Around the Nation and the World

By Robin Itzler 

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Events Around the Nation

Tennessee:   In backwards states like California, public school employees and students can be in trouble if they use the wrong pronoun. However, Tennessee just passed legislation signed by Republican Governor Bill Lee protecting them from LGBTQ++++++ insanity. Employees and students will not be “civilly liable” for failing to use the preferred names and pronouns of trans-identified employees or students. Duh! To share your thoughts with Gov. Lee:

Email: tn.fellows@tn.gov,  Phone: 615-741-2001, Write: 1st Floor, State Capitol, Nashville, TN 37243 

In Huntington Beach:  Vote No on A&B:  In Huntington Beach, California, there is a vote on June 10 to keep pornographic material away from children in public libraries. The pornographic material in many of these books would make a stripper blush, so of course the left wants it where the children can easily find it. “A” would do is move these books to age-appropriate sections of the library.

• Vote No on A: Current law lets a community board of parents in addition to librarians review library books to protect children from obscene content. If “A” passes, parents are removed from the process and it’s given to one unelected person.
• Vote No on B: Currently, the city council manages the library budget. If passed, the control would go to special interests.

Below I discuss the targeting of Christians and Jews in Muslim controlled nations, but Christian persecution is now rampant in western civilization, and the violence in Seattle against Christians has triggered an FBI investigation.  The FBI under the Biden administration has been notorious for targeting Christians in the past.  Patel and Bongino have put the FBI back on the right track.  

• When City Hall Chooses the Mob - Bruce Harrell, elected to lead but seemingly content to triangulate, did not respond with praise for law enforcement or a reaffirmation of Seattle’s civic obligations to neutrality and free expression. Instead, he questioned the Christian group’s presence—why they had been issued a permit and why their event had not been relocated to a “less provocative” area. Translated: The fault lies not with the mob—heaven forbid—but those who dared to speak within earshot of it..............
• Does America have a Muslim problem? - Western cultural norms are not global norms. We need policy makers to wake up and recognize this -- and to do so fast.  It is time for a significant shift in U.S. immigration policy, and for the U.S. government to act against anyone promoting murderous leftist ideology on university campuses. .........
• The Wages of Conspicuous Compassion  - ........such displays are morally idiotic camouflage for Europe’s failure of nerve and despicable political hatred of the region’s only free democracy.
• Hamas Warns Gaza Muslims Not to Accept US Food - Gaza is starving...... but social media videos show fully-stocked supermarkets.........Hamas faked a famine to win global sympathy. It’s funding a lot of its operations through stolen and diverted aid. .......

Events Around the World

Ukraine:  Is the US Furthering Persecution of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine?  The US is essentially “facilitating the persecution of Christians in Ukraine by supporting the Kiev government, which has been waging a purge campaign against the nation’s canonical Orthodox church,” American journalist Tucker Carlson has said. Carlson made the statement during an interview with a former Ukrainian MP, Vadim Novinsky, released on Friday............

Trump and the Middle East:  President Donald Trump recently visited four Arab Middle East nations. Saudia Arabia was his first stop and during the visit it was announced that Syria's new interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is an Al-Queda terrorist but now dons a western appearance, would be visiting with the President. We are very disappointed that Trump met with a terrorist whose government is Killing Christians and other non-Muslim minorities!  And worse yet, as Daniel Greenfield points out, he's cut a deal with them for promises to protect Christians.  A promise that will not be kept.  Trump has made a lot of amazingly good decisions, this isn't one of them!

Even Jefferson understood Muslims will not honor agreements with unbelievers, he read the Koran, which no only excuses such behavior, it encourages it.  And we have over 1400 years of history to prove that's what they practice.   Do western civilization's leaders read history books any longer?

United Arab Emirates:  Amjad Taha is a UAE-based political strategist and analyst and appears to want peace in the region. Following President Trump’s visit to the UAE, Taha posted:

“This is the UAE, where we walk the talk, not just talk it. No one around us dares to do it. We’re different. We lead. President Donald Trump standing in the Synagogue at the Abrahamic Family House marks a historic day for all Abrahamic faiths: Jews, Christians and Muslims. While synagogues face attacks in London and Paris, the Jewish community feels safter here than in the West.”

The Jewish UAE community is very small, but that would make it an easier target. Yet, Taha is right that at the moment Jews are safer in the UAE than in many European, Canadian or Australian cities.