Tucker Carlson is oblivious to those 'killed by radical Islam'

One is repeatedly assured that terrorism is a multifaceted phenomenon, with threats emanating from every corner of the ideological spectrum. Yet when one examines the most authoritative data, a rather different picture emerges, one that many suicidal cretins in the West seem determined to obscure.

The most reliable comprehensive assessment remains the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2025, published by the Institute for Economics & Peace, covering incidents through 2024. It records some 8,000–8,500 terrorism deaths globally in that year, with the overwhelming majority perpetrated by radical Islamist groups such as Islamic State, al-Shabaab, JNIM, Boko Haram, and their affiliates. Islamic State alone was responsible for 1,805 deaths across 22 countries, concentrated principally in Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But it seems that Tucker Carlson isn't aware of this, nor personally knows anyone killed by radical [aka orthodox] Islam.

The four deadliest terrorist organizations, all Islamist, accounted for the bulk of these fatalities, well over 80% of those reliably attributed. Over 98% of terrorism deaths occurred in conflict zones, chiefly the Sahel, sub-Saharan Africa, Somalia, Syria, and Afghanistan, where radical Islamist militants continue to dominate. Tucker knows nobody in these attacks who have been killed by radical Muslims.

Independent corroboration comes from sources such as the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, which documents tens of thousands of fatalities linked to militant Islamist violence on the continent in recent years, figures that represent nearly all terrorism deaths there.

As for 2025 itself, up to the end of this year, no complete global report yet exists, given the inevitable lag in databases like the Global Terrorism Database or the forthcoming GTI. Activity, however, appears to persist at levels comparable to or marginally below 2024, with Islamic State claiming around 1,100 attacks worldwide this year. 

Notable Islamist-inspired incidents include the January 1 New Orleans truck attack (14–15 deaths, IS-inspired) alongside ongoing assaults in Syria, Pakistan, Africa, and occasional strikes in Europe, often yielding casualties in the low double digits. 

Africa remains the undisputed epicentre, with unrelenting high-lethality operations by groups such as al-Shabaab in Somalia and Islamic State affiliates across the Sahel, Mozambique, and Nigeria.

Both historically and in the present day, radical Islamist extremism, carefully distinguished from Islam as a faith, stands as the predominant driver of global terrorism fatalities, responsible for 90–95% or more of deaths in recent years according to multiple authoritative sources (GTI, Fondapol studies, and others). Non-Islamist terrorism, far-right, separatist, or otherwise, claims far fewer lives worldwide, though it receives disproportionate attention in Western nations.

Precise tallies naturally vary depending on definitions (whether battlefield deaths in active conflicts are excluded, or only strict civilian-targeted attacks counted), yet the pattern is unmistakable: Islamist-related terrorism deaths run into the high thousands annually in recent years, overwhelmingly in conflict-ravaged Muslim-majority regions where the victims themselves are predominantly Muslim.

One might have thought this reality would inform public discourse more honestly. Instead, we are often treated to a peculiar reluctance to name the obvious, a reluctance that does no service to the victims, nor to the cause of genuine understanding.

Grok says of radical Islamic killings: Exact counts vary by definition (e.g., excluding battlefield deaths in conflicts vs. strict civilian-targeted attacks), but estimates for Islamist-related terrorism deaths are typically in the high thousands to low tens of thousands annually in recent years, concentrated in conflict-affected Muslim-majority regions where victims are predominantly Muslim.

So while Tucker Carlson doesn't know anyone killed by radical Islam, radical Islam knows the score.

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Trump takes out nuke facilities, Dems want to take out Trump: but Obama did what?

As soon as President Donald Trump does something strong that the left doesn't agree with, the Democrat idiots in office want to impeach him. Meanwhile, former President Barack Hussein Obama pretty much had carte blanche when it came for the US to use its military might and the left was totally okay with it. So something tells me Democrats are some of the worst hypocrites in the history of mankind. 

Hyperbole? I don't think so.

As president, Obama authorized a number of military actions and counterterrorism operations. I have listed an overview of key attacks and ops he ordered when he was busy dividing the nation racially.

First, Obama dramatically expanded the use of drone strikes against suspected terrorists, mainly targeting al-Qaeda, the Taliban and eventually ISIS affiliates.

Secondly, he ordered literally hundreds of targeted strikes against militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, killing key al-Qaeda and Taliban people such as Baitullah Mehsud, in 2009. Conservative estimates believe 2,500 to 4,000 people were killed, including civilians.

Thirdly, in Yemen, strikes were launched targeting al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which include the 2011 elimination of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen and AQAP honcho.

Next, in Somalia, drones struck al-Shabaab scumcrumpets, and operations increased after the 2011 famine and piracy threats. Of course, these strikes were controversial because they involved civilian casualties.

Operation Neptune Spear, aka the Bin Laden Raid, went down on May 2, 2011 and was ordered by Obama. The U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six raided Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, resulting in bin Laden's death and a huge success in the fight against Islamic terrorism.

Then Obama, in 2011, authorized U.S. participation in NATO-led airstrikes to enforce a UN-mandated no-fly zone during the Libyan Civil War. Operation Odyssey Dawn targeted Muammar Gaddafi's forces in order to protect civilians. This eventually led to Gaddafi's overthrow. The U.S. conducted airstrikes along with logistical support.

Operation Observant Compass, between 2011 to 2017, sent about 100 U.S. military advisors to assist African troops in fighting the Lord's Resistance Army [LRA] in Central Africa. The main target was their leader, Joseph Kony, and while no direct combat was authorized, U.S. forces provided intelligence and support.

Between 2014 and 2017, the Obama administration conducted a military campaign against ISIS. In Operation Inherent Resolve [2014] the U.S. conducted airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, targeting ISIS strongholds, and also to protect Yazidis in Sinjar [where I throw a quarter into whenever I use bad language] and our personnel in Erbil. We also conducted a special operation in 2015 in Syria that killed ISIS leader Abu Sayyaf. By 2017, we flew thousands of airstrikes and significantly weakened ISIS's control.

Going back to 2009, Obama ordered an additional 30,000 boots on the ground to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban. Our presence at that time was around 100,000. 

Now let us be clear; I supported Obama's moves against terrorism and their leaders. But there is that double standard when it comes to President Trump. 

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Obama's ordered strikes had a significant number of civilian casualties and even sparked debate among human rights groups. Trump's ordered attack on nuclear sites did not result in civilian casualties and was not a declaration of war, like AOC and her idiot friends accuse Trump of unconstitutionally circumventing Congress.

Obama's actions were significantly closer to war than Trump's by a country mile, but he was the untouchable Obama.

Hypocrisy much?

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The Mossad prevented 3 attacks by Iran on Israeli businesspeople and tourists in Africa

Israel's Mossad has prevented multiple attacks by Iran on Israeli tourists and businesspeople in no less than three African countries, according to Channel 12 on Sunday. Specifically, the targeted Israelis were visiting Ghana, Senegal and Tanzania, the report states.

Five anti-Semitic suspects, all with African passports, have been arrested.

Iran, the largest supporter of global terrorism in the world and rabid hater of Jews and the Jewish State, have been trying to harm Israel and Israelis via cyberattacks and overseas attacks, even while President Joe Biden tries to woo them.

There have been shadow wars between the countries going on for decades, but Iranian efforts spiked since November 2020, after the Islamic Republic’s nuclear chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated, allegedly by the Mossad using a very cool AI machine gun to do the job and prevent him from developing a nuclear weapon designed to wipe out all of Israel and eventually the United States of America.

In addition, Iran has accused the Mossad of sabotaging its nuclear weapons facilities in July 2020 as well as in April and June of this year, which Iran claims was used for making popcorn, or some such nonsense.

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There was also speculation that Israeli intelligence assisted the US in sending scumbag Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Chief Qasem Soleimani to his 72 virgins in little bite-size pieces.

At the start of October, Israeli officials accused Iran of attempting to assassinate Israelis in Cyprus, as they had successfully done in 2012. Meanwhile, at around the same time, there were plots by Iran to target Israelis in India, Thailand, Kenya, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Just this past January, Iranian proxies attempted to kill an Israeli diplomat in India, inspiring a cookbook titled, "Kosher Curries With Lots of Worries."

Israeli intel officials believe Iran will continue to seek revenge on Israeli targets and Jews because they are Israelis and Jews and want to avenge the deaths of their leading terrorists who have been neutralized and unable to kill.

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American and 3 others freed in Africa by French special forces, 2 soldiers killed

West Africa -- Four hostages were freed by French special forces military operation. Among the group was an American, the Elysee announced.

France said the hostages were rescued Thursday night following a battle in Burkina Faso.

The hostages were identified as a U.S. citizen, a South Korean national, and French nationals Patrick Picque and Laurent Lassimouillas. The Frenchmen were kidnapped during a safari in Benin last week, according to Reuters.

The circumstances surrounding the capture of the other two were not immediately clear.

Islamic jihadis have become increasingly active in Burkina Faso, raising worries the militants could be infiltrating northern Benin and neighboring Togo as well, much like they have infiltrated the U.S. Congress. The only difference is that the jihadis in Congress have not demanded ransom, only the death of Israel, and thus its Jewish citizens using the pretense that Israel, the only democratic nation in the Middle East, is an apartheid state.

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State Dept. to demand tourists' social media history

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Starting this week the State Department will publish new rules for immigrants and visitors to the U.S. As per executive order, they will now be required to divulge their recent social media histories, a key security enhancement the president calls 'extreme vetting.'

People entering the United States will also be asked to list email addresses, phone numbers and international travel during the previous five years. They must also divulge any immigration problems they may have had, whether with the U.S. or any other country.

They will be asked about potential family connections to terrorism, and we know they will not lie about it because that goes against the law. 

In countries were female genital mutilation (FGM) is prevalent, particularly Africa, immigrants from these countries will be directed to a website ensuring that they are aware FGM is illegal in the U.S.

"This upgrade to visa vetting is long-overdue, and it's appropriate to apply it to everyone seeking entry, because terrorism is a worldwide problem. The aim is to try to weed out people with radical or dangerous views," said Jessica Vaughan, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Vaughan said that she wishes the system would go beyond what is planned in order to determine whether women coming into the country are doing so in order to have a child here. She said it would cut down on "birth tourism" whereby women in the late stages of pregnancy come to the U.S. to have the child who then becomes a U.S. citizen.

Security specialists have demanded more government vetting of people coming into the country but civil liberties groups, such as the ACLU, have been against this idea because they would rather see one terrorist gain entry than deny a hundred non-terrorists from gaining access to our social welfare system.

About 14 million people would be affected by the new vetting program and about 700,000 others would be affected in the immigration system.



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Tillerson dumped while dumping, Kelly says

According to John Kelly,  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired as he sat on the throne, if you get my drift. Reporters at the White House were stunned when Chief of Staff John Kelly shared the embarrassing story.

One thing for certain, Kelly was pleased that Tillerson didn't raise a stink when he heard the news. He took it in stride and knows he'll bounce back from being dumped.

Kelly did his best to convince reporters that the administration wasn't planning to "clean house" or do any serious purging, but Tillerson kind of sucked as Secretary of State and tended to counter Trump's decisions and free wheeled on the Iran nuclear deal.

According to sources who remain anonymous because they don't want to become a notch on Trump's rather large belt, Kelly had a very awkward conversation with the now former secretary of state whereby he told Tillerson that President Trump would very likely can his sorry butt. The content of the conversation was mostly awkward not for the words, but for the fact that Tillerson was "dropping a deuce" at the time.

Kelly told reporters that Tillerson was suffering from a stomach bug during a diplomatic trip to Africa and was shooting hot rockets into the Delaware when Kelly broke the news to him.

Sources couldn't believe that Kelly would make such a scatalogical pun, even off the record, to a room filled with reporters and White House leakers. [Did I just say 'leakers'?]

Tillerson will officially leave the State Department at the end of the month.

Some people go out with a bang. Some go out with a whimper. Tillerson will go out with the flushing sound of a commode forever in everyone's mind.


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NY Times now calls FGM a libido control technique

Now that The New York Times has lost all credibility among people with a brain who actually analyze both sides of the media, the "Gray Lady" has decided the term "female genital mutilation" is too heavy-handed and "culturally loaded." 

The Times worries about the culture that performs FGM on their girls also performs beheadings on critics of their barbarism.

An editor of the rag believes calling it by its proper term, widens the gap between the civilized world and "people who follow the rite" of cutting off the genitals of girls in order for them not to enjoy coitus.

Health and Science editor Celia Dugger (who likely has all of her female anatomy) came to the conclusion, after a trip to Africa in the 1990s that cutting off some or all of the external female genitalia of a female child should simply be referred to as "genital cutting."

Arrested for FGM in Michigan

FGM is practiced in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as well as some communities from countries where it's common. UNICEF estimates in 2016 that 200 million women living in 30 countries today have undergone the procedures. 

Almost 6,000 reported cases of FGM occurred in Britain from April 2015 to March 2016 according to the Health and Social Care Information Center.

Here in the U.S., an Islamic physician in Michigan was charged with doing Allah's work by performing female genital mutilation on a pair of 7-year-old girls.

Typically FGM is performed before the girl reaches the age of five. The procedures differ among countries, but it includes removal of the clitoral hood, the clitoral glans; removal of the inner and outer labia and the closure of the vulva, (known as infibulation, a small hole is left for the passage of urine and menstrual fluid). The vagina is opened for intercourse and further opened for childbirth.

The reason for the procedure: to control a woman's sexuality and ideas about modesty, beauty and purity. But the procedure is usually carried out by women who see it as a source of honor.

Health problems often follow in life after the cutting is done, which includes recurrent infections, difficulty urinating and passing menstrual flow, chronic pain, cysts, and an inability to get pregnant. There are also complications during childbirth and fatal bleeding can occur.

There are no known health benefits other than that of the mental status of men who are so insecure that they refuse to allow their wives to achieve orgasm--that's only for men to enjoy.

When a female's genitals are mutilated, what else can we call it?


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Black artists want Whitney Museum to destroy work of white artist

Black artists are protesting a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz of New York. They claim she is racially insensitive and they should know because they are black and she is white.

The work in question is titled "Open Casket" (2016) and is based on a famous photo from the funeral of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American child who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. 

Till was falsely accused of flirting with a white woman and the racists beat him and lynched him. 

The Schutz painting depicts the teen's body lying in an open coffin; his face is mutilated and his chest is turned toward the viewer. His mother requested an open coffin so that all could witness the horrible brutality of the racist attack of which he was a victim.

The painting is currently on display at the 2017 Whitney Biennial of Friday. Several black artists physically took turns standing in front of the artwork for several hours to block it from being viewed by the public.

One artist, Parker Bright, (whose surname is obviously an oxymoron) wore a t-shirt with the slogan "Black Death Spectacle" on the back and "No lynch mob" on the front.

"I wanted to confront people with a living, breathing black body," he told The Guardian. 

British-born Hannah Black penned an open letter to museum curators regarding the appropriation of black suffering by white artists as another example of systematic racial oppression. She not only wants the painting to be removed, she wants it "destroyed" and "prevented from entering any market of museum."

If you use the appropriation argument, then you would believe that Black's work and the work of other non-white individuals should not be allowed to be hung in museums if the medium is in acrylics. 

Acrylics were invented in 1934 by German chemical company BASF and patented by Otto Rohm and Otto Haas. Both Ottos were white.

If Hannah Black or any other non-white artist uses oil-based paint for their work, they are appropriating the invention of that medium from Flemish artist Jan van Eyck (1390 - 1441). They need to cease and desist.

Then there's the stone carvings that are so ancient, we can only trace them back to the Greeks, India, Egypt and most of Europe. Africa is not in the mix, so if you're black, you ought not to be working in stone.

"The subject matter is not Schutz's," Black posted on Facebook. "White free speech and white creative freedom have been founded on the constraint of others, and are not natural rights. The painting must go."

Now that's presumptuous of Hannah Black.

The subject medium did not originate in black culture. Acrylics, oils and stone as a medium for art have been used first by whites, Egyptians and Indians, not by Africans. 

But so what?

The argument I'm making is just as ridiculous as the argument that one culture cannot use another culture as their subject matter. Our country has become divided all too much and these black artists would only divide us more if we give in to their demand that we destroy another artist's work.

Personally, I don't feel responsible over what white racists have done in the past and making it a current issue only exacerbates the divide we face in this country. 

I feel angry and upset with racism and it's obvious that racism goes both ways. 


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Netanyahu on wall: "A great idea"

"La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froide" (translation. "Revenge is a dish best served cold")  Pierre Choderlos,  Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1782.

President Obama is gone from power. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still here. The two men probably didn't like each other very much, but Bibi was simply following Obama's anti-Zionist lead.

On Saturday, Netanyahu expressed his clear support for our current President Trump's plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bibi, as his Israeli supporters fondly call him, said the barrier he had built along Israel's southern border "stopped all illegal immigration" and was a "great idea."

So sit on it, Obama.

President Trump signed executive orders on Wednesday to begin construction of a continuous "physical" wall, being one of the few leaders in history to make good on a campaign promise, which was to keep out illegal immigrants from Mexico, particularly "rapists" and drug dealers.

I think he also meant murderers and other felons, but people nowadays have shorter attention spans.

"Beginning today, the United States of America gets back control of its borders. We are going to save lives on both sides of the border," Trump said.

And while Mexico is still refusing to pay for the wall, while Trump said it would, he's still going ahead on the promise.

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto responded quickly Wednesday to Trump's declaration. He told his nation, in a national television address that he regrets and rejects Trump's decision, and he is canceling a meeting he was to have with Mr. Trump on Tuesday.

There are a number of cost projections for the wall that range from $8 million to $20 million. If I know government spending like I think I do, my guess is that a wall will cost around $35 million or more, just because it always almost doubles in price when the government is involved. 

But Trump's administration and leadership is no ordinary government. Who knows what price lurks in the heart of the project?  In any case, Congress is running around trying to come up with the money.

Trump also wants to hire another 5,000 border patrol agents and 10,000 more immigration officers. These increases must first be approved by Congress however.

Taking to Twitter, a la Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted: "President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea."

The difference is, however, Israel paid for their wall, which was finished in 2013 after two years of construction.

But the actual West Bank barrier is not the same wall. That wall was built to end terror attacks and stem the flow of illegal immigrants from Africa coming through Egypt. They were mostly from Sudan, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia and Nigeria. They came seeking asylum and employment.

Israel's walls work. Trump's walls should also work.


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Mexico's immigration situation

Mexico City -- It's encouraging to see Mexico experiencing immigration problems because it serves as a wakeup call to the immigration situation that we face under Obama's policy approach.

Mexico said Saturday that they've been inundated by a surge of 4,749 Haitian, African and Asian migrants entering by their southern border through the Tapachula immigration center in the past few days. They will try to reach the California border and many will likely seek asylum, which Obama will likely grant them because they will likely vote for the Democratic party in the near future.

The National Immigration Institute of Mexico say the migrants entered the country between September 21 and 23. They believe most of them are Haitian, but didn't break them down according to country of origin.

The institute said a total of 7,800 Haitian migrants entered the country through Guatemala between January 1st and September 21st, along with 1,701 from Africa and 3,753 from various parts of Asia.

For some strange reason, none of the migrants have requested to stay in beautiful, sunny Mexico. They cannot be sent back to their home countries so Mexico gives them 20-day temporary visas to allow them time to get to the United States and be out of their hair.

The Africans in question come mainly from the Congo, Guinea, Ghana, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan and Nigeria. They likely bring with them low-level skills, illnesses and perhaps a few Islamists who would like to to their terror thing.

Mexico is smarter than Obama and I suspect Trump will have problems getting them to build the wall he promises, but I hope I'm wrong.


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BREAKING: Al Shabaab kills at least 9, injures 10 at Somalia hotel

Nairobi, Kenya -- Nine dead, ten injured by suicide attack at the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, the capital of Somali, a police official said.

Anyone willing to wear explosives on their body, or drive an explosive-filled vehicle to kill others, knowing full-well that they don't stand a chance in hell of not being blown to shreds once they set it off, has either got to be crazy, mentally challenged, or believe that this act will ensure them an eternal afterlife. 

Or perhaps all three.

Capt. Mohamed Hussein (no known relation to Barack Hussein Obama) said the attack began at dawn when a suicide bomber detonated the explosive-laden vehicle at the hotel gate. Next, gunmen on foot shot at people in the hotel, hoping their jihad would get them into Paradise.

"They have killed the owner of the hotel, a former military general and other officials during the attack," Capt. Hussein said. "There's a hostage situation inside the hotel."

Al-Shabaab, (an Arabic term meaning "the Youth) and a group aligned with al-Qaeda (practically destroyed by Obama's own hands) claimed to have waged the attack against the U.N.-backed government, using their website to make the claim.

This is not the first time this hotel has been targeted as it is used by government officials and business executives.

Presently, there are Somali and African Union forces at the scene of the religious jihad attack, according to the African Union Mission in Somalia, who posted on Twitter.

Anyone who believes that Al Shabaab, al-Qaeda, ISIS and all the other Islamic terror groups are not true Islam, ought to read about Islam before making that suicidal claim.

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