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In Taos, New Mexico, investigators executed a search warrant at a training camp where a man was conducting weapon-familiarization sessions with at least 11 children to train them to become school shooters, according to WAGA.

Adding to the disturbing nature of that discovery is the fact that nationally known Muslim women activist Linda Sarsour is not only connected to, but has even heaped praise upon, the father of the man police have arrested and named as the leader of that training camp.

Many may know Sarsour as a Democrat civil activist and leader of the “Women’s March.” She is also a leader of MPower Change, a “Muslim Grassroots Movement,” according to the website.

As seen on social media accounts, Sarsour busies herself advocating for the female Muslim community across the U.S. According to the MPower Change website, she was named one of the top 500 influential Muslims worldwide.

Her social media accounts make it clear that Sarsour is a big fan of Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a leader at a mosque in Brooklyn, New York, where Sarsour herself was born.

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Imam Siraj is the man. ~ @imamzaidshakir #taqwa30

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) December 18, 2011

Imam Siraj Wahhaj is Black American and most loved religious leader amongst diverse groups of Muslims. #blackmuslimfuture

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) February 20, 2014

Had a dream last night that I was chillin on my Brooklyn stoops with Imam Siraj, @ImamSuhaibWebb and @DawudWalid. It was awesome.

— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) April 8, 2014

Sarsour not only places high esteem on Wahhaj, but also has had the opportunity to share the stage with the religious leader in several different instances.

The Islamic Society of North America posted a video to YouTube that shows Sarsour and the imam participating in one such discussion. A disaster relief organization, Islamic Circle of North America, also held a conference in New York that featured both activists as speakers.

Join Us this weekend in NY for a Family conference hosted by ICNA! Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Linda Sarsour, & http://t.co/2l23vdgNdm

— ICNA Relief USA (@ICNARelief) October 16, 2014

Police first became interested in Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, the imam’s son, in December, 2017, when he was accused of picking up his then-3-year-old son from his mother’s home and not returning him. Later that month, he was involved in a car accident involving a “box truck” containing nine passengers, “several weapons and a bullet-proof vest,” WAGA reported.

Police were reluctant to approach the compound where at least some of these individuals were reportedly staying without a special team because of the weapons find, according to court documents cited by WAGA.

However, on Aug. 3, after receiving “electronic messages” from within the compound in Costilla, New Mexico, roughly 150 miles northeast of Albuquerque, authorities executed a search warrant, finding 11 children living in atrocious and unsafe conditions, at least five adults who were taken into custody — and almost no food for any of them to live on.

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“The property is best described as a compound surrounded in part with an earthen berm and old tires stacked up around it, with open trenches and pits, with numerous trip hazards and wood with nails sticking up and broken glass and bottles litter around the grounds — overall this is readily identifiable and hazardous with extremely filthy living conditions which greatly resemble that of what could be considered ‘third world country in nature’ with odorous trash everywhere, no clean water, no electricity, no plumbing/sewer, and children were not clean, without shoes and without proper hygiene, and rags for clothes,” the court documents said.

Authorities did, however, find numerous weapons and a firing range.

Also found at this site were the remains of a child. At the time, the remains could not be identified because they were so decomposed. Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, the son of Imam Siraj Wahhaj, was arrested and identified as the training camp’s leader.

Later, Imam Siraj Wahhaj was able to confirm that the remains of the child were his 3-year-old grandson’s. As the story continued to unfold, the elder Wahhaj’s Brooklyn mosque claimed the report was “fake news.”

In addition to all of this, according to Breitbart, the imam was an alleged “unindicted co-conspirator” of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

After the younger Wahhaj was arrested, Sarsour shared a statement from the Muslim Anti-Racisim Collaborative decrying the “sensationalist and Islamophobic news coverage of the arrest of Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, the son of our beloved Imam Siraj Wahhaj.”

“There are children at the center of this story and that’s where the focus should be,” Sarsour wrote in the post.

Sarsour, rather than distance herself from what authorities called a compound filled with “extremists of the Islamic faith,” has instead chosen to confirm her alliance with an alleged conspirator involved in the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 who also happens to be the father of the man accused of running a training center for future school shooters.

Of course, the imam has apparently suffered the loss of his young grandson, and we should honor that grief — we should, in fact, weep with those who weep, as we have been commanded to do.

But we cannot allow that weeping to blind our eyes to the danger of radical Islam to the most vulnerable people in our nation — our schoolchildren.

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When even Lindsay Graham sees it…

Via Fox News Insider:

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said he is sending a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray asking for an explanation of DOJ policy after news of a troubling incident five years ago involving a top Democratic senator and a suspected Chinese spy.

At the time, the FBI informed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that a man employed by her office was suspected of being a spy for the Chinese government. Feinstein took action and fired the man.

Graham said President Donald Trump was not afforded the same courtesy during a similar counter-intelligence investigation by the FBI into Russian election hacking.

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It used to be difficult to defend Hollywood. Now it may be next to impossible.

Excusing disturbing behavior is what many stars tried to do in recent weeks, after “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn was fired by Disney.

The supposedly family-friendly brand, which owns the Marvel cinematic universe, was forced to disown the star director after tweets joking about child rape and other off-color topics came to light.

While most of Tinseltown and countless liberals jumped to Gunn’s defense, claiming that the posts were over five years old and just poor attempts at humor, it now looks like there may be a shocking trend of excusing pedophilia in the director’s life.

Photos discovered on Gunn’s own website reveal that he attended a twisted pedophilia-themed party.

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“One of the photos shows Gunn dressed as a Catholic priest posing with two young women dressed to look like children,” Breitbart News reported.

“One is in pigtails and pouting, another looks like she is about to cry as she holds a juice box and a doll. Father Gunn, who appears to be wearing eye makeup, looms over them,” the outlet continued.

Even the caption accompanying the photos admit that the sexualization of minors was the intended theme of the “party.”

“To Catch a Predator,” Gunn apparently wrote about the party’s images.

That’s the name of a fairly well-known investigative show that ran on NBC a decade ago. “Using hidden cameras, the show would catch alleged sexual predators who had arranged to have sex with children as young as 12,” explained Breitbart.

“The second photo features Gunn, again dressed as a priest, next to a pigtailed young women sucking her thumb. Kneeling on the floor in front of Gunn is a man made up to look like a clown. He has his hands around the throat of the second young woman,” continued that outlet’s report.

Here’s a simple question: Who wakes up in the morning and says, “today I’m going to go to a pedophilia-themed party where adults pretend to be sexually abused girls, and then proudly post photos of it on my public website?”

It’s hard to imagine these photos, clearly making light of the sexual abuse of young girls, coming across as funny to any sane person.

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They are absolutely indefensible when added to the other disturbing comments Gunn has made about child sexuality.

The ex-Disney director previously claimed to be sexually aroused by a video of underage girls, then made obscene jokes about minors touching themselves and fantasy trees that sexually assault children.

“Pedo themed costume party. Pedo jokes. Pedo themed humor. Maybe I’m just f—ing paranoid but that looks like a pattern of behavior,” posted The Daily Caller reporter Ian Miles Cheong after the most recent photos were uncovered.

He’s right. It would be one thing if someone went too far during an attempt at humor and then apologized, but it appears very much like excusing pedophilia and joking about child sexuality was routine to Gunn.

Liberals and the media have blocked, banned and ended the careers of many other figures for posting arguably more tame material. The fact that they are instead rushing to defend one of their own reveals deep hypocrisy … and a dark problem in Hollywood that needs to be exposed.

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Twenty people were shot in gun-controlled Chicago between Friday morning and Saturday morning. This string of shootings comes one week after 70-plus were shot in the city over a three-day time period.

The Chicago Tribune reports that there was one fatality among the 20 shooting victims. The deceased was 18-year-old male Dylan Zavala, who was shot shortly after 8:00 a.m. Friday morning, Zavala “was found in an alley with a gunshot wound to his head in the 2900 block of West Pershing Road in the Brighton Park neighborhood.”

Later in the day two cousins, a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old, were walking to a gas station to get something to eat when bullets started flying. A bullet grazed the 15-year-old’s head and the 17-year-old was shot in the abdomen. The teens transported themselves to the hospital and both are expected to survive.

Genice Hines, the mother of the 15-year-old, said, “Chicago is a scary place to be. Even I’m scared to walk to the corner store.”

On August 6, 2018, Breitbart News reported were 70-plus shootings in Chicago over a non-holiday summer weekend. Eleven of the shooting victims died.

On August 8, 2018, Breitbart News reported that Chicago Police had made no arrests regarding the shootings that left behind 70-plus victims. Chicago Police indicate that witnesses have grown increasingly quiet in the wake of such shootings, leaving police with few leads and/or details related to the incidents.

There were nearly 800 murders in Chicago in 2016.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.