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They are fighting and killing on many fronts worldwide. And writing editorials about the incoming U.S. president:
"What Trump did during his first term in office, was carried on by his successor Biden. Their war against the mujahideen has never stopped. Therefore, the matter will not be different for a mujahid in his trench or stationed on a border. The enemy is the enemy, war is war, and jihad is jihad."
"It remains for us to remind Trump that he ended his first presidency claiming to eliminate the Islamic State, and here he is again carrying a legacy of failure and lies. He failed to stop the Islamic State's jihad, and lied in his claims of eliminating it to the point that he announced its defeat about 16 times in just 99 days!"
A few weeks ago, an image went viral. In Belgium a migrant used the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to cook an omelette. For many, the desecration brought to mind a quote from French author Jean Raspail, written in 1973 in his novel Camp of the Saints, about a sudden invasion of Muslim, Indian and African migrants into France:
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door.”
“Beware of two errors: despising the world God sustains, or worshipping the culture He restrains.”
— Abraham Kuyper, Common Grace Vol. 1, Ch. 30
"[Successful NY Mayoral candidate] Mamdani built his campaign on the infrastructure of the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA and its city allies can dispatch activists across New York and, with a network of progressive partner organizations, can mobilize young people, get out the vote, and do the work of door-to-door politics.
"We saw this dynamic many times in the twentieth century: socialists rise to power, their policies degrade the quality of life, and, as they enter the endgame, they tighten their grip on power and offload resentments onto their ideological, racial, and economic enemies.
"...the twentieth century taught us that left-wing voters have extraordinary defenses against reality."
-- Christopher Rufo
