The Telegraph (UK).

Children’s clothes of all shapes, sizes and colours hang on rails along the walls of the second-hand clothes shop in Al-Khiyam. Parents who live in what remains of this part of southern Lebanon are grateful for the hand-me-downs.

A small square hole in the floor, however, betrays a more sinister purpose.

It’s a squeeze, but once you are through it, a tight spiral staircase descends a metal-lined shaft. It opens up at a depth of perhaps 10 to 15 metres into a formidably well-organised Hezbollah tunnel complex, connecting multiple buildings in the village.

Of course they don’t. Who would be such a fool as to think they might?

There are no ‘innocent civilians’ in Gaza.

The Times (UK).

Candidates in the Birmingham city council election posted a “celebration” video praising Iran’s success in the war with Israel and America.

Wajad Burkey and Sardar Khan, candidates for the Workers Party, posed with a box of sweets and a superimposed Iranian flag in the video shared on TikTok.

Burkey, a candidate for Bordesley Green, an inner-city ward, spoke in favour of the Iranian government in the footage, believed to have been posted after Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz.

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And apparently is a Woman of Color. (Considering the major part that Arabs and other Muslims played in the slave trade, it constantly astonishes me how American Africans cozy up to Islam and it’s ephemera, e.g. “Hakim” Jeffries.)

On another page of her website for this educational center in Hurst, Texas, DOCTOR Aminah Knight spells it “Leaning.”

Perhaps a Freudian Slip?

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The controversy surrounding the banquets organised by Le Canon français shows no sign of abating. The initiative, launched by two young entrepreneurs to revive traditional banquets centred on culinary specialities from across France, has come under fire from the press and the Left on the grounds that it perpetuates an ideology of exclusion and promotes far-right ideas. The rector of the Paris Mosque has spoken out publicly to, in turn, attack these festive gatherings which bring together several thousand enthusiastic guests in towns and cities across France.

In a video dated April 29th, Chems-Eddine Haffiz, rector of the Paris Mosque—who, given his official position, is regarded as a kind of spokesman for Islam in France—lashed out at the Canon français and its banquets: the fact that it celebrates a cuisine featuring pork, he claimed, is proof of a logic of exclusion. He condemns the “4,000 guests gathered around a spit-roasted pig” and accuses them of “symbolically” excluding those who do not share this cuisine—that is to say, Muslims.

His statement was met with outraged reactions from right-wing politicians, as well as from ordinary “canonniers”, as the participants in these popular feasts are known.

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Of course it is.

The scrapping of the term ‘Islamophobia’ is one thing. But a lecture recently delivered to Swedish students suggests that the country’s political class has a lot more to do in what it describes as its fight against Islamist infiltration.

A man who calls himself Yosef Ahmad on social media has recently shared footage of himself telling young Muslims in Sweden that democracy is incompatible with their religion, because it gives politicians the mandate to decide what is ‘halal’ (allowed) and ‘haram’ (forbidden) instead of Allah.

Reports say Ahmad is connected to Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist organisation banned in multiple countries, including in the UK and Germany. It has even been banned in several Muslim countries.

According to the Doku Foundation, which examines the Islamist environment in Sweden, Hizb ut-Tahrir “advocates that Muslims best protect themselves and their children by studying Islam, as an ideology in stark contrast to secular democracy, in order to avoid becoming receptive to other ideas and thereby counteract assimilation.”

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A fourth vessel has been hijacked by Somali pirates, this time off the coast of Yemen. The oil tanker MT Eureka was captured in the Gulf of Aden on May 2 and reportedly taken toward Somalia, marking the latest incident in a renewed wave of Somali piracy, which resurfaced in 2023. Analysts attribute the resurgence to naval resources having turned their attention to Houthi attacks in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea, and more recently, to the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

Data from the International Maritime Organization shows that since 2000, East Africa has been the global hotspot for successful hijackings, with 161 cases recorded. This figure is largely the result of Somali piracy, which peaked between 2007 and 2012. West Africa ranks second, with 52 hijackings over the same period.

It’s the South China Sea, however, that has recorded the highest overall number of piracy incidents, with more than 2,000 recorded since 2000. These were mostly lower-level attacks, alongside 42 successful hijackings. High shipping traffic and the region’s island chains, which provide ideal hiding spots, have contributed to the high frequency of attacks over the years. Incidents of piracy and armed robbery of ships have declined sharply from 142 in 2013 to just 10 in 2024, partly thanks to increased cooperation between states.

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A Turkish state-run Islamic association is celebrating its 40th anniversary in Hamburg from May 14 to 17. While the city has provided a public square for the cultural event, the extremist guest list has sparked major controversy.

Although four of the DITIB’s six original speakers were recently disinvited, critics warn that the remaining guests hold extremist and antisemitic views. Islam expert Eren Güvercin highlighted that Furkan Tira?ç?, a Turkish müezzin, has downplayed the Hamas-led October 7 massacre and praised its leader Ismail Haniyeh as a “martyr,” while comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler.

Another speaker, Mahmut Sa??r, reportedly used classic antisemitic tropes, referring to a “cursed community” that has “soaked the world in blood for centuries.” With these fanatics onboard, the event continues to face backlash for providing a platform to individuals who glorify terror and spread hate under the guise of religious scholarship.

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Sharia “moral police” must be stopped in Europe, a Swedish MEP has warned, as he demands Brussels track and expose groups accused of harassing residents.

Sweden Democrats (SD) MEP Charlie Weimers said an “EU-wide monitoring framework” should be established to count individuals working to implement strict sharia rules, accusing them of “harassment, intimidation, and threats.”

Weimers describes these “self-appointed moral police” as “immoral thugs,” and claims they have been “surveilling neighbourhoods,” with the overall goal being that “sharia shall dominate here in Europe.”

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Which it obviously is.

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A disused London synagogue was the site of an arson attack early Tuesday, police said, adding to a string of incidents targeting Jews and Jewish sites in the city.

The Metropolitan Police said its officers responded to a call at 5:15 a.m. local time about a fire set outside the Nelson Street Synagogue in London’s East End, once home to a large community of Jewish immigrants.

The synagogue closed in 2020. A Muslim group announced earlier this year that it had put down a deposit to buy the building and turn it into a mosque and education center.

The fire was quickly extinguished, causing no injuries and only light damage to the building’s gates and lock, the police said, adding that counter terrorism officials would pick up the investigation.

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Middelkerke is a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders on the North Sea. Last night a van full of culture-enrichers crashed in Middelkerke while attempting to avoid a police checkpoint. It turns out that the passengers in the van were trying to join fellow migrants with the goal of crossing the North Sea to Britain, the land of milk and hummus and underage white girls.

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At least four ships have been hijacked off the coast of Somalia in recent weeks, stoking fears of a piracy resurgence in the region. Officials say the rise in attacks is connected to the war in Iran, as pirates are taking the opportunity to act while naval forces are preoccupied with the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The EU’s Maritime Security Centre Indian Ocean has called for all vessels in the area to maintain “heightened vigilance”, especially between Mogadishu and Hafun.

To understand the significance of this uptick, it helps to look at the longer trend. Piracy off Somalia reached its peak in 2011, when the International Maritime Organization recorded 286 incidents, including both attempted and successful attacks. A coordinated international response, including naval patrols and onboard security, then drove a steep decline, with cases falling to 99 in 2012 and just 12 by 2015. For three consecutive years between 2020 and 2022, no incidents were reported to the IMO in this area at all.

But these figures only tell part of the story. In 2009, most piracy cases were concentrated off East Africa, where 222 incidents, including 48 hijackings, were recorded. By 2010, however, Somali pirates had started to use captured dhows, fishing vessels and merchant ships as “motherships” in order to extend their operational reach. As a result, incidents off East Africa fell to 172, while attacks in the Indian Ocean rose from 27 to 77 (including a rise from two hijackings to 20). Activity in the Arabian Sea also increased over the same period, from two to 16.

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The 52-year-old man was tracked down by Taranto State Police after the authorities in southern Italy opened an investigation into domestic abuse and forced marriage following a complaint from the young woman last November.

As reported by Il Giornale, prosecutors say the victim told officers her father had demanded she marry a Kurdish man selected by him and had threatened her with death if she resisted or tried to flee abroad.

The woman had traveled from Iraq to join her family in Taranto, but investigators say she soon found herself trapped in what police described as a family campaign to force her into submission.

According to the allegations, her relatives sided with her father because they believed she wanted to live in a way that was too “Western” and incompatible with their cultural expectations.

When she refused to obey, her father allegedly held her captive inside an apartment in the southern Italian city and subjected her to violence that left her with injuries requiring 15 days to recover.

Once in a blue moon, the truth creeps out of Trudeau’s Wokery.

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They don’t call it the Turd World for nothing.

The Telegraph (UK).

Qatar has been accused of “eradicating” its Bahá’í religious minority, with families living in the country for decades facing imminent expulsion.

More than 40 per cent of the small Bahá’í population is being targeted for deportation in a “deliberate campaign of religious erasure”, the Bahá’í International Community (BIC), a non-governmental organisation, said.

The community, whose presence in the region predates the modern Qatari state, has been reduced to a few hundred members after decades of systematic discrimination.

Muslims tolerate non-Muslims only when they have to.

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A swarthy knife-wielding mujahid of unknown ethnicity terrorized the northern London suburb of Golders Green earlier today, stabbing and seriously wounding two Jews before being subdued by police and arrested. The attacker reportedly yelled (wait for it) “Allahu Akhbar” during his rampage.

Golders Green is known for its large Jewish community. The two victims were Orthodox, i.e. “visibly Jewish”. The two attacks were spread out over several blocks as the Soldier of Allah walked around looking for targets.

Contrary to their usual reticence in such matters, the British authorities have already declared the action to be “terrorism”. An Iranian terror group called Ashab al-Yamin has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

The Daily Mail and The New York Post provide extensive coverage of the incident, with plenty of useful information and lots of photos and videos.

Most of the videos available online have been pixellated or otherwise sanitized. An unpixellated version of the stabbing at the bus stop is particularly hard to find. Fortunately, Vlad has managed to acquire such a clip, along with footage of the arrest of the suspect, and combined them in the video below.

The Telegraph (UK).

Members of a religious sect have been arrested over allegations of sex offences, forced marriage and modern slavery.

More than 500 police officers from a number of forces took part in a raid on the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL) headquarters in Crewe on Wednesday morning.

The group, based at Webb House, a former orphanage, is a Shia religious sect founded by Abdullah Hashem, an Egyptian-American, in 2018.

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Federal agents raided 22 locations in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of an investigation into widespread taxpayer fraud.

“Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a Department of Justice spokesperson said in a statement.

The raids focused on 22 prominent businesses, some of them tied to Somali immigrants, including daycares like the “Quality Learing Center” in Minneapolis that drew national attention for fraud allegations.

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Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said on Friday that her government will no longer use the term ‘Islamophobia,’ describing the concept as “problematic”—not least because it “brings to mind the irrational fears of individuals.”

The announcement was music to the ears of the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats, whose MEP Charlie Weimers on Monday said “Islamists exploit ‘Islamophobia’ to advance their agenda and secure EU funding.”

Weimers celebrated that the government was “FINALLY scrapping the made-up concept” for good, as well as the fact it is pushing Brussels and United Nations officials to do the same.

Islamophobia is like arachnophobia—a natural response to a serious threat.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

After a man riddled a Jewish-owned restaurant with bullets in uptown Toronto, police accomplished something earlier this month that they hadn’t done following previous attacks on Jewish sites: identify and charge a suspect.

The 35-year-old suspect, Mohamed Mahdi, was arrested just a few days after the April 3 attack and charged with on multiple gun-related offenses.

His arrest provided the first, and to this point only, public pieces of information that could chip away at the mystery that has roiled Toronto’s Jewish community: Who is shooting at these synagogues and Jewish businesses? And how do they keep getting away with it?

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Pro-Palestinian activists, some reportedly shouting antisemitic invective, forced Jewish groups out of a procession celebrating Italy’s Liberation Day from Nazism and fascism in Milan over the weekend.

About 100 protesters on Saturday blocked a group commemorating the Jewish Brigade, a unit of 5,000 Jews from British Mandate Palestine who volunteered to fight against the Germans in Italy during World War II.

The protests led to a two-hour stalemate before police escorted the Jewish Brigade out of the march, according to the Italian newspaper la Repubblica. The event marked the 81st anniversary of the end of Italy’s Nazi occupation and fascist collaborationist regime led by Benito Mussolini.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A pair of incidents took place outside of Jewish sites in the Toronto area over the weekend, adding to a series of attacks that have left the city’s Jewish community unnerved.

During Shabbat services on Saturday, a man tried to force his way into the Sephardic Kehilah Centre, in the suburb of Vaughan. After the man was turned away by security, he reportedly encountered a father and son on their way to the synagogue and punched the father in the face. The father was left with no serious injuries.

The following day, photos circulated after a rock was hurled and broke the window of Aleph Bet Judaica, a shop on the heavily Jewish Bathurst Street corridor. Police did not confirm which business was hit, but confirmed that a rock was thrown at a business near Bathurst Street and Regina Avenue, and that the Hate Crime Unit “was consulted and is aware.”

No suspects have been identified in either incident.

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A series of violent incidents involving young people has raised concerns across Belgium, with experts warning that youth crime is becoming more frequent and, in some cases, more severe.

Recent cases have included assaults, stabbings and arson attacks involving teenagers. In one incident in Brussels, a 14-year-old girl was chased and assaulted by a group of youths, while other reports describe a teenager being set on fire with a Molotov cocktail, and a separate stabbing involving minors. Some attacks have been filmed and shared on social media, further amplifying concerns.

Statistics suggest a broader upward trend. Figures from juvenile courts show a steady increase in offences committed by minors over the past decade. Cases of assault and battery involving young suspects have risen significantly, with thousands more incidents recorded in recent years compared to earlier periods.

ATQUE: Sexual Exploitation of Minors in France: A 43% Uptick in Four Years

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In confirmation of some early reporting we featured at the start of this week, The Wall Street Journal has verified something that Iraqi officials themselves were denying just days ago: the US is blocking Iraq’s regular dollar shipments in order to pressure it’s Iran-backed militias.

“The Trump administration has suspended U.S. dollar shipments to Iraq and frozen security cooperation programs with its military, escalating the pressure on Baghdad to dismantle powerful Iranian-backed militias,” said Iraqi and US officials interviewed in the report.

Pallets of cash and the Middle East should ring familiar, stretching from the Bush-Cheney years to even the Obama years (and Iran sanctions relief as part of the original nuclear deal). In this case, like with the Obama/Iran deal saga before, this is actually Iraq’s own oil revenue money.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

The threats to Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform synagogue, and the Shlenker School, a preschool and elementary school, were communicated to the Houston Police Department, which informed the Jewish institutions.

The Shlenker School said on its website that it had closed “out of an abundance of caution,” and the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston said it did not believe there was a risk to the broader Jewish community.

“This situation is fluid, ongoing, and under investigation,” the federation said in a statement. “After significant discussions with both the FBI and HPD, we have been advised that it is safe for other local Jewish institutions to remain open. Local law enforcement agencies are increasing patrols around Houston-area Jewish institutions.”

The federation did not immediately describe the nature of the threats. The Houston Police Department did not respond to a request for comment.

The incident comes as security experts have warned of continued elevation of threats to global Jewish communities amid the Iran war, and it follows an attack on a Detroit-area synagogue last month by a man who had expressed sympathy for Hezbollah. It also reprises an extended string of hoax bomb threats to Jewish institutions across the United States that caused a large number of closures in 2023 and 2024, both before and after the start of the war in Gaza.

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Britain’s immigration system has hit a new low. A convicted Islamist terrorist who helped plot a bombing at the London Stock Exchange remains free to live in the UK, protected by human rights laws despite his asylum application being thrown out years ago.

The case of Shah Rahman exposes exactly how foreign terror offenders exploit loopholes that put British citizens at risk while officials tie themselves in knots over “rights.” As the migrant crisis spirals and taxpayers foot the bill for endless monitoring, this is not justice – it’s institutional surrender.

Rahman was jailed in 2012 alongside three other extremists inspired by Al-Qaeda over the plot to plant an improvised explosive device. He was released onto Britain’s streets just five years later in 2017, only to be recalled to prison in 2022 for breaches of his licence conditions.

The Telegraph (UK).

Landlords are illegally advertising for “Muslim only” tenants across London and the south-east, an investigation by The Telegraph has found.

The listings, posted on Facebook, Gumtree and Telegram, a social media and messaging channel, feature phrases such as “only for Muslims”, “for 2 Muslim boys or 2 Muslim girls” and “Muslims preferred”.

Others include direct appeals to Punjabi and Gujarati speakers or Kerala and Haryana people, while there are also job vacancies on the platforms that are advertised for men only.

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Just think how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

A pro-Israel Jewish member of the University of Michigan’s governing board is on his way out after Democratic leaders in the state instead backed a pro-Palestinian attorney with a history of antisemitic and pro-Hezbollah rhetoric for the spot.

One day Jews will wake up to the fact that Democrats are not their friends.

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Blue states these days got more Muslims than actual Christians anyway.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with an arson attack on a London synagogue on Sunday, the third within days on Jewish targets in the city.

No one was injured at Kenton United Synagogue after police said a “bottle with some sort of accelerant” was thrown through a window. A fire was extinguished before it could do significant damage.

Police offered few details about the men arrested beyond their ages, 17 and 19. But they said they saw emerging evidence that the attack and others in recent days may have been conducted in exchange for payments from Iran, which has said it would strike targets abroad in response to the U.S.-Israeli war against it.

“We’ve seen a pattern,” Matt Jukes, the police force’s deputy commissioner, said on the BBC on Monday. He said there had been 15 arrests related to incidents targeting the Jewish community in recent weeks and most appeared to be of “people taking cash as it looks like quick and easy money” to stage an attack.

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Murder, rape, and knife crime all increased in Germany in 2025, official figures show, despite an overall drop in crime largely driven by changes to drug laws.

Police recorded around 5.5 million crimes last year, a fall of 5.6% compared to 2024. Officials say the decline is mainly due to the partial legalisation of cannabis in April 2024, which reduced the number of drug-related offences. They caution that this makes direct comparisons with previous years less reliable.

Behind the overall drop, however, more serious offences moved in the opposite direction. Cases of murder and manslaughter rose by 6.5%, while rape and other serious sexual offences increased by 8.5%. Reports of child sexual abuse also continued to climb.

Knife crime remains a major concern. Police recorded around 29,000 knife-related offences in 2025—equivalent to roughly 80 incidents a day. In about half of these cases, knives were used in acts of violence, while the rest involved threats or intimidation. Many incidents took place in public spaces, including streets and transport hubs.

The figures also highlight differences in suspect profiles. Non-German nationals are significantly overrepresented among suspects, particularly in violent crime. Adjusted for their share of the population, foreign nationals were recorded as suspects at a rate around 2.6 times higher than German citizens, rising to roughly four times higher in violent offences. According to Welt, this gap cannot be explained by differences in age or gender and remains consistent across demographic groups.

My, what a surprise.

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The Houthis in Yemen have generated a lot of news headlines since the Gaza war began, lobbing missiles into Israel and causing serious problems for international maritime traffic by attacking ships transiting the Bab-el-Mandeb off southern Yemen.

The Houthis (whose official name is now Ansar Allah) are a Shi’ite movement backed by Iran. They came into prominence during the Yemeni Revolution in 2011, which was an adjunct of the “Arab Spring” that had already swept Tunisia and Egypt. Their principal Sunni rivals within the radical Islamic ferment in Yemen were Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.

With assistance from Iran, the Houthis took over about a third of Yemeni territory, including the capital, Sana’a. Their stronghold is in southern Yemen, adjacent to the Red Sea, which is why they have been able to do so much damage to ships travelling to or from the Suez Canal.

The Houthis have been receiving both weaponry and financial help from Iran. Now that the mullahs are on the ropes, I would expect that the mujahideen of Ansar Allah are facing lean times. I wondered how things were going for them, so I looked up some recent articles from the region.

Sure enough, the events of the past month have created a deficit of resources for the Houthi, which has contributed to internal strife among factions within the group.

The Telegraph (UK).

Using what?

Iran has vowed to retaliate after the United States fired on a cargo ship that tried to breach its naval blockade.

The USS Spruance opened fire on the Touska on Sunday after the vessel refused to stop in the Gulf of Oman.
US marines then took “full custody” of the ship, according to Donald Trump, who triumphantly posted on Truth Social that his troops had “blown a hole” in the tanker.

Iran hit back on Sunday by accusing the US of violating the ceasefire agreement, which has been in place since April 8 and is due to expire on Wednesday.

Oh, the ‘ceasefire agreement’ that they already broke by attacking ships transiting the Straiht of Hormuz? That ‘ceasefire agreement’?

“We warn that the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will soon respond and retaliate against this armed piracy and the US military,” a spokesman for the military’s central command told state media.

Good luck with that.

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British police said Sunday they are investigating whether a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are the work of Iranian proxies.

The Metropolitan Police force says counterterror officers are probing the attacks on synagogues and other sites linked to the Jewish community, as well as an attack on a Persian-language media company.

No one has been injured in the blazes, the latest of which caused minor damage to a north London synagogue on Saturday night.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans said the attacks had been claimed online by a group calling itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.

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Nearly 600 migrants crossed the English Channel on Saturday, April 18th as criminal smuggling networks expanded their operations beyond France and began launching additional boats from Belgian beaches.

According to figures cited by Border Force sources, at least 250 people are understood to have departed from Belgian coastal areas during the day, while further crossings from northern France meant around 585 reached UK waters. . The arrivals bring the total number of small boat migrants recorded this year to more than 6,000.

Officials said the shift to Belgium represents a significant tactical change by people-smuggling gangs, which are increasingly using multiple launch sites to reduce law enforcement pressure on the French coast. One maritime security source described the development as the biggest tactical shift from the criminal smuggling gangs in the last few years.

Until recently, Belgium was rarely used for such crossings, with only a handful of attempted launches annually. However, authorities estimate that around 25 dinghies have now set off from Belgian beaches so far this year.

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In 1955, Algeria had over 1 million Catholics and 140,000 Jews. Today, as Pope Leo visits Algeria, there are some 8,000 Catholics in Algeria and there are fewer than 200 Jews.

99% of the population of what was one of the old territories of Christianity are Sunni Muslims.

Was Islam so popular that all the Christians and Jews decided to convert? Not at all. They were persecuted, murdered, tortured and driven out by Islamic violence that occurred in our lifetimes.

New York Post.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on at least one ship in the waters near Oman after Tehran again closed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization.

Two IRGC gunboats approached a tanker about 20 nautical miles northeast of the Gulf country around 1 p.m. local time — and opened fire unprovoked, the tanker’s master reported.

A second vessel was attacked by an “unknown projectile” some two hours later in the same area, the UKMTO said.

Daily Telegraph (UK).

A judge has thrown out a ‘politically motivated’ attempt to bring a private prosecution against a British-Israeli soldier using Victorian-era law.

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) had tried to get the Westminster magistrates’ court to issue a summons to begin a prosecution against the dual British-Israeli national who served in the Israel Defense Force (IDF).
The group invoked the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 (FEA), which was enacted in the Victorian era to prevent British nationals from being deployed as mercenaries abroad.

But the court heard that the FEA, as interpreted, does not apply to a dual national serving in the armed forces of his other country.

Successive UK governments have also said the FEA does not apply to British nationals serving in the IDF.

The Telegraph (UK).

A university has paid compensation to a student it suspended for hate speech after he compared a pro-Palestine activist’s headscarf to a tea towel.

Activist: Someone who isn’t happy unless pissing in someone else’s soup.

Brodie Mitchell had accused his university of behaving unlawfully after it subjected him to “unfair” disciplinary measures over the petty “spat”.

The 20-year-old launched court proceedings against Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) over its decision to temporarily suspend him from his studies over the comments.

RHUL has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to Mr Mitchell as “a gesture of goodwill”, after the two sides settled the dispute out of court.

In a statement seen by The Telegraph, the university expressed regret for “the length of time” Mr Mitchell had been suspended and “the distress this caused him as a result”.

The Telegraph (UK).

A Jewish business has been targeted in an arson attack in north-west London.

Counter-terror police are leading an investigation into the incident which happened in Hendon on Friday night.

The attack took place at an educational charity called Jewish Futures, The Telegraph understands.

Military.com.

The U.S. military is ready to strike Iran “at the push of a button,” Pentagon leaders said Thursday, as a sweeping naval blockade forces ships to turn away from Iranian ports.

The blockade follows failed talks and a fragile ceasefire, with U.S. forces already turning ships away and warning the pressure campaign could quickly escalate into strikes, raising risks for oil flows and a wider conflict.

The Telegraph (UK).

Iran has agreed to hand over its stockpile of enriched uranium, Donald Trump has claimed, saying the two sides were “close” to a peace deal to end the war.

“They’ve agreed to give us back the nuclear dust,” the US president told reporters, using his term for the enriched uranium supply that could be used to build nuclear weapons.

Uranium has been a major sticking point in the search for peace between the US and Iran. Tehran has offered to halt enrichment for five years, but the US insists it should cease activity for 20 years.

They’ll try to cheat, of course. But what worked with Obama and Biden will be less successful with Trump.

The War Zone.

The U.S. military is not limiting its efforts to interdict Iranian vessels to the Middle East. Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters today that this is a global campaign.

“Let me be clear, this blockade applies to all ships, regardless of nationality, heading into or from Iranian ports,” he said. “The U.S. action is a blockade of Iran’s ports and coastline, not a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Enforcement will occur inside Iran’s territorial seas and in international waters.”

“In addition to this blockade, the joint force, through operations and activities in other areas of responsibility, like the Pacific Area of Responsibility, under the command of Admiral [Samuel] Paparo, will actively pursue any Iranian-flagged vessel or any vessel attempting to provide material support to Iran,” he added. “This includes Dark Fleet vessels carrying Iranian oil. As most of you know, Dark Fleet vessels are those illicit or illegal ships evading international regulations, sanctions or insurance requirements.”

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Pope Leo IV (846) ordered the erection of the “Leonine Wall” around the Vatican after a Muslim Arab fleet landed 7,000 men who slaughtered the garrison at Ostia, sacked the suburbs of Rome and looted St. Peter’s Basilica.

Pope Leo XIV (2026): “We should be less fearful of Islam.” Walking barefoot out of respect in the Great Mosque in Algiers.

If only Leo IV had shown more deference….

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Iran has used a secretly acquired Chinese spy satellite to target U.S. military bases in the Middle East, raising new concerns about Beijing’s role in bolstering Tehran’s military capabilities, according to a report.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) obtained control of a Chinese-built satellite known as TEE-01B in late 2024, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.

The satellite, launched from China and later transferred to Iran, significantly enhanced Tehran’s ability to monitor and strike U.S. and allied positions across the region.

Leaked documents reviewed by the Financial Times show Iranian commanders used the satellite to track key American military installations, capturing high-resolution imagery before and after missile and drone strikes.

Among the locations reportedly surveilled were Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, U.S. facilities in Jordan and Bahrain, and other strategic sites in Iraq and Kuwait.

Analysts say the system marks a major leap in Iran’s intelligence-gathering capabilities.

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The Russians have a phrase for it: negotiation-incapable (ne peregovorosposobny).

That is what the Iran delegation demonstrated during a long day of talks with the US team over the weekend in Islamabad. What part of “no nukes” didn’t they understand? All of it, apparently. The corollary question on the table — arguably more pressing for Iran — was: how much more punishment are you willing to suffer to sustain your dream of atomic bombs? You have no defenses left, no control of your air-space. Do you just want to sit in the dark for the next hundred years?

Such is the obduracy of the Shia death cult. They have no friends left in the world. Russia, you think? Not really. That relationship was pegged to geopolitical dynamics that are dead and gone. Russia is much better off normalizing relations with the USA so we can both be safe and secure in our spheres of influence. Europe is busy committing suicide. In this situation, China is little more than Iran’s very unhappy customer. Maybe Uncle Xi Pooh Bear can try talking some sense to whoever is left in-charge at the IRGC. . . give up your lunatic bomb dreams and just re-open the dingdang gas station! Pretty Please!

“Shia death cult” is a very good way of putting it.

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Faribault, Minnesota, is a small city about an hour’s drive from Minneapolis. On paper it should have the smaller crime rate of the alphabetically similar Farmington which is nearly the same size and only a half hour away. Instead, Faribault has more than twice as much violent crime, aggravated assaults, burglaries and car thefts, 30% more rapes, and 8 times as many robberies. Farmington has no arsons, but Faribault has the most arsons of any city outside major strongholds like Minneapolis, St. Paul or Duluth.

But Faribault has something Farmington doesn’t: diversity. Especially from its Somalis.

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Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.