

One theory – and this is admittedly a supposition – is that they don’t feel comfortable going into the final days of Election 2024 with Trump leading. It’s almost as if they say it out loud, it might become reality. Another theory is that MAGA voters are extremely hard to poll. Could it be because they have been labeled everything from irredeemable to deplorable to not very intelligent followers of a fascist? That might cause some people to pause when expressing their intentions publicly.

Fear of the ‘L’ Word

It’s been a deluge of polls for months now, first with Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate and then with Kamala Harris. Ostensibly, it was the poll numbers that caused the historic last-minute major party candidate shift after Biden’s disastrous debate performance. Once Harris’ convention bump began to fade, the polls started to tighten, and this is where they primarily pitched their tent. However, signs too difficult to ignore now have many a political analyst willing to openly suggest the notion of a Trump landslide. One must wonder why the polls do not reflect that – at the very least – Trump is pulling away from Harris in this last crucial week.

Shockingly, Harry Enten, a CNN polling analyst of all things, was willing to posit the idea of a blowout this week on NJ.com. “So this time around, don’t be surprised at the swing state polls. When they underestimate one candidate, they underestimate all of them in the states, and that’s what leads to a relative Electoral College blowout, with one of the candidates winning at least 300 electoral votes.” In the same article, pollster Nate Silver was reported as making a similar prediction.

Both Kellyanne Conway, an expert pollster, and Tom Bevan, publisher of RealClearPolitics, are calling for something labeled a narrow landslide. Bevan postulates this could come about if the swing state dominoes begin to fall in Trump’s direction:

“’Trump is currently leading in the RealClearPolitics averages in all of these swing states, but by very slim margins,’ he explained. ‘His biggest leads are in Georgia (Trump +2.5%) and Arizona (Trump +1.8%). But this idea of a “Narrow Landslide” would be if he wins all of them, and ends up with 312 electoral votes, but it could happen by just a few thousand votes in some of these states.’”

Conway agreed and asserted, “Voters are looking for stability and results. Trump’s ability to tap into their concerns about the economy and national security is driving this projection.”

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While denying the word “landslide” should be attributed to his remarks, political analyst Mark Halperin told podcaster Megyn Kelly, “But there’s a school of thought that says, Trump’s going to go to Albuquerque to try to win New Mexico. He’s going to go to St. Paul to try to win Minnesota. He’s going to go to, I don’t know, Richmond to try to win Virginia.” The question then becomes why waste a candidate’s precious time in a place he or she could not possibly win?

Many analysts appear to be suggesting that the former president is on the precipice of a major win in Election 2024, but don’t look to the polls to confirm this potential outcome. They are too busy covering their collective derrieres instead of informing the American public of anything meaningful. Either that or the voting public should just ignore national polls, something we’ve been saying all along.

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Terrorism, Genocide and Kamala's Childhood in Africa

By @ Sultan Knish Blog 

On the last leg of her African tour, Vice President Kamala Harris paid a visit to an otherwise unremarkable office building in Zambia. Her staff and local embassy personnel had spent a great deal of time looking for it and everyone was hoping it was the right place.

Kamala, with her Jamaican and Indian roots, needed a tangible connection to Africa to win over African-American voters and convince them that she was one of them. And everyone settled on the office building as being the next best thing because it was the former spot of the building where she had once stayed as a little girl with her Indian mother on a visit to her grandfather.

President Hakainde Hichilema welcomed her as “a daughter of our own country, someone who spent time here in her early years.”

Kamala responded by launching into a story about having visited “Zambia, Mr. President, as a young girl when my grandfather worked here” as “an advisor to Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda” to “serve as a director of relief measures and refugees.”

The vice president then began singing the praises of Kaunda, a brutal socialist dictator allied with the Soviet Union, who had banned opposing political parties and ran as the only candidate for president until he was finally ousted, and praised Zambia’s “democracy”. Kaunda, whom Kamala fondly recalled meeting with JFK and MLK “to discuss peaceful forms of protest” had demanded nuclear weapons from LBJ. Hichilema, who had narrowly survived being arrested by a previous regime, had nothing to say about Kamala’s fond memories of Zambian democracy.

Or the “peaceful forms of protest” carried on with nuclear missiles and terrorism.

But behind Kamala’s childhood time in Zambia and her grandfather’s work is a lot of blood, along with a horrifying and mostly forgotten story of terrorism, atrocities and mass murder.

P. V. Gopalan, Kamala’s grandfather, had been a member of India’s socialist Congress party which was aligned with the USSR. What “refugees” was he aiding in Zambia?

Gopalan was posted to Zambia from 1966 to 1969. Formerly known as Northern Rhodesia, Zambia played a key role in the genocidal terrorist campaign against what was known as Rhodesia before it fell to a brutal dictatorship and became known afterward as Zimbabwe.

Before Robert Mugabe spent nearly four decades ruling Zimbabwe, the Communist thug led a terrorist organization known as ZANU allied with another counterpart terrorist group: Joshua Nkomo’s ZAPU. Often wrongly described as guerrilla groups by their western supporters, their combat tactics mostly focused on massacres of civilians and planting bombs on roads.

Zambia under Kaunda harbored ZAPU and ZANU bases across the border where the Soviet-backed terrorists ran training camps under the guise of providing shelter to ‘refugees’. Some of the refugees were civilians who supported the terrorists. Others were terrorists themselves.The ‘refugee’ camps were run by ZAPU and ZANU which indoctrinated the civilians, brutally punished them for even slight offenses and made it their goal to turn them into terrorists.

In 1965, Rhodesia declared independence from the ruling Labour government in the UK which was determined to hand over the country to Marxist terrorist organizations. By 1966, when Kamala’s grandfather arrived in Zambia, the war for Rhodesia was truly underway.

The Marxist terrorists had plenty of weapons supplied by the USSR and Communist China, but preferred attacking Rhodesian civilians to trying to fight the brave little country’s volunteer army. Typical ZANU and ZAPU attacks involved firing RPGs at civilian houses and throwing hand grenades at little girls. Missionaries were murdered and shoppers were gunned down.

Among the easiest targets were American and British missionaries providing education and medical care to the black population. At Elim Mission, Marxist terrorists raped the women and then beat and axed them to death along with their children. The victims were British citizens.

The New York Times described the scene. “a woman, dressed in a bathrobe with her hair in curlers, had an ax imbedded in her neck. Four children—a boy 4 years of age, two sisters aged 4 and 8, and another girl of 5—lay huddled close together. All were dressed in pajamas, and like the other victims they had all been struck on the head with clubs. Some also had stab wounds. One of the girls had the imprint of a boot on the side of her face.“

“Nearby lay the body of a woman, her arm encircling her dead 3-week-old daughter. Near them was a heavy wooden limb with blood on it.”

The mother was Mrs. Joyce Grace and her daughter had been named Pamela Grace.

The Marxist terrorists finally got lucky and hit Air Rhodesia Flight 825 in the late seventies. The surviving passengers were rounded up, promised water and help, and then gunned down.

All of this came after Kamala’s grandfather had gone back home to India and Kaunda had decided that backing the terrorists was too dangerous once they threatened his regime.

There are few details about the exact role played by P.V. Gopalan except that he was advising the Kaunda regime on the “refugees”. The refugee camps were terrorist bases. It’s unknown what complicity her grandfather might have had with them, but he had been dispatched to Zambia the year that Indira Gandhi took power. And this Gandhi was no humanitarian.

Indira Gandhi aligned India with the USSR and its Communist movements including those operating in Africa. In the 1970s, while the worst of the violence was taking place, Gandhi had visited Zambia and backed Kaunda’s call for the takeover of Rhodesia by the Marxist terrorist groups. She had expressed her joy that she was “back on the mainland of Africa when the final battle was about to be joined” for the final ethnic cleansing of Rhodesia’s white population.

If P.V. Gopalan had been in Zambia to help prop up the Marxist terror groups, it would not have at all been at odds with the policy of the Gandhi regime. Indira Gandhi had met with both Mugabe and Nkomo: terrorists responsible for the massacre of Rhodesian women and children.

Were Mugabe and Nkomo among the visitors passing through the Gopalan home?

Kamala, who was a 5-year-old when her Marxist father and radical leftist mother brought her to Africa, knew none of this. As the LA Times put it, “the young Kamala was oblivious to the intrigue swirling around her, with Gopalan’s government-issued car whisking him to meetings with Zambian officials and diplomats dropping by for visits.”

But in the succeeding years, Kamala either failed to educate herself about the history around her or knows exactly what happened and has chosen to stand with Kaunda and his crimes.

According to the Voice of America, a government broadcast agency, “Zambia was personal, and the work of her grandfather — who served as an adviser to Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda, in the 1960s — influenced her own trajectory to the highest office.”

And so there may be no way to detach the crimes of those days from Kamala’s political career.

Especially since she heads a party that was directly complicit in the Marxist atrocities.

The same year that Flight 825 was shot down, Carter’s UN Ambassador Andrew Young gushed that Mugabe was a “very gentle man. I can’t imagine Joshua Nkomo, or Robert Mugabe, ever pulling the trigger on a gun to kill anyone. I doubt that they ever have.”

Nkomo had not only taken responsibility for the downed airliner, he had laughed about it.

Kamala’s radical third world family closely parallels Obama’s radical third world family. Neither of their experiences are rooted in the black community, but in the Soviet globalism of the sixties.

“I am a daughter of the civil rights movement,” Kamala Harris claimed. Her parents have been described as “civil rights activists”. These attempts to make her sound as if she were African-American are highly misleading. Kamala had not come out of a black southern Christian movement. Her family was not African-American, they were third world academic radicals who used parts of America and other places in the world as bases for their militant activism.

Kamala’s links to Africa are not racial, but political. Her mother’s radical Indian family was there as part of a Soviet bloc aligned agenda. While Kamala enjoyed being in an exotic place, 60 miles away at the border, people were fighting and dying over the supremacy of Communism.

The Kaunda regime, an object of horror for Zambia, Zimbabwe and Rhodesian refugees, is a nostalgic memory for Vice President Kamala Harris. And for many in her political movement.

Kamala and Obama both come from radical Third World families who loathed America and Western civilization. Obama’s family played a role in Islamist massacres in Indonesia and Kenya while Kamala’s family appears to have had a role in the Communist war against Rhodesia.

People are not prisoners of their past but the way that Obama and Kamala were raised provide important insights about their worldviews, their politics and their plans for America.

Racist pastor. Radical parents. Extremist views.

Find out the truth about Kamala in the Center's new ebook, 'The Truth About Kamala'

Daniel Greenfield is a columnist, an investigative journalist and a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Islamic Persecution of Christians is Worldwide, Part V

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: Christian Persecution: Part One, Part Two, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and My Gazette: Christian Heresy

 Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. Memorial wall dedicated to George  Kastrioti Skanderbeg (1405–1468 Stock Photo - Alamy

I decided some time ago to reduce what goes into P&D so I only posted full articles, but I do post what I call Gazettes, so this applies.  

Over the weekend I stumbled on this October 26th article by Raymond Ibrahim, The Forgotten Christian ‘Braveheart’ Who Delivered the West from Islamic Terror saying:

Today in history, a man who would come to be known as the “Albanian Braveheart” delivered his homeland — and by extension, all of Europe — from a brutal Muslim siege following a series of mindboggling events......Nearly four decades earlier, this same Albanian, George Kastrioti — better known as Skanderbeg (“Lord Alexander”) — was taken captive as a small child by the Ottoman Turks, and trained to be a janissary: a Christian slave turned Muslim soldier. Excelling at war, he quickly rose among the Ottoman ranks until he became a renowned general with thousands of Turks under his command.

But despite all the honors showered on him, once the opportunity came in 1450, he showed where his true allegiance lay: he broke free of the Ottomans and fled back to his native and continuously harried Albania. There, after openly reclaiming his Christian faith, he “abjured the prophet and the sultan, and proclaimed himself the avenger of his family and country...........

In the centuries following his death, more than 1,000 books in more than 20 different languages, and any number of operas and plays, have been written about him. In a letter dated 1756, Major General James Wolfe of Britain wrote that Skanderbeg “excels all the officers, ancient and modern.” In 1905, historian William J. Armstrong went so far as to write that “the exploits even of the renowned paladins of the crusades, whether Godfrey or Tancred or Richard or Raymond, pale to insignificance by … comparison.”..............

Make sure to read the entire article.  One thing you will see is how other "Christian" rulers actually aided the Ottomans against their fellow Christians, and that wasn't an uncommon occurrence through the centuries in European politics.  At any rate that article took me to this site,  “Muslim Persecution of Christians,” where "Ibrahim has been producing a  monthly report since July, 2011 (which I will be following now) dedicated to chronicling the abuses and slaughters Christians experience throughout the Islamic world.  In certain respects, these monthly reports — there are over 120 of them — are the “live,” ongoing continuation of his 2013 book, Crucified Again."

We really need to get this. Islam isn't a religion, it's a political criminal movement masquerading as a religion.  When someone tell you they hate you and are going to kill you, you should believe them, especially when they've been doing that for almost 1500 years. 

The October 7th atrocities by Hamas in Israel is not an exception for Muslims, it's the rule, and it's not about Israel, its about Islam and Israel is merely the canary in the coal mine, because what this is really about is Islam's unending war against western civilization.  

Here's what Ibrahim has posted since July 2023, but there's much more.

‘Indiscriminate, Unprovoked, and Frenzied’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2024 - by Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of August 2024. Muslim Slaughter of, Violence against, and Hate for Christians Burkina Faso:  According to an Aug. 30 report, Muslims had slaughtered over 100 Christians, and kidnapped many more, over the course of the previous three months (between late … [Read more...]

‘Head Separated from Body’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, July 2024 - by Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of July 2024. Muslim Slaughter of Christians Democratic Republic of Congo: According to a July 28 report, “Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) claimed, in four statements published on July 25-27, 2024, that on July 24 its fighters attacked six … [Read more...]

‘No Parent Should Endure Such a Devastating Loss’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, June 2024 - by Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of June 2024. The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Russia:  On Sunday, June 23, terrorists launched attacks on several churches and synagogues in the Muslim region of Dagestan.  At least 21 people were killed and dozens wounded. One elderly and ailing … [Read more...]

‘Their Throats Were Slit Simply Because They Were Christians’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, May 2024 - by Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of May 2024. Muslim Slaughter of and Violence against Christians Nigeria: Some May headlines from the ongoing Muslim genocide of Christians in the African nation: May 1: “Fulani Herdsmen Kill 12 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria” May 6: … [Read more...]

‘Stop Being a Christian! They Are Worthless’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, April 2024 by Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of April, 2024. The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Uganda: On Apr. 10, a Muslim man murdered his own mother for refusing to leave the Christian faith. Two months earlier, Sulaina Nabirye, a 50-year-old widow, had put her faith in Christ.  Immediately, … [Read more...]

‘Our Nightmare Was Only Beginning’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, March 2024 - by 2 Comments - Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of March 2024. The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Russia: On March 22, Muslim terrorists armed with automatic weapons launched an attack on Crocus City Hall near Moscow, massacring at least 139 people and injuring more.  Boasting of “killing Christians,” … [Read more...]

‘Dirty Christians—I’m Going to Kill You All!’ The Muslim Persecution of Christians, February 2024 - by 2 Comments - Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of February 2024: The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Nigeria: Between Feb. 16 and 19, Muslim terrorists launched raids on several Christian villages.  They murdered 23 people—six were burned alive—wounded 10 and abducted 5 more, along with setting 28 … [Read more...]

‘Killed Civilians, Raped Women and Girls, and Looted Homes’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, January 2024 - by Leave a Comment - Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of January 2024. The Slaughter of Christians Nigeria: A few January headlines from the ongoing jihadist-genocide of Christians in the African nation follow: 8: “Terrorists Slaughter 41 Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria” 24: “At Least 31 … [Read more...]

‘A Field of Jihad’ The Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2023 (Christmas Edition) by 6 Comments - Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of December 2023. Christmas-Timed Slaughters and Nightmares Nigeria: Beginning on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day, Muslim terrorists massacred nearly 200 Christians.  Well-armed Muslim Fulani tribesmen hacked, stabbed, riddled with bullets, and … [Read more...]

‘They Hate Us!’ The Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2023 - by 2 Comments - Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of November 2023. The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Pakistan:  A Muslim man murdered a young Christian because he was “driven by a strong hatred for Christians and Jews.”  On Nov. 9, around 3 a.m., Muhammad Zubair broke into a Christian household while … [Read more...]

‘These Rapes Are Unfortunately Customary’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, October 2023 by 2 Comments - Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of October 2023. The Sexual Abuse and Forced Conversion of Christians Pakistan: Three Muslim men abducted and violently gang-raped a 16-year-old Christian girl on her way to Sunday church service.  The girl’s father, a pastor, and most of the family had … [Read more...]

‘Slaughtered in Cold Blood’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, September 2023 by 6 Comments - Gatestone Institute The following are among the murders and abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of September 2023. The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Nigeria: As the multi-year genocide of Christians continued, a Sept. 1 report found that “Of the 5,500 Christians who were killed last year because of their faith, 90 percent”—or about 4,950—“were … [Read more...]

‘We Christians Are Like Animals to Them’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2023 - by 4 Comments - Gatestone Institute The following are among the murders and abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of August 2023. Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches Pakistan:  All hell broke loose on Aug. 18, after some Christians were accused—falsely, it was recently revealed—of desecrating a Koran in Jaranwala.  Thousands of enraged Muslims rampaged against the … [Read more...]

‘Killing Christians Takes Us to Paradise’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, July 2023 - by 3 Comments - Gatestone Institute The following are among the murders and abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of July, 2023. The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Uganda: On July 9, a Muslim man murdered his wife, a mother of three, hours after she became Christian. Ten days earlier, Amina Nanfuka, 31, went to stay with a relative while being treated for medical … [Read more...]

‘An Evil from the Pits of Hell’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians, June 2023 - by 3 Comments - Gatestone Institute The following are among the murders and abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of June, 2023. The Muslim Slaughter of Christians Uganda:  On the evening of June 16, Islamic terrorists crying “Allahu akbar” (Allah is greater) stormed a private high school, where students were closing the night by singing Christian hymns.  Over the … [Read more...]