It’s Monday, September 15th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
Syrian Christians facing “accelerated cultural erasure”
Radical Muslim jihadis and other extremist groups have carried out brutal mass killings and other human rights violations against Syria’s religious minorities, prompting calls from religious freedom advocates for the United States to take action, reports The Christian Post.
Dr. Morhaf Ibrahim, president of the Alawites Association of the United States, says the attacks against Syria’s Christian, Alawite and Druze communities are not just random acts of violence.
“It’s a deliberate campaign of terror,” Ibrahim declared during a Wednesday press conference AAUS hosted on Capitol Hill to discuss the atrocities committed against Syrian ethno-religious minorities.
Since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024, Syria’s religious minorities are facing a rapid increase in violence from foreign jihadis, Assad loyalists and militias unleashed by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
After the Islamic alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is made up of former Islamic State and Al Qaeda fighters, ousted President Bashar al-Assad, religious freedom advocates have feared for the safety of Christians and other minority groups.
Sam Brownback, the former United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, talked about what he thinks needs to happen now.
BROWNBACK: “I just know that right now is a critical moment to get the structure of Syrian government correct, where it needs to provide safety for everybody. It needs to be decentralized.
“The minority groups need to be able to defend themselves, and you’ll be able to have equal citizenship. It’s important right now to get the structure, or you will have genocide in the future. It will go poorly.”
The Christian back story in Syria is demonstrable, Of the 325 bishops who took part in the First Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325, twenty were from Syria.
Suspected assassin of Charlie Kirk in custody
The man suspected of murdering conservative influencer Charlie Kirk is now in custody, and has been identified as 22-year-old Utah resident Tyler Robinson, reported LifeSiteNews.com.
As police circulated images of the suspected shooter on Thursday, Robinson’s father became convinced the killer was his son and confronted him, reports CNN.
He asked, “Tyler, is this you? This looks like you.” His son acknowledged that it was him, and when his father urged him to turn himself in, Tyler suggested that he would rather kill himself. But after his father convinced him to talk with a youth pastor, Tyler agreed to be taken into custody around 11:00pm Thursday night.
His arrest was first announced by President Donald Trump Friday morning on Fox and Friends.
TRUMP: “I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody.”
LAWRENCE JONES: “This is going to be a federal case, and there’s many of us believe that Charlie was targeted because of his political ideology.”
TRUMP: “Yeah.”
JONES: “What’s going to happen to this guy?”
TRUMP: “Well, I hope he’s going to be found guilty, I would imagine. And I hope he gets the death penalty. What he did, Charlie Kirk was the finest person. He didn’t deserve this.”
Genesis 9:6 says, “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in His own image.”
Robinson’s hatred of Charlie Kirk
A family member of Robinson’s told investigators that the suspected shooter “had become more political in recent years,” and in particular had lashed out at Charlie Kirk at a recent family dinner, reports CNN.
But, ironically enough, several years ago, in high school, Robinson – like his family – was politically conservative, and supported President Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 election.
Robinson attended Utah State University for one semester in 2021. He was a pre-engineering major at the university but took a leave of absence after his first semester. Robinson then enrolled at Dixie Technical College in St. George. He is currently a third-year student in the electrical apprenticeship program, and obtained an apprentice electrician license in 2022.
He drifted away from the Mormonism of his parents and became deeply connected to an on-line gaming community.
Kirk’s alleged assassin lived with transgender partner
In a related development, the New York Post reports that Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, lived with his transgender partner.
That individual, who has yet to be publicly identified by the authorities, is now fully cooperating with the FBI.
According to public records, Lance Twiggs, age 22, resided at the same address where Robinson lived. A relative of Twiggs confirmed to The Post Saturday that “yes, they were roommates.” Twiggs is a male pretending to be female.
They shared an apartment in Saint George, Utah which is approximately four hours away from Utah Valley University in Orem, where Robinson allegedly shot Kirk. Twiggs said he “had no idea” Robinson was allegedly planning to assassinate the Turning Point USA founder. The person is not currently accused of any criminal activity in connection with the assassination.
The FBI had text messages and other communications between Robinson and his partner that helped FBI agents zero in on Robinson. Officials said the FBI took evidence from their apartment, including computers, which has been sent to Quantico for review.
Kirk was compassionate as he dialogued with a transgender student
Charlie Kirk was known for respectfully disagreeing with liberal college students on a wide range of issues, political and religious, including with this 19-year-old woman pretending to be a man.
Listen to both Kirk’s commitment to the truth and compassion in a conversation which Turning Point posted in May.
STUDENT: “I just want to say I’m a transgender male. What age should kids be able to get things, like, hormone therapy? Because I don’t know what’s true, what’s not.”
KIRK: “Tell me. Are you comfortable telling me your story?”
STUDENT: “I’ve known that since, like, third grade, and I’m currently 19, almost 20. I have known basically since then. I didn’t start going by, like, a different name until seventh and eighth grade, I just don’t know, like, with the med…, like, the whole medical stuff, like, what’s true, what’s not, what’s helpful. Because I’ve heard so many different opinions.”
KIRK: “First of all, thank you so much for that.”
STUDENT: “Of course.”
KIRK: “And so I’m gonna have an opinion that very few people will ever tell you, which is, I want you to be very cautious putting drugs into your system in the pursuit of changing your body. I, instead, encourage you to work on what’s going on in your brain first. I think what you need first and foremost is just a diagnosis, just someone that is going to listen to what you’ve gone through, listen to what else is going on.
“My prayer for you, and again, very few people will say this, I actually want to see you be comfortable in how you were born.”
STUDENT: “Yeah.”
KIRK: “I know that you might not feel that way, but I think that is something that you can achieve. I think that with the right team and the right people, you don’t have to wage war on your body. You can learn to love your body.”
People have posted fascinating comments online.
One said, “This is what the Left calls hate! His response was pure compassion!” Another said, “He was such a kind and caring man and they murdered him for it.” A third person said, “Charlie … gave caring and respectful advice. Not at all the hateful monster the Left makes him out to be.” And another said, Charlie “WAS on his way to becoming the youngest president ever elected in America. Bill Clinton was 46 in November ’92. Charlie Kirk was gonna break that record. This loss will be felt for years!”
Indeed, the Turning Point canopied tent proclaimed, “Prove me wrong.” Clearly, since the Left couldn’t prove Charlie Kirk wrong, they killed him.
Erika Kirk to assassin: “You have no idea what you just have unleashed!”
On Friday, from the headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Arizona, Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie, addressed the nation for 17-minutes, just two days after she witnessed her husband assassinated in front of her at Utah Valley University.
Listen.
ERIKA KIRK: “I want to thank the first responders who struggled heroically, heroically, to save Charles’ life, and the police who acted bravely to make sure that there were no other victims on that terrible afternoon.
“I want to thank President Trump and his incredible family for the same. Mr. President, my husband loved you, and he knew that you loved him too. He did. Your friendship was amazing.”
Erika Kirk had a specific message for those responsible for taking her husband’s life.
ERIKA KIRK: “The evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done. They killed Charlie because he preached a message of patriotism, faith, and of God’s merciful love.
“They should all know this. If you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country. You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.”
Send a letter of condolence to Erika Kirk, c/o Turning Point USA, 4940 East Beverly Road, Phoenix, Arizona 85044.
Plus, you can make a donation to Erika and her two children as well as a donation to Turning Point to continue the fight for a Biblical worldview and American exceptionalism. We have both of them linked in our transcript today at www.TheWorldview.com.
Ray Comfort: Charlie Kirk was so courageous
And finally, in a CBN podcast, Evangelist Ray Comfort shared his thoughts on the assassination of Christian Charlie Kirk, reports FaithWire.com.
COMFORT: “He was so courageous to touch issues that most of us would be afraid to touch, and he did it with such eloquence. I’ve never heard anyone with a grasp of the English language like he had, and the guy was absolutely brilliant.
“And so, I’m very, very sorry that we’ve lost a general, but I’m optimistic that God’s going to raise up soldiers to continue the work and be even more effective.”
Deuteronomy 31:6 says, “Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
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