It’s Friday, January 20th, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus.
By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
Three men acquitted of assaulting a Christian Egyptian woman
Christian Solidarity Worldwide has learned that the three men accused of attacking, beating and stripping an elderly Christian Egyptian woman in the village of Al-Karm in May 2016, have been acquitted on appeal.
The Court of Appeals issued its verdict on January 9, 2023. They were initially acquitted by a criminal court in December 2020, after repeated delays in Mrs. Suad Thabet’s case. An appeal against that decision was rejected in January 2021, and this latest verdict from the Court of Appeals is final.
Mrs. Thabet, who was 72 years old at the time, had a son who was accused of having a relationship with a divorced Muslim woman. Her son was sentenced to two years in prison on charges of adultery on July 27, 2017.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights condemned the acquittal, stating that “acquitting the accused sends a message that encourages attacks against women.”
Micah 6:8 asks, “What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.”
White House press secretary loses cool over classified documents
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lost her cool on Wednesday when a reporter dismantled her reason for stonewalling the press who have asked about President Joe Biden’s improper retention of classified documents, reports The Blaze.
NBC White House correspondent Peter Alexander grilled her.
ALEXANDER: “A law enforcement official tells NBC News the Justice Department has not told the White House that it cannot talk about the facts underlying the Special Counsel investigation and declassified documents. So, I’m trusting you’ve received that same information, understanding the desire to be prudent than why can’t you speak about the underlying facts?”
JEAN-PIERRE: “We’ve been very clear when it comes to even underlying facts, when it comes to specifics, when it comes to something that is under the purview that the Department of Justice is looking at, especially legal matters, investigations, we do not comment from here, Peter. That has been consistent.”
Alexander specifically pointed out that the White House has not been forthcoming about Biden’s possession of classified documents in a timely manner.
ALEXANDER: “Bob Bauer, who represents the President’s personal attorney, over the weekend, said, ‘One of the reasons why they shouldn’t reveal further details right now was regular ongoing public disclosures also pose the risk that, as further information develops, answers provided on this periodic basis may be incomplete.’
“When the White House did release a statement — the President spoke out on January 9 — the risk of incompletion was a function of the White House’s decision not to share all the information it knew in fact. Because we knew on November 2nd than the first discovery was made. We knew the second discovery was made on December 20th. So, there’s a risk of incompletion, but will you concede that it’s the White House that has been incomplete in its provision of information when it did choose to speak out publicly on January 9th.”
JEAN-PIERRE: “So, my colleague actually dealt with this question on the call yesterday on the White House Counsel’s Office.”
ALEXANDER: “He made the same comment as you — about the ‘risk of incompletion.’”
JEAN-PIERRE: “I would refer you to the White House Counsel.”
(Watch Fox News host Jesse Watters compliment the mainstream press for finally covering the Biden administration)
Biden slammed Trump last September over classified documents
Needless to say, the comments that President Biden made in his 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley last September about the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s residence are coming back to haunt him.
PELLEY: “You saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out on the floor at Mar-a-Lago. What did you think to yourself, looking at that image?”
BIDEN: “How that could possibly happen? How one, anyone could be that irresponsible. And I thought what data was in there that may compromise sources and methods. By that I mean, the names of people who helped or etcetera. And it’s just totally irresponsible.”
Alec Baldwin to face criminal charges in accidental fatal shooting
Alec Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed will face criminal charges for the October 2021 fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film’s set, reports Deadline.com.
Andrea Reeb, the special prosecutor, said, “If any one of these three people—Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed or David Halls, [the assistant director] —had done their job, Halyna Hutchins would be alive today. It’s that simple.
“The evidence clearly shows a pattern of criminal disregard for safety on the ‘Rust’ film set.”
Minnesota Rep: Put tampons in boys’ bathrooms
And finally, we wrap up with a doozy of a story!
Minnesota Democrat State Rep. Sandra Feist has sponsored a bill to make “menstrual products” available for boys, who are pretending to be girls, in boys’ bathrooms for 4th through 12th graders, reports AlphaNews.
Listen to Rep. Feist’s bizarre defense of this laughable bill.
FEIST: “Not all students who menstruate are female. We need to make sure that all students have access to these products.
“There are obviously less non-female menstruating students, and therefore their usage will be much lower. That was actually calculated into the cost of this. We do not expect that the non-female menstruating students will use these products as much as the students using female bathrooms, but it’s important to have them there.
“These students, who are not female, who menstruate, face a greater stigma and barrier to asking for these products. So, providing them in an easily accessible place in all student bathrooms is particularly important for those students.”
Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.”
To his credit, Republican State Rep. Dean Urdahl proposed an amendment on January 11th to clarify that menstrual products should only be available in bathrooms used by biologically female students.
To thank Rep. Urdahl, email: rep.dean.urdahl@house.mn.gov
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