A Treacherous Ideology Growing Among Us

 Today, at the American Thinker Sloan Oliver has a piece entitled More Violence from the Religion of Peace in which he catalogues the number of people killed and injured by Muslims in their ongoing war to impose "peace" on us. It is interesting to note that while they kill a number of people in the West, they kill more of their own. If that is their idea of "peace," I think we can do without it.

Listening to the news, how often do you feel gaslighted? Lied to? I’m guessing quite often. Again, we’re being lied to about Islam; you know, the “religion of peace.” Last week, a practicing Muslim gunned down two National Guard (NG) soldiers in Washington D.C. Immediately, the claptrap media warned against Islamophobia, that the murder had nothing to do with Islam. Right, and abortion has nothing to do with infanticide. Do people actually believe such lies? Obviously, they do, because media such as MS-NOW (former MSNBC), CNN, the NY Times, NPR, and all the other leftist media blamed President Trump for instigating and inciting the Muslim to action. A quick review will help.

Prior to the late 1960s and early 70s, most in the West didn’t think much or often of the Middle East or threats posed by Islam. We were more occupied with the Soviet threat. Nevertheless, Muslim/Islamic terrorists were killing people all over the world -- particularly targeting Israel and Jews, hijacking planes, shooting up airports, bombing embassies, and the like. When Iranian Muslims captured the U.S. Embassy in Tehran (1979), and held Americans hostage for 444 days, we took notice. In the ensuing decades, Muslim terrorists and Islamic madmen have been on the march across the globe -- the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed (April 1983 -- 49 killed); the Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed (October 1983 -- 241 killed); Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed (1988 - 270 killed); World Trade Center was bombed (1993 -- six killed); the Khobar Tower was bombed (1996 -- 19 airmen killed); U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed (1998 -- hundreds killed, thousands injured); the USS Cole was bombed (2000 -- 19 sailors killed); and the 9/11 attacks (September 2001 -- killed thousands). Since 9/11, Islamic terrorist attacks targeting Americans, both here and abroad, have almost become routine -- the Shoe Bomber, the Underwear Bomber, the Fort Hood shooter, the Boston Marathon Bombers, the San Bernadino attack (2015 -- 14 killed), the Orlando Nightclub Shooting (2016 -- 49 killed), the NYC truck attack (2017), the New Orleans truck ramming (2025 New Years Day -- 14 killed), and last month’s shooting of two NG soldiers in D.C.

The above attacks were some of the major ones against American targets. Muslims have targeted just about every country in the world beginning with attacks against Israel’s Olympic Team (Munich 1972 -- 12 killed); Beirut became a hellhole (1970s and 80s); the Bali Nightclub attack (2002 – 202 killed); the Madrid Train bombing (2004 – 193 killed, thousands injured); the London Subway bombing (2005 -- 56 killed); the Mumbai, India attacks (2008 -- 175 killed); the Charlie Hebdo attack (2015 -- 17 killed); the Paris Nightclub suicide bombings (2015 -- 130 killed); the Nice, France truck attack (2016 -- 86 killed); and the Moscow Theater Attack (2024 -- 145 killed). Let’s not forget the Hamas Oct 7, 2023 attack on Israel that killed over 1,200 and took 250 hostages. These were the Muslim attacks that garnered large media because they were against western countries and killed westerners.

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If you think these attacks by Muslims are one-offs and happen infrequently, think again. According to the website “thereligionofpeace.com,” worldwide last month there were 92 Islamic attacks in 17 countries that killed 378 people and injured 210. The website admits they don’t catch all attacks, because some are not immediately reported or claimed by a terrorist group. Actually, November was a light month. The previous month saw 152 Islamic attacks in 18 countries that killed 2,548 and injured 458. In all of 2025, there have been 1,875 Islamic attacks in 48 countries, 13,337 people killed and 6,139 injured. In 2024, worldwide there were 1,762 Islamic attacks in 52 countries, 9,587 people killed and 8,464 injured. Every year prior had similar numbers, all carried out by Muslims.

Oliver wonders if Satan designed a religion, what would he do differently? I have news for him, though don't tell anyone. Satan is precisely the one who designed Islam. Oddly enough, even though we are sinful people, Christianity attracted numerous people, in part because God promises to forgive your sins if you repent and try to do better. Also, they noticed that Christians lived much more peacefully with each other and their neighbors. In contrast, Islam can only recruit new members by the sword and offering young men their most prurient fantasies (having constant sex with 72 virgins in eternity.) He has described it perfectly as an "ideology of oppression that wraps itself in the cloak of a religion."

Islam is dangerous and its adherents will never assimilate into American culture and life. Indeed, America is antithetical to Islam.  We already have Leftist; we don't need another treacherous ideology growing among us.

We Dodged A Bullet

At Zero Hedge, there is an article by Tyler Durden entitled "The Whole Model Is Broken": 'Tech Mafia Wife' Admits 'We Were Klaus Schwab's Useful Idiots'. The article features an interview with Nichol Shanahan, the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin and former vice presidential candidate. As an aside, we dodged a bullet when RFK,Jr dropped out of the race because this woman shouldn't be anywhere near the levers of power.

Now, I am sure Nichol Shanahan is a perfectly nice person in the normal sense of the word. I am sure she is compassionate and kind. The kind of woman who bakes cookies for the school fund raiser.  But one has to think that if a person with this kind of wealth, who because she has access to a staff, and did not figure out long ago that the Davos crowd was a total fraud...she must be a total idiot.

Remember that Klaus Shwab wanted a 'great reset' so we could "build back better."  Hmmm. Wouldn't you think it might be a good idea to ask what "building back better" would look like? Wouldn't you also think that maybe it would be a good idea to ask how we were supposed to pay for it?  You don't have to get too much in the weeds to read that "BBB" means we will own nothing and be happy. Said with that German accent, it sounds more like a threat.  She owns a lot, so I would think that might bother her. And when you think about it, if no one owns anything, no one takes care of anything, and everything without care turns to crap.

Digging just a little deeper, there is the idea that AI and robotics will do everything for us. Of course, that won't happen either. Someone has to build things, pave roads, repair electrical lines, and do other stuff robots cannot do.  But the disturbing part is the belief that there will be too many useless eaters and that we will have to shed...oh, I don't know...some 8 billion of us? Murdering 8 billion people doesn't sound too compassionate to me. No, it sounds hauntingly like the adage attributed to Lenin that 'To make an omlet you must break a few eggs.' We know how that turned out.

She claims that the other members of the 'Tech Wives Mafia' believed the same things as she did. If so, it just proves that these women, who, remember, did not make the money themselves, they just had access to it by virtue of their husbands, do not deserve it. As I say, we dodged a bullet. If, as it sounds like in the interview, she has repented, then good for her. Please note that the United States as founded was not and is not perfect. No human government can be. But the government the Left would put upon us is even less perfect. Keep that in mind.

On Being Grateful This Thanksgiving Day

Today, November 27, 2025 is our official Thanksgiving Day.  But while we have one official day, we should practice giving thanks and praise to God every day.  Like so much in our tradition, giving God the thanks and praise he so richly deserves from us was brought down to us by our friends, the Jews, who practiced it and preserved it so that when the Messiah came into the world, the world was set up to receive Him.

So, it is fitting that the best Thanksgiving message today comes from Yael Eckstein in an article at Townhall.com entitled Hineni: Thanksgiving's Answer to Ayeka. As we learn in Eckstein's article, "Ayeka: means "where are you?" and "hineni" means "here I am" in Hebrew. But knowing this doesn't convey the full spiritual meaning. That you only get by first having an attitude of gratitude.

This Thanksgiving, my heart turns again to the quiet strength that comes from gratitude, not for what we wish we had, but for the blessings God has already placed in our lives.

In a world of constant comparison and societal pressures, it is easy to forget this spiritual truth. In the Jewish tradition, we observe gratitude not only as a feeling, but as a response to a sacred question.

That question is Ayeka? Where are you?

It is the first question God poses to humanity in the Garden of Eden, and it continues to echo through the generations. It is not a request for an exact location. It is a calling: Where are you in this moment? What do you decide to stand for when the world around you feels uncertain, frightening, or unfair? Who are you choosing to be?

And the answer our tradition gives us is the answer of our forefather Abraham: Hineni. Here I am.

Hineni reminds us that everyone can do something. Everyone is empowered. Hineni is the language of faith in action, even in the hardest times. It is the courage to step forward even when the path ahead is uncertain. When there's nowhere left to go but to jump into the abyss of the unknown. It is answering God’s call not because life is easy, but because we know He walks with us, especially during the tough times.

Seen through the lens of Hineni, Thanksgiving is not just a holiday on the calendar that comes around once a year. It is part of a daily spiritual practice – a way of standing before God with presence, purpose and an open heart. And it is often in the moments when gratitude feels the hardest to find that we need it the most.

Before you have your family gathering, your turkey and ham, and sit down to watch football, I urge gentle readers to read Eckstein's article and consider all the many blessings he has given us, and how we might bless others as a result.

A Bargain or a Trap

 Here's the last one for today. At Alt-Market.us Brandon Smith has an article entitled Is Global Technocracy Inevitable or Dangerously Delusional. The so-called tech geniuses and gurus believe that computers will eventually take over the world. Through Artificial Intelligence, the machines will be in charge. But Smith notes that it is entirely in our hands, as it has always been. We can choose to cut the cord, to leave our devises at home. We don't have to live as slaves to this iteration of "world domination."

The bewildering truth behind human technological enslavement is that it is impossible without the voluntary participation of the intended slaves. People must welcome technocracy into their lives in order for it to succeed. The populace has to believe, blindly, that they cannot live without it, or that authoritarianism by algorithmic consensus is “inevitable.”

For example, the average person living in a first world economy voluntarily carries a cell phone everywhere they go at all times without fail. To be without it, in their minds, is to be naked, at risk, unprepared and disconnected from civilization. I grew up in the 1980s and we did just fine without having a phone on our hip every moment of the day. Even now, I refuse to carry one.

Why? First, as most people should be aware of by now (the Edward Snowden revelations left no doubt), a cell phone is a perfect technocratic device. It has multilayered tracking, using GPS, WiFi routers, and cell tower triangulation to track your every step. Not only that, but it can be used to record your daily patterns, your habits, who your friends are, where you were on any given day many months or years ago.

Then there’s the backdoor functions hidden in app software that allows governments and corporations to to access your cell’s microphone and camera, even when you think the device is shut off. The private details of your life could be recorded and collated. In a world where privacy is being declared “dead” by boasting technocrats, why help them out by carrying something that listens to everything you say and chronicles everything you do?

Like Mr. Smith, I grew up at a time when there were no computers. We all got along just fine. We used paper maps to get around. We went to the library for information. We employed slide rules to perform calculations.  We actually wrote down things on paper with ink delivery devises called "pens." Young people are fascinated with fountain pens and often ask me to demonstrate one. My point is that we can live without a lot of this stuff. Indeed, in many ways our lives were better, if less convenient, then. Convenience is only worth so much. It is certainly not worth your freedom and your soul.  They are offering you a bargain, but it is also a trap.

Grab a cup of coffee and read the whole article. it is well worth thinking about it.

A Christian Revival

 It seems that today is my day for disagreeing with the story title writers at the American Thinker This time it is the article entitled God Is Back by S. R. Piccoli. God has always been there, will always be there, and constantly calls to people to come to Him. We are the ones who stray, like lost sheep, from His embrace. The title of the article should have been "People Flocking to God."

There. Having fixed the author's title for him, let me note that I have noticed the same thing, though I did not have the statistics. In my own congregation, I have seen an upswing in new members, both couples with children and single men. (The phenomenon of men entering the church without women is something I have not thought enough about, being too old and too married for that sort of thing. But if the number of single women who believe themselves to be oppressed by society and the "patriarchy," and voted for Mamdani are any indication, there is a huge lack of gratitude among our young women today. If young women want to see patriarchy, they should take a hard look at Muslim societies. Women are considered the possession of a man, to be bought and sold like slaves.)

The revival of Christianity among both young people and intellectuals is good news. We will need them to fight off the coming Muslim attempt to conquer the West. I have noted many times here that Islam is not from God, but is from the devil himself. The followers of Islam, like their father, build nothing, invent nothing, make nothing. They only destroy. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Christian God, created us, sustains us, and builds us up. Christians, like their Father, invent, build, and attempt to make the world better. Even Richard Dawkins admits he would rather live in a culture based on Christian principles.

Understand that the Church Christ founded will never fall, so whose side would you rather be on?

Nick Fuentes: Man of the Left

 Joseph Ford Cotto has an article claiming that Nick Fuentes proves 'No Enemies to the Right' is suicide for the GOP. I read the article at the American Thinker, and it does get better, but seems to avoid the obvious. So, let's back the truck up a bit. Let us note that Nick Fuentes is not to the right of the GOP. He in fact is a part of the Marxist Left. He is wacky, emotional, his principles are not well thought out, but he is of the Left. He praises Hitler and Stalin for crying out loud.  We have no problem declaring him, and anyone who follows him an enemy. We don't want him anywhere near Republican politics. Period.

One can talk good sense to the vast majority of Republicans and conservatives, however. To them, the message is clear. There is no moral, political, or strategic justification for allowing Fuentes or his followers anywhere near GOP and right-leaning institutions. They must be screened out of every respectable, or even quasi-respectable, non-lefty function, media enterprise, political campaign, donor network, youth organization, party organ, political action committee, and think tank without hesitation or apology.

So, Cotto has it correct in the end, except that he allows himself to believe the old canard that Hitler and the Nazi party were of the Right. They were not. Perhaps they could be considered to the right of Stalin, but they were still Socialists and of the Left.  Reagan's 11th Commandment does not apply.

Man Bites Dog Stories

Well, here's something different...way different.  This is a man bites dog story if ever there was one. Apparently, in Western North Carolina, a bald eagle dropped a cat through a motorist's windshield. You can find the story at Sky High Surprise: Bald Eagle Hurls Cat At Unsuspecting Motorist.

These are things you and I can't explain. It is like the time that a little bird, a type of parrot, landed on Mrs. PolyKahr's shoulder. It was obviously someone's pet, but whose? Having had parrots before, we put him in a proper cage, fed him the proper diet, and put up posters around asking if anyone knew to whom he belonged. After about 7 months or so, we had decided that he was ours, when our little bird needed the care of a veterinarian. It turned out that the original owner had taken the bird to that particular vet, and so eventually bird and owner found themselves together again.

One can't make this stuff up. Really, these things are just too freaky.