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The anti-Semitic attorney who helped lift anti-Israel Columbia University students’ suspensions has a history of representing terrorists and recently mourned the death of his “friend,” top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Besides the Columbia students, attorney Stanley Cohen’s clients have included a Hamas cofounder and Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law. Cohen has also repeatedly posed for pictures with Hamas honchos and defended the terrorist group’s violence.

“Hamas is not a person. It is not a movement. It is not an ideology,” Cohen wrote while mourning Haniyeh’s July 31 assassination. “It is the winds of freedom, justice and equality that can never be stolen from the hearts and souls of millions.”

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The Middle East is approaching two weeks since the Israeli killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran but the expected major Iranian retaliation still has not come. Things have ratcheted somewhat on Israel’s northern border amid the daily titi-for-tat with Hezbollah, but Iran’s ballistic missile launchers have remained silent.

Amid the waiting game, Jordan has reportedly informed Israel and Arab countries that it will not allow warring parties to use its airspace and is ready to confront any Iranian projectile that breaches its skies, as it did on April 13.

Sunni Jordan has very little affection for Shi’a Iran.

NBC News.

The murder-for-hire charge announced this week against a Pakistani national linked in court papers to Iran marked the fourth alleged Iranian assassination plot inside the United States over the past three years thwarted by the FBI, in what the attorney general called a “persistent” and “brazen” campaign by Iran to punish its enemies on American soil.

Among the questions raised by that remarkable, and remarkably unsuccessful, purported campaign: Why do the Iranians keep sending amateurs who seemingly get caught so easily? And what is the U.S. doing to deter this alleged rogue behavior by Iran?

Law enforcement officials and experts who study the Iranian regime say it’s more difficult than most people realize for Iran to carry out a covert operation inside the U.S. Iran has no embassy here to host intelligence officers, and the U.S. intelligence and border protection agencies have been fairly successful at keeping out Iranians with ties to that country’s military and spy services.

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A Somali culture-enricher didn’t just migrate to Germany, he was flown there, courtesy of the Federal Republic’s “Resettlement of Asylum Seekers” program. After his arrival, while subsisting on state benefits, he committed a series of crimes, culminating in the grisly murder of his roommate in a homeless shelter.

Judged to be a loony, he was sentenced to indefinite confinement in a loony bin. From there the story gets even more entertaining: he was allowed out on a supervised excursion so that he could go to the movies. That’s when — whoops! — he escaped.

By the way: the incident has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

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Apparently the problem is not that some Pakistani men are cowardly wife beaters, the problem is climate change.

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The Middle East teeters on the brink of a ruinous all-out regional war. Yet Israel did not want a wider and high-intensity war. Iran-backed Hezbollah does not appear to have wanted a wider and high-intensity war. And Iran, too, appeared not to have wanted a wider and high-intensity war. Only Iran-backed Hamas wanted a full-blown regional war. It may well get its way.

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Israel has informed Washington that if Hezbollah harms more civilians in a retaliation campaign for the assassination of its top military commander Fuad Shukr last week, Israel’s military will have no choice but to launch a disproportionate response.

“In the internal discussions with the U.S., Israel stressed that the cost of another Hezbollah mishap would be heavy and that Hezbollah would pay a disproportionate price if it harmed civilians as part of its retaliation,” a senior Israeli official told Axios.

The report continues, “Two Israeli officials said that in recent days Israel told the U.S. via several military channels that it is concerned Hezbollah could hit civilian population centers if it tries to target military bases in central Israel.”

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A high-ranking administrator of Columbia University found his apartment complex vandalized with anti-Israel sentiments, red paint, and insects early Thursday morning, the New York Post reported.

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Outrage as Iraq considers allowing girls aged nine to be married — “Would politicians let their nine-year-old daughter get married? I’m sure not but they would allow the oppressed Iraqi population to do so,” Suhalia Al Assam, a women’s rights activist, told The National on Wednesday.

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every American military base in the Middle East if the United States joins Israel in an attack on the Islamic Republic.

The fresh threat comes ahead of an expected Iranian attack on Israel in response to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week. Iran says it is preparing for a large-scale attack on the Jewish state as retribution.

“If the United States gets involved in any attack on Iran, have no doubt that the United States will be wiped out in Iraq, and the U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf region will be destroyed and those regimes that host the U.S. bases will be destroyed,” Mohammad Marandi, an adviser to the Iranian nuclear negotiating team, said in a Wednesday interview.

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On July 10, a Catholic man in Pakistan was gunned down. Marshall Masih, 29, was the father of four children and was targeted by Muslim neighbors after he objected to their harassment of local Christians, his family said.

Masih is one of the latest victims of severe Christian persecution in Pakistan, which is rated 7th on the Global Watch List produced by Open Doors, an organization that monitors global Christian persecution.

According to Open Doors’ 2023 “Pakistan: Full Country Dossier,” Christians in Pakistan were killed for faith-related reasons (including state-sanctioned executions). Churches and other Christian properties (houses, shops, businesses, schools, hospitals, and cemeteries, among others) were attacked, damaged, bombed, looted, destroyed, burned down, closed, or confiscated.

Christians have been detained, sentenced to jail or labor camps, and sent to psychiatric hospitals as punishment. They were otherwise physically or mentally abused (including beatings and death threats). Some were forced to leave their homes, go into hiding, or leave the country because of their faith. They were exposed to all these abuses for the ‘crime’ of being Christian.

Imagine what would happen if a ‘Christian’ country did that to Muslims.

We’d hear about it 24./7 for years.

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A 19-year-old man arrested in Vienna on Wednesday had been planning a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, local intelligence services announced on Thursday, August 8th.

“He said he intended to carry out an attack using explosives and knives. His aim was to kill himself and a large number of people during the concert, either today or tomorrow,” the head of the domestic intelligence agency, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner told a news conference. He was referring to three concerts by the U.S. pop singer that were supposed to take place at the Ernst Happel Stadium on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, but were cancelled due to the terror threat.

Funny thing how Christian and Jewish teenagers never plan bloodbaths at concerts.

I wonder why that is….

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As has been widely reported today, Taylor Swift’s planned concerts in Austria were allegedly targeted by mujahideen for the Islamic State.

The article below describes the heightened security that was planned in the wake of the first arrests. Just after it was posted, all the events were cancelled.

I guess they can’t stand her either.

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Denmark should not rule out the possibility of reinstating border checks on the Øresund Bridge that connects Copenhagen with Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest city, Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard said on Wednesday, August 7th. His statement followed the arrest of two “Swedish” nationals in relation to an explosion in the capital a day prior.

The fact that there’s a renewed discussion about reintroducing border checks between two EU members belonging to the Schengen area proves the point of the conservative parties in Brussels, who have long been saying that unchecked immigration crossing the EU’s external borders will eventually be the death of the bloc’s precious free movement zone.

The 24-year-old perpetrators of Tuesday’s Copenhagen attack, a man and a woman, are believed to have entered the country by crossing the Øresund Bridge before throwing some kind of explosive device into a kiosk in Østerbro, downtown Copenhagen. Luckily, no one was wounded in the incident and the perpetrators were quickly arrested. The police refused to give any further information about them, including whether they had Swedish citizenship or not.

The incident was not an isolated case. The bombing was the fourth case in less than a week involving armed perpetrators from across the strait, with ‘Swedish youth’ involved in three separate shootings in Copenhagen last weekend.

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A Jordanian taxi driver went on a rampage in Cologne yesterday, running down women with his car. It’s interesting that the city has a “police commission for rampage crimes” — evidently this sort of crime is common enough to warrant special police attention.

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A Syrian family in Stuttgart has racked up an impressive collective criminal record. As devotees of Allah living in an infidel land, they regard the kuffar as legitimate prey, and act accordingly.

Newsbusters.

The last time we heard from CBS correspondent Imtiaz Tyab, we watched him seethe over the IDF airstrike that killed Fuad Shukr, the Hezbollah military commander that was involved in the 1983 bombing of Marine Barracks Beirut that killed 241 Marines and, more recently, the drone bombing of a soccer field that killed 12 Druze children. I regret to inform you that Tyab is mad again.

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As the world awaits an Iranian retaliation strike against Israel, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah warned Tuesday of ‘strong and effective’ attacks on Israel.

The leader of the Lebanese militant group spoke on national television earlier Tuesday at the one-week memorial of Fuad Shukr, the group’s top military commander, who was killed in Israeli air strikes in Beirut.

MOMMMEEEE! Johnny hit me BACK!

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The commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, Ali Jamal Aldin Jawad, was eliminated Monday evening local time.

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The United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency has spent more than nine months denying its employees work alongside Hamas, dismissing these claims as Israeli propaganda. On Monday, the organization fired nine staffers for participating in the Oct. 7 terror spree that killed more than 1,200 Israelis.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) announced that it will fire a handful of its employees based in the Gaza Strip for working alongside Hamas as it slaughtered Israeli civilians. “For nine people,” UNRWA spokesman Farhan Haq said, “the evidence was sufficient to conclude that they may have been involved in the seventh of October attacks.”

It marks an abrupt about-face for the contested humanitarian group, which has long faced accusations that its employees double as Hamas agents and divert aid to the terror group. Israel alleges that at least 12 UNRWA employees directly participated in the Oct. 7 attack and that around 10 percent of its workforce is affiliated with the terror group, including around 450 employees who serve as Hamas foot soldiers.

‘Fired’? What ever happened to ‘executed’?

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The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ top leader, in Tehran last week has brought the Middle East closer than ever to the brink of all-out war ahead of the US presidential elections in November. After a two-week lull, Iran-backed Houthis targeted a Liberian-flagged container ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden, and rebel forces claimed to have downed a US military spy drone this weekend.

Bloomberg reported a Houthi missile struck the container ship “Groton” just above the waterline, causing minor damage to the hull.

British maritime agency UKMTO said Groton was “hit by a missile,” adding, “No fires, water ingress or oil leaks have been observed.”

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An anti-Israel group that scorned Joe Biden’s reelection bid over the president’s response to the Jewish state’s war on Hamas is now embracing Vice President Kamala Harris, saying she is more likely to push for a permanent ceasefire that would embolden Hamas.

The Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund endorsed Harris on Thursday, according to NBC News, making it the first Muslim group to back Harris that previously declared itself “uncommitted” toward Biden.

Harris, the group’s founder Salima Suswell said, received the group’s support because she skipped Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s congressional address and has otherwise “shown more sympathy towards the people of Gaza.” As a result, the group is hopeful that Harris will help it achieve its policy goals, which include an end to Israel’s war on Hamas that would establish the “rebuilding of Gaza as a Palestinian region, with no Israeli oversight.”

The odd affection for Islam by Americans of African descent as always struck people who are aware of Muslim involvement in the black slave trade as bizarre.

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US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a pre-trial agreement reached with men accused of plotting the 11 September 2001 attacks.

In a memo on Friday, Mr Austin also said he was revoking the authority of the officer overseeing the military court who signed the agreement on Wednesday.

The original deal, which would reportedly have spared the alleged attackers the death penalty, was criticised by some families of victims.

I have a question: Why are these people still alive?

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A Shia sect claims to be raising money to buy a remote territory in Scotland, which it would rule under Shia law.

Sheikh Yasser al-Habib and his Mahdi Servants Union (MSU) group are preparing such a bid. The cleric was in advanced talks to buy Torsa, a 270-acre island off the coast of Oban, Western Scotland, reports the Telegraph. To date, nearly £3 million (€3,557,280) of a £3.5 million target has been raised towards this target.

An MSU supporter filmed Torsa and two smaller neighbouring islands. This footage was included in videos posted to his Fadak TV channel, based in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, in which al-Habib says the island represents an “irreplaceable opportunity” to create a “homeland” for his brand of Shia Islam, administered under his interpretation of Sharia law. Promised new buildings include a Mosque, a hospital, and a hawsa (Shia seminary).

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Ever since the 2015/16 migrant crisis, Syrians have arrived in Germany in ever-increasing numbers, and now number at least 972,000 at the end of 2023, according to Statista. There are 22 million Syrians living in Syria itself, meaning those in Germany represent nearly 1 for every 20 in their native country.

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Payback is a bitch.

StrategyPage.

The Suez canal blockade by Yemen’s Iran-backed Shia Houthi militia and shipping continues. Ships traveling north in the Red Sea towards the Suez Canal have been under attack by the Houthis since late 2023. The Houthis are at war with Israel and still fire at ships more or less at random, though they contend they only fire on ships serving Israel. So far 60 ships have been attacked and half of them damaged. Two ships were sunk while two others were boarded by Houthi gunmen and captured. One was later released but the other one is still being held. Four sailors have been killed and eight wounded.

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An organizer for a prominent anti-Israel group complains that some “Palestinian political organizations” that he considers allies have been “criminalized.” His group doesn’t say which ones, though.

Mohammed Nabulsi, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, appeared to refer to organizations internationally recognized as foreign terrorist groups during an interview with the International Journal of Socialist Renewal, a left-wing publication.

The International Journal, which published the interview Friday, asked Nabulsi about the Palestinian Youth Movement’s “relations with organizations in Palestine.”

“It’s very difficult for us to directly engage Palestinian political organizations, because the dominant ones that are carrying the movement are deemed illegal and criminalized,” Nabulsi, a Houston lawyer, replied. “You really can’t engage in a direct way or in a coordinated way.”

You can, with the right caliber weapon.

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Outage tracking website Netblocks confirmed on X, “Network data show disruptions to multiple internet providers in France amid reports of a fibre sabotage campaign targeting telecoms infrastructure during the Paris 2024 Olympics.”

Bloomberg reports that fiber lines operated by the telecommunications company SFR were cut during the overnight hours. Internet traffic in the southern and eastern regions of the country was disrupted and has since been rerouted.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Sunday to invade Israel in order to support the Palestinians as the Israel Defense Forces continues to battle Hamas terrorists in Gaza, The Times of Israel reported.

I see a number of Turkish cities glowing in the dark….

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The so-called Extremism Commission (Ekstremismekommisjonen) was appointed by the Labour-led Støre government in Norway in June 2022. They published their report in the spring of 2024.[2]

The commission, which was supported by key figures in the Norwegian Labour Party, seems to conclude that people who disagree with the Social Democrats and their immigration policy are suspected extremists and possibly potential terrorists. This is perhaps not so surprising.

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It’s been almost two months since an Afghan failed asylum seeker killed 29-year-old police officer Rouven Laur in Mannheim, Germany. The Islamist attacker—Sulaiman Ataee, 25—also stabbed and seriously injured five other people, including 59-year-old activist Michael Stürzenberger, who was scheduled to speak at the May 31st anti-Islamism event.

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A recently arrived Algerian culture-enricher has engaged in a variety of less than salubrious activities in the German city of Freiburg, culminating in the alleged murder of a 77-year-old pensioner. The confused youth is now in the process of being extradited from Switzerland, whence he had fled.

It’s remarkable how busy this industrious New German has been since his arrival in Germany less than three months ago.

I’m certain that if the people who have been in Germany for a longer time had not been so racist towards him, this mixed-up youngster would never have engaged in all that ruthless criminal activity.

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Saboteurs struck France’s TGV high-speed train network in a series of pre-dawn attacks that caused chaos on the country’s busiest rail lines ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.

UPDATE: “Coordinated Sabotage” Paralyzes France’s Rail Network As Olympics Begin 

UPDATE: “Massive Attack” on French Railways Night Before Olympic Opening Ceremony

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Israeli forces recovered Wednesday the bodies of five hostages killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and held in Gaza since, the Israeli military said.

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Pro-Palestinian Supporters at Union Station in Washington, D.C., took down and burned an American flag before replacing it with the Palestinian flag, according to media reports.

UPDATE: Iran is Funding the Pro-Hamas Protests

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The Palestinian government will pay $16.4 million a month to imprisoned terrorists and their families, including nearly 900 Gaza-based fighters captured by Israeli forces in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack, a watchdog group found.

Payments by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to imprisoned terrorists have risen by $2 million a month, and are being reliably doled out even as the West Bank-based government teeters on the brink of financial collapse, according to watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch. The PA has recognized thousands of those terrorists as eligible for “pay-to-slay” payments in the wake of Oct. 7, including 899 who were captured in Gaza in recent months.

All told, “9,750 terrorist prisoners are now recognized by the PA as eligible for monthly terror rewards, up from 4,300 prior to October 7,” according to Palestinian Media Watch, which tracks the PA’s terrorist payment system. The watchdog group “calculates that once the processing of the new prisoners is complete, the PA will be paying a minimum of 59,560,000 shekels (about $16.4 million) a month in salaries to terrorist prisoners, up from 52,000,000 shekels (about $14.3 million) a month prior to October 7.”

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After a pause lasting five months, the new Labour government has announced that the UK will restart funding to a United Nations agency that Israel claims has been infiltrated by Hamas.

It was alleged that staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) were involved in the October 7th terror attacks, coinciding with criticism from MEPs about the longer-term use of European Union funds in Gaza. In January 2024, then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak halted British payments to the organisation. Despite Israel’s legitimate security concerns, UK funding of UNRWA has now resumed.

Israel says that dozens of workers from the UNRWA took part in October’s pogrom, which saw more than 1,100 Israelis killed and 251 hostages taken, and that intelligence points to “the deep and systemic infiltration by … Hamas into the ranks of UNRWA.”

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A “New Italian” originally from Pakistan lived up to a cultural stereotype by dragging a 55-year-old into the bushes and raping her. If only he had not been discriminated against by racist Italians, the unfortunate youth would never have engaged in such questionable behavior.

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The city of Dearborn, Michigan has been bestowed with the title of “America’s Jihad Capital”, and has fallen into civil war with itself over the war in Gaza, the Daily Mail reported last week.

Dearborn, near Detroit, Michigan, hosts the largest Arab American community in the U.S. As the death toll in Gaza rises with no political solution in sight, local sentiment has shifted.

The American Mind.

The Palestine Liberation movement is heading toward its endgame. Within the next few years, it will either succeed or fail—placing a primacy on understanding what its “success” and “failure” would mean for the world.

The Palestine Liberation movement was founded to ensure that the Middle East could not stabilize as long as it contained a Jewish state. Everything ever done in the name of Palestine has been in service of that goal.

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I remember a time (before Munich–remember Munich?) when that wasn’t thought necessary.

UPDATE: Israeli Olympians Receive Death Threats, Hate Messages  And that’s why.

UPDATE: French Leftist MP: Israeli Athletes “Not Welcome in Paris”  And that’s why.

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With more than half of German welfare payments going to foreign migrants, the state of Saxony-Anhalt has cut the benefits of asylum seekers who refused to pick up debris following heavy flooding in east Germany.

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More than seventeen years ago I wrote about the Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or Sensitive Urban Zones (ZUS), in France. They are dangerous culturally enriched neighborhoods that firemen and ambulance drivers won’t enter without a police escort, and which the police themselves avoid unless they absolutely have to go there. In English they are commonly referred to as “no-go zones”.

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A Paris police officer was attacked and stabbed by a 27-year-old foreigner on Champs-Elysées on Thursday, mere days before the start of the Paris Olympics. The attacker was shot by another officer, and died from the injuries from that gunshot wound. This knife attack comes just days after a man stabbed and wounded a French soldier patrolling Paris on Monday outside the Gare de l’Est train station in eastern Paris.

Paris police were responding to a call from security personnel at the flagship Louis Vuitton store on one of the city’s most famous promenades, according to a post on X by French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. The security officers had noticed a man exhibiting “suspicious behavior” outside the store and called the police, according to a police official. The man then attacked one of the officers with a knife.

Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez said the attack did not appear linked to the Olympics and no terrorist motive was suspected. Nevertheless, it comes just days before the world’s premier sporting event starts in the French capital—and hot on the heels of another attack on police.

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Yesterday, smoke rose from a city of just over 500,000 inhabitants in West Yorkshire, namely the city of Leeds, around 10% of which is now Muslim. A very large number of the Muslim minority took to the streets to riot. A bus was set on fire; buildings and cars were smashed apart; and police personnel were attacked, with many of their vehicles being damaged, including at least one police car being overturned. Police were forced to flee the area in which the violence was erupting, and thereafter, the rioters were seemingly left in peace to continue their rampage.

The proximate reason for this explosion of violence remains as yet unclear, though the media have been reporting that it began with some sort of “family incident.” The general reason for this riot, however, is certainly known to the whole country. For decades, the ordinary English inhabitants of England have witnessed their country being transformed by the colonisation and repopulation of their towns and cities by arrivals from abroad. They have looked to the media and the political class for some critical consideration of what has been taking place, and they have heard nothing but the sound of crickets. If anyone was unwise enough to speak out about what was happening, he was subjected to accusations of ‘racism’ and ‘xenophobia’ and his career was put at risk. This culture of censorship, that soon gave rise to a culture of self-censorship, has been extremely effective.

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Desecrations of Catholic places of worship in France have increased exponentially in recent months. Most recently, a church in Paris was vandalised using acts of extreme violence.

The vandalism occurred on the night of Sunday, July 14th at the church of Notre-Dame du Travail in the 14th arrondissement in the south of Paris. The building was defiled by explicit and violent tags calling for war, decapitation of Christians, and threatening to burn the church down.

The next day, the parishioners discovered a fire had broken out, but fortunately, it did not catch, thus avoiding irreparable damage.

Many of the inscriptions found were explicitly Islamic in nature: “Submit to Allah the infidel, pray 5 times a day,” “Bastard Jesus, only one god, Allah,” for example, could be read on the walls of the sanctuary.

Would a mosque in Riyadh ever get vandalized with Christian slogans? The question answers itself.

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Sometimes the phrase ‘tone-deaf’ is entirely inadequate.

Adidas said it will revise a campaign that features Palestinian-American supermodel and activist Bella Hadid modeling a sneaker recalling the 1972 Munich Olympics — the Games where 11 Israelis died in a terror attack by a Palestinian terrorist group.

Various Jewish and pro-Israel leaders and institutions said Hadid, who has been harshly critical of Israel in her activism on behalf of Palestinians, was an inappropriate choice to represent a sneaker associated with those games.

The official X account for the State of Israel posted about the 1972 campaign, accusing Hadid and her father, Los Angeles real estate developer Mohamed Hadid, of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories and asking Adidas for comment.

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Cuts down on the number of suicide bombers.

“They said, Here’s your back pack, and I gave it right back and said no, no, no….”