Last week, the little birdies in Twitter’s legal department notified me that one of my tweets from 2015 is “in violation of Pakistan law.” It seems like ancient history, but Islamic supremacists never forget — or forgive.

My innocuous tweet featured a compilation image of the 12 Muhammad cartoons published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. It also linked to my Jan. 8, 2015, syndicated column on the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre in Paris. There’s no hate, violence, profanity or pornography, just harmless drawings and peacefully expressed opinions about the Western media’s futile attempts to appease the unappeasable enforcers of sharia law, which bans all insults of Islam.

The Twitter notice assured me that the company “has not taken any action on the reported content at this time,” yet advised me that I should “consult legal counsel about this matter” in response to complaints from unnamed “authorized entities.”

Don’t worry, lawyer up? Gulp.

I’m used to getting threats directly from bloodthirsty cartoon jihadists. In 2006, I spearheaded a “Mohammed cartoons blogburst” in support of the Danish cartoonists at Jyllands-Posten. After posting all 12 of the drawings to educate the public about the publication’s brave stand against sharia-enforced self-censorship in the West, death and rape threats from radical Muslims around the world poured into my email inbox. Vengeful thugs based in Turkey and Germany called me a “whore” and “prostitute,” vowing “We will kill you” unless I deleted the pictures from my server. My website was targeted by jihadist hackers who launched a week of denial-of-service attacks.

Thirteen years later, however, who knew that using an American company’s microblogging service from my secluded mountaintop in Colorado could get me in hot water with foreign Muslim stone-age goons 8,000 miles away still hung up on the cartoons.

Who knew Twitter would act as dutiful messenger pigeons for the oppressive anti-blasphemy police squad that sentences people to death for disparaging Islam.

Welcome to Silicon Valley sharia.

Over the past few months, several other prominent critics of Islamic extremism have received similar warning letters from Twitter’s legal department, including Saudi-Canadian activist Ensaf Haidar, the wife of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi; Imam Mohammad Tawhidi, an Iranian-born Muslim scholar and reform advocate from Australia; Jamie Glazov, a Russian-born Canadian columnist who just released a new book called “Jihadist Psychopath”; and Pamela Geller, an anti-jihad blogger and activist.

Jacob Engels, another conservative activist and blogger, was suspended from Twitter this weekend without explanation. His last tweet linked to video of a black Christian street preacher being arrested for “breaching the peace.” Engels opined that the scene depicted “America’s future thanks to (Rep. Ilhan Omar). Roaming rape gangs … cops do nothing. Massive terrorist attacks.”

There’s no violence, hate, profanity or pornography, just an informed opinion about the consequences of open borders and capitulation to Islamic extremism. So why was Engels censored for condemning violent Muslims? Jack Morrissey, the Disney film producer who publicly called for the falsely accused Covington Catholic high school students to be fed into a woodchipper “screaming, hats first,” was allowed to retain his verified Twitter status without any punishment for his bloody death wishes.

This is all of a piece. As I reported in December, citizen journalist Laura Loomer was banned from Twitter for stating true facts about radical Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar’s embrace of sharia laws that threaten gays, Jews and women. Loomer has since been deplatformed from PayPal and just learned she can no longer sell T-shirts protesting Twitter’s ban with the hashtag #StopTheBias on Teespring.

Paypal’s CEO admitted this week that he relied on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s powerful smear machine for input on which conservatives to blacklist in order to uphold the company’s alleged values of “diversity and inclusion.” SPLC’s de-Paypal’d victims include Tommy Robinson, an English anti-jihad activist; VDARE, a nationalist immigration news and commentary site that publishes my syndicated column; and Gavin McInnes, a humorist, social critic and media entrepreneur whose fans have raised nearly $140,000 at DefendGavin.com for his powerful defamation lawsuit against the SPLC. McInnes was also de-Twittered and temporarily de-YouTube’d.

Among others targeted by SPLC, which collaborates with credit card companies and banks to silence influential thinkers and activists on the right: David Horowitz, a venerable scholar and investigative author who successfully beat back Mastercard’s attempt to drop him over his organization’s opposition to Islamic radicalism and illegal immigration, and the Center for Immigration Studies, which is suing the SPLC for labeling its mainstream think tank a “hate group.”

Deplatforming dissenting voices is a ruthless, bizarre and unprogressive way to achieve “diversity and inclusion.” So is conspiring with repressive regimes that are hell-bent on destroying the West. Twitter has become America’s version of Islam’s morality police — the dreaded “mutaween” (Arabic for “the one who makes others obey”).

I will not. As an American citizen who is subject to America’s laws — not Pakistan’s or Mohammed’s — I’ll retweet my harmless little Mo cartoons to my 2.1 million followers every day from now on and stand with other targets on the side of free speech and free thought. How about you, Twitter?

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The CEO of MyPillow and an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump, Mike Lindell, said that Trump was chosen by God to become president.

In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Lindell recounted the first time he met Trump.

“Donald Trump invited me to meet him at Trump Tower in New York City. I walked into his office with high hopes on Aug. 15, 2016. I walked out of that office after meeting with him and I knew that God had chosen him for such a time as this,” Lindell said.

Lindell wasn’t the only one. Many conservatives prayed for a president who would turn America around after the disastrous two terms of former President Barack Obama.

“God answered our prayers, our millions of prayers, and gave us grace, and a miracle happened on Nov. 8, 2016,” Lindell continued.

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“We were given a second chance and time granted to get our country back on track with our conservative values and getting people saved in Jesus’ name.”

Lindell also said that Trump is the “greatest president in history” and reiterated that he “was chosen by God.”

MyPillow founder MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell at #CPAC: Trump was “chosen by God” to be president https://t.co/FgwJ6oteBN pic.twitter.com/C57bQ34pP7

— The Hill (@thehill) March 2, 2019

Lindell’s comments caused liberals to go absolutely mad, as they do when there is any mention of God in politics.

One twitter user, Celia Vornholt, responded to Lindell’s comments by attacking his faith and making fun of his previous struggle with drug addiction.

I’m sure Mike Lindell spoke with God a few times while he was doing coke

— Celia Vornholt (@oaklandridge) February 28, 2019

Other Twitter liberals, thinking they found a perfect “gotcha,” pointed out that God must have chosen Obama to be president.

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Wasn’t Obama chosen by God too then?

— Aaron (@jerkfacedog) March 1, 2019

So If God is interested in our politics, that means he wanted obama to be president, twice and he wanted the dems to take Congress.

— Charles (@wolf9walker) March 1, 2019

But that argument isn’t a “gotcha” at all. The Bible supports the idea that leaders are in their positions because God wills it — even Obama.

It’s perfectly reasonable to suggest God wanted Trump to be president.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders explained it perfectly in a CBN News interview last month.

“I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and I think that He wanted Donald Trump to become president, and that is why he is there,” Sanders said.

Lindell should get some appreciation for boldly supporting Trump and Christians because there’s no doubt that the godless left will try to attack his business after his vocal support for Trump.

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NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND — President Donald Trump treated Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) crowds with a speech that lasted over two hours on Saturday.

The speech was certainly the longest CPAC speech ever given by a president of the United States and the longest speech ever at CPAC. It was also described as the longest speech of his presidency.

Trump stopped to hug the American flag after he took the stage at 12:14 p.m. EST to his favorite American anthem, “Proud to Be an American” by Lee Greenwood.

He began his speech by recalling his first big political speech at CPAC in 2011.

“I enjoyed it so much that it came back for a second one. Then a third and then I said, ‘What the hell, let’s run for president,’” Trump said.

The president had a prepared speech and teleprompters set up but soon abandoned them to discuss what was on his mind.

“You know I’m totally off script right now, and this you know is how I got elected, by being off script,” he said. “And if we don’t go off script our country is in big trouble, folks.”

Trump spoke at length about his presidency, telling stories about his experience in the White House during the government shutdown and his trip to Iraq to meet with the troops. He ripped the ongoing investigations by congressional Democrats, the FBI, and special counsel Robert Mueller.

He also spoke about socialist Democrats and mocked the “Green New Deal” introduced by freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

 “I do like the green new deal. I respect it greatly,” Trump joked as the crowd laughed. “It should be part of the dialogue of the next election.”

Trump also commented that he was giving away too much material from his future 2020 campaign rallies against Democrat challengers.

“I’m going to regret this speech,” he said. “This speech should have been delivered a year from now, not now damn it.”

He joked that he destroyed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) by ripping her as “Pocahontas,” but conceded that he might have ended her political career too soon.

“Now I won’t get a chance to run against her, and I would have loved that,” he said. “I don’t want to knock out all of the good stuff and end up with somebody that’s actually got talent.”

After about an hour and a half, Trump checked in on the audience and asked, “Is everyone ok? I haven’t seen anybody leaving,” he said.

He joked, “I know one thing — if Mark Levin leaves, I will leave very quickly.”

The CPAC audience remained engaged as the president continued, with familiar chants of “USA!” “Build the wall!” and “Lock her up!” as his political rallies.

Trump also mocked the “Never Trumpers” in the conservative movement, insisting that they were on “mouth-to-mouth resuscitation” just to stay alive.

The president also explored important themes coming up in 2020, including free speech on campus — even inviting a conservative college student on stage who was punched for his beliefs.

Trump glanced at his watch after the two-hour mark and remarked, “I’ve been up here a long time!”

His voice remained strong through the speech, and he continued standing at the podium on stage.

He thanked Matt Schlapp, the American Conservative Union president and CPAC director, for putting the conference together, noting that the organizer said he could speak as long as we wanted.

“Now more than ever, we need the proud men and women of CPAC, and I want to thank everybody here because it is incredible, your organization is incredible,” he said.

Schlapp said that the organization welcomed record crowds to CPAC this year to hear the president speak.

“Like Ronald Reagan, when he wants to recharge, he connects with his base, here at CPAC,” he said as he introduced the president.

CNN analyst Sam Vinograd compared President Donald Trump’s 2019 CPAC speech on Saturday to Adolf Hitler murdering six million Jews in the Holocaust.

“The men and women here today are on the front lines of protecting America’s interests, defending America’s value, and reclaiming our nation’s priceless heritage,” Trump said on Saturday. “With your help, we are reversing decades of blunders and betrayals. These are serious, serious betrayals to our nation and to everything we stand for. It’s been done by the failed ruling class that enriched foreign countries at our expense. It wasn’t America first, in many cases it was America last. Those days are over, long over.”

After CNN replayed the clip from Trump’s CPAC speech, Vinograd, a former Obama official, said: “His statement makes me sick, on a personal level, preserving your heritage, reclaiming our heritage, that sounds a lot like a certain leader that killed members of my family and about six million other Jews in the 1940s.”

Vinograd then stated that Trump “pretends that there are massive flows of illegal immigrants coming over our borders,” ignoring the over 360,000 arrests that were made on the border last year.

Then, without any evidence, Vinograd suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin was somehow behind Trump’s CPAC speech.

“By the way, this whole CPAC speech, how many pieces, parts of President Putin’s to-do list was President Trump trying to accomplish today?” Vinograd continued. “He denigrated our institutions – the Department of Justice and U.S. Congress, he spread misinformation and conspiracy theories, he undermined the credibility of several of our institutions – he sowed divisions, he sowed confusion, he was speaking to his base but he was also saying things that really looked like Vladimir Putin scripted his speech. So it helped him perhaps with his base, and politically, while at the same time, making Russia’s job a lot easier.”

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Not surprisingly, Trump blasted the media during his speech, which lasted approximately two hours.

“I’ve learned because with the fake news — if you tell a joke, if you’re sarcastic, if you’re having fun with the audience, if you’re on live television with millions of people and 25,000 people, in an arena and if you say something like Russia please, if you can, it is Hillary Clinton’s e-mails! Please, Russia, please!” Trump joked at CPAC. “Please, get us the e-mails! Please!”

“So everyone is having a good time, I’m laughing, we’re having fun and then that fake CNN and others say, ‘he asked Russia to go get the e-mails. Horrible!'” Trump continued. “I mean, I saw it like two weeks ago. I’m watching and they are talking about one of points. He asked Russia for the e-mails. These people are sick and I’m telling you — they know the game. They know the game and they play it dirty. Dirtier than anyone who’s played the game. Dirtier than it’s ever been played.”

Also not surprisingly, Vinograd took issue with Trump’s joke, complaining on Twitter: “Hey legal eagles – is saying you were ‘joking’ about asking someone to commit a crime a reasonable defense? Trump just told #CPAC that he was ‘joking’ about asking Russia to hack HRC Apparently Stone didn’t think he was joking… nor the campaign officials that coordinated w him.”

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