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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Worthy News) – China staged massive war games near Taiwan Tuesday, just weeks after U.S. President Donald J. Trump declined to commit military support for the territory.

Beijing said Tuesday the drills of Taiwan’s north, south, and east coasts are a “stern warning” against separatism and called Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te a “parasite.”

In response, Taiwan sent warships to China’s navy approaching its shores, several sources said.

Unlike the war games last year, China did not formally name the exercises, which are happening after a rise in Chinese rhetoric against Lai.

At least one former Taiwanese government minister suggested China may feel emboldened by Trump’s refusal comment in response to a question about whether the U.S. would ever allow China to take control of Taiwan by force.

“I never comment on that,” Trump said at the White House on February 26. “I don’t want to ever put myself in that position.”

Trump spoke during a Cabinet meeting in response to a reporter’s question about whether it was his policy that China would never take Taiwan by force while he is president. His predecessor, Joe Biden, took a different approach, saying U.S. forces would defend Taiwan if China were to attack.

NO SECURITY GUARANTEES

And having watched Trump’s refusal to give Ukraine security guarantees to help end its war with invading Russia, China may feel the time is right to invade Taiwan.

Yingtai Lung, a former culture minister of Taiwan, noticed that “President Trump pulled back on America’s strong support for Ukraine and added insult to injury by humiliating its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the White House in late February. Now people in Taiwan are wondering: If the United States could do that to Ukraine to cozy up to Russia, will it do the same to us to cozy up to China?”

For decades, she added, “Taiwan’s leaders have framed our standoff with China — which claims Taiwan as its own territory and vows to take it, by force if necessary — as a defense of freedom and democracy, underpinned by the expectation that the United States would back us up if China were to invade.”

However, the ex-minister added, “This created a false sense of security, allowing Taiwan’s politicians and people to delay a national reckoning over the best way for us to deal with China in order to ensure the long-term survival of our democracy.”

Yet with “Mr. Trump casting aside democratic values and America’s friends, Taiwan must begin an immediate, serious national conversation about how to secure peace with China on terms that are acceptable to us, rather than letting bigger powers decide our future.”

Lung commented in a Tuesday opinion guest essay in The New York Times newspaper titled: “The Clock is Ticking for Taiwan.”

However, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth repeatedly criticized Beijing during his recent Asia visit, describing Japan on Sunday as indispensable for tackling Chinese aggression.

MILITARY COMMAND CENTER

He stressed that Japan was crucial in implementing a plan to upgrade the U.S. military command in the country. “We share a warrior ethos that defines our forces,” Hegseth told Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani at a meeting in Tokyo.

“Japan is our indispensable partner in deterring communist Chinese military aggression,” including across the Taiwan Strait, he added.

Yet on Tuesday, it was China calling the shots, sending its army, navy, air, and rocket forces to surround Taiwan in a move aimed at practicing a blockade of the self-ruled island.

Taiwan’s government condemned the drills, with the presidential office saying China was “widely recognized by the international community as a troublemaker” and that the government has the confidence and ability to defend itself.

Taiwan officials said over 10 Chinese military ships had approached close to Taiwan’s 24 nautical miles (44 kilometers) contiguous zone, and Taiwan sent its warships to respond.

China views Taiwan as its territory and has not ruled out annexing the self-ruled island by force. Taiwan’s government rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, saying only the Taiwanese people can decide their future.

 Hamas is a criminal gang masquerading as a “resistance” movement. Its four most senior leaders — Mousa Abu Marzouk, the late Ismael Haniyeh, Khaled Meshaal, and the late Yahya Sinwar — between them stole $14 billion that was supposed to pay for aid intended for all the people of Gaza. The group rules by fear, and if anyone dares to speak out against it, that person will at least be severely beaten, and imprisoned, and at most, be savagely tortured and then murdered. Recently there have been anti-Hamas demonstrations; the most spectacular one was in Beit Lahiya, where several thousand Gazans, in despair at their situation and feeling they had nothing to lose, gathered to shout “Out, Out, Hamas!” What happens to those in Gaza who oppose the group’s continued rule, and speak out? Nothing good. More on the fate of Odai al-Rabei, who recently dared to express publicly his anger with Hamas, can be found here: “Palestinian dissident abducted, tortured, and killed by Hamas in Gaza,” by Ohad Merlin, Jerusalem Post, March 30, 2025:

Odai al-Rabei, a 22-year-old Gazan, was abducted, tortured, and murdered by al-Qassam [Izz al-Din Brigade, part of the military wing of Hamas] terrorists, as per Rabei’s family. Some reports even said his body was dragged in the streets until it was finally returned to the family home….

Dragging corpses through the streets, tied to the back of a vehicle or placed instead on a hood, is something the Arabs like to do. Think of the wounded and dead Israelis who were brought into Gaza on flatbed trucks on October 7, 2023, so that ordinary Gazans could hit them with sticks and shoes as they passed by. Perhaps the most famous example of this was in Iraq in 1958, after the coup by Brigadier Qassem and Colonel Arif against the monarchy of King Feisal II. The strongman of the regime that they overturned Nuri el-Said, tried to escape from Baghdad dressed as a woman, but he was found, castrated, the body hacked to pieces. His mutilated corpse was buried, but then an angry mob dug it up a day later, attached it to a vehicle, and dragged it through the streets of Baghdad so everyone could enjoy the spectacle. The Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s corpse was thrown on the hood of a pickup and driven through the streets of Sirte, so that everyone could see that he, the monster who had held the country in thrall for four decades, was well and truly dead. In the case of Odai al-Rabei, his body was dragged through the streets as a warning to the people of Gaza: this is what happens when you dare to criticize Hamas.

Videos circulated showing graphic images of Rabei’s body, which appeared to have been mutilated all over, indicating he was tortured. Other videos showed Rabei’s funeral procession held in Gaza on Sunday, in which thousands of participants declared in rage: “In spirit and blood we’ll redeem you, Odai!” “Allahu akbar,” as well as “Out, out, out! Hamas out!”…

It was at the funeral for Odai al-Rabei that the anger against Hamas welled up even more — the violent protest against Hamas had already begun in Beit Lahiya — and helped that protest spread to a half-dozen other cities in Gaza.

Rabei’s family called for “these unjust criminals who unjustly killed this Muslim” to be dealt with an “iron fist,” adding they would have no consolation until revenge is taken on the killers.

They further stressed: “Odai fasted Ramadan, he prayed, and he read the Quran… We call on all human rights organizations and institutions to stand in support of the people of Gaza against these criminals. O Allah, take revenge.”…

The family wants the world to know that their son, Odai al-Rabei, was a good Muslim. He fasted on Ramadan, he prayed, he read the Qur’an. That makes his murder even more unacceptable in the eyes of the Gazans who are under Hamas rule.

At the same time, Hamas loyalists on social media refused to lament Rabei’s killing, accusing him of treason….

“The resistance does not kill anyone without a reason… If you know you know…,” said another one, while a third one added, “The resistance kills only Zionists and traitors.”

The “resistance” also kills a third category of victim: anyone who dares to criticize Hamas.

A fourth commenter said: “Certainly, he was a spy and an agent, and because of him many were martyred due to the information he gave to the Zionists,” while a fifth one said: “Just another dead one from Fatah like all others.”

So the Gazans are being told that al-Rabei was both a “Zionist spy” and a member of Fatah, the armed faction under the control of the Palestinian Authority, that lost out to Hamas in the election to rule Gaza; hundreds of Fatah members in Gaza were murdered by Hamas in 2007.

The torture and death and dragging through the streets of the corpse of that “good Muslim” Odai al-Rabei may lead to his becoming the symbol of the real “resistance” in Gaza. That “resistance” is not to Israel, which had pulled out completely from Gaza in 2005, but to the terror group Hamas, that has stolen billions from, and enslaved, and caused the immiseration, of the desperate people of Gaza. 

 “Indeed, Allah has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth, because the garden will be theirs, they will fight in the way of Allah and will kill and be killed. It is a promise that is binding on him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfills his covenant better than Allah? Rejoice then in your bargain that you have made, for that is the supreme triumph.” (Qur’an 9:111)

The Torah and the Gospel actually do not promise paradise to those who fight in the way of God and kill and are killed. That idea is in the Qur’an only.

Even after this, however, no law enforcement or intelligence officials will dare to consider the possibility that the Qur’an itself is the source of “radicalization.”

New Orleans ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar had bomb-making station and Quran open to chilling passage in his home, new photos reveal,” by Jennie Taer, Chris Nesi and Alex Oliveira, New York Post, January 2, 2025:

HOUSTON – ISIS-inspired New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar kept a bomb-making workbench in his ramshackle Texas trailer home — where a Quran was left open on a page about “slaying” in the name of Allah, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show.
Jabbar’s north Houston home was filled with chemical residue and chemical bottles, while an inventory of items seized by the FBI — left behind by investigators who raided his house on Wednesday — included a long list of compounds used in bomb-making.
His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf, a centerpiece in his living room, and open to a passage reading, “they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…”
That passage, Verse 9:111, expounds on Muslims’ responsibility to kill Allah’s enemies, and to be willing to die for that mission in return for eternity in paradise.
Numerous books about Islam were also on the shelf and around the squalid home, while a prayer rug was rolled up nearby.
FBI officials on Thursday said Jabbar posted five disturbing videos on Facebook on his drive from Houston to New Orleans just hours before he unleashed carnage on Bourbon Street, leaving 14 innocent pedestrians dead.
In the first disturbing video — posted at 1:29 a.m. — the US Army veteran said he had initially planned on murdering his family and friends, but changed his mind over concerns that the resulting media coverage wouldn’t focus on the “war between the believers and disbelievers,” FBI counterterrorism official Chris Raia said.
In other videos, he said he had joined ISIS “before this summer” and showed off his last will and testament.
Investigators confirmed that Jabbar, 42, was ideologically aligned with ISIS and that he specifically chose Bourbon Street as the target of his monstrous act of terror.
However, they have yet to piece together what precisely brought about his radicalization….
The FBI revealed that Jabbar acted alone in the attack after poring over his social media accounts, conducting “hundreds” of interviews with witnesses and searching three cellphones and two laptops recovered from an Airbnb on Mandeville Street in New Orleans linked to the terror suspect….

 What will Vienna be like ten years? Twenty? Fifty? And yet none of this had to happen. Leftist Europeans brought it all upon themselves. 

“Vienna Elementary School Celebrates Ramadan, But Not Christmas,” translated from “Wiener Volksschule feiert Ramadan, aber kein Weihnachten,” Unzensuriert, March 28, 2025 (thanks to Medforth):

An elementary school in Vienna-Leopoldstadt will celebrate the Islamic Ramadan next Tuesday, and all students are expected to participate. Parents there are particularly upset that the same school did not celebrate Christmas.
All students must celebrate Ramadan – but not Christmas.
School attendance is mandatory on that day, as the administration announced in a letter to parents. Anyone who does not want to send their children to school should discuss this with their class teacher in advance. The father of one of the students noted that although the end of Ramadan, the so-called breaking of the fast, is being celebrated, there was no Christmas celebration at school. The child is also said to have repeatedly mentioned that his classmates often barely speak German. Some even speak only Arabic, which is why an Arabic-speaking teacher must attend the class.
Education Directorate Describes “Voluntary Event”
The Vienna Education Directorate told heute.at that the Ramadan celebration is voluntary and will last a maximum of ten to 15 minutes. Students who do not wish to participate in the Muslim festival are not required to do so.

In 135 A.D., following the suppression of the revolt by the Maccabees, the Roman overlords of what was then called Judaea decided to change its name to “Syria Palaestina” — “Syria of the Philistines” — which was then shortened to “Palestine.” The Romans wanted to efface, through a change of toponym, the connection of the Jews to the land that was made obvious in the place name “Judaea.” They also attempted to change the name “Jerusalem” to “Aelia Capitolina” but, unlike “Palestine,” that place name never caught on.

During the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, the Arab Legion of Jordan — led by British officers under John Bagot Glubb (“Glubb Pasha”) — managed to seize and hold onto the territory that had been known, for more than 3,000 years, not just to the Jewish people but to everyone in the Western world, as “Judea and Samaria.” It would never do, the Jordanian Arabs believed, to continue to use the toponyms “Judea and Samaria,” which would remind people of who had inhabited that territory for millennia. So, like the Romans with their toponymic change — “Judaea” becoming “Palestine” — nearly 1800 years before, the Jordanians, after a year of reflection (the war officially ended in 1949), in 1950 decided to replace “Judea and Samaria” with the place name “West Bank.” It is a most peculiar appellation. After all, the riparian zone along a river is usually envisioned as of a uniform width, but the Jordanians’ “West Bank” is shaped like an ear. The Jordanians, and their fellow Arabs, by dint of repetition, made sure that “West Bank” was used so often, came more trippingly off the tongue than “Judea and Samaria” (it helped that people were uncertain whether “Judea and Samaria” were two distinct places, inked by a conjunction, or constituted one territory) and stuck so well in the popular mind, that it pushed “Judea and Samaria” out of common usage, save by the Israelis themselves. Even non-Israeli Jews now use the term “West Bank.”

People outside of Israel, including orthodox Jews and evangelical Christians, who persisted in using “Judea and Samaria,” found that “West Bank” had become so widely adopted that it was they who experienced a certain self-consciousness about using “Judea and Samaria.” “West Bank” is now used everywhere; it is up to us to undo that offense to history. When the Western media reports on Israelis, especially on those much-maligned “settlers,” they are often described as “using the Biblical terms Judea and Samaria,” as if that made such usage illegitimate. In other words, the fact that these place names had been used for three millennia by Jews and the rest of the Western world was not a point in their favor, but rather, was held against them. Amusing, isn’t it, that those people who would dismiss the use of “Judea and Samaria” because they are Biblical names have no objection to using the toponym “Gaza,” which is also a place name found in the Bible.

Now Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Congresswoman Claudia Tenney of New York have introduced a bill requiring the U.S. government to drop that preposterous “West Bank,” and to use the venerable, correct, imbued with history, place names “Judea and Samaria.” It’s an important bill; if it passes, it will put back into general circulation, by government fiat, “Judea and Samaria.” If every time a government official, from Trump and Rubio on down, gives a press conference, or holds a Congressional hearing, uses the terms “Judea and Samaria,” it will be an important victory, with the world being reminded that this territory has for more than three millennia been linked to the Jewish people; it was in Judea and Samaria, not in Haifa and Tel Aviv, where their history was made.

More about the legislation introduced Tom Cotton when he announced his resolution can be found here.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the Retiring the Egregious Confusion Over the Genuine Name of Israel’s Zone of Influence by Necessitating Government-use of Judea and Samaria (RECOGNIZING Judea and Samaria) Act, legislation to require all official U.S. documents and materials to use the historically accurate term “Judea and Samaria” instead of the “West Bank”. This bill would require the use of historically accurate terminology and align U.S. policy language with the geographical and cultural significance of the region. This legislation was introduced in the House by Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-New York).
“The Jewish people’s legal and historic rights to Judea and Samaria goes back thousands of years. The U.S. should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel,” said Senator Cotton.
“The Israeli people have an undeniable and indisputable historical and legal claim over Judea and Samaria, and at this critical moment in history, the United States must reaffirm this,” said Congresswoman Tenney. “This bill reaffirms Israel’s rightful claim to its territory. I remain committed to defending the integrity of the Jewish state and fully supporting Israel’s sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.”

To some this will seem a minor matter. “Words, words, words,” as Hamlet said to Polonius. It is not. It is important to escort back into common usage the words, including place names, that the Arabs have managed to push aside and replaced with others that diminish or efface altogether, the Jewish link to the land. Senator Cotton and Congresswoman Tenney deserve the gratitude of all those who care about history and the truth.

Striking “West Bank’” And Inserting “Judea and Samaria”

The bill making this change of place-name mandatory throughout the American government has now been introduced by Senator Tom Cotton (D.-Ark) and Representative Claudia Tenney (D.-NY). It can be found here.
A BILL
To prohibit the use of materials that use the term ‘‘West Bank’’, and for other purposes.
1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Retiring the Egregious   Confusion Over the Genuine Name of Israel’s Zone of Influence by Necessitating Government-use of Judea and Samaria Act’’ or the ‘‘RECOGNIZING Judea and Samaria Act’’.
118TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION
Striking “West Bank’” And Inserting “Judea and Samaria”
The bill introduced by Senator Tom Cotton (D.-Ark) and Representative Claudia Tenney (D.-NY) can be found here. https://www.cotton.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/west_bank.pdf
A BILL
To prohibit the use of materials that use the term ‘‘West Bank’’, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SEC.1 SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Retiring the Egregious   Confusion Over the Genuine Name of Israel’s Zone of Influence by Necessitating Government-use of Judea and Samaria Act’’ or the ‘‘RECOGNIZING Judea and Samaria Act’’.
118TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
2  It is the sense of Congress that the United States Government—
(1) should refer to the land annexed by Israel from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War by its historical names of ‘‘Judea and Samaria’’, with the land south of Jerusalem being considered ‘‘Judea’’
and the land north of Jerusalem being considered ‘Samaria’’; and
(2) should no longer use the term ‘‘West Bank”  in official government materials.
2. SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON USE OF MATERIALS THAT USE THE TERM ‘‘WEST BANK’’.

3. (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available after the date of the enactment of this Act may be obligated or expended to prepare or promulgate any policy, guidance, regulation, in this section if the Secretary—determines that is in the interests of the United States to do so; and
(2) submits to Congress an explanation for the waiver not later than 30 days after the date on which the Secretary makes the determination.
  SEC. 4. CONFORMING CHANGES TO UNITED STATES LAW. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961.—The For- Assistance Act of 1961 is amended as follows:(1) In section 620K(f)(3) (22 U.S.C. 2378b(f)(3)), by striking ‘‘the West Bank’’ and inserting ‘‘Judea and Samaria’’.
(2) In section 620L (22 U.S.C. 2378c)—
(A) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘THE WEST BANK’’ and inserting ‘‘JUDEA AND SAMARIA’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘the West Bank’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Judea and Samaria’’.
(b) TAYLOR FORCE ACT.—Section 1004 of the Tay- lor Force Act (22 U.S.C. 2378c–1) is amended—
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘THE WEST BANK’’ and inserting ‘‘JUDEA AND SAMARIA’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘the West Bank’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Judea and Samaria’’.
(c) MULTINATIONAL FORCE AND OBSERVERS PAR- TICIPATION RESOLUTION.—Section 2 of the Multinational Force and Observers Participation Resolution (22 U.S.C. 3421) is amended by striking ‘‘the West Bank’’ and inserting ‘‘Judea and Samaria’’.
(d) OMNIBUS DIPLOMATIC SECURITY AND ANTITERRORISM ACT OF 1986.—Section 414 of the Om- nibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 (22 U.S.C. 4862) is amended—
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘WEST BANK’’ and inserting ‘‘JUDEA AND SAMARIA’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘the West Bank’’ and inserting ‘‘Judea and Samaria’’.
(e) UNITED STATES-ISRAEL FREE TRADE AREA IMPLEMENTATION ACT OF 1985.—Section  9 of the United States-Israel Free Trade Area Implementation Act of 1985 (Public Law      99–47; 19 U.S.C. 2112 note) is amend-ed by striking ‘‘the West Bank’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Judea and Samaria’’.
(f) IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 9/11 COMMISSION ACT OF 2007.—Section 2021(i) of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (22 U.S.C. 2151 note) is amended by striking ‘‘the West Bank’’ and inserting ‘‘Judea and Samaria’’.
(g) FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT, FIS-CAL YEAR 2003.—Section 699 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107– 228; 22 U.S.C. 2301 note) is amended—
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘WEST BANK’’ and inserting ‘‘JUDEA AND SAMARIA’’; and
(2) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘the West Bank’’ and inserting ‘‘Judea and Samaria’’.
(h) NITA M. LOWEY MIDDLE EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE ACT.—Section 8005 of the Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (division K of Public Law 116–260) is amended by striking ‘‘the West Bank’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Judea and Samaria’’.

Got it?  STRIKE “West Bank” and INSERT “Judea and Samaria.”

O where? Here, there, and everywhere.

There are still legions of indoctrinated collegiate bots who believe they have the moral high ground.

“Yarden Bibas: Hamas told me that I’d get a ‘better wife, better kids,'” Jerusalem Post, March 31, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Released hostage Yarden Bibas was informed about his wife’s and children’s death by Hamas while he was on camera. The terrorist organization filmed him as it delivered the news to him, then told him that Shiri’s, Ariel’s, and Kfir’s deaths were of no consequence.
“They were murdered in cold blood – [by] bare hands,” he told CBS News 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl in an interview released on Sunday. “They [Hamas] used to tell me: ‘It doesn’t matter. You’ll get a new wife, new kids – better wife, better kids,” he said, adding that his captors repeated that statement many times.
The expansive interview on 60 Minutes featured Bibas along with freed hostages Keith and Aviva Seigel, Tal Shoham, and the parents of hostages Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal.
As far as Bibas was concerned, his first interview with the media since his release was an opportunity to gain US President Donald Trump’s attention. He believes Trump can end the Israel-Hamas War and bring the hostages home.
Bibas told Stahl that he was released because of the US administration’s efforts.
“I know he can help. I’m here because of Trump. I’m here because of him,” Bibas said. “I think he’s the only one who can stop this war again. He has to convince [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, to convince Hamas; I think he can do it.”…
Bibas told 60 Minutes that he was mostly held underground in the tunnels and that IDF airstrikes terrified him.
“It’s scary. You don’t know when it’s gonna happen, and when it happens, you are afraid for your life. The whole earth would move, like an earthquake, but underground. So everything could collapse at any moment.”
THE SIEGELS recounted their capture on October 7 to 60 Minutes as they walked around their destroyed house in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
“I stood here, and they pushed me out of the window while I had to go all the way there,” Aviva said, standing at the window of the house. “I was in shock.”
“We were driven into Gaza and then taken into a tunnel, feeling in danger, feeling life-threatened [with] terrorists around us with weapons,” Keith said. “We were gasping for breath.”
He also detailed the abuse he witnessed during his time in captivity.
“I witnessed a young woman being tortured by the terrorists. I mean literal torture, not just in the figurative sense,” he said, adding that Hamas terrorists made him watch the events.
“I saw [the] sexual assault [of] female hostages.”…

 In those synagogues would have been many leftist Jews who opposed Israel. Akbari showed no sign of knowing or caring about this. Collective punishment is the order of the day when it comes to jihadis making war against Israel and Jews; then, when a non-Muslim speaks honestly about the Qur’an’s calls to violence, many Muslim spokesmen make accusations of “collective punishment” despite there being nothing collective or any punishment involved. 

“Toronto man: ‘I’m going to plant a bomb in every synagogue in Toronto,'” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, March 30, 2025:

Canadian Jewish groups and politicians have expressed outrage over the recently revealed threats made by a Toronto man who was convicted for threatening to plant bombs in every local synagogue and kill as many Jews as he could.
A Global News report last week highlighted the ruling, which hadn’t received much coverage.
Afghanistan-born shwarma restaurant owner Waisuddin Akbari confided in car salesman Cameron Ahmad about the plot last March, according to the November Ontario Court of Justice ruling. Ahmad notified the police about the threats under the belief that Akbari was serious about the intention to commit a violent attack.
The 41-year-old Akbari had come to 26-year-old Ahmad’s dealership for an oil change and inquired about the possibility of upgrading to a new vehicle. Akbari allegedly expressed concerns about financing a new vehicle because he believed interest payments would be funneled to the Israeli government to finance a supposed genocide against Palestinians.
Akbari told the court that it was Ahmad who raised the issue and went further by claiming that it was not just Canadian finance that flowed to Israel but that Israel controlled all global finance – a claim that Ahmad denied.
Akbari said he had only raised the concern as a means to end the advances of the salesman, which Justice Edward Prutschi found to be “utterly bizarre” to say, considering that Akbari had admitted to seeking to discuss a new car and there were better methods to end the conversation than veering into a conspiracy theory.
The two discussed the ongoing Israel-Hamas War, regarding which Ahmad told the court he was “on the side of the Palestinian state and the innocent civilians.” He had intoned as much to Akbari, but Ahmad reportedly became uncomfortable as Akbari allegedly went on to say that in response to a supposed genocide against Palestinian people, the Israeli state and Jewish people should also be subjected to genocide.
Akbari allegedly shared his belief that the Israeli government controlled the world and was trying to exterminate non-Jews to enslave the world and poison it. He further equated Israelis and Jews to roaches and insects who should be exterminated. Akbari claimed to the court that he could not pronounce the words “roaches” and “insects.”Ahmad was reportedly shocked and scared about how calm, clear, and concise Akbari was when making his comments.
“Before I go, I want you to remember my name and remember my face because the next time you see it, I’ll be on the news,” Akbari allegedly said before they parted ways. “I know when I’m going to die because I’m going to plant a bomb in every synagogue in Toronto and blow them up to kill as many Jews as possible.”…