It’s Friday, May 2nd, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
Pakistan’s record 344 blasphemy cases against Islam
A human rights watchdog group chronicled a record 344 new so-called “blasphemy” cases in the 96 percent-Muslim country of Pakistan in 2024, highlighting increased abuse of the country’s condemned blasphemy laws, reports Morning Star News. The top three categories include “hurting of religious sentiments,” “desecration of the Quran,” and “disrespecting [their false prophet] Muhammad.”
Of the 344 new blasphemy cases, 70 percent of the accused were Muslims, 6 percent were Christians, 9 percent Hindus, and 14 percent Ahmadis, according to the Annual Human Rights Observer report issued by the Center for Social Justice.
Between 1994 and 2024, the report stated that at least 104 persons in Pakistan accused of so-called “blasphemy” were executed extra-judicially.
Mike Waltz out as National Security Adviser
Mike Waltz is out as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser and is instead his new nominee for ambassador to the United Nations in a major shake-up of Trump’s national security team, reports USA Today.
On May 1, Trump said that Waltz was leaving his White House post, confirming a departure that was reported hours earlier amid the continued fallout after Waltz accidentally invited a journalist into a messaging chat in which top national security officials discussed plans for Yemen airstrikes.
United States and Ukraine sign rare earth metals agreement
On April 30th, the United States and Ukraine finally signed the minerals deal that was delayed by the now-infamous Oval Office exchange between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents two months ago, reports The Epoch Times.
With China continuing to tighten its grip on critical minerals after the imposition of U.S. tariffs, control of so-called “rare earth metals”—essential for the production of electric vehicles, wind turbines, and smartphones—is becoming ever more important.
One challenge is that 20 percent of Ukraine’s mineral resources, including about half its rare earth elements deposits, are in areas under Russian occupation.
The agreement stipulates that future American military assistance to Ukraine will count as part of the U.S. investment into the fund, rather than calling for reimbursement for past assistance.
Jewish author David Horowitz, defender of Christians, has died
On April 29th, conservative Jewish author David Horowitz died at the age of 86, reports NewsMax.com.
His story is one of a self-proclaimed former Marxist who had “second thoughts” on Leftist ideology and became a conservative stalwart and a fierce defender of religion and President Donald Trump.
In fact, Trump used the title of Horowitz’s book Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last to make it a prevailing theme in hundreds of Trump campaign rallies leading up to his 2024 re-election.
In Final Battle, Horowitz had predicted the leftists, so fearful of Trump’s return to the White House, would stop at nothing, including indictments against the former president.
The effort backfired, as Trump’s campaign raised millions off the indictments and would ultimately knock out the Biden family dynasty and defeat replacement candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Horowitz’s books often dealt with his conversion to become a Republican during Reagan’s administration, the fight from the Left against religion, and the Left’s seeking to destroy America.
A practicing Jew, Horowitz said one of the most important books he wrote was entitled Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America—which detailed the Left’s war on Christianity, which, he warned, would lead to making the religion illegal and open for persecution.
Psalm 27:1 should be the guiding verse of all Christians who are persecuted worldwide. “The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?”
Companies bolt from Homosexual Pride Month
And finally, two years after transgender Dylan Mulvaney’s catastrophic undoing of Bud Light, June’s over-the-top sexual perversion celebration—at least as a wholesale business concept—is dead, reports The Washington Stand.
For most CEOs, it’s been a year of unprecedented realignment. Dozens of major brands are following up on their commitments to drop Diversity Equity Inclusion, and leftist political causes, prompting them to drop sponsorships of June’s marquee events.
The first warning shots were fired in March, when organizers of the San Francisco Homosexual Pride Parade confessed that they were having trouble hanging on to corporate sponsors. The signature event in America’s Homosexual-Transgender Paradise has already lost $300,000! Among those who pulled back were big-time names like Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, and Guinness/Smirnof.
Plus, at major Homosexual-Transgender Pride events across New York City, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C., gun-shy businesses are running for the exits. According to the Wall Street Journal, Mastercard, PepsiCo, Nissan, Citibank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Darcars Automotive Group are opting out of major sponsorships altogether.
Most businesses are even asking to have their names and logos removed “from official displays and apparel.”
More executives have decided it’s financial suicide to team up in any meaningful way with June’s in-your-face celebration. In fact, 39 percent of corporate leaders plan to decrease their observance of Homosexual-Transgender Pride this year, according to Gravity Research. The result? A massive shortfall in funds for Homosexual Pride-fests on both coasts.
Bloomberg noted six in ten “point to President Donald Trump’s policies regarding transgenderism and diversity, equity and inclusion as a driver. Almost 40% of all firms raised concerns over criticism from conservatives and customers.”
Appearing on Washington Watch, Will Hild, executive director of Consumers’ Research, is delighted.
HILD: “I couldn’t have asked for more. It’s been such an incredible whirlwind of pushback and Executive Orders on the entire DEI-grift complex. So, I think it’s been fantastic. We’ve seen what this is doing to the federal government, but I’m hopeful over the next 100 days, we’re going to start to see this trickle through to the for-profit sector, the corporate sector.”
Hild had a word for Christians and conservatives as well.
HILD: “I think conservatives tend to only think of their power being in terms of their wallet. In other words, if they don’t like a company, what they’re doing, they just won’t shop there.
“They spend millions upon millions of dollars trying to figure out why people shop at Target or Walmart or go to a different place. It’s a lot easier when you send an email or call somebody and say, ‘I don’t appreciate this thing.’ We saw this with Target. We saw this with Budweiser. It went viral on social media.
“Say something both to the company and say something on social media because they track that kind of thing. So, I would say, use both your wallet and use your voice.”
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Ephesians 5:11 says, “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.”
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