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Daily Digest If you would like to forward this email to a friend, please use this link  As Afghanistan Fell, Taliban Gave the U.S. the Option to Secure Kabul. The U.S. Refused. My latest in PJ Media: On Monday, Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) tweeted: “As the Afghan government fell, the Taliban gave US officials the option to take control of Kabul. They PASSED and instead opted to willingly surrender the city to the Taliban and control only the airport till 8/31! HOW MANY MORE COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED?!?” […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Afghanistan: Taliban murder folk singer who sang about ‘my homeland, a proud nation’ The Taliban are being entirely consistent. Islamic law forbids music. “Taliban murder Afghan singer: Folk musician who played the lute and sang traditional songs for locals in the mountains was ‘dragged out of his home and shot in the head,'” MailOnline, August 29, 2021: The Taliban have killed an Afghan folk singer in a restive […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Colorado imam Karim AbuZaid defends Sharia and the Taliban “The hijab is an element of Islam, of the shari’a. Now, you should love for the law of Allah to be established, through the legal lawful channels, without violating the laws of the land.” Many in the U.S. right now are working toward exactly that goal. It is, of course, a long way off, but […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Democratic Republic of Congo: Muslims burn and hack to death 19 people, burn houses The governments of Africa where jihadis are active seem powerless to stop them, or not interested in doing so. “19 civilians killed in DR Congo by Islamic State-linked militants,” AFP, August 29, 2021: Nineteen civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were burned and hacked to death on Friday by Ugandan Islamist rebels, a […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Nigeria: Borno State leaders agree to forgive and accept 5,000 ‘repentant’ jihad terrorists into society Deradicalization programs are an abysmal failure everywhere they have been implemented. From the Jihad Watch archives: Austria: Vienna jihad murderer had gone to deradicalization program, was not considered a terror threat UK: Libyan migrant who went on stabbing spree in Reading was in government deradicalization program UK: London jihadi stabbed man at deradicalization event, victim’s […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Netherlands: Government places 800 Afghan refugees in one small village No one is even raising the question of the cultural and societal disruption these people may cause. By now, everyone in the West has been well trained. Even to consider such questions is a dangerous dalliance with “racism” and “Islamophobia.” So you’re bringing in a large population of miltary-age males who have been taught to […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Taliban spokesman: Defeat of America ‘big lesson for other invaders and for our future generation’ It’s a big lesson for America, too, in fact, many lessons, regarding Islam, Sharia, nation-building, and more, but no one in power, and I mean no one, shows even the smallest glimmer of an inclination to learn them. “Taliban revels in US ‘defeat,’ says withdrawal a ‘big lesson for other invaders,’” Times of Israel, August […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Blinken: ‘A small number of Americans, under 200 and likely closer to 100, remain in Afghanistan and want to leave’ And they were abandoned by the United States government. Thanks, Joe! “Blinken Says ‘Under 200’ Americans Still Want to Leave Afghanistan After Last Troops Depart,” by Alia Slisco, Newsweek, August 30, 2021: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday said that “under 200” Americans who remain in Afghanistan still want to leave the country. […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Nigeria: Muslims murder 36 Christians, authorities arrest only Christians for defending themselves This has been going on for years. The world yawns. After all, it isn’t as if this involved something really important, such as “Islamophobia.” “Fulani Herdsmen Kill 36 Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria,” Morning Star News, August 30, 2021: JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen killed 36 Christians in multiple attacks in Kaduna […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Islamic Terrorism In Kabul and the Negotiations In Vienna Ben Cohen reports on the Kabul airport attack and recent high-ranking appointments in Iran of criminals wanted by Interpol here: “Islamism’s brutal face is back on display,” by Ben Cohen, Israel Hayom, August 29, 2021: Any notion that the worst days of Islamist terrorism are long behind us was brutally shattered at Kabul Airport on […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Hugh Fitzgerald Blinken: Taliban can only earn ‘legitimacy and support’ by ‘respecting the basic rights of women and minorities’ Here’s a prediction: the Taliban will gain legitimacy and support long before it begins respecting the basic rights of women and minorities. “Blinken outlines path to legitimacy for Taliban,” by Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, August 30, 2021: Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged the prospect of additional diplomatic contact with the Taliban in a speech […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Rashida Tlaib promoted fundraiser for group tied to Hamas and the Taliban No one will care. It’s what she does, and the establishment media is all on her side. But imagine if, say, Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted a fundraiser for a group devoted to opposing jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women. The media outcry would be insistent, and the Republican leadership in Congress would immediately […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer Texas: Muslim ‘inspired by a foreign terrorist organization’ murders Lyft driver, opens fire at police station “He was inspired by the rhetoric and or/propaganda. He wasn’t directed to do this.” Police didn’t name the “foreign terrorist organization” that inspired Imran Ali Rasheed. Maybe it was some group of Congolese white supremacists that the FBI has cooked up. In the real world, however, one possibility is that Rasheed was inspired by the […] Read more 2021-08-31  •  Robert Spencer David Horowitz Freedom Center P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks California 91499-1964 United States

BIDEN'S DISASTROUS MONTH AND AN IRREPARABLY DIVIDED NATION

Biden's disastrous month and an irreparably divided nation

Pat Buchanan notes, 'We have lost our longest war'

By Patrick J. Buchanan
Published August 30, 2021 at 7:06pm

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"April is the cruelest month," wrote T.S. Eliot in the opening line of what is regarded as his greatest poem, "The Waste Land."

For President Joe Biden, the cruelest month is surely August of 2021, which is now mercifully ending.

When has a president had a worse month?

On the last Sunday in August, Biden watched solemnly, hand over heart, as the coffins of the American dead in the Kabul airport terrorist massacre of Thursday were carried off the plane at Dover.

The American dead had been carrying out an evacuation of U.S. citizens and Afghan allies from America's lost war, a defeat dealt to us by the same Taliban we ejected from power in 2001 for providing sanctuary for the al-Qaida terrorists of 9/11.

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We have lost our longest war, and the triumphant Taliban are now back in power and presiding over and assisting our departure from Kabul.

When the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is complete Tuesday, the fate of the hundreds of U.S. citizens and thousands of Afghan allies we leave behind will be decided by the jihadists we have been fighting for two decades.

Throughout the Biden presidency, we will be reading of, hearing of and being witness to the evidence of their fates.

That same noon hour on Sunday that Biden honored the fallen at Dover, Hurricane Ida was coming ashore. Ida's 150-mile-an-hour winds were raking the same Louisiana coast Hurricane Katrina hit 16 years ago.

By nightfall Sunday, a million residents in and around New Orleans had lost all power, for days and perhaps for weeks.

In this same August, the U.S. moved ever deeper into the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with new infections, new hospitalizations and new deaths approaching the numbers they had reached at their worst last winter.

August also brought hundreds of thousands more illegal aliens across our southern border in the largest peacetime migrant invasion in memory.

Most of these millions are coming for a better life. Yet, among their numbers are the criminals and rapists who have assaulted women and girls in the exodus, and not a few foreign enemies coming with the intent to bring the war on terror home to these United States.

So it was that, in the first August of the Biden presidency, the U.S. suffered defeat in its longest war, underwent a humiliating evacuation under the guns of its enemies, continued to endure the worst plague in 100 years, and saw an invasion of its southern border by illegal migrants that called into question whether we Americans retain the resolve to preserve our country.

Nor is this all. In this August of 2021, American politics seem at their most poisonous.

Race relations are as raw as they have been since the '60s. In the wake of George Floyd's death under the knee of a Minneapolis cop, an outpouring of hostility against police has brought record retirements and resignations by cops across the country. 

Result: an unprecedented surge in urban shootings and killings, with children prominent among the victims.

When President John F. Kennedy gave his approval for the invasion of Fidel Castro's Cuba that ended in the Bay of Pigs debacle, Americans rallied behind Kennedy because, though he had blundered badly, he was our president, the personification of America's nationhood. 

His support soared to 80%.

We were one nation then, and one people. And today? Demands are being heard for the impeachment or resignation of Biden.

This piling on of the president is surely in part payback for what the Democrats did to former President Donald Trump.

Two weeks before Biden took the oath, a mob had invaded the Capitol to protest his formal certification as president.

For that mob intrusion, Trump was impeached a second time for what was variously described as "inciting insurrection," "an attempted coup," "domestic terrorism," "treason" and mounting a mortal threat to "our democracy."

"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation," Adam Smith's observation after the British lost the decisive Battle of Saratoga, is often invoked these days.

And justifiably so. For how much ruin can a nation endure and remain a nation? 

How much of this can we sustain and survive – at a time when we are carrying the burden of the defense of our allies in Europe, the Middle East and East Asia against a gathering modern axis of Russia and China, which our own interventionist policies helped to bring into being?

Our media are as partisan as they have been in our lifetimes. Our cultural elites endlessly mock the traditional values and beliefs of Middle America. Our national parties appear ever at sword's point.

Our goal, it is said, is to ever move "toward a more perfect union."

Does it seem like that is the direction where we are heading?

Are the divisions between us becoming too great for us to remain one nation and one people?

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DAILY DEVOTIONAL – SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 How Big Is Your Jesus? By David Wilkerson (1931-2011) John 14 contains two magnificent promises. First, Jesus states,  “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to my Father. And whatever you ask in my name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it” (John 14:12–14, NKJV).  Jesus makes it plain and simple in the last verse: “Ask anything in my name, and I’ll do it for you.” Two verses later, Jesus promises,  “I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Helper, that he may abide with you forever — the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; but you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you” (John 14:16–17).  Here Christ is saying, “I’m going to give you the Spirit of Truth, and his power will abide in you.” These are two incredible promises from Jesus.  Yet, notice the one verse that’s sandwiched between them:  “If you love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15).  Why does this statement appear here? Christ is telling us, “There is a matter of obedience connected to these promises.”  In short, both promises have to do with keeping and obeying God’s Word.  They were given to be fulfilled, so that nothing would hinder us from claiming the power that is Christ. I’m convinced that asking little or nothing in Jesus’ name is a reproach to him.  Year after year, many Christians settle for less and less.  Finally, they settle for salvation only.  They have no expectations other than making it to heaven someday. Have you come to the end of your expectations for Christ?  Do you expect nothing more than to be saved by his power and grace?  Does ‘your Christ’ end at just enough strength to make it through another day?  Does he end for you at a place of occasional peace and joy in a life lived mostly under Satan’s harassment?  All of these passages in God’s Word persuade me that ‘my Jesus’ is no bigger than my requests.  Sadly, many believers make Christ look insignificant and powerless by their unbelief. Beloved, I don’t want Christ to be limited in my heart.  Instead, I want every devil in hell to know how big my God is by how big my requests are.  I want more out of Christ.  I want him to be bigger than ever in my life. Read and Listen OnlineForward to a Friend

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