The United Arab Emirates, a Muslim-majority nation, just drew a shocking line: the UAE is restricting Emirati students from enrolling in UK universities because British campuses have become hotbeds for radical Islam and anti-West extremism. If that sounds familiar, it should. UK universities and American universities have become ideological factories where pro-Hamas rhetoric spreads, Israel is demonized, and truth gets buried under activism. Meanwhile, Iran protests are erupting against the Islamic Republic, and legacy media barely whispers. I’m Daniel Cohen with Christian news from a biblical worldview. Watch now for free on the Real Life Network at RealLifeNetwork.com.‍

UAE Draws a Line as UK Universities Radicalize Students

Let’s start with the headline that should stop every parent and policymaker in their tracks. The UAE, a country that knows exactly what Islamist extremism looks like up close, is warning its own young people: do not go to British universities because the environment is radicalizing and anti-West. Think about that. A Muslim-majority nation is signaling that the UK has lost control of its own institutions.

And this is not just a “UK problem.” The same pipeline has been forming for years in the United States. Universities, aided by sympathetic media and activist networks, have normalized slogans, excuses, and narratives that sanitize extremists while vilifying anyone who pushes back. The result is predictable: soft language for radicalism, harsh language for law enforcement, and constant moral confusion.

Here is what the UAE decision exposes. Even leaders in the Muslim world can recognize that radical Islam is not merely a private faith issue. It is a political movement that uses institutions as battlegrounds. When governments finally admit that campuses are becoming recruitment and propaganda spaces, that is a flashing red warning sign to the rest of us.

Iran Is Erupting While the West Looks Away

Now, pivot to the story the corporate press treats like background noise: Iran is on fire. The people are risking their lives to throw off the yoke of the Ayatollah, the IRGC, and decades of religious tyranny. This is not theoretical. This is blood in the streets, internet shutdowns, families grieving, and a nation crying out for freedom.

So why is the coverage so thin?

Because the modern activist class does not actually prioritize human rights consistently. If they did, the brutality of Tehran would dominate the news cycle. If they did, celebrities, influencers, and the same voices screaming about “justice” would be naming the Iranian regime for what it is: a violent theocracy that crushes dissent, oppresses women, and funds terror across the region.

Instead, too many of these voices are fixated on attacking Israel and Zionism. That is not an accident. It is ideological alignment. The Iranian regime’s obsession has always been the destruction of Israel and hostility toward America. And when Western activists echo that obsession, they go quiet when Iranians rise up against it. Silence becomes a form of complicity.

From a biblical worldview, this is spiritual blindness in real time. Scripture warns that people can be deceived into calling evil good and good evil. And that is exactly what we are watching when the world shrugs at Iranian suffering but rages endlessly at Israel’s existence.

America’s Campus Crisis and Why It Matters for Your Family

Now bring it home. The UAE is making a protective move about UK universities, but Americans should be asking a harder question: who is protecting our kids from the same ideological machine here?

Across the U.S., campuses have become training grounds for a mix of far-left activism and Islamist sympathy. Students are taught to view America as inherently oppressive, Israel as uniquely evil, and violence as “resistance,” depending on who commits it. That framework does not produce thoughtful citizens. It produces radicals with credentials.

And when the public sees federal officers attacked, when lawful enforcement is treated like tyranny, when words like “secret police” get thrown around casually, it creates a permission structure for chaos. People start believing rules do not apply to them. They start believing intimidation is activism. They start believing the state is illegitimate unless it agrees with their ideology.

You do not have to agree with every policy choice to see the danger of a society that cannot tell the difference between law and lawlessness. A civilization collapses when truth becomes optional.

So here is the challenge. If the UAE can recognize that universities can become incubators for radicalization, Americans can too. Parents, pastors, and leaders need courage to speak clearly, protect their communities, and refuse to be manipulated by propaganda disguised as compassion.

The bigger story is not just geopolitics, it is worldview. When elites can excuse extremism, ignore persecuted people, and call propaganda “education,” you are watching a culture lose its moral center. But we are not without hope. God is not confused, not surprised, and not absent.

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