Cotton to Education Department: Investigate ‘Possibly Illegal’ Partnership Between ‘Pro-Terrorist’ CAIR and K-12 Schools

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Tuesday petitioned the Department of Education to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for running "possibly illegal" anti-Israel educational initiatives inside the country’s public schools.

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Glenn Beck reacts to Dearborn, Michigan’s proposal to put Arabic on police uniforms



Last week, Dearborn, Michigan — a city near Detroit known for its large Islamic population, which drives much of the city’s culture — proposed adding a patch to its police officers’ uniforms that read "Dearborn Heights Police” in Arabic script.

While some reacted to the idea positively, public outrage far outweighed support. Shortly after the idea was announced, Dearborn’s mayor walked the Arabic patch proposal back, and the police department clarified it was a premature, unapproved idea.

Glenn Beck says the incident is more evidence that “we no longer respect the ethics and the constitutional norms that created this country.”

The proposed change was supposedly just meant to reflect and honor the city's large Muslim population, but Glenn says it’s far more than just “a small gesture of outreach.”

“It is a signal, and signals matter,” he says.

America was designed to be a melting pot: “You could come here from any land, speak any language, [practice] any faith, and ... if you believed in the laws and the Constitution of America ... and you upheld those things, we could melt together, and we could create something even greater than you could even imagine,” Glenn explains.

“We [don’t] erase cultures. We elevate what unites us instead of elevating what divides us, and we don't bend our civic institutions to mirror any kind of tribal or religious identities. We don't create parallel systems of justice or identity.”

Never in the history of this country has an immigrant or religious group had law enforcement “tailor itself to them,” he says.

In fact, it’s often been the opposite. Glenn points to Mormons, who were at one time persecuted for their faith, despite being “the most patriotic of any religion in America.” “They didn't bend America to their faith; they bound their faith to America,” he says, adding that Catholics, too, have faced religious persecution in this country.

But for some reason, Muslims have not only avoided persecution, they’ve been catered to. “Week after week, from the pulpits of the local mosque [in Dearborn], the imams openly declare their goal — not to join the American project, but to replace it, not to preserve the Constitution, but to subvert it.”

“They preach the supremacy of sharia law over American law, and now the police department, a symbol of our secular constitutional order, decides they want to appeal to that group? To wear that identity on its uniform?” says Glenn. “That's not inclusion. That's not assimilation. That's not the melting pot. It's the opposite. It's balkanization at its kindest.”

“It is the state bending towards the demand of a religious political ideology that seeks to replace our American civilization. Let me be really, super clear on this: This cannot stand,” he warns.

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Why progressives want to destroy Christianity — but spare Islam



In 1939, George Orwell coined the phrase "Judeo-Christian ethic" to include the values that formed the moral foundation of Western civilization.

This ethic influenced the American founders and helped shape their views on liberty, rights, and law. Post-Enlightenment philosophers have criticized the irrational aspects of religion and its role in the politics of state, but most have acknowledged the role that the Judeo-Christian ethic has served in preserving the fabric of society.

The idea that secular humanism is salvific for the individual or for society at large has been repeatedly discredited when Marxist ideology has been put into practice.

"Progressivism," on the other hand, is a political philosophy focused on social progress through systemic reforms. It demands a strong central government dedicated to countering societal inequality and injustice. The progressive movement historically shares roots in Christianity and secular humanism, although in recent decades it has emphasized a reliance on science and technology and antipathy toward any expression of religion in the public square.

Left-leaning since its inception in the 19th century, progressivism has, since the 1960s, adopted misotheistic Marxist ideology. Its proponents have focused primarily on discrediting Christian religious practice.

In the Biden administration, for example, both public and private expressions of Christianity came under attack by federal agencies despite First Amendment guarantees that Americans can practice their religion without government interference. These government transgressions are currently being reversed by the new faith-friendly Trump administration.

The big question

So why does progressivism target Christianity specifically?

The obvious answer is that Christianity has been the dominant religion in America since its founding, and at least until recently, most Americans continued to engage with its practice. But religious affiliation constitutes a challenge to the progressive secular state, as this state insists that there can be no greater authority than itself.

The emphasis on freedom of individual within Christianity also tends to resist the enforced conformity that is central to neo-Marxist ideology and identity politics. Progressivism is best viewed as a secular humanist civic religion that is engaged in a religious war with monotheistic faith.

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As Bertrand Russell opined, Marxism is in many respects an atheistic restatement of Christianity, but unlike the Christian “kingdom of God,” its utopian goals can only be realized through the authority of the state.

For this reason, all Marxist states are openly antagonistic to theistic religion.

Cultural infiltration

Since the 1960s, Marxist ideologues, many having fled Nazi fascism in Europe, recognized that a revolution to install socialist and communist values was unlikely to succeed in America. Instead, they envisioned a less radical evolutionary strategy aimed at infiltrating the institutions that define American culture — including its educational systems, news media, entertainment industry, and corporations — with Marxist ideas.

But for this strategy to succeed, it would first have to transform the values of the Judeo-Christian ethic in the direction of Marxism.

A document in the 1963 "Congressional Record" outlines the plan of Marxists to undermine America by targeting the family unit, promoting deviant sexualities, and fostering criminal behavior. This strategy was aligned with neo-Marxist postmodern philosophies being taught in universities that questioned the possibility of objective truth and viewed virtually all societal transactions through the post-colonial polarized lens of “oppressors” and “oppressed.”

But in order to succeed, this strategy could not break radically with the past. Rather, it was necessary to retain those aspects of the Judeo-Christian ethic that had been established as part of the American “social imaginary.”

To this end, neo-Marxism adopts Judeo-Christian concerns with “social justice” but ignores its focus on law. This has allowed progressivism, in its current neo-Marxist “woke” avatar, to “stand for social justice” while simultaneously attacking white privilege, normative sexuality, law and order, and religion.

Although Christianity has been the primary focus of progressive vitriol, it stands to reason that the other source of the Judeo-Christian ethic would also be a target for hostility.

Following the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, anti-Israel protests led by progressives erupted on America’s college campuses and streets. Jews represent a small minority of Americans and, as such, do not represent a numerical challenge to progressive goals.

However, loyalty to religion and the state of Israel, as well as Judaism’s focus on law, elicited the age-old criticisms of Jewish particularism by Marxists.

Why not Islam?

Why, then, has Islam, a monotheistic religion, been spared the wrath of progressives? There are several likely reasons.

First, Islam is a newcomer to the American scene and, until recently, had little political influence and did not constitute a noticeable resistance to progressive goals.

Second, “woke” progressives imagine all Muslims as oppressed peoples of color who have suffered at the hands of imperial governments. Moreover, radical Islam, like Marxism, seeks to undermine the Judeo-Christian traditions of the West.

Radical Islam, like Marxism, seeks to undermine the Judeo-Christian traditions of the West.

Jihad against the West with the goal of restoring a theocratic caliphate has been a goal of fundamentalist Islam since its inception. Indeed, nowhere in Islamic countries have Christians or Jews ever enjoyed equitable freedom with Muslims, nor are women or the LGBTQ+ afforded equal freedoms with Muslim men, a fact that progressives assiduously avoid admitting.

Although Marxists and Islamists have banded together to undermine Judeo-Christian values in the West, theirs is an uncomfortable alliance, as the atheistic Marxist state is ultimately incompatible with an Islamic caliphate. Only in Muslim countries governed by secular strongmen has an alliance with Marxism achieved even a modicum of success.

Finally, one must always “follow the money.” And in recent years, Islamic governments have provided substantial financial resources to progressive causes because they share in common the goal of “transforming” America.

Faithful resistance

If the right to practice the Judeo-Christian traditions is to be preserved, it is incumbent upon America’s religious leaders to recognize that the goals of progressivism are antithetical to faith, and they must resist being co-opted by misotheistic ideology out of fear or ignorance.

The idea that secular humanism is salvific for the individual or for society at large has been repeatedly discredited when Marxist ideology has been put into practice.

Marxist ideology, therefore, should be seen in its true light, which is as the product of a destructive impulse within the human psyche that will only be fully extinguished in the messianic future.

Dearborn Heights’ Arabic Police Patch Snafu Is A Badge Of Surrender

Dearborn Heights, Michigan, Mayor Bill Bazzi announced Friday that the new Arabic police patch was not “official” — but didn’t rule out adopting such a badge of surrender in the future. A Facebook post from the police department posted earlier this week read: “The Dearborn Heights Police Department [DHPD] is proud to share a new […]

Michigan police force becomes first in US to have Arabic writing on its patch



An Eastern Michigan city is sparking controversy for having the first American police force with Arabic writing on its patch.

Less than a week after the Western Michigan University football team caused a stir by having one of its players take the field with his name written in Arabic on his jersey, a city just west of Detroit and close to the Canadian border announced its police force will also feature the foreign language.

'This new design is another way we continue to celebrate the rich cultures that make our city unique.'

Police in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, boasted in a Facebook post on Wednesday that they have unveiled a new Arabic/English patch for their officers.

"The Dearborn Heights Police Department is proud to share a new 𝙤𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 patch that our officers may wear as part of their uniform," the department wrote.

The patch displays the Michigan seal in the center with "Dearborn Heights Police" written around it in both English and Arabic.

"This patch was created by Officer Emily Murdoch, who designed it to reflect and honor the diversity of our community — especially the many residents of Arabic descent who call Dearborn Heights home," the post continued.

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They said their goal was to bring sharia law to America.

You should’ve believed them.

Pray for Michigan. https://t.co/M4Ge4wWN6T
— Congressman Randy Fine (@RepFine) September 5, 2025

The police department claimed that including the Arabic script was a sign of "unity, respect," and a "shared commitment to service."

"We are proud of Officer Murdoch's creativity and dedication in helping our department better represent the people we serve," the post added. "This new design is another way we continue to celebrate the rich cultures that make our city unique."

Fox 2 Detroit was able to confirm with the department that the patch was indeed optional for officers.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) shared an image of the new patch on X and said it was "their goal" to "bring sharia law to America."

"You should've believed them. Pray for Michigan," he wrote.

None of the Republican congressmen from Michigan appeared to make a public statement about the patch.

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Hundreds of residents of Dearborn, Michigan, gather outside of the Dearborn police department on May 15, 2021. Photo by SETH HERALD/AFP via Getty Images

Dearborn Heights has a Middle Eastern and North African population of 39% as of 2023, Fox 2 Detroit reported. Dearborn, Michigan, its neighbor to the east, reportedly has a similar population, representing about 55%.

The region has long been considered to be a hub for Arabs, with Dearborn Police showing off a Community Policing Center that featured Arabic writing in November 2001, just two months after the September 11th attacks.

Also in 2001, Michigan State Police called the area "a major financial support center for many Mideast terrorist groups."

"Southeast Michigan is known as a lucrative recruiting area and potential support base for international terrorist groups. It is also conceivable that ‘sleeper cells’ may be located in that area of the state," a police report said, according to NBC News.

As well, a 2001 report by the New York Times cited Detroit as having around 300,000 Arabs in the metropolitan area. This included: Palestinians, Iraqis, Yeminis, Syrians, and Lebanese.

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Locked up for a joke. It can’t happen here ... can it?



A comedian lands at Heathrow and finds himself met by officers as though he posed a terrorist threat. His offense? A social media joke about trans people. He’s released on bail on the condition he doesn’t post on X.

Another man prays silently outside the “safe zone” of an abortion clinic and is hauled off, given a two-year conditional discharge, and fined £9,000 (just over $12,000).

We hope Britain pulls up from its nosedive, but let’s not delude ourselves. America faces the same temptations.

A third man waves the Union Jack at a pro-Palestinian march in England — only to be arrested. Reuters quickly ran interference: not for the flag, they said, but for a “racially aggravated public order offence” and “homophobic abuse.” As if that makes it better.

And we’re still not mentioning the Islamic child-rape scandal that grows worse with every new revelation. The United States watches Britain collapse into a kind of Reformation-era persecution, this time in the name of Islam, paganism, and sexual license. Americans shake their heads, maybe reassure themselves: We fought a revolution to escape this. Charles II jailed Christians. Charles III praises Islam. And we have the First Amendment. Case closed.

Not so fast. We may be on the same road. Once you begin policing speech to protect feelings, the end point looks very much like the UK. And we have plenty of warning signs.

The university test case

Universities may be the clearest early indicator. Professors tell us every profession must “look like” society — except their own. If a field is 97% male, they call it systemic bias. But in the academy itself, where atheists and leftists dominate, they see no problem.

The numbers don’t lie. At Arizona State University, a December 2024 survey found just 19 Republicans among 544 faculty members. At the University of Arizona, only eight Republicans out of 369. Entire departments lacked a single Republican. A 2023 Harvard Crimson study found only 2.5% of Harvard faculty identify as conservative. If any other profession looked this skewed, professors would scream about bias. In their case, they call it “normal.”

And the consequences? They’ll defend freedom of speech for burning an American flag. Burn a trans flag, and suddenly you’ve committed a hate crime. That is one step removed from Graham Linehan’s arrest in the UK for an X post.

Censorship in practice

Students already know what this means. A 2022 FIRE survey found they self-censor in class. They parrot leftist slogans on gender and race, not because they believe them, but because they want the grade. We are teaching them to lie to advance. No one is being asked to confess Christ; they are being asked to confess Ibram Kendi and John Money.

I’ve seen it firsthand. At ASU’s Honors College, faculty blocked Charlie Kirk, Dennis Prager, and Robert Kiyosaki from speaking, smearing them as “white supremacists.” That label alone was enough to push the event off campus. These professors weren’t interested in argument. They wanted silence.

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Truth vs. lies

How do they justify it? With “hate crimes.” Not crimes that incite violence, but crimes of opinion. Disagree with LGBTQ ideology? That’s hate. Straight to jail. Professors sleep well at night because we’ve accepted their framework: society divided into oppressors and oppressed. Bad outcomes aren’t the result of choices, but of systemic injustice. Victims must be coddled, even at the expense of truth.

Once you accept that, feelings erase the First Amendment.

We need a spine. Sexual sins are real and destructive. Abortion ends a life. A comedian may say this through jokes; a philosopher may say it through essays. Either way, it’s the truth. The mob can gnash its teeth, plug its ears, strip away free speech, and jail comedians, but reality doesn’t change.

We hope Britain pulls up from its nosedive, but let’s not delude ourselves. America faces the same temptations. We must pray for the end of abortion, speak plainly about the damage sexual ideology inflicts on children, and reject the false frame of “oppressors and oppressed.” The real categories are truth and lies. Choose wisely, while you still can.

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'Nothing good will come out of that'

State Department isn't buying ProPublica's sob story about Taliban alumnus whose funding was exposed by DOGE



ProPublica — an investigative journalist outfit that has received donations from Laurene Powell Jobs and her leftist Emerson Collective, from George Soros' Foundation to Promote Open Society, and from Crankstart Foundation, Lincoln Project donor Michael Moritz's family foundation — ran a sob story on Friday about a so-called "Afghan scholar" whose receipt of American funds through the U.S. Institute of Peace was exposed earlier this year by the Department of Government Efficiency.

The liberal publication tried to paint former Taliban official Mohammad Qasem Halimi as a victim, the work he did as "routine" yet "ambiguous," DOGE's publicization of Halimi's financial link to the U.S. as irresponsible, and the DOGE worker who briefly controlled USIP as inept.

The game the establishment media is playing is 'an insult to our nation.'

ProPublica's concern-mongering has not found resonance at the Trump State Department, which is aware that Halimi was part of the regime that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on 9/11.

In a Monday statement to Rikki Ratliff-Fellman, executive producer for Glenn Beck, the department defended cutting off Halimi, reiterated that he was indeed a former Taliban member, and underscored that the game the establishment media is playing is "an insult to our nation."

Quick background

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Feb. 19 aimed at reducing the scope of the federal bureaucracy.

Among the federal entities that the Trump administration subsequently worked to shutter or scale down was the USIP, a think tank with an apparent problem with political bias and a budget last year of $55 million.

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Taliban extremists in Kabul. Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images.

The Trump administration canned 10 voting members of the USIP board of directors along with the institute's president, former Clinton official George Moose; terminated nearly all of the institute's staff and activities around the world; had elements of the DOGE take over the institute's headquarters; and transferred USIP's property to the General Services Administration.

Fired members of the board sued on March 18 to prevent a housecleaning at the USIP, claiming the wind-down was a "lawless assault." Although an Obama judge declared in May that the changes at the federal entity were "null and void," the D.C. Court of Appeals stayed the lower court's ruling.

DOGE highlights Taliban link

Following its takeover of USIP headquarters and just hours after notifying Halimi of his contract's termination, the DOGE shared some of its findings in March 31 on X, noting, "USIP contracts (now cancelled) include: — $132,000 to Mohammad Qasem Halimi, an ex-Taliban member who was Afghanistan's former Chief of Protocol."

According to Halimi's bio on the Doha Forum site, "he is the former Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs in Afghanistan" and "was assigned as a Deputy Justice Minister of Technical and Professional Affairs in 2017."

That bio omits any mention of Halimi's arrest and detention by American forces from 2002 to 2003 at Bagram Air Base or his time with the Taliban.

Deutsche Welle reported that Halimi went to work for the Taliban in 1998, working first in its foreign ministry, then becoming chief of protocol.

'This is real. We don't encounter that in most agencies.'

"I don't deny that I supported the Taliban," Halimi told DW. "I had a very good time in the Foreign Office. It was really the best time in my life. Back then, Afghanistan really needed the Taliban."

Halimi spoke glowingly about Mullah Mohammad Omar, the first leader of the Taliban who offered sanctuary to Islamic terrorist Osama bin Laden both before and after the 9/11 attacks, stating, "I cannot say it any differently today than I said it back then: Afghanistan needed Mullah Omar back then."

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Speaking to DW in 2017, Halimi stated, "To this day I still have friendly relations with the Taliban" — an organization Secretary of State Marco Rubio is looking at for a possible foreign terrorist organization designation.

Halimi reportedly switched sides after his release by American forces.

The USIP contract for this friend of the Taliban was mentioned again in an April 1 post on X, which was shared by Elon Musk and ultimately went massively viral.

The caption on the corresponding post read: "With help from the FBI and Metro Police DOGE was able to access the agency and discovered massive fraud, waste and abuse-including payments to Taliban and Iraq."

The following month, a DOGE staffer told "Jesse Watters Primetime" in a May 1 group interview, "We found that [USIP] were spending money on things like private jets, and they even had a $130,000 contract with a former member of the Taliban. This is real. We don't encounter that in most agencies."

Tears for the Taliban

According to ProPublica, Taliban security forces allegedly beat and temporarily imprisoned members of Halimi's family just days after news of his USIP funding was brought to light.

Blaze News has reached out to Afghanistan's Ministries of Interior Affairs and Foreign Affairs for comment.

While the alleged violence was perpetrated by Halimi's former comrades, the liberal publication characterized the Trump administration's public recognition of Halimi's Taliban link and exposure of his supposedly benign USIP contract as an "attack" — an attack that former State Department and White House officials supposedly said was "not only absurd, but also dangerous."

ProPublica, which downplayed Halimi's Taliban past and highlighted his work with the former Karzai government, complained that after this "attack," Halimi is now without work and "wonders how he will support his wife and children and whether there’s any chance he can clear his name."

'An overwhelming majority of Americans would agree that the Federal Government should not be funding former members of the Taliban when our country is $36T in debt.'

"Why would one of the richest men in the world commit such an act of injustice?" Halimi said to ProPublica. "Sometimes I think that if Elon Musk himself were fully informed about this matter, he would likely be deeply ashamed."

Whereas the liberal publication proved eager to portray the former Taliban official as a sympathetic character, the publication alternatively characterized Nate Cavanaugh — the former DOGE staffer who worked ardently to expose the rot at USIP, briefly served as its president, and canceled Halimi's contact — as a privileged incompetent.

The publication noted, for example, that Cavanaugh: is a "28-year-old college dropout"; "had nothing in his background to suggest he would be chosen to wind down an international conflict-resolution agency"; started two companies that haven't "successfully" taken off; and "comes from a wealthy family."

Cavanaugh — whom Blaze News has reached out to for comment — apparently made no apologies for carrying out the task President Donald Trump mandated him to do.

"An overwhelming majority of Americans would agree that the Federal Government should not be funding former members of the Taliban when our country is $36T in debt," said Cavanaugh.

Cavanaugh's successor similarly appears not to be panged by ProPublica's sympathies for the Taliban alumnus.

Darren Beattie, undersecretary for public diplomacy at the State Department and acting president of USIP, said in a statement to Ratliff-Fellman, "Under President Trump's February 19 Executive Order, the United States Institute of Peace was directed to reduce operations to its statutory minimum — ending, among other things, a contract with former Taliban member Mohammad Qasem Halimi."

"The idea of funding former Taliban members on one hand, and publicly lamenting the Taliban’s success in reducing Afghanistan’s opium production on the other, highlights the schizophrenic and dangerous approach to 'conflict resolution' adopted by USIPs previous leadership," continued Beattie. "The fact that the establishment media defends using taxpayer dollars this way is an insult to our nation and the heroes who have fought to protect it."

Beattie added, "Above all, this underscores President Trump’s resolve to end the weaponization of government, cut off funding to adversaries, and shut down reckless so-called peace-building programs that end up undermining our national security."

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Senate Needs To Confirm Religious Freedom Ambassador Before More Christians Are Tortured Abroad

While the mainstream media barely covers these events, it’s clear that many Americans want the U.S. to do more to stop the persecution of Christians.

Police drag away a man for saying he likes bacon near a sprawling mosque construction site



The State Department admonished the U.K. this week against continuing its clampdown on free speech and persecution of Christians, once again blasting the penalties handed out to those Britons who dare to engage in silent prayer near abortion facilities.

It turns out that British pork lovers may similarly be in need of such advocacy.

A Englishman in the northwest of the country was arrested on Aug. 16 for expressing an affinity for bacon — a food forbidden by the Quran but essential to a full English breakfast. Apparently, such an utterance now qualifies as "racial abuse."

Census data indicates that the number of people in England and Wales identifying as Christian dropped from 59.3% in 2011 to 46.2% in 2021. During the same 10-year stretch, the number of respondents identifying as Muslim rose from 4.9% to 6.5% — an increase of well over 1 million people.

To accommodate England and Wales' fast-growing Muslim population, there has in recent years been an explosion in the number of mosques across the isle. This expansion has made its way to the town of Dalton-in-Furness in the English county of Cumbria, which is set to get its first mosque.

The South Lakes Islamic Center, spearheaded by Muslim doctors at Barrow's Furness General Hospital, was greenlit for development in 2021, and construction began in earnest earlier this year. It is set for a grand opening next year.

'Enough with the inclusivity BS.'

Some of the townsfolk are less than pleased over the construction of a $3.35 million, 3,234-square-foot mosque just outside their town of under 8,000 souls.

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Some critics are concerned parents who are worried that the planned mosque's proximity to a Catholic elementary school will prove disruptive, affect the safety of the town's children, and increase traffic congestion. Other critics have suggested that the mosque would be a "sign of conquest and occupation."

The leader of the U.K. Independence Party, Nick Tenconi, noted in June that "Dalton-in-Furness has a population of 7,827 and there are 3 mosques already in Cumbria. Only 0.4% of people in Cumbria are Muslim. Mosques like this are being built to facilitate Operation Scatter."

Critics have referred to the Starmer goverment's campaign to move asylum-seekers and illegal aliens around the country and house them in empty homes or former student blocks instead of military bases and migrant hotels as "Operation Scatter."

"The takeover of the U.K. continues," Tenconi said in a video posted to social media.

"Enough with the inclusivity BS. That argument has been utterly lost by the woke left and proponents of the Islamist caliphate in Britain. People simply aren't buying it any more and are rightly outraged. There is absolutely no need to put a mosque here, and the sole reason is to artificially flood the area with Muslims as an extension of Operation Scatter."

According to the BBC, the Cumbria Police have increased patrols in the area, monitored online comments, and begun investigating potential thought crimes in response to criticism over the mosque.

On Saturday, hundreds of townsfolk protested at the construction site.

In anticipation of the demonstration, Cumbria Police pre-emptively issued a dispersal order, meaning police could "direct individuals who are causing or likely to cause harassment, alarm, or distress to leave the area and not return for a defined period."

Viral footage taken at the protest shows two police officers hauling away one of the peaceful protesters for simply saying, "We love bacon."

'We British do love it, and there is nothing wrong with saying so.'

When the young man asks why he is being handcuffed, one of the officers informs him that he is being arrested under Section 5 of the Public Order Act of 1986, which prohibits the use of "threatening or abusive words or behavior, or disorderly behavior" within "the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm, or distress thereby."

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Muslim procession honoring the grandson of Mohammed in the English capital. Matthew Chattle/Future Publishing via Getty Images.

The officer suggests in the video that the expression "we love bacon" might be "perceived to be racially abusive."

"Okay, listen," said the arrestee. "A full English breakfast, yeah? What does that consist of?"

British journalist Isabel Oakeshott noted that bacon is a fundamental part of the full English breakfast, stressing that "it is part of our culinary culture — which is why there should be nothing remotely controversial about saying so."

"Nonetheless, a 23-year-old single father is currently facing the possibility of court action after stating this simple fact at a public protest," wrote Oakeshott. "Saying 'We love bacon' is simply a truism. We British do love it, and there is nothing wrong with saying so."

Cumbria Police confirmed to the NWE Mail that a 23-year-old man was arrested at the protest on suspicion of a public order offense but later released on police bail.

Blaze News has reached out to the Cumbria Police and to the South Lakes Islamic Center for comment.

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