Meet the Columbia Students Arrested for Occupying Butler Library. Plus, Pence Talks Harvard and Trump with Beacon EIC.

Recidivism alert: At least six of the students arrested for storming Columbia’s Butler Library on Wednesday have been previously arrested for  campus disruptions, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

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Why the Kashmir Crisis Matters to Us

Two weeks ago, rifle shots rang out across Jammu and Kashmir as jihadist terrorists murdered 26 unarmed tourists. This week, the northern Indian state got an encore as India and Pakistan exchanged missiles and drone strikes across the border and into central Pakistan.

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JD Vance pushes America First position on India-Pakistan conflict: 'None of our business'



The decades-long dispute between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir region has resulted in numerous bloody skirmishes and three full-fledged wars — in 1965, 1971, and 1999. In the wake of a horrific terrorist attack in the southern part of Indian-administered Kashmir last month, fighting has resumed and threatens now to embroil the two nuclear powers in another major war.

When pressed on Thursday to comment about the Trump administration's concern "about the potential for nuclear war between India and Pakistan," Vice President JD Vance told Fox News' Martha MacCallum that while concerned and keen on de-escalation, the U.S. is "not going to get involved in the middle of war that's fundamentally none of our business and has nothing to do with America's ability to control it."

"Look, we're concerned about any time nuclear powers collide and have a major conflict," said Vance. "What we've said, what Secretary Rubio has said, and certainly [what] the president has said is we want this thing to de-escalate as quickly as possible."

Tensions once again came to a head between India and Pakistan on April 22 when terrorists massacred 26 people, mainly Indian tourists, near Pahalgam, a town in the southern part of Indian-administered Kashmir.

'It's a shame.'

Indian officials believe that the group claiming responsibility for the massacre, the Resistance Front, is actually a proxy for the Pakistan-based jihadist terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, reported the New York Times.

President Donald Trump stated in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack, "The United States stands strong with India against Terrorism. We pray for the souls of those lost, and for the recovery of the injured."

While India did not publicly blame the Pakistani government massacre, New Delhi nevertheless responded with missile strikes on alleged terrorist training sites in Pakistan while also reportedly arresting thousands of people in Kashmir.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif claimed that India's May 6 (local time) strikes amounted to a "heinous act of aggression [that] will not go unpunished."

President Donald Trump said Tuesday in response to the news of India's military operation against Pakistan, "It's a shame," adding, "I just hope it ends very quickly."

'What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit.'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted later on May 6 that he was monitoring the situation closely and echoed Trump's hope that "this hopefully ends quickly."

In recent days, India and Pakistan have reportedly traded artillery fire and drone strikes. Sharif claimed Wednesday that the Pakistani military had shot down five Indian jets.

"We can't control these countries," Vance, who was in India at the time of the terrorist attacks, told MacCallum. "India has its gripes with Pakistan. Pakistan has responded to India. What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit."

"Our hope and our expectation is that this is not going to spiral into a broader regional war or, God forbid, a nuclear conflict," continued the vice president. "We're worried about these things, but I think the job of diplomacy — but also the job of cooler heads in India and Pakistan — is to make sure this doesn't become a nuclear war."

According to the Federation of American Scientists, Pakistan and India have 170 and 180 nuclear warheads, respectively.

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A Communist-Islamist Axis Puts India and America in Its Crosshairs

As India mourns the dozens of tourists murdered in Kashmir this week by jihadists and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vows to pursue them and their backers “to the ends of the earth,” India and Pakistan are at daggers drawn. New Delhi has already closed the land border and suspended a key water-sharing agreement, and the two nuclear-armed militaries are preparing for war.

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FACT CHECK: No, Video Doesn’t Show Massive Explosion At Pakistani Army Headquarters

A video shared on Facebook claims to show an explosion at a Pakistani Army headquarters. Verdict: False The video doesn’t show a massive blast at a Pakistani Army headquarters. The video is likely from Syria. Fact Check: Social media users are claiming to show a massive blast at the Pakistani Army Headquarters. One user wrote, “Massive Blast […]

FACT CHECK: Post Claims Qatar Airways Closed Its Offices In Pakistan

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Jordan Peterson drills down on problems with multiculturalism amid renewed fury over mass rape of British girls



Outrage about the systematic mass rape of British girls by Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs and about politically correct authorities' failure to  hold the pedophilic rapists accountable is mounting once again, reignited in part by the leftist Starmer government's rejection of a call for a formal public inquiry into child exploitation in the Greater Manchester town of Oldham and by Elon Musk's efforts to highlight past governmental failures.

Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon's "War Room," joined Piers Morgan on his show Tuesday to discuss the combined effort by the media and law enforcement to cover up the mass rapes in order to avoid anti-Muslim sentiment.

Morgan, like his guests, vociferously condemned both the Muslim rape gangs and woke authorities' cover-up of their crimes; however, later in the episode, he attempted to argue that multiculturalism was not to blame. His argument was quickly chewed up.

At the outset, Morgan — no fan of Islam critic Tommy Robinson — credited Robinson with "bang[ing] the drum about the rape gang scandal for a very long time" and played a clip of the activist's 2011 interview with former BBC broadcaster Jeremy Paxman, in which he suggested the scandal had been ignored because the impact was largely absorbed by working-class Britons: "Do you know anyone who's been murdered by a Muslim gang? You probably don't. I do. Do you know any 15-year-old girls that ... you've grown up with that have been raped or pimped? You don't — so I don't expect you to understand the issue."

When asked to explain why Britons felt compelled to downplay or ignore the rape of white, predominantly working-class British girls, Peterson broke the issue down into "four bins of complexity" around the issue:

  • "The first is the racial divide that typifies the crimes. So it's Pakistani Muslim immigrants and white working-class young girls. So there's a racial, ethnic, and religious divide that is part and parcel of the crime."
  • "Then there is a class issue in the U.K. with regards to the victims and also the whistleblowers like Robinson."
  • "Then there's the meta-problem of the difference between Islam and Christianity [and] the additional problem that psychopathic sadists use religious justification to camouflage and justify their crimes."
  • "Then there's the problem of open borders and immigration and the progressive presumption that all cultures, no matter their difference, are valuable in their diversity and can be integrated peacefully into society at ... an indefinite rate."

Adding right-left politics atop the mix, Peterson noted "that's an absolute bloody rats' nest."

While recognizing the complexity of the issue, Peterson offered an apparent critique of multiculturalism, suggesting that sexual misbehavior and other undesirable social traits are everywhere default traits that have been uniquely rejected by the historically anomalous West.

"Like the default position for an unguarded woman worldwide and throughout history has been 'rape target,'" said Peterson. "That's the norm, not the civilized conduct that generally obtains between men and women even in public on the streets in the West."

'Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate.'

"40 out of 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world are authoritarian hellholes, and only three of them are democracies," Peterson noted later in the interview. "There are certainly doctrines in Islam that are very, very difficult to square with free, liberal, Western, Christian democracies, and those differences aren't just apparent — they're deep."

Peterson also pointed out that "100% of Protestant- or Catholic-majority countries outside of Africa are highly functional democracies. 100%. 6% of Muslim-majority countries are democracies, and they're not in the highly functional category."

After Peterson intimated that the multicultural project in the West has meant the admission and tolerance of populations for which sexual misbehavior and other barbaric practices are the norm, he indicated that the cover-up of the scandal was the result, in part, of fear of leftist political backlash and Islamic violence; of the elite's decision to "sacrifice the children of working-class Brits to the moral grandstanding of their progressive elitism"; and to the woke establishment's expertise in "identifying individuals and bringing reputation-savaging to bear on them in an extremely effective way."

Morgan, apparently still convinced that "multiculturalism has been very successful" in the U.K., asked Natalie Winters late in the episode, "Why should we blame multiculturalism in totality for [the Pakistani rape gang scandal]?"

"I don't really think that tolerance should be the paramount virtue if the disparate cultures that you're importing into said country are cultures that, frankly, I think are conducive to gang-raping of young girls," said Winters, adding that pedophilia was codified in the Quran.

"Our leaders will say that assimilation is racist, it's neocolonial, it's not appropriate to say that cultures that have different values and standards than us need to adopt the shared culture of the country that they're immigrating to," continued Winters.

Elements of the British government have in recent years issued similar critiques of multiculturalism.

Blaze News previously reported that former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman told an audience in Washington, D.C., in September 2023, "Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate."

"[Multiculturalism] has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it," continued Braverman. "And in extreme cases, they could pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of our society. We are living with the consequences of that failure today."

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FACT CHECK: UK Newspaper Cover About Grooming Gangs Is From 2011, Not Recently

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'A Bogus Claim': Columbia Professor Who Praised Oct. 7 Says Jews Not Descendants of Ancient Hebrews

Columbia University professor Joseph Massad, who is slated to teach a course on Zionism, accused Jews of engaging in a "Hitlerian project" for claiming descent from ancient Hebrews during an appearance on a podcast hosted by a professor at Pakistan's University of Lahore.

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Smoking gun or SETUP? Is the FBI LYING about Iran's Trump plot?



A Pakistani national has been charged with “murder for hire” in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former president Donald Trump.

According to a detention memo, the 46-year-old named Asif Merchant had spent time in Iran before flying from Pakistan to the U.S. to recruit hitmen — however, the person he contacted was a confidential informant working with the FBI.

Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” isn’t convinced that the FBI is telling Americans the truth.

“Interesting, now they’re capable of finding people who want to assassinate Donald Trump? Now they’re capable of rooting these things out? And just how interesting that he just ran into this FBI source? What are the odds,” Gonzales says.

Jason Buttrill, Glenn Beck’s chief researcher and former intelligence analyst for the DoD, also has some questions.

“The assassination threat against Donald Trump specifically from Iran has been around since they took out Soleimani. There should have been an increased Secret Service presence, significantly beefed up, around him ever since that,” Buttrill says.

“I also have questions in a completely different direction,” he continues. “They said that he had planned to set this in motion and then leave right as the attack was about to happen, so that he could get out of the country.”

“Well, he was arrested on the 12. What happened on the 13?” Buttrill asks, adding, “It is suspicious.”


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