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Somali-Born Superintendent Sparks Uproar as He Reveals the Disgusting Reason Why He Wants to Change School Policy on Dogs

A Somali-born public school official who invaded the State of Maine years ago now wants to impose his culture on the state’s natives.

As The Maine Wire reported on Wednesday, the Portland Public Schools Policy Committee held a meeting on October 14 that focused on the school district’s newly proposed policy on animals in schools.

As currently drafted, the policy states as follows: school administration must sign off on the animals, service animals must be certified, and domestic animals must be restrained.

But Abdullahi Ahmed, the Somali-born Muslim assistant superintendent for student, family, and community partnerships at Portland Public Schools, claimed that the policy toward dogs must change because of Islamic ‘ritual purity.’

He specifically cited dog saliva as an example.

“In Islamic tradition, there is always love for animals and living things and compassion for animals,” Ahmed said. “With that being said, there are some ritual purity that Islamic traditions state and Muslims exercise, so, for example, dog saliva is considered impure.

Ahmed said he did not want the district “to have a dog as a class pet” and that students and staff “should not be required to interact” with the animals at school.

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US DOJ Is Reviewing Forceful Ejection of Brandi Kruse and Fans Wearing XX-XY Shirts at Friday’s Portland Thorns Female Soccer Game

As reported earlier… Independent journalist Brandi Kruse says she was physically removed from a Portland Thorns female professional soccer game simply for wearing a shirt supporting sex-based protections in women’s athletics.

Kruse, host of the independent political commentary program unDivided, was escorted out of Providence Park in Portland, Oregon, on Friday night, October 23, during a National Women’s Soccer League match between the Portland Thorns FC and North Carolina Courage.

Her offense was wearing a T-shirt from XX-XY Athletics, a sportswear company founded by former Levi’s executive Jennifer Sey that advocates preserving female athletic categories based on biological sex.

Kruse said she and other supporters peacefully wore their shirts before being confronted and assaulted by opposing fans.

Then, according to her account, stadium security ultimately removed her group rather than the individuals she accused of attacking them.

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DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin Goes Off on the ‘Prophet’ Muhammad, Issues Warning About Islam

DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin went off on the ‘Prophet’ Muhammad and issued a warning about “extreme Islam” as he launched an attack on Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

“The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization. To say they are non-existent anymore doesn’t even resonate with those of us that are in law enforcement…” Mullin said.

“The Muslim Brotherhood is still an organization that wants to harm the United States. They have made that very clear and when they have someone that is associated with it, you gotta question their conviction…” Mullin said.

Mullin said Islam permits Muslims to lie.

“This is affiliated to the Prophet Muhammad. When it’s permissible to lie, it says there’s three reasons that it’s permissible,” Mullin said.

“One is in a time or war, one is in a time of conflict, to try to reconcile, and one is when you’re trying to persuade your wife essentially to stay with you,” he said.

“And you go okay, where does other religions say it’s permissible to lie? So you can’t compare that. Extreme Islam is dangerous,” Mullin said during an appearance on Fox News.

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33 Leaders Demand Mosque Moratorium in Texas and Florida: Investigate ‘Critical Infrastructure of Jihad’

On 19 October 2026, Governors Greg Abbott (Texas) and Ron DeSantis (Florida) received an open letter from 33 leaders of patriotic organizations calling for investigations into mosques associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and other sharia supremacism networks and for the imposition of temporary moratoriums on the approval and construction of new mosques in their respective states.

The letter from the BanSharia.com Coalition thanks the Governors for designating the Muslim Brotherhood and its US arm, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), as terrorist organizations. Abbott made the declaration in November 2025, describing both as a foreign terrorist organization and a transnational criminal organization, and restricting property acquisition in the process. DeSantis made his move in December 2025 with an executive order directing state agencies to deny benefits or resources to anyone who provides material support. CAIR has, of course, brought federal lawsuits in response to both designations, seeking temporary injunctions.

The signatories maintain that the designations must be enforced and that the groups’ activities must cease in Texas and Florida. They point to a “critical infrastructure of jihad” comprising the facilities which the Brotherhood refers to as Islamic societies or Islamic centers (in practice these are mosques). The U.S. total is estimated to be at least 3,150. CAIR co-founder and Executive Director Nihad Awad has put the number at 4,000. The letter goes on to state that new facilities are still being approved and built every month, particularly in Texas and Florida, which are the focus of a campaign of ” stealthy civilization jihad “.

That phrase is in the Muslim Brotherhood’s 1991 ‘Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Objective of the Group in North America’ by Mohamed Akram (a leading Brotherhood figure at the time and still is). The document was admitted as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial on terrorism financing. It states: “The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization Jihadist process’ with all the means. The Muslim Brotherhood must realize that their work in America is a kind of great Jihad in the annihilation and destruction of Western civilization from within and in the ‘sabotage’ of its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is wiped out. The religion of Allah is established over all other religions.”

The memo on the role of the mosques is entitled “Understanding the role and the nature of work of ‘the Islamic Center’ in every city with what achieves the goal of the process of settlement”. It states: “To the extent that we own and control these centers at the continental level, we can say that we are progressing successfully in the settlement of Dawa in this country. That is to say that the role of the ‘Center’ is the same as that of the ‘Mosque’ in the time of the Prophet (S) when he was marching to ‘settle’ Dawa in its first generation in Medina.” This is interpreted as equating the role of the mosques that are under the control of the organization with those of the mosques in the days of the Prophet, i.e., they are to be used for the storage of arms and for the training and planning of jihad.

A steadily increasing number of public statements by imams, leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood’s front groups and sharia supremacists in politics all point to seditious intent. The letter asks whether public safety and national security may in fact be compromised by some, or indeed all, of the mosques in America and that this possibility must be investigated with the utmost urgency.

While Texas and Florida conduct their own investigations, the signatories say they could impose moratoriums on approving and constructing any further mosques. They argue that federal constitutional and statutory schemes can implement such moratoria despite the very strong state interests at stake. The letter calls on the governors to carry out threat assessments of the Islamic community, Islamic centers and other mosques and to, in the course of those assessments, prevent any further expansion of that infrastructure.

Of the 33 signatories: Rep. Keith Self (R-TX); Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Jerry” Boykin, Executive VP of the Family Research Council; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, founder of the AHA Foundation; Frank Gaffney, President of the Institute for the American Future; Anne Schlafly, Chair of the Eagle Forum; Kimberly Fletcher, founder and president of Moms for America; me as founder and Director of Hearts of Oak. Others include leaders from the Texas Eagle Forum, Grassroots America (We the People PAC), the American Family Association, and several organizations focused on national security and constitutional issues.

The letter goes on to state that the Governors previously designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as having both the authority and the duty to assess the facilities in question and to prevent any further expansion of those facilities during the assessments. No fixed timescale is suggested beyond the timescale required for the assessments.

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Lawsuit challenges Cincinnati over BLM mural, equal access to streets

A federal lawsuit is challenging Cincinnati’s decision to allow a Black Lives Matter street mural, with the plaintiff arguing other viewpoints deserve the same opportunity to paint city streets.

Chris Langdon filed the lawsuit in federal court just days before the Black Lives Matter mural was refurbished for the BLINK festival. The mural was painted on Plum Street in 2020.

Langdon lives in Winter Park, Florida. He said the First Amendment gives him the same right to express his views on Cincinnati streets as anyone else.

“I think the First Amendment is important. one group to use the city streets, you have to allow all groups to use it, all points of view,” Langdon said.

What Langdon wants to paint

Langdon said he wants to paint a mural on a Cincinnati city street using religious figures standing arm in arm with the caption “Peace & Religious Tolerance.” He wants it to include Jesus, Buddha, the Prophet Muhammad and Moses.

“I put in my lawsuit things like all lives matter, brown lives matter, yellow lives matter. I don’t think you can just make a statement just for one race,” Langdon said.

Fox19 legal analyst Mark Krumbein said the lawsuit is not a novel concept.

“It’s an interesting lawsuit and its a concept that has come up before and basically an individual is saying he wants to do the same thing that someone else is done and in this case, Black Lives Matter has painted murals on the sidewalk, different symbols, so he wants to do that himself,” Krumbein said.

Krumbein compared the issue to past disputes over religious displays.

“The same issues applies like when they have a Christmas tree on Fountain Square and you know like well, can I have my, this religious, that religion and can I do this?” Krumbein said.

Lawsuit seeks damages

Langdon’s lawsuit also includes $10,000 in damages from the mayor and $10,000 from the city.

Mayor Aftab Pureval released a statement to FOX19 saying: “This looks to me like a frivolous lawsuit filed by someone offended by racial inclusion. I’m not sorry for supporting the Black Lives Matter mural. It is a beautiful representation of our City’s speech and values. It’s not going anywhere.”

Langdon said he has sued other cities over the same issue.

“So anybody has the right to paint the streets and anybody else in America has a right to come and paint. You have the same right to paint the city streets. It doesn’t matter if you’re a resident of Cincinnati or not,” Langdon said.

Langdon said if the city doesn’t settle his lawsuit, he hopes it makes its way all the way up to the Supreme Court.

The Black Lives Matter mural was privately funded when it was painted in 2020. In 2021, City Council approved an ordinance transferring and appropriating $125,000 from city funds to restore it.

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WA School District That Forced Kids to Hide Bibles in “Concealed Envelopes” Must Now Apologize, Undergo Religious Liberty Training, and Fork Over $275K

A school district in Washington state is being forced to apologize, fork over $275,000, and attend religious liberty training after forcing students to hide Bibles in concealed envelopes.

School officials in the Everett School District were accused of trying to make it difficult for children to participate in a release-time program on Christianity. The elementary students were forced to hide Bibles in “concealed envelopes,” and parents were forced to repeatedly submit permission slips.

LifeWise Academy provides optional, privately funded Bible education to public school students during school hours. Classes take place off school property and require parental permission.

Following complaints, First Liberty Institute and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of a LifeWise parent and staff member after the district imposed restrictions that singled out the program.

According to the lawsuit, the restrictions included excluding LifeWise from community events and flyer displays, requiring burdensome weekly parental reauthorization, and requiring students to keep materials received at LifeWise, including Bibles, sealed in envelopes in their backpacks.

Additionally, a school board member was openly hostile about the program and “publicly declared animus toward LifeWise Academy” while grossly mischaracterizing the program during  a school board meeting.

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US judge blocks Trump threat to jail Gaza justice advocates

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from imposing fines and prison sentences on US human rights advocates for sharing evidence with the International Criminal Court (ICC) or working with Palestinian human rights groups targeted by US sanctions.

In a 30-page ruling on 13 October, Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York granted a preliminary injunction protecting Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide (TAAG) and two TAAG members from penalties for their human rights advocacy.

The decision comes three months after the organizations sued the Trump administration, arguing that sanctions aimed at shielding US and Israeli officials from prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity violate Americans’ constitutional rights.

Under the sanctions, individuals could face up to 20 years in prison and $1 million in fines for providing prohibited services to sanctioned individuals or organizations.

Furman found that the sanctions likely violate the First Amendment because they restrict speech based on its content and cannot survive the demanding constitutional test applied to such restrictions.

DAWN called the ruling “a landmark victory for free speech.”

Omar Shakir, the Washington-based human rights group’s executive director, said the ruling had “put the brakes in a major way” on the administration’s “efforts to shield from justice the Israeli officials who have perpetrated a genocide and their US backers.”

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Jury Convicts Blogger After Ohio Senator Reports Crude Political Joke

An Ohio jury has found a blogger guilty of sending a crude, but clearly political joke to a state senator who had just dropped out of a Senate president race – and who chose to call the police instead of simply blocking the number.

All it took was for Senator Jerry Cirino to personally call the police chief in his hometown of Kirtland and ask that charges be filed against D.J. Byrnes, who writes under the pen name “The Rooster.”

The image that was sent to the senator depicted the cartoon ogre Shrek holding his genitals, and the accompanying text was a joke at the politician’s expense.

The judge who signed the arrest warrant had received campaign contributions from Cirino and had been endorsed by him.

Cirino also emailed the local police chief, saying he was “officially filing a complaint” and asking the police to “take appropriate actions” – and to make sure the “harassment” stops.

The Shrek image sent by Byrnes was described in the arrest affidavit as “fully nude with an exposed and erect humanlike penis engaged in an act of masturbation.”

Byrnes’ attorneys argued that the image, accompanied by a text that called Cirino “Young Mussolini,” was simply a political statement.

“The image made the exact same point he texted. Cirino had exposed himself,” said defense attorney William Livingston.

“One message and a meme and one reply, all about a single subject: the Senate race that Cirino had just lost,” Livingston said.

Another attorney, J. Michael Murray, told the court that the image of Shrek was meant to show that Cirino was “exposing himself, as he couldn’t win the presidency.”

Murray said that Byrnes, who was arrested in public at the Statehouse in June and held for 23 hours, “spent a night in jail because he offended a powerful politician.”

Prosecutor Matthew Lallo asked the jury: “Tell me how that is not a harassing message.”

Byrnes was found guilty and ordered to pay $200 in fines and court costs. His attorneys plan to appeal.

Cirino, meanwhile, maintained that he was not trying to stifle free speech, saying, “This was about protecting my rights as an individual.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) said in June that the government “generally cannot punish people for saying things to or about public officials, even if some find the speech offensive, insulting or vulgar.”

FIRE also rejected the notion that the image of Shrek was obscene, saying it was “protected political mockery, not obscenity.”

FIRE’s advice to Cirino at the time was: “Block the number.”

The real punishment was the arrest, the night in jail, and the trial, all courtesy of a powerful politician who chose to “pursue” a critic instead of blocking them on his phone.

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Ohio Journalist Goes on Trial for Sending Picture of ‘Shrek’s Penis’ to GOP Lawmaker — Faces Up to Six Months in Prison

An Ohio political blogger will go on trial Thursday for allegedly sending a state lawmaker a picture of Shrek with an erect penis.

D.J. Byrnes, 39, publisher of the Ohio political newsletter The Rooster, has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor telecommunications harassment over the bizarre exchange with Republican State Sen. Jerry Cirino.

The saga began after Cirino gave up his bid to become president of the Ohio Senate.

Byrnes, a committed leftist who nicknamed Cirino the “Young Mussolini,” allegedly sent him a taunting message celebrating his political setback.

“Good to see you finally made your humiliation public, Young Mussolini. THE PATRIOTS CAUCUS sends its regards!!!!!!!!!!!” Byrnes wrote, according to court filings.

“I don’t know who this is but I am certain you are a moron,” Cirino responded.

Byrnes allegedly sent the senator a digitally altered image depicting the famous green ogre fully nude with an exposed and erect penis.

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New Mexico Found a Way to Fine Platforms for Speech It Didn’t Delete

A civil jury has found Meta liable for violating New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act, and now the judge is being asked to order the company to pay between $35 billion and $40 billion.

At a hearing on October 1 in Santa Fe, special prosecutor Randi McGinn asked Judge Francis Mathew of the First Judicial District Court to order Meta to pay this amount, while a lawyer for the social media giant said such a penalty would be “an astronomical” one, violating “a host of constitutional provisions.”

Meta is being punished for making false statements about user privacy, and also for not removing “hate speech” and “misinformation” fast enough.

The verdict was delivered on September 25, finding Meta had made 26 false or misleading statements, resulting in nearly 43.9 million violations of the state’s Unfair Practices Act.

This would translate to a maximum of $5,000 per violation, or $219 billion in all – more than the $206 billion the tobacco industry had to pay in a settlement in 1998. The state asked for about 20% of this amount.

The number of violations was arrived at by counting the number of people in New Mexico, and the number of Facebook users in the state, and then multiplying these numbers by the number of times Meta made false statements in news outlets and on its own platforms.

The state had to show only that harm was likely, not that it actually occurred.

Meta is being punished for lying about how it handled user data, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal that saw a third party harvest data from about 87 million profiles. The company is also being punished for not removing “hate speech” and “misinformation” fast enough – and the number of violations in this category is about a quarter of the total.

The New Mexico case is not the only one where Meta is being forced to pay up – in March, a Santa Fe jury ordered it to pay $375 million in a case involving child safety on Facebook and Instagram, and in August, the judge in that case added another $567 million for a youth mental health fund.

In August, 47 states reached a settlement with Meta, along with other social media companies, that will see them pay $17 billion. Judge Mathew mentioned this during the October 1 hearing, saying that due process suggests he should opt for a much lower amount than what the state of New Mexico is asking for.

During the hearing, Meta’s lawyer Matt Nicholson described the case as “about 26 statements over 11 years” and said that the state “made absolutely no showing that anyone in the state of New Mexico ever saw them, relied on them or were harmed by them in any way.”

McGinn countered that “the one thing you didn’t hear from counsel is an apology.”

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