It’s Monday, November 3rd, 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
Blind Pakistani Christian man falsely accused of blasphemy against Muhammad
Nadeem Masih, a 49-year-old blind Christian in Pakistan, has been arrested and charged with blasphemy against the false prophet Muhammad, punishable by death, reports Morning Star News.
Martha Yousaf, his nearly 80-year-old mother, said that Waqas Mazhar, a Muslim man, often harasses her son, sometimes extorting money from him and other times throwing water on him or calling him names.
Mazhar, the Muslim, works as a parking contractor in Lahore, where her blind son earns a meager income providing a weighing scale for petty merchants. She said, “Sometimes kindhearted visitors would also give him more money due to his disability, but the park’s Muslim workers used to steal it from his pocket.”
Some, including Mazhar, had also taken loans of various amounts from the Christian blind man but refused to return the money despite his repeated requests.
When Masih went to work on August 21, Mazhar and other mean Muslims refused to let him set up his makeshift stall, roughed him up and took him to the police station where the police, to their shame, mercilessly beat the blind Christian man and forced him to admit to the false blasphemy charge.
In John 15:18, 21, Jesus said, “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first. … They will treat you this way because of My name, for they do not know the One who sent Me.”
Human Rights Watch said, “Blasphemy [against Muhammad] accusations are increasingly weaponized to incite mob violence, displace vulnerable communities, and seize their property with impunity.”
Pakistan ranked eighth on Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List of the 50 most dangerous countries for Christians.
King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of title and housing
Last Thursday, King Charles III made a shock announcement confirming that he will strip Prince Andrew, his brother, of both his title and his housing at the Royal Lodge, a lavish 30-room property, which sits in close proximity to Windsor Castle, reports the New York Post.
In Andrew Lownie’s biography Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, he documents that during a taxpayer-funded trip to Thailand, “Andrew had 40 prostitutes brought in the space of four days. This was all enabled by diplomats.”
Appearing on Good Morning Britain, Lownie said this about Prince Andrew.
LOWNIE: “He’s been caught lying time and time again. I suddenly found researching my book, you couldn’t take a single thing he said without checking it. And I think the King [Charles III] has realized that he hasn’t been telling the truth. And so, the evidence against Andrew is overwhelming.”
Plus, Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, claimed in her posthumously-released memoir, Nobody’s Girl, that Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her three times when she was 17, which he has denied.
Numbers 32:23 says, “Be sure your sin will find you out.”
Democrat Senator John Fetterman: “We have to be better than this!”
On Darkins Breaking News, Democratic U.S. Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania took issue with his fellow Democrats for voting to shut down the U.S. government 13 times in a row.
FETTERMAN: “We’re a Democrat, we’re not allowed to just open this up. I mean, then our party has bigger problems than I thought we might have already. That’s not controversial. Pay everybody. It’s a failure.
“And to all of the viewers, I’m apologizing that we can’t even get together and just open up our government.”
REPORTER: “[Minority Leader Senator Chuck] Schumer said, ‘This gets better politically every day for Democrats.’ What do you say to that?”
FETTERMAN: “Ask the hungry people on Saturday. Americans are not leverage. This is not some game show about who’s winning or whatever. We have to be better than this.”
As a result of the Democrats’ refusal to fund the government, 41 million Americans, who receive food stamps now, will not receive them starting this past Saturday.
Plus, the pleas of the largest federal workers’ union fell on deaf ears, reports NBC News.
Speaker Johnson contrasts Trump’s wins with Democrat clowns
Appearing on Sean Hannity’s TV talk show, House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, provided a contrast between President Trump’s successes of delivering tax cuts, a strong border, a reduction in crime and world peace with the Democrats in the U.S. Senate who have voted 13 times to shut down the government.
JOHNSON: “What stands out tonight is the stunning contrast of what we’re seeing. History is being made.
“Here’s President Trump showing peace through strength, using his power and position to bring peace to the Middle East. I mean, a truly massive, historic foreign policy achievement, returning hostages, restoring security to Israel, setting a foundation for lasting peace, and reducing taxes on hard-working Americans at the same time and ending the border crisis and ending the crime crisis, and reducing fraud, waste and abuse in government, and now settling international conflicts all around the globe.
“Here are the Democrats on Capitol Hill acting like a bunch of clowns. They’re trying to lie to the American people. They’re trying to play politics with government funding, and real Americans are being harmed. I think there is such a stark contrast.
“I’m not sure there has ever been such a stronger contrast between two political parties, the Republican Party is delivering for the American people and the Democrats trying to make a show out of this.”
The 13th U.S. Senate vote on October 28th was 54-45, with only three members of the Democratic caucus voting to reopen the government, reports The Hill. They include Senators John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Catherine Masto of Nevada, and Angus King of Maine, an independent who caucuses with Democrats.
It needed 60 votes to advance. The “60-vote rule” in the Senate refers to the cloture vote needed to end a filibuster, which is a tactic that allows the minority party to delay or block legislation.
Initially, after the first cloture rule was adopted in 1917, ending a filibuster required a two-thirds majority or 67 votes. In 1975, the threshold was reduced to the current 60 votes or three-fifths majority.
Trump flirts with nuclear option to end Senate filibuster
President Donald Trump has flirted with the idea of the so-called nuclear option which would deep-six the cloture vote altogether, enabling the majority party to pass legislation with a simply majority vote.
On TruthSocial last Thursday, he wrote, “It is now time for the Republicans to play their ‘TRUMP CARD,’ and go for what is called the Nuclear Option — Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!
“WE are in power, and if we did what we should be doing, it would IMMEDIATELY end this ridiculous, country-destroying ‘SHUT DOWN.’”
However, President Trump does not appear to have enough votes from within the Republican caucus to end the filibuster.
The Democratic shutdown is animated, in part, by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York’s concern that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has a commanding 21 percentage point lead over Schumer in a hypothetical match-up in a Democratic Senatorial primary for 2028, reports Newsweek.
This is the second longest government shutdown in American history. The longest one lasted 34 days during the first Trump administration, reports CBS News.
61 Planned Parenthood abortion centers have closed in 2025
And finally, Troy Newman, president of the pro-life group Operation Rescue, had some great news, reports LifeNews.com.
He said, “61 Planned Parenthood locations in total (including referral centers) have shut their doors since our 2024 survey — a record number.”
The ripple effect of President Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill is saving lots of babies from abortion. Planned Parenthood was defunded $600 million of taxpayer money for a year which has resulted in these inevitable closures.
Speaking of Prophet Jeremiah in the womb, God said, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.” (Jeremiah 1:5) That divine statement is true of each of us.
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