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August 13, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Attending the sentencing of Abdiaziz Farah in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud last week has triggered me to review issues implicit in the two Feeding Our Future trials held in the case so far and in the 2016 trial of defendants who were convicted of material support for terrorism. I covered all three trials on Power Line. The Feeding Our Future case involves an almost entirely Somali cast of
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August 11, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in the United States. What do Minnesota’s Somali citizens think of us? We know amazingly little about the community, probably because we are afraid to ask the relevant questions. We know they are mostly Muslim — we can see the hijabs, we are familiar with the many local controversies to which their faith has given rise over the past 35 years —
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August 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Mark Steyn thinks that a civil war in Great Britain is inevitable. If that seems outré, read his post. And also consider this. For a while now, Muhammad has been the most popular boys’ name in the UK. But this year, another name is rising in the rankings: Imagine if in 1945 hundreds of Brits christened their newborn sons Adolf. That might have rattled us as a nation, right? I
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June 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Is the United Kingdom turning into a theocracy, centuries after the Church of England was secularized? Is blasphemy now a criminal offense? Well, yes. Although it depends, naturally, on which religion you blaspheme against. See the case of Hamit Coskun, who is being fined for burning a Koran and criticizing Islam: Hamit Coskun shouted “f— Islam” and “Islam is religion of terrorism” while holding the religious text above his head
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May 24, 2025 — John Hinderaker
It was from England that we got our tradition of free speech, but across the pond, those days are gone. There has been a succession of horrific cases in which Britons–always, conservative or pro-Israel Britons–have been arrested for controversial social media posts or supposedly inappropriate demonstrations. The most recent case is that of a Jewish protester who is not being named in the press, for his own safety. The background
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April 28, 2025 — John Hinderaker
As he did during his first term, President Trump has moved quickly against ISIS and other Islamic terrorists. Breitbart has an interview with Sebastian Gorka, who described some of the administration’s anti-terror initiatives and showed the interviewer a video. I want to just highlight this: Gorka said the way this strike came to be was he and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz visited President Trump in the Oval Office on
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April 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
That is what Beirut was called when I was in law school in the early 1970s. Some New York law firms had Beirut offices. It was considered a great posting for a young lawyer. These are scenes from the Beirut of those days: 50 years ago today, on April 13 1975, Palestinian terrorists opened fire on a church in Beirut, killing 4 Christians. It was the start of the Lebanese
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April 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
In Montreal, pro-Hamas Muslims demonstrated for mass murder of the Jews. A journalist named Natasha Graham filmed them. That was too much for the mob, and too much for the local police, whose concern is not the would-be mass murderers, but rather the consequences of voters seeing what is going on in the city’s streets: She appears to simply be filming when the officer comes and grabs her and they
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April 13, 2025 — John Hinderaker
We have been writing about the Rotherham scandal since 2014, more than a decade ago. At that time, I summarized the scandal this way: Rotherham is a city of around 250,000 in Yorkshire, where at least 1,400 girls were raped, and in many instances prostituted, by gangs consisting mostly or entirely of Pakistani men. It seems to be generally acknowledged that the local authorities had a good idea what was
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February 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
What is the purpose of a mug shot? I am not sure, but the practice of taking mug shots is universal, so there must be a reason for it. Whatever the purpose is, it no doubt requires that the person under arrest be visible in the photograph. Which brings us to the case of Farishta Jami, born in Afghanistan but now resident in the U.K., who was convicted of terrorism
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February 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
When I moved to Minnesota after law school, it was considered a good place to live. The state had a strong economy, pretty good public schools and an educated work force, above average health care, very little crime and a reputation for clean government. All of that is gone. These charts tell the sad story. Minnesota’s decline is best documented in news reports like this one: “MN High School Basketball
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January 2, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The New York Post has photos of Jabbar’s trailer, after federal agents had completed their raid. The pictures add to our knowledge about Jabbar, although, as I wrote here, the fact that he was flying an ISIS flag on his murderous pickup tells us everything we need to know. The most important point to be made is that the several individuals who were spotted on surveillance videos around the French
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January 1, 2025 — John Hinderaker
At around 3:00 this morning, a man named Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar drove an electric pickup truck into the crowd on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans. He mowed down a number of pedestrians, killing at least ten [UPDATE: Fifteen have now died, with another 35 injured], and then engaged in a firefight with police officers before being shot and killed. Vehicle attacks have become a favored tactic of Islamic terrorists because
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December 31, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The IDF has resumed operations in northern Gaza, killing “many dozens” of Hamas terrorists: The Israel Defense Forces said Monday that scores of terror operatives were killed overnight in ambushes led by the military’s 162nd Division in Jabalia, amid days of heavy operations in northern Gaza. According to the IDF, troops spotted and killed “many dozens of terrorists” in Jabalia with gunfire and tank shelling. As usual, Hamas was using
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October 13, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Nasir Ahmad Tawhidi, 27, conspired and attempted to provide material support to ISIS and obtained firearms and ammunition to conduct a violent attack on U.S. soil in the name of ISIS,” explains an October 8 press release from the Department of Justice. Tawhedi is “a citizen of Afghanistan residing in Oklahoma City” and FBI director Christopher Wray explained: This defendant, motivated by ISIS, allegedly conspired to commit a violent attack,
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September 9, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Keith Ellison disputes the report of Rick Grenell that he is on a short list to serve as United States Attorney General in a prospective Harris-Walz administration. According to Ellison, the assertion is “a lie designed to trigger the Muslim haters.” This is a lie designed to trigger the Muslim-haters. https://t.co/vWPy6IiBV7 — Keith Ellison (@keithellison) September 7, 2024 Ellison currently serves as Minnesota Attorney General. As I’ve been writing since
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September 7, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
On December 2, 2015 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Islamic terrorists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik gunned down Robert Adams, Isaac Amianos, Bennetta Betbadal, Harry Bowman, Sierra Clayborn, Juan Espinoza, Aurora Godoy, Shannon Johnson, Larry Daniel Kaufman, Damien Meins, Tin Nguyen, Nicholas Thalasinos, Yvette Velasco, and Michael Wetzel. California attorney general Kamala Harris failed to condemn the terrorists, call the attack a hate crime or even gun
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