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I know what it means to live without freedom—and I know the civilization that made my freedom possible must be defended. Here is my manifesto to defend the Judeo-Christian civilization that made freedom possible and to launch @RestoringWest. restoringthewest.com/p/the-r…
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In my Saturday column for @RestoringWest, I argue that real equality means one law and one standard for everyone. The moment we exempt some people from the rules, we undermine both justice and freedom.
It isn't kindness to exempt some people from the rules everyone else must follow. . @Ayaan argues that real equality means equal obligations, equal accountability, and equal justice under the law—regardless of race, religion, or background. A society that abandons this principle undermines both trust and freedom. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/e… #RestoringTheWest #RuleOfLaw #Justice #EqualityBeforeTheLaw #Freedom #AyaanHirsiAli #WesternCivilization
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From Christian Homes to Slave Markets: 4.5 Million African Christians Brutally Enslaved in 2026: While the world keeps obsessing over slavery from centuries ago, millions of Christians are being kidnapped, bought, and sold right now in Africa yet almost no one is talking about it. Africa has 7 million people trapped in modern slavery. 4.5 million of them are Christians. Among the victims: 2.4 million Christian women & girls 1 million Christian children An average slave is sold for just $90. Worst affected Christian populations: Nigeria: 1.611 million slaves (45-50% Christian) DR Congo: 407,000 slaves (90-95% Christian) South Sudan: 115,000 slaves (60-70% Christian) These are Christian believers people who follow Jesus, read the Bible, and live their faith being ripped from their homes and communities into forced labor, sexual slavery, and horrific exploitation Why is there endless discussion about historical slavery, but complete silence on this massive ongoing Christian slavery crisis in 2026 ? Christian lives are under attack today. It’s time to break the silence and demand attention for this tragedy.
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When the West loses confidence in its own civilization, its young look elsewhere for meaning. In her latest for @RestoringWest, @DelphineChui explains why “Chinamaxxing” is really a symptom of the West’s cultural decline.
When a civilization stops believing in its own traditions, its young will go searching for meaning somewhere else. In her latest for @RestoringWest, @DelphineChui argues that “Chinamaxxing” is less about China than about the West’s fading cultural confidence. Read more: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/c… #RestoringTheWest #Culture #Civilization #Chinamaxxing
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Brexit was about one simple question: Who governs Britain? Self-government outweighs elite opinion and bureaucratic rule.
Brexit was a vote for self-government. . @Todd_Huizinga argues that no economic forecast, elite opinion, or bureaucratic institution outweighs a nation's right to govern itself and hold its leaders accountable. The question remains as relevant today as it was in 2016: Who rules Britain? Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/b… #RestoringTheWest #Brexit #Sovereignty #Democracy #UnitedKingdom #SelfGovernment #Politics #WesternCivilization
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Outrage over the death of Henry Nowak does not make you a racist. Condemning violence and demanding justice should never be dismissed as prejudice. We need to say that loudly and clearly.
When race becomes more important than truth, justice suffers. . @TreyDimsdale examines the death of Henry Nowak and the troubling questions it raises about policing, public trust, and equal treatment under the law. A justice system influenced by racial politics undermines the very principles on which it depends. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/o… #RestoringTheWest #Justice #RuleOfLaw #HenryNowak #Freedom #EqualityBeforeTheLaw
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. @jarobinson1 is spot on: the best way to teach critical thinking is not to tell students what to think, but to immerse them in the Great Conversation of Western civilization.
In her latest essay for @RestoringWest, @jarobinson1 argues that critical thinking is not taught by teaching students what to think, but by exposing them to the Great Conversation of Western civilization. The Western canon trains students to analyze arguments, challenge assumptions, weigh evidence, and pursue truth with intellectual seriousness. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/h… #RestoringTheWest #Education #CriticalThinking #GreatBooks #WesternCanon #HigherEducation #WesternCivilization
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Not everyone can have everything—and pretending otherwise leaves many with nothing. In her latest essay for @RestoringWest, @daisymaeinglese argues that a meaningful life is built not by maximizing every ambition, but by making worthy sacrifices.
In her latest essay for @RestoringWest, @daisymaeinglese challenges one of modern culture’s most powerful promises: that women can maximize career, motherhood, marriage, family, health, and personal fulfillment all at once. A meaningful life is not built by having everything. It is built by making worthy sacrifices. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/w… #RestoringTheWest #Family #Motherhood #Marriage #Culture #Women #Parenting #WesternCivilization
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In my Sunday essay for @RestoringWest, I have a message for Gen Z: You inherited a weaker civilization than your parents did. But that is not a sentence—it is a calling. The future belongs to those who build, marry, raise families, tell the truth, and leave the West stronger than they found it.
In her latest essay for @RestoringWest, @Ayaan offers a message of hope to Gen Z: You inherited weaker institutions, less social trust, and fewer opportunities than previous generations—but you also have the chance to become builders rather than consumers. The future belongs to those willing to create, lead, marry, build families, tell the truth, and leave something better behind. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/m… #RestoringTheWest #GenZ #Future #Leadership #Culture #WesternCivilization #Truth #Family
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Read my Saturday column for @RestoringWest: a free society cannot survive when justice is sacrificed on the altar of ideology—and our children will bear the cost.
In her latest column for @RestoringWest, @Ayaan argues that a free society cannot survive when some citizens are treated as more equal than others. When governments, media, and institutions place ideology above justice, the innocent pay the price—and our children inherit the consequences. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/o… #RestoringTheWest #AyaanHirsiAli #Justice #RuleOfLaw #Freedom #WesternCivilization #Equality #Culture
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Pride Month is no longer just a celebration—it is a cultural institution. @DelphineChui argues in @RestoringWest that what a civilization celebrates, it eventually normalizes.
In her Friday column for @RestoringWest, @DelphineChui argues that Pride Month has become more than a celebration—it is a powerful tool of cultural formation. When every major institution promotes the same moral vision, culture stops reflecting society and starts trying to reshape it. What a civilization celebrates, it eventually normalizes. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/p… #RestoringTheWest #DelphineChui #Culture #PrideMonth #CulturalChange #WesternCivilization #Values #Society
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“We” are the international consensus who care about freedom. You know — the one NATO member nations invoke when they want defense subsidies. And “we” still agree on something: nations should apply their own sovereign laws. Which is why pathetic censorship flailing by foreign bureaucrats directed at American speech, on American platforms, protected by America’s First Amendment gets you sanctioned. Sorry you can’t control the conversation anymore.
Who’s “we”? EU countries don’t need anyone’s permission to apply their own laws. Another highly consistent argument from those most bent on accusing Europe of imposing its laws beyond its borders.
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Don’t miss today’s book review by @Todd_Huizinga. A thoughtful look at a book that speaks directly to the challenges facing the West today.
In today's book review for @RestoringWest, @Todd_Huizinga examines Carl Trueman's The Desecration of Man—a powerful warning that when a civilization rejects God, it ultimately degrades its understanding of human dignity, truth, and morality. A provocative and essential read for anyone seeking to understand the West's crisis of meaning. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/d… #RestoringTheWest #BookReview #CarlTrueman #Culture #Faith #HumanDignity #WesternCivilization #Meaning
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The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of “racism” is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder! So if police show up at a crime scene and a British boy is bleeding out and an immigrant says the British boy is racist the cops will cuff the dying British boy.
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Some issues should transcend politics. A child is not a spouse. A child is not an immigration commodity. A child is a child. In a conversation with @MicheleHanash of @AHAFoundation, @TreyDimsdale examines a disturbing loophole in U.S. immigration law that has allowed nearly 9,000 child-marriage visa petitions to be approved in just a decade. Protecting children should be one of the easiest moral questions of our time.
In a conversation for @RestoringWest, @TreyDimsdale speaks with @MicheleHanash of @AHAFoundation about a shocking loophole in U.S. immigration law that can facilitate child marriage and human trafficking. Nearly 9,000 child marriage visa petitions were approved in just a decade. Protecting children should not be controversial. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/c… #RestoringTheWest #ChildProtection #HumanTrafficking #ChildMarriage #HumanRights #Immigration #RuleOfLaw
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Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan. George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British. Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events. And we all know why. During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way. They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin. And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his. This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin. This needs to stop.
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AI can store information. It cannot cultivate wisdom. Teachers, classmates, books, and real human relationships remain essential to forming responsible citizens. @jarobinson1 explains for @RestoringWest why education needs people—not just algorithms.
AI can help students memorize facts. But it cannot replace teachers, classmates, books, conversation, or the moral formation that turns children into wise and responsible citizens. In her latest for @RestoringWest, @jarobinson1 explains why education needs humans, not just apps. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/e… #RestoringTheWest #Education #AI #Learning
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NEW JERSEY ALERT: ENEMY WITHIN! TOMORROW IS PRIMARY DAY - VOTE TO CRUSH ADAM HAMAWY, THE LIAR WHO DEFENDED THE BLIND SHEIKH! This dangerous front-runner in NJ-12’s Democratic primary is on the verge of grabbing a seat in Congress. Thirty-one years ago, Adam Hamawy took the stand in the largest terrorism trial in American history and lied under oath to protect Omar Abdel-Rahman - the Blind Sheikh, the terrorist mastermind whose followers bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 and plotted to blow up the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the UN, the FBI’s NY office, and more. Hamawy didn’t just know the Sheikh. He attended a jihad conference with him in Detroit in 1991. He heard the calls for holy war, jihad as “the pinnacle of Islam,” conquering the land of the infidels, and the Sheikh branding Egypt’s president America’s “loyal dog” and calling for his murder. Under oath? Hamawy swore it was just an innocent “Islamic economy” conference. He denied key facts, claimed convenient “memory lapses,” and only admitted the truth when prosecutors slammed the transcript in his face. This is the man who now wants classified intelligence briefings and a vote on America’s counterterrorism funding? NOT ON OUR WATCH. New Jersey patriots in NJ-12: Get your family, your friends, your neighbors - drag them to the polls if you have to - and STOP this terrorist defense witness from entering Congress. This is not just an election. This is a battle for national security. Vote like the future of our nation depends on it… because right now, it does.
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Senior Editor @RestoringWest @daisymaeinglese is absolutely right. The @BBC should stop disguising moral atrocities as human-interest stories. Daisy argues that portraying fathers who sell their young daughters as sympathetic figures is not compassionate journalism—it is a catastrophic moral failure that normalizes child abuse and abandons the innocent.
The @BBC framed Afghan fathers selling young daughters into forced marriage as tragic victims of poverty. In her latest for @RestoringWest, @daisymaeinglese argues this is not compassionate journalism, but a catastrophic moral failure that normalizes child abuse and abandons the innocent. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/t… #RestoringTheWest #ChildProtection #HumanRights #WomensRights #Culture #WesternCivilization
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One of the oldest tricks in politics and media is to reverse the roles of victim and perpetrator. In my Saturday column for @RestoringWest, I argue that a civilization loses its moral bearings when it begins to sympathize more with abusers than with the innocent. The defense of human dignity starts with the courage to name wrongdoing for what it is.
In her Saturday column for @RestoringWest, @Ayaan warns against one of the media’s oldest tricks: switching the labels of “victim” and “perpetrator.” When the West begins sympathizing with abusers instead of defending the innocent, moral clarity collapses. Read: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/n… #RestoringTheWest #Media #Culture #MoralClarity #FreeSpeech #WesternCivilization #AyaanHirsiAli
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