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New Yorkers Can’t Trust Their Mayor to Tell Them the Truth About Islamic Terror Attacks – PJ Media

And so you’re back from outer space, I just walked in to find you here with that tab look upon your face …





Ed: David wrote about this yesterday, but since I took the day off, I’d like to take a shot at this too. This is pathetic, especially considering the context of the event being a public loyalty pledge to the supposedly new Supreme Leader. The use of a cardboard cutout could not possibly be more apropos of how the IRGC is using Mojtaba to cover for an outright military dictatorship, whether Mojtaba is alive, injured, or dead. He’s a cardboard cutout for their own power grab, and frankly, a lot more useful dead than alive to the IRGC at this point. 

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Stephen Green at PJ Media: Khuzestan is Iran’s most oil-rich and ethnically diverse province — and the Arabs there have finally had it up to here with the theocrats who run things in Tehran. Whoever they are today, that is.

In a daring new statement, the Khuzestan Arab Tribes Assembly this week calling for “a free, democratic, and federal Iran,” and that they “firmly believe that the Islamic Republic’s system has violated the rights of the people of Iran.”

While Khuzestan borders Iraq and is roughly one-third Arab, the assembly called the province the “beating heart of Iran” and emphasized “the protection of Iran’s territorial integrity and reject any separatist or divisive project that harms the homeland of Iran.”

“We see ourselves in the transitional phase from the current repressive regime toward a free, democratic, and federal Iran. We can play a constructive role alongside other compatriots in building a prosperous and united Iran.”

Ed: I’d love to see this as the beginning of a general uprising against the IRGC junta. Khuzestan is a long way off from Tehran, however, and the terrain of Iran doesn’t give them any help in pressuring the capital directly with a popular uprising. If the province does turn hostile to the regime, it might come under pressure from Shi’ite militias in Iraq that still take orders from the IRGC. Still, it might rattle the IRGC enough to dispatch resources to quell any rebellion, and it might put pressure on the regular army to assert itself now that the theocracy is all but dead. 





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Ed: CNN is despicable. They literally made terrorists the sympathetic figures in its coverage – until everyone called them out. David wrote about “PNN” earlier today. 

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Ace of Spades HQ: CNN’s spokespotato and inveterate liar Brian Stelter is pretending it was only the “tweet” which was egregious. But he’s lying. The tweet just repeated the first sentence “lede” of the story.

The story was later stealth-edited, but people had screencapped it. …

I think that was a good explanation ten years ago. Now they know what they’re doing. They’re simply in a war with us, although most of them are too meek and cowardly to do the killing themselves, so their contribution to the effort to literally murder us is to produce propaganda on behalf of tranny mass-shooters, antifa arsonists and street-fascists, and Islamofascist terrorists.

Ed: And they wonder why Americans view the news media as almost entirely untrustworthy. That’s not a mistake; the product is entirely corrupt. They do not report the news, but rather work to create narratives in support of the radical progressive elite. 

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Ed: The counterprotester later proved the point by claiming this didn’t change his mind. 

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Batya Ungar-Sargon: Whatever you think of Lang and his ideology (I personally find putting bacon on the Quran, as Lang has done at past protests, to be offensive), his protest was non-violent and his speech 100% protected. That’s what it means to be an American: You get to have bad opinions without getting killed.

Yet Mamdani went out of his way to call out Lang—while running cover for actual terrorists, not naming them or their ideology.

Notice also the difference in tone between how Mamdani described the violent terrorists and the protestors: The protestors are white supremacists whose actions are “rooted in bigotry and racism” and are “an affront to our city’s values.” But while the Mayor admits what followed was “more disturbing,” the actions of the violent terrorists are all conveyed in the passive voice: “The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.” It is “the attempt” that is reprehensible. The attempt made by who? The Mayor leaves it up to your imagination!

This wasn’t a one off. At a press conference on Monday, the Mayor again led by condemning the “Islamophobia” of the protestors. “This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy,” he said, though it was two Muslims who almost committed mass murder.

Ed: If it weren’t for double standards, progressives wouldn’t have any at all. It takes a very special brand of stupid to argue that the “Islamophobia” of a peaceful protest is somehow more objectionable than literal bomb-tossing Muslims attempting mass murder at the same event. That’s what Democrats elected in New York City, though. 





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Ed: Well … there are multiple brands of very special kinds of stupid these days, clearly. 

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NY Post: One of the accused terrorists busted for lobbing explosive devices near Gracie Mansion flashed a sick salute honoring ISIS as he was led in shackles from a police precinct Monday.

Emir Balat, 18, was seen holding up his right index finger — a universal salute for the terror group — and grinning at the press while being led by a cop and an FBI agent.

Balat, wearing a black T-shirt and beige pants, made the gesture before one of the officers flanking him slapped down his hand.

Ed: Hey, it’s New York City. Most of its residents have a one-finger salute for Balat in response. The video shows a police officer trying to “swat” his hand down, but that’s likely not from being offended (although I’m sure he was), but to protect Balat’s rights. He’s making it very easy for a jury to convict him. 

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Ed: Actually, in Hollywood, you’d get tossed out of the room for making a Muslim a villain. They wouldn’t be laughing. 

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WSJ: It would turn out to be the IRIS Dena, an Iranian missile frigate. By the time rescuers reached the site at 6 a.m. last Wednesday, it had already slipped beneath the waves, leaving dozens of bodies floating in an oil slick next to 32 survivors, many with mysteriously shattered leg bones.





Twelve hours later, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth filled in the blanks. The Iranian warship had been struck by a Mark 48 torpedo launched from an American submarine, bringing an explosive end to what had been intended as a relatively low-key tour.

Two weeks earlier the crew—many of them cadets—had been gathered in their summer white uniforms along a beachfront promenade in the Indian port city of Visakhapatnam, soaking up the sun as part of a festive conclave of global navies that included Russia and the U.S.

They had taken in the Taj Mahal, visited museums and posed for selfies with onlookers.

Ed: Who gives a crap about their tourist activities? This is part of the complaint about the sinking of an Iranian missile frigate in the middle of a war by claiming that it was “unarmed” and that its sinking is a war crime. Iranians have targeted American armed forces for four decades, from Beirut to Iraq, and countless civilians both directly and via their terror proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah. Dozens of Americans were killed at a music concert on October 7, 2023, for instance. The Dena was a legitimate military target, unlike most of the Iranian regime’s targets, including its missile and drone targets in this same war. 

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Ed: At least she knows how to grift effectively. She’s gone from New Jack City to MAGA, with Henyard always her own favorite charity. This is a little off topic today, but it’s a good palate cleanser. If you enjoy this, give Nate a follow. 

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He builds his philosophy of life and liberty directly from the Torah. From praying at the Western Wall right after his election to his unapologetic defense of Jewish values at YU – his support is absolute.

Ed: Klein will have a report later at the Jerusalem Post on this story. Milei may be one of the most courageous politicians in our lifetime, and it’s a credit to the Argentinians that they appreciate that. His rejection of moral relativism is a message that the entire West needs to hear, and to heed. 

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Ed: I saw some of these reports today too, but I’d be surprised if they get a single mine laid. Their navy would need heavy escorts and air cover to accomplish the slow task of mine-laying in any significant number, and the Iranians have neither. The US has numerous assets on the surface, below the surface, and in the air to put an immediate end to minelaying operations. The best way to deal with that is to destroy the ports that these smaller ships would use for this purpose, and right behind that is just to sink anything leaving those ports. 

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Ed: Not too bad … for a prop.

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