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The Muslim Brotherhood in Germany does not need a stadium, it needs a small room and a patient teacher. Rhineland Palatinate's interior ministry told the state parliament that the Brotherhood following there sat at about 50 people every year from 2020 to 2024, then rose to 60 in 2025, and that followers are won, bound and indoctrinated mainly through small, personal education circles, NOT rallies. Two Brotherhood linked associations sat inside the umbrella body the state government talks to, and only left in 2018 and 2021 after intelligence warnings. Their names? Shared only with a closed oversight committee. Growth in a quiet room is still growth. Mainz, how quiet does it have to get before you notice? BTW, the Muslim Brotherhood is banned in the UAE.

CHILLING: A Frisco, Texas, high school MSA used a classroom as a prayer hall and posted “more to come.” ⠀ The pictures are from Liberty High School in Frisco ISD. Students stood on rugs between desks and a smart board. Girls in hijabs stood to the side. ⠀ The club caption read, “First meeting of the year inshallah more to come....” ⠀ The same campus had already been in a fight over a now-deleted Liberty MSA intro video. Students called the room “a space for Muslims to pray,” “not a hang out spot,” and said “only Muslims will be allowed in.” ⠀ That video also said girls were not to speak and were to hand their khutbahs to boys. Frisco ISD said the space is a supervised “quiet room,” not a faith-only facility, and that prayer is supposed to fall in non-instructional time unless a parent signs off. ⠀ Liberty High is not a first-time fight. In 2017 then-Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office wrote the district after reports that a classroom was being treated as an Islamic prayer room that shut out other students. ⠀ In February 2026 the Frisco board voted not to add a formal prayer period under Senate Bill 11. Counsel said student religious clubs already exist on every high school campus and cited Texas Education Code 25.091 and 25.154. ⠀ The Muslim Students Association was founded in 1963 at the University of Illinois. Brotherhood-linked organizers were among the early builders. The 1991 Explanatory Memorandum, entered as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation case, listed the MSA among “our organizations.” ⠀ That memo called Brotherhood work in America a “civilization-jihadist process.” Texas later designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terr*rist organizations under state law. ⠀ Texas now holds an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 Muslims, with about 150,000 in Dallas-Fort Worth. Frisco, Plano, McKinney, and Irving have been adding mosque capacity as families move into those school districts. ⠀ Other North Texas chapters have already tested the same model. Wylie ISD saw a “Why Islam” lunch booth. Humble ISD MSAs organized mosque visits. Mesquite chapters used school PA time for Ramadan greetings. ⠀ The Middle East Forum counts almost 800 Islamic educational projects nationwide. Liberty High’s own club account is now showing the classroom version. Are you awake yet?!?!?! ⠀ #Texas# #Frisco#

My friend Hanae is a linguist. She spent six years in western Kansas writing a dissertation that her professors in Tokyo still talk about. Its title: "The Grammar of the American Father." Here is the thing about Japanese. We have words that do far too much. "Sumimasen" can mean sorry, thank you, excuse me, and hello. Linguists love words like that. Hanae lived with a farm family outside a town of 1,100 people. Within a month, she realized the father of the house, Del, spoke an entire language built the same way. It was mostly one-syllable words. Each one carried about forty meanings. Nobody had ever written it down. So she did. Here are a few entries. WELL. At the start of a sentence: I am leaving in forty minutes. In the middle of a sentence: bad news is coming. Alone, with both hands slapped on both knees: this party is over. Everybody in America obeys this. Nobody has ever been told. WELP. Something has gone wrong. It cannot be undone. We are not going to talk about our feelings. We are going to get the truck. HOO BOY. Something is about to cost money. Said while looking at an engine, a receipt, or a daughter's prom dress. HUH. The highest praise a father can give a meal. One "huh" means good. Two means he is about to ask your mother to get the recipe from you. Hanae received two "huhs" for her curry. She describes it as the proudest moment of her academic career. WE'LL SEE. No. Except when it means yes. Nobody can tell until Christmas. OH, YOU DON'T WANNA DO THAT. You are about to do it wrong. He is now going to do it for you. It will take three hours. You will learn nothing. You will feel incredibly loved. THE SOUND. The noise an American man makes when he stands up after age forty. It is not pain. It is an announcement. Her chapter on "Well" alone was 61 pages. Her professors in Tokyo were confused. One of them asked her, in a very serious meeting, "Is it really possible for one syllable to carry an entire emotion?" Hanae said she wasn't sure yet. Then she came home. Six years. The whole family drove her to the airport in Wichita. Del didn't hug her. Del doesn't hug. He stood at security with his hands in his pockets. He looked at the floor. Then at the ceiling. Then at her. "Well," he said. And Hanae, after six years of research, understood every meaning at once. Last spring was her final defense, in Tokyo. Five professors. A small, very quiet room. Del had never been on a plane in his life. He was 74. He flew to Tokyo anyway. He described the flight as "a ways." He sat in the back row in his church jacket. He didn't understand a single word of the Japanese. At the end, the oldest professor asked her the same question again. "Can one syllable really carry an entire emotion?" He didn't understand the question. He understood her face. Before she could answer, Del stood up in the back row. Every head turned. He looked at the floor. Then at the ceiling. Then at her. "Well," he said. And he sat back down. Five Japanese professors with a combined 140 years of linguistics looked at each other. They passed her on the spot.

THINGS MY PATIENTS TAUGHT ME — No. 3 I got the call on a weekend. My patient had collapsed in an emergency room far from home, and the doctors treating him had never met him before that night. To them he was a set of failing numbers. To me he was a man I had cared for over sixteen years. He'd been a great doctor himself, once. Parkinson's and dementia had taken most of that away slowly, the way those diseases do. Years earlier, other cardiologists had pushed him toward surgery on his aortic valve. I had advised against the knife—not because I couldn't operate on the valve, but because I could see the whole man, and I knew what the operation would cost a body already fighting on two other fronts. Sometimes the bravest thing a surgeon can do is keep the patient off the table. Here's a detail I never forgot about him. In sixteen years he was always brought to my office by his son. That's rare. It's almost always the daughters who bring their parents to the cardiologist—year after year I watch daughters do this quiet, faithful work. But this man had his son beside him, every single visit, holding the door, holding the file, eventually holding him up. When the phone rang that night, I already knew. The doctors who didn't know him were doing what well-meaning strangers do—pressing the family toward machines, tubes, life support, the full arsenal we reach for when we don't know a person well enough to know what they'd actually want. His son got on the line and asked me, simply: what should we do. "Let him go comfortably, and with dignity," I said. "Don't torture him." I stayed on the phone. I heard the son lean close and say, gently, "Dad. You know you're dying." And my patient—this brilliant, fading man—asked back, "How old am I?" I laughed out loud. I couldn't help it. There's a whole life's worth of wisdom in that question. His son took his hand and told him he was ninety-four. "I had a good life," he whispered. "Don't do anything heroic." So they stopped fighting the current. The staff moved him and his family into a quiet room. And in that room they did the only things that have ever actually mattered: they cried, they laughed, they prayed. He slipped away into the night without pain, surrounded by the people who loved him, exactly as a life should end and so rarely does. In my tradition, there's an idea that the moment a soul leaves this world is as holy as the moment it enters it—that a death can be a kind of birth in reverse, the soul going home. We fight so hard against that doorway. We call the fighting "heroic." But sometimes heroism is knowing when to stop pulling someone back and instead to stand at the door with them, and bless them, and let them go. Ninety-four years. A son who never once let his father walk in alone. A last breath with no tube in it, no alarm sounding, only love in the room. We are so afraid of death that we forget it can be done beautifully. That night, a family taught me it can. Blessings, P.S. "How old am I?" I still laugh. Ninety-four years on this earth and he'd genuinely lost track—because the number was never the point. The living was. There's a teaching hiding in that man's last real question, and I think about it more than he'll ever know. #ModehAni#

Grok Imagine text-to-video prompt: SCENE CONTEXT One continuous locked-off wide shot inside a cluttered high-rise gaming apartment at night. A fully clothed adult man sits at his desk facing the monitor, absorbed in a computer game. An adult anime woman (age 22 or older) carrying a metal frying pan sneaks up behind him from frame-left, swings the pan hard and fast into the back of his head with a single whip-crack strike that knocks him out cold instantly, his head dropping hard onto the desk with a small bounce. She delivers a short Japanese line, then runs off frame-right while giggling. LOCATION MAP Foreground: edge of the desk and chair legs. Midground: the seated man at the gaming desk with dual monitors, keyboard, mouse, RGB lighting, and scattered energy-drink cans. Background: cluttered apartment wall with posters, shelves of figures, city-window view at night. The anime woman enters from frame-left rear, moves behind the man's chair, then exits frame-right. Warm practical room lamps mixed with cool blue monitor glow and red PC accent lights. FIRST FRAME / BLOCKING Wide shot already framed and locked. The man is seated center-right, torso facing the monitors, head slightly forward. The anime woman is partially visible at the far left edge of frame, body oriented toward the man, frying pan held low in both hands at waist height. Spatial relationship readable immediately: she is behind and slightly to his left, outside his peripheral vision. FORMAT MODE One continuous shot, the camera does not cut on its own. The frame stays identical from first second to last. OPTICS 47° neutral wide FOV, eye-level height matching the man's seated eye line, deep focus so both the desk and the space behind the chair remain sharp. No drift for the full duration. CAMERA Locked tripod, completely stationary, frame fixed for the entire 15 seconds. The operator stays hands-off after the first frame. ACTION 0.0s–3.5s — The man clicks the mouse and taps the keyboard with natural, focused movements, leaning slightly toward the monitor. The anime woman advances on light tiptoe steps from frame-left at about 3 km/h, body low, frying pan close to her torso, eyes fixed on the back of his head. 3.5s–6.0s — She reaches the position directly behind his chair and coils into a short compact wind-up: pan raised above her right shoulder, both hands gripping the handle, weight loaded onto her rear foot, hips turned slightly away like a batter ready to swing. 6.0s–6.5s — She uncoils and swings hard and fast: hips rotate first, shoulders whip through, the pan accelerates through a tight horizontal arc and reaches roughly 30 km/h at the moment the flat of the pan meets the exact center of the back of his head. The full swing takes 0.4 seconds from launch to contact, a single clean whip of motion. 6.5s–7.5s — Knocked out cold, lights out on impact. On the exact contact frame his eyes shut and every muscle releases at once. His head drops hard and fast, driven forward by the strike, and his forehead smacks the desk surface with a solid thud, bounces up once about five centimeters, and lands again, coming to rest cheek-down on the desk. His torso folds forward behind the falling head, arms flopping off the keyboard and mouse and settling limp on the desk. He is out cold and remains completely motionless from this point through the end of the shot, head down, dead to the world. 7.5s–10.5s — She lowers the pan to her side, stands upright behind the slumped man, and speaks her line with clear lip sync while looking down at his knocked-out body, chest rising with a satisfied breath. 10.5s–15.0s — She turns sharply to her right, takes three quick running steps toward frame-right at about 10 km/h, and exits the frame still holding the frying pan, body leaning forward into the run, shoulders bouncing with a giggle. PERFORMANCE Man: fully absorbed in the game until impact, natural micro-adjustments of hands and slight forward lean. From the contact frame onward he is unconscious dead weight: face slack, jaw loose, eyes closed, zero muscle tension anywhere in his body. After the head bounce settles he is a motionless heap draped over the desk, held perfectly still through the end of the shot, clearly out cold. Anime woman: bright adult face with clean 2D cel-shaded features, mischievous grin, tongue pressed to the corner of her mouth during the wind-up. The swing is committed and athletic: full-body rotation, arms extending through the arc, a small follow-through past the contact point before she checks the pan. After the hit her posture opens into a brief proud stance, then she pivots and runs with lively bouncing steps and a visible giggle that lifts her shoulders. Eyes stay alive with micro-saccades throughout. Playful older-sister prank energy, posture upright and comedic. PHYSICS The frying pan carries visible metal mass and inertia: it lags a fraction behind her hands at the start of the swing, whips through the arc with accelerating momentum, and stops dead on contact with a small vibration through the pan face and her forearms. The man's head falls as pure dead weight accelerated by the strike: fast drop, hard contact with the desk, one small five-centimeter rebound, then final settle with zero further motion. The desk registers the impact: a nearby energy-drink can jitters, the mouse shifts a centimeter. His torso folds forward behind the head and settles as a limp mass, no residual muscle movement afterward. Her hair and clothing trail the swing rotation with natural delay and settle after the follow-through. Her footsteps show clear weight transfer on the sneak and the exit run. LIGHTING Primary sources: warm 3200K practical desk and room lamps from upper left, cool monitor glow illuminating the man's face and hands, red PC case lighting under the desk. Soft natural falloff into the background. The pan catches a brief warm lamp glint as it whips through the swing arc, and the contact shadow of the pan and her arms sweeps across the man's back at the moment of impact. AUDIO Clear adult feminine Japanese anime voice with accurate lip sync delivering exactly: 「おやすみなさい！」 A sharp air-whoosh as the pan whips through its arc, ending in a single bright comedic metallic BONK on contact, followed immediately by a solid wooden thud as his head hits the desk and a lighter second tap on the bounce landing. Continuous quiet keyboard taps and mouse clicks up to the hit, then silence from the desk. Computer-fan hum, faint game audio from the speakers, quiet room tone, distant city ambience through the window. Her light footsteps on the floor, then a short bright giggle as she runs. Only the listed sounds and the single spoken line. STYLE Photorealistic cluttered apartment interior combined with a crisp, clean 2D cel-shaded adult anime character. Warm practical lighting mixed with cool monitor and red PC accents, natural contact shadows, light cinematic grain. Wholesome slapstick gaming-comedy tone, the energy of a classic anime frying pan bonk. POSITIVE LOCKS Camera remains completely locked and stationary for the full 15 seconds, identical framing first frame to last. The man keeps facing his monitors until the strike and is knocked out cold on the exact contact frame: head drops hard and fast, forehead smacks the desk, one small five-centimeter bounce, then final rest, body limp and motionless through the end of the shot. Single pan strike only, swung hard and fast with full-body rotation, the arc completed in 0.4 seconds. Anime woman is clearly adult (22+), modest casual gaming-themed clothing, 2D cel-shaded style only. Only the one scripted Japanese line is spoken.