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Today is the two-year anniversary of the October 7, 2023 slaughter of Israeli innocents which brought on the current war over the Gaza Strip that President Trump is earnestly attempting to end through negotiation, as opposed to his Israeli counterpart Bibi Netanyahu’s attempts to end it by flattening every building left standing in Gaza City in an effort to annihilate what Hamas fighters remain there and to finally rescue what hostages remain. (RELATED: Two Years Later, ‘Much of the World No Longer Remembers Oct. 7’) And while Trump waits on Hamas to accept the very generous offer that has been put on the table — which allows them to lay down their weapons and walk away from the atrocities they’ve committed, and the only real cost to peace for them is that they won’t be allowed to govern Gaza anymore — the Islamist terror army’s sycophants here in the U.S. have this planned… Are you ready for the anniversary of 10/7 in America? The Jihadists are celebrating Hamas by “protesting” at Israeli consulates. pic.twitter.com/Yg1WZRQ0f8 — Angela Van Der Pluym (@anjewla90) October 5, 2025 It seems impossible that on the two-year anniversary of the outright murder of more than 1,000 noncombatants — women and children in huge numbers, including hundreds of kids at a music festival — there would be Americans (and others living in America) who would see it as appropriate to agitate on Hamas’s behalf. (RELATED: Israel Faces Increasing International Isolation Amid European Delusion) This is literally a celebration of bloody murder at a time when peace is on the table. This is literally a celebration of bloody murder at a time when peace is on the table. You would think such an affront would be beyond the pale if for no reason other than the optics of demonstrating at Israeli consulates on that country’s 9/11 are so toxic. And you’d be wrong. You’d be wrong because you have a hard time believing that people you share oxygen with could be so utterly divorced from your concept of propriety or even basic wisdom. Even if you think it’s cool to stick it to the Jews whenever you can, after all, you’d think October 7 is a good day to lay low. If for no other reason than that this is a good way to get beaten to a pulp — at least, if these people you hate so much really are the monsters you say they are. They aren’t, of course, and the likelihood these provocations won’t be answered by counterprotesters pouring onto the streets for a good dust-up is therefore very low. Which should tell you a lot about who the good guys are. The people who aren’t the good guys in our current human formula seem to have something in common. You see it absolutely everywhere you look, and the pro-Hamas crowd both here and along the shores of the eastern Med are exceptionally good examples of it. Victimhood culture. They’re all begging to achieve victimhood status and the utter lack of accountability that confers. The pro-Hamas crowd is distinguishable from Antifa, for example, only by the flags they bring to their “mostly peaceful” protests. Otherwise, they’re indistinguishable. The tactics are based on the old concept of “non-violent resistance,” the Civil Rights movement adopted from followers of Gandhi in India during the movement for independence, but they’re a perversion of those methods. The Antifa/Hamas/anti-ICE protesters aren’t non-violent. They’re there to provoke violence. (RELATED: America’s New Theology of Violence) Spit on an ICE agent, as one Antifa protester was on video doing over the weekend, and get roughly arrested, and now you’re a victim of ICE brutality. It doesn’t matter that you’ve done everything you could to provoke a bad optics reaction from those you’re spitting on. These people fetishize victimhood. They run from a fair fight. There is no honor in anything they do — in fact, they assail the concept of honor as a tool and relic of the patriarchy. And this isn’t the sole province of the demonstrators. It moves well up the chain. Consider this man, Jay Jones, who is running under the banner of a certain political party, which has entrenched victimhood status as its version of nirvana for attorney general in Virginia. In 2022, as a state legislator, Jones committed one of the most egregious offenses against decency imaginable when, as David Catron noted on Monday… For anyone unfamiliar with this creepy story, which was first reported by National Review, it involves a series of deranged texts sent by Jones to a Republican lawmaker in August of 2022. He was somehow triggered by kind words spoken about a recently deceased Democrat colleague by Republican Todd Gilbert, then-Speaker of Virginia’s House of Delegates, and other Republicans. Jones’ perverse reaction was to send a barrage of increasingly alarming texts to Republican Delegate Carrie Coyner in which he speculates about assassinating Gilbert and goes on to fantasize about desecrating his grave. Jones reportedly continued the crazy by calling Coyner to explain that he was simply “saying the only way public policy changes is when policymakers feel pain themselves, like the pain that parents feel when they watch their children die from gun violence. He asked her to provide counterexamples to disprove his claim.” By way of illustrating his point he “suggested he wished Gilbert’s wife could watch her own child die in her arms so that Gilbert might reconsider his political views, prompting Coyner to hang up the phone in disgust.” That Jones is a creep and a cretin is beyond dispute, as is his clear lack of fitness for any position of power over his fellow man, much less a position as a state’s top law enforcement official. (RELATED: Yes, Virginia, Jay Jones Is Evil) And yet Virginia Democrats’ initial reaction was to dismiss the scandal. At least until the overnight polling numbers came in. Jones is in the process of losing an election, so there is at least a fig leaf of propriety attached to the actions of the people surrounding him. At the top of the ticket on which he’s running, an especially unattractive individual named Abigail Spanberger is on video exhorting supporters to “let your rage fuel you,” which is a chilling thing to hear a candidate for high office say in public. Fuel you to do what? Vote even harder? These aren’t people motivated to serve their fellow man. They’re people who want power over their fellow man. Sane and balanced humans learn to process rage and put it aside for their own health and that of the relationships they cherish. When someone who seeks your political support demands the use of your rage, it’s an open announcement that you are a thing to be exploited. That you are a victim to be monetized. And that you’re within your bounds to share in that monetization. We can see what happens when the risk of losing an election is stripped away. We see it in Chicago, where that city’s mayor Brandon Johnson is openly demanding civil war — doing it, of course, under the thin guise of accusing his enemies of opening hostilities… ?HOLY SHIT!! Mayor Brandon Johnson claims that the “Right-Wing” of this country wants a REMATCH of the CIVIL WAR.. “The right wing of this country wants a REMATCH of the Civil War. The President has declared war against the people of Chicago!” pic.twitter.com/u2GPAVCNST — The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) October 6, 2025 President Trump hasn’t declared war on the people of Chicago. He’s sending help to the federal law enforcement agents being routinely attacked by Brandon Johnson’s allies. (RELATED: Democrats Reject Law and Order) It’s not like Johnson can credibly claim to represent Chicagoans in this controversy. Not with an approval rating in the teens. And given that the controversy is over ICE removing illegal aliens, the majority of whom are criminals, from that city, the mayor’s rhetoric seems more ridiculous than threatening. (RELATED: Meet the Criminals Anti-ICE Protesters Are Fighting to Shield) But he’s playing the same game as the “nonviolent” rioters in the streets, you see. This is about attempting to provoke a reaction. This is about attempting to bully Trump. If that civil-war rhetoric is met with conciliatory language by Trump or anyone in the administration, Johnson will claim a win. If it’s met with combativeness, Johnson will claim victimhood and thus claim a win. This is highly problematic. Victimhood culture is the death of civilization, because where it leads is an abandonment of sympathy and, to follow, humanity. You see it in Gaza, you’re seeing it on the streets of Europe, and, if the Brandon Johnsons and Jay Joneses of the world get their way, you will see it explode here in America. There is no clean way to put this to bed. So far, there have not been efforts to put it to bed as a result, and while that’s understandable, we saw a preview of what comes next with Charlie Kirk’s murder in Utah. We desperately want peace. We want a revival. We want good to triumph. But evil has a vote, and it’s voting. At the very minimum, we should call it by its name. READ MORE from Scott McKay: The Sombrero Shutdown Needs Some Time to Deliver Its Benefits Emotional Terrorism Doesn’t Work Anymore, and That’s a Real Problem for the Left Burn in Hell, Joanne Chesimard

In Iran, whose ancient kings etched freedom of religion into stone, today’s rulers raid living rooms for Bibles, surveil Jewish schools, and bulldoze Bahá’í cemeteries. The Islamic Republic is waging a war on the heritage of faith and freedom woven into the nation’s fabric since the time of Cyrus the Great. At the center of this assault lies its campaign against the Christian witness. The Cyrus Cylinder, created at the direction of the Persian king in the 6th century BC, restored displaced peoples to their homes and affirmed the Jewish people’s right to worship. That act preserved a lineage that shaped Judeo-Christian values for centuries. America’s Founding Fathers, with many avid readers of the Cyropaedia, looked to Cyrus as a model. James Madison, drawing from principles pioneered by Cyrus, called religion “the conviction and conscience of every man,” and together with the Framers built a constitutional order to protect it. Between these pillars runs a deep river of Iranian-Christian history too often forgotten, or actively erased. Between these pillars runs a deep river of Iranian-Christian history too often forgotten, or actively erased. The Acts of the Apostles records Parthians, Medes, and Elamites among the first to carry the Christian message east. Apostles and scholars built communities that translated knowledge and enriched Iran’s public life. Across conquests and upheavals, for nearly two millennia, Christianity persisted parallel to and intertwined with Iranian heritage itself. Orthodox and Catholic communities, rooted in the Early Church, flourished alongside a growing Evangelical population beginning in the 18th century. Together, they represented a bastion of liberty standing at the edge of Christendom. Reza Shah Pahlavi, seeking to modernize Iran and unify its national identity, embraced the Persian Bible translation produced by Protestant missionaries. He found it a tool for spreading literacy and promoting the Persian language. Because Christianity had assimilated into Iranian society, its propagation was encouraged from the 1930s until the fall of the Pahlavi era. The Islamic Republic has spent 46 years trying to reverse this truth. From Evangelist Rev. Hossein Soodmand, executed in 1990 for refusing to renounce Christianity, to a pregnant woman sentenced in March 2024 to 16 years for hosting a Bible study, Christians in Iran have been systematically persecuted. Earlier this year, armed agents raided a gathering of 80 worshippers in northern Iran and seized what they called “contraband.” The contraband was Bibles. (RELATED: Faith Under Fire: Persecution of the Church — At Home and Abroad) In 2024 alone, at least 139 Christians were arrested for their faith. Ninety-six received a combined 263 years in prison and 37 years in exile — a nearly sixfold increase in sentencing length compared to 2023, despite even more arrests that year. The trend reflects harsher punishments. Coupled with the 127 percent year-over-year rise in Christian arrests in 2022, this reveals a parabolic escalation in crackdowns since 2021. (RELATED: Middle East Christians Face Choice of Extermination or Exodus) But persecution does not end at church doors. Bahá’ís are stripped of property and barred from universities. Sufi dervishes are beaten and jailed. Zoroastrians are harassed for honoring ancestral rituals. Jews may live only within a narrow, muted communal life, so long as it is monitored. Yet repression has not crushed belief; it has fueled it. Despite decades of raids and show trials, Iranians continue to seek meaning beyond the regime’s narrow dictates. Hundreds of thousands have been drawn to the Cross and the salvation of Jesus Christ. If free thought is truly what the regime fears, we must counter it with ideas, not battalions. Marines in Tehran are not needed to honor Iran’s inheritance. What is needed is moral clarity, practical tools, and the courage to use both. Keep Iranians connected by enforcing rules that allow satellite internet into homes and phones. Punish persecutors: sanction Revolutionary Guard units, intelligence agents, judges, and prison wardens who target believers; deny them visas and seize their assets. Offer amnesty to conscripts who refuse unlawful orders to beat women, raid house churches, or smash shrines. Amplify the truth by putting victims’ names behind every diplomatic microphone. None of this is “regime change from abroad.” It is what free nations do when a captive nation asks for help. The alternative is not stability. It is only the unstable status quo. The Islamic Republic will never be a reliable partner abroad. A democratic Iran, answerable to citizens who bear the cost of isolation, could be. Cyrus won hearts because he trusted free people to live by their convictions. The Founding Fathers trusted the same and built a republic worthy of it. Iranians have not forgotten either legacy. Neither should we. If an ancient Persian cylinder could carry the language of liberty across millennia, surely modern democracies can carry it across a border. Let us move forward by looking back, and by standing with every Iranian whose conscience the regime cannot crush. Dr. Saeed Ganji serves as president of the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI). Steve Berger is a pastor and the founder and president of Ambassador Services International (ASI). READ MORE: Iran Is Not Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya Defanging Iran Has Created Opportunity for Mideast Peace  Faith Under Fire: Persecution of the Church — At Home and Abroad

City officials in Philadelphia have expressed their brotherly love for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by flying the flag of the People’s Republic of China over City Hall on September 30 to mark the 76th anniversary of the founding of Communist China by Mao Zedong. According to a report by a local news journal, the CCP’s flag display was organized by the Philadelphia Office of Immigrant Affairs under its “Honors Diversity Flag Raising Program.” The CCP flag represents the same evil as the Hammer and Sickle and Nazi Swastika did. The flag raising is being promoted by the Pennsylvania United Chinese Coalition and the Fujian Hometown Association, which the House Select Committee on China alleges are part of the CCP’s “united front” effort to spread pro-CCP propaganda in the U.S. and throughout the world. Perhaps city officials will further encourage diversity by flying the Soviet Hammer and Sickle or the Nazi Swastika over City Hall. If you’re going to celebrate and commemorate the founding of one murderous regime, why not a few others? (RELATED: How Deep Is China in America’s Ballot Box?) And the murderous regime selected by city officials to honor on September 30th just happens to be the most murderous regime in history. It may be too much to ask city officials to read the Black Book of Communism, where they would learn about the systemic atrocities committed by the CCP during the 20th century — Mao’s purges, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and so many others. (RELATED: ‘All Under Heaven’: The CCP’s Distortion of Chinese Philosophy) Not to mention the hundreds of millions of unborn babies killed in forced abortions to enforce the CCP’s one-child policy. But one would hope that city officials in the city of brotherly love would have read about the CCP’s current persecution of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang province. Perhaps those city officials forgot about the CCP’s repression of Hong Kong residents. Perhaps they are unaware of the CCP’s aggressive moves in the South China Sea and toward the free people of Taiwan. (RELATED: Competing With China in the Gray Zone) Of course, city officials were well aware of all of these things before raising the flag of Chinese communism over the city where the United States was born. Critics, including Rep. John Moolenaar, who chairs the Select Committee on China, urged Philadelphia’s Mayor Cherelle Parker to cancel the flag-raising ceremony, explaining the CCP’s repression of its own people and the geopolitical danger it poses to the United States, and the questionable nature of the groups sponsoring, organizing, and promoting the flag raising. Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick seconded Rep. Moolenaar’s plea, calling the raising of the CCP flag over Philadelphia “unacceptable.” Pennsylvania state senator Doug Mastriano also condemned the event. City officials, however, turned a deaf ear to those concerns. Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, was conspicuously silent about the CCP flag raising. The CCP flag represents the same evil as the Hammer and Sickle and Nazi Swastika did. Its victims outnumber the Soviet and Nazi victims combined. The Soviet tyranny lasted a little more than 70 years. The Nazi tyranny lasted 12 years. The CCP tyranny is still with us after 76 years in power. We should not commemorate its founding except to condemn it. The Philadelphia city officials who allowed this travesty have lost their moral compass. READ MORE from Francis P. Sempa: The Ideologies of Western Suicide Foreign Affairs Features a Recipe for Defeat in Cold War II MacArthur Reminisces About Inchon

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