Taqiyya and Deception: The Quran’s Divine Permission to Lie to Non-Muslims

 Report: Islamic Groups Urged Violence, Got $47 Million From Taxpayers

El-Sayed has appeared at a number of the mosques and institutions listed, such as the Islamic Center of Detroit and the Islamic Institute of America.

. . . "[Middle East Forum] captured various kinds of public extremist and anti-American statements. Multiple speakers at certain Islamic institutions have demonized the United States as “the house of shaitan” (Satan), the “great Satan,” or “the belly of the beast,” according to the report. At the Islamic Center of East Lansing, an Arabic speaker prayed: “O Allah, deal with those who besieged them. O Allah, deal with the aggressor Jews. O Allah, count them in number and kill them dispersed, and leave not one of them.” A speaker at the Islamic Center of America prayed that “Zionists” would be “cut … limb from limb.” More than 90 statements “pray for the mujahideen or call for jihad, at 16 of the 36 institutions.”

"The overwhelming lion’s share of the taxpayer funds documented by MEF — more than $40 million — came from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) via the Michigan Department of Education in the form of school lunch dollars distributed to the Islamic Center of Detroit. Other funding sources included the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Health and Human Services (HHS), the state of Michigan, and local governments, such as the city of Detroit. The Michigan’s Islamist Pulpits site includes individual pages detailing the statements and (if applicable) funding of each of the Islamic groups. MEF clarified that “each institution received a request for comment before publication,” and their replies are documented in the database.

"Notably CAIR-Michigan received more than $100,000 from the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit. During a talk on the “Dangers of Extremism,” a speaker at the CAIR-Michigan event told the audience:

When someone leaves the fold of Islam or commits treason then it is permissible for them to be killed but even still it’s not your decision or my decision it has to come from the sultan or the imam or the Amir al-Mu’minin, or if a judge, if a hakem or a qadi, then gives the hadd, gives the punishment for this. Just you or I just can’t say, well, someone committed treason, then we go shoot him in the head. This is Islam — respects the law and order. This would be un-Islamic. Islam respects law and order, dear brothers. . . .

Abdul El-Sayed Speaks In Arabic In Victory Speech

 Taqiyya and Deception: The Quran’s Divine Permission to Lie to Non-Muslims - Updated American Standard Version 

. . ."Taqiyya is not some fringe or “misunderstood” cultural quirk. It is a deliberate, Quran-sanctioned doctrine that grants Muslims divine permission to lie, conceal their true beliefs, and deceive non-Muslims whenever doing so protects Islam or advances its cause. This teaching stands at the heart of Islamic interaction with the non-Muslim world, shaping behavior in ways that often remain hidden until circumstances shift in favor of open advancement of the faith. The doctrine operates as a strategic tool embedded within the religious framework, allowing followers to navigate situations of vulnerability by presenting a face that aligns with the expectations of outsiders while maintaining internal loyalty exclusively to Islamic principles." . . .

The Islamic Requirement to Perform Taqiyya and Lie to Non Muslims; Analysis

Remember this beautiful musical parody of the "British Caliphate"?

Biden’s Israel Catastrophe; A veteran journalist reveals how a Democratic White House enabled Israeli atrocities in Gaza.

 The American Conservative    

"Put another way, Biden’s “ghastly and self-defeating Gaza policy” paved the road to Trump’s war, on behalf of Israel, against Iran."

"When confronted with warnings that famine was spreading across northern Gaza in early 2024, members of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy team could not believe what they were being told. The alarming reports came from U.S. agencies and respected international humanitarian groups, but they starkly contradicted Israel’s version of events.

 "National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk doubted Palestinians were going hungry amid mountains of rubble and corpses because the “people in photographs from Gaza did not look skinny,” reports the investigative journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed, based on accounts from his anonymous sources.

"Not only were staggering numbers of Palestinians desperate for food. They lacked clean drinking water, medicine, and shelter. They were being torn to pieces—in many cases by U.S.-manufactured bombs—as the Israeli military  kept up its relentless offensive. Yet the president and his top aides failed to meaningfully exert their influence to alleviate the suffering. Instead, their response was shaped by credulous deference to the Netanyahu government and disregard for both U.S. and international law.

"“Biden’s stubbornness was one of his trademarks; Sullivan and others closest to him began to behave similarly, such as questioning the Palestinian casualty counts, even as they received more and more information from intelligence and humanitarian officials that showed how their policy had failed to ensure that aid reached Gazans,” writes Ahmed in Crossing the Red Line, his must-read reportage on the Biden administration’s refusal to restrain Israel from perpetrating what a growing consensus of scholars, jurists, human rights groups, and an independent U.N. commission now consider a genocide.

"A diplomatic correspondent at The Washington Sun, Ahmed made his name during twelve years working at HuffPost, where he won awards for his Mideast coverage. The book draws on this prior work, augmented by interviews with dozens of former officials and a careful review of the documentary evidence.

"The result is a meticulously reported, damning portrayal of a president and his tiny clique of decision-makers who, despite their pledge to uphold the “rules-based order,” found themselves enabling Israel to wage war against a civilian population and destabilize the region. Future historians will rely on Ahmed’s account, which reveals how highly credentialed, intelligent officials can close their eyes to what’s in front of them and make policy for an alternative reality." . . .  More.

Martin Di Caro is an independent journalist based in Washington, DC, and the host of History As It Happens podcast.

The DSA Plans To Incite Violence Ahead Of 2028 Election

 "The reported DSA-linked planning treats the Insurrection Act as a trap that works only if Trump walks into it on their timetable and terms."

The Federalist

"Over on X, DataRepublican’s reporting on documents and recordings from the Democratic Socialists of America and allied networks lays out a calculated strategy for the run-up to the 2028 elections. The goal is sustained mass violence and street clashes designed to push President Donald Trump into invoking the Insurrection Act. Once invoked, Democratic governors and progressive organizations would treat the order itself as evidence of “fascism” and a reason to undermine federal authority.

"Groups including the United Democracy Alliance, invoking Erica Chenoweth’s 3.5 percent rule, appear ready to coordinate the street actions, legal support, and media framing. Neville Roy Singham, operating from Shanghai and connected to the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department, is positioned to amplify the disruption from abroad.

"The plan assumes Trump will choose immediate order over patience, and hand his opponents the optics they have prepared. Whether that assumption holds depends on the costs of each path.

"Policing power in America is overwhelmingly local. The FBI fields about 13,700 special agents nationwide. The New York Police Department alone has more than 34,700 sworn officers. A president can protect federal property, personnel, and functions without becoming the default response for every city whose leaders have weakened policing and tolerated disorder. Broader federal action is also available. Both options carry consequences, and progressive networks are organized to contest either one.

"One set of costs is political. Invoking the Insurrection Act and placing federalized National Guard or active-duty forces in law-enforcement roles inside Democratic cities would supply the “fascism” narrative. Local Democratic officials who have criticized aggressive policing and treated destructive unrest as legitimate expression would likely resist or litigate the deployment. That resistance would become part of the story." . . . More.

Chuck DeVore is chief national initiatives officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a former California legislator, and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel.

Latest commentary on Ilhan what's-her-name

Chris Hayes slammed as panel allegedly ignores key Ilhan Omar questions

The Many Names of Ilhan Omar   "Rep. Illhan Omar’s primary name appears to be Illhan Elmi, not Illhan Omar. “So what!? Everyone has a nickname!” Well, this seems more complicated than that.

"On Monday, Oct. 12, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed a search warrant at the D.C. home of Rep. Omar (Rep. Elmi?) as part of a federal investigation into possible immigration fraud, false statements on federal documents, marriage fraud, and violations related to congressional financial disclosures. It is reported that the government is investigating whether Rep. Omar lied about her age back in 2000 to receive derivative citizenship as a minor. Additionally, the investigation is delving into whether Rep. Omar’s marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, who is believed to be her brother, was a scheme in order to obtain a U.S. Green Card and bypass immigration law. When asked by MS Now whether she married her brother, Rep. Omar responded, “Not to my knowledge” (that seems like something one would have knowledge about)." . . .  More.

Ilhan Omar’s Plea of Ignorance Regarding Marriage to Brother IMPLODES as Her Alleged Sister’s Damning Marriage Certificate Emerges  . . . "Omar had to have known all of this.

"This new development also confirms the DOJ has Omar DEAD TO RIGHTS when it comes to her real name.

"As Conradson notes, sources have revealed that “Ilhan Omar” is a fake name used by the Somali Minnesota Congresswoman currently embattled in a federal fraud investigation.

"Her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, the name of her brother-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, two sources familiar with the ongoing investigation confirmed to Fox.

"A former Minnesota federal immigration judge also told the outlet that if it is proven that she lived her “entire life under an alias,” every document she’s ever filled out with the fake name could be “called into question.”

"Now, Omar faces prison time in America or deportation should she be prosecuted and convicted." . . .More.

Rep. Ilhan Omar Search Warrant Appears to Confirm Fake Name, Brother Marriage | Frontpage Mag   . . . "One of the allegations is that Rep. Omar’s first husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was actually her brother, which also means that her entire family backstory is fake. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s real name was never Omar. The whole family took on a fake name as part of an immigration fraud scheme. And their real name is Elmi.

"Can the Feds prove that? Putting “Congresswoman Ilhan Nur Said Elmi aka Ilhan Abdullahi Omar” is either trolling or a statement that is provable, and it’s inadvisable to troll a Democrat judge.

"Now you may have seen talk that the feds have DNA evidence. What might that DNA evidence consist of?

"A while back I wrote an article about the origins of Somali fraud, mass migration and the disastrous U.S. intervention in Somalia. Among other things I noted that the government, suspecting Somalis of immigration fraud, began demanding DNA testing to prove family ties. We also know that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi pulled his immigration marriage filing when the government asked for more evidence. It’s possible that the government already had DNA on file for some members of the Elmi/Omar family." . . .

Sources Say Rep. Ilhan ‘Omar’ Is a Fake Name as the Congresswoman Denies Knowledge She Married Her Brother  “You’re not related to him at all?” political activist Chris Hayes asked. “There’s not some weird kernel of truth…?”   Search her trash

Jeanine Pirro: Ilhan Omar’s Real Name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi

Ilhan Omar Investigation Red Flags Broad Immigration Fraud and Terrorism Security Risks - Middle East Forum 

"Somali citizens no doubt suffered persecution, and many who have left can’t return home because of ongoing dangers. But a look beyond the political theater of the Omar investigation makes clear that documentation that can pierce the secrets of Somalis rarely exists. Which means that verifying anything real about Somalis is rarely possible. Which means letting this group into America is strictly for high-stakes gamblers. The only safe bet with Somalis is to just refrain."

NYTimes: If Ilhan Omar Broke the Law, She Should Get Away With It Because Muh Democracy – HotAir   . . . "Back in the day, armed FBI agents raiding a former president's home were "defending democracy," and pointing out that Hunter Biden was a felon who kept his crimes on video on his computer was "Russian disinformation." 

"Without law enforcement officers fondling the First Lady's underwear, democracy itself would fall. 

"Today? The New York Times admits that Ilhan Omar may be a criminal, but since she is an opponent of the president, democracy itself is at stake if she is investigated. 

"Uh. Hmm. Right. I guess." . . . 

“We Will Use Your Democracy to Destroy Your Democracy”

"How America’s freedoms have been subverted and weaponized against us - where is the line between principles and self-preservation?"

Yuri Bezmenov and Hector Herrera

“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen: but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property & all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.” Thomas Jefferson

Years before ISIS existed, the Islamist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed reportedly told journalist Patrick Goodenough something that seems to be willfully ignored by the vast majority of people in the West:

"“We will use your democracy to destroy your democracy.”

"In one sentence, Bakri identified the vulnerability at the heart of a free society.

"Islamism treats Islam not merely as a religious belief, but as a governing political order. Some Islamist movements have been remarkably candid about their rejection of liberalism and their ambition to replace it.

"Bakri’s remark is interesting precisely because it removes the comforting assumption of reciprocity. A western liberal hears “freedom of speech” and thinks of a principle. Someone like Bakri hears “freedom of speech” and thinks of a vulnerability in the enemy.  The western liberal assumes that we are all playing the same game, disagreeing perhaps viciously over policy, interpretation and the application of the rules, but accepting the basic constitutional framework within which our opponents retain their rights if we win.

"The revolutionary may have no such intention. He can believe in our freedom instrumentally. He can use free speech without believing that free speech should survive his victory. He can use freedom of religion while believing apostasy should eventually be punished. He can use democratic elections while regarding democracy merely as the vehicle by which democracy can be brought to an end.

"This is not a new problem. What may be new is our reluctance—or hubris—to admit that anyone, especially our enemies, thinks this way." . . . More.

Same red-green network that boosted anti-Israel protests in US at center of French unrest, riots | Just The News

Media Still Reports on French ‘Student Protests’ but It’s Clearly a Red-Green Alliance Revolution – Discern Report

The Riots In France Are A Warning For America

"What that will look like in America we have yet to see in full. But if you want to get a rough idea, look at the riots in France. If we don’t put an end to Muslim immigration, that’s what our future holds." . . .

. . . "Among the “protesters,” we don’t see a broad cross-section of French society but overwhelmingly nonwhite males, immigrants and the children of immigrants. The barricades are being raised largely by Muslim youth of North African and Middle Eastern descent. Outside many schools, students weren’t chanting about funding cuts or classroom conditions, they were chanting “we are antifascists” and other such slogans. In Marseille, rioters flew the flag of Algeria and Hamas, not the tricolor. It was the same at a number of high schools that saw rioting." . . .

It’s the Iran War, Stupid

Ann Coulter   

"Moreover, respondents rank immigration the third “most important issue facing the country today,” just after inflation and the economy. The Iran War comes in sixth. (Climate change is 614th.)"

"On a recent New York Times podcast, columnist E.J. Dionne claimed that the “key” to Trump’s “ victory in 2024 was his promise “to bring order to the southern border,” but instead — for some inexplicable reason — he “launched this massive campaign” to deport illegals.

"Great analysis, except Trump never promised to “bring order” to the border. That was Kamala.

Trump’s promises were slightly more grand. In particular, he said — repeatedly — that he would implement “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.” His immigration plans were memorialized in panicked Times headlines like these:

"'Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans” (Nov. 11, 2023)

"'Trump Says He Would Try Again to Revoke Haitian Immigrants’ Protections” (Oct. 3, 2024)

"'What if Trump Deported Millions of Immigrants?” (Oct. 22, 2024)

"'Trump’s Deportation Vow Fuels Fear and a Potential Showdown in New York” (Nov. 9, 2024)

"For proposing an immigration crackdown that appalled the Times’ newsroom, he was rewarded on Election Day with a sweep of all seven battleground states, a majority of the popular vote and a newly Republican Senate.

"No Republicans proposed to bring “order” to the border. Under Biden, the border had plenty of “order,” in the sense that the 20 million foreigners sneaking into this country did so with a minimum of pushing and shoving.

"To avoid the mayhem of throngs of people rushing our border, the Biden administration gave third-worlders an app to schedule their illegal crossings, whereupon Border Patrol would dust them off and direct them to the nearest welfare office. True, this was a direct violation of federal law as well as traitorous, but the one thing you couldn’t say was that it lacked order.

"It was Democrats who ran on bringing yet more “order” to the border, meaning they wanted illegals to be admitted even faster." . . .  More.

NBC vs. the Holdout Juror

Desperate for ratings, an NBC-owned TV station crusades against a hero

Don Surber 

"Consider AOC. She got away with saying there were 10 lynchings of black people this year. The media repeated her without context. X did not. It added a community note to her tweet."

The harpies at NBC10 (WBTS) in Boston have the name, rank and serial number of the juror who believed Lindsay Clancy when she said she killed her children. The outlet is owned and operated by NBC. Station personnel have no legal right to know his name and in fact, may have violated the law in obtaining the name.

Nevertheless, NBC10 is airing a string of stories about his divorce and his financial woes in an effort to discredit him.

The station is going after the juror because his refusal to go-along-to-get-along and acquit her is unpopular among the liberals who dominate the area. The station’s management is using the juror to attract viewers and advertisers to the station’s broadcasts.

NBC10 is usually last in the ratings among the five English-language local newsrooms behind WCVB (ABC), WHDH (independent), WBZ (CBS) and WFXT (Fox) in that order—and has been fifth in this five-channel race since 2017.

Oh, I am sure the reporters going after the man believe they are heroes in their crusade to expose a private citizen who did his duty and served on a jury. Wait, since 9/11, journalists no longer call themselves crusading journalists. They say investigative reporters instead.

Besides, exposing the hero’s record just may be the ticket out of Beantown to network stardom.

"But the station is undermining the integrity of the judiciary. Far from being helpful, in Boston, NBC10’s freedom of the press is doing serious damage to our country

"NBC10 should not know the juror’s name because the judge impounded the list of the names of jurors. His fellow jurors likely ratted him out. The station justifies its use of his name and its unethical attacks on his reputation by saying, well, at least we’re not disclosing his name.

"But we are hearing only one side of the story." . . . More.

"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said, “A man objected to allowing a woman to kill her three young kids and get away with it, so NBC is trying to smear that juror, whose identity should be protected. Another low for legacy media."

We must recall that NBC was once the famous MSNBC; now MSNOW. TD 

Lawlessness Is a Choice

 Miranda Devine - Imprimis -Oct 2025

"The intense blowback against Trump’s efforts to restore law and order rams home the point that it is a deliberate choice by progressives to preserve lawlessness in their cities. When you think about it, the strategy seems to have paid off, if all you care about is power, since progressives have a generational stranglehold on the cities with the worst crime."

"While being interviewed on a recent podcast, Texas Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett decided to opine on crime, a topic on which she apparently considers herself to be an expert. Her nutty conclusion was this: “Just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal.”

"I can see how this logic would have a wide range of uses for politicians: “Just because someone told a lie, it doesn’t make them a liar”; “Just because someone took a bribe, it doesn’t make them corrupt.” It’s a bit like the thought experiment: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” If a crime is committed and no one is responsible, was there actually a crime at all?

"Of course, it’s nonsense. A criminal is defined precisely as a person who has committed a crime. But when Crockett chooses her own definitions, she is simply echoing a progressive shibboleth that has turned blue cities across the country into lawless hellholes. It holds that people who commit crimes have no agency—that they are helpless victims of circumstance. Therefore, any attempt to hold them accountable by arresting them or putting them in jail is unjust—it further victimizes them.

""The obvious result of this logic is that criminals are emboldened and their real victims become helpless hostages to lawlessness.

"It is a short step from Crockett’s logic to the justification of defunding the police as a way to “make communities safer.” That communities become safer by having fewer police is, of course, a lie, but defunding police is what progressives have been doing since the anti-cop, BLM-Antifa riots of the “Summer of Love” in 2020.

"As a former police reporter, I’ve seen how soft-on-crime policies hurt the very people progressives pretend to care about. It’s precisely the most vulnerable in our big cities who need the most policing and have the least resources to protect themselves from mayhem.

"Living in New York City off and on over the past three decades, including in the pre-Mayor Rudy Giuliani era when it was a dystopian hellscape of crime and no-go zones, it’s striking how quickly soft-on-crime policies at the state and local level destroy your day-to-day sense of safety. Progressive criminal justice “reforms,” such as defunding the police, ending cash bail, refusing to prosecute misdemeanors, letting thousands of convicted felons out of prison early, and slashing the prison population, are the most obvious contributors to the escalating violent crime problem in blue cities.

"In 2014, Bill de Blasio was elected Mayor of what he boasted was “the safest big city in America.” He championed all sorts of progressive policies, from bail reform to decriminalizing offenses such as public urination and marijuana possession—and eventually the New York City Council defunded the NYPD to the tune of $1 billion.

"As predicted by everybody with any understanding of human nature, it did not take long for the city to become scary." . . . More...

Clarence Thomas Played the Long Game. He Won.

  PJ Media  

"In a nation short on exemplary role models, Thomas fills the void. He would never dream of saying so himself, but Thomas is an American hero and the nation's most inspiring man."

"In a nation short on exemplary role models, Thomas fills the void. 

He would never dream of saying so himself, but Thomas is an

 American hero and the nation's most inspiring man."

"An important new book by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Going Further, calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

"For many years after Thomas arrived on the court in the early 1990s, his conservative, originalist views were relegated to dissenting opinions. Three and a half decades later, Thomas, now the second-longest-serving justice in the court's history, regularly finds himself in the majority.

"Thomas, in short, has won the long game. But how?

"Thirty-five years ago, mainstream legal training and judicial practice suggested the proper way to interpret a legal document is to probe for nebulous concepts such as legislative history and legislative intent. It's now hard to believe, but the commonsense notion that one should begin the interpretive exercise with a document's text and plain meaning was pretty much unheard of.

"Thomas, along with his then-colleagues Justice Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice William Rehnquist, galvanized an intellectual revolution in American legal and judicial practice. Today, law schools instruct students to begin the interpretive exercise with the text. In fact, this is hardly controversial. As the liberal Justice Elena Kagan put it in a 2015 Harvard Law School lecture, "We're all textualists now."

"A big part of the reason for this success is simple: sheer persuasiveness. The straightforward nature of the originalist and textualist position quickly found mass appeal, putting defenders of legislative history or "living constitutionalism" on their back feet. They haven't been able to keep up.

"In the area of legal interpretation, liberals have lost the public argument — badly. In recent years, we've seen this manifest in conservative victories at the high court on religious liberty, abortion, gun rights, affirmative action and the administrative state.

"There is an underappreciated additional ingredient in Thomas' winning formula: his kindness, affability and genuine human decency." . . . More...

By Contrast:  Ketanji Brown Jackson Wrote 23 Pages of Pure Rage After the Supreme Court Handed Donald Trump a Massive Win on Mail Ballots

. . . "Jackson called it "a serious legal error" and accused her colleagues of a "Catch-Me-If-You-Can approach" that left states unable to challenge the order either too early or too late.

"She wrote that the court "needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections."

"Twenty-three pages of this.

"She complained the majority showed a "lack of situational awareness" and called its decision a "grave misuse of our equitable emergency powers."

"Here's what she didn't write: one sentence explaining why noncitizens or ineligible voters should be able to cast mail ballots that cancel out yours.

"This isn't new behavior from Jackson.

"Since Trump returned to the White House she has filed solo dissents on voting rights, federal layoffs, and birthright citizenship cases." . . . More.

Supreme Court Upholds Trump Mail-In-Vote Restrictions UPDATED

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Here’s what the Supreme Court’s order means for mail-in voting this year – Deseret News 

  "Democratic governors shared their anger online after the court’s order, with California’s Gavin Newsom vowing to sue again and keep pursuing the issue. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro posted that the decision does not deal with the substance of Trump’s order and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said despite the court’s decision, Trump doesn’t get to rewrite election law."

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to move forward with order imposing restrictions on mail-in voting | SCOTUSblog   . . . "President Donald Trump signed the executive order at the center of the dispute in March. As it came to the court in late July, the focus of the case was on three different provisions of the order. The first instructs the Department of Homeland Security to create lists of the adult U.S. citizens in each state and to send those lists to states at least 60 days before a federal election. The second provision commands the U.S. attorney general to “prioritize the investigation and, as appropriate, the prosecution of State and local officials … who issue Federal ballots to individuals not eligible to vote in a Federal election.” And the third provision requires states to give the U.S. Postal Service a list of voters to whom the states intend to send mail ballots, and it prohibits the USPS from mailing ballots to voters who are not on the lists of “enrolled” voters that the USPS will create.

"A group of 23 states, led by California, and the District of Columbia challenged the government’s implementation of the order in a federal court in Massachusetts. They argued that the executive order conflicts with provisions in the Constitution that give states the power to determine voter eligibility and to set the “Times, Places, and Manner” of holding congressional elections." . . .

UPDATE: Will Supreme Court Ruling Make It Harder for Noncitizens to Vote?

. . . "However, in a separate case, the same judge who previously imposed an injunction on the order in a case brought by 23 states, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts, imposed a separate injunction on the USPS rule in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other liberal organizations.

"That judgment is likely a formality, Palmer said, since the Justice Department filed a motion with Talwani to drop the injunction in light of the high court ruling, or the ruling will be appealed.

"Though it was a decision on standing rather than the merits of the executive order, that is still significant in curbing what plaintiffs can do, and what national policy district court judges can block, said election lawyer Cleta Mitchell, chairman of the Election Integrity Network at the Conservative Partnership Institute.

“'I obviously wish the Supreme Court had stepped up and stopped the challenge in its tracks,” Mitchell told the Daily Signal. “It may have been necessary to rule on standing to get the votes. At some point, the Supreme Court should step in with the tyrants in black robes and let them know they are not the president, they are not the legislature, and they are not the state election board.”

El-Sayed: KISS And Tell

"Having suffered the lash of Islam in Iran, Amirizadeh undoubtedly harbors deep concerns over a candidate who openly admits everything he does in life is to honor Islam."

James Zumwalt - American Thinker     "Last week was interesting for anyone concerned about Islam’s growing influence in America.

"Recently revealed were the 2009 remarks made by Michigan US Senate nominee, Democrat and avowed Muslim, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.  He reportedly shared that, while in medical school, he chose to obtain a loan that was compliant with Islamic law—Sharia. In fact, he proclaimed that, as a Muslim, he would always follow Sharia in “everything” he ever sought to do.

"Some may dismiss these remarks, made 17 years ago, as those of a man simply dedicated deeply to his religion—one he embraces totally separate from his political views and life in general. However, such a dismissal would be a big mistake for Michigan voters in the upcoming election.

"While U.S. legislators embracing Christianity and most other religions do leave their religion at the door to represent their constituency on matters concerning their well-being, Muslims dedicated to their “religion” do not—and cannot. There is no issue amongst non-Muslim legislators complying with the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment mandate prohibiting the establishment of a national religion and protecting the free exercise of religion; but for Muslim legislators, there is.

"The above mandate gives rise to the philosophical and jurisprudential concept that there can be no state-mandated religion—i.e., “separation of church and state.” But, what if such separation is impossible because one has declared his total commitment to a religion that disallows such a separation?" . . .    

. . . "For the record, El-Sayed could well give false testimony in response. Such is permissible under Islam. While honesty is supposedly honored, three situations allow Muslims to lie. These include lying to resolve a situation between two individuals, to a spouse in order to please her, and to be deceptive about an ongoing war. Clearly, as Islam’s ultimate goal is the submission of all religions to it, such a war between Islam and all other religions is in progress" . . .

Abdul El-Sayed’s mom worked for 'global terrorist' group accused of funding bin Laden, Hamas and Taliban: report

 

Anthony Fauci’s Fifth Amendment Strategy May Not End the Investigation |

 Miranda Devine: Anthony Fauci was the ‘big head’ of COVID response

"As the global death toll mounted, Fauci’s diary shows he was increasingly preoccupied with his rising media profile and reveling in the admiration, especially the praise from celebrities, all of which he meticulously ­recorded."

Cartoon - American Thinker Fauci emerges from the diary entries as a frivolous narcissist, possibly corrupt and
 a really bad speller (for example, “dyswaded” for dissuaded).

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"And remember, that pardon only covers Fauci’s conduct through last January. Once he’s forced to testify … anything he says is fair game for examination as perjury."

. . . "Litigating the order to compel Fauci’s testimony and force him to stop invoking the Fifth Amendment gets interesting right away. The Fifth only holds as a protection against the committee’s subpoena where Fauci has a reasonable fear of prosecution. If Biden’s pardon is worth the paper it’s printed on, then there is no self-incrimination argument and Fauci has to testify.

"What would be highly interesting is if Fauci’s lawyers were to argue that Biden’s pardon of their client is problematic based on the fact it was an autopen pardon from a non compos mentis president — my characterization, obviously, but theirs would have to read somewhat similarly. That would be their most direct defense of his Fifth Amendment privilege, but it would also be politically devastating for the Democrats, and at that point it would start to be interesting to see who might turn on him. I am not suggesting they would do this, but it’s conceivable — especially if Camp Fauci thinks that his contradictory statements put him at a greater disadvantage than does his underlying conduct.

"Either way, in this scenario, you get a ruling from the judge, and the wheels begin to turn. Clearly, Fauci’s Fifth Amendment invocation isn’t appropriate when Sen. Josh Hawley asks what color his tie is, so there is almost certainly going to be a ruling compelling some testimony not covered by Fifth Amendment privilege." . . . More...

Omertà - Don Surber  

. . . "So the rule of law is Democrat presidents can go after political enemies, while protecting lawbreaking Cabinet officials from facing justice. Republican presidents face dealing with passive-aggressive Republican Congresses whose members would rather be in the minority than actually do the work of a majority Congress.

Which leads to Wednesday’s Senate committee hearing—chaired by Senator Rand Paul—into the trillion-dollar covid catastrophe caused by Tony Fauci, whom Reagan brought to Washington to find a cure for AIDS. Over the course of 40 years, Fauci built a bureaucratic empire and ingratiated himself among the politicians, celebrities and press gaggles of DC. Barbra Streisand had him on speed dial.

(People. People who need fascists are the ugliest people in the world.)

Fauci never did find that cure—despite torturing beagles such s having Tunisian sandflies bite them and cutting off their vocal cords, a debarking, a cordectomy. But he retired to a pension larger than a presidential salary and pocketed all sorts of deals including a $5 million book advance for a book that sold less than 100,000 copies.

"Rand Paul is no dummy. He knew that Fauci is a liar who would never talk under oath even with the prosecutorial immunity of a presidential pardon—regardless of who actually signed it."

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Game Over: Boy Trying to Play on Girls' Soccer Team Quits After Female Players Stand Their Ground

 Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

"Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., holding that states may reserve girls' and women's sports teams for biological females without violating Title IX or the Constitution, New Hampshire parents of transgender teenagers have dropped their lawsuits to allow their sons to play on the women's sports teams. One of the confused youth chose to stop playing on his soccer team because it was no longer fun. As our sister site Twitchy said, "That's as good as self-deporting."

Exactly.

Two transgender girls who were the first to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” have withdrawn their lawsuit in New Hampshire based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld state bans on transgender athletes in girls’ sports and their own personal hardships, their lawyer said.

“This case was always about two courageous young girls who simply wanted the same opportunities as their peers to participate in school life,” their lawyer, Chris Erchull of GLAD Law, said in a statement Thursday. “Their willingness to stand up to extraordinary hostility made clear the human cost of laws that target transgender youth.”

"This GLAD Law attorney has it twisted. It was the girls on the sports teams that were targeted, which is why President Trump signed the executive order and the New Hampshire legislature codified it into law.

The teenagers, Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle, took on Trump’s executive order last year, amending their 2024 complaint against New Hampshire’s law on banning transgender girls from school sports. A federal judge had granted a court order allowing them to play as the case proceeded.

For Tirrell, it meant being able to keep playing on her high school girls’ soccer team. For Turmelle, it was having a chance to try out for different sports.

"'Iris" Turmelle's case was unofficially DOA when his family moved out of state so that he could cosplay in a state that doesn't put any restrictions on what some would describe as a mental illness. Parker Tirrell is the boy who left his soccer team over the lack of joy. New Hampshire's version of NPR interviewed Sara Tirrell, Parker's mother, about it." . . . More...

Jennifer Oliver O'Connell (As the Girl Turns) is a contributor at Redstate and other publications. Jennifer writes on Politics, Pop Culture, and the American story, with occasional detours into Reinvention, Yoga, and Food. You can read more about Jennifer's world at her As the Girl Turns website.