Jesus and Muhammad, Islam and Christianity: A Side-by-Side Comparison
Islam's Protestant Reformation
I'm a Christian and I Love the Quran'
The Prophet Who Stole Christmas: Why the Jesus of the Quran is Not the Jesus of the Bible
The Muslim Jesus
Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?
Islam's Hatred for the Christian Cross
Going to Mosque vs. Going to Church
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"California Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed that he did not want to bulldoze the remains of burned-down Palisades houses and replace them with low-income housing. But that is apparently exactly what he’s doing now, with the help of the California legislature—and Donald Trump’s special missions envoy is furious.
"Richard Grenell accused Newsom of lying about his fire recovery goals. Newsom had scoffed, “The claim that the Governor wants to bulldoze fire victims’ neighborhoods and replace them with ‘affordable housing’ is absurd.” But he just announced over $100 million for building low-income housing in the area of the Palisades and other burned areas, as a bill moves through the California legislature to allow such housing to be built on burned-down lots. The bill, which passed the state Senate on Wednesday, would change the law to support the governor’s shameful land grab. Trust Democrats to gang up on their citizens.
"Trump administration special envoy Richard Grenell wrote on X, “@GavinNewsom lied. He said he wouldn’t grab the land where homes burned down in the Palisades to build low-income housing facilities - but he and Karen Bass just did. They are changing the character of the Palisades and Malibu to fit their woke agenda. They don’t care what residents want. They can’t even deliver building permits properly. But this fight is not over.”
"Grenell and Newsom have been at odds for a while, after Grenell advised the president not to send billions of taxpayer dollars for California fire recovery until the Democrats there agreed to reform their fire and water management system, which prioritizes woke climate dogma and thus wastes water, leaving areas vulnerable to dangerous fires. Newsom responded by griping about Grenell’s “audacity.” . . .
"In California…Richard Grenell: We live on the ocean but our Governor can’t figure out how to get more water - so he spends millions of tax dollars telling people to not water their lawns and to take faster showers. We have 33 million acres of forest land but our Governor can’t figure out how to properly remove dead trees. When you combine Gavin’s water and forest incompetence- you get deadly fires. The Sacramento Democrats still haven’t filled up the water reserves or cleaned up the brush. They are still killing desalination plants and commonsense forest management. The fires will happen again. I’ve told DJT we shouldn’t spend federal money on California if the problems aren’t fixed first. Meanwhile, Gavin is launching his 5th version of a podcast trying to re-brand himself to run for President. He isn’t interested in fixing the problems. I pray the Democrats nominate him. He’s a total and complete fraud - and the swing states will see it instantly."
"The woke Left leads the charge to destroy civil society,” A.J. Rice wrote in American Greatness. “They believe they’re above and beyond any criticism, and have the right to attack you for questioning them.” Whatever you say that is critical of leftist ideology is called hate speech" . . .
"The Democrat Party has embraced violence as its modus operandi. The party has sent a message to its adherents that anything goes in the pursuit of power—from weaponizing the FBI and IRS against political opponents, to rigging elections, to the use of violence. Democrats will not hesitate to deprive you of your basic rights if it suits their purpose. If that entails violent behavior aimed at you, too bad.
"A classic example of Democratic Party-supported violence is occurring as mobs attempt to intimidate conservative Supreme Court justices by protesting in front of their homes. Although this is expressly prohibited by federal law, you won’t see the Democrat-controlled Justice Department taking action against the protestors. Breaking the law has become acceptable.
"To mask its love of violence, the Democratic Party has used groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter as surrogates. Mark Levin calls Antifa “the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party.” They show up everywhere with the intention of shutting down free speech. We don’t hear much about it because the mainstream media is the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party. Hitler used similar tactics in the 1930s. Hitler’s thugs targeted communists and Jews; Antifa vilifies conservatives and Trump supporters. Our liberal mobs believe their mission is to physically assault anyone who happens to be conservative. They feel justified in doing all the things that the Nazi Party did in Germany.
"Antifa is the contemporary version of Hitler’s Brownshirts, whose objective, says Dinesh D’Souza, is to “beat people into obeisance.” With the support of Democrat mayors and governors, violent Antifa mobs have trashed our cities, assaulted Trump supporters, and provided justification for more government control over the individual. What has the DOJ done to stop it? Nothing.
"Black Lives Matter is another ally of the Democrats. BLM is a criminal enterprise using race as an excuse for the violent overthrow of the civil society. Based on the false narrative that cops are killing blacks, BLM places the blame for all the ills of black America on the shoulders of a so-called tradition of white racism. Racism justifies everything, they insist, including the use of violence.
" 'BLM believes in force,” says Fox’s Tucker Carlson. “They flood the streets with angry young people who break things and hurt anyone who gets in the way. Until violence stops working, violence will continue.” A BLM spokesman said, “If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.' ” . . . More
Ed Brodow, is a conservative political commentator and author of THE WAR ON WHITES: How Hating White People Became the New National Sport.
Explosion at LA County sheriff training facility leaves several people dead
"It wasn’t immediately clear how many were injured, or if anyone else was killed. Authorities have not said what caused the blast, but law enforcement sources told the LA Times that a bomb squad had been moving explosives around that time."
Phyllis Chesler, Substack "I do not enjoy responding instantly, immediately, to every bit of breaking news, braying about the most immediate, the very latest item to cross my screen. But there are patterns. I cannot help but see them.
"Thus, sometimes, a consistent, even normalized, outrage calls out to me, demanding a response. So here I go, about to repeat myself; I've been doing so for the last 25 years.
"Take today's New York Times. It's my hometown newspaper, and I read it every single day, pay for it too. Invariably, on their front page, there is a four-column photo of Palestinian suffering--and there it is, yet again, today. It is not enough. On page 8A, there is an almost full-page story titled "Gazans Face Lethal Risk Getting Food From New Aid Hubs." That's just in case the photo is not enough.
"Anti-semitism is also discussed at the bottom of the front page, one that sympathetically features New York City's anti-Zionist, pro-Palestine, pro-Globalize the Intifada candidate, Zohran Mamdani. This piece continues for a full page on A19--actually, it is two stories, one about Mamdani and the inevitable rift between Jews over his candidacy and another one titled "Young Muslims Got Behind Mamdani, and Their Parents Listened."
"This is still not enough for the Gray Lady. On pages A22 and A 23, there are two opinion pieces, one full-page opinion piece by M. Gessen titled "The Story of Antisemitism Needs to Be Rewritten," and one by David Brooks titled "Netanyahu Was Right on Some Things." Even as Brooks spells it out, he feels he must make sure that you know that he "detest(s) Bibi and Trump...but it would be a catastrophe...if we have to be against everything they are for." I guess Brooks is taking no chances in terms of endangering his bully pulpit.
"And M. Gessen? She/he/they first focuses on how Mamdani, who is a Shia Muslim, has been suffering in a world of Islamophobes, how he has been falsely attacked as an Islamist "fundamentalist." She/he/they then goes on to admit that antisemitism does exist--however she may define it--but nowhere does she mention the Red-Green Alliance, nowhere does she write a single word about how Islam has historically and theologically persecuted, exiled, and murdered infidels, including Jews, in Muslim countries and that, even more importantly, Muslim countries such as Iran and Qatar have donated many billions of dollars over a sixty-year period to brainwash Americans in the media, on campuses, at the United Nations, and to support terrorism against America, against Israel, against their own dissidents, and especially among their own women.
"Where Gessen can, she focuses the reader's attention on alleged Israeli racism, colonialism, and apartheid--but says nothing about Islam's long and still ongoing history of colonialism, imperialism, conversion via the sword, its practice of slavery--and its repeated and ongoing genocides of all infidels, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Baháʼí, Armenian Christians.
"You can't call any of this fair and balanced--no, it is not at all, nor objective, not even "proportionate" in terms of its coverage of this particular burning issue.
"The pro-Mamdani, mis-definitions of antisemitism, and the outright anti-Zionist articles all add up to 9,258 words in this single edition. My God! Compare that to the coverage of Ukraine in their pages, which today constitutes only 2,517 words.
"From this single edition, which is not at all unique, one might conclude that the NYT is endorsing Curtis Sliwa for Mayor--or is it Mayor Adams?" . . .
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(To my mind, “revitalization” should include hiring and stationing more police in the area.)
‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral? "Like the once proud industrial factories of the midwest, the dream factories of southern California are in decline. Last year was the worst for on-location filming in Los Angeles since tracking began 30 years ago apart from pandemic-hit 2020. Of all the TV shows and feature films that North American audiences watch, only one-fifth are now made in California.
"This is because Hollywood is facing intense competition for film production from domestic rivals such as Atlanta and New York, and international challengers such as Australia, Britain and Canada, all offering more aggressive financial incentives. California’s politicians stand accused of resting on their laurels too long." . . .
Spencer Pratt perceived SB 549 as a proposal that would be typical of the political left, to take advantage of a disaster and turn it to suit their own agenda. He spoke out on the matter. In return, the Governor of the State of California used his official Press Office to try to browbeat a citizen into shutting up.
"Prof. Russell Rickford, who teaches history at Cornell, described the Hamas attack as “energizing” and “exhilarating,” and called it a “symbol of resistance.” He later defended his comments, saying he was referring to Hamas’s breaking through a “wall of apartheid” — whatever that means. Five days after the attack, student groups at Cornell justified it and blamed Israel for it. Similar displays of anti-Israel sentiment and blatant antisemitism appeared on other campuses as well. Jewish students and professors reported feeling unsafe, facing hate speech and unprovoked heckling.
"An April report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) revealed 1,694 antisemitic incidents in 2024, marking an 84% increase from 2023." . . .
Mein Kampf 100th Anniversary: Has the World Learned Anything?
Keep all this in mind when laughing at memes mocking intelligence-challenged politicians such as New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett, or New York’s Communist-Democrat mayoral candidate Zohan Mamdani. One of them might soon be writing a book called “My Struggle.”
"Sales of the two volumes continued to be slow as many Germans viewed Hitler as more of a comic (funny moustache, short, feminine speaking mannerisms, etc.). At first, they didn’t take him or his left-wing National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) seriously. In “Hitler Was Incompetent and Lazy—and His Nazi Government Was an Absolute Clown Show,” Tom Phillips writes about how many viewed Hitler as a fool:
In fact, this may even have helped his rise to power, as he was consistently underestimated by the German elite. Before he became Chancellor, many of his opponents had dismissed him as a joke for his crude speeches and tacky rallies. Even after elections had made the Nazis the largest party in the Reichstag, people still kept thinking that Hitler was an easy mark, a blustering idiot who could easily be controlled by smart people.
In Hitlerland, Andrew Nagorski discusses the American media’s early impressions of Hitler and the Third Reich:
Yet you had Americans meeting Hitler and saying, ‘This guy is a clown. He’s like a caricature of himself.’ . . .
"Reid would later slam Morgan for ambushing her in the interview and suggesting he was race-baiting for his “very white audience.” Pot, meet kettle."
"Piers Morgan and former MSNBC personality Joy Reid got into a tense exchange when the former accused her of playing "the race card" and pointed out she was likely fired from her job for being boring.
"And, as evidence that we are living in Bizarro World right now, Reid fired back by claiming any suggestion that she is a race-baiter is, in itself, race-baiting.
"The heated back-and-forth kicked off when Morgan played recent clips of Reid saying she got canned by MSNBC for saying Americans care more about the plight of Ukrainians than Palestinians because of their skin color, and later claiming President Trump doesn't like her because she's a black woman.
" 'Joy, I mean, let’s be honest. I don’t think you were fired after all those years because of your skin color or because you’re a black woman. I think you were fired because your show just got increasingly unpopular," Morgan said. "Why play the race card?"
" 'I love the fact that your ‘play the race card’ is your version of the race card. You literally are so fixated on trying to racialize conversations with me, Piers, I find it actually quite charming ..." Reid fired back.
"Morgan interjected, "You racialized more conversations in your tenure at MSNBC than any host in history."
"The fireworks were something to behold.". . .
Reid, of course, was unceremoniously fired by MSNBC back in February when, to Piers' point, the recent election results made it clear that people were tired of the race-baiting and false accusations that every time a liberal is criticized, it's because the critic is racist.
Reid's show, “The ReidOut," had been a staple of insanity on the network for five years, which worked well in the era of Biden's presidency, but wasn't going to translate once the adults were back in the room.
. . ."But how did these "major news sources" perform in questioning authority in the Biden administration? Look no further than their propagandistic coverage of Biden's mental state."
"When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich can muster equal enthusiasm for radical leftist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and for PBS, that might help people locate precisely where PBS is on the political spectrum.
"In a new video, Reich began by posing with an Elmo puppet. Doesn't every leftist begin their PBS argument with Elmo? Supposedly, President Donald Trump opposes "Sesame Street" because they once made a puppet called "Donald Grump." I'm sure he loved that parody when it happened ... 20 years ago.
"Reich asked: "Why is Trump so hell-bent on defunding PBS? It's part of a larger plan — one where he can control not just what we do, but what we think." It's a conspiracy theory: "Trump is waging a war on the American mind!"
"Once again, Trump is painted as a dictator. Reich claimed: "Throughout history, tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public. Slaveholders prohibited enslaved people from learning how to read. The Third Reich burned books. The Khmer Rouge banned music. Stalin and Pinochet censored the media."
" 'Fact-checkers" could ask: How is Trump just like slaveholders, Hitler, Stalin, Pinochet and the Khmer Rouge? Where has Trump prevented people from reading, burned books, banned music or censored the media? And how is taking taxpayer subsidies away from PBS anything like book banning or reading prevention?
"The Left always associates itself with education. Reich said Trump believes, as they say in Orwell's novel "1984," that "ignorance is strength." Reich claimed Trump favors teaching children "our country has never been wrong." That's what they claimed about the Florida education standards under Gov. Ron DeSantis.
"Leftists are firmly in control of universities and suppress all dissent. But Reich pretended the opposite: "As a professor, I know firsthand how education empowers young people's minds. We can't have a functioning democracy if people cannot deliberate critically about it. That's why authoritarians replace education with indoctrination. Instead of teaching students to think for themselves, authoritarians seek to instill blind allegiance and to suppress dissent.' " . . .
"Another referred to Obama as “very scoldy these days,” which she claims does not go over well with the voter base anymore. Yet another anchor on the program was interested in “who [Obama] is holding up, and who he’s not mentioning.'”
"It is no secret that since the 2024 election, the Left has been struggling to maintain a unified front. While some of the party is digging its heels into radical agendas and ideologies, others are trying to move on from the loss by changing their views or leaving the party altogether.
Obama’s Advice to a Failing Party
"Obama’s speech focused on how to elevate the Democrat Party going forward, according to reports of the speech gathered by CNN.
“ 'I think [success] is going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions,” said Obama, who has not been publicly involved in fundraising since the previous election cycle. “And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up.”
"It is unclear whether Obama was criticizing the extreme progressives or the aspiring moderates in his party. Either way, the former president implored his base to stop “looking for a quick fix” and “waiting for the messiah”; instead, posited Obama, Democrats must focus on the candidates up for election this year. He praised Democrat nominees for governor in Virginia and New Jersey who will be up for election this November, calling them “great candidates.”
"In preparation for the next election cycle, Obama suggests the “DNC [get] what it needs to compete in what will be a more data-driven, more social media-driven cycle, which will cost some money and expertise and time.”
"Democrats trying to walk back progressive viewpoints seem to fit the bill for success described by Obama: They try to discern what Americans want via data in hopes to become relevant again. However, Obama notably refused to condemn the most radical candidates in his party, such as Zohran Mamdani.
“ 'There’s been… some argument between the left of the party and people who are promoting the quote-unquote abundance agenda,” said Obama. He argued that these positions are not contradictory to one another; rather, Democrats have just “got to figure out how to do it.” Presumably, “doing it” means uniting as a party.
Democrats Bristle at Obama’s Non-Advice
"Though Obama used swaths of motivational language, according to the CNN report, his vague encouragement and simultaneous chastisement did not sit well with Democrats, who have been dissatisfied with the politician for some time now.
"During an interview with David Axelrod, Obama’s former senior advisor, CNN anchors questioned and ridiculed Obama’s decision to advise his fellow Democrats as though he himself held all the answers to their problems." . . .
"Four hours of gaslighting and cursing.
"I've watched most of Newsom's latest venture in podcast politics in a four-hour-long Shawn Ryan Show interview. It was a curse-word-filled apologia of his time as governor and how everything is great in LaLa Land.
"Here are some highlights.
"Gavin Newsom is in favor of gun control, but he's not. He presided over and encouraged the dumbest decriminalization of felonies, prompting massive theft rings to prey upon shop owners, causing a mass exodus of people and retail outlets, but California is one of the toughest on crime. He's not running for president, but he is.
https://x.com/i/status/1944895145062650138
"He got bamboozled by the Trump administration on COVID, but his state lost BILLIONS in fraud. He got scammed, but he's a smart businessman. His state spent billions to solve homelessness, but billions are missing, and homelessness went up. Tech entrepreneurs and major companies left California, but they're coming back because of how well he's running the state. His regressive energy policies gave California more energy than ever!
"There was little to no pushback, nor was there a scintilla of fact-checking, as Newsom held court for the four-hour show, offering up spin, distraction, and deflection against an unarmed host. In a way, Ryan did us all a favor by peacing out of his own interview by giving Newsom enough rope to hang himself so that we could get these gems.
"Shawn Ryan gave Newsom a gift of a "California-compliant SIG Sauer P365 X-Macro pistol," which Newsom enthused over, "Oh, wow. By the way, man, this is too cool, the fact you would give me this… The last thing people would expect is that I respect this gift.”
Gavin Newsom attempting to answer a simple yes/no question. pic.twitter.com/wLBlhTBe9n
"Instead, the decision was to give it to the same folks who bring you the DMV and Caltrans road construction schedules.
"The result?
The project has produced fewer deliverables than an intern with no login credentials. (Shocked face.)
"And the price tag keeps climbing. Inflation. Material costs. “Unexpected” underground conditions. Litigation delays. You name it, the excuses are printed, bound, and preloaded into press briefings.
"There’s nothing green about wasting billions. There’s nothing sustainable about a project that can’t even sustain momentum."
Yet Californians, when given the chance to remove this man by popular vote, chose to keep him. He must have told his people that he alone gave them that beautiful coast and the coastal people believed His Loveliness.
Language:
"In her fascinating insider’s account, Salena Zito talks about still much more: the Milwaukee convention, Thomas Matthew Crooks and his family, Corey Comperatore and his family, and, yes, the epic failure of the Secret Service to protect Donald Trump."
. . ."Scalia, in 2007, said: "Over the past 40 or 50 years, the philosophy of a living, or evolving, Constitution has become popular. It is enormously seductive. You think everything you care about passionately is there in the Constitution. Everything comes out the way you want it to. ... (The Constitution) is not an empty bottle to be filled up by each generation.
"How can you tell if the newest Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an "activist" judge? She admits it. Worse, she appears to think it is her job, if not her duty, to engage in (left-wing) judicial activism.
"In an interview with CBS News, Jackson explained what she hopes to accomplish in her many dissents. "I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues," she said, "and that's what I try to do." She added, "And I'm not afraid to use my voice." This sounds like a podcaster rather than a judge.
"You might be forgiven for thinking judges are supposed to interpret the law as intended by the legislature and apply the law to resolve disputes before the court.
"Chief Justice John Roberts, for example, compares the role of a justice to that of an umpire whose job is to call balls and strikes. "Judges," Roberts said, "are like umpires. They don't make the rules, they apply them." As to judges deciding cases based on policy or on "how (they) feel about the issues," on their weighing in on policy, Roberts said, "I don't think you want judges deciding cases based on what is good policy ... there are legal questions here."
"Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in her majority decision that reined in the power of district courts to impose nationwide injunctions, scolded Jackson for departing from this conventional view of the role of a judge. Barrett wrote, "We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."
"Jackson's judicial philosophy mirrors that of then-Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall who described his judicial philosophy as follows, "You have to do what's right and let the law catch up." . . .