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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21951/persecution-of-christians-august

“What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community… [J]ihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa…. It’s very dangerous for the national security of the United States…. Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed.” — Alberto Miguel Fernandez, geopolitical analyst and former U.S. diplomat, Fox News, August 7, 2025, Mozambique.

The Islamic State (ISIS) released a newsletter praising its “mujahideen” [jihadists] for targeting and slaughtering the Christians of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique mentioned above, and urging followers to replicate these attacks in Europe…. It praises the massacres and beheadings of Christians inside churches, and attacks on Christian communities, all of which left “pools of blood.” It calls on its followers to offer Christians three choices: “If they refuse Islam and the jizyah tax, the third option is murder.” — MEMRI, August 8, 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo.

“Our conquering ancestors ruled with swords, advancing legions and leading the way, until they terrorized the nations of their time, who came to them willingly or unwillingly, surrendering and submissive. This is the truth, and anything beyond it is false.” — ISIS newsletter, reported by MEMRI, August 8, 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The “hearts still ache for revenge against the Christians of Europe. The call is still open to the heroes of Islam to attack them again and invade them in their own backyards and implement the divine rulings against them as their brothers did in Africa, and Allah will surely support those who support Him.” — ISIS newsletter, reported by MEMRI, August 8, 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Below are some of the more notable incidents of the ongoing genocide being carried out against Christians in Nigeria….

“The herdsmen chased and shot at farmers as if they were animals.” — morningstarnews.org, September 1, 2025, Nigeria.

“The culmination of the efforts to stop the [church’s] construction took place on Sunday, July 27, 2025. The construction committee was subjected to a mass lynching by government officials and residents….” — Rev. Puput Yuniatmoko, persecution.org, August 8, 2025, Indonesia.

“While the language of the draft agreement [between Azerbaijan and Armenia] is general in nature, it mentions combating intolerance, racism, and violent extremism. Absent from the list of vices to be countered was religious persecution and ethnic cleansing — longstanding practices of the totalitarian Azerbaijan regime.” — persecution.org, August 14, 2025, Azerbaijan.

“During detention, we were forced to drink water from Lotas [vessels typically used in toilets]. One person would open their mouth while another poured water through the same vessel.” — Zakria John, morningstarnews.org, August 20, 2025, Pakistan.

“Nabeel Masih, a 25-year-old Christian from Lahore, died… after years of neglect, abuse, and lack of crucial medical care. At 16….Masih was accused by a man named Akhtar Ali of posting a blasphemous image on Facebook….Police had the image removed to prevent unrest, erasing the only evidence that could prove whether Masih had posted it. ” — morningstarnews.org, August 20, 2025, Pakistan.

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of August 2025.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21949/iran-push-nuclear-bomb

The Iranian regime is once again racing to acquire nuclear weapons. In doing so, it is turning to Russia and almost certainly looking toward China and North Korea for support. This is an immediate and existential threat to the United States, Israel, and the Free World.

Tehran’s repeated denials are lies, masking a clear and urgent drive to obtain nuclear capability as quickly as possible.

Another urgent question: What would prevent Russia from going beyond civilian cooperation and helping Iran directly in its quest for a nuclear weapon?

If Russia feels cornered by the West over Ukraine, it may see Iran’s nuclear ambitions not as a liability but as a useful bargaining chip and a means to complicate U.S. and Israeli security calculations.

For Iran, the shortcut to a nuclear bomb would not be to build everything from scratch, but to leverage these relationships, just as North Korea once did with Pakistan.

The regime looks at North Korea and sees a model: once Pyongyang secured a nuclear arsenal, its survival was effectively guaranteed.

On top of this strategic calculation is the regime’s enduring ideological goal of wiping Israel off the map. For Tehran, even a single nuclear bomb would carry enormous symbolic and strategic weight.

The United States, Israel, and Europe must not underestimate this danger.

Iran’s regime is racing against time, determined to achieve a capability that will guarantee its survival, give it leverage over its enemies, and help export its revolution.

The Iranian regime is once again racing to acquire nuclear weapons. In doing so, it is turning to Russia and almost certainly looking toward China and North Korea for support. This is an immediate and existential threat to the United States, Israel, and the Free World.

Tehran’s repeated denials are lies, masking a clear and urgent drive to obtain nuclear capability as quickly as possible.

Earlier this week at the United Nations General Assembly, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared that Iran will “never seek to build a nuclear bomb.” Iran’s actions, however, contradict these words. On September 26, Tehran signed a staggering $25 billion nuclear agreement with Russia to construct four nuclear power plants in southern Iran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Ku7_LbSnA

Douglas Murray – author of On Democracies and Death Cults – on the cowardice and impotence of Western elites. This is a clip from _The Brendan O’Neill Show_. Watch the full episode here:    • Douglas Murray: Can civilisation survive? …  

https://www.frontpagemag.com/pro-hamas-mob-storms-downing-street-after-synagogue-attack/

After the Muslim terrorist attack at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, PM Keir Starmer made remarks claiming that he’s going to fight “antisemitic hatred”. It might have be more useful to fight Islamic terrorism, but in any case his party’s base would like to go in a very different direction.

As they showed when they showed up as a mob to protest not killing Jews.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/10/02/from-the-league-of-nations-to-the-united-nations-to-trump-global/

Historians traditionally blame the failure of the League of Nations—the post-World War I, Versailles-era dream of President Woodrow Wilson—on many things.

Its membership was small (58 nations). The League’s utopian rhetoric lacked commensurate force.

The postwar ascendant United States refused to join.

The winners of World War I, like France and Britain, were terrified of rearming, while the losers, such as Germany and Austria, were eager to.

Consequently, the League in the mid-1930s allowed fascist powers to make a mockery of the Versailles Treaty. It could never even enforce its own embargoes and sanctions.

Without big power backup, the League soon watched the Axis powers prey on weak nations and start another world war.

In response, the post-World War II United Nations was said to have corrected the impotence of the old League.

The U.S. was now in. Indeed, the UN headquarters were to be in New York.

Almost all the nations of the world—currently 193—eventually joined.

A “Security Council” of the great powers (and former great powers) would “police” the consensus of the General Assembly of all members.

The UN would spin off a host of subordinate globalist projects, such as the World Health Organization, International Criminal Court, and World Bank, to promote peace, law, health, and profit.

Yet the UN’s 80-year record has proved as dismal as the League’s 26 years.

Only half the UN members are free societies and true democracies.

The two greatest threats to world peace—dictatorial Russia and communist China—exercise veto power in the Security Council.

Anti-Semitism is now a UN brand. So are rank corruption and profiteering.

No one expects the UN either to prevent or stop a war.

Aside from serving as a platform for national propaganda, it is increasingly both impotent and toxically anti-Western.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21948/qatar-supporting-terrorist-groups

If anyone needs to apologize, it is Qatar, which has long been financing, hosting, and advocating for Hamas and other Islamist terror groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda.

Qatar, in fact, needs to apologize not only to Israel, but to several Arab countries affected by the Gulf state’s support for Islamist terror groups.

“Qatar is now known as the world’s safe haven for terrorist groups and militia leaders…. Evidence suggests that Qatar has directly armed or financed multiple Islamist groups in the region, undermining U.S. objectives in pivotal countries such as Libya, Egypt, and Syria by pushing those places toward violent extremism.” — US Representative Doug Lamborn, 2015.

Qatar is not – and never was – an impartial mediator in the Hamas-Israel war. As a longtime sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist terrorist groups, Qatar’s main goal is to ensure that Hamas, possibly under a different guise, continues to play a key role in the Palestinian arena.

People who contend that Qatar might “change,” thanks to the potential incentives of the Abraham Accords, appear afflicted with the same illusions as those who fantasize that the Palestinian Authority will reform. Sadly, the self-interested statements by French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have encouraged the terrorists and their sponsors to have renewed hope that they finally might be able to get rid of Israel, after all.

In its perennial role as both the “arsonist and the firefighter,” as with the Taliban in Afghanistan, there is every reason to assume — unless someone emphatically stops them — that Qatar will set about surreptitiously creating a “Hamas, the Sequel” the minute the weather improves.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly “apologized” to his Qatari counterpart for violating the Gulf state’s sovereignty in Israel’s September 9 strike against Hamas leaders in Doha. The alleged apology took place in a September 29 phone call arranged by US President Donald J. Trump.

If anyone needs to apologize, it is Qatar, which has long been financing, hosting, and advocating for Hamas and other Islamist terror groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda.