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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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I have a handful of stories that are centered around the same theme, all of which have come out just in the last day or two, all of which are being covered in major publications and quite responsibly.

Number one, India's, I'm sorry, inside Syria's sectarian cauldron kidnapping triggers cascade of violence.

Blood soaked weak between Sunni Bedouins, Sunni Muslims, and the Druze minority in southern Syria,

slaughtering the hell out of the Druze because of their religion and their tribe, et cetera, isn't sectarian politics grand?

And the Druze are, are they Christian adjacent? I forget. I read this last week.

They're like an Abrahamic religion that believes all of the prophets are cool. And trust me, I'm not a

Druus theologian, but it's kind of a universal Abrahamist religion. Anyway, and it's absolutely

horrifying. These are, not that it matters, but you look at these people,

they are thoroughly modern, normal people living their lives,

hoping to get a career going, raise their children, blah, blah, blah.

And they have armed gunmen storming their houses

and shooting them all dead in the streets because of their religion.

Moving along, this is an interesting story from Texas of all places.

Epic City replacing Old Glory with the Crescent Moon.

Picture this, a Muslim only city governed by Sharia law beyond the reach of democratically elected officials.

Something like that is happening in Texas and its founders call it Epic City. The East Plano Islamic Center, Epic, is the largest

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