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Flashback: An Afghan man buys a 10-year-old girl as his third wife — after murdering his first and second child brides for “bringing shame” upon his Muslim family by failing to obey and please their male owner.
As his third child bride, she endured years of torture, rape and unimaginable abuse until she finally escaped.
This horrifying story is featured in the documentary “I Was Worth 50 Sheep,” which follows the courageous young girl Sabere and her fight for survival in Afghanistan before the Taliban took over.
Life for women and girls was already brutal under Islamic norms. Since the Taliban takeover and the full enforcement of strict Sharia law, it has become infinitely worse:
• Girls are banned from schools and universities.
• Women are forced into full-body coverings and locked inside their homes.
• Child marriage, beatings and honor killings have exploded.
This is not “cultural differences.”
This is state-sanctioned Islamic oppression.
Yet the world remains largely silent.
Acknowledging this horror would mean admitting the truth about political Islam: it treats women and girls as property, not human beings.
The West keeps importing this ideology while pretending all cultures are equal.
They are not.
Share this truth.
The systematic abuse of girls under Islam must be exposed — not hidden behind political correctness.
A church in Atlanta was honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time and I wondered why the church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to preach at that age.
After a warm welcome, introduction of this speaker, and as the applause quieted down, he rose from his high back chair and walked slowly, with great effort and a sliding gait to the podium.
Without a note or written paper of any kind he placed both hands on the pulpit to steady himself and then quietly and slowly he began to speak....
"When I was asked to come here today and talk to you, your pastor asked me to tell you what was the greatest lesson ever learned in my 50-odd years of preaching. I thought about it for a few days and boiled it down to just one thing that made the most difference in my life and sustained me through all my trials. The one thing that I could always rely on when tears and heartbreak and pain and fear and sorrow paralyzed me...
The only thing that would comfort was this verse....
"Jesus loves me this I know.
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong,
We are weak but He is strong.....
Yes, Jesus loves me....
The Bible tells me so."
The old pastor stated, "I always noticed that it was the adults who chose the children's hymn 'Jesus Loves Me' (for the children of course) during a hymn sing, and it was the adults who sang the loudest because I could see they knew it the best."
"Here for you now is a Senior version of Jesus Loves Me":
JESUS LOVES ME
Jesus loves me, this I know,
Though my hair is white as snow
Though my sight is growing dim,
Still He bids me trust in Him.
(CHORUS)
YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME..
YES, JESUS LOVES ME, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO.
Though my steps are oh, so slow,
With my hand in His I'll go
On through life, let come what may,
He'll be there to lead the way.
(verse 2)
When the nights are dark and long,
In my heart He puts a song..
Telling me in words so clear,
"Have no fear, for I am near."
(Verse 3)
When my work on earth is done,
And life's victories have been won.
He will take me home above,
Then I'll understand His love.
(CHORUS)
I love Jesus, does He know?
Have I ever told Him so?
Jesus loves to hear me say,
That I love Him every day.
If you think this is neat, please pass it on to your friends. If you do not pass it on, nothing bad will happen, but you will have missed an opportunity to "reach out and touch" a friend or a loved one. God Bless Us All!!! AMEN!
A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.
Her name is Audrey van der Meer.
She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.
The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.
Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.
Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.
When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.
The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.
When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.
Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.
Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.
The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.
Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.
Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.
Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.
Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.
Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.
A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.
The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.
The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.
The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.
That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.
Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.
Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.
Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.
You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.
The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.
Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.
I just finished an interview with Brad from Across Nigeria… and honestly, I’m sitting here stunned.
Today, he buried 14 Christians in a mass grave.
Two were infants.
One was a 4-year-old child.
And this isn’t some recycled internet story or political talking point. Brad was literally there today helping bury them. While on the way to investigate one attack, another Christian community was attacked. He said the violence is happening so fast they can barely keep up anymore.
What shocked me even more is this:
Brad shared that 72% of all Christians killed worldwide last year were killed in this region of Nigeria.
72%.
And hardly anybody is talking about it.
The mainstream media should be all over this. Instead, most people scrolling social media today have no idea our brothers and sisters in Christ are being slaughtered while churches are being forced underground.
Guys… this matters.
Please watch this interview.
Please pray for these families.
And PLEASE share this everywhere you can.
At this point, WE are the media.
WE are how people find out.
WE are the distribution network.
If enough ordinary people start sharing the truth, eventually the world will have to pay attention.
Watch the full conversation and help us get this story out.
17-year-old swimmer and boxer Shayan Hadian is on death row in Iran, sentenced by the regime for “leading protests.”
A kid. An athlete. Facing execution any day.
Share his name. Be his voice.
I am begging you.
Do not learn their names after the rope.
Ehsan Hosseinipour.
Matin Mohammadi.
Erfan Amiri.
Three young Iranians are reportedly at imminent risk of execution by the terrorist Islamic Regime occupying Iran.
Look at their faces now.
Flood the world with them now.
Before fake courts become graves.
Before forced confessions become headlines.
Before another mother is left screaming into a silence the world helped build.
Send their faces to journalists.
Send their names to politicians.
Make them impossible to bury.
Do not wait to mourn them.
Be their voice while they are still alive.
When Sarah Barratt was threatened with rape by 3 men while poolside at the @MarriottIntl in Qatar, her husband Craig complained to the front desk, and they were told the men hd been kicked out.
It was a lie. Days later, coming off the elevator, the Barratts encountered the men again. Craig was furious, and posted a negative review on TripAdvisor.
Craig is a businessman who operates in the Middle East, and when he next returned to Qatar, he was arrested, detained, fined, and deported, having been convicted in absentia of damaging the Marriott’s reputation.
Worse, his inability to work in Qatar has destroyed his financial security. He and his wife are selling possessions online, and are considering selling their home.
Marriott International, a Western company, used the draconian laws restricting speech in Qatar in order to have Craig Barratt punished for leaving a negative review on TripAdvisor - a review that was fully justified and supported by the facts. This is appalling behavior on their part, and I sincerely hope that this story will be circulated as widely as possible. All Marriott had to do was apologize. Instead, they destroyed a guest’s life for daring to complain about having been lied to, and about having been made unsafe on Marriott property by the actions of Marriott staff.
https://t.co/bdwoTVlrID
🚨 You really do not hate Islam enough!
The barbarism of Iran’s Islamic regime has no bottom.
Saleheh Akbari, a nurse and operating room technician, secretly treated wounded protesters in her home during the January 2026 uprising.
Regime agents raided her house. In front of her husband Ahmad Khodaei and their child, they shot her in the heart and killed her.
Then they took her body.
They used her lifeless finger to unlock her phone. They sent her husband messages claiming they had her genitalia — and sent him photos of the desecration of her corpse.
Ahmad had already been beaten, imprisoned, and tortured. This broke him completely.
They denied him any funeral or chance to mourn her.
Yesterday, he could no longer endure it and took his own life.
This is the Islamic Republic.
Say her name: Saleheh Akbari.
The world must see the true face of this regime.
#Iran #WomanLifeFreedom #IRGCterrorists
(Reports via Iranian activists, NewsNation, Masih Alinejad, and human rights sources)
🚨BREAKING: Muslims set fire to an entire Coptic Christian neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt.
They don’t want you to see what is happening to Christians in this part of the world!
Following repeated executions of male opponents of the barbaric Iranian regime, it is now reported that a group of female political prisoners are to be executed by hanging.
They are:
Bita Hemmati
Ghazal Ghalandari
Golnaz Naraghi
Venus Hossein Nejad
Panah Movahedi
Ensieh Nejati
Mahboubeh Shabani
Diana Taher Abadi
The group is reported to include two teenagers.
Their crime?
To speak out and protest against the regime’s atrocities and to demand freedom and democracy.
In a letter to me, Foreign Office Minister @JennyChapman describes the use of executions as “abhorrent.” @UKHouseofLords
Foreign Secretary @YvetteCooperMP should urgently condemn this barbarism at the UN Security Council @sec_council
See all these weapons? The IDF found all of them in a school in southern Lebanon. Yes, a school. Hezbollah, just like Hamas, is using schools, hospitals, and kindergartens as weapon storage.
The mainstream media will never show you this.
Share this.
My Honest Account of what happened last night.
I arrived at Epsom expecting to see maybe 20/30 people there. It was only a flash demo after all.
But such is the anger and feeling of betrayal in Epsom that there were several hundred people at the station.
There were not many police either.They had been caught on the hop.We marched off in a peaceful manor. No shouting. No singing.When we reached the junction we decided this was as good a place as any to hold our protest.
We held the traffic up.But I did not hear one motorist complain.Most were locals and were giving us the thumbs up from their cars.Everything was peaceful.And orderly.
Then as van after van of riot police started to arrive the atmosphere turned a bit. It was a total overreaction by boys in blue.And one that I have not seen at other demos such as the pro pally mobs that have plagued our streets for the last couple of years.
Any major trouble was only averted by the leadership of our guys at the front calling for calm.
All we were asking for was a bit of honesty and a bit of dialogue.We were met with riot shields.
Well done to the people of Epsom.
Shame on the police.
The Islamic regime of Iran murders innocent people who dared to protest against Islam’s tyranny and oppression!
Please share if you stand with the people of Iran against the terror regime!
🚨URGENT! Don't scroll past, there is an innocent teenage girl here that needs your help. Share this so the world knows her story.
Niloufar Esfahani is her name, Niloufar means water lily in Farsi.
They are going to HANG her.
Before that, they are going to RAPE her.
One of many.
This is the true face of Islamic Republic.
Look into her eyes, her beautiful face.
What has she done but ask for freedom? For a normal life?
Niloufar could be your daughter, your sister, your girlfriend.
THIS is why we want this regime to end, this is exactly why.
She is in a dark cell now, scared, probably thinking no one will save her, no one cares, be that person.
BE HER VOICE.
#DigitalBlackOutIran
#IranMassacre
https://t.co/OzrQEC8NEC
Flashback: This is how Muslims treat Christians in Congo: A Christian village was turned into a slaughterhouse by Muslims.
In one of the horrific massacres in Ituri Province, armed Muslim terrorists raided the peaceful Christian community and butchered innocent men, women, and children while chanting Bismillah (“In the name of Allah”).
This wasn’t just a massacre. It was an Islamic ritual killing, a human sacrifice carried out as an act of worship.
If the roles were reversed, the entire world would be in an uproar. No one seems to care when Christians, including women and children, are massacred, ethnically cleansed, and forced to deny their faith in Asia and Africa.
Not even one European leader stood up for the Christians of Nigeria or Congo.
Enough with the hypocrisy and cowardice. The world must wake up before it’s too late. Save these people and don’t sacrifice your children’s future by letting the jihadists into the West!