⁣THE FALL OF ASSAD

On Nov. 27, forces affiliated with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Islamist rebel group based in Idlib province in northern Syria, launched a military operation that appeared to have as its objective the capture of the strategic M4 highway connecting the city of Aleppo with Hama.

Eleven days later, on Dec. 8, HTS and other opposition forces occupied the capital of Damascus, forcing President Bashar al-Assad into exile in Russia.

The collapse of the al-Assad government has left a power vacuum that has upended the strategic balance of power in the region.

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PUTIN READIES WAR WITH NATO AS RUSSIA STRIKES KIEV, SYRIA IN CHAOS
Interview for Danny Haiphong

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RUSSIA UKRAINE ISRAEL PUTIN BIDEN NETANYAHU ZELENSKYY
Interview for Shaun Attwood

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⁣MAHMOUD ABBAS IS IN HIS FINAL ACT AS BETRAYER OF THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE
By Sami Al-Arian

Desperate to stay relevant, the faithful US-Israeli 'handpicked leader' has intensified his crackdown on Palestinians in the West Bank and pledged to work with Trump.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has been trying to stay relevant as events in Gaza, the West Bank and across the region have been moving at a much faster pace than the octogenarian politician is able to cope with.

This week, amid an Israeli genocide that has been unceasingly raging in Gaza for 14 months, Abbas's security forces brazenly killed several prominent resistance fighters in Jenin in an attempt to appease the Israelis and their American benefactors.

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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 222 Highlight

▫️Discussing Syria, Palestine and the End of Zionism with Dr. Sami Al-Arian.

Dr. Sami Al-Arian is the Director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) at Istanbul Zaim University. Originally from Palestine, he lived in the US for four decades (1975-2015) where he was a tenured academic and persecuted by the US Government, prominent speaker and human rights activist before relocating to Turkey.

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⁣ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 223

Live Stream Scheduled for December 24, 2024 at 3:00pm ET

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CIGA put this interview up on YouTube. It got 40,000 views in a few hours.

YouTube took it down for “violating terms of service.”

Which means for telling the truth.

Watch what YouTube doesn’t want you to see.

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A DANGEROUS WORLD
Interview for Judging Freedom

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⁣IN SEARCH OF EMPATHY

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails of Nazis after WW 2) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

Captain G. M. Gilbert, US Army psychologist, Author of Nuremburg Diary

In September 1995 I was working for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), charged with eliminating Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. I was the primary liaison between UNSCOM and Israeli intelligence at the time and would make frequent trips to Israel which could last between a few days and a few weeks. During one of these visits, I invited my wife Marina to join me over the weekend.

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⁣VETERANS DISCUSS THE STRUGGLES OF HOMELESSNESS
By Stuck In Cali*

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⁣It’s funny how they always try to create dictatorships by holding democratically-empowering elections, and we always try to create democracies by staging right wind coups…

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⁣BREAKFAST DINNER AT DENNYS W VETERAN JAMES & ASHLEY ON CHRISTMAS
By Stuck In Cali*

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⁣ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 224

Live Stream Scheduled for December 27, 2024 at 8:00pm ET

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RUSSIA ANNIHILATING UKRAINE'S ARMY
Interview for Dialogue Works

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This post may anger many.

I don’t care.

If you’re Muslim, and you support what is going on in Syria today, you only prove what others say about your religion—that is a faith born of violence and intolerance.

Now, I personally believe that Islam is founded on the principles of peace and tolerance.

Which, in my mind, tells me those so-called “Muslims” who cheer what is happening in Syria today are, in fact, anything but Muslim.

They are unbelievers—kafir—and should be treated by the Islamic world as such.

Apostates who should be eradicated with extreme prejudice.

And the non-Muslim world should line up to help in this extermination.

Syria is about to be turned into hell on earth.

All because we fooled ourselves into believing that an al-Qaeda terrorist named Jolani could be reformed.

You can’t reform evil.

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WORD OF THE YEAR FOR 2024

Oreshnik is a Russian medium-range ballistic missile that was revealed on November 21, 2024. On that day, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a strike on the military-industrial complex in Dnepr using an Oreshnik with a non-nuclear hypersonic warhead.

The next day, Vladimir Putin said that Russia had a stockpile of such missiles ready for use, and their serial production had already been established.

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One of the Islamic leaders I have had the honor and privilege to meet and learn from is Imam Faisal Ahmad of the Fiqh Institute and Dawah Center in Watervliet, New York.

He brought to my attention the Treaty of Umar Ibn Khattab, agreed to between the second Caliph Umar and the Christians of Jerusalem in 636 AD/CE.

It should be noted that following the implementation of this treaty, Jews who had been exiled from Rome for 500 years were allowed back into Jerusalem to practice their faith.

The treaty declared that the lives and possessions of Christians, their domiciles, their places of worship and all that concerns their religion, shall not be placed under any constraint, nor shall any Christian be harmed.

This treaty remained in place until 1099, when the Crusaders captured Jerusalem and put its non-Christian inhabitants to the sword.

For all those who profess Sharia law for post-Assad Syria, you need to demand that the terms of the Treaty of Umar Ibn Khattab be incorporated into the Syrian Constitution, and apply to all faiths and creeds equally.

Otherwise how can one take you seriously.
I thank Imam Faisal Ahmad for his wisdom and guidance, and for helping educate me on this important aspect of Islam and Islamic history.

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