SoKo TaeKwonDo HQ awards Trump 9th-degree black belt

Trump and Choi

He kicked their symbolic butts with words, now he can kick them with his fists of blazing fury. Former President Donald Trump has joined the Pope in receiving one of the highest honors that can be presented by Koreans: the 9th-degree blackbelt in TaeKwonDo.

The presenters of the belt made a special robe for Trump to wear at the presentation and you can see by the big guy's face that he enjoyed every minute of the affair. [Perhaps I should have chosen a better word.]

The Donald is the first and only American president to receive such a high honor. It was presented by the head of South Korea's Kukkiwon TaeKwonDo organization who flew to Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

The U.S.-based TaeKwonDo GrandMaster Eungil Choi (to left of Trump in photo) helped organize the presentation. Choi is also a ninth degree blackbelt but Trump clearly has the weight advantage, except the award is honorary and it's doubtful Trump could go even one round against Choi.

TaeKwonDo is to South Korea as football is to the United States, only less dangerous. It is an Olympic sport as well and is widely practiced in both North and South Korea, including the military. This is the one thing that both Koreas have in common.

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The South Korea-based Kukkiwon TaeKwonDo headquarters has been instrumental in arranging past visits to the U.S. which includes demonstrations by the North Korean team.

The last major international figure to be awarded a very high-ranking honorary blackbelt was the Pope, who received a tenth degree blackbelt in 2017 and threatened to kick Trump's proverbial butt by one degree. It is rumored that Trump has now accepted the challenge.

Imagine what that would look like.

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Priest Abducted from retirement home: crickets

Aden, Yemen-- The terrorists who attacked a retirement home in Yemen last week, killing 16 people, 4 of whom were nuns, abducted an Indian Catholic priest. The home was established by a Mother Theresa charity group.

Sunita Kumar, a Missionaries of Charity spokeswoman, said the Father Tom Uzhunnalil was taken away by the attackers in handcuffs.

The chapel and center were destroyed by the terrorists, who, some think may have been devout members of the religion of peace.

The current whereabouts of the priest are unknown, but if the terrorists happen to be Islamists, one can only hope they don't torture him for sport.

The terrorists had entered the retirement home using the jihadi technique of taqiyya, or lying for the sake of Islam. They said they were there to visit their mother, but began shooting once they gained entrance. They went room-to-room, handcuffed the elderly residents, took them outside and shot each of them in the head.

Aden became a lawless place after the Saudi-led coalition recaptured the city from the Shi'ite Houthi rebels last summer. But the city continues to have a Muslim problem that has been exploited by ISIS.

The Pope has yet to weigh in on the priests' abduction as well as what's happening to Christians throughout the world, as well as Jews, gays and other non-Muslim groups.

That may be due to his belief that Islam is a religion of peace, or perhaps he is simply afraid to confront the real problem which is Islamic ideology taken to the extreme. I refer to it as orthodox Islam.

I go with the second possibility--do you agree?


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