The Telegraph (UK).

An Islamic centre is under investigation after hosting an event where Hezbollah phone cases and pro-Iranian regime key rings were sold.

The Islamic Centre of England, a registered charity, held a “community bazaar” which it described as a “vibrant space for cultural interaction, the exchange of knowledge and experiences, and the strengthening of national and religious identity”.

But The Telegraph has obtained a dossier of images showing items on sale at the event, which include phone cases with silhouette photos of Hassan Nasrallah, the former secretary-general of Hezbollah, who was killed by Israel in 2024.

Hezbollah, a terrorist organisation based in southern Lebanon, is proscribed by the UK government meaning it is a criminal offence to display images that seemingly support the group.

Elsewhere at the bazaar were stickers featuring the apparent silhouettes of other Hezbollah commanders, including Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, who was killed in a US air strike in January 2020.

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by Islam in the seventh century, it was a majority-Christian nation that was mostly inhabited by its indigenous people, the Copts.

Coptic Christians are deeply rooted in ancient Egyptian traditions through language, liturgical music, and ritual symbolism. They have preserved a cultural identity that long predates the Islamic conquest of Egypt.

Copts were some of the earliest followers of Christianity due to St. Mark bringing the Gospel to Egypt. Since then, Egypt has been home to many of the greatest Christian theologians, including Athanasius, Anthony (of the desert), and Cyril the Great.

As descendants of the ancient Egyptians, Copts have lived in their homeland for several millennia. They have survived persecution since the first Arab Muslim invasion in the seventh century as well as the subsequent invasions of the Mamluks and Ottoman Turks.

There are currently around 15,000,000 Copts in Egypt, making them both the largest Christian and the largest non-Muslim community in the Middle East and North Africa.

Egypt’s Copts are today amongst the most severely persecuted communities in the world. They live as second-class citizens in their ancestral homeland, marginalized both institutionally and socially.

They face abduction, forced disappearance, unlawful arrests, torture, rape, pressure to convert to Islam, mob attacks, and discrimination. But as Caroline Doss, president of the organization Coptic Solidarity, notes, in the face of these human rights violations, “the response of the Egyptian government is often slow, weak, or completely absent.” Violence against Coptic Christians is rarely punished. This increases their exposure to repeated attacks and extends impunity to their attackers.

I am told that it is commonplace for Coptic female children to have a cross tattooed on their hands in order to prevent them being abducted, forcibly ‘converted’ to Islam, and married off to middle-aged Muslim men.

The Teelgraph (UK).

A Muslim activist who was jailed for his part in an armed terror plot is standing to become a Birmingham councillor in May.

Shahid Butt was imprisoned for five years in 1999 for conspiring to bomb the British consulate, an Anglican church and a Swiss-owned hotel in Yemen.

Yemeni prosecutors said the gang had been sent to commit violence by Abu Hamza, the hate preacher, who was the father of one of the convicted men.

Mr Butt has been unveiled as a candidate for an alliance of independents set to contest about 20 seats in the Birmingham city council election on May 7.

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The Palestinian Authority (PA) attempted to hide payments to terrorists and their families last year despite its president’s claim that such transactions had ended, according to the U.S. State Department.

A nonpublic State Department notice provided to Congress and obtained by The Washington Free Beacon determined that the PA paid more than $200 million to terrorists and their families in 2025, the same year PA President Mahmoud Abbas publicly claimed he had dismantled the long-criticized “pay-to-slay” program.

Rather than ending the payments, U.S. officials concluded the PA quietly shifted them to a newly branded system designed to evade donor scrutiny as the Ramallah-based government sought influence in postwar Gaza.

Israeli intelligence assessed that $144 million was funneled to terrorists and their families in 2024, with at least $214 million committed through 2025.

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According to financial disclosures filed last year, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s net worth has surged in recent years. Omar reported that her husband held stakes valued between $6 million and $30 million in a venture capital firm and a winery. That sudden and dramatic increase in wealth has now drawn scrutiny. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) plans to open an investigation into how such a meteoric rise occurred so quickly, and she is also under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice.

The existence of the federal probe became public after President Donald Trump mentioned it in a Truth Social post on Monday. Trump wrote, “the DOJ and Congress are looking at ‘Congresswoman’ Illhan Omar, who left Somalia with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars. Time will tell all.”

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The 2025 immigration figures for France have just been published, and, unsurprisingly, they paint a catastrophic picture, with a constant and sustained increase in arrivals on French territory. However, these figures only cover legal immigration: if we add estimates of illegal arrivals, it becomes clear that the feeling of being overwhelmed by an invasion experienced by many French people is not just a figment of their imagination.

France issued 384,230 first residence permits—valid for up to 12 months—last year, an increase of 11.2% over the previous year. This figure is essential because it is the ultimate indicator for measuring legal immigration, as Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti, director of the Observatory of Immigration and Demography, points out in an interview for Atlantico. It does not include renewals of residence permits, European foreigners, or minors, which means that it is actually a low estimate of the number of arrivals.

The increase, which is substantial over one year, is even more impressive from a long-term perspective. The number of residence permits granted in 2025 is about three times higher than the number of new residence permits granted 30 years ago.

Emmanuel Macron is not solely responsible for this situation. The increase in immigration began well before he came to power. However, there has been a clear acceleration since he took office.

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A Pakistani asylum seeker who was living in taxpayer-funded accommodation last year raped a vulnerable 18-year-old woman while she was alone in a park in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.

Before being convicted on Monday, Sheraz Malik, 28, had his asylum status hidden from the public by Judge Nirmal Shant, who prevented the press from reporting on it until the end of his trial.

But Lee Anderson, Reform MP for the constituency in which this crime took place, revealed his status last summer, asking: “Why would it affect the trial … I will not shut up and do not care about the consequences.”

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The 17-year-old “Virginian” pictured above is named Fasihullah Safar. Although he hails from Virginia, the jihad attack that brought about his arrest was perpetrated in New Jersey, which is more thoroughly Islamized than Virginia.

“Safar” is an Arab surname, but based on his mug shot, there is probably an admixture of more diverse DNA among young Fasihullah’s antecedents, perhaps an imported (or enslaved) bride from Malaysia, Indonesia, or the Philippines.

The young mujahid not only yelled “Allahu Akhbar” during his knife attack on police officers (Patch felt obliged to explain that “Muslims have denounced the phrase’s usage as a battle cry in acts of terrorism”), he also proclaimed his devotion to the Islamic State during his testimony in court, and expressed his desire to join the group. As a result, it’s difficult for law enforcement and the news media to claim that the motive for the assault is unknown — you can’t find a clearer declaration of Islamic jihad. And in this case there has been no attempt to write the youngster’s behavior off as mental illness: he pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was sentenced to eighteen years in the slammer.

One wonders how many generations separate young Fasihullah from the ancestors who first arrived in the USA. Britain’s experience with the 7/7 attackers suggests that it would not be at all unusual if the youngster is a second- or third-generation Muslim who was “radicalized”. Such radicalization may occur online, but it can also happen simply by his engaging in the devout study of Islamic scriptures under the tutelage of an imam at the local mosque. Unless an immigrant family completely abandons its affiliation with Islam — which almost never happens — later generations are likely to become ardent practitioners of jihad.

The Times (UK).

Dozens of protesters have been arrested for trespassing at HMP Wormwood Scrubs during a demonstration in support of a Palestine Action prisoner on hunger strike.

Some members of the group got into a lobby at the west London prison on Saturday night, banging lockers and chanting through megaphones.

Scotland Yard said that some demonstrators had threatened police officers and refused to leave the site when asked, preventing access for prison officers.

However, the protesters said they had been kettled by the Metropolitan Police and subjected to forceful arrest in the course of a peaceful protest. The Met said it had arrested 86 people for aggravated trespass.

Leftist protesters have a very strange definition of ‘peaceful’.

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London police confirmed on Sunday, January 25th that 86 protesters were arrested after entering the grounds of Wormwood Scrubs prison in West London during a demonstration supporting the Palestine Action prisoner on hunger strike there.

Demonstrators reportedly refused to leave when ordered by officers, blocked prison staff from entering and exiting the facility, and several were seen inside a staff-only area of a building within the site.

The Metropolitan Police said the arrests were made on suspicion of aggravated trespass and stressed that while security was not compromised, the disruption and threats directed at officers and staff were “deeply concerning.”

The protest centred on support for Muhammad Umer Khalid who, according to advocacy group Prisoners for Palestine, has been on hunger strike for more than two weeks. The Ministry of Justice reminded observers that Palestine Action is banned under UK anti-terrorism law following earlier protests and alleged criminal activity.

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The following story concerns an instance of Muslim-on-Muslim violence that occurred last night in Antwerp. The Kurds who were on the receiving end of the attack identify the “terror” against them as being perpetrated by mujahideen for the Islamic State. Under other circumstances, however (e.g. Mullah Krekar in Norway), Kurds are the ones who promote and carry out terrorism. So this was just an intramural skirmish amongst Muslim factions, and also a reminder that any Muslim who devoutly studies his religion’s scripture may well take up “terrorism”.

It makes me mutter to myself: “Why can’t they both lose?”

And it also makes me say in exasperation: “Why in the world is there a ‘Kurdish community’ in Antwerp?”

Import Turd-World people, get Turd-World problems.

The Foundry.

Republican Reps. Chip Roy and Keith Self of Texas voiced their support for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s efforts to crack down on Islamic groups accused of having ties to terrorist organizations.

On Wednesday, Abbott urged an independent school district to sever ties with the Council on Arab Islamic Relations after administrators planned to hold the “Islamic Games” sporting event. In 2025, he signed legislation to designate CAIR as a terrorist organization over their ties to Hamas and blocked Islamic Sharia Law only developments in Texas.

CAIR announced that they aspire to take Abbott “to a court of law” for “crossing every line of basic decency” through his “campaign of hate.”

But Roy and Self believe Abbott was right to act.

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Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian protest organizer whose immigration arrest last year made national headlines, will be re-arrested and deported to Algeria, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on Newsnation.

Khalil, a Syrian-born Algerian citizen of Palestinian descent, was arrested by federal immigration officers last March after Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed his presence would have “serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for the United States.

In a statement, Khalil’s legal team disputed whether he could be legally detained or deported while the appeals process has not concluded. In the statement, they said the government’s actions “reinforce its disdain for the First Amendment rights of people engaged in peaceful protest.”

The 30-year-old former student, who is a lawful permanent U.S. resident, was the first of several immigrant university students at Columbia and across the country to be targeted for deportation over their pro-Palestinian activism.

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Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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I posted last summer about the death of a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl named Liana K. in the German city of Göttingen. The unfortunate young lady was murdered when she was pushed in front of a speeding train by an Iraqi named Muhammad A. (like most accused offenders in Europe, young Muhammad’s surname is only one letter long).

It’s yet another case that has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

At the time he committed the crime, Mr. A’s mental condition was considered questionable, and whether he could be tried for the murder was up in the air. Now it’s official: the young migrant is a loony, and cannot be held criminally responsible.

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Somali fraud in Minneapolis began long before the cases that have been making nationwide headlines. And one of the first cases involved the abuse of Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) by day cares with fraud amounting to an estimated $100 million in 2015.

Minnesota Child Care Services which got its license in 2012 and a year later was already the single largest recipient of (CCAP) funds for the next two years during which time it also accumulated ‘corrections’ for not keeping proper staff records, staff qualifications, cleanliness and crib violations, was one of a number of organizations targeted in the fraud investigations.

Investigators also discovered that during just one two week period the Somali day care center billed “for 950 children who did not actually attend the center”, that it billed for children on days when no children attended, and the center was also accused of providing kickbacks to parents.

As part of an agreement, the day care center pled guilty to one charge of theft by swindle and

Abdirizak Ahmed Gayre, its director, and Ibrahim Awgab Osman, its assistant director, were barred from “working or having an ownership interest in any licensed child care provider in Minnesota” for only two years.

But the story was just beginning.

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It’s what they do best.

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A Stockholm court on Wednesday sentenced a 19-year-old Syrian-Swedish man to seven years and ten months in prison for plotting a terrorist attack on the Stockholm Culture Festival on behalf of the Islamic State. The district court found him guilty of planning the bombing as well as “aggravated participation in a terrorist organisation.”

According to the court, the planned attack could have seriously harmed Sweden, aiming “to instill grave fear in a segment of the population in Sweden that does not share IS’s ideology.” The man had pleaded guilty to the charges.

Evidence presented showed that he had secured financing, conducted reconnaissance at Kungstradgarden park in central Stockholm, and recorded a “martyr video” intended for publication after the attack. He also possessed instructions and components for making explosives, and had purchased clothing and a body camera to record the assault.

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report published by the Institute of Women, an agency under the Ministry of Equality, openly defends the wearing of the Islamic hijab in classrooms and goes a step further by publicly naming schools that have limited or banned it.

The document, “‘Hands Off That!’: Discrimination Against Young Muslim Women Wearing the Hijab in the Education System,” presents these restrictions not as neutral disciplinary decisions, but as cases of institutional discrimination. According to the report, opposition to the hijab is rooted in “Islamophobia,” described as a form of cultural racism that targets Muslims—or those perceived to be Muslim—within Spain’s education system.

The report directly challenges long-standing justifications used by schools, including uniform policies, common dress codes, and the preservation of a neutral learning environment. These arguments, it claims, are selectively applied and disproportionately affect Muslim girls.

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The army of Syria’s new government has released thousands of former members of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) who were being held in prisons in the country’s northeast. Many of those freed previously fought alongside Islamist militias that are now part of the power structure in Damascus.

The development, confirmed by multiple local and regional sources, marks a turning point after months of reassuring messages to the international community about the supposed “moderation” of the new authorities.

No extremist Muslim ‘government’ can be trusted to suppress other Muslim extremists.

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Sweden has officially stopped all taxpayer-funded grants to the aid organization Islamic Relief Sweden (IRS) following concerns that individuals within the group may have links to anti-democratic or violent activities. Over the past decade, the organization had received nearly 1.3 billion kronor (€121.2?million) from Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

In 2024 alone, IRS received 191 million kronor (€17.8?million), which accounted for almost 70% of its total revenue from public funds and private fundraising.

Sida confirmed that the organization does not meet the criteria ensuring there are no ties to violent extremism or anti-democratic behavior. “Since the government’s guidance clearly states that such connections are not compatible with support under these strategies, Islamic Relief Sweden has had its applications rejected within the framework of the partner selection processes for the CSO and HUM strategies,” explained Inga-Lill Hagberg, press secretary at Sida.

The suspected links were identified in a review by the Centre Against Violent Extremism (CVE), which found that individuals connected to IRS or its networks had or previously had connections to “violent extremism or anti-democratic environments,” including links to the United Islamic Associations in Sweden (FIFS) and the Islamic Association in Sweden (IFIS). Some of these links were through relatives.

Non-Muslims see aid to Muslims as charity granted to poorer and more backward people.

Muslims see non-Muslim aid to Muslims as a form of jizyah, the tax that non-Muslims pay to Muslims in the Dar al-Islam, testifying to their inferior status. They don’t see it as charity for which they ought to be grateful; they see it as their right, mandated by God.

As Kipling correctly noted, “Once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.”

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The Somali diaspora behaves in roughly the same fashion wherever it washes up in the West. In this case, the Westerpark neighborhood of Amsterdam was culturally enriched by a mischievous Somali youth who imposed his amorous intentions on an unwilling young lady — to the point where he is now on trial for rape and attempted murder. It was only due to her fierce indomitable spirit that the object of his affections is still alive.

It needs to be noted that this case has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

Daily Record (UK).

An imam who signed off on an illegal marriage ceremony involving two teenagers has been sentenced for his part in the crime. Appearing before Northampton Crown Court, Ashraf Osmani pleaded guilty last year to two counts of causing a child to enter into a marriage in November 2023.

The court heard Osmani, who presided over the Islamic Nikah service, agreed to allow the ceremony between two 16-year-olds to take place after learning they had been turned away from another mosque. Osmani, an imam at Northampton’s Central Mosque, claimed he was ignorant of a law change that had come in months before he allowed the youngsters to tie the knot, which hiked the legal minimum requirement of marriage to 18.

The court was told the 52-year-old agreed to marry the couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and charged them £50 for a certificate. Following the non-legally binding ceremony, the court heard how the couple celebrated with friends afterwards.

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A German opponent of Islam may face a reduction in his salary following a proposal from Bundestag President Julia Klöckner (CDU).

Michael Stürzenberger—who survived a jihadist knife attack in May 2024—currently works for Erhard Brucker, an Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Bundestag member. The Bundestag administration has classified Stürzenberger, along with six other employees, as “unreliable,” prompting Klöckner to call for their pay to be cut.

Stürzenberger and other AfD staff had their parliamentary passes revoked after the administration expressed concerns that access to the Bundestag could be abused for “unconstitutional purposes.” Stürzenberger, known for his criticism of Islam prior to joining the AfD, has been previously listed in the Bavarian Report for the Protection of the Constitution under a special category concerning “Islamophobia relevant to constitutional protection.”

The May 2024 Mannheim attack left police officer Rouven Laur dead and five others wounded. The assailant, 26-year-old Afghan national Sulaiman Ataee, was sentenced to life in prison for murder and attempted murder. Ataee had been radicalised over several years, strongly identifying with the Islamic State group, and specifically targeting Stürzenberger and attendees of his rally.

Daily Record (UK).

Former ISIS bride Shamima Begum ‘could be freed’ from the Syrian detention camp where she is beig held, it’s been reported.

The move has been mentioned after violent clashes have reportedly erupted outside the prison walls, reports The Daily Star.

Begum, 26, was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019. She had travelled to Syria to join the terrorist group as a teenage ISIS bride.

She is currently being held in the al-Roj detention camp in north-east Syria, but may be released as struggles with Islamic State continue.

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Dutch students forced to live side-by-side with 125 refugees in a woke government plan to aid the refugees’ ‘integration’ were subjected to years of sexual assault and violence, according to an investigation.

The experiment – held at Stek Oost located in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam – placed a total of 125 students and 125 refugees together, where they were encouraged to ‘buddy up’ so that the migrants would quickly assimilate into life in the Netherlands.

Instead, the refugees started raping.

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The Trump administration is reportedly considering offering asylum to British Jews, citing concerns over rising antisemitism in the United Kingdom. Robert Garson, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, told The Telegraph that he had been in talks with the State Department about providing sanctuary for Jews fleeing hostility in the UK. Garson, who was born in Manchester and now resides in Florida, said he believed the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews.”

The discussion follows a series of incidents, including an Islamist attack on a Manchester synagogue and antisemitic demonstrations in the wake of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel. Garson argued that a lack of enforcement by British authorities and perceived political inaction has left many Jewish people vulnerable. He also criticized the Crown Prosecution Service and Prime Minister Keir Starmer for failing to address antisemitism effectively.

Garson accused the Crown Prosecution Service for not taking legal action, saying it had failed to uphold the law in its refusal to bring charges against protesters “on the streets of Britain who had glorified in the rape or death of Jews” after the 2023 Hamas attacks.

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Congress created Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to briefly assist those in need. Shakespeare warned, “Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude.” In the case of TPS, “multitude” is correct. As of January 2025, approximately 1.4 million foreign nationals in the United States were shielded from removal under the program.

The Trump administration decided to terminate TPS for several countries, with Somalia as the most recent. That choice is the right step in a long-overdue course correction for an immigration program that previous administrations exploited far past its statutory purpose.

Somalia was first designated for TPS in 1991, following political turmoil and the outbreak of civil war. At the time, granting temporary protection to Somali nationals already present in the United States was an act of kindness.

Over three decades later, Somalis remained dependent on the charity extended to them by the United States and distorted the TPS program beyond recognition from its original legislative intent.

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Migrants are vastly overrepresented in UK crime statistics, with new data revealing they are the suspects in 80% of all train theft arrests despite making up just 10% of the population.

Analysis from the Centre for Migration Control (CMC) shows that foreign nationals accounted for 79.3% of arrests for theft of passenger property across Britain’s transport network during 2024–2025.

A total of 9,771 arrests were recorded by British Transport Police over the period. Of these, 3,688 involved foreign nationals, representing 37.7% of all arrests. Migrants also accounted for 36.6% of arrests for sexual offences, 35.7% for violent crimes, and 39.6% for drug-related offences. In raw numbers, this equates to 225 migrant arrests for sexual offences, 900 for violence, 187 for drugs, and 304 for theft of passenger property.

Robert Bates, Research Director of the CMC, told GB News: “Immigration has caused a crime wave on British trains and public transport. Immigrants are vastly overrepresented in arrest figures, particularly when it comes to theft.”

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Following his conviction for incitement against an ethnic group—and the murder of his co-defendant Salwan Momika—a prominent opponent of Islam critic has fled Sweden and is now seeking asylum in America.

Salwan Najem—who carried out several high-profile Quran burnings with Momika in the summer of 2023—left Sweden during the spring and entered the United States, where he is currently detained while awaiting review of his asylum application.

The move came after a series of legal and security events that the activist says made his situation in Sweden untenable. On January 29th last year Najem’s co-defendant Salwan Momika was shot dead in his apartment in Södertälje while livestreaming on TikTok. The likely reason for Momika’s execution was his harsh and vocal criticisms of Islam.

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On Thursday, January 15th, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that District Judge Michael Farbiarz of Newark, New Jersey had no jurisdiction to order the Department of Homeland Security in June last year to release Mahmoud Khalil, an Algerian-Palestinian Columbia University graduate, from custody.

The appeal court’s decision in Khalil’s case is a clear victory for the Trump administration in its efforts to deport the antisemitic pro-Palestinian activist. Khalil was detained in March 2025 and held in a Louisiana immigrant detention centre awaiting deportation after he led illegal student protests at Columbia University in support of Hamas after the October 7 massacres. As we reported, less than a year after arriving at Columbia on a student visa, Khalil was involved in illegal occupations of buildings, served as the negotiator on behalf of the occupying students with the university, pressuring the administration to accommodate student demands based on their illegal activity, and helped organize an illegal encampment on the campus that denied access to “Zionist” students.

The Thursday ruling said under the Immigration and Nationality Act, Khalil’s claims needed to be heard through an appeal of a final order of removal from an immigration judge, and the judge who had halted his deportation last summer, had no jurisdiction in the matter.

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German prosecutors have decided not to bring criminal charges against a rejected asylum seeker who killed a 16-year-old girl at a train station in Friedland last summer, ruling that he was not criminally responsible at the time of the attack.

The Göttingen public prosecutor’s office said on Thursday, January 15, that the suspect, an Iraqi national whose asylum application had been rejected, was suffering from schizophrenia at the time of the incident and was therefore not legally culpable.

According to investigators, the man pushed the teenager, identified as Liana K., into the path of a freight train travelling at around 100 km/h (about 62 mph) on August 11, killing her instantly. The case drew nationwide attention, in part because the suspect was subject to a deportation order at the time.

Instead of pursuing a murder trial, prosecutors have initiated preventive detention proceedings, which could result in the suspect being placed in a secure psychiatric hospital rather than a prison. An expert assessment concluded that his mental illness rendered him not criminally liable.

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Michael Copeland sends this reminder that the repellent collective behavior of Muslims is not incidental, but rather emanates from the core tenets of the Islamic faith as applied in Islamic law.

Christians are instructed to love everybody. Muslims are instructed only to love Muslims.

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Al-Qaeda’s branch in Africa’s Sahel region has been laying siege to Mali’s capital city, as well as other areas of the country. The Algerian-based Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and its affiliated Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (Support Group for Islam and Muslims, JNIM) are cutting a wide swath of terrorist operations across West Africa’s Sahel region. This coalition of Jihadist groups now threatens the sovereignty of Mali and several other Sahelian states.

Islamist operatives now control all the main routes in and out of Bamako, Mali’s capital city, cutting it off from fuel, food, and friendly neighbors. JNIM militants have also targeted Mali’s transport, communications, educational network, and economic infrastructure in rural regions. Some towns in Mali are negotiating deals with Jihadist groups to secure some semblance of liberty and save their lives by agreeing to adopt Islamic Sharia law and pay “protection taxes” (jizyah) to Islamic officials.

Burkina Faso and Niger, two other Sahel states, landlocked like Mali, are also under severe pressure by the al-Qaeda affiliated JNIM to surrender their sovereignty to hardcore Sunni Islamic extremists. All three countries, once colonies of France’s West African Empire, have in the past five years expelled French troops who had been assisting the host governments. All three are governed by non-democratic military juntas with little popular support, and thus have been unable to deal effectively with their common Jihadist threat.

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All Somalis granted temporary protective status (TPS) by the United States will have that status revoked, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Tuesday.

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When the Zohran Mamdani campaign promised to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods”, there was little response and even less outrage in the media.

Had any politician campaigning to run a major city promised to punitively target any other racial group, it would have been a major national story and a future civil rights investigation.

Instead, Mamdani was allowed to go on MSNBC and try to clean up the message by claiming that it was a “description of the neighborhoods” not an “intention of where we would tax New Yorkers” and that “nothing can be worked backwards from some kind of racial goal in this city.”

Times News (UK).

“It is sinister, discriminatory, racist and people have been allowed to get away with it for too long.”

Jewish Bristol MP Damien Egan being axed from a secondary school in his own constituency due to a pro-Palestine campaign is another example of “exclusion” that makes life “difficult” for Jews in public spaces, says Director of Investigations and Enforcement at the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Stephen Silverman.

Daily Record (UK).

A Dublin man who seemingly went on a rampage in two separate incidents in summer has pleaded guilty to eight charges, including setting fire to Conor McGregor’s pub.

Surveillance footage captured the moment Abdullah Khan set the front of the Black Forge Inn, Drimnagh Road, Dublin 12, owned by the famous UFC champion, on fire on July 25, 2025.

Days later, the court heard how he went on to wield a knife at Dublin gardai.

The 24-year-old, whose address cannot be revealed due to a court order, was arraigned on eight counts relating to the two separate incidents.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

Daily Record (UK).

A mother is sharing her heartbreak after her husband drowned their daughter in a shallow lake in an alleged ‘honour killing’.

Sumaia al Najjar and her family sought asylum in the Netherlands, fleeing Syria in 2016. However, after eight years of peaceful living, their world was shattered when al Najjar’s daughter, Ryan, was brutally killed.

Ryan was drowned by her own father, Khaled al Najjar, accused of becoming overly westernised.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, al Najjar said: “He has destroyed my whole family.”

Quillette.

This video essay examines Australia’s growing difficulty in confronting antisemitism when it emerges from within Islamic ideological and theological traditions. While public authorities and civic leaders routinely condemn antisemitism in the abstract, they have often proved reluctant to address its specific sources when doing so risks offending multicultural sensibilities or religious constituencies.

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Two brutal attacks occurred within the space of an hour near the Termini station in central Rome on Saturday night, December 10th. The violence left two people severely injured and prompted an immediate strengthening of the security presence at the central train station, with additional soldiers and police deployed, authorities said on Sunday.

The first attack came around 10:00 p.m., just a few meters from the entrance to Termini station. A 57-year-old Italian man was reportedly surrounded and beaten by a group of attackers. Surveillance cameras captured the brutal aggression, showing seven or eight people encircling the victim and repeatedly striking him, mainly in the face, before dispersing.

The violence was so severe that the man was left lying in the street, bleeding and apparently lifeless. Emergency medical workers rushed him to hospital, where he was admitted to intensive care with extremely serious, life-threatening injuries.

The Telegraph (UK).

The White House has attacked Sir Keir Starmer over his refusal to ban cousin marriage.

Sarah Rogers, Donald Trump’s free speech tsar, said Labour’s failure to back legislation outlawing the practice was an example of “civilisational” concern.

First-cousin marriage, which is particularly prevalent among South Asians, is legal in Britain but increases the risk of children having genetic diseases.

The Times (UK).

Fancy that.

Alma Boykin, whose books I highly recommend.

Could part of what we see be the collapse of a millennial movement, one that has lasted 47 years? I hadn’t thought about it until I watched a video clip yesterday, and pieces fell into place.

Revolutionary Shia Islam of the kind preached by the various ayatollahs since 1979 has a strong eschatological bent. Shia Islam, like Christianity, has an end time with a last battle and the return of a prophet, in this case first the Hidden Twelfth Imam, then Issa bin Maryam. The pair will be at the Last Battle and the coming of the End Times, followed by paradise. One of the big differences, as best I can tell, between the older versions of Shiism and Khomeini and Khamenei version is that the older belief does not include pushing G-d into ending the world (for lack of a more graceful term). Like Christianity and Judaism, the majority of Shiites believed that the end time would come, or a Messiah-like figure would return, when the Most High willed. Not when people wanted it. And no one could or should push G-d into acting*.

I recall getting rather concerned in 2009-2011 when the then-president of Iran, Mahmud Ahmedinegad, claimed that he had spoken to the Twelfth Imam, and that the US was preventing the end of the Occultation of the Imam and the beginning of the End Times. The US State Department shrugged such words off, because they didn’t take religion seriously. The Iranian government does – it is a theocracy. If the president of Iran said he was talking to a major figure of the Second Coming and End Times, that was not good. Especially later, when whispers got around that the ayatollahs might be discussing starting the global conflict that would herald the coming of the Last Judgment, because it had not happened yet.

The process is called ‘immanentizing the eschaton’.

Read it.

ive culture-enriching “Austrian” teenagers went on trial in Vienna for their high-spirited shenanigans in the Viennese district of Donaustadt, which, as you might guess, is on the Danube. Their actions were just the usual antics of young Austrians — beating, kicking, robbery, breaking bones, knocking out teeth, forced kissing, that sort of thing — but the judge threw the book at them, handing down custodial sentences of up to three months. That’ll teach ’em!

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At Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, tens of thousands of people crowded around a massive Douglas fir tree decked with lights. Waiting for the carnage to begin was Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali ‘child’ refugee, who was dreaming of killing them all.

In 2010, Mohamud had urged a friend of his traveling to Mecca to pray “that I will be a martyr in the highest chambers of paradise.” He planned to attack Americans “in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays.” And Christmas was the perfect time of the year to do it.

While fathers lifted up their children on their shoulders and music filled the air, Mohamud was smiling for a different reason.“You know what I like, what makes me happy?” he had told undercover agents. As American families were enjoying the moment, the Somali Muslim was picturing their bodies ripped to shreds by his bomb.“You know, what I like to see? Is when I see the enemy of Allah, then you know their bodies are torn everywhere.”

Choosing a spot next to a light rail terminal, Mohamud waited for a train to arrive in order to inflict the maximum number of casualties on the families arriving at the ceremony. But instead of murdering thousands of people at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony, he was arrested and dragged away while screaming, “Allahu Akbar.”

I’m sure that the resemblance to Hakim Jeffries was entirely coincidental.

Watch it.

Chris Williamson of the Modern Wisdom podcast interviews Nick Shirley, the ‘citizen journalist’ who broke the Somali fraud scheme in Minnesota.

Quillette.

In the last days of 2025, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stoked controversy by welcoming activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah to the UK after his release from prison in Egypt. Fattah has expressed extreme views, including hatred of white people and support for the killing of police and “Zionists,” including civilians. He became a UK citizen in 2021, while he was still in prison, on the basis of his mother’s UK citizenship. The right to citizenship by descent on the mother’s side for those born prior to 1983 used to be dependent on passing a “good character” test (rather than granted automatically), but this requirement was removed by the British Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019, due to judicial decisions made under the auspices of the UK’s Human Rights Act 1998. How, then, did human rights law come to facilitate the move to the UK of an activist whose own respect for human rights seems tenuous? To understand this, we need to look at the origins of human rights law.

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Few cases encapsulate the rot at the heart of Britain quite like that of Shamima Begum. On the surface, she should have been a textbook illustration of the virtues of multiculturalism: a second-generation Bangladeshi, raised in the Muslim enclave of Tower Hamlets in East London. In reality, she embodies everything Britain has gotten wrong since Tony Blair: a thriving fifth column, greedily suckling at the ever-accommodating teat of the progressive state, nursing hatred in lieu of patriotism.

Begum is the well-documented ‘ISIS bride’ who left Britain at 15 a decade ago to join the Islamic State, married a Dutch jihadist, and—according to credible reports—was an armed enforcer for ISIS’ dreaded ‘hisba’ morality police. Sources claim that, far from a wide-eyed bystander, Begum attempted to recruit other young women to the cause, strutted around with a Kalashnikov, berated women who were improperly dressed, and allegedly sewed bombers into their suicide vests. Despite witnessing beheadings, rapes, and enslavement, Begum showed no remorse in initial interviews—describing life under ISIS as “normal” and claiming the sight of severed heads “didn’t faze me at all.” She even dismissed the Manchester Arena bombing as justifiable “retaliation”.