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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: SVPete on April 19, 2026, 10:09:26 AM

Title: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/19
Post by: SVPete on April 19, 2026, 10:09:26 AM
Gazans Describe Hamas’s Habitual Sex Abuse of Their Own People

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/18/gazans-describe-hamass-habitual-sex-abuse-of-their-own-people-n4951940 (https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/04/18/gazans-describe-hamass-habitual-sex-abuse-of-their-own-people-n4951940)

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As genocidal Islamic terror group Hamas is once again consolidating power in Gaza, some Gazans are breaking their silence on how abusive Hamas jihadis are even of their own people.

A quote attributed to the late Israeli politician Golda Meir is, "We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us." But since Islamic sacred texts explicitly endorse and approve jihad, sex slavery, pedophilia, domestic abuse, and polygamy, it's not exactly shocking that many of the conglomerate of Muslim Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians continue to use and abuse their own women and children. The Daily Mail has a new report of Hamas sex abuse of Gazan women, as companion to the reports of horrific Hamas abuse of Israeli captives.

As of Oct. 2025, 80% of Palestinians supported jihad against Israel, and 70% opposed Hamas disarmament, but there is a minority of Gazans who are tired of being always the sex slaves and human shields of Hamas. Hamas co-founder's son Mosab Hassan Yousef has repeatedly emphasized how Palestinian jihadis will willingly sacrifice even their own children to the cause of jihad and how different factions in Gaza will fight and exploit each other when not actively fighting Israel. This is all the backdrop of the sad stories published on the Daily Mail.

There has been a rise in child marriages and adolescent pregnancies in Gaza, the Daily Mail noted, and a common trend of sex exploitation partly fuels the pregnancies. The Gazans who spoke to Jusoor News, which then passed the stories on to the Daily Mail, spoke in anonymity. One Gazan man said he was asked to locate a widow who had requested aid from a commander in Hamas's terrorist Qassam or al-Qassam Brigades, "but he took advantage of her." The Gazan man called it "disgraceful," and said he found the widow "in a tent in the Gharabli area where a bunch of Qassam members were taking advantage of her. We informed the leadership, but we were told we had to keep silent about it."

Islam at its heart, sadly, is a raiders and plunderers and enslavers religion. That does not encourage benignant governance.
Title: Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/19
Post by: SVPete on April 19, 2026, 10:11:49 AM
IRGC Closes Strait Again, Calls Iran's Foreign Minister an 'Idiot,' Fires on Oil Tankers

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/18/irgc-closes-strait-again-calls-irans-foreign-minister-an-idiot-n3814049 (https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/18/irgc-closes-strait-again-calls-irans-foreign-minister-an-idiot-n3814049)

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The Iranian government is at war with itself as much as it is at war with America, Israel, and the Gulf states.

As I have been writing for days now, there is not one Iranian government in charge, but two, battling it out over who controls the entire country.

The IRGC appears to be winning at the moment, which is utterly unsurprising.
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It's pretty clear that the civilian Iranian government was well on its way to a deal with Trump, and even announced that the Strait of Hormuz was open for business again. They had announced it to the world on X, and the Iranians had given ships actual clearance to transit the Strait.

Then, all of a sudden, the IRGC didn't just close the Strait, but sent boats out to fire on ships that were in the midst of transiting.

This is not entirely surprising. The Iranian government got beheaded, and now the lower-downs are scrapping among themselves for the vacant places of power, making contradictory statements and actions. Those new wannabes are split between assertion of POWER and trying to rebuild a nation out of the rubble.
Title: Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/19
Post by: SVPete on April 19, 2026, 10:24:44 AM
'Scandal' Is Object Lesson on How Coordinated Propaganda Campaigns Work

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/18/catholic-charities-scandal-is-object-lesson-on-how-coordinated-propaganda-campaigns-work-n3814048 (https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/18/catholic-charities-scandal-is-object-lesson-on-how-coordinated-propaganda-campaigns-work-n3814048)

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Ten days ago, Democratic strategist and consiglieri David Axelrod met with the Pope for a nice chat.

The meeting was notable for a number of reasons, not least that Axelrod is Jewish, not Catholic. His audience with the Pope is, we are told, at least tangentially related to a potential visit from Barack Obama to meet with the Pope. Obama is not Catholic, and one wonders why there needs to be negotiations with the Pope directly about a potential meeting between a former president and the leader of the Catholic Church.
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All of this would be of only minor interest but for the fact that almost immediately subsequent to that meeting, the Pope went on the warpath against Donald Trump. His comments weren't vague and weren't even consistent with Catholic doctrine. Asserting that God doesn't listen to soldiers on the battlefield was a remarkably odd statement, inconsistent with centuries of Catholic doctrine.
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Above all, the oddest thing has been his arguing that Lebanon and Algeria are examples of how Christians and Muslims can live together. In both places, Christians have been persecuted by Muslims, both killed and driven out of the lands by Muslims who are quite clear that Christians aren't welcome.
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After the kerfuffle with the Pope, a story popped up strongly implying that Trump canceled a contract with Catholic Charities to manage the care of unaccompanied minor illegal aliens, amounting to many millions of dollars of revenue lost.

Almost everything about the story was false, most especially the implication that the timing suggested that it was pure retaliation.
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There are many reasons why this story cannot possibly be as portrayed by the propagandists, not the least of which is that the cancellation took place weeks before there was any back and forth between Trump and the Pope. There simply could be no connection, unless you believe that Trump is clairvoyant.

Trump may be magic, but not that magic.

The idea that Robert Prevost's (Leo XIV's) attacks were coordinated via Axelrod is certainly a CT, but the context is at least suggestive. Axelrod appears to be a non-religious Jew - raised in a liberal Jewish synagogue, but no public religious involvement, educationally or in public action.

Axelrod and Prevost and Axelrod have both been active in Chicago.

Even before being elected Pope, Prevost had been very publicly anti-Trump. The timing, the attacks starting after Axelrod's visit rather than in the immediate aftermath of the war on Iran is obviously suggestive.
Title: Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/19
Post by: DefiantSix on April 19, 2026, 10:45:07 AM
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...The Daily Mail has a new report of Hamas sex abuse of Gazan women, as companion to the reports of horrific Hamas abuse of Israeli captives.
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Funny how the Daily Mail can talk about Islamist abuse of Gazan women and children, but stay remarkably silent about Islamist abuse of women and children in the Daily Mail's own home country...  :whatever: