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Opening the Gates: Trump’s Middle East Deals the Rise of Radical Islamic Influences in America – William Koenig

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May 16, 2025 

Sharing this article from a Christian journalist who is also a part of the White House press corps. His opinions I agree with 100%. We are living in dangerous times. Prosperity only comes through Jesus Christ, not aligning ourselves with anti-christians nations. Please read the following with an open mind. Rh

President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates has been framed by supporters as a major economic win. With reports suggesting these Gulf states plan to invest trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy through real estate, energy, and tech partnerships, the deals are being hailed as a major boost to American financial interests.

But while the business optics may appear favorable, the geopolitical and ideological implications raise serious concerns.

There is already a notable expansion of Islamic infrastructure within the United States. Thousands of mosques and Islamic centers—many funded directly or indirectly by foreign capital from the Middle East—are being built across American cities. These developments coincide with Trump’s deepening ties to the very nations that have historically funded extremist ideologies and political Islam worldwide.

Qatar remains one of the primary financial backers of the Muslim Brotherhood, a global Islamist movement with ties to political radicalism. They own Al Jazeera the largest news network in the Middle East and North Africa. They have been accused of being a mouthpiece for Hamas and Israel shut them down from broadcasting in the country.

Saudi Arabia’s decades-long export of Wahhabi doctrine has helped shape hardline Sunni ideologies across the globe. The United Arab Emirates, while more moderate in tone, maintains an authoritarian stance on religious and political freedoms and has sought to export its model of state-controlled Islam.

At the same time, Trump and his family stand to benefit personally. Ongoing or planned real estate projects in Doha, Dubai, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, and potentially even Syria suggests significant commercial interest. Additionally, there are reports of cryptocurrency ventures tied to state-backed Gulf funds—adding a financial layer that intertwines U.S. presidential influence with foreign investment from nations with strict Islamic governance.

While these nations continue to enforce rigid religious laws and limit Christian and Jewish expression within their own borders, they are being granted increasing economic and cultural presence within the U.S.

While these Middle Eastern governments tighten their grip on Islamic purity within their own borders—imprisoning Christians, banning Bibles, and persecuting evangelicals—they are now being granted unfiltered access to American soil. Mosques are rising by the thousands. Islamic centers, often backed by foreign capital, are expanding across American cities. And the silence from the church and the government is deafening.

The irony is striking. Israel, America’s most steadfast ally in the region, appears increasingly isolated—threatened daily by Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. And yet, the very nations that fund terror against the Jewish state are now being invited into the economic and cultural heart of America under the banner of deal-making.

Critics argue this alignment risks enabling ideologies that are fundamentally at odds with American democratic and pluralistic values. They point out that these countries not only restrict freedom of worship domestically but also promote a global religious and political agenda. And now, through high-profile deals and expanding U.S.-based assets, they are gaining unprecedented access and influence on American soil.

The prophetic implications are chilling. America is aligning itself politically and financially with nations whose core ideologies are hostile to Christianity and Judeo values. And, as Scripture warns, there are consequences for those who bless or curse Israel:

“I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” — Genesis 12:3

“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” — Galatians 6:7

This appears to be more than trade. It increasingly resembles an ideological advance—a soft invasion under the cover of business opportunity. What presents itself as economic progress may, in reality, be the Trojan horse of a much darker agenda: the erosion of biblical foundations and the quiet rise of a foreign ideological presence cloaked in commercial partnerships.

Trump’s legacy may indeed be built on deals. But the cost to the soul of the nation could be far greater than the billions gained—if anything is gained at all. Copied from watch.org. Willian Koenig

Trump & His Core Values

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What started out with a flourish of executive moves that brought sanity and the hopes of prosperity to America, has quickly moved in a dramatically different direction. Donald trump has been the most pro Israel President we have ever had. Hands down, however since the appointment of Mr. Witkoff with his nefarious ties to Qatar, it sees to have taken a quick turn to ignore Israel. This is not to bash Trump, but he is horrible with the people he surrounds himself with. Ultimately he will be judged by his policies, ie who has his ear. Wake up Mr. Presidents, Advisors can destroy a Presidency.

My greatest concern is his stance with and what to do with Israel. Never divide the land, I repeat never divide the land! Or turn your back on God’s land. Below is a great article that sums up my personal opinion and illustrates a point I just made.

More on the division of the land in the next article. Rh

A Sobering Sign in Washington: White House’s Advisory Board of Religious Liberty Commission – Tania Curado-Koenig 

On May 16, 2025, the White House officially announced the appointment of two controversial figures to President Donald Trump Names Advisory Board Members to the Religious Liberty Commission: Ismail Royer and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, co-founder of Zaytuna College.

Ismail Royer, currently serving as the Director of the Islam and Religious Freedom Action Team at the Religious Freedom Institute, has a complex history. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to weapons charges related to assisting the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and served over a decade in prison. Since his release, Royer has worked with various nonprofit organizations to promote interfaith dialogue and religious freedom.

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is a prominent American Islamic scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. He has been recognized for his efforts in promoting classical Islamic learning and interfaith understanding. Yusuf has also served as an advisor to the Center for Islamic Studies at Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union and was a member of the State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights during the first Trump administration.

These appointments have stirred concern across multiple sectors. According to an official release by the White House on May 16, 2025, Ismail Royer and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf were formally named as members of the new Advisory Board of Lay Leaders (Source: whitehouse.gov). Meanwhile, coverage by the Times of India highlighted Royer’s past involvement with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) training camps in Pakistan, citing his 2003 conviction and later advocacy work as part of the context surrounding his selection (Source: Times of India).

It is important to reflect that what is being called the ‘Religious Liberty Commission’ could, in practice, become a vehicle for spiritual compromise — a platform that ushers in not liberty, but bondage. If not guarded carefully, it risks enabling the very destruction of the Judeo-Christian values upon which America was founded. In the name of inclusion, we may be witnessing the erosion of truth.

How The Rejection Of Bible Prophecy Paved The Way For Paula White’s Disturbing Rise To Power – Harbinger’s Daily

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The prevailing false view in the Christian community is that the church will someday prevail over the ills and evils of our world and inaugurate millennial conditions throughout the world before Jesus returns to the earth. Lest anyone think that such teaching, known as Dominion Theology, is of little or no consequence…
— Read on harbingersdaily.com/how-the-rejection-of-bible-prophecy-paved-the-way-for-paula-whites-disturbing-rise-to-power/

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Tucker Carlson?

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By T.R. Clancy

Very long article that is well worth the reading, especially if you think Tucker is a true conservative. I, myself have always doubted his sincerity to the cause. His acceptance of anti-semites is appalling, I do remember Rush Limbaugh not caring one bit about him. May that is why I never trusted him Rh. Enjoy

In the opening sentence of Douglas Murray’s current bestseller, On Democracies and Death Cults, Murray writes, “Sometimes a flare goes up and you see exactly where everyone is standing.”

In this case, the flare was the October 7, 2023 pogrom in southern Israel perpetrated by Hamas and hordes of “innocent” Gazan civilians.

And that flare starkly illuminated the unmistakable outline of Tucker Carlson.

On the wrong side of the wire.

For years Carlson offered conservative punditry at outlets like the Weekly Standard, CNN, and MSNBC, until he really took off in 2016 as Fox News’s most popular conservative. In 2019, Michael Anton labeled Carlson “the de facto leader of the conservative movement — assuming any such thing can still be said to exist.”

His nightly monologues fearlessly exposed the debacles of the Russia hoax, COVID, “mostly peaceful” BLM riots, the rigged election, and the Biden administration’s Gestapo tactics towards the J6 protesters.

One could imagine that, once the Left had successfully assassinated Trump, the next worst troublemaker who needed shutting up would be Carlson.

Then the most shocking historical crime of this century happened, and Tucker Carlson had nothing to say. As weeks passed after October 7, his silence implied an unhealthy antipathy towards Israel’s cause.

Then, on November 15, 2023, Carlson interviewed Candace Owens, a frequent guest on Fox News, including Carlson’s former show. At the time of the podcast, Owens was in the middle of a flap with her then co-worker at the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro (an issue of its own that’s not the focus here).

When the conversation turned to Israel, Carlson’s thoughts on October 7 weren’t encouraging.

I’m an American. I was horrified by what happened on Oct. 7. I think it was pretty strange, I don’t understand how it happened, but innocents died and that’s awful. And I hated watching that. And I feel so sorry for the Israelis who were killed. However, there’s an emotional response that is disproportionate, I think, on the part of some commentators. I mean, our country is being invaded right now by millions of young men whose identities we don’t know, who probably don’t even like America, and they’re now living here. Over a 100,000 Americans die every year of fentanyl… These are real tragedies. I’ve never seen anything like the emotion from any commentator around those tragedies as I’m watching about a foreign tragedy. I think that’s odd.

But Tucker was hardly the lone voice passionate about open borders and fentanyl deaths. These were universally decried across the conservative commentariat, without needing to cast supporting Israel’s survival and border security as mutually exclusive.

And unlike other “foreign tragedies” like Ukraine or Syria, Hamas butchered 40 Americans on October 7, and took hostage an indeterminate number of other Americans, including, after murdering its parents, a three-year-old toddler.

In September 2024, Tucker hosted, as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States,” podcaster Darryl Cooper.   

Tucker was keen on Cooper’s notion that the “chief villain” of World War II was Winston Churchill, who stoked war on behalf of his Jewish financiers. Cooper effectually denied the Holocaust, claiming Nazi plans for Operation Barbarossa inadvertently underestimated how many POWs they’d end up having to feed. That millions of them starved to death was an unintended tragedy.

Then, in December, Tucker hosted a two-hour podcast with Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist, UN-advising globalist, and close associate of George Soros, (which last bit Tucker failed to mention). Sachs, who has “has repeatedly accused Israel of genocide,” spent two largely uninterrupted hours retailing his theory that the “Israel lobby” hijacked American foreign policy 30 years ago, to implement Benjamin Netanyahu’s sinister “’Greater Israel’ agenda that would rule from the Nile to the Euphrates that Israel opposed Palestinian rule over Judea and Samaria, Gaza, and the Golan.”

Sachs said, “’Netanyahu… has engaged the United States so far in six disastrous wars, and he’s aiming to engage us in yet one more.” Carlson saw no need to follow up after Sachs “accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of creating Hamas and Hezbollah to expand the Jewish state’s borders and achieve ‘greater Israel.’”

Following the podcast, Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs and combating antisemitism, tweeted, “Congratulations to Tucker Carlson for becoming the leading platform for fringe Holocaust deniers, conspiracy theorists, and blood libel enthusiasts who oppose the State of Israel.”

But if there was any doubt that this only means Carlson is consistent about opposing American entanglement in foreign wars, his recent appearance on the popular Megyn Kelly Show podcast leaves no room for doubt.

Powerline’s Scott Johnson posted last week a four-minute clip of Tucker responding to charges of antisemitism. According to Tablet podcaster Michael Doran, Tucker’s response managed to hit every note of classic denials of antisemitism. “It’s beautiful!,” Doran exclaims. “It should be taught in schools. It’s a work of art.” (56:34 in the podcast).

Carlson began by telling Kelly he loves both Jews and Israel, but he’s “been attacked in ways that are so crazy, and it’s totally coordinated from Israel,” by “creepy people taking direct orders from a foreign government.”

It’s so bad he called one of his many friends in the Israeli government (an Elder of Zion, perhaps?), to tell them, “Stop this. I am not your enemy… You don’t think you have enough enemies?”

More than enough. The problem is he keeps saying, and favorably showcasing, people who say all the same things Israel’s worst enemies do.

Like the blood libel that the IDF’s conduct of the war is “disproportionate” (read, genocidal), to the “foreign tragedy” of October 7, to which Israel just had to overreact. As a taxpayer, he’s got a right to complain.

“You have a dispute with your neighbor and you want to get, you know, medieval on them, do it on your own dime…”

Israel wanted this war, you see.

And getting medieval is the IDF’s historically unprecedented efforts to protect — and feed — the Gazan civilians Hamas sacrifices as human shields.

Or Carlson’s inflammatory charge Israel is dragging us into an “unwinnable war” — just like the Jews made Churchill drag us into WWII.

Or how he’s being called antisemitic on the “direct orders” of International Jewish Headquarters.

Carlson’s past “just asking questions” or offering a forum to explore alternative views: he’s handing access to his millions of viewers to characters like Sachs and Cooper, while either leaving their wildest theories unchallenged, or indicating avid agreement.

Then tells Megyn Kelly he really doesn’t want a fight about Israel. “At all.”

As Scott Johnson, notes, if Carlson were an obscure crank, “I would be happy to ignore him. But he is far from nobody in the eyes of the Trump administration and the online right.”

Right now, Carlson’s Live Tour features top MAGA notables like Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy, Megyn Kelly, Charlie Kirk, RFK, Jr., and VP Vance.

Trump and his supporters have consistently supported Israel, while the Left has loudly endorsed the worst form of Jew hatred.

But if given the chance, they’ll ruthlessly exploit mixed messages from our side.

That’s why Trump — quietly but firmly – must make Tucker Carlson persona non grata.

Attack Nuclear Sites or Negotiate

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This is a memo I sent a friend about the division in the White House over an attack against Iran’s Nuclear sites. Pray for Wisdom that Trump will listen to the right advice. Intercession will carry the day! Please pray. Rh

Here is something I forgot to tell you about the division in the White House over war now with Iran.  Some are business favor of a strike others not so much.  

War side has Hegseth, NSA director, Military head of central command Gen Karulla and Rubio.

Against war & wanting more negotiations are Vance, Gabbard, Chief of Staff Susie  Wiles and Tucker Carlson who is an anti-Semite, or at least has many on his show.

This is the perfect time to strike, Iran has lost their radar abilities.  They are at their weakest point in many years.  Delay would only allow more time to make either a bomb or better delivery systems ie. missiles or rockets etc.

Pray God’s wisdom for Trump to make the right decision and to listen to the right voices.  As always this is a spiritual battle fought by intercessory! Rh

The War of Tariffs: How Far Can Ego Go?

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By Tania Koenig

This is an excellent look at the turbulent times we live in and the uncertainty of our times. It truly is a war of the heavenlies. We must learn to fight the spiritual war. Rh

Donald Trump began his second term not just with political momentum, but with global reverence. At the 2024 reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, world leaders, kings, and queens stood to honor him—a gesture not born of ceremony, but of deep respect for his resilience. He had survived two assassination attempts, led a bold campaign against immense odds, and returned to the world stage carrying both gravitas and a defiant spirit.

Yet somewhere between honor and hubris, something shifted.

President Trump’s initial diplomacy toward Vladimir Putin gave way to frustration. After weeks of behind-the-scenes talks, he told NBC News he was now “very angry” with Putin, threatening a 50% tariff on countries purchasing Russian oil unless a ceasefire in Ukraine is reached. Curiously, however, Russia and Belarus—central actors in the conflict—were not included in the retaliatory tariffs announced earlier this month.

Markets took note. So did the nations.

The American dollar tumbled. The euro surged to $1.30, shaking investor confidence. U.S. consumers are bearing the brunt of rising costs. The tariffs, intended as leverage, are beginning to resemble self-inflicted wounds.

This is no longer just a war of policy—it’s a war of pride. And ego is proving to be the most expensive currency of all.

Trump famously declared, “This war should have never happened—and it wouldn’t have happened if I were President.” But today, with no ceasefire in Ukraine, no progress in Gaza, no clarity with Iran, and no breakthrough with Putin, those words ring hollow.

Let’s be clear: Iran is not a place for simplistic posturing. The Iranians are masterful negotiators, many holding PhDs in international relations, law, and economic strategy. But beyond academic credentials lies a deeper reality: they are heirs of the Persian Empire, one of the most sophisticated civilizations in history.

From the days of Cyrus the Great to the intricate diplomacy of the Safavid and Qajar dynasties, Persians have wielded power not just with might—but with strategy, patience, and psychological brilliance. They understand time as an ally, not an enemy. They see the West’s rush for resolution as a weakness, not a virtue. In every negotiation, they think in centuries, not election cycles.

You don’t outtalk Iran. You outlast them—if you can.

And China? Xi Jinping isn’t reading The Art of the Deal. He’s studying The Art of War by Sun Tzu—a manual on subtlety, misdirection, and calculated control. Xi doesn’t shout; he waits. He lets the West play a loud, short game while he plays a quiet, long one.

This is not just a political reckoning—it’s a spiritual one.

The Bible warns us: “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” — Proverbs 16:18

This is the moment the Church must rise—not to take political sides, but to take spiritual position. We must step into the role of watchmen, discerning the times, praying with authority, and calling leaders back to humility and wisdom.

Because this war—whether in Gaza, Ukraine, or global markets—will not be won in press rooms or tariff threats.

It will only be turned by divine intervention.

When diplomacy becomes theater, when world leaders are moved more by ego than wisdom, it is the Church that must return to the wall in prayer.

Because if the course ahead is left to ego, the world will fracture.

But if it is turned over to the Lord, we may yet see the kind of breakthrough that only Heaven can orchestrate.

Iran Gave Hamas $500 Million to Attack Israel

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Israel’s Defense Minister, Israel Katz, has unveiled for the first time direct evidence of Iran’s support for Hamas’ plan to destroy Israel.

During a visit to the intelligence unit on Sunday, Katz presented transcripts of conversations obtained from the tunnels of senior Hamas leaders in Gaza, showing a clear connection between Iran and key Hamas figures Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Deif.

The intercepted documents reveal that Sinwar and Deif demanded $500 million from the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. The funds were requested to further Hamas’ campaign against Israel and its struggle against the United States. Despite Iran’s difficult economic situation, the head of the Palestinian branch of the Revolutionary Guards, Izadi, agreed to the request, emphasizing that Iran would continue to provide financial support to Hamas because the fight against Israel and the US is Tehran’s top priority.

In his remarks, Katz asserted that this new intelligence provides unequivocal proof that Iran remains the primary sponsor of Hamas and continues to fund terrorism across the region. He emphasized that Iran’s commitment to its goals, even in the face of domestic economic hardships, underscores its dedication to destabilizing the region and pushing forward its agenda of confronting Israel and the West.

“This is clear evidence that Iran is the head of the snake, continuing its support for terrorism and its proxies across the Middle East,” Katz stated. “From Gaza and Lebanon to Syria, Judea and Samaria, and even Yemen, Iran’s destructive influence is being felt. Despite their denials, these documents prove that Iran remains heavily involved in financing and supporting terror groups.”

Katz reiterated Israel’s commitment to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and vowed that Israel would continue its operations to strike Iran’s proxies and dismantle its axis of evil in the region.