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[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

To those who claimed that no woman in Iran has ever been flogged for refusing to wear the hijab: LOOK AT HER BACK.

This woman is one of the brave members of my #WhiteWednesdays campaign against compulsory hijab.

She sent me this photo of her scarred back after being punished with 74 lashes for the “crime” of showing her hair.

Holding a Woman, Life, Freedom slogan, she refused to be silenced. Here is her testimony:

“The morality police arrested me for resisting their van. My ‘crime’ was unveiling. After months of court hearings, I was sentenced to 74 lashes. The cleric overseeing the punishment stood there to ensure it was carried out.

I won’t give up my fight against this brutal regime, but we are fed up with living as prisoners in our own homeland.”

Seventy-four lashes. For showing her hair. In the 21st century.

This is barbarism. And you tell me, how is this different from ISIS?

[Rose @RoseHills04]

@DrEliDavid No sh$t Sherlock. 🙄

[Imam of Peace @Imamofpeace]

A Statement of Conscience on October 7

I will not start by saying ‘as a Muslim’ or ‘as an imam’, but as a human being.

On October 7, over 1,200 innocent people were killed in a single day. Families were shot in their homes. Young people out dancing were hunted across open fields. Over 250 people, including children and the elderly, were dragged into Gaza as hostages. I think of a mother hiding in a safe room with her baby’s mouth covered. I think of a father listening as the line went quiet. I think of families who waited month after month for someone to come home, only to receive a coffin. I didn’t need my faith to recognize the evil of what happened. My heart told me first.

But I’m a Muslim and an imam, and I owe the world one honest sentence: what was done that day was a crime against God. God teaches that whoever kills one innocent soul, it is as if he had killed all humanity.

This day has an author: Yahya Sinwar. He planned it, ordered it, and knew what would follow. Every death of that day and war he started rests on him and Hamas leaders who sat in tunnels and foreign hotels and called slaughter a victory. It rests on every Palestinian leader who cheered, excused, handed out sweets, or said nothing. They chose this. They own it.

But Sinwar did not invent himself. He was the fruit of a tree planted almost a century ago by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas named itself in its founding charter as the Brotherhood’s branch in Palestine. The Brotherhood’s poison is slow. It arrives through study circles, youth camps, charity boxes, and kind words to lonely young men. Drop by drop, it teaches him that his religion is a political party, his neighbour is his enemy, the Jew is the cause of his sorrow, and God is pleased by rage. By the time the gun arrives, the soul is already taken.

I have seen this poison in mosques where sermons became rallies and young men could recite slogans but not sit still for a verse on mercy. Every people that let the Brotherhood in has paid in blood and ruined generations. It has never built anything it did not first set on fire.

Behind Hamas stands another hand: the IRGC. It was the IRGC’s money, weapons, and training that turned a hateful idea into an army. One calls itself Sunni and the other Shia, and they may curse each other’s creeds, but they are united in what they worship. It is not God. It is power. The same IRGC that armed the killers of October 7 shoots Iranian girls for showing their hair, hangs young men for asking to be free, and has left graves from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut. They speak in God’s name. So did Pharaoh speak in the name of heaven.

So let me say this clearly. Hamas and the IRGC are not merely enemies of Islam. That would be too small a charge, as if their crime were only against us. They are enemies of God. God is the Giver of life, yet they deal in death. God calls Himself the Most Merciful, yet they have made cruelty a sacrament. God honoured the children of Adam, yet they look at a child and see a target or a shield. To murder what God created and sign His name to it is the oldest blasphemy.

And we Muslims have been too quiet. Some of us were afraid. Some told ourselves it was not our business. Some, God forgive them, felt something other than horror that morning and never confessed it. Silence was the soil this poison grew in. I will not add to it.

So on this anniversary, let us say plainly what our scripture already says. The Jews are not our enemies. They are our cousins in Abraham, and their dead were created by the same God who created us. Today belongs to them: the murdered, the hostages, and families who still set a place at the table. To them I say: I am sorry for what was done to you by men who used the words of my prayers. You’re not alone in your grief or remembrance.

The enemies of God are those who murder in His name. We know their names. It is time we said them from our own pulpits, in our own voices, before they speak for us again.

Imam Tawhidi

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Has everyone realized this?

The UK and France, which are being invaded by Muslims, have nuclear weapons.

If they take over the governments too, what guarantee is there that they won't fire them at America?

[Ami @Ami_Marisol]

Do you want to know what's at stake this November?

Right now, House committee dems are developing ideas for potential oversight actions (hearings, leg items, reports, etc). They are preparing *now* for a win in November, so they can begin a full court press in January.

This will cover every department and agency action from the routine (eg reprogramming funds from pet programs) to the more involved (Maduro, cartel strikes, etc). The House has historically been the chamber dedicated to the theater portion of “political theater” but if the Dems win, expect it to look like a musical of organized chaos.

There will be a lot of throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. And committee leaders will use their positions to figure out what attacks are resonating and which ones aren’t. The focus will be more on the bread and butter issues: healthcare, affordability, etc. And expect House Dems to come together on legislative items to push that message on bills that will allow them to make Senate Rs look like they are against making living more affordable for American workers.

The culture wars will also be on the table, but it will be focused less on making points you'd hear from the Western Mass covid conscious bar patrons, and more on constituencies that have traditionally represented core voting blocks for Dems (women, minorities, etc). To the extent there will be any DSA-esque talking points mirrored- it will be those intersectionality issues that connect class-conscioussness with race-consciousness, and framed in subtle and not-entirely-accurate ways like "the disappearing Black middle class."

And because no member of this administration will want to cooperate with any policy and/or character assassination attempts by the House, expect support for these efforts from the usual suspects and new players of DC think tanks and advocacy orgs. [Side note: a good tell of whether a "Committee Report" is substantively driven vs theater driven: is it authored by both sides or just one (with minority views), does it lift whole passages or policy points from outside orgs, and was any agency involved in creating it?]

To the extent the American people want to see a focus on real, workable policies that *actually* help families and working class Americans, do not look to the House. Assuming the House does flip, and the Senate stays like it (with possibly thinner margins), you can expect even less (no, don't laugh) from Congress next year.

[Rose @RoseHills04]

@MrsBevelynW Sorry to hear this; these situations are so difficult. Appreciate how you are handling it.

[Rose @RoseHills04]

@emzanotti I order cigars for both of us to share. Great relaxing time we spend together.

[Rose @RoseHills04]

@TheoManBabies She is one of the worst hypocrites on X. Mark and avoid.

[Rose @RoseHills04]

@MrWhiplash_ Amen to that!

[Lorena SR 🇪🇦 @LorenaR97671]

Perdón por mi opinión de ultraderecha pero a mi no me gusta llenar el pais de hombres que nos consideran putas por no taparnos la cabeza con una sabana negra

[Bleu Blanc Rouge ! 🇫🇷 @LBleuBlancRouge]

🚨 ALERTE INFO - Des émeutiers mettent le feu à l’entrée du lycée Vauquelin à Paris et bloquent les sorties alors que du personnel, des élèves et des journalistes sont confinés à l’intérieur 😳🤯

On assiste à une tentative de meurtre en direct. Toutes les lignes rouges sont franchies.

Ces images sont terrifiantes.

[Rose @RoseHills04]

@LeadingReport Fake news

[Rob Maness @RobManess]

https://t.co/1LfxWgKJef

[Rose @RoseHills04]

WTF!🤬

[Todd Wilhelm @ThouArtTheMan]

On March 15, 2024, a Sovereign Grace Churches pastor, Russell Tusing, was arrested and charged with sexual battery (FVA) and child molestation (FVA) of his daughter. His denomination removed him from his job and the local church shut down soon after because of alleged embezzlement by Tusing. On December 15, 2025 Tusing had a hearing where he pled guilty to a lesser charge and received 10 years probation. Last Wednesday, Tusing was back in the pulpit of another church! Attached is a clip from his hour-long sermon and also a partial transcript of two of his children testifying at the court hearing.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

“If Christians don’t get involved in politics, politics will erase their right to be Christians.”

- Charlie Kirk

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

We are quietly isolating an entire generation of older people from society, and nobody seems to give a damn.

I took my 84-year-old grandfather to his local bank branch on Friday.

The exact same brick-and-mortar branch where he opened his first account in 1978.

We pull up to the front doors. They’re locked.

Inside is an empty lobby with a small sign: “Cashless Service Hub.”

A young guy in a polo shirt opens the door and tells us:

“We don't handle teller deposits or paper checks here anymore. You just need to download the mobile portal and scan your routing number.”

My grandfather pulls out an old flip phone with a cracked screen and a paper pension check from his coat pocket.

His hands were visibly shaking.

The employee just shrugs.

“You can do it on an iPad, or have a family member manage the app for you.”

This man worked forty-two years in a manufacturing plant. Paid his taxes. Fought for this country.

And now he is made to feel completely useless and stripped of his dignity because he doesn't own an iOS device.

Tech isn't making life easier if it completely locks out the people who built the world we’re living in.

Are your elderly parents or grandparents running into this wall too?

[Rose @RoseHills04]

Politicians are not our saviors but politics affects our lives and ability to worship our God. Yes, we need to vote!

[🎹 Ames™ 🎹 @AmesStraight]

BREAKING: Christian pastor Myles Rutherford is facing backlash and calls to cancel him after urging Christians to get off the sidelines and VOTE.

Rutherford warned that if Christians refuse to participate in politics, others will gladly fill the vacuum:

“Christians should stand up and get involved in politics. If you don’t, Muslims will.”

He told Christians to stop asking for the country to change if they aren’t willing to “get up off our tails,” go to the polls, and vote according to biblical values.

Then came the warning that sparked the outrage:

“If you don’t show up and vote, don’t be upset when everything goes awry 10 to 15 years from now, there’s a mosque on every corner, everybody is calling out to Allah, and things start changing to Sharia law.”

Now critics want him canceled.

I mean ... he ain't wrong. 🤷🏼‍♀️

He said what he believes. People are free to agree, disagree—and VOTE accordingly. 🇺🇸

[Rose @RoseHills04]

@Yej938 @shemaiahng I attend a Baptist church and this is definitely an issue. Have tried to push for stronger studies but …

[Rose @RoseHills04]

@shemaiahng It’s why I rarely attend women’s events at my church and I’m not the only one 🙄

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

🚨 PEARLAND, TEXAS: A NEW MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR ISLAMIC HUB IS RISING.

Shadow Creek Muslim Community Center (SMCC) says its existing facility was built for roughly 300 people but now serves more than 1,000.

Now it is expanding onto 3.3 acres on Kirby Commons Drive with plans for:

Expanded prayer halls. Playgrounds. Sports fields. Community gathering spaces. Youth and educational programming.

The price tag?

$4.5 MILLION.

More than $2.5 MILLION has already been raised from more than 10,000 donors.

But now look at who leads it.

SMCC President and Imam Dr. Basem Hamid sits on the Islamic Society of Greater Houston's Fatwa Council and, according to our research, has authored formal Islamic legal rulings for the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA).

UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS.

A fatwa is an Islamic legal opinion interpreting Sharia, guidance about how Muslims should live and act according to Islamic law.

AMJA is not simply another mosque organization. It is an organization of Islamic jurists that issues fatwas, answers questions about Islamic law and trains American imams and religious leaders in Islamic jurisprudence.

So the man leading this massive Pearland expansion isn't merely raising money and constructing a mosque.

He participates in institutions devoted to interpreting and applying Islamic law in America.

And the institution he leads is expanding its reach beyond prayer.

SMCC has partnered with the Shadow Creek High School Muslim Students Association, including for World Hijab Day, and publicly celebrates people converting to Islam.

Hamid has also participated in local civic and interfaith efforts. We have even seen him appear with county and city officials, including during Brazoria County's recognition of Ramadan and Eid and in a meeting with Pearland's mayor and police chief.

PUT THE WHOLE PICTURE TOGETHER:
3.3 ACRES.
$4.5 MILLION.
$2.5+ MILLION ALREADY RAISED.
10,000+ DONORS.

PRAYER. EDUCATION. YOUTH. RECREATION. COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE.

AND A LEADER INVOLVED IN ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE.

These large, multi-function Islamic campuses are appearing across Texas, creating permanent institutions designed to serve communities far beyond Friday prayer.

And that makes the money a major unanswered question.

WHO ARE THE BIGGEST DONORS? WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM? IS ANY OF IT COMING FROM FOREIGN OR INSTITUTIONAL SOURCES? AND IS ANYONE IN TEXAS FOLLOWING IT?

Pearland residents deserve to know exactly what is being built, who is financing it, who is leading it, and what institutions stand behind that leadership.

THIS ISN'T JUST ANOTHER MOSQUE BUILDING.

PEARLAND IS WATCHING A MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR ISLAMIC INSTITUTIONAL HUB TAKE SHAPE IN REAL TIME.

FULL REPORT: https://t.co/p1E6qQsUyH