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Monday, November 3, 2025

Trump Issues Warning to Nigeria on Slaughter of Christians

The years-long bloody violence in Nigeria has been at the hands of Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. Trump on Saturday: If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST! (Truth). War Secretary Hegseth: The Department of War is preparing for action. Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities (Hegseth).

Nigerian President Responds to Trump

New York Sun reports: Nigeria’s president is planning talks with President Trump after the American commander-in-chief accused the Western African nation of persecuting Christians and added it to a list of nations subject to penalties for its lack of religious tolerance…. The designation of a Country of Particular Concern comes after an uptick in attacks on Christians in Nigeria, including four massacres in October by Boko Haram and Fulani jihadists who operate with virtual impunity in several of Nigeria’s northern states. More than 7,000 Christians have reportedly been slaughtered by Islamic terror groups in Nigeria this year while hundreds of thousands have been displaced. With the Christian and Muslim populations of Nigeria nearly evenly split, Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, elected in 2023 despite claims of election irregularities, disputed accusations that the government permits targeting of Christians or turns a blind eye to genocide. He said Nigeria’s constitution guarantees freedom of religion and protection of all citizens regardless of faith…. While Mr. Tinubu, a Muslim hailing from a Christian majority state in the south, said he is committed to working with the international community to increase cooperation for protecting all faiths, his spokesmen rejected the claim that terrorists are targeting only Christians (NY Sun).

Cuomo Closing Fast in New York Mayoral Race

Election Day is tomorrow. Latest polling has Mamdani at 40.6 percent and the former Governor at 34 percent. New York Post: “The gap is closing fast — we can feel it on the ground everywhere from the Bronx to Staten Island. At this rate, we win the race. Keep going strong,” Cuomo said. Zohran Mamdani is still in the lead, but with 41 percent, followed by Andrew Cuomo’s 34 percent, a new Atlas Intel poll shows. “Six points in this election is nothing,” the former governor later told reporters while campaigning Saturday in Brownsville, Brooklyn. He also said New Yorkers have done a good job educating themselves about Mamdani’s pie-in-the-sky campaign promises – including free bus service and city-run grocery stores — that the Democratic nominee wouldn’t have the power to deliver if elected mayor (NY Post).

Mamdani Unvarnished: “we will stand in solidarity with Palestinians”

As it is with so many anti-Semites today, for him it is—essentially—all about Israel. Steve Emerson at the Investigative Project on Terrorism looks with Mamdani from 2021. Quoting leading candidate for Mayor: So let us say that from this day forward we will stand in solidarity with Palestinians and we will hold every single person who has power this city, in this state, in this country, accountable for their incomprehensible fealty to the Israeli state…. If you’re committed to justice show me your stance on Palestine. If you say you’re a socialist show me your stance on apartheid. That is what we’re asking for from now on. We’re not asking for it, we are demanding it. So, I stand in solidarity with my Palestinian family, I will stand in solidarity with them until the occupation is over, until apartheid is over, and until we have no distinction of dignity within Palestine, within Israel, within any part of this very world. Thank you very, very much. Once again, the answer: BDS. (Leads chants of “BDS”) (IPT).

Obama Offering His Services to Mamdani

The former president sees an ideological ally in Mamdani. New York Times: Former President Barack Obama called New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Saturday, praising his campaign and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future. The private, roughly 30-minute phone call, which has not previously been reported, was described by two people who participated or were briefed immediately on what had been said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private conversation…. “It brings me back to 2007 when I was young and working for Barack Obama in Iowa, and everything was ahead of us,” Tommy Vietor, a former Obama spokesman and now host of the show “Pod Save America,” told Mr. Mamdani in a recent interview. “It was all hope and excitement, and there was nothing we couldn’t do.” “I think that with hope comes an immense responsibility to deliver on the promise of it, and I take very serious that responsibility,” Mr. Mamdani replied (New York Times).

Sen. Cruz on Potential End of Government Shutdown

It could happen as soon as Wednesday or Thursday. Nick Aramz of Red State: The Schumer Shutdown has been going on for more than a month now. It started on October 1, and the Senate won’t even be able to have another vote on it until Tuesday at the earliest…. Fox News Channel’s Maria Bartiromo asked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Sunday if he thought the government would open this week, as the shutdown was “seriously impacting the U.S. economy.” Cruz had an intelligent take on when it might be over, and why. “I think it’s likely to open Wednesday or Thursday of this week,” he said. The Democrats will wait until after Election Day because they think a shutdown is good for energizing the crazies in their party. But I think it will either be late this week or early next week.” … The whole point of this exercise seems to have been to juice the leftist base, to try to appeal to them that somehow the Democrats were “fighting” for them. If they get people out and they can walk away with wins, even if they were in areas where they were already leading, they can say, “Hey, look, guys, we beat them,” and convince the left they’ve done something. It gives them something of an off-ramp to argue (Red State).

Ted Cruz Takes on Antisemitism on the Right

The Texas Senator was a speaker at the RJC event where Scott Jennings also spoke. He has not minced words about the “bilious bigotry and rage”—particularly as we see it emerging on the right. Cruz sat down with Peter Savodnik of the Free Press: “Ten years ago, antisemitism began rising on the left, and too many Democrats did nothing,” Cruz said. “I think they probably viewed it as a fringe position that was not a danger, and it has all but entirely consumed today’s Democratic Party.” He added: “The same thing is happening on the right, and if we do not act to combat it, we risk losing the Republican Party.” Then, he said: “If we lose, if we wake up and both the Democrat and Republican Party are filled with bilious bigotry and rage, we will have lost our country.” This is not, as far as Cruz is concerned, simply about protecting a religious minority, or supporting an important American ally. It’s about saving the nation’s soul (Free Press).

Attack on UK Train Leaves 10 Victims Stabbed; ‘We do not need to live like this’

The attack was some 20 miles northwest of Cambridge. Fox News: The attack in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, happened before 8 p.m. local time and two men were arrested after 10 people were knifed, according to authorities (Fox News). Beege Welborn: There were heroes. The brave soul who jumped between the young girl and the knifewielding savage Oliver describes above, who received his own gash in return. The train’s driver is being lauded for getting the cars diverted expediently to an emergency rail station where authorities could quickly respond (Hot Air). Paul Cox—a contributor to the British outlet GB News—gets it right: This is a cultural issue. We’ve got one culture versus another, and we are either on the side of the culture that rampages on trains and stabs people to death—Children included, no deaths so far, thank goodness. But there have been plenty before or on the side of the people that don’t want that to happen. And I don’t care where they come from, what skin color they are. I don’t care what religion they are. I don’t care about any of the what-about-ery on X. I don’t care about anything. Now is time to do something about it…. This is entirely, entirely avoidable and we live in a first world country. We do not need to live like this. We never need to live like this, and we have to do whatever we can to make sure it stops…. But this is entirely, entirely avoidable and we live in a first world country. We do not need to live like this. We never need to live like this, and we have to do whatever we can to make sure it stops (GB News).

“What are we doing about Qatar?”

That’s the question Chama Mechtaly has been asking time and time again since the October 7 massacre in Israel. More people ought to be asking it. Mechataly: When Israel struck targets in Doha to hit Hamas leadership, the illusion that jihadists could be hosted without risk collapsed. The attack punctured Qatari immunity, rattled investors, and exposed the price of harbouring men who decide the fate of Israeli and American lives from waterfront villas. Within days, Doha’s position on a ceasefire and hostage terms shifted, even as it sought to salvage its mediator brand and tighten security ties with Washington.The answer—as far as what we ought to be doing—is clear: The lesson is simple: pressure is what moves the needle, not praise. Qatar can change when it is forced to, and it must be forced to choose moderation or face sanctions. The problem is larger than Hamas. From the Mashreq to the Maghreb, Qatar’s influence has been poisonous, propping up Islamist actors who hold societies hostage in victimhood, colonial grievance, and the myth of purity. There will be no peace, and no “New Middle East” of the kind President Trump and much of the moderate Gulf say they want, without Qatari divestment from the Muslim Brotherhood. The opposite model is on display in Abu Dhabi, Manama, and Riyadh: normalise, integrate, and police the red lines against militancy while arguing hard political lines with Israel. That is the path of relevance (Chama Mechtaly).

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Scott Jennings Gives Rousing Defense of Israel and Western Civilization

As he rightly tied the future of the two together. In his recent address at the Leadership Summit of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC). Jennings: Western civilization is not an act of nostalgia. It is an act of stewardship. We are heirs to a legacy purchased by the courage of those who came before us. Men and women who believe that truth was worth dying for and that freedom was worth defending. The Jewish people know this better than anyone. For millennia, they have been the keepers of the flame, preserving not just their own traditions, but the moral foundation upon which rests all of Western civilization through exile and persecution, through pogroms and the Holocaust. The flame never went out. As Churchill said, it flickered at times, but it never died. And in 1948, it blazed forth again with the rebirth of Israel, that blame flame burns brightly. Today in the courage of Israeli soldiers defending their homeland in the faith of those who still pray at the Western wall and at the Shabbat table, and in the determination of every person in this room who refuses to be silent in the face of old hatred that has once again reared its disgusting head. Our charge is to keep the flame alive, to carry it into a confused world that desperately needs clarity into a divided culture that needs courage and into a dark age that still longs for the light (RJC).

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