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Islam Ascendant

This will come as a surprise to no one, but according to a new Pew Research Center survey across 117 countries, Christianity remains the world’s largest religion — reaching 2.3 billion — but their share of the global population declined by 1.8 percentage points to 28.8% over the past decade. Also unsurprisingly, Islam continues to be the fastest-growing religious group.

In the civilization formerly known as Christendom, Christians now make up less than half of the population in some Western countries. That includes the United Kingdom (49%), Australia (47%), and France (46%). In each of these countries, religiously unaffiliated people – “nones” – now account for 40% or more of the population.

Meanwhile, driven by higher fertility rates both in the Middle East and across the West, Muslims increased by 347 million — more than all religious groups Pew surveyed combined. They now make up 25.6% of the global population, up 1.8 percentage points from a decade earlier.

Pew noted in this new report that “nones” were the only group aside from Islam to grow as a percentage of the global population over the decade. The nones grew by 270 million, reaching 1.9 billion and accounting for 24.2% of the world’s population.

Disconcertingly, the U.S. is now home to the world’s second-largest population of nones, following only communist China.

The decline of Christianity in the face of the rise of Islam and nones is a formula for civilizational collapse.

Interestingly, sub-Saharan Africa has emerged as a major center for Christianity, surpassing Europe. As of 2020, 30.7% of the world’s Christians lived in sub-Saharan Africa, compared to 22.3% in Europe, which is becoming Islamized. Will the term “the West” soon mean anything anymore?

The Unhinged Left

The most active drivers of end times-level hysteria are the unhinged Left, who screech about the end of democracy under Donald “Hitler 2.0™” Trump, all the while openly calling for the eradication of Western civilization.

Such agitators of revolution as the obscenely overpaid union chiefs Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association’s Becky Pringle have turned being unhinged into performance art. Check out this latest example of Pringle’s comical, rabble-rousing insanity below:

That’s actually pretty low-key for Pringle. Perhaps she was just getting started. Anyway, I present for your curiosity and amusement this video from a gentleman whose Trump Derangement Syndrome spiraled into orbit upon hearing that the administration was sending the National Guard to get the Los Angeles riots under control:

Similarly, this woman snapped over the thought that we should even have immigration laws:

Scientists still haven’t determined why progressives feel compelled to post online videos of themselves wallowing in mental illness. As Yul Brynner might have said,

“Mostly Peaceful” Chaos

As Los Angeles burns at the hands of violent revolutionaries and foreign invaders, Democrats have launched a full-court press to gaslight the American people and blame President Trump for the incendiary chaos their own party has sown and ignited.

Rioting, looting, arson, and assaults with deadly weapons targeting law enforcement have exploded in Los Angeles as part of purported “protests” against ICE agents. Predictably, Left-wing political leaders, members of the media, and stupid celebrities with too much time on their hands all insist that: 1) the protests are peaceful; 2) the protests are violent but Trump started it; and 3) we need more violent protests around the country.

Among the political leaders, unhinged anti-Trump troll Maxine Waters declared that there has been “no violence where anybody that was protesting hit anybody, shot anybody, threatened anybody.” L.A.’s Communist Mayor Karen Bass claimed that “if immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder.” Senator and insurrectionist Chris Murphy threw oil on the literal fires, urging people “to be on the streets all over the country… to protest what’s happening to our democracy.”

In the news media, ABC7 anchor Marc Brown opined hilariously that the rioters were “just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.” CNN propagandist Dana Bash assured her handful of listeners that what they were seeing in L.A. was “not a real riot.” Another CNN drone intoned that the riots were “peaceful,” prompting the camera to cut away from a flaming vehicle. More examples of such media lies are legion.

Moronic Hollywood has-beens like John Cusack and Mark Ruffalo are raging that ICE are today’s equivalent of the Gestapo, and that we must resist fascism blah blah blah. Ruffalo, whose party declared the J6 “insurrection” the most outrageous attack on democracy since Lucifer rebelled against God, claimed in the Leftist social media echo chamber called Bluesky that the Astroturfed mobs draped in Mexican and Palestinian flags while hurling bricks at law enforcement are “not an insurrection” but “peaceful civil disobedience protests.”

Not to be outdone, his cohort Cusack blathered illiterately on Bluesky,

Ice [sic] Nazi doing the bidding of Nazis trump [sic] and Miller and the rest of Manson family administration – are rolling around la [sic] terrorizing legal immigrants at work at schools abducting them and jailing them – no law – no due process. Pure Nazi lawlessness.

This is rich. Lawlessness is at the very heart of the Democrat agenda: defunding the police, facilitating illegal immigration, abolishing ICE, releasing felons from prison, justifying looting, and on and on. Their party’s whole focus is the violent destruction of middle-class stability, safety, and prosperity. Then, when the Trump administration enforces laws and moves in to protect citizens from Democrat-wrought havoc, the Left calls it “fascism.”

There are two Americas: the crowd that wants to Make America Great Again, and the mob that wants to burn it all down. There can be only one.

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