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In recent days, President Trump and Pope Leo have had very public disagreements about, among other things, the justness of the war with Iran.

It turns out that Leo is a leftist who, despite his American roots, is more comfortable currying favor with totalitarians than opposing them.

For example, the Pope has continued his predecessor’s practice of acquiescing to the Chinese Communist Party as it seeks to crush China’s Catholic and other religious communities. That’s indefensible.

And, during his recent visit to Algeria, Leo professed that Christians and Muslims can be friends, ignoring that country’s ongoing and aggressive persecution of those who follow Jesus.

While Christ taught that peacemakers are blessed, ignoring sharia-adherent Iranian and other Muslims’ obligation not to take Christians and Jews as friends – and, indeed, to kill them – is a formula for genocide, not genuine and just peace.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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China is reportedly using space assets to help target Iran’s attacks on American personnel, equipment and regional allies.

Unfortunately, such weaponization of space against us is but a small foretaste of what Chinese dictator Xi Jinping has in the works. Especially concerning is his determination to get “boots” on the lunar ground before we return to the moon.

Asked yesterday by Maria Bartiromo whether we would “win the moon race,” President Trump demurred, observing the Chinese might “get lucky.” If they do and arrive with the intention and capability to preclude us from landing on or otherwise using the moon, its resources and strategic location, we will not just be unlucky. We’ll be at a perilous disadvantage in space and here on earth.

Consequently, every effort must now be made to win the race to the moon – and, once there, be prepared to defend it.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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President Trump has a lot of legitimate complaints at the moment about our so-called “allies.” A number of them have refused our use of bases we pay for, permission to fly through their airspace, and help with the Strait of Hormuz, upon which they rely far more than we do for access to energy.

Such fair-weather friends just added insult to injury amidst the war with Iran by granting its monstrous regime both legitimacy and influence at the United Nations.

As the non-governmental organization UN Watch caustically observed, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Australia were among the Western nations that nominated Iran to a seat on a UN committee whose responsibilities include shaping policy on human rights, women’s rights, and terrorism prevention.

To its credit, the United States stood alone in opposing this reprehensible travesty. Now President Trump should defund it.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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In the course of last week, an epic struggle took place in Austin, Texas with potentially far-reaching implications for the country as a whole. At issue is the character and content of social studies curricula that will be used to teach millions of K-12 children in that state, and perhaps another twenty across the USA over the next decade.

Over sixty hours of deliberations and votes, the Board adopted required reading and other essential knowledge and skills standards that factually describe the history of our exceptional nation. In so doing, it rejected alternatives favored by a designated terrorist group known as the Council on American Islamic Relations and its radical leftist allies designed to denigrate America and indoctrinate and alienate our kids.

Consequently, praise God, our children will have a basis for pride in this country – and grounds for helping protect her.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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Twenty-one hours of bilateral negotiations between a U.S. delegation led by Vice President J.D. Vance and one comprised of ruthless Iranian jihadists came to naught over the weekend. To paraphrase the Veep, that’s the good news.

The even better news is that President Trump has responded by announcing a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz through which the export of much oil and gas from Persian Gulf nations takes place.

By so doing, he is negating the leverage the regime in Tehran has obtained by its own assertion of control over the Strait. That arrangement allowed it to gain desperately needed revenue by continuing to sell oil to select friends like Communist China and by imposing tolls on other vessels permitted to transit.

The U.S. blockade can – and must – precipitate the mullahs’ unconditional surrender and the liberation of their enslaved people.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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Negotiations between the Iranian regime and the Trump administration resume in Pakistan this weekend. Vice President J.D. Vance heads the U.S. delegation and is clearly determined to stop the fighting.

Hard experience with such diplomacy over the past four decades makes one thing clear: Parleying with Iran’s sharia-supremacists may – I repeat, may – give the appearance of temporarily lessened hostilities. Unfortunately, since it necessarily involves perpetuating the ayatollahs and their loyalists’ hold on power, the threat they pose simply further metastasizes.

The alternative is now the only hope for avoiding what the brilliant George Rasley has correctly described as a stunning tactical victory lost to a catastrophic strategic defeat. That is to help achieve a different government in Iran – one representing, instead of murderously repressing, its people, not restricting the Strait of Hormuz, not pursuing nuclear weapons and not seeking Death to America.

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President Reagan warned that “Every generation faces an existential threat to freedom” and that our country must be protected from it and passed on to the next generation to do the same.

The Texas State Board of Education is currently deciding about a social studies curriculum for K-12 students. In my testimony on Tuesday, I warned this panel’s members that their now pending choice between a pro-freedom curriculum they adopted last year and Red-Green axis one I call the “CAIR curriculum” will have real national security implications.

The Board’s deliberations and votes are still ongoing with a kind of trench warfare being waged over line-by-line amendments.

We need to support the heroic Board members striving to equip our young people with the facts that justify love of country and the necessary willingness to defend it. I urge you to do so at BanSharia.com.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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Artemis II’s overflight of the moon’s dark side has gotten most attention. But the mission’s most important target is the lunar south pole. It happens to be that of the Chinese Communist Party, too.

Who gets there first will likely determine who controls not only its water resources. They can be used to support a manned base and its operations, to make hydrogen for fuel for further space exploration and to project power from there to here.

And that, unfortunately, is the CCP’s plan.

So the question is: At what point will the United States recognize this reality and ensure that it not only beats the Chinese Communists to the moon but is able to defend it, as well?

This is Frank Gaffney.

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Tomorrow will be a fateful day for school-age kids in the state of Texas and for countless millions of other students across our country. Incredibly, one woman’s vote in the Texas State Board of Education will determine whether children in K-12 classes over perhaps the next ten years will be given the facts they need properly to revere America or, instead, be indoctrinated by those seeking her destruction.

I will be among the witnesses testifying in favor of the pro-freedom social studies curriculum that Board member Pam Little and seven of her colleagues approved last year. Those expected to testify against it – and the standards developed to guide the relevant textbooks – will likely include employees and allies of a designated terrorist organization called the Council on American Islamic Relations.

Urge Pam Little to vote again for teaching freedom in our schools at BanSharia.com.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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Last year, Texas Governor Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood and its Council on American Islamic Relations front as terrorist organizations. One might be forgiven for thinking that would put CAIR out of business, at least in Texas.

CAIR’s business is supporting the Brotherhood’s sharia-supremacism and, in particular, its Palestinian franchise Hamas, a federally designated terrorist organization.

Yet, CAIR is currently mobilizing with leftist allies an effort to dictate what children in K-12 public schools across the nation learn about America, denouncing an approved, standard-setting social studies curriculum in Texas as “Islamophobic” and “exclusionary.”

Those aiding and abetting a terrorist organization like CAIR are on notice: By promoting sharia, a doctrine that requires the overthrow of the U.S. government, CAIR is by definition engaged in seditious conspiracy. Material support for such an entity could, and should, have consequences for all involved.

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Next Tuesday, the Texas State Board of Education will cast votes with potentially profound and far-reaching implications for students across America. That’s because publishers sell nationwide the textbooks used to teach Texans’ curriculums.

So, if Texas’ State Board of Education sticks with a patriotic framework for K-12 social studies that it adopted last year and the standards that would implement it, kids throughout America will be equipped with factual information about, for example, our Founders, our Constitution and other founding documents, and the Judeo-Christian beliefs at their core.

If, on the other hand, a designated terrorist group called the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its leftist allies have their way, our children will instead be indoctrinated with political agendas inimical to our freedoms and values.

Join us in encouraging the Texas board to vote for a pro-America curriculum at BanSharia.com.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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On March 3rd, 1.9 million Texans voted to prohibit sharia law in their state. Next Tuesday, the Council on American Islamic Relations intends to win a vote involving just fifteen people, insinuating sharia’s agenda into textbooks used in Texas and across the country.

The occasion is an April 7th hearing and vote in the State Board of Education on whether to stick with its previously approved, pro-America curriculum for K-through-12 social studies or adopt a “CAIR curriculum.” It may be the most important battle in Texas since the Alamo, a structure that, according to CAIR’s version of history, was a tribute to Islam.

Sharia-supremacists – like all totalitarians – know if they can indoctrinate the children, they can dominate the society. Texans and other Americans who don’t want a designated terrorist group like CAIR dictating what our kids are taught must say so now.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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President Trump is now declaring that he has achieved “regime change” in Iran. It’s very welcome that that is, in fact, our purpose. So is Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s report that what’s left of the previous Iranian government is fracturing.

But the President is indicating that we are now dealing with government officials three layers down with whom we have not interacted before. He is suggesting that amounts to regime change.

Unfortunately, if such interlocutors adhere to their predecessors’ apocalypitic sharia-supremacist agenda, the inevitable result will be that the Iranian people remain enslaved and ours, among many others in the region and beyond, remain imperilled.

President Trump is right to seek regime change and to insist on new people leading the government of Iran that emerges from this war. But putting toxic old wine into new bottles will assure our defeat.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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The Council on American Islamic Relations has been the Muslim Brotherhood’s pitbull front group from shortly after its organizational meeting in 1993, which was wiretapped by the FBI. Its particular mission has been supporting the Brothers’ terrorist Palestinian franchise, Hamas.

CAIR itself has been designated as a terrorist organization by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida’s Ron DeSantis. Gov. DeSantis is expected shortly to sign pathbreaking legislation that, among other things, confirms that status and would effectively shut CAIR’s operations in Florida.

Next week, though, a member of the Texas State Board of Education named Pam Little – who has been endorsed by that terrorist organization – is apparently poised to cast the deciding vote to approve an anti-American “CAIR curriculum” for K-through-12 social studies education that would not only be used in Texan schools, but across the country. That must not happen.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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This afternoon, Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlevi is scheduled to address the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas. His appearance affords an opportunity for a potential transitional leader of a post-ayatollah Iranian government to clarify what is at stake in the nearly month-long war in the Middle East.

Hopefully, he will speak for the vast majority of his countrymen who yearn for deliverance at last from the regime that has long brutalized them and threatened us. They understand that only the end of that death-cult animated by Islam’s totalitarian sharia code will actually finish the war and the threat the mullahs present to the whole world.

As it happens, an important theme of this CPAC is ending the menace posed by sharia in Texas and the rest of America, as well. Learn why – and how you can help – at BanSharia.com.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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Today, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference gets underway in earnest in Dallas, Texas. CPAC is the year’s single most important gathering of American patriots and this particular meeting promises to be especially so.

That’s because on March 3rd, 1.9 million Texan voters supported Proposition 10 in the state’s Republican primary. In so doing by a margin of 95-5%, they endorsed these five words: “Texas should prohibit sharia law.”

It is nothing short of providential that, in the immediate aftermath of that epic vote, thousands of political candidates, activists and donors are going to be convening in a city squarely in the crosshairs of sharia-supremacists intent on conquering, not just Texas, but the rest of the country, as well.

We hope to launch a powerful movement at CPAC 26 with candidates taking the Sharia-Free Pledge. Encourage yours to do so at BanSharia.com

This is Frank Gaffney.

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It’s hard to keep up with developments in the war with the apocalyptic Iranian regime that has brutally repressed its own people and endlessly threatened, and periodically attacked, ours for nearly fifty years.

The question is whether a man who has been at the heart of that government and directly responsible for many of its horrifying atrocities – including the mass murder of countless Iranians who responded to President Trump’s call to overthrow the ayatollahs – is a man with whom we now can safely and prudently do business.

Mohammed Ghalibaf may be the Iranian parliament’s speaker. But he’s also a top general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – a committed and dangerous jihadist.

Let us pray that President Trump is once again buying time to bring to bear the Marines and other forces needed to prevent, not enable, further threats from Iran.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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President Trump has indicated that the United States is now involved in negotiations with a surviving top, but as-yet-unidentified, Iranian official.

Press accounts indicate the interlocutor is Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps General Mohammed Ghalibaf. If true, that would mean the President thinks that perhaps the regime’s most vicious butcher of the Iranian people is a candidate for the so-called “Venezualan solution.”

Put simply, that’s a non-starter. Making a deal that leaves such a monster in charge of Iran would not only be an odious betrayal of that nation’s long-suffering population. It would also be seen throughout the region and among the world’s sharia-supremacists elsewhere as a victory for the jihadists. And it would ensure that the war will continue, almost certainly under less favorable circumstances for us.

Donald Trump has no intention of having such an ignominious defeat as his legacy.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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President Trump has made no secret of his ambition to “take Cuba” next. It’s hard to overstate the importance of such an initiative.

Obviously, freeing the long-suffering people of that island nation would end their collective nightmare caused by six decades of Communist misrule.

But it would also have profound knock-on effects for this country and its vital interests throughout the Western hemisphere.

For one thing, Cuba has provided a permanent base of operations for hostile powers including Russia, China and Iran.

Cuba’s collaboration with such adversaries has extended to nations elsewhere in the region, as well – subverting its democracies and, particularly through Chinese penetration and domination of nation after nation, empowering and weaponizing its many hard-left governments.

Learn how freeing Cuba could transform hemispheric security – and ours – via a PresentDangerChina.org webinar tomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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Mike Arnold is the Nigerian government’s worst nightmare. This longtime missionary has singlehandedly shattered its false narratives about, and complicity with, jihadists genocidally persecuting and murdering that nation’s Christians.

So, the sharia-supremacists ruling in Abuja and their allies here have sought to prevent Mike from addressing a briefing about this catastrophic bloodletting next week in the House of Reprepresentatives. Shockingly, they were abetted by the International Religious Freedom Summit, a group deeply penetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and, consequently, prioritizing so-called “interfaith dialogue” – the Brothers’ code words for promoting submission to Islam – over robustly defending those persecuted for following Jesus.

Fortunately, a faithful champion of international religious freedom, New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, has arranged a program at which Mike Arnold will appear. Let’s pray President Trump will respond by redoubling his campaign to save persecuted Christians, in Nigeria and elsewhere.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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