The Telegraph (UK).

The Open University has been forced to back down on claims the Virgin Mary was born in “ancient Palestine” following a legal complaint.

Academics had been accused of using material which risked “erasing Jewish history” by adopting the contested term “ancient Palestine” to describe her native province.

The row broke out over the university’s use of the description in its entry-level humanities module, Discovering the Arts and Humanities, which explores the role of myths and legends in shaping religious beliefs and practices.

The course material refers to Mary as having been born in “ancient Palestine”, describes Aramaic as “a language widely spoken in ancient Palestine” and includes a map labelled “Map of ancient Palestine”.

“Palestine”, of course, didn’t exist until the Romans created it after the destruction of the Jewish state after the rebellions of the first century A.D.

I find it entertaining that the illustrations accompanying the article are all of Orthodox icons of the Theotokos rather than Latin representations of the Virgin Mary.

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The Swedish Migration Board, the authority charged with deciding who may live in Sweden and under what conditions, has been described by internal sources as an organization largely staffed by personnel with a migration background who often speak their own languages and seek to prioritize those from their own country of origin to establish a greater cultural foothold in Sweden.

Swedish news outlet Samnytt spoke to long-serving employees of the organization who blew the whistle on its structural weaknesses and its inability to adhere to the agency’s requirement for neutrality on migration policy.

“Currently, the majority of the staff have a background other than Swedish. Many do not even have Swedish citizenship. And they speak their own language with their own group,” said one source who has worked within the authority for several decades and is still employed there.

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The U.K. home secretary has barred a New Jersey–based Islamic scholar from entering Britain after determining that his past statements appeared to support Hamas following the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel, the Daily Telegraph reported this week.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood banned Dr. Shadee Elmasry, an Islamic cleric from New Jersey, prompting the cancellation of several scheduled speaking engagements in Birmingham, Bolton, and Ilford.

The U.K. home secretary serves a role similar to that of the U.S. secretary of homeland security, overseeing border control and national security matters.

British authorities cited social media posts made by Elmasry after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in which more than 1,200 people were killed in Israel.

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The Transportation Security Administration flagged nearly $700 million in cash found in passengers’ luggage departing the Minneapolis airport over the past two years.

Homeland Security officials said the outflow is linked to Somali immigrants and money couriers.

DHS officials are conducting a fraud investigation in Minneapolis, according to Secretary Kristi Noem, but it’s unclear whether the outflow is part of the probe.

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UK PM Keir Starmer and his Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood have announced a new program to tackle the greatest threat to women in the United Kingdom.

English schoolboys.

The new program announced by PM Starmer and Secretary Mahmood will train teachers to “spot early signs of misogyny in boys”. Boys who are flagged for misogyny will be directed to special classes on the dangers of ‘toxic masculinity’ and maleness.

Rather than deal with the real problem, the Starmer government and Home Secretary Mahmood have decided, in the words of the BBC headline, “Schoolboys to be target of UK’s violence against women strategy.” This comes even as the country is reeling after a video showed two Afghan Muslim migrant refugees dragging away a 15-year-old girl into the bushes while she pleads for help and then raping her.

But these are not the ‘schoolboys’ that Starmer and Mahmood are going to war against. So the authorities did their best to cover up the horrifying assault, falsely implying that the two Afghans were local boys and trying to suppress their identities.

“There are cultural differences,” the lawyer for one of the Afghan Muslim rapists argued. “He is not used to a society where women are free and deemed equal to men.”

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GBNews reports that migrants in France have posted videos on social media, including TikTok, providing step-by-step guidance on how to cross into Britain. The ‘tutorial’ shows individuals attempting to board moving lorries, often hiding behind bushes or trees before running and jumping into the space between the driver’s cabin and the trailer.

Charities say that lorry attempts are mostly undertaken by migrants who cannot afford professional smuggling services via small boats. However, the method carries high risks. In April 2024, a Sudanese man was struck and killed while attempting to board a lorry, and in June 2024, another migrant was crushed by metal bars inside a vehicle.

Tighter security in Calais has made lorry routes less popular, with small boats remaining the main method for crossing the Channel. One video begins with an unsuccessful attempt, where the lorry is moving too fast for the individual to get on. The Arabic caption reads, “The next one will be better.”

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A major controversy has erupted in France after an Islamist book openly promoting violence against homosexuals, Jews, and Christians was found to be on sale at the French retailer Fnac and can reportedly be purchased with the government-sponsored Culture Pass. The revelations have triggered strong reactions from politicians, who are calling for immediate action.

The book, titled Péchés et Guérison (‘Sins and Healing’) claims to authenticate Islamic hadiths and includes passages that explicitly justify the killing of homosexuals and promote hatred toward Jews and Christians. Excerpts cited by activist Yohan Pawer include statements such as calls to execute homosexuals by stoning them and references to religious violence against non-Muslims.

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A report from Samnytt provides an unprecedented look inside Sweden’s Migration Agency, highlighting challenges related to staff composition, workplace culture, and internal practices. Sources who have worked at the agency for decades describe a complex environment shaped by linguistic groups, clan affiliations, and internal loyalties.

Currently, a majority of the agency’s approximately 6,000 employees come from non-Swedish backgrounds. Many do not hold Swedish citizenship, and staff often speak their own language within their group. According to a source, “What affects things most is that everyone speaks their own language, so you don’t understand what is being said between groups and colleagues.” This dynamic, combined with longstanding clan networks, has reportedly introduced a Middle Eastern clan mentality into daily operations.

The source described how group loyalties influence decisions on residence permits, work permits, and other administrative matters, sometimes benefiting relatives or clan members. This behavior became so normalized that it happens openly, without any fear of internal consequences. Additionally, chants and songs such as “from the river to the sea” have been heard in the agency’s break room, reflecting political or cultural affiliations among some staff.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has confirmed that Abukar Dahir Osman, Somalia’s permanent representative to the United Nations and the current president of the U.N. Security Council, is associated with an Ohio-based home health care company that the federal government previously took action against following a Medicaid fraud conviction.

My, what a surprise.

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The demographic landscape of Vienna is shifting rapidly, with a record number of newborns lacking Austrian citizenship despite being born within the country. According to recent data from Statistics Austria, 40.5 percent of babies born in the capital do not have Austrian citizenship — a figure that has doubled from 20 percent just two decades ago.

In several Viennese districts, the statistics are even more striking. In areas such as Favoriten, Ottakring, and Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, the share of non-Austrian newborns has surpassed 50 percent. While these children are born on Austrian soil, they are not legally considered citizens, according to data from Heute newspaper.

This data comes at a time when 40.9% of all of Vienna’s population is foreign-born. Over 50 percent have both parents born overseas.

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Pro-Palestinian activists attacked machinery and spray-painted slogans at a Scottish aerospace factory, footage shared online has shown.

Protesters smashed their way into the Bruntons Aero Products site, on an industrial estate outside Edinburgh, shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day.

The firm appeared to have been targeted because it supplies specialist parts for defence companies Leonardo and BAE Systems, both of which have been heavily criticised for their alleged links to Israel.

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To have a better understanding of the meaning of political Islam, we can turn to a scholar who has taken a scientific approach to analyzing Islam. He provides five principles that describe the nature of political Islam. He explains that 51% of the doctrinal texts are about politics:

• All of Islam is based upon the Trilogy—the Koran, the Sira (Mohammed’s biography) and the Hadith (His Traditions).

• Most of the Islamic doctrine is political, not religious.

• Islam divides the world into Muslims and Kafirs (non-Muslims)

• Political Islam always has two different ways to treat Kafirs—dualistic ethics. Kafirs can be abused in the worst ways or they can be treated like a good neighbor.

• Kafirs must submit to Islam in all politics and public life. Every aspect of Kafir civilization must submit to Political Islam.

Keep in mind that he came to these conclusions by studying the doctrinal texts, making sure that his ideas were as objective as possible.

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German prosecutors have filed charges against two 21-year-old Syrian men in connection with a knife attack on an American tourist aboard a tram in Dresden. Nearly four months after the incident, the Dresden public prosecutor’s office announced that the men are accused of dangerous and serious bodily harm. The Dresden Regional Court will now decide whether to admit the charges.

The attack took place during the night of August 24th on a tram near Neustädter Markt. According to investigators, the 20-year-old American victim intervened after the two suspects allegedly harassed women on the tram. Prosecutors say one of the accused initially struck the victim in the face. A short time later, the second suspect joined the assault and used a knife to inflict deep cuts to the victim’s lip, nose, and mouth.

The American suffered serious injuries and required surgery. Authorities have stated that the resulting scars are expected to remain permanently visible.

Quillette.

Say what you will about Benjamin Netanyahu, but he has a talent for catching audiences off guard. On 26 December, in a move almost no one anticipated, he formally recognised the Republic of Somaliland as a sovereign state. Israel is thus the first country to extend formal recognition to the fledgling nation, issued “in the spirit of the Abraham Accords” and, according to Netanyahu, at the direct behest of President Donald Trump.

Somaliland was a British protectorate from 1884 until it gained its independence in 1960 before voluntarily uniting with Somalia that same year. On 18 May 1991, following the collapse of the Somali state due to the disastrous and ultimately genocidal policies of the Siyad Barre government, Somaliland unilaterally declared independence, severed its ties with Mogadishu, and established its own system of government. For nearly three decades, Somaliland has received neither the international protection nor the large-scale aid and concessional lending extended to other embryonic postcolonial states.

Whereas many now consider Somalia a “functional failed state” plagued by warlordism, rampant corruption, prolonged tribal warfare, and sexual violence, Somaliland has emerged as a comparatively successful model of grassroots state-building. Since 1991, the aspiring state has overseen four presidential transitions through competitive elections and largely peaceful transfers of power. It has adopted a formal zero-tolerance stance toward the practice of female genital mutilation and has cultivated a private-sector-led economy sustained by diaspora remittances, domestic entrepreneurship, and relative internal stability: an unusual combination in the Horn of Africa.

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Germany’s conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) has called for a sharp tightening of migration policy, including large-scale deportations of Syrians on commercial flights starting in 2026.

In a position paper released ahead of the party’s parliamentary retreat at Kloster Seeon in Bavaria, the CSU’s Bundestag group argues that the Syrian civil war has ended and that the country is now entering a reconstruction phase. As a result, the party says, the protection grounds for most Syrian migrants in Germany no longer apply.

The CSU is demanding a nationwide “deportation offensive with scheduled flights,” explicitly including returns to Syria and Afghanistan. To facilitate this, the party wants federal departure centres established across Germany and faster enforcement of removals, including against the will of those affected.

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The Mayor of Antwerp, Els van Doesburg, has confirmed that federal police officers will continue to assist the Antwerp Local Police Service in securing the city’s Jewish Quarter. The announcement follows Interior Minister Bernard Quintin’s earlier plan to withdraw federal officers from the area from January 1, 2026.

Speaking on VRT Radio 1, Mayor Van Doesburg stressed the importance of the federal police presence. “Security in the Jewish Quarter is ensured by federal officers together with officers from the local police service. It is a fifty-fifty split between the federal and local police. Withdrawing the federal police officers would mean that half of the total number of officers deployed would suddenly go,” she said.

Quintin defended his initial decision, stating that the federal police assignment had always been temporary, and that soldiers would soon be able to take over these duties under a new law. Following discussions, the minister agreed to maintain the current deployment until military personnel can be assigned.

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wave of euphemism is sweeping the country.

What is being euphemized is Islam. Whenever adherents of the Religion of Peace do something really, really bad in the name of their faith, their actions are not generally ascribed to Islam. Prominent public figures invariably refer to one of several obfuscations to modify the word “Islam”: “Radical Islam”, “Islamism”, or “Political Islam”. Sometimes mention of Islam is even completely elided by citing “Radical Extremism” or something similar.

Extreme what? Radical what? No one knows — the noun modified by the adjective remains unmentioned. “Allahu Akhbar” is usually our only clue.

All Islam is radical—if you’re not a Muslim. All Islam is estremist—if you’re not a Muslim.

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A Somali TikToker (account now defunct), first highlighted by Libs of TikTok, mocked Americans about alleged Somali-linked fraud in Minnesota and pushed dangerous rhetoric suggesting Elon Musk was “about to die.” Such statements fit a broader alarming pattern surrounding the Democratic Party’s normalization of assassination culture against Musk and President Trump supporters.

“I wouldn’t worry too much about him. He [Musk] about to die,” TikToker “dowza.z” stated in a short 30-second clip. The account has since been taken down, and it remains unclear whether the TikToker deleted the account or whether the dangerous rhetoric directed at Musk violated the platform’s terms of service.

One of the disadvantages of being a billionaire is that you automatically accrue a host of idiots as enemies, and you never know where they are.

One of the advantages of being a billionaire is that once they are identified your toolbox with which to deal with them is quite extensive.

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German Twitch streamer Kunshikitty set out on New Year’s Eve to demonstrate that the streets of Cologne are safe for women, streaming live to her audience. Instead, the broadcast captured two separate attacks on camera, forcing her to end the stream in distress.

Will she learn anything from this? I think not.

WIll anybody in Germany learn from this? I fear not.

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Former TSA agents are sounding the alarm on Somali men routinely flying out with suitcases crammed full of cash, undoubtedly linked to massive taxpayer-funded fraud schemes that could be funneling money to terrorist groups overseas.

A former agent from Minnesota described witnessing “Somali men flying out of Minnesota with suitcases filled with cash” amounting to “$1 billion over 5 years,” including one instance of a suitcase “filled with brand new passports.”

These groups were “always waived through,” with a clear “trail” leading back to implicated parties, the former agent claims.

The Telegraph (UK).

Shamima Begum has had her bid to come back to Britain revived by a challenge from European judges.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has asked Britain to justify its decision to strip the 26-year-old of her citizenship in 2019 after she travelled to Syria to join Islamic State (IS).

The ECtHR intervention was hailed by Begum’s lawyers as an “unprecedented opportunity” that could pave the way for a fresh legal battle between the Strasbourg court and the Government.

The European judges have asked the Government whether it broke human rights and anti-trafficking laws by blocking her return to the UK – Begum’s key legal argument.

Begum was born and raised in Bethnal Green, east London, before travelling to Syria at the age of 15 with two other friends from school to join IS in 2015.

The Telegraph (UK).

Mass protests have erupted across Iran calling for “death to the dictator” over the regime’s economic crisis.

Tear gas was deployed to disperse protesters as shops shut across the republic, students chanted pro-women slogans in rooftops and the Iranian rial plummeted to record lows, while Iran still faces threats from Israel and the US.

On Monday, security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Tehran while residents in Malard, 28 miles east of the capital, were faced with motorcycle-mounted armed security.

In several cities, people went on to their rooftops and chanted slogans against the Islamic Republic and Ali Khamenei, its supreme leader.

The protests have been cheered on by Israel, whose foreign ministry hoping for Mr Khameni’s overthrow welcomed the action with “open arms”.

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My, what a surprise.

The amount of fraudulent billing in Minnesota’s Medicaid programs could be as high as $9 billion, Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson said Dec. 18.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced the agency was already sending additional resources in an X post Sunday, saying the deployment occurred before a 42-minute video of independent journalist Nick Shirley visiting various day care centers went viral Friday.

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A chilling revelation from a former MI6 operative exposes the ticking time bomb of Islamist sleeper agents embedded across the UK, ready to unleash devastation rivaling 9/11 or 7/7—all fueled by disastrous open borders policies that prioritize radicals over citizens’ safety.

Aimen Dean, who spent eight years infiltrating Al-Qaida for MI5 and MI6, knows the enemy inside out. As a former member of the terror group himself, he formed bonds with operatives and even served as a “kind of spiritual coach” to terrorists in London, gaining insider access to their plots.

His espionage thwarted attacks like a bid to bomb the New York Subway. But Dean pulls no punches on the current danger: there are “hundreds” of sleeper agents lurking in the shadows, primed to strike.

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Italian prosecutors said on Saturday they had arrested nine people on suspicion of financing Hamas terrorists through charities based in Italy, in an operation coordinated by anti-mafia and anti-terrorism units.

The suspects are accused of “belonging to and having financed” the Palestinian terrorist group, which ?the European Union designates as a terrorist organization, prosecutors in ?the northern Italian city of Genoa said in a statement.

Those arrested allegedly diverted to Hamas-linked entities around 7 million euros ($8.2 ?million) raised over the last two years for ostensibly humanitarian purposes, prosecutors said. Police seized assets worth more than 8 million euros.

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Sweden is one of a number of Western European countries (including Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Portugal) that allow non-citizens to vote in local municipal elections. Sverigedemokraterna (the Sweden Democrats party) intends to change all that, and wants to restrict voting in all elections to Swedish citizens.

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Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband’s venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details, including names tied to former Obama officials, as scrutiny grows over the family’s skyrocketing wealth, The New York Post reported Saturday.

Omar’s net worth reportedly surged to tens of millions within two years, coinciding with the emergence of a large fraud scheme in the Somali community in her district.

While nearly 90 individuals have been charged in connection with the alleged $9 billion scheme, including some with direct ties to Omar, she herself has not been charged.

Yet.

UPDATE: Ilhan Omar’s hubby’s $30M firm quietly scrubs names from website – as ‘Squad’ member faces mounting questions on sudden wealth amid Minnesota welfare fraud (New York Post)

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There’s been yet another tragic attack targeting Syria’s religious minorities by fanatical jihadists which are allied with the Syrian government of President Ahmed Sharaa.

“A bombing at a mosque located in the Syrian city of Homs during Friday prayers killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others,” authorities said, the Associated Press reports. It was an Alawite religious site that was targeted. Notably this is the same non-Sunni sect that former President Bashar al-Assad belongs to.

It’s not enough to be Muslim—you have to be the right kind of Muslim. Ans any Sunni … or Shia….

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On July 13, 2023, Mohamad Barakat, a Syrian refugee, packed up several rifles and handguns 1,800 rounds of ammo, a hand grenade, and a car filled with gas cans on the way to carry out an Islamic terrorist attack at Fargo’s Downtown Street fair aiming to kill thousands of Americans. Instead the terror refugee got into a confrontation with police and died in an exchange of fire.

North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley insisted that there was ‘no evidence of political, racial or religious motivation’. “At this point it seems [no] more notable that he’s Muslim than I’m Lutheran,” he bafflingly argued. He also dismissed footage of Mohamad holding a Koran.

“I can’t discern, from the evidence that we have, any other motivation,” he claimed.

Your tax dollars at work. Merry Christmas.

Jewish Telegraph Agency.

Israel became the first country to formally recognize Somaliland, a self-declared sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, in a decision that was immediately condemned by Somalia and other nations.

“The Prime Minister announced today the official recognition of the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state,” wrote Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in a post on X. “The State of Israel plans to immediately expand its relations with the Republic of Somaliland through extensive cooperation in the fields of agriculture, health, technology, and economy.”

Somaliland’s president welcomed the announcement from Netanyahu in a post on X, adding that he affirmed the region’s “readiness to join the Abraham Accords,” the normalization agreements between Israel and a handful of Arab states that was brokered during President Donald Trump’s first term.

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Christians in Lebanon have declined from a demographic majority to a minority.

Lebanon was majority-Christian starting from the first century (when Christianity was introduced by figures such as St. Peter and St. Paul) until the mid-20th century. Mount Lebanon, which remains the Christian heartland of the country, is frequently mentioned in the Bible.

Lebanon was conquered by the Arab Islamic Rashidun Caliphate in 636 AD following the defeat of the Christian Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire at the Battle of Yarmouk. The Ottoman Empire later occupied Mount Lebanon from its conquest in 1516 until the end of World War I in 1918. Lebanon gained independence from French rule in 1943.

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“When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse,” Osama bin Laden said at the beginning of his talk taking credit for the 9/11 attacks.

The line launched a thousand geopolitical analyses, was quoted by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times and was pored over endlessly by experts who completely missed the point.

Osama bin Laden was not talking about great powers or nations, he was talking about Islam.

“There is only one goaL,” Bin Laden continued, the supremacy of Islam. He followed that up with a quote from a Hadith that is known to virtually every Muslim, but to all too few non-Muslims. “I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Muhammad.”

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Two men inspired by Islamic state ideology were convicted on Tuesday in Manchester, England, of plotting what prosecutors said could have been one of the deadliest antisemitic attacks in British history.

Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were both found guilty of preparing terrorist acts between December 2023 and May 2024. Saadaoui’s brother, Bilel Saadaoui, 36, was found guilty of failing to disclose information about an act of terrorism.

Prosecutors told jurors that Saadaoui and Hussein had “embraced the views” of Islamic State and had a “visceral dislike” of Jewish people.

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A 14-year-old boy was molested by an Egyptian culture-enricher at a bus stop in the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia. The alleged perpetrator has been apprehended, and is now in custody.

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“UK grooming gangs and Islam”, a new paper by Dr Mark Durie, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Theology that explains much about the sad litany of abuse we chronicle here

“Holy Hell — Islam’s Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It” by Mark Tapson at Front Page Magazine, November 24, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson.

We’ve had a lot of incidents worldwide of Islamic terrorism or threats of Islamic terrorism. The most egregious is in Bondi Beach, Australia, where two gunmen, a father and son, killed 16 people and wounded 40.

How that happens in front of police who reacted very quickly I don’t know. They were only stopped by a heroic Syrian immigrant who tackled one of the shooters and disarmed him.

The problem with all of this is that there was no needed reaction from the prime minister of Australia. We didn’t hear: We have to be very careful about radical Islam. These two people got two guns legally that they should not have had since they were on a watch lists with terrorist activity, and there was no reason that he, this one shooter, the father, had six guns, among them semi-automatic weapons.

One of the most gun-controlled societies in the world. We didn’t hear that.

Instead, we heard that they condone all extremism. This is not who we are. In the utmost—you know, the whole boilerplate. And then they said, we oppose all extremism. And it was a nanosecond before they said white extremism that had nothing to do with this.

Some ‘phobias’ are rational and justified. I disagee with Dr. Hanson’s use of the term ‘radical Islam’, as I would disagree with someone using the term ‘radical National Socialism’. Sorry, no. It’s turtles all the way down.

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If you thought the alleged Medicaid fraud in Minnesota by Somalis, which federal prosecutors say could reach $9 billion, was insane, wait until you read the latest report from The Maine Wire: the head of a local nonprofit is accused of lashing out at a local journalist over an investigation, while members of his family allegedly put a bounty on the head of a journalist in Somalia for sharing the reporting.

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An ISIS-affiliated Islamist and two accomplices sexually assaulted women, targeted the Jewish community, and planned to carry out abductions, police said in a statement on Friday announcing the indictments against the three men, who were arrested in August.

The men — Waleed Khan, 26, Osman Azizov, 18, and Fahad Sadaat, 19, all from Toronto — face a total of 75 charges for “offenses targeting women and members of the Jewish community” involving sexual assaults and attempted abductions. The indictments followed a joint forces investigation, the Toronto Police Service said in a statement.

In a separate statement, federal authorities said Friday that Khan had provided funding and “social media accounts” to ISIS and was charged with “terrorism-related offenses.” The federal statement did not mention the two remaining defendants.

Khan was already charged in August with 33 offenses related to kidnapping, firearms, and auto theft, at around the same time as the arrest of his alleged accomplices. The terrorism charges brought against Khan and the indictment against the two alleged accomplices are new.

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Unrestricted immigration from the Turd World will do that to you.

Claire M. Lopez.

Only now are some of these reports about how the Biden administration provided millions of dollars to jihadi and terror-linked groups around the world coming to light. The good news is that with exposure, such funding can now be ended under the second Trump administration.

Concern remains, though, about the new White House team’s belief that jihadis can somehow be wooed with friendly outreach and financial incentives.

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News trends surrounding radical Islam have surged in recent weeks amid a series of alarming developments across the West.

From the Afghan national who killed one U.S. National Guard troop and severely injured another near the White House, to a terror attack in Australia, and mounting threats against Christmas markets across Europe, the West increasingly appears to be under attack from within – all thanks to nation-killing mass migration.

At Turning Point USA’s annual gathering, AmericaFest, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recognized this national security threat of radical Islam against the Homeland:

Michael Copeland.

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While religion plays a direct role, socio-economic issues are a significant factor contributing to the bloodshed, says Brandon, founder and CEO of Across Nigeria, a Christian organization with the mission of bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Nigeria and supporting persecuted Christians in the African nation.

It is estimated that more than 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since 2009, and about 7,000 in the first half of 2025 alone.

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Crete is coming under mounting migration pressure as smugglers increasingly redirect illegal crossings toward Greece’s southern islands, exposing the limits of EU border control and shifting routes across the Mediterranean.

Greek authorities confirmed that more than 1,000 illegal migrants have arrived on Crete during December alone, with over 650 intercepted or rescued in just the past two days. On Friday, the Greek Coast Guard, supported by the EU border agency Frontex, rescued 545 migrants from an overcrowded fishing vessel detected off Gavdos, Greece’s southernmost island.

The migrants were transferred to Crete, where local authorities are already struggling with limited reception capacity. Further incidents followed overnight. A Coast Guard patrol intercepted a dinghy carrying 27 people some 45 nautical miles southeast of Kales Limeni, while another boat with 35 migrants was found near Psari Forada, in the municipality of Viannos. All were brought ashore and are expected to be placed in migrant facilities.

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94 percent of Muslim politicians and candidates — including Zohran Mamdani and Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi — won’t express support for the U.S. Constitution. This should be disqualifying, regardless of the reason. It’s time to make this an issue.

Susan Quinn.

he title of this post was the argument I encountered recently in an online discussion. The people who were making this proposal were not lunatics: they were law-abiding citizens who had a modicum of understanding about Islam. And they were dead serious.

We live, and for several years have lived, at a time where radical Islam is showing up all over the world. Although I personally believe there are law-abiding Constitutionalists among the Muslim population in the U.S., I am concerned that many Americans believe that any Muslim is a potential terrorist.

A position with which I agree, based on having read the Koran and the Hadiths, which all Muslims accept as normative religious guidance. (Ask any Muslim.)

When I asked people if they were prepared to deport all Muslims, even those who already had reputations as good Americans (M. Zuhdi Jasser comes to mind), a few noted the rule of taqqiya; this tenet allows people to lie to protect Islam. So, the suggestion was made that if people seemed to support America, how do we know they are telling the truth? Also, for those Muslims who are law-abiding, how do we know whether or not they will eventually succumb to the radical Islamist doctrine?

Exactly so. There were many ‘good’ Nazis in Germany, but they all served to prop up a genocidal totalitarian regime. There were many ‘good’ slave-owners but slavery remains an unmitigated evil. There are many ‘good’ socialists, but socialism remains an existential threat to all freedom and prosperity.

I’m not saying it would be easy. But if we fail, the results will be slavery for us and for our children.

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Brussels is experiencing a sharp rise in violence, with multiple explosions and shootings reported over just five days in the Saint-Gilles municipality. The latest incident occurred on Wednesday evening on Rue du Céleri, near Place de Bethléem—a known hotspot for drug activity. Authorities confirmed that the street was cordoned off and that only material damage occurred. The Belgian army’s bomb disposal unit (DOVO) and police attended the scene, and an investigation is underway to determine the circumstances of the explosion.

This followed a Tuesday night blast in nearby Rue de Bosnie, believed to have been caused by fireworks. While it remains unclear whether the two incidents are connected, Saint-Gilles has also been the scene of two shootings this week. The first shooting took place last Saturday at around 3 a.m. on Rue du Métal, near the Parvis de Saint-Gilles. The second occurred on Monday at approximately 5 a.m. on Rue de Prague, only a few hundred meters from the first. In both cases, windows were hit, putting nearby residents—including children—at risk. Local authorities suspect the attacks were targeted. Mayor Jean Spinette explained that the area is home to two young individuals known to police and that authorities have previously restricted their access to certain streets to curb drug-related activity.

The surge in violence comes amid broader concerns about public safety in Brussels. According to police figures, the capital has seen 96 shootings in 2025—already surpassing last year’s total of 92. These incidents have resulted in eight deaths, and 48 injuries, compared to 43 last year. Only three years ago, in 2022, Brussels recorded 56 shootings, highlighting the rapid escalation of violence.

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Authorities across Europe have thwarted two more Islamist-inspired terror plots targeting Christmas markets in as many days, with arrests in Germany and Poland adding to a relentless wave of threats that has placed the West under daily assault from radical extremists intent on exploiting open borders and soft security measures.

German authorities have arrested a 21-year-old man from Central Asia on suspicion of plotting an Islamist-motivated terror attack against large crowds at a Christmas market in Magdeburg—the same location where a Saudi national carried out a deadly vehicle ramming last year, killing six and injuring hundreds.

The suspect, who entered Germany as an au pair in 2024 and reportedly received military training, faces deportation amid a pattern of threats targeting Europe’s holiday traditions.

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parties amid rising antisemitic threats, according to the head of Greater Manchester Police.

Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson revealed that such requests have become more frequent following recent terror attacks and growing hostility toward Jewish communities. He said fears had intensified after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th and a series of antisemitic incidents in the UK.

Watson also confirmed police were investigating reports of people celebrating the recent Bondi Beach mass shooting in Australia, which left 15 people dead (not including one of the attackers).

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market entered Germany on skilled-worker visas, according to a report by Bild.

German authorities last week detained the five suspects over plans to carry out an attack on a Christmas market in the Dingolfing area. Investigators believe the group intended to ram a truck into a crowd.

The three visa holders are Moroccan nationals identified as Bilal T., Mounir A., and Adil H. German media report they arrived in the country on November 14, entering on the final day of their 90-day visas. All three were employed at a car dealership in Wallersdorf.