Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I am tired of hearing American politicians on the left, plus those few on the right, including J.D. Vance, talking about the USA separating itself from Israel.
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@rlefraim It is time to look at this thing objectively.

The enemies of Israel and the Jewish people want the USA to end its aid program with Israel. They assume if that would happen, Israel would weaken and maybe disappear, and the conflict in the Middle East would end.
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@rlefraim The problem with this belief they seem to have is (1) that it shows ignorance of the problems, and (2) makes assumptions that simply are false.

Ignorance of the problem.

Israel is not the real problem for regional Muslim nations. Listen to their rhetoric.
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1-4 Here are the number of FDA food recalls by month. Notice a pattern?

2- Here is the same data by year.

3- The FDA has cut "3,859 staffers in fiscal year 2025 and an additional 473 in fiscal year 2026" in food safety. This suggests an undercount of incidents after the cuts.

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Toger Froikin @rlefraim wrote,
"Paramount and Warner Bros. merger is on hold for a year

Why?

Because of a lot of lawsuits that have been filed to stop the planned merger.
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@rlefraim Some of the lawsuits say the merger would create an antitrust situation, a virtual monopoly that would damage the market.

But there is an underlying reason they are not mentioning.
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@rlefraim The plaintiffs are groups of far-left-financed organizations trying to prevent Paramount, led by conservatives today, from eroding left-wing power in the entertainment and news business."
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Big 3:

Here are the Big Three problems we need to keep in focus, problems which have corroded our democracy, and need urgent repair to restore government “of the People, by the People, and for the People”:

1.  Get the rotten dark money out of our politics. I’ve watched dark money redirect Congress away from voters, instead to big special interests with the motives and means to feed the big, crooked dark money machine.

2.  Defeat the fossil fuel industry’s climate denial fraud operation and its dark money corruption operation. Those crooked operations have dominated Congress for far too long, and the price to us of their political influence is way too high.

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote,

"While the Democrats are appearing to have a dilemma about Israel and Jews, a bit of history might be needed to destroy two Democrat Party myths.
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@rlefraim (1) That they were the party that supported Israel since its reestablishment, and (2) that they are the party of civil rights in the USA.

Perhaps Jews who blindly believe in the Democratic Party and their media should think a bit.
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@rlefraim So, let's take Myth Number One.

The Democrats point to the historical fact that President Harry Truman, in 1948, was the first to recognize the new State of Israel de jure, beating out the Soviets, who recognized Israel slightly later.
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Humanity has split the atom, mapped the genome and taught machines to speak—yet it has not conquered greed, loneliness or war. Our deepest crisis is not a lack of intelligence. It is distance from our Creator. The spiritual revolution must begin within. #JihadOfThePen

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No human being can convert another heart. Allah alone guides. Our duty is only to convey truth with wisdom, prayer and beautiful character: “There should be no compulsion in religion.” (Qur’an 2:256)

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The Jihad of the Pen is not a war against people. It is a struggle against falsehood, ignorance and hatred—fought with reason, revelation, compassion and prayer. The pen must heal what the sword can never reach.

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If your religion makes you arrogant, cruel or indifferent to suffering, you have misunderstood religion. Nearness to God should make a person more truthful, more humble and more merciful to every creature.

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To the person who doubts God: do not pretend certainty, and do not borrow anyone else’s faith. Make one honest prayer: “O God, if You exist, reveal the path to You.” Ask sincerely and persistently—then remain awake to the answer.

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Science explains how creation behaves; faith asks why there is an intelligible creation, why consciousness can comprehend it and why moral truth commands us even when selfishness would profit us. Truth has nothing to fear from truth.

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The Qur’an does not ask humanity to abandon reason. It repeatedly calls us to observe, reflect, compare and seek evidence. Blind imitation is not faith. Faith is the heart recognizing what honest thought and living experience confirm.

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Islam is not the property of one race, language or nation. It is the invitation to surrender the ego to the One God, live in peace with His creation and serve humanity without asking its creed, color or country.

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The Holy Prophet Muhammad ﷺ answered persecution with patience, power with mercy and victory with forgiveness. Anyone who invokes his name to justify cruelty has obscured the very character he claims to defend.

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The real Sunnah is not anger performed for an audience. It is prayer when no one sees, honesty when lying is profitable, mercy when revenge is possible, and service when no praise will follow.

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Islam does not need coercion. A faith imposed by fear is not faith at all. Let every belief stand in the open marketplace of ideas, and let truth prevail through its evidence, beauty and power to transform human lives.

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To every Christian: Ahmadis love Jesus (as) as the Messiah, honor his miraculous birth and defend his noble name. We believe his promised return was fulfilled in spirit—not by his physical descent, but through a reformer bearing his qualities.

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The world did not need a body descending through the clouds. It needed the spirit of Jesus: humility, healing, prayer and victory without violence. Ahmadis believe that spirit appeared in Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (as). Examine his claim.

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Ahmadis affirm Muhammad ﷺ as Khatam an-Nabiyyin, the Seal of the Prophets, and the Qur’an as the final divine law. The Promised Messiah (as) brought no new scripture or law; he came wholly subordinate to Muhammad ﷺ to revive his faith.

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Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) claimed to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi—not to found a new religion, but to restore Islam to the Qur’an, prayer, reason, peace and living communion with God. A claim this great deserves investigation, not inherited dismissal.

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Judge the Promised Messiah’s claim by the standard he offered: the Qur’an, the prophecies of Muhammad ﷺ, the truth of his writings, the signs supporting his mission and the spiritual fruits of the community he established.

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Ahmadiyya Khilafat seeks no territory, commands no army and rules no state. Its authority is moral and spiritual: uniting people of many nations in prayer, sacrifice, service and peace under one divinely guided leadership.

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“Love for All, Hatred for None” is not a slogan for easy days. It is a discipline: defend the oppressed without becoming unjust, answer insults without hatred and see in every human being a soul created by the same God.

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When Ahmadis face persecution, their answer is patience, lawful advocacy, prayer and service—not retaliation. This is not weakness. It is the courage to refuse the cycle by which yesterday’s victim becomes tomorrow’s oppressor.

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God sent guidance to every people. Therefore, a Muslim should approach the world’s faiths with respect, searching for the light that remains within them—not mocking their founders or treating billions of human beings as abandoned by their Creator.

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To my fellow Muslims: if Muhammad ﷺ foretold a Messiah and Mahdi for the latter days, the question is not whether he would come, but how we would recognize him. Read Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) before allowing others to decide his claim for you.

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Do not try to conquer mankind. Serve mankind until people ask what faith produced such love. Feed the hungry, comfort the lonely, defend the persecuted, forgive your enemy and pray for all. Character is the argument no skeptic can dismiss.

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Try this for 30 days: pray daily, read the Qur’an with translation for 15 minutes, abandon one hidden sin, perform one private act of service and ask God for guidance. Do not merely debate whether faith works—practice it and observe what changes.

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If you want to understand Ahmadiyya, do not begin with rumors about Ahmadis. Read our books, hear our Khalifa, visit our mosque and ask us directly. Truth welcomes investigation. Begin at AlIslam.org. #Ahmadiyya #MessiahHasCome

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Our ambition is vast, but our method is gentle: win no land, compel no conscience, injure no person. Win hearts for the One God through the Qur’an, the example of Muhammad ﷺ, the truth of the Promised Messiah (as), prayer and unconditional service.

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O Allah, make our words truthful, our arguments wise and our conduct more eloquent than our pens. Remove hatred from our hearts. Guide us and guide through us—but never let pride corrupt our service. Let humanity recognize You through love. Ameen.

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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote:

"Semantics Are Important

Settlers, residents, re-settlers???
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@rlefraim I’ve been thinking more and more that the biggest problem Jews have is changing the way Jews perceive themselves, Judaism, Jewish rights, and Jewish dignity. I guess that is why I am so stubborn about the issue of terminology.
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@rlefraim We should not be defining ourselves by what those who hated us think, or by the terms they apply to us for their own interests, or the terms we adopted under their cultural domination.
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@FiresOfTruth BTW ... I noticed something odd. After you replied to some posts by L, I noticed that my account had you blocked.

@FiresOfTruth I phrase it that way, because I couldn't remember having done any such thing and your account looked far more like the kind of account I'd follow than the kind I'd block.

I got curious, so I tried to find out if we had ever interacted, and as far as I could tell, we hadn't.

@FiresOfTruth Then I remembered that a few years ago, Twitter took the liberty of having users accounts un-follow other users, without the knowledge of the owners of the accounts they were tampering with. The owners would then discover this later.

1/ Religious Zionism held its primary vote tonight. Not a traditional membership primary. A few hundred central committee members, in a room, deciding who represents the party in the next Knesset. Here is what came out of it.

2/ Orit Strook first. Simcha Rothman second. Zvi Sukkot fourth. Smotrich kept two slots in reserve and is expected to use one on Tzvika Mor, who led the small group of hostage families that opposed the partial deals and who argued against a swap that would have freed his own son.

3/ Smotrich told the room to wake up and that the "national camp" is asleep the way it was in 1992, before Oslo. He promises though that his party will win ten seats. The polls say four or five, or below the threshold entirely.

The son of a murdered Marxist revolutionary now backs the son of the monarch whose CIA–MI6 coup and “monarcho‑fascist” state massacred his father’s generation. To understand that choice, we need two voices: Ervand Abrahamian and Bijan Jazani (the father). 1/21

Abrahamian is one of the main historians of modern Iran. He shows that 1953 wasn’t a tragic misunderstanding. It was a deliberate operation by Britain and the US to crush a government serious about nationalization and to restore the Shah’s rule. 2/

Abrahamian criticizes the whole “benign intent” narrative: the idea that Washington only wanted to save Iran from communism and accidentally paved the way for dictatorship. He reads the archives “against the grain” and follows oil, power and control instead. 3/

🧵 (1/10) Early Islamic law was not based primarily on hadith. Ahl ray accepted some hadith but believed that many hadith were forged. Doubtful hadith could be set aside if better legal reasoning supported a different ruling. Abu Hanifa, Yusuf, Shaybani belonged to Ahl al-ray.

🧵(2/10) Hadith of Muadh ibn Jabal treated ray as an independent legal source later ijtihad became analogy rather than broad personal judgment.Hadith was probably created in the 8th century by supporters of the ahl al-ray. Hanafi theoretical writings have been lost or suppressed.

(3/10) Byzantine law influenced Islamic law. Early Abbasids wanted a unified imperial legal system using Hanafi jurists. Ahl al-hadith opposed these efforts and instead emphasized authentic hadith limiting independent legal

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I found it. I found where the money for these ALPRs came from. And... you're gonna get 🤬🤬🤬.

Remember the American Rescue Plan Act? Yeah, that behemoth passed under Biden? March 11, 2021.

Yes. Probably autopenned into law.

Passed while everyone was worrying about "vaccine passports."

They knew what they were doing.

Here are some links, pro and con.

gfrc.uic.edu/our-work/featu…