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C'mon, Yoshi. Get it straight. You gotta stop hanging out with those blue-haired females. Just ask JinxyPat. 'Murica.
What is this crazy preoccupation with Sharia Law? Name one, just one, city in the United States that has actually adopted Sharia Law.
"Die in your rage you kuffar." Well, you made me look up the meaning of the Arabic word "kuffar." Here it is:
Kuffar (plural of kāfir) in Islam refers to those who "conceal" or cover up the truth by disbelieving in Allah, His oneness, and the teachings of Islam. It describes non-believers, originating from the root word for hiding or covering. While commonly used to describe disbelievers, it is distinct from kufr (the act of disbelief).
So I learned something new today, although I'm not sure that it will be of much use. Unless, perhaps, I elect to use it as an epithet of some kind here on good old Tiger Illustrated. "Hermy McFluffins, I pronounce a fatwa on you, you kuffar! Aloha snackbar!"
He mixed that up. He didn't mean to say that Yoshi said that. Rather, he meant to say that he found that in the newly released Epstein files.
Two sides to every coin...
Pete Hegseth wanted an ‘American Crusade.’ Now he’s leading a war in the Middle East
The CBS reporter, Major Garrett, asked if Hegseth views the war from a religious context.
“I mean, obviously, we’re fighting religious fanatics who seek a nuclear capability in order for some religious Armageddon.” Troops, he later added, “need a connection with their almighty God in these moments.”
A couple of days later, not long after returning from a dignified transfer of soldiers killed in action, Hegseth quoted Psalm 144 at a Pentagon press conference: “Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.”
Hegseth argues the US is a Christian nation
Hegseth has long wanted to reprogram the country.“America was founded as a Christian nation,” he said at a recent National Prayer Breakfast. “It remains a Christian nation in our DNA, if we can keep it,” he added, splicing some religion onto a famous Benjamin Franklin quip about whether the US was a republic or a monarchy.
“Not only are we warriors armed with the arsenal of freedom, we ultimately are armed with the arsenal of faith,” he said, adapting Franklin D. Roosevelt’s idea that the US should be the arsenal of democracy to his own religious worldview.
Faith is tattooed on his chest
Hegseth says one of his tattoos — a Jerusalem Cross, a religious symbol tied to the Crusades— led him to be labeled an extremist and disinvited from his unit’s detail to President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021. The imagery has roots in the Crusades, when European Christians tried to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslims.The term Deus Vult, “God Wills It,” is also tattooed on Hegseth’s body. In his 2020 book “American Crusade,” he describes the term as “the rallying cry of Christian knights as they marched to Jerusalem.”
On a 21st-century ‘crusade’
Opposition to Islamists, or those who would reorder society and government around the Muslim faith, has been a motivating influence in Hegseth’s public life.In “American Crusade,” he wrote that the US faces a “crusade moment” that echoes the 11th-century Christian invasion of the Holy Land. Islamists, according to Hegseth, are enabled by American “leftists” against God-fearing Christian Americans.
“We don’t want to fight, but, like our fellow Christians one thousand years ago, we must,” he wrote. He presaged the idea that the US would go to war alongside Israel.
We Christians — alongside our Jewish friends and their remarkable army in Israel — need to pick up the sword of unapologetic Americanism and defend ourselves. We must push Islamism back — culturally, politically, geographically, and in the case of evils such as the Islamic State, militarily.
A longtime distrust of Islam
“American Crusade” refers to taking up arms against ISIS, but now the US is at war alongside Israel against Iran, an Islamic republic. In another passage from the book, Hegseth explained his view of the threat posed to the US by Islam.The longer Americans live with the delusion that Islam is a religion of peace — especially as the demographics of Europe and the United States continue to change — the more difficult our task. Islam has been at war with its enemies — meaning all ‘infidels’— since it was founded, and it will never stop.
While the US and Israel opened the fighting with air strikes that killed Iran’s leader this year, the Trump administration argues the battle has been ongoing since 1979, when the Islamic Revolution evicted the US-backed shah from power.
Imposing more religion at the Pentagon
As defense secretary before the war, Hegseth launched an effort to “make the Chaplain corps great again.” Military chaplains are supposed to minister to all religions, but Hegseth wants to rewrite their manual to reinsert more God and rely less on secular language.“War fighters of faith,” he said in a post on X, have been alienated by secular humanism in the military.
He pushes a monthly prayer that is broadcast throughout the Pentagon. In February, Hegseth invited his pastor Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist who wants the US to be a Christian theocracy, to address the US military.
Wilson, in an interview with CNN’s Pamela Brown last year, explained his view of women as “the kind of people that people come out of” and defended the idea that the US should be a Christian theocracy.
A Christian and a Zionist
In a sympathetic line of questioning during his confirmation hearing last year, Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, asked Hegseth if he considered himself a Christian Zionist.“I am a Christian, and I robustly support the state of Israel and its existential defense and the way America comes alongside them as a great ally,” Hegseth said.
Zionism is the idea that the Jewish people have a right to establish and defend their own nation in the Middle East. Christian Zionism, as a distinct term, is the idea that the right of Jews to return to the Holy Land is guaranteed in Genesis.
“Some believe, Christians in particular, that Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, specifically in terms of the second coming of Christ,” said Allyson Shortle, a professor of politics and religion at the University of Oklahoma, who coauthored a book about Christian nationalism.
A form of American exceptionalism
Shortle told me Hegseth’s strain of evangelical Christianity is in line with a view of American exceptionalism, meaning that Americans are different from people elsewhere and engaged in a broader moral clash with other societies.“Christian nationalism and American religious exceptionalism are part and parcel of the same ordering of Christians on top and everybody else sort of falls below in a way that is very domineering,” Shortle said.
Us vs. them
Iran, to a person with this worldview, “stands on the other side of a battle that’s as much about principles, beliefs and values as it is about national interest,” according to Daniel Hummel, an author of books about evangelicals in the US and director of the Lumen Center, which describes itself as a community of Christian scholars in Madison, Wisconsin.“Ideas about Israel’s chosen-ness or that things happening in the Middle East that are cosmic in significance, that’s a very widespread view, among particularly White American Christians,” Hummell said.
While she described Hegseth’s views as being on the fringe, Shortle said about half of Americans do support some sort of Christian nationalist ideology, including the idea that the US was founded as a Christian nation and that it’s divinely inspired.
“Absent the context that this might be part of the Christian nationalist movement, people like the overall idea well enough,” Shortle said, adding, “an alarming amount of Americans, given that it’s connected to a lot of anti-democratic outcomes and anti-democratic beliefs.”
Hegseth does not struggle with such conundrums. In “American Crusade,” he squared the peaceful teachings of Jesus with his opposition to diversity efforts and his general call to arms like this:
“So-called tolerance smells like surrender to Islamists, because it is. Jesus did tell us to turn the other cheek, but I’m pretty sure he wasn’t advising a secretary of defense at the time,” Hegseth wrote back then.
This is genuinely disturbing and another strong reason to stop all immigration from these nations. Even more difficult to reasonably deal with religiously militant populations at a very low intelligence level.
Muslim country first cousin marriage rates and average IQ (An IQ of 100 is considered average)
- Pakistan at 65% first cousin marriage rate, average IQ 81
- Saudi Arabia 58% first cousin marriage rate, average IQ 76
- UAE 54% (82 IQ)
- Iran 40% (80 IQ)
- Yemen 45% (62.9 IQ)
- Qatar 30% (80.8 IQ)
- Oman 36% (78.7 IQ)
- Syria 39% (74.4 IQ)
- Turkey 25% (86.8 IQ)
- Jordan 32% (80.7 IQ)
- Egypt 32% (76.3 IQ)
- Morocco 26% (67 IQ)
- Mauritania 43% [99 percent Muslim] (59.8 IQ)
- Sudan 30% [97 percent muslim] (78.9 IQ)
- Afghanistan 46% (82.1 IQ)
- Algeria 39% (76 IQ)
Again, an IQ below 70 is considered mental retardation. An IQ of 100 is considered average
Muslim country first cousin marriage rates and average IQ (An IQ of 100 is considered average)
- Pakistan at 65% first cousin marriage rate, average IQ 81
- Saudi Arabia 58% first cousin marriage rate, average IQ 76
- UAE 54% (82 IQ)
- Iran 40% (80 IQ)
- Yemen 45% (62.9 IQ)
- Qatar 30% (80.8 IQ)
- Oman 36% (78.7 IQ)
- Syria 39% (74.4 IQ)
- Turkey 25% (86.8 IQ)
- Jordan 32% (80.7 IQ)
- Egypt 32% (76.3 IQ)
- Morocco 26% (67 IQ)
- Mauritania 43% [99 percent Muslim] (59.8 IQ)
- Sudan 30% [97 percent muslim] (78.9 IQ)
- Afghanistan 46% (82.1 IQ)
- Algeria 39% (76 IQ)
Again, an IQ below 70 is considered mental retardation. An IQ of 100 is considered average
Are these numbers for real? Is there a source? Because that’s wild if so.
Those numbers seem to differ significantly from this list:
Average IQ by Country 2026
Interesting data on the average IQ by country, offering insights into the average intelligence levels of populations through various tests and sources.
I think it's just for the part of the population basically inbreeding over there. Unfortunately it's a large percentage in some of these Muslim nations. The x post doesn't provide a solid source it looks like.Are these numbers for real? Is there a source? Because that’s wild if so.
Those numbers seem to differ significantly from this list:
Average IQ by Country 2026
Interesting data on the average IQ by country, offering insights into the average intelligence levels of populations through various tests and sources.worldpopulationreview.com
Well, both sources confirm Somalia is a special kind of stupid. Geez. We have a ton of morons in the US. I can only imagine conditions if the average IQ was nearly 20 points lower.
It’s obvious why leftists love them, they cost tons of taxpayer money, corrupt fraudsters and criminals. Basically about 1/3 of their base lol.
"Somolia?" "Iq?" The obvious takeaway from Barron's Trump is that he is a a lemonhead. We all suspected that. He just confirmed it.