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A city council member in Michigan was reportedly seen on video helping to drop what appear to be several absentee ballots into a ballot drop box ahead of an August primary election.

Abu Musa, a city councilman in the city of Hamtramck, Michigan, was reportedly in the passenger seat handing what appear to be ballots to the driver, who then dropped them in the drop box. Various news reports say they were “bundles” of ballots, another says “stacks.”

The video was first reported by Local 4 News in Detroit and later was reported in other Michigan and national news outlets. Local 4 reported that Michigan State Police confirmed the footage.

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The number of Islamist-motivated crimes in Germany rose sharply in 2024, reaching over 1,500 cases, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).

Out of 804 suspects last year, around 22% were under 18 years old, up from less than 8% a decade earlier.

In 2024, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) recorded 1,694 cases of ”politically motivated crime–religious ideology,” 1,397 of which were connected to Islamist motives.

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An elementary school near Vienna advertised a part-time PE teacher role requiring “very well-written and spoken Turkish skills” alongside German and English.

The posting sparked criticism from Austria’s right-wing FPÖ and center-right ÖVP parties.

FPÖ education spokesman Helmut Fiedler stressed that the official language of education in primary schools is German, and that requiring Turkish is therefore unnecessary and could unfairly disadvantage local applicants.

Principal Erwin Rauscher defended the posting, saying it aimed to build bridges to students with different native languages.

Among the two hundred students at the school, twenty different languages are spoken.

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A new report by Austria’s Public Employment Service (AMS) has sparked controversy after suggesting that some refugees are intentionally failing German language courses to avoid being placed in low-paying jobs.

The findings, published in the study “New Refugees from Syria on the Austrian Labor Market,” highlight a growing challenge for integration policy, with concerns that language training, once seen as the key to employment, is becoming a barrier instead.

In the report, one first-hand account from a Syrian woman who studied medicine in her home country and worked as a paediatrician in Turkey, criticized what she sees as a systemic problem: qualified Syrian women being pushed into cleaning jobs without any consideration of their professional skills. She claims that, in response, some refugees purposely fail their language exams to avoid being forced into such low-status work.

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A Hamtramck City Council member in Michigan is facing scrutiny after seemingly being captured on video participating in stuffing ballots into an official drop box just days before his primary election victory.

Video footage obtained by Local 4 seemingly shows Council Member Abu Musa in a black vehicle on August 1st, handing what appear to be stacks of ballots to a driver who then places them in the city’s ballot drop box. Musa went on to receive over 1,129 votes in last week’s primary election.

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like an infestation of roaches.

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A council that said it could not take any more asylum seekers has complained to the Home Office after it discovered that hundreds of migrants were being housed locally without its knowledge.

Portsmouth city council discovered last week that 55 rental properties were being used to house at least three asylum seekers each, accommodation known as homes of multiple occupation (HMO).

In 2023, James Hill, the city’s director of housing, told the Home Office the “system’s capacity was such that we couldn’t support additional asylum seekers”. However, at a public meeting in July hosted by Amanda Martin, the Labour MP for Portsmouth North, figures came to light that revealed the number of private properties being used to house migrants had risen from ten at the end of 2019 to 58 in April 2024. Last week, the council confirmed with the Home Office that the number was 55.

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More than 600 migrants landed in Spain’s Balearic Islands in just two days, the largest influx the holiday archipelago has ever seen.

Police and locals say the Mediterranean archipelago has become Europe’s newest “back door” for illegal immigration, as smuggling gangs shift away from the Canary Islands and Italy. ABC reports that packed boats, some carrying Algerians, and others loaded with sub-Saharan Africans and Asians, who pay up to €14,000 for the trip, are landing on Mallorca, Formentera, and Cabrera almost daily.

The sudden explosion is no accident. Security officials blame the collapse of relations with Algeria, furious at Madrid’s flip towards Morocco in the Western Sahara dispute. Once a reliable partner, Algiers is now accused of looking the other way. “They have no incentive to stop the boats,” one Spanish officer admitted.

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Migrants housed at a controversial Epping hotel were a “financial lifeline” for its owners, a court has heard.

The Bell Hotel has been at the centre of anti-immigration protests since a resident was charged with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl last month.

Epping Forest District Council has applied for a High Court injunction against its owners, Somani Hotels Ltd, which would end its use as an asylum hotel.

Lawyers representing the company have said the injunction would cause it “financial harm” because the migrants were a “financial lifeline” that had allowed “money to be reinvested in the hotel”. Just one per cent of rooms were occupied in August 2022, they added.

Earlier the court was told that it was “not acceptable” for migrants to be housed at an Epping hotel because there are five schools within walking distance.

Two of the hotel’s residents have been charged with sexual assault in recent months.

Follow the money.

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The Labour council in Birmingham has been accused of double standards for claiming to be unable to take down Palestinian flags while removing English ones.

A row erupted after residents put up hundreds of Union Jack and St George’s flags on lampposts in a “patriotic outpouring” over the past fortnight.

The council issued a statement saying flags and other attachments, such as bunting and advertising, “could be putting lives at risk” and it would take them down.

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An incident that involved youth of migrant background took place on Wednesday at the Stadionbad in the Prater district of the Austrian capital.

The Syrian teen and his 17-year-old Afghan companion tried to climb over a locked gate to access the pool area. A staff member caught them and called over a 55-year-old security guard, as the teenagers started to behave aggressively.

The younger teen allegedly said, “I’ll stab you,” and suggested he might have a knife in his pants.

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The latest political scandal in France is just as absurd as it seems: residents of Muslim background had a free public screening of ‘Barbie’ shut down for being offensive to their cultural sensibilities, and anyone who thinks this is problematic is labeled an Islamophobic far-right extremist.

The incident happened in the ‘ethnically-diverse’ Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Sec, where the local council had the idea of providing free film screenings to poorer neighborhoods during the summer. The program would have been successful were it not for the apparently ‘poor’ movie choice for last weekend, featuring Greta Gerwig’s 2023 Oscar-winning feminist comedy Barbie.

After a group of around 15 Muslim youth threatened council workers and reportedly moved to destroy the equipment, local mayor Olivier Sarrabeyrouse ordered organizers to pull the plug and cancel the event.

When will the Left wake up to the fact that Muslim beliefs are everything they purport to be against?

UPDATE: France Is Being Held Hostage by Islamism

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A new report on Syrian refugees in Austria has ignited political controversy after suggesting that some migrants are deliberately failing the exam after completing German courses to avoid low-paying jobs.

The findings, published in daily Kronen Zeitung and based on the Austrian Labour Market Service’s (AMS) study, have prompted sharp criticism from opposition politicians, particularly the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).

The report highlights challenges in integrating refugees into the labour market, with learning German identified as a key barrier.

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The number of violent knife crimes in Germany has risen sharply once again, with newly released Federal Police figures confirming a worsening trend.

In the first half of 2025, 730 cases were recorded under Federal Police jurisdiction, a 17 percent increase compared to the same period last year.

The data, provided by the German government in response to a parliamentary query from Alternative for Germany (AfD) domestic affairs spokesman Martin Hess and obtained by Junge Freiheit, show a marked overrepresentation of foreign suspects.

Out of the recorded offenses, 278 involved German suspects and 270 involved non-Germans. While foreigners make up just under 15 percent of Germany’s population, they accounted for over 36 percent of knife crime suspects. Among them, Syrians formed the largest group with 29 cases, followed by Afghans with 23 and Poles with 20. Algerian and Afghan suspects were among the most likely to use a knife rather than merely carry one, with 83 percent of cases involving actual use.

The Federal Police recorded the majority of incidents at train stations, with 409 cases.

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French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Friday, August 15th condemned an act of “antisemitic hatred” after a memorial tree planted in tribute to a young French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006 had been cut down outside Paris.

On January 20, 2006, 23-year-old Ilan Halimi was kidnapped by a gang of youths and tortured in a housing estate in the Paris suburb of Bagneux. Found three weeks later, he died on the way to hospital.

An olive tree, planted in 2011 in Halimi’s memory, was cut down, probably with a chainsaw, overnight Wednesday to Thursday in the northern Paris suburb of Epinay-sur-Seine, officials said.

The move stoked fresh concerns about an increase in antisemitic acts and hate crime against Jewish people in France.

Apparently Trudeau is coasting by providing re-runs from the Bush2 era.

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Yemen’s Houthis are not letting up on their attacks on Israel or Israeli-linked shipping in the Red Sea, on Thursday once again launching a ballistic missile targeting Ben Gurion airport international airport in Tel Aviv.

The Shia militant group’s spokesman said it launched a “Palestine 2 hypersonic ballistic missile” targeting the country’s lone major international hub, the group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree described.

Pure terrorism. A civilian airport is not a military target. Why the ‘Western powers’ don’t just carpet-bomb that section of Yemen escapes me.

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The families of three hostages have filed a NIS 20 million ($5.9 million) lawsuit against the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan.

“The International Criminal Court has become a branch of Hamas,” stated Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, founder and president of Shuran-HaDin Israel Law Center, the NGO representing the families.

“Through its direct actions, it has given the terror murderers tremendous backing,” she continued. “Khan’s goal is to prevent Israel from achieving the war’s objectives – the destruction of Hamas and the release of the hostages – by portraying it as a criminal state.”

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The majority-Druze city of Suwayda in southern Syria has been cut off from essential supplies for more than a month after forces from the al-Qaeda-linked Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) captured Damascus in December 2024 and moved south.

On July 13, HTS fighters, led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani (Ahmed al-Sharaa) and backed by Turkey, attacked Suwayda and nearby villages. Local leaders say hundreds of civilians were killed, women and children abducted, and homes burned in targeted assaults on Druze and Christians.

Power and water infrastructure was destroyed, trade halted, and fuel deliveries blocked. Hospitals have been forced to operate with minimal diesel, while independent doctors report severe shortages of medicine and equipment. The Syrian Red Crescent’s local branch lost its main warehouse and vehicles, and aid now covers only about 10% of daily needs.

More than 100,000 people fled during the assault, straining host communities and exhausting food and water supplies. Many remain homeless after the destruction of over 30 villages.

In a July 18 appeal, Metropolitan Antonius of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Bosra Horan urged the international community to open humanitarian corridors: “We have no water, no food, no electricity — nothing at all.”

HTS, designated a terrorist group by the UN, US, and EU, was formed in 2017 from the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusrah Front. Human rights groups warn Suwayda faces famine unless aid is allowed in.

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Granted, not a high bar.

In 2019 we advanced our understanding of the frauds in which Ilhan Omar is mired thanks to the Minnesota campaign finance board investigation and findings against her for penny-ante violations of applicable law. Among other things, we learned as a result of the investigation that Omar had filed joint tax returns in 2015 and 2016 with Ahmed Hirsi, to whom she was not married, while she was still married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. We believe that Elmi is her brother and that the marriage was a sham, which is how Omar treated it. It’s a scandal for the ages, or at least something new under the sun of political scandal.

One of Omar’s Republican colleagues in the state legislature — Steve Drazkowski — had filed complaints initiating the campaign finance board investigation. In an important story dated October 27, 2018 (published the following day, nine days before the election), Omar discussed Drazkowski’s complaints with former Star Tribune reporter Stephen Montemayor. Montemayor’s story appeared in the paper on the penultimate Sunday before the election under the headline “On the edge of making history, Ilhan Omar confronts fresh wave of scrutiny.”

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Israel’s military released footage Tuesday (August 12), it says shows five armed militants in the Gaza Strip posing as U.S.-based World Central Kitchen’s workers, adding they were killed in a targeted airstrike.

Reuters was not able to independently confirm the date, location or the affiliations of the people in the video.

The military said it confirmed with the organization that the five were not affiliated with their operations.

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A Syrian living at the now notorious Bell Hotel in Epping was charged with sexual assault on Wednesday, August 13th. Migrant Mohammed Sharwarq was arrested on Tuesday and remanded in custody, charged with two counts of common assault, four of assault by beating, and one count of sexual assault on a male over the course of the past three weeks.

The Bell Hotel became the focus of protests when another resident, 38-year-old Ethiopian Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, was charged with three sexual assaults on a minor in July. Kebatu crossed the Channel illegally on June 29, 2025, and is due to stand trial later this month at Colchester magistrates’ court for the sex crimes.

Both arrests have highlighted residents’ concerns about the local impact of large numbers of undocumented young men being concentrated in residential areas while their asylum claims are processed and subsequently fought over at migration tribunals. Against this backdrop, local protests look set to grow and increase pressure on Keir Starmer’s government.

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The number of knife attacks in Germany continues to climb, with new figures from the Federal Police revealing a significant rise in violent crimes involving blades. Data shows a 17% increase in such incidents in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year.

According to data released in response to a parliamentary inquiry from AfD MP Martin Hess, the German Federal Police recorded 737 knife-related crimes between January and June 2025, which is 107 more than in the first six months of 2024.

Of the 737 total recorded crimes, 278 involved German suspects. Non-Germans were identified as suspects in 270 cases. Although they make up 14.86% of the population, they accounted for 36.64% of all suspects. Criminals from an immigrant background are overrepresented in almost all violent crime types in Germany.

When broken down by nationality, Syrian citizens represented the largest group among non-German suspects, with 29 cases. Afghans followed with 23 cases. Other nationalities of suspects included Turks, Ukrainians, Romanians, Moroccans, Algerians, Bulgarians and Tunisians.

The New Neo.

The number of defendants charged in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud has now reached 73. Fifty have been convicted. Almost every defendant is a first- or second-generation Somali immigrant. In a case that has yet to be charged, Somalis figure prominently in a Minnesota Medicaid fraud that bears some of the hallmarks of the Feeding Our Future case, but nothing will ever top that one.

Somali Minnesotans are also featured in Minnesota’s apparent daycare fraud. In 2023 Deena Winter reported that about half of the defendants then charged in the Feeding Our Future case had been paid tens of millions more in state money for services such as providing child care and assisting seniors and people with disabilities.

I suppose some would consider it racist to point out this lack of diversity, even though Somalis are not a race. Somalia is a country. It also happens to be overwhelmingly Muslim, which is also not a race. But it’s a third-world country, a failed country, and one that even Somalis realize is the world’s most corrupt.

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A 65-year-old Jewish man was beaten by three assailants on his way to a synagogue in Livry-Gargan on Saturday, August 9.

A car pulled up in front of the victim and two passengers got out, pretending to ask for directions. The man was then beaten and knocked to the ground, causing eye and facial injuries, while his Star of David and his chai (symbol of life) necklace was torn off.

The Livry-Gargan area in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb has seen previous antisemitic attacks, including a targeted burglary. This mid-morning assault occurred close to the victim’s home.

It fits in with a wider pattern of growing antisemitic violence across France, prompting Hen Mazzig, author of The Wrong Kind of Jew and Senior Fellow at The Tel Aviv Institute, to ask

How many violent attacks must be reported before the world finally takes antisemitism seriously? … It breaks my heart to say this, but in today’s France, wearing a kippa in public is no longer safe.

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The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail is one of the most interesting and controversial novels of the 20th century. Which is why it’s good news that Vauban Books, a small publishing house, is coming out with a new editiond, complete with a fresh translation by scholar Ethan Rundell. English-language copies of the book, first published in the U.S. in 1975, have been passed around like samizdat. The Camp of the Saints became popular again in the 2010s, but the rightsholders refused to reprint it until Vauban managed to secure the rights.

The Camp of the Saints depicts mass immigration destroying European civilization. In the novel a gigantic flotilla of boats filled with destitute Indians sets course for France to seek refugee status. After much handwringing, the government allows them to land rather than take the only other option available, which is to massacre them. France—and very quickly all of Europe—turns into a dystopian Third-World slum.

Raspail’s novel was written in the 1970s when the “boat people” fled Vietnam for Europe. The book caused an enormous sensation—it was a bestseller in France and the U.S., and eventually globally. Many have hailed it as a great and important work of prophecy. But, predictably, it was then and is now denounced as a horribly racist screed that only white supremacists would be interested in reading.

Contrary to the critics, The Camp of the Saints is a great novel, and Jean Raspail is a great writer. You should do yourself a favor and read it.

I read it when it first came out and it seemed like science fiction. Little did we know….

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I’ll hold his coat.

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Cwan Hassan, a 42-year-old Syrian Kurd, is being tried for aggravated assault following an axe attack in the Swedish municipality of Sollefteå this May.

A whole 17 years before, an asylum application put forward by his family was rejected by the Swedish Migration Board, which found they did not meet the criteria. This decision was upheld in 2010, when a court found “serious credibility deficiencies” in the family’s accounts. It said these “could not be ignored.”

Another appeal to the Migration Court of Appeal also failed.

Yet, Hassan has remained in the country the whole time since the initial rejection. Remix reports that officials deemed deportation to be “unenforceable.” Because of this, he was granted permanent residence in 2012.

This pattern is being repeated all across Europe, including by others who have become the suspects of serious crimes.

A man in his 50s was left seriously injured in the May axe attack, the scene from which the perpetrator fled.

The story has barely been covered by the Swedish—never mind the wider European—press. The limited reports that do exist suggest that Hassan may now face deportation.

A Swede who did something like that in Syria would have been stomped into the dirt by an angry mob.

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Kind of proves the point that Christianity is built on love and Islam is built on hate.

The New Neo.

The Gazans are adept at three things: propaganda, killing, and digging elaborate and extensive tunnels. In fact, their tunnel system is almost certainly the most elaborate in the world. But in that, they are helped along by geography/geology.

Here’s an in-depth (pun intended, I guess) look at the tunnels and why they are so easy to build and difficult to eradicate….

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The number of people killed in the massacres in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate is still yet from being fully documented, as tensions continue to flare and the whole governorate is effectively on lockdown from the government. Talks aimed at addressing concerns about that situation are scheduled for this week in Amman, Jordan.

But while early reports were that a number of representatives of the Druze minority would be present for the talks, that turns out not to be the case, as the Syrian Islamist government has insisted only government representatives could participate, and therefore no Druze will be present.

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Over the past few weeks, the UN, the EU, the media and Hamas banded together to demand that aid deliveries shift back from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to the United Nations. The campaign played out with Hamas kidnapping, torturing and killing employees of the U.S. aid group, while the media spread false claims that Israel was using GHF distribution sites as ‘death traps’ for killing Gazans, and world leaders demanded that the UN be put back in charge of aid.

Back when the UN had been in charge it had faked its own famine by refusing to deliver food and letting it pile up instead. Since then the UN’s food aid has kept on piling up even while GHF, an American Christian aid group, has managed to deliver millions of meals to Gaza residents, despite being smeared by the media as “controversial” for feeding those whom the UN wouldn’t.

Whom was the UN actually delivering aid to back when it even bothered trying to deliver it?

The UNOPS ‘Mechanism for Gaza’ revealed that of the around 2,600 aid trucks entering Gaza, only 300 made it to their destination. 2,310 trucks or 88% of them were ‘intercepted’.

Much of the ‘aid’ being brought in by the UN and its allies, including the UN’s WFP, UNICEF, the International Red Cross, the International Medical Corps and the World Central Kitchen, whose founder Jose Andres, has been constantly attacking Israel in the media, was ‘intercepted’.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which has been front and center in the media, crying for more money and denouncing Trump and Israel, only successfully delivered 1,864 pallets of aid since May while losing 29,673 pallets or 93% of it to “interceptions”.

The UN’s WFP recently claimed that it has run out of food stocks and needs $265 million for just the next 6 months to feed Gaza. Where did its food stocks go?

Certainly not to aid stations.

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Police in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia have been called to asylum seeker shelters almost forty times a day on average—more than 1,000 times every month—this year, according to new figures released by the state’s government.

The data—provided in response to a parliamentary question from the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party—show that there were 15,825 police deployments to such facilities in 2024.

In the first half of 2025, police were called 6,797 times, averaging more than 1,100 incidents per month.

UPDATE: Germany Keeps Enticing Migrants with Welfare Benefits

UPDATE: Germany Dragged to Court for Halting Refugee Intake

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Since the Israel–Hamas war broke out in 2023, Gaza’s humanitarian crisis has become a focal point of international debate and widespread misinformation. Harrowing images of emaciated children and distressed families circulate daily, intensifying claims that Gaza is nearing famine. Meanwhile, Israeli and UN data indicate large aid convoys entering the territory. This contradiction (plentiful supplies on paper, yet ongoing hunger on the ground) has caused confusion over what is true and who bears responsibility for the deteriorating conditions in the Strip. Amid the chaos of war, what we know and don’t know has often been obscured by propaganda. Distinguishing fact from fiction is crucial to understanding Gaza’s aid crisis and holding the correct parties accountable.

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A Moroccan culture-enricher in the Italian city of Foggia stabbed his former main squeeze (also a Moroccan) to death, despite being subject to a restraining order.

The politically correct term “femicide” serves to distract from the fact that the incident is more about cultural enrichment than gender politics, and that women are much more likely to be murdered by a husband or boyfriend if that significant other happens to be a Muslim.

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Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Asim Munir, has been on a tour of the United States over several days, which included attendance at a farewell function for the chief of the US Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla. The trip is said to be Gen. Munir’s second visit in less than two months.

While in Tampa (where CENTCOM’s HQ base is located), Gen. Munir also spoke at a private event for the Pakistani diaspora in America. His words there have set off outrage and condemnation from India on Monday, including fresh nuclear sabre-rattling.

“We are a nuclear power. If we go down, we’ll take half the world with us,” Munir reportedly had stated. What has heightened the anger in New Delhi is that this is the first time a top Pakistani official has issued an apparent nuclear threat from US soil.

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Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in the United States. What do Minnesota’s Somali citizens think of us? We know amazingly little about the community, probably because we are afraid to ask the relevant questions. We know they are mostly Muslim — we can see the hijabs, we are familiar with the many local controversies to which their faith has given rise over the past 35 years — but are they loyal residents or citizens of the United States? In the conflict between the United States and Muslim terrorists, for example, whose side are they on?

Acting United States Attorney Joe Thompson observed at the sentencing of Abdiaziz Farah last week for his food fraud crime spree that Farah treated us as “suckers.” That is certainly true, but it expresses the problem in almost reassuringly familiar terms. I wonder if the problem doesn’t run deeper than that.

For years I was told by federal law enforcement authorities that their biggest concern was represented in an ongoing investigation of foreign support for terrorism. Some Somali Minnesotans supported the terrorist group al-Shabaab with their money. Some supported it with their sons. The investigation consumed the local FBI office for a matter of years and resulted in a string of guilty pleas involving local Somali men supporting al-Shabaab. Investigators believed at least 21 Somali men have left Minnesota to join al-Shabaab. In 2011 two “Minnesota women” were convicted of providing material support to the group after a 10-day trial before Judge Michael Davis.

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uthorities have uncovered a well-organized Syrian smuggling network responsible for illegally moving up to 480 migrants daily into the European Union via the Balkan route.

The network, active for several years, is believed to have generated profits nearing €10 million. Migrants reportedly paid between €2,500 and €4,500 each, depending on the route and risk involved.

The investigation, coordinated by prosecutors in Weiden with support from the Munich Federal Police Criminal Investigation Department, Europol, Eurojust, and law enforcement in the Netherlands and Bosnia-Herzegovina, led to the arrest of five suspects on August 7th.

Authorities seized mobile phones, vehicles used for transporting migrants, and small amounts of drugs.

UPDATE: Deportation Dud: Labour Plan Misses 98% of Channel Migrants

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Moroccan feminist and LGBT rights activist Ibtissam Lachgar has been arrested on charges of blasphemy after posting a photo of herself online wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Allah is a lesbian.”

The public prosecutor’s office in Rabat stated that Lachgar spread “insulting statements against God” and insulted Islam, prompting an investigation and her subsequent detention.

Lachgar’s post, made at the end of July, criticized Islam as “fascist and misogynistic,” sparking widespread backlash on social media.

She reported receiving thousands of rape threats, death threats, and calls for stoning. Some users even called for her arrest, with one commenting that she “has decided to go to jail.”

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A rise in antisemitic harassment and crime is pushing more and more Jews in France to consider moving to Israel, the leader of France’s largest Jewish organization told allisraelnews.com.

“Wherever they live, I guess the Jewish population is feeling insecure today in the French environment,” Robert Ejnes, head of CRIF, the umbrella organization for France’s Jewish community, said. “I don’t know a family that is not speaking about [leaving France] now.”

France has the largest Jewish community in Europe, with around half a million people. It’s also home to an estimated six to seven million Muslims, or about 10% of the population. As in other Western countries, people with Muslim immigrant backgrounds have been involved in a disproportionate number of antisemitic incidents, especially the more serious or high-profile ones.

Antisemitism has increased sharply since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, Ejnes said, and President Macron’s recent decision to recognize a Palestinian state has contributed to legitimizing antisemitic and anti-Jewish sentiments. While Macron has previously been supportive of the Jewish community, today, “we believe he’s promoting antisemitism by doing what he’s doing,” Ejnes stated.

But with a long history in France, many Jews are still hesitant to leave, he said. “Many know the resilience of the community after all the bad events that ever happened to us in France, especially in recent times: the Dreyfus Affair, or the Vichy government, or the Shoah, and Jews have still continued to live and belong to the French environment.”

Now if only that worked with Muslims.

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Just a few weeks ago, it was widely thought that Israel and the terrorist group Hamas were nearing a deal to end the war in Gaza. In that deal, Hamas leadership would agree to go into exile, Israeli hostages would be freed from their hellish captivity, and surrounding Arab nations could help fund the rebuilding of a more peaceful Gaza Strip.

That, at least, was the hope.

And then it all fell apart.

It fell apart for one simple reason: Hamas understands the West far better than the West understands Hamas. Hamas understands that if it forces the suffering of its own people, if it maximizes and even falsifies media coverage of that suffering, then the West will rehabilitate Hamas and grant it its demands. Hamas understands that Westerners are utterly ignorant to the true evil of Hamas, their willingness to multiply the suffering of Palestinians and Israelis alike, to starve their own citizens as well as Israeli hostages, to sacrifice Palestinian children by placing them in the line of fire, all for the cameras; Hamas understands that myopic and self-centered Westerners will simply project their own biases and values onto Hamas, thus granting them unearned innocence and sympathy; Hamas understands that the media would facilitate all of this, elevating a false oppressor/oppressed narrative above the truth.

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Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the Diversity.

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The Islamification of the West continues unchecked. Millions of third-worlders have been funneled into Western nations, especially France, Spain, Ireland, England, and Germany. Globalist rulers in Brussels have remained silent about the intentional invasion, while anyone voicing concern is immediately thrown into the state-run government censorship gauntlet and labeled a “racist.”

It comes as no surprise that Brussels’ failed open-borders experiment since 2015, flooding Europe with millions of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from countries such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, has sparked not only a deepening identity crisis for Europe, but also fueled a powerful resurgence of nationalism across the continent.

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A French national who has legally changed his name to Lucifer Of-Darkness has been sentenced to nine months in jail for punching a man unconscious in a train station lavatory.

The 41-year-old, previously known as Berkani Nahim, attacked Christopher Jamieson at Waverley station in Edinburgh this year before handing himself in to British Transport Police officers, claiming self-defence.

Footage of his arrest, shows Of-Darkness approaching the officers on the station concourse and telling them: “I knocked someone out, he pissed me off.”

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A drunken 43-year-old culture-enricher in France tried to strangle a 7-year-old child because he believed that the little boy had insulted him. The indignant fellow also sprayed the boy’s family with tear gas.

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Abdiaziz Farah was convicted on 23 felony counts of conspiracy, fraud, and related crimes in the first of the Feeding Our Future trials last year. I covered the trial and reported the guilty verdict here at the time. The government asked for a 30-year sentence. Granting most of the government’s wish and agreeing with its argument in its entirety, Judge Nancy Brasel sentenced Farah in federal district court here yesterday to 28 years in prison.

Farah concocted the shocking juror bribery scheme that was discovered at the conclusion of his trial last year. He has pleaded guilty in the bribery case before Judge David Doty and will be sentenced separately for the offense. That sentence should be added to the 28 years he received yesterday.

I attended Farah’s sentencing hearing yesterday. The court was full of Farah’s family, supporters, and federal law enforcement agents who testified at trial. I sat in the press row immediately in front of Farah’s crying wife. It was quite a scene.

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An Afghan culture-enricher in the Italian city of Perugia evidently experienced a sexual emergency that caused him to force his unwanted attentions on a young university student from an unspecified Asian country. She was not able to stop the all-night attack, but she used her cell phone to make a partial recording of her ordeal, which helped the police successfully nab the perp.

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Most of the world’s nations now recognise a Palestinian state. In May 2024, the ranks of those nations were swelled by Spain, Ireland, and Norway. Under Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer, respectively, the French and British governments have now signalled their commitment to joining them in September. As conditions deteriorate in Gaza, one British government minister has even said that the UK should recognise the state of Palestine “while there is a state of Palestine left to recognise.”

Palestine is usually said to comprise Gaza and parts of the West Bank, with its capital in East Jerusalem. But in the real world, the West Bank enclave is ruled by Fatah, what remains of the Gaza Strip is still nominally ruled by Hamas, and East Jerusalem is not the capital of anything. With the two mutually hostile Palestinian parties locked in a frozen conflict, there is no prospect that either will hand over control to the other. And neither Hamas nor Fatah can be considered democratically legitimate because neither has held elections in decades.

In which it differs not at all from most of the Turd World.

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The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has documented the violent deaths of nearly 10,000 people in Syria since the former ISIS commander, Ahmad al-Sharaa, was installed in power in Damascus.

After Sharaa toppled the government of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in December last year, he was widely praised. An article in the UK’s Telegraph described his armed group, the former Al-Qaeda affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), as “diversity friendly jihadists”.