‘Wake up, you’re going to be eaten!’ Glenn Beck warns LGBTQ activists about dangerous Islam alliance
On July 25, Abdul Ballout — a 21-year-old German citizen with ties to ISIS — carried out an Islamist terror attack by driving a van into a crowd at Berlin’s Pride celebrations and then attacking people with a machete, killing one woman and injuring 29 others. Police shot him dead the following day when he charged at them with a sharp object.
Some LGBTQ+ activists have used the tragedy to point the finger not at Islamists who have consistently been the perpetrators of recent terror attacks in Europe but at white Christians.
At the public vigil held for victims of the attack, Berlin-based performer and LGBTQ+ activist Yannicka Riebensahm lamented that Ballout didn’t fit the profile of her preferred villain: a “white Christian person.”
A pink-haired LGBTQ+ activist reacted with similar sentiments. In a video, she said, “So the suspect is an Islamic extremist. ... That’s what I read, OK? I’m not going to say anything about the rest of the Muslim population because of actions of this one person, but what I can say is the people who were celebrating about this were all white men — young white men with crosses on their profiles.”
Glenn Beck is stunned by the glaring racism embedded in her anti-racism spiel.
“Why are you willing to lump all white men into one category, but you will only look at the action of one Islamist and say that doesn't speak for all Islamists?” he asks.
But there’s an even deeper and darker reality behind the words of these LGBTQ+ activists who support Islam: They’re cheering the very people who will discard or destroy them the moment the alliance is no longer useful.
The LGBTQ crowd’s support for an ideology hostile to homosexuality may look bizarre, but Glenn sees exactly how the strange coalition was built: through deliberate concealment and double messaging.
He points to congressional candidate Melissa Chaudhry as a clear example of the double game. She admitted many Muslims don’t support LGBTQ rights, hence why the issue was missing from her website. But progressives attacked her for “causing chaos between two oppressed demographics” rather than for hiding it.
“The problem is not the voter,” says Glenn. “The problem is the candidate who carries one set of beliefs into the mosque and a different set into the fundraiser and then calls you the hater if you point at the seam and go, ‘Wait, what are you stitching together here?’”
He also recalls how Barack Obama publicly claimed in 2008 that marriage was between a man and a woman, only for his strategist David Axelrod to later admit Obama had supported same-sex marriage all along and hid it to secure votes from the black church.
This kind of political “choreography” may win elections in the short term, Glenn warns, but it leaves people unprepared for reality.
Earlier this month, an Atlantis Events LGBTQ cruise ship had to be rerouted not once but twice because Turkey and Egypt both refused to allow the boat to dock because the passengers’ conduct was considered incompatible with the culture and beliefs of the two nations.
“These are the moderate countries, OK? In roughly a dozen jurisdictions from Iran to Afghanistan to northern Nigeria, the penalty on the books for homosexuality or anything LGBTQ is death,” says Glenn.
And yet in America and Europe, politicians are deceptively concealing the diametric opposition between these two groups.
“When a party is assembling a coalition by telling one wing something it does not tell the other, that's not clever. That has a history, and the history is very specific,” Glenn warns.
In 1931, German communists were ordered by Moscow to join Nazis in a campaign to dissolve Prussia’s democratic government, even though they had previously called it a fascist plot. Their leaders sold the alliance as temporary and controllable — yet less than two years later, communists were among the first prisoners sent to Dachau.
“The lesson is not about the partner; the lesson is about the leadership,” says Glenn. “Rank-and-file communists didn't choose that alliance. Their leaders chose it for them, sold it as strategy, and they were confident they could manage the people they had climbed into bed with, but they couldn't.”
“The junior partner in a coalition built on concealment never gets to renegotiate later. When the two wings finally collide, the party sides with the larger number of votes or the ones that are more committed to your death every time,” he adds.
In the alliance between today’s LGBTQ+ community and Islam, there’s no question about who’s the “junior partner.”
“I beg you, wake up. You're going to be eaten, and it's not going to be a pleasant moment,” Glenn pleads.
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Glenn Beck: What Europe’s latest terror attacks reveal about the progressive left’s deadly blind spot
Earlier this week, a 31-year-old man was arrested in Paris after stabbing three women, one of whom was pregnant, with kitchen knives. Even though video footage of his detainment captured him saying, “It is Allah who commanded me,” Interior Minister Laurent Nunez claimed the motive of the attack was unknown.
“You rolled your eyes, didn’t you? ... I know you did,” says Glenn Beck.
But France isn’t the only European country that has seen recent terror attacks.
Just a few days before the Paris knife attack, 21-year-old Abdul Ballout drove a van into a Berlin Pride event, killing one woman and injuring dozens before attacking with a machete; police shot him dead the next day after he charged at officers with a sharp object.
“He was already convicted of planning at least one terror attack, but then he was let out conditionally. … He was assigned to complete … anti-terrorism or anti-radical classes,” says Glenn’s head writer and researcher, Jason Buttrill.
Glenn argues these attacks aren’t isolated but are actually symptoms of something much deeper and even more sinister: “the red-green alliance” of socialist Marxists and Islamist movements.
“I believe the red-green alliance is a death cult,” he says, warning that if the Democratic Party doesn’t recognize it is “in bed with” a coalition that “[wants] total destruction of everything” America stands on, the consequences the nation will suffer are dire.
Glenn then tells the story of Michel Foucault, the influential gay French philosopher who enthusiastically supported the 1979 Iranian Revolution, only for the new regime to almost immediately start executing homosexuals.
Foucault, he argues, was wrong to refuse to take back or even caveat his original praise. In his 1979 essay on the Iranian Revolution, he never named the executions, never admitted he had been wrong about the regime he praised, and never took his support back.
“He should have written, ‘I went to Tehran, and I mistook intensity for justice. I saw men willing to die, and I assumed that anyone willing to die for a thing must be right about that thing. … The government I praised is now hanging men for what I am. I was wrong. This is not going to end well,”’ says Glenn.
But that admission, he explains, never came for the same reason today’s progressive LGBTQ activists refuse to acknowledge they’re supporting groups who would execute people like them the moment they gained power: “An honest mind treats being wrong as information. A weak one treats it as injury.”
“So how is [Foucault] actually wrong? Three ways, and they're still on the market today,” says Glenn.
Number one: He mistook passion for morality.
“He judged a movement by how it felt to the people inside instead of by what it would do to the people underneath it,” says Glenn. “Passion is not a moral argument. Everyone who has ever built a gallows was passionate.”
Number two: He rejected Western liberal institutions — courts, rights, rule of law — as mere “masks that power wore.” But when a revolutionary movement actually showed up to tear those institutions down, Foucault had already discarded the only “ruler” he might have used to judge what replaced them.
“If everything is a mask, then you can’t tell the difference between a constitution and a firing squad,” says Glenn.
Number three: He ignored warnings. When an Iranian woman wrote to him at the time of the Revolution and told him he was romanticizing men who would soon put men like him in prison, he doubled down on his support.
“He was warned. This is not about philosophy; this is about character. It's about intentional, self-imposed ignorance or blindness,” says Glenn, highlighting Foucault’s stubborn refusal to correct the record.
The same three mistakes, he warns, are being made by today’s socialist Marxists who have formed an alliance with Islamists — but we need to be very calculated in how we challenge them, or we risk further entrenching their support.
To hear Glenn’s advice regarding how to effectively engage and challenge this misled group, watch the video above.
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Muslim ISIS wannabe mows down Berlin Pride parade — activist sad he wasn't 'white Christian'
An adherent of the "religion of peace" drove a white van into Germany's largest annual LGBT Pride event on Saturday, killing one and injuring at least 29 individuals before smashing into a tree nearby Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
After plowing through the pro-diversity festivities, homegrown terrorist Abdul Ballout — a 21-year-old German citizen with foreign ties — attacked passersby with a knife, then fled the scene, according to German interior minister Alexander Dobrindt.
'The rainbow has suffered a crack today.'
Yannicka Riebensahm, a Berlin-based performer and activist who performs under the name Nyya, spoke at the vigil held on Saturday evening for victims of the attack and complained about the identity of the suspect, noting that she had hoped it was not a foreigner "but a Christian white person" who had mowed down the non-straight revelers.
Other attendees at the vigil waved LGBT imperial colors, and one held a sign that said, "From grief, to anger, to resistance!"
Some Berlin LGBT organizers have demanded that the Islamic terrorist attack not be "instrumentalized for political ends."
Ballout, who was born in Germany three years after his mother's arrival from Lebanon in 2002, was previously known to police, having committed multiple crimes, including aggravated assault and predatory extortion, and belonging to the "Islamist scene," said Dobrindt.
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Tawfik, the terrorist's father who lives in Lebanon, told Der Spiegel that his son had been "brainwashed."
According to German prosecutors, the suspect traveled to Lebanon last year with the aim of joining ISIS, reported PBS. Ballout successfully met up with what he figured for militants, but before he could wage jihad, he was arrested by Lebanese authorities and sentenced by a military court to three months in prison.
Ballout subsequently returned to Germany and was arrested at the airport, according to PBS. In May, he was convicted both of plotting a serious act of violence threatening national security and of publishing ISIS propaganda.
Dobrindt told reporters, however, that Ballout's original sentence was suspended. Instead of serving one year and 10 months in youth custody, the terrorist was released from detention within days of his conviction pending an appeal of his sentence by prosecutors.
Following the attack, Andre Lehmann, a top official at Germany's largest non-straight NGO, LSVD+, said in a statement, "The rainbow has suffered a crack today. This is a dark day for our community and our country. Our thoughts are with everyone directly affected."
The City of Berlin said that the motto of this year's Christopher Street Day parade was "Taking a stand is hot," and that organizers were urging people "to take a stand for an open society, for democratic values, and for the equal rights of queer people."
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated early on Sunday, "This is an attack on our society."
"The act will be investigated and pursued with the utmost severity," added Merz.
On Sunday, German special forces caught up with the suspect in the greater Berlin area. Ballout attacked police, then "suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene."
Following the attack, Alternative for Germany — or AFD, an ascendant rightist party that the German establishment has for years subjected to lawfare for sounding the alarm about the fallout of mass migration — blasted Merz's ruling CDU Party for "once again shirking responsibility."
AFD said that contrary to the suggestion by elements of the CDU, "the problem is not 'hate and incitement on the net,' but rather a far too lax approach to Islamist threats and all those who have been massively endangering the lives and security of citizens in Germany for eleven years now — let into the country by the CDU."
AFD reiterated its demand for "the immediate detention of Islamist threats and consistent deportations."
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Activists RAGE against Democrat who admits hiding LGBTQ+ support to appease Muslims
A Muslim Democrat running for Washington’s 9th Congressional District has admitted to obscuring her support for LGBTQ+ to appease her Muslim supporters.
Melissa Chaudhry, 34, is facing the ire of the LGBTQ+ mob over the comments, which she made in an interview with the Stranger.
'LGBTQ+ rights are not optional. They are foundational to any candidate seeking Democratic support.'
She was asked why LGBTQ+ rights were not mentioned on her campaign website despite her claiming to support the issue.
"Because a lot of Muslims do not feel that way, unfortunately," she responded.
Among the LGBTQ+ activist groups excoriating Chaudhry was Washington Stonewall Democrats Chair Andrew Ashiofu.
"Our community is not expendable. LGBTQ+ rights are not optional. They are foundational to any candidate seeking Democratic support,” wrote Ashiofu.
His group followed up with its own scathing statement.
"She avoids talking about LGBTQIA+ issues so as not to offend her Muslim supporters," the group said. "What a privileged statement to make, creating misinformation to cause chaos between two oppressed demographics. One would think she would apologise and move on. Again, thinking rationally is not something all candidates possess, as proven by Melissa."
Chaudhry responded to Ashiofu in a lengthy statement on social media.
"If you are queer, and you are wondering if you and your rights are safe with me, I assure you from the bottom of my heart, you are, you have always been, and you always will be," she wrote.
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"I have supported full equality for LGBTQ+ people my entire life, not since this campaign started, my entire life," she added.
Her campaign appeared to add LGBTQ+ issues to her website after the outrage ensued.
In a post on YouTube, she accused the Washington Stonewall Democrats of being bigoted against her because she wears the hijab.
Chaudhry also caused consternation among Democrats after indicating that she planned to switch to the Green Party once she got into office.
"I don’t want you to publish this," she said during the explicitly on-the-record interview with the Stranger.
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Being Nice Instead Of Godly Is A Theology For Losers
If you’ve ever sat in a pew wondering why your church seems allergic to the culture war, that’s not your imagination. It’s loser theology.‘Hijabs are beautiful’: Famous child content creator Ms. Rachel accused of soft pedaling Islam
Rachel Griffin Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, the creator behind the massively popular baby and toddler learning YouTube channel, is in hot water with conservatives yet again. Not only does the 43-year-old Zohran Mamdani-supporting professing Christian incorporate LGBTQ+ themes into her children’s videos and voice support for a number of left-wing causes, she now apparently is soft-pedaling Islam.
Last week, Accurso faced fresh conservative criticism for praising hijabs worn by kindergarten girls in a Minnesota public school graduation video that President Trump and accounts like End Wokeness highlighted as an example of heavy Muslim/Somali cultural influence in schools.
On July 7, she posted the following message on Instagram:
On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey exposed the “cultural and moral relativism” behind Ms. Rachel’s claim that “hijabs are beautiful.”
Allie begins by giving credit where it’s due.
“I know for a lot of you that Ms. Rachel has really helped your child learn speech and articulation and different, you know, social cues and different things like that, so I don't want to take that away from you,” she says, “but she has also become more outspokenly political, and she is a huge purveyor of something called cultural and moral relativism.”
“In her efforts to be all-inclusive, she glosses over the very real moral differences and moral problems with ideologies like Islam,” she continues.
Religions, Allie explains, are not all the same — and Islam is the perfect example.
“I think it's OK for people to say, ‘Hmm, why would a 5- and 6-year-old be required according to their religion to abide by a modesty standard that forces them to cover up their hair for fear of lust from a male?’” she says, calling it understandably “disturbing for a lot of people.”
Allie acknowledges that some of what Ms. Rachel says in her Instagram post is “absolutely true” — especially the part about “[treating] every person with kindness and respect.”
But is forcing a little girl to cover her entire body kind or respectful?
Allie argues no, stating that “little children, and especially little girls, are victims of Islamic ideology.”
“[The hijab] is not meaningful to them. This is something that they are forced to wear because of Islamic standards of modesty, saying that a woman showing her hair is indecent,” she notes.
She also says that the Prophet Muhammad — the founder of Islam — “married a 6-year-old girl and reportedly consummated the marriage when she was 9 years old.”
Allie criticizes Ms. Rachel’s claim that wearing a hijab is the same as wearing a cross necklace. “Wearing a cross like a symbol of Jesus' victory over death is not the same thing as a little 5-year-old girl being forced to wear a modesty garb over her hair.”
“This kind of philosophy reflects the cultural relativism, the moral relativism that I actually think is very dangerous [and] has led us to a really bad place and has led us to this toxic empathy, this feeling, this guilt that we have to allow on the same footing every single ideology into our country or else you're a bad person,” she continues, noting that it’s just “Western nations” that seem to push this pernicious dogma.
She points out the inconsistency in Ms. Rachel’s professed Christian faith — she claims Christ but undermines biblical truths by pushing the ideology that “every culture has its own same level of validity” and “that there is no absolute truth” and “no objective morality.”
Not only does this perspective reject the Christian view of God’s authority, it also invites chaos into the culture.
“It’s a nice theory until you are the victim of an injustice; you're the victim of an assault; you're the victim of murder; you're the victim of rape; you're the victim of theft. Then suddenly, there really is immorality, and immorality needs to be punished,” says Allie.
To hear more of her deep dive into Ms. Rachel’s latest scandal, watch the episode above.
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