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The Problem with Terrorism Is TERROR by Linda Goudsmit

By on October 22nd, 2025

https://goudsmit.pundicity.com/29042/the-problem-with-terrorism-is-terror

 goudsmit.pundicity.com  and website: lindagoudsmit.com 

What is terrorism? The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition defines terrorism for us.

terrorism /tĕr′ə-rĭz″əm/

noun

1. The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.

2. The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.

3. The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.

4. The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.

5. Violence against civilians to achieve military or political objectives.

6. A psychological strategy of war for gaining political or religious ends by deliberately creating a climate of fear among the population of a state.

7. The calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.

Words matter. The distinguishing feature of terrorism is that it targets civilian populations. The history of warfare was forever changed by the acceptance of civilians as military targets in the Middle East. Islam is not a religion like any other. Islam is a theocracy. It is a supremacist, expansionist, binary, sociopolitical replacement ideology with a religious foundation. Islam distinguishes itself in its founding 7th-century doctrinal text, the Qur’an, as the only “religion” on the planet that advances genocide against non-believers––Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians. For 1400 years Muslims have been taught that there will only be peace on Earth when all the world is Muslim, that means after the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate.

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The Maccabi Tel Aviv ban is a shameful act of appeasement We have allowed English football to become a no-go zone for Israeli Jews. Tom Slater

By on October 22nd, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/21/the-maccabi-tel-aviv-ban-is-a-shameful-act-of-appeasement/

So it’s official: English football isn’t safe for Jews. These aren’t my words, but those of Maccabi Tel Aviv – the Israeli club whose fans have been banned from attending their upcoming Europa League clash with Aston Villa in Birmingham, over ‘safety’ concerns.

While the British government has been trying to put pressure on West Midlands Police and Birmingham’s Safety Advisory Group, which issued this cowardly ruling last week, to allow Maccabi Tel Aviv fans to attend, the club has essentially now told them not to bother.

Even if the ban is overturned, the club said in a statement overnight, it would refuse the allocation of away tickets. ‘The wellbeing and safety of our fans is paramount’, it said, adding that a ‘toxic atmosphere has been created which makes the safety of our fans wishing to attend very much in doubt’.

Thus, an Israeli team has decided that Britain’s second city is a no-go zone for its – largely Jewish – fans. And, to our shame, they have a point. The upshot of this entire, despicable scandal is that anti-Semitism, Islamist sectarianism and official cowardice have made this city a potentially hostile environment for Jews and Israelis.

While West Midlands Police and the Safety Advisory Group have been decidedly vague about precisely why they decided to ban all visiting Maccabi supporters – a drastic step we haven’t seen taken for 25 years, according to culture secretary Lisa Nandy – we all know who they are scared of. And it isn’t the Maccabi lads.

The assorted anti-Semites cheering on the ban point to Maccabi Tel Aviv’s alleged football hooliganism. You can tell this is bollocks given the example they all point to: the horrific scenes in Amsterdam last November, when Maccabi supporters were the targets of violence. Locals and bussed-in agitators went on what they called a ‘Jew hunt’, beating Israelis in the streets.

Apparently, we are supposed to believe that because a handful of Maccabi fans were also filmed chanting anti-Arab slogans and ripping down Palestine flags, that all of the Israelis who were attacked that night brought this anti-Semitic fury on themselves. Victim-blaming is fine, it seems, when the victims happen to be Jewish.

Those saying Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Brum ban was well-earned don’t seem to have followed the court cases in Amsterdam, in which it was shown those attacks were organised well in advance of the Europa League fixture against Ajax. The scumbags rallied on WhatsApp and Telegram groups. One of them had 900 members. They were salivating about beating up the ‘Cancer Jews’. In all, 62 arrests were made, and only 10 of them were Israelis.

The cancellation of the Israeli Premier League derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv on Sunday, following what police described as ‘public disorder and violent riots’, has provided more grist to the Jew-haters’ mill. Even though there is no proof, as of yet, that Maccabi fans were the main culprits there.

The Israelophobes are now having to pretend that a few bad apples is totally unheard of in European football; that banning all of a team’s fans is a totally normal response to pockets of (alleged) disorder. As Barney Ronay, chief sports writer for the Guardian, points out, are we going to demand Paris Saint‑Germain supporters be banished from every ground in the land, given their Champions League ‘celebrations’ last season left two fans dead and a copper in a coma? I’ll wait.

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Christopher F. Rufo The Fury That Led to Nothing: George Floyd Square The run-down intersection at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis exposes the empty promises of the revolution of 2020.

By on October 22nd, 2025

https://www.city-journal.org/article/minneapolis-george-floyd-square

When I arrived in Minneapolis, the frost had just lifted, and gray clouds hung low over the horizon. I had come to make a pilgrimage to George Floyd Square, where the revolution of 2020 began. It has been more than five years since Floyd lost his life and became a patron saint of the Left, and I wanted to see what had happened here since then.

The square is situated in a run-down intersection that now features a statue of a clenched black fist in the central roundabout. On one corner stands a minimarket called Unity Foods—formerly Cup Foods—where George Floyd passed the counterfeit bill that set off the chain of events that culminated in his death. Across the street is an abandoned gas station that has been covered in graffiti and protest slogans since the initial unrest.

A group of vagrants had lit a bonfire in a metal drum beneath the gas station canopy. When I asked them about Floyd, they avoided the question; they weren’t interested in politics. They had chosen the spot to light fires, fence stolen goods, and smoke fentanyl, because it was peaceful and nobody bothered them.

In the frenzied year of 2020, politicians in Minneapolis and the Minnesota state government made grand promises about what George Floyd Square would become. They purchased property and pledged monuments. Then, as the years passed, their political will evaporated and everything ground to a halt. One city official told me the neighborhood wanted to reopen for business, while political leaders wanted to preserve the square as an ideological symbol. The result: nobody got what he wanted.

The scars of the revolution remain. The intersection at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue now has an eerie feeling, as if the George Floyd moment were frozen in time. A shattered window at Unity Foods has remained unrepaired for five years. The graffiti on the bus-stop shelters has started to chip and peel. The slogans scrawled on the gas station walls are fading reminders of the naive ebullience of that early moment.

As I walked around, I spotted two smartly dressed white women who appeared to be visiting the square as one might a religious shrine. Striking up a conversation, I learned that one was a Minneapolis resident; the other, her sister, was visiting from New York City. They wanted to pay their respects to Floyd. They seemed to be trying not to show fear at the visible homelessness and disorder.

When I asked the women about Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, the local woman said, “No comment.” She instead shifted the conversation to President Trump, who, she said, was “clawing back all of the progress” that had been made toward social justice.

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Yes, Al Jazeera, There IS a Christian Genocide in Nigeria “The blood of thousands of Nigerian martyrs cries out for justice.” by Mark Tapson

By on October 22nd, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/yes-al-jazeera-there-is-a-christian-genocide-in-nigeria/

A few weeks ago on his Real Time program, host Bill Maher broke ranks with his mainstream media compatriots, as he occasionally does, to fault them for the widespread ignorance of the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria. He observed correctly that the Boko Haram Muslim terror group there is “literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.” He even had statistics at the ready: “They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009, they’ve burned 18,000 churches.” He concluded, “Where are the kids protesting this?”

The mainstream media are not covering it, and “the kids” aren’t protesting it, because the purportedly compassionate Left is at best indifferent to, and at worst approves of, the suffering and extermination of Christians. In their multiculturalist mindset, Christianity is categorized as Eurocentric (read: “white”) and therefore oppressive and evil. For a similar reason, Leftists refuse to connect Islam with terrorism because Muslims are grouped with the sacrosanct “Other” – “brown” victims of Judeo-Christian, capitalist, white supremacist oppression. Hence, the Left freely hurls accusations of “Islamophobia” but there is no “Christophobia” equivalent.

This week my colleague Robert Spencer pointed out at Jihad Watch that the Al Jazeera network, the “CNN of the Arab world,” had previously rebutted Maher’s observation with this gaslighting doozy of an editorial: “No, Bill Maher, There is No ‘Christian Genocide’ in Nigeria.” Spencer says of the piece that “the hypocrisy is staggering and the inversion of reality total,” but hey, as the Muslim prophet Muhammad is claimed to have said, “War is deceit.”

The Al Jazeera article was written by Gimba Kakanda, Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Research and Analytics in the Office of the Vice President (I don’t know how he gets all that on a business card). Kakanda argues that “allegations” of a Christian genocide in Nigeria are merely “coordinated attacks” by “foreign actors” who “ignore [the country’s] complexities and manipulate longstanding ethnic and resource-based tensions to advance sectarian agendas.” He declared that “claims of a religious war between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria are simplistic” and ignore “ethnic rivalries, land disputes, and criminality.”

Kakanda zeroed in on Bill Maher’s “sensationalized account” based on “largely fabricated claims and manipulated images from unverified outlets.” He dismissed it as “misinformation – aimed at maligning Nigeria” because of its “support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict.”

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The Real Manchurian Candidate: Fifty Years of China’s Quiet Conquest For over half a century, Washington’s political class—led by Kissinger’s secret diplomacy—has cloaked China’s rise in promises of peace, betraying America from within. By Lee Smith

By on October 22nd, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/22/the-real-manchurian-candidate-fifty-years-of-chinas-quiet-conquest/

The following is an excerpt from The China Matrix: The Epic Story of How Donald Trump Shattered a Deadly Pact.

The story of betrayal related here begins nearly a decade later, in 1971, and it’s notable how many themes it shares with the fictional Hollywood account. Hailed as a Cold War classic that captures the period’s paranoid sensibility, The Manchurian Candidate’s representation of propaganda and brainwashing might have prepared the American public for the messaging that accompanied the strengthening of ties between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. As false as the stock praise for Raymond Shaw’s character is the broad assertion, relayed by every US president since Richard Nixon—except for Donald Trump—that the rise of China’s communist party is good for America and conducive to world peace.

Here’s how Nixon put it: “What brings us together is a recognition of a new situation in the world and a recognition on our part that what is important is not a nation’s internal political philosophy,” he told Mao during their historic meeting. “Therefore, we can find common ground, despite our differences, to build a world structure in which both can be safe to develop in our own ways on our own roads.”

With Mao’s death, Gerald Ford said, “I am confident that the trend of improved relations between the People’s Republic of China and the United States, which Chairman Mao helped to create, will continue to contribute to world peace and stability.”

Jimmy Carter said, “The United States and China need to build their futures together.”

In Ronald Reagan’s words, “We can work together as equals in a spirit of mutual respect and mutual benefit… America and China are both great nations. And we have a special responsibility to preserve world peace.”

According to George H.W. Bush, “One of my dreams for our world is that these two powerful giants will continue working toward a full partnership and friendship that will help bring peace and prosperity to people everywhere.”

Bill Clinton wasn’t worried about the rising communist juggernaut: “Our objective is not containment and conflict; it is cooperation. We will far better serve our interests and our principles if we work with a China that shares that objective with us.”

George W. Bush agreed: “China is on a rising path, and America welcomes the emergence of a strong, peaceful, and prosperous China.”

So did Barack Obama: “Our goal is not to counter China. Our goal is not to contain China,” he said. “We want China to succeed.”

And in the words of Joe Biden: “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man. I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us.”

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We Are Not Fooled by You, Hamas by Nils A. Haug

By on October 22nd, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21999/fooled-by-hamas

“Hamas is not just at war with Israel. It is at war with Jews, Christians, and the very foundations of civilization itself…. This is not politics, this is a religious war. Its purpose is to replace Judaism and Christianity with radical Islam. If the world does not understand this, everyone will pay the price.” — Mosab Hassan Yousef, eldest son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, JNS, August 17, 2025.

Notwithstanding peace treaties or a tenuous cessation of hostilities between Israel and its neighbors, much of the Islamic world remains at war with the West, especially with many dedicated activists, such as Qatar, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority in its midst.

Their leaders, perhaps not wishing to get into a scrape with Trump, as well as seeing the delicious prospect of being in charge of the future Gaza chicken coop — refuse to acknowledge this reality.

Many leaders in the West also would possibly prefer not to admit the risk, even though their societies are precipitously at risk of being overwhelmed by the mass immigration of Muslims — who boldly practice a competing faith founded on displacing all other faiths. Western leaders appear to wish to placate the Islamist voters in their midst, despite the harm being inflicted on their citizens — with more expected in the offing.

With the release of some 2,000 terrorists from Israel’s prisons as part of the Trump peace plan, Hamas’s forces received a timely reinforcement of their depleted ranks from this event, “None are expected to take up careers in high tech or humanitarian relief,” writes Professor Thane Rosenbaum.

While Israel may have substantially defeated Hamas militarily in the Gaza campaign, it can fittingly be said, as by columnist Dan Schnur, that “Hamas won its war against Israel in the eyes of the rest of the world”. Any success of the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic mass media can be attributed to their lies about Israel and Jews.

The escalating social and political turmoil in nations such as France, Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy and Canada can be directly attributed to domestic Islamist agitation, Muslim demographic explosion, and the spread of religious Islam throughout the infrastructure – which most leaders would rather appease than confront. With mosques being built at a rapid rate, complete with public calls to prayer over loudspeakers, and special Sharia courts, councils and schools, Islam has come to significantly dominate the landscape in the major cities of western Europe. In the UK and France, for instance, certain street scenes are reminiscent of the Muslim cities from where immigrants originated.

In Rosenbaum’s words, “Hamas is not going away easily, even if some leave. The Muslim Brotherhood’s lasting influence over the hearts and minds of Gazan society is ironclad.”

The same may well be true for the generous leaders of the sovereign wealth fund states in the Middle East, who Trump seems to be counting on to rebuild Gaza.

Or maybe Trump can actually pull it off. The time to worry about is after he is no longer president, supervising his dream of Gaza as a Riviera at peace with Israel. What if the prevailing Middle East ideology of eliminating Israel has not changed?

On October 13, 2025, at Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the company of US President Donald J. Trump, declared the war in Gaza over.

Oh, really? Sadly, the probability of an enduring peace with Hamas or allied Islamists appears close to zero. After all, in Netanyahu’s words, Israel is dealing with “monsters.”

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Muslim Migrants Fuelling the Rise in Anti-Semitic Attacks by Con Coughlin

By on October 22nd, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21985/muslim-migrants-antisemitic-attacks

With counter-terrorism officials warning that the huge influx of illegal immigrants entering European countries could lead to further terrorist atrocities, [Elon] Musk’s warning that the UK needed a “revolutionary government change” to tackle the migrant crisis could not be more timely.

The ability of the UK security authorities to tackle the problem has been undermined by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who claims that anti-Israel protesters who chant “From the river to the sea” are not anti-Semitic.

Reportedly, supporters of Mamdani are “training 30 more people” to bring his policies to more American cities.

There have already been countless instances of such Islamic violence in Europe and the US, including both World Trade Center attacks (1993 and September 11, 2001), as well as in the UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden and Spain.

The deeply disturbing trends in Europe… should serve as a warning to the US and its Western allies about the dangers of tolerating large-scale immigration, especially concerning migrants who struggle to impose Islamic sharia law and the judicial systems of the countries from which they came, rather than adopt the laws and values of the West.

Elon Musk’s blunt warning that “violence is coming” to the UK because of its failed immigration policy dating back decades has turned out to be chillingly prophetic. Within just weeks of the tech entrepreneur issuing his dire warning, two Jewish worshippers were killed and three others wounded in a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, carried out by a Muslim jihadi.

The unprovoked attack, which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, should serve as a warning to the US and other Western countries about the dangers of lax immigration policies.

Jihad al-Shamie, the 35-year-old terrorist responsible for carrying out the Manchester synagogue attack, came from a family of Syrian immigrants who had lived in the UK since the 1990s and been granted British citizenship.

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