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On 19 January 2025, following the conclusion of Israel’s ceasefire agreement with Hamas, three Israeli women were released after 471 days of captivity in Gaza. The hostages were transferred to Red Cross vehicles, where they were harassed and taunted by armed “militants” and a menacing crowd that pressed itself against the windows and chanted “Allahu Akbar!” Officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) did nothing to interfere with this intimidating display of indignity and public humiliation. Instead, uniformed ICRC officials complied when Hamas fighters handed them “certificates of completion to sign.” The three young women were then forced to hold these documents while their pictures were taken, as if they had come to Gaza for university courses.

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

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Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon announced Tuesday that his country will ban UNRWA, a Palestinian refugee agency whose members participated in Hamas’s October 7 massacre, from operating in Israeli territory.

“UNRWA has miserably failed in its mandate. It has failed the people who are supposed to benefit from its services,” Danon said in a press conference. “We reaffirm our readiness to cooperate with other U.N. agencies that are not tainted by terror.”

The ban will take effect within 48 hours.

The United States backed Israel’s decision at Tuesday’s U.N. Security Council briefing, with U.S. chargé d’affaires Dorothy Shea saying that shuttering the agency is a step toward giving Gazans a “brighter future.”

And long past time, too. UNRWA is the chief group responsible for ‘Palestinians’ remaining in tent-city poverty rather than emigrating to a neighboring Arab state where they can stop marinating in their sense of grievance and make a better life for themselves and their children. (The Irish are fatally prone to the same psychological debilitation.)  UNRWA are the ‘community organizers’ of the jihadist terror movement, the Arab equivalent of Black Lives Matter.

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As I reported earlier this month, a young culture-enriching “Frenchman” named Zaheer Hassan Mahmood has been on trial for attacking two people with a meat cleaver. The incident occurred in 2020 outside the former office of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, which the misguided youngster mistakenly thought was still the headquarters of the blasphemous publication. The two victims fortunately survived the attack.

Note: the incident had a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

Last Thursday Mr. Mahmood was sentenced to 30 years in prison by the Paris court. Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from French daily Ouest-France:

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We’ve been documenting evidence which strongly suggests Hamas is far from being eradicated even after 475 days of war in the Gaza Strip. For example, on Saturday when four Israeli female captives were finally freed in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners, Hamas crowded a large city square with a well-armed battalion-sized force.

And now newly revealed US intelligence has indicated that Hamas, a US-designated foreign terrorist organization, has actually been able to embark on a successful recruiting drive since the Israeli offensive began in Gaza in the wake of October 7.

“The Palestinian militant group Hamas has recruited between 10,000 and 15,000 members since the start of its war with Israel, according to two congressional sources briefed on U.S. intelligence, suggesting the Iran-backed fighters could remain a persistent threat to Israel,” Reuters reports.

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

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He came from Afghanistan through Bulgaria, where he had registered his claim for asylum. In 2022, he travelled through the EU’s open borders to Germany where he settled in the north-western Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg. Last Wednesday, the man, now 28 years old, walked into a park in the city centre where he knifed a two-year-old boy to death, injured two other children, and then killed the 41-year-old man who had tried to stop him. He was finally intercepted by the police at a nearby rail track after a short chase.

The shocking attack has reignited the debate about immigration only weeks before the German federal elections on February 23, and exposed the weakness of its political elites. Friedrich Merz, the leader of the CDU opposition and front-runner in the race to be chancellor, will propose legislation this week to permanently end free movement across all of Germany’s borders. Radical enough in itself, such a change would signal the end of the political firewall, or Brandmauer, his party had erected against the far-Right Alternative for Germany. The firewall is a pledge among the mainstream parties that there would be no co-operation with the AfD under any circumstances — no coalition, no confidence and supply agreement, and no joint legislation at federal level.

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As long as Islam exists, ‘jihadis’ will be a problem. It’s been that way for 1400 years, and there is no indication that it will change. Whether our Ruling Class will continue prating how ‘peaceful’ Muslims are while ignoring the mass murder, or whether they will wake up and decide to do something about it, is an exercise left for the reader. (Exercise that doesn’t raise a sweat–my favorite kind.)

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UPDATE: As Four Israeli Hostages Released, Hamas Displays It Has Entire Well-Armed Battalion

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Sweden’s integration minister has decided that the most effective way to deal with the alarming incidence of rape by migrants is to introduce mandatory courses for “New Swedes” that teach them how bad rape is, and that it runs counter to the values of their adopted country.

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You’ll never guess what happened in France today…

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A suspect wanted in connection with an attack in which two Swedish soccer fans were shot dead in Brussels in 2023 was arrested in Malaga, Spanish police said on Saturday.

Two Swedish men were shot and one was injured when an attacker opened fire before a match between Sweden and Belgium in October 2023.

The victims were a man about 70 years old from the Stockholm region and a man about 60 years old who lived abroad, Sweden’s foreign ministry said at the time.

So they weren’t any threat to anybody.

Spanish police said they arrested the suspect, who was not named, at Malaga airport as he was about to board a flight to leave the country.

“The man provided the firearm to the attacker,” Spanish police said in a statement.

The suspect was due to appear in court in Madrid on Saturday to face extradition hearings to Belgium where he faces charges of terrorism and homicide, police sources told Reuters.

Hours after the Brussels attack, police shot dead a suspect in a cafe in the Belgian capital.

The 45-year-old identified himself as a member of the Islamic State group and claimed responsibility in a video posted online.

Imagine how low the crime rates would be if young black males were prohibited from possessing firearms.

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A US-designated terrorist group still remains the current de facto ruling entity in Damascus and over Syria. But for the West, all that matters is that al-Qaeda linked Jolani is not Assad. A decade-plus long proxy war in pursuit of regime change finally overthrew the secular Baath government early last month, and resulted in the hardline Islamists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) controlling most of the country.

The West appears to be fully embracing the new rulers which we previously referred to as al-Qaeda in suits. This week we have been treated to the spectacle of a HTS representative speaking on the main stage at Davos. He’s come a long way from Idlib and its black flags… straight to the red carpet jet-setting champaign-sipping insider atmosphere of world elites.

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Republicans in the House and Senate jointly introduced the bill with broad backing, signaling that the measure is an early priority in both legislative chambers. The legislation would impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for providing millions of dollars to imprisoned terrorists and their families. It also would sanction any “foreign persons” known to facilitate these payments or help the Palestinian government administer the program.

This ought to have been done under the Carter administration and continued under every subsequent President.

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Reports this week point to new figures showing that “up to” 585,000 illegal migrants live in London, which is equivalent to one in 12 of the UK capital’s population. One migration expert told europeanconservative.com that the true number is likely to be “even higher.”

Migration Watch chairman Alp Mehmet said that the think tank “estimates the overall number of illegal migrants in the UK to be around 1.5-2 million, the bulk (circa 60%) of whom will be in the capital.”

In other words, there could be between 900,000 and 1.2 million illegal migrants in London.

Robert Bates, who is research director for the Centre for Migration Control, also told this publication that “we need to find, detain and deport every single person living in the UK illegally” because “they pose a potential security threat and impose an unjust cost on the British taxpayer.”

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Bomb threats targeting 292 schools across Hungary caused widespread evacuations and the cancellation of classes on Thursday, January 23rd. Police conducted thorough searches of the affected institutions, but no explosive devices were found, allowing pupils to return to school on Friday.

Following the bomb scares, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said that his country would not only be facing threats but also acts of terrorism if they had admitted migrants to Hungary.

Speaking to Kossuth Rádió on Friday, Viktor Orbán said it was possible that the threats were orchestrated from an international hub, one beyond the reach of Hungarian authorities. He pointed to similar bomb threats against Slovakian and Czech schools last year. On Wednesday, numerous schools in Bulgaria also received bomb threats.

He noted that acts of terrorism occur regularly in Western Europe, therefore it is impossible to dismiss such events with a mere shrug of the shoulder. He stressed that “if we had allowed migrants in, we would not be facing threats, but acts of terrorism.”

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The Labour Party and Liberal Democrats both adopted the APPG’s definition of ‘Islamophobia’ and in the process defined not only historical facts such as “Muslims spreading Islam by the sword or subjugating minority groups under their rule” as Islamophobic but committed  themselves to automatically believing “Muslim majority states” making accusations of “genocide perpetrated against Muslims” in Israel and anywhere else, and to also suppressing any discussion of Muslim sex grooming gangs as Islamophobic and a danger to Muslims.

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Until yesterday’s knife jihad attack, I had never heard of the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg. Today brings news that Aschaffenburg is a veritable multicultural paradise, with Muslim “refugees” playing major roles involving the use of knives.

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

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Following the brutal attack that cost two people their lives yesterday, including a 2-year-old child, in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg, Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel is calling for mass deportations.

“In Bavaria, which is governed by the CSU, an Afghan in Aschaffenburg kills a toddler (2) and a good Samaritan (41) who rushed to help the child. The Afghan had previously followed the child’s daycare group. My thoughts are with the relatives and the injured. Remigration now!” wrote Weidel on X.

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After a string of scandals, will it finally be the end of the line for the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) now that Israeli hostages have claimed they were held at one of its refugee camps? Don’t hold your breath.

Israel’s Channel 13 network reported on Wednesday that during their 471 days in captivity—which ended in the ‘gift’ of terrorist-branded goodie bags—Emily Damari, 28, Romi Gonen, 24, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, “were hidden for part of the time in U.N. shelters.”

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A culture-enricher from Afghanistan went on a stabbing rampage in a park in Bavaria today, killing two people, including a 2-year-old boy, and wounding two others, including a 2-year-old girl.

The Bavarian Interior Minister would take issue with my headline, however, since he has ruled out “Islamism”. The suspect is said to have a “psychiatric illness”. Have you ever noticed how many murderous mujahideen are said to be mentally ill? Why is it that violent criminals of the Islamic persuasion tend to be loonies?

As a matter of interest, it appears that the group of pre-schoolers targeted by the mujahid were also culture-enrichers, if the sample of stabbed 2-year-olds is representative.

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

UPDATE: Failed Afghan Asylum Seeker Held for Killing Toddler In Germany

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Anti-Israel student activists unleashed mayhem at Columbia University on Tuesday afternoon, which marked the beginning of the spring semester. Several keffiyeh-clad student activists stormed an Israeli history class and passed out anti-Semitic flyers glorifying Hamas, depicting the Star of David being crushed, and promising violence. Others vandalized the campus and called on their followers to shut down the university.
Four student activists, donning keffiyehs, marched into the class, “History of Modern Israel,” filming themselves as they recited a script, passed out propaganda, and harassed students, most of whom are Jewish, according to a student in the class.
“THE ENEMY WILL NOT SEE TOMORROW,” read one flyer, which used an upside-down triangle symbol that Hamas uses to denote Israeli targets to spell “TOMORROW.” The flyer depicts a truck full of Hamas terrorists brandishing heavy artillery, including two RPGs and machine guns.
Another flyer, with the caption “CRUSH ZIONISM,” depicted the Star of David underneath a boot. A third depicted an Israeli flag in flames with the threat to “BURN ZIONISM TO THE GROUND.”

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Western values are those features vital for identifying nations as Western. Islam, with its very different laws and teachings, not only opposes them, it forbids them.

Under the name “British Values”, the UK government lists five:

Democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

These are required to be promoted in schools. Opposition to them is what, according to the Prevent programme, constitutes “extremism”.

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Well, that didn’t take long.

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Heavily armed Hamas terrorists and their Gazan allies paraded through the streets on Sunday, surrounding an ambulance carrying the first round of Israeli hostages released under a tenuous ceasefire deal. The public show of force served as a stark reminder that, even after a year of war, Hamas still controls the embattled Gaza Strip.

Photos showed throngs of armed Hamas fighters riding through the streets as Gazans celebrated around them. The terrorist motorcade drove all the way to the meeting point where an ambulance was set to transfer the three Israel hostages, creating a tense and unpredictable moment as the three captives were set free. Other footage posted on social media depicted Hamas supporters rallying behind the group, including a small child holding what appeared to be a handgun and sporting a Hamas headband. Though Hamas terrorists spent much of the past year hiding in tunnels and fighting in civilian clothes, they wore uniforms as the hostages were released.

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It’s a familiar situation in culturally enriched areas of Western Europe, especially the banlieues of French cities: “youths” fleeing the police on foot or in vehicles meet an untimely end, and massive violent riots ensue, spreading to multiple cities. The most famous example occurred in 2005 in Clichy-sous-Bois, a suburb of Paris, when two youngsters fleeing the police climbed over a wall and hid in an electrical substation, and were subsequently electrocuted. Rioting began immediately afterwards and spread to cities all over France. More than 8,000 cars were torched by the rioters. A state of emergency was declared, and lasted for more than three months.

Twenty years later we have a similar situation in Italy, albeit on a smaller scale. In this case, an Egyptian youth named Ramy Elgaml was a passenger on a scooter that failed to stop at a police roadblock last November in Milan. The Carabinieri pursued the youngsters in a vehicle, and the scooter eventually ran into a light pole, killing Ramy Elgaml instantly.

In this case, the Carabinieri may well be at fault. A judicial investigation is underway into possible unjustified pursuit, and the officers may be held liable. However, justice is not proceeding fast enough to suit those who would avenge the death of Ramy, and violent riots have broken out in various Italian cities.

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“We assure the great nation of Iran that their young people are capable of coming out honorable and victorious from a battle on the seas against enemies big and small,” Salami said.

State television said the base was built at a depth of 500 meters (yards) somewhere in the Gulf and it showed tunnels with long rows of what it said were a new version of Taregh-class radar-evading speedboats which can launch cruise missiles.

Earlier this month, Iran started military exercises that are due to last two months and have already included war games in which the Revolutionary Guards defended nuclear installations in Natanz against mock attacks by missiles and drones.

Iran, which says its ballistic missiles are an important deterrent and retaliatory force against the U.S. and Israel, has in the past unveiled several underground “missiles cities.”

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commonplace in major urban areas of Sweden where culture-enrichers dominate. Virtually every day there are stories in the news about explosions of one sort or another.

Early this morning a large explosion shook a residential building in southern Stockholm. Gary Fouse, who translated the material below, notes: “It doesn’t appear that the media is handling this as front-page earth-shattering news.”

They say you can get used to anything, and it seems the Swedes are getting used to explosions.

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Looking forward to different national security policies across the board with the incoming Trump administration, this is our last round-up of Biden-Harris administration policies that did not put America First. We expect newsletters to contain a much different set of headlines as we head into 2025!

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A group of “Swedish” schoolboys came into conflict in the lavatory of their school (middle school or high school; I can’t tell which), and one of them ended up being shot through the head. Apparently all the boys involved, victim and persecutors, were culture-enrichers. They’ve been given Swedish citizenship, so now they’re officially Swedes.

The boy who allegedly pulled the trigger is currently on trial.

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In September of 2020, more than five years after the massacre at the office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, a young “French” culture-enricher named Zaheer Hassan Mahmood attacked two people with a meat cleaver (shown at right) at the same address, seriously wounding them. Unfortunately for the victims, the attack was a case of mistaken identity: Charlie Hebdo had moved its office to another location. The two victims were employees of a television production company, and were having a cigarette break in the street when the mujahid wounded them with his meat cleaver.

In an added twist, the youngster with the cleaver was 25 years old, but had claimed to be 18 when he entered the country in order to obtain more social benefits.

The mischievous youth is now on trial in Paris. His relatives and acquaintances back home in Pakistan are apparently following the proceedings closely. Interviewed in the video below, they express their pride in Mr. Mahmood’s actions. Even though his attack was based on mistaken identity, they feel that he was defending the honor of the Prophet.

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

David Harsanyi.

Only hours after a possible ceasefire deal was announced between Israel and Hamas, Khalil al Hayya, chairman of the terrorist organization, declared victory, contending that the mass murder of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, would “forever be a source of pride for our people.”

Speaking from the safety of Qatar, Hayya didn’t express a hint of regret for the deadly tragedy he helped bring down on his own people, promising that the next Oct. 7 would finally “expel the occupation from our lands and from Jerusalem in the earliest time possible.”

We’ll see about that, I guess.

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The Surrender to Hamas Deal is a bipartisan betrayal of Israel in which the outgoing Biden administration and the incoming Trump administration got together to throttle Israel and demand that it accept a Hamas deal, overseen by its state sponsor Qatar, trading thousands of terrorists for hostages, live or dead, abandoning Gaza, and allowing Hamas under a fake ‘technocratic’ government to take it over again. Followed by an extended reconstruction that the United States will be paying for.

UPDATE: They love Donald Trump — and hate the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal he demanded

UPDATE: Ceasefire Is No Victory for the Israelis—Or for Us

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On the same day that an ISIS-inspired terrorist killed 15 civilians in a deadly car attack in New Orleans, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protestors marched in Times Square chanting, “There is only one solution: intifada revolution.” After a year of such scenes and with domestic terror attacks escalating, the threat from those calling to “globalize the intifada” has never been more acute.

So, what exactly is meant by an “intifada,” and how do we defeat it?

Intifada – or “uprising” – refers to two periods of sustained violent Palestinian revolt against Israel. The first intifada (1987-93) ended with the onset of the Oslo peace process, as Israelis believed Palestinian violence stemmed from their desire for independence.

The second intifada (2000-05) began with the failure of Oslo as Israelis learned that rather than seek their own state, the Palestinians sought to destroy the Jewish state. And they would seek to achieve this through any means necessary, including targeting civilians.

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Every day, the UN, international organizations and the media claim that everyone in Gaza is starving to death because they have no food and every day Israel’s COGAT aid coordination agency lists exactly how many trucks filled with humanitarian aid have actually entered Gaza.

On Jan 2, for example, 189 trucks filled with aid entered Gaza. Only 147 trucks however were collected on the Gazan side with another 800 trucks worth of aid waiting to be collected. Food has been piling up and rotting on the Gaza side because it’s not being delivered by the UN.

Politicians, activists and the media have spent over a year perpetuating a myth that Israel is blocking food deliveries into Gaza when there is actually more aid coming in than the aid groups complaining about Israel ‘blocking aid’ can handle or be bothered to deliver to Gazans.

While the aid sits there and rots, the UN and ‘humanitarian’ agencies claim that it’s too dangerous for them to deliver the food. Israel has offered to provide security for aid deliveries, but those offers have been rejected since the UN is coordinating with Hamas.

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The world is full of people who want you dead. It’s an unpleasant and sometimes unavoidable truth.

Early on New Year’s Day, a terrorist drove a white pickup through a celebratory crowd in New Orleans. As of this writing, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar murdered 14 people and injured 35. After he crashed, police officers heroically returned fire and killed him.

FBI special agent Alethea Duncan initially said, “This is not a terrorist event.” That claim didn’t last long. Shortly afterward, the FBI said in a statement they were investigating it “as an act of terrorism.”

That shouldn’t have been hard to figure out. Jabbar had a rolled-up ISIS flag on the back of his truck.

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As we reported, New Year’s Eve on the streets of major cities in Germany went by in the manner Germans have become accustomed to: young men wreaked havoc by launching fireworks in public areas, setting buildings ablaze, and attacking emergency services.

Though major news agencies failed to name the perpetrators, it was clear that, like in recent years, migrant men were primarily to blame. Rainer Wendt, the head of the German Police Trade Union (DpolG) said “there are areas where young, highly violent young men, many with migration backgrounds, have claimed control of the public space for themselves.”

According to information leaked to media outlet Nius.de, out of the 670 suspects named in the Berlin police files, 406 people have German citizenship, while 264 are foreigners. This means that 39.4% of the perpetrators were foreigners—mostly Turks, Syrians, and Afghans—which is a high representation in itself, seeing as the proportion of the foreign population in Berlin is 24%.

Delving deeper into the details, however, Nius.de revealed that a staggering 65% of the German perpetrators had non-German first names, and most of them were typically Arab or Muslim names—such as Mohammed, Hassan, Ali, and Yussuf. Taking that into account, the tally of foreigners and Germans with a migrant background comes to 80% at the least—meaning that people with a migrant background are overrepresented in the crime statistics.

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Governing German authorities are suggesting unintegrated migrants from Syria could be sent home if they are not in employment, a policy that could mean re-migration for nearly half a million people.

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Switzerland enacted a law at the start of the year that prohibits anyone from wearing burqa coverings in public.

The Swiss people voted in favor of the ban four years ago but were met with backlash from the current government who called the ruling racist.

Yet, Swiss law requires the government to adhere to referendums and the government was overpowered by the people.

Swiss People’s Party (SVP) introduced the initial legislation, and while they did not directly call out Islam, they called full facial coverings a form of “soft extremism.”

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Three Israelis were killed and eight wounded in the northern West Bank after Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a key highway that runs through the area.

The attack is the latest in a year that has seen heightened violence in the West Bank alongside Israel’s wars with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. In Monday’s attack, the gunmen fired on two Israeli cars and a bus that were passing through the Palestinian town of Al-Funduq on Highway 55, which runs from Israel into the West Bank through Palestinian and Israeli areas.

The attack ended when an Israeli civilian fired on the shooters. According to Israeli reports, the gunmen killed two women in their 60s as well as Elad Winkelstein, 35, a police officer who was driving with his son. Winkelstein, an investigator in the Israeli settlement of Ariel’s police station, lives in northern Israel and was reportedly previously the security coordinator of the West Bank settlement of Kedumim. The attack also wounded the driver of the bus that was targeted.

When it comes to atrocity, any Jew will do.

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The statistics behind the rape gang scandal — let’s banish the wholly inadequate word “grooming” — are staggering. For over 25 years, networks of men, predominantly from Pakistani Muslim backgrounds, abused young white girls from Yeovil to London to Glasgow. The victims’ accounts are beyond depravity, unthinkable in a supposedly advanced Western democracy.

That, of course, immediately raises a simple, shocking question: why did British police services turn a blind eye to the gang rape of tens of thousands of young girls? I should have a fair idea. I was a police officer for 25 years, including five as a detective in the Met’s anticorruption command. Working on sensitive investigations into police wrongdoing, I saw first-hand how law enforcement responds to scandals and crises. I’ve watched senior officers, faced with uncomfortable truths, wriggle like greased piglets. I’ve witnessed logic-defying decisions for nakedly political reasons. I am firmly of the view, then, that the whole scandal has unambiguously revealed rank cowardice by constabularies across the UK, where the most senior whistleblower in the entire country was a lowly detective constable.

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The Obama legacy was on full view in New Orleans as an apparently sentient adult, the FBI agent in charge, made the patently asinine public assertion that the mass murder in New Orleans by a Sharia supremacist was not “terrorism.” Andy McCarthy explains the mindset in great detail in the article quoted above. The FBI teaches its personnel the bizarre notion that terrorist groups like ISIS, a very wide swath of religious authorities and the several Muslim national governments that expressly endorse violent jihad are mere exceptions to real Islam, and therefore represent a false religion somehow unrelated to Islam.

In stark contrast, pro-lifers, small government advocates, Second Amendment supporters, parents opposed to drag queen story hour and presumably everyone on Ricochet are part of a seamless ideological entity responsible for creating a threat of extremist violence. There is no equivalent of “false religion” when looking at the political right.

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While everyone was celebrating Christmas and New Year’s, the Great Jihad remained active. The following report concerns four Moroccan “youths” in Spain who were apprehended and detained before they could carry out a planned terrorist attack on the Basilica of Elche.

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Keir Starmer’s Labour government is under fire for its refusal to set up a national inquiry into the phenomenon of so-called grooming gangs—organised rapists operating across multiple British towns.

Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk has amplified the row, claiming Jess Phillips MP “deserves to be in prison” over the “disgraceful” decision. Correspondence shows Phillips, the Home Office’s parliamentary under-secretary of state for safeguarding—who is responsible for addressing violence against women and girls—rejected calls for a government investigation into ‘historic’ sex abuse in Oldham, Greater Manchester, that would have the power to compel witnesses to testify.

Instead, Phillips has stated that the decision to conduct such an inquiry should remain the sole responsibility of the municipal authority requesting it. In effect, by trying to keep it local, Labour is blocking a public reckoning with Starmer’s role as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) during its investigation of the Oldham child grooming scandal.

UPDATE: British Man Arrested For Making Meme Offensive To Child Rapists (Bablyon Bee)

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Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, the man who drove a car into New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street after praising the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, had been a member of a Houston mosque where an imam claimed that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler massacred Jews because they controlled the economy.

Jabbar’s terrorist attack claimed the lives of 14 people, and he died in a shootout with police during the attack. His attack injured more than 30 people.

Masjid Bilal in Northern Houston, where Jabbar had been a member, sent a message to the community about the attack. The mosque urged the community, “It is crucial that we stay united at this time as we condemn these terrible acts.”

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Note that lying to the FBI is a crime, but the FBI lying to you is not a crime.

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After a New Orleans terrorist attack by an ISIS supporter from Houston, Texas, and amid intensifying warnings of Islamic terrorist threats within the U.S., a resurfaced clip showing hundreds of American children in Houston wearing traditional Islamic dress, chanting references to Iran’s supreme leader, pledging allegiance to him, and praising martyrdom has reignited concerns over growing homegrown Islamic extremism.

The chilling video, aired by Iranian state media in 2022, raises concerns about the spread of various forms of Islamic extremism within the U.S., highlighting ideological influences that extend beyond specific groups like ISIS or Iran’s regime.

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Today, UN voting behavior is dictated by the most powerful group of states in the General Assembly, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), to which 56 Islamic states belong and which thus largely dominates the group of non-aligned states (120 in total), which have a majority among the 193 UN member states. This means that resolutions proposed by the Islamic group of states against Israel automatically have a majority in the General Assembly. In the UN Security Council it is different; here any resolution can be overturned by the veto of the permanent members. Thus explicit condemnations of Israel by the Security Council are rarer than by the UN General Assembly.

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Germany’s cities once again had to endure a night of aggression, as young men were allowed to wreak havoc by launching fireworks in public areas, setting buildings ablaze, and attacking emergency services during New Year’s Eve.

Though major news agencies failed to name the perpetrators, videos circulating on social media made it quite clear that young migrant men were to blame, with right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party pointing the finger at the failed migration policies of the past.

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In video footage taken by Hamas itself and released by the IDF, Hamas operatives were filmed planting explosives about 45 metres away from the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, to where patients from Kamal Adwan were moved.

Using a hospital for military purposes is a war crime. It turns such a hospital from a protected space into a legitimate military target under international law. In Britain and America, however, the media did not report the hijack of Kamal Adwan hospital as a war crime. There was no outcry over the gross abuse of medical facilities that had turned a place of healing into an active war front and put patients at risk. Instead, media outlets faithfully parroted Hamas propaganda and accused Israel of burning the hospital down.

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A group of mischievous Afghan youngsters in the Swedish city of Kristianstad celebrated New Year’s a few days early by gang-raping a 20-year-old girl over the weekend. Now the errant youths are being brought up on charges, and I expect the Swedish judicial system to throw the book at them — they’ll probably get at least a month in detention for their unfortunate behavior.

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accused Jews of engaging in a “Hitlerian project” for claiming descent from ancient Hebrews during an appearance on a podcast hosted by a professor at Pakistan’s University of Lahore.

Massad said the idea that Jews are descended from ancient Hebrews is a “bogus claim” and called them a “strange European group” during a March 25 episode of InFocus with Ejaz Haider titled “Busting Zionist Myths.” Both Massad and the host, Ejaz Haider, a senior resident fellow at the University of Lahore’s Center for Security, Strategy, and Policy Research, have praised Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack. The podcast is hosted on a platform sponsored by the university, which itself endorsed “the Palestinians’ fight for freedom” in a statement issued one month after the attack.

“The idea that European Jews are somehow direct descendants of the ancient Hebrews is, of course, a bogus claim,” Massad said. “Even if Jews believed somehow [they had] some lineage, at least a religious or spiritual lineage [to ancient Hebrews], by the 17th and 18th centuries, this idea amongst European Christians would become important, especially to estrange European Jews from Europe, and they begin to cast them as ‘Asiatics’—people who have come from Asia originally.”

“What is special here about Zionism is not only the invention of ancient Israel and the invention of Jews as descendants of the ancient Hebrews, it’s almost like a Hitlerian project to speak of Jews genetically in this fashion,” Massad added. “And it only becomes fashionable, of course, in the 19th century, with the rise of racial science and the biological sciences.”

Massad also said ancient Israel was an invention of archaeology, a field he tied to colonialism.

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The UK’s Labour party is under fire for its refusal to back a public inquiry into historic sexual abuse by grooming gangs in Oldham, with critics accusing the party of prioritizing political optics over justice for victims.

The decision has sparked outrage, with Elon Musk branding it “disgraceful” and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch calling for a long-overdue national inquiry into rape gangs. “2025 must be the year the victims start to get justice,” Badenoch declared.

At the center of the controversy is Labour’s safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, who insisted that the decision to launch an investigation was “for Oldham Council alone.”

This comes despite a 2022 report revealing that children in Oldham were failed by agencies meant to protect them amid allegations of grooming by “predominantly Pakistani offenders” in council homes, shisha bars, and taxis.