Transfigurations: News and Views: August 7, 2025

ISIS soldiers behead Christians in Mozambique, burning church and homes: 'Silent genocide' International observers are reporting that ISIS-aligned soldiers are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa – with some of the most brutal attacks happening in the nation of Mozambique.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) – a counter-terrorism research nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. – is sounding that alarm about what it describes as a "silent genocide" taking place against Christians.

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The West—in a fight for survival—does not even know it is on a battlefield While Islam only accounts for 1.62% of the Irish population, it is the third largest religious sector. It has resulted in the establishment of 50 mosques and prayer centers in the country—with more than one in each province. It has also triggered the cancellations of numerous Christian festivals so as not to upset the Muslim population. Despite their current low representation, Muslims are not dissuaded from complaining that “99% of teachers are Irish, white and Catholic” and not more representative of Islam.

Muslim Rape Gangs: The most sustained and complete race-based crime in British history The mass rape of children by “grooming gangs” has been ongoing for decades, with tens of thousands of victims. Despite reports and inquiries, no significant action has been taken against those responsible.

Instead, it has been met with denial, deflection and trivialisation. There have been no high-profile resignations or sackings of police chiefs, council officials or Members of Parliament (“MPs”). Worse still, the British establishment has enabled and apologised for Pakistani Muslim rapists.

UK Gov Wants to Turn YouTube Into 1984’s Big Brother TV People are cutting the cord, dumping TVs and the mandatory “Fund the BBC” tax is declining. What’s to be done?

Mandate more stuff.

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UN Admits 95% of its Gaza Aid Trucks Were “Intercepted”

The UNOPS ‘Mechanism for Gaza’ revealed that of the around 2,600 aid trucks entering Gaza, only 300 made it to their destination. 2,310 trucks or 88% of them were ‘intercepted’.

Much of the ‘aid’ being brought in by the UN and its allies, including the UN’s WFP, UNICEF, the International Red Cross, the International Medical Corps and the World Central Kitchen, whose founder Jose Andres, has been constantly attacking Israel in the media, was ‘intercepted’. Screenshot

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Pastor Warns Parents: If Democrats Pass AB 495, 'This Is It. Pack Up, Grab Your Kids, Leave California' Hibbs calls AB 495 the "California Legislature Trafficking Bill." "It's a meat-market bill. It's a trafficking bill," he said.

Here's how we got here. Last spring, the California Assembly Democrats decided to cleverly switch the language of the California Family Code to somehow "protect" children illegally in the country from feared ICE raids by allowing shirttail relatives or, for that matter, perfect strangers to take them out of school or daycare. This was an apparent attempt to allow NGOs, non-profits, or other groups —you know, the same bunch who lost those more than 300,000 children who were brought over the borders by Joe Biden's cartel buddies and disappeared— to take the kids again without parental permission or notification. The bill also gives these strangers the ability to provide children with medical and dental care. Think abortions, sex change operations, STD checks, mental exams, and female circumcisions.

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Indiana Teacher Fired for His Religious Beliefs Will Get His Day in Court Kluge taught at Brownsburg High School for four years. In 2017, the school district mandated that teachers refer to transgender students using pronouns and names inconsistent with their sex.

Kluge requested a religious accommodation under Title VII to call all his students by their last names—like a coach—instead of their pronouns. The school district initially granted Kluge this accommodation, and he taught under it for a school year. But after complaints, the district revoked the accommodation and Brownsburg terminated Kluge’s employment in 2021.

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Medical Schools Still Discriminate Based on Race, Records Show Accepted black applicants had lower average MCAT scores than accepted white or Asian students at all but one school, Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Thirteen schools accepted black students with average MCAT scores lower than the score of the average rejected Asian or white applicant. That suggests black applicants receive significant preferential treatment.

In fact, at two schools—Eastern Virginia Medical School and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health—black applicants were about ten times likelier to be accepted than were Asian and white applicants with similar grades and test scores. And Asian students face a conspicuously difficult road to acceptance, despite significantly better credentials on average.

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Why DEI Was Already Dying -VD Hanson

DEI is collapsing under its own contradictions—no longer able to define who qualifies, who deserves preference, or why identity should outweigh merit.

The Unbearable Lightness of the Woke Mind

“Political correctness” pales next to the stupidity, toxic hyperbole, and preposterous lies of wokeness.

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Trump Orders New Work on Census: Illegals 'Will Not be Counted' The data collected by the decennial census determine the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives and is also used to distribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds to local communities.

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Say Goodbye to the New York You Knew

When wealthy residents flee, working-class communities suffer—not thrive. As Stossel points out, “Losing them means losing tax revenue and jobs.” He even shares an old clip of Donald Trump, when he lived in New York, warning, “The rich people are going to leave. And other people are going to leave. You are going to end up with lots of people that don't produce, and then, that's the spiral, that's the end.” Trump himself, of course, eventually left New York and later became president—the left’s ultimate nightmare. Perhaps they should spend more time worrying about the real nightmares he warned about.

After Midtown Shooting, Kathy Hochul Demands Spreading NY’s Failed Gun Control Policies to the Rest of America Following the heinous murders by a deranged individual in a Manhattan office building, Gov. Hochul demanded that AR-15s, which she intentionally mislabels and derides as “assault weapons,” must be banned from ownership by law-abiding citizens across the nation. She pointed to New York’s onerous gun control laws as the example the rest of the country should follow.

“The killer used an AR-15–style assault rifle. The same weapon of war used in mass shootings across America,” said Gov. Hochul in a statement. “New York has some of the strongest gun laws in the nation. We banned assault weapons. We strengthened our Red Flag Law. We closed dangerous loopholes. But our laws only go so far when an AR-15 can be obtained in a state with weak gun laws and brought into New York to commit mass murder.”

Gov. Hochul’s protestations, though, only reveal the folly of her argument. New York has strict gun control laws. None of them, however, stopped a murderer intent on committing unthinkable and sickening acts of violence from carrying out his crimes. New York’s laws only leave law-abiding citizens defenseless against such individuals who have no respect for gun control laws or human life.

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