Watch it.

We have the technology.

New York Post.

Disturbing video appears to show a Hamas fighter using a young child as a human shield to transfer weapons into a civilian home in Gaza during Israeli operations in the territory.
The aerial footage, taken from an Israeli drone, was shared by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to show the twisted methods the Palestinian terror group is using to prevent Israeli air strikes.
In the clip, the young boy is seen struggling under the weight of a large rifle, at one point staggering as if about to fall over, as a suspected militant directs him down the street.

The Telegraph (UK).

An executive games engineer for The New York Times was shot dead by his 77-year-old in-laws in a California car park, police said.

Jonathan McKinsey, 40, the newspaper’s head of engineering for games player experience, was found with gunshot wounds in the Bay Area suburb of Dublin and pronounced dead at the scene.

Shouyong Zhang, his father-in-law, and Shili Chen, his mother-in-law, were arrested soon afterwards and are being held in jail.

Chinese family values…?

ATQUE: Trans NYT exec threatened to kill wife, scared their kids with chilling book before his in-laws shot him dead: docs (New York Post)

UPDATE: Tim Pool has something to say about it.

The Telegraph (UK).

Berlin will be plunged into “huge chaos” under a hard-Left administration, German property developers have warned.

Elif Eralp, the Die Linke leader in Berlin who is trying to form a coalition to run the city and become mayor, has pledged to seize ownership of 200,000 apartments to address a housing crisis.

Her housing policy was a key vote-winner for liberal residents in Berlin in the state elections on Sept 20. The capital was once known for being “poor but sexy” yet has seen rents soar by nearly 70 per cent over the past decade.

Open borders will do that to you.

The Telegraph (UK).

Police officers were lectured about Nigel Farage in a publicly funded talk about Islamophobia, The Telegraph can reveal.

Of course they were.

Officers at a “hate crime conference” attended training sessions that compared the Reform UK leader’s opinions, specifically his doubts about the compatibility of Islam with British values, to a racially aggravated offence.

For the Crust, ‘hate crime’ is anything that disagrees with the Narrative.

The North Yorkshire Police officers were asked to consider the “harm” done by Mr Farage, and then told that the politician would be “locked up” if he were similarly critical of Jewish people.

This is what happens in countries without the free speech protections of our First Amendment.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

The War Zone.

On Sunday, NBC News reported that Marines were injured during an Iranian cruise missile attack while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Sept. 14. The network’s sources said the Marines were not on a U.S. Navy ship, but they did not identify which vessel they were on. However, a former Royal Mail vessel that at one point was being converted into a floating armory stands out as a strong possibility.

While much remains unclear about the Sept. 14 incident, there was only one vessel known to have been struck that day, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) and a maritime security official we spoke with. The ship was eventually identified by several maritime media outlets as the M/V St. Helena. Again, the St. Helena’s involvement remains unconfirmed, but the ship’s interesting background is of particular note.

The War Zone.

The U.S. Navy’s schedule for getting USS Connecticut, one of its prized Seawolf class nuclear attack submarines, back into service has slipped into next summer. The boat suffered severe damage, especially to its bow, in a collision with an underwater seamount in the South China Sea in 2021. The service had previously hoped that repairs would be finished before the end of this year, and planning is also now underway for the submarine’s retirement in 2031. This would mean it could serve for just four years before being pulled from service once and for all.

The only thing that saves us is that other governments are even more stupid than our government.

The exact reasons for the delays are unclear.

What’s clear is that our ship maintenance facilities are highly incompetent. Maybe we ought to outsource that to the Chinese; they don’t seem to have these problems.

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But you knew that.

Malcolm Caldwell is what I like to refer to as an intelligent idiot. A man with an encyclopedic breadth of knowledge and understanding, a world-class mind with powerful thoughts, and yet absolutely no idea how to apply any of it.

The world seems to be full of intelligent idiots. The examples are endless.

Not the Bee.

In a scene reminiscent of Biden’s America, a migrant caravan with hundreds of people is making its way across Mexico toward the U.S., planning to arrive sometime around the November midterms.

Sarah Hoyt.

The biggest delusion of the left is not that you can redistribute wealth and make everyone prosperous. That one is bad, yes, but not the worst. Heck, even their belief that wealth cannot be created, cannot be destroyed, can only be distributed is bad but not that bad.

Their worst illusion is that they can infinitely tweak humans and human societies to be exactly what they want them to be.

They believe, absolutely, at bone-deep level that humans and cultures are infinitely plastic. Which lays at the heart of their worst offenses against the west specifically and of how they’re taking civilization apart. (And why they hate us, they really hate us, because we don’t just obey, but that’s a side effect.)

Not the Bee.

Except that they are, by definition, not firearms. But that never stopped a Democrat eager to distort the common language in pursuit of a political agenda.

Not the Bee.

I guess they were chagrined at being left in the dust by places like Detroit and Chicago.

Fortunately these amateurs don’t pretend to compete with professionals like Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Not the Bee.

Trying to report actual news rather than the satire put out by their colleagues at the Babylon Bee is sometimes more trouble than it’s worth, when reality conspires to be more fucked-up than fiction.s

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The White House returned over half a billion dollars previously appropriated by Congress for programs serving illegal immigrants. While conservatives praised the return of federal funds, the rare action by President Donald Trump has lawmakers scrambling, with some members calling it an illegal check on Congress’ power of the purse.

On Friday, the White House Office of Management and Budget returned $810 million of taxpayer funds appropriated by Congress that were soon to expire on Sept. 30. The move, known as a pocket rescission, is a rare check on legislative power provided by the Impoundment Control Act.

The good guys win one for a change.

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A parent’s first duty is not complicated. It is to love a child, form a child’s character, and prepare that child to be a productive member of society.

Schools exist to help with that work by teaching children. They do not exist to replace it.

That distinction is now under pressure. In some academic circles, a new language has taken hold. Adults are recast as “oppressors.” Children are recast as “the oppressed.” Ordinary parental guidance—to wait for mature intimacy, dress with dignity, respect the rules of the house—is treated as a kind of tyranny called “adultism.” Once that frame is accepted, the family is no longer the first school. It becomes the problem schools seek to correct.

Time to quit sending children to government (proglodyte-run) schools.

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No state should get to decide what type of car or lawn mower Americans across the country can buy. Yet that is the result of an arrangement under the Clean Air Act that allows California to seek federal waivers to impose more stringent vehicle emissions standards than those adopted by the federal government.

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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., called for the release of an Islamic militia leader convicted of having led, operated, and participated in actions that resulted in the deaths of Israelis in the early 2000s.

Khanna acknowledged Marwan Barghouti’s criminal conviction but still justified his remarks by stating that the militia leader is also a Palestinian politician who is well respected among Palestinian factions.

“Releasing Barghouti does not provide him with a pardon or moral absolution of crimes he may have committed,” Khanna said in a video he posted on X over the weekend.

“So long as occupation continues, the intifada will not stop,” Barghouti said as he entered an Israeli court in 2004. “As long as Palestinian mothers are weeping, Israeli mothers will also weep.”

Barghouti is serving five life sentences after having been convicted in 2004 of complicity, one count of attempted murder, and one count of membership in a terrorist group involved in a spree of attacks that claimed the lives of a Greek Orthodox monk in the West Bank in 2001, one Israeli at the Jewish settlement of Givat Zeev in 2002, and three people at a Tel Aviv seafood restaurant.

Democrats: Party of Foreigners and Terrorists.

Amodei critics target Trump with hit piece before White House dinner (Maria Curi/Axios)

CNN’s Daniel Dale Pens Scathing Feature Recounting 10 Years Of Decoding Trump’s ‘Remarkable Number of Lies’ (Jennifer Bowers Bahney/Mediaite)  No mention of 40 years of CNN’s lies.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Newsbusters.

With less than 40 days remaining until the 2026 midterm elections, the Elitist Media are in full rehab mode for some of the left’s more controversial candidates. The latest example: NBC’s Kristen Welker, doing a little image rehab for Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Watch as Welker reassures viewers that El-Sayed is absolutely, positively, pinky swear totally NOT a communist.

Sure, I believe that. Regardless, he’s still a Muslim, which I worry about more than the prospect of his being a communist.

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Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson Saturday compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrols to lynch mobs and likened current political battles over LGBTQ issues to the civil rights movement.

HRC, the nation’s largest LGBTQ activist group, has sharply criticized Trump’s policies on transgender issues, including restrictions on military service for people diagnosed with gender dysphoria and opposition to transgender medical procedures on minors.

“This is a dark time in America,” Robinson said at the HRC annual dinner in Washington, D.C. “They say that history doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes, that the ghosts of our unsettled sins continue to haunt us.”

“The story of Nolan Wells echoes the story of Emmett Till,” she said. Wells, an 18-year-old, mysteriously died in Georgia this summer, while the 14-year-old Till’s 1955 murder became a rallying point for the civil rights movement. “The ICE patrols look a little too similar to lynch mobs. The purging of the voter rolls looks just like poll taxes, and the attacks on our trans children, they are just as haunting.”

Robinson repeatedly framed current conflicts over transgender policies as a continuation of historic civil rights struggles, arguing that government actions targeting transgender identities echoed forms of discrimination previously directed at black Americans.

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Supporters of women’s sports and sex-based protections have reason to celebrate. The Department of Education announced Sept. 28 that it is formally rescinding the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX rule and reinstating the 2020 Title IX regulations promulgated under the first Trump administration.

Ongoing litigation has prevented the Trump administration from being able to formally rescind the illegal 2024 Biden regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations, even though the Department has been following the 2020 Trump-era Title IX regulations since January of last year.

In April 2024, the Biden administration had issued final regulations rewriting the more than 50-year-old civil rights law, Title IX, to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Essentially, it allowed boys who claim to identify as girls to participate in girls’ and women’s sports at schools that receive federal funding.

It all comes down to ‘federal funding’. These people are whores for ‘free’ government money.

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Some trace much of our current hard times back to the rebellious sixties when we baby boomers came of age and took the arrogance of youth to new levels. Quoting Adam Smith after the horrible year of 1968 would have been an act of wisdom.

Tragically, those crazed baby boomers went on to infiltrate four critical pillars of our civic infrastructure — specifically, K-12 education, colleges, journalism, and entertainment media. For decades, all four of these pillars have been sources of problems, not sources of solutions. They have been causing ruin for over 50 years.

When over a third of our society is in favor of socialism, believes capitalism causes poverty, thinks society would be improved by closing jails and prisons, thinks open borders are beneficial, thinks giving sanctuary to violent criminals from foreign lands is noble and wise, and lack the wherewithal to recognize that Hamas, not Israel, is the aggressor in the Middle East, we are dangerously close to the limit of just how much ruin we can absorb.

Read it.

This is the Met Office in Britain, but I doubt that the U.S. functionaries are any more honest.

New York Post.

And who could blame them?

New York Post.

Chalk up one for the good guys.

New York Post.

A dozen teens were shot after gunfire broke out at a chaotic birthday party gone awry inside a Georgia park Saturday night, according to local authorities and reports.

The shots broke out around midnight at Carolyn Crayton Park in Macon, where a “large gathering” had congregated following a birthday party at a nearby Airbnb, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said.

Two of the victims –- a 17-year-old boy and an 18-year-old boy — were left in critical condition, while the other 10 were listed in stable condition.

Guess that ethnicity!

New York Post.

How appropriate.

My world—and welcome to it.

The Telegraph (UK).

British police are facilitating breaking the law.

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The first thing I bought when I got to college in 1974 was an IBM Selectric typewriter. It cost me $1,000, which was a lot of money in 1974, and it was the best money I ever spent. A typewriter was so much a part of my life that when I went home for the summer, having left the typewriter in storage at school, I bought a little Smith-Corona portable so that I would have one available.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’ (Aram Roston/The Guardian)  Whenever the Narrative Media purport to tell you ‘The Truth Behind” something, you can be sure they’re just making shit up.

Trump administration uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress (Associated Press)  They can’t say he doesn’t have the power, so they whine about it being ‘rare and contested’, as if that had anything to do with it.

Iran’s Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump (Robin Wright/New Yorker)  Well, quit attacking ships and supporting terrorism and murdering Jews just because they’re Jews would probably be a good first step.

How the Trump Administration’s Election Plan Is Falling Into Place (Wall Street Journal)  Don’t you love how all of these TDS ‘journalists’ pretend they can read Trump’s mind about his ‘plans’ and ‘real intentions’ and God knows what else?

Lawmakers slam Trump’s move to cancel $810M in funding approved by Congress (Michael Birnbaum/Washington Post)  Spend that money! Buy those votes!

CBS Reporter Tries Making Pope’s France Trip About Trump  As they do.

Donald Trump Hit With 26 Articles Of Impeachment (Billal Rahman/Newsweek)  I doubt that he even noticed.

Trump says he approved new fuel economy standards, rolling back Biden-era rules (Amelia Lucas/CNBC)

Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)  Guts! Wow, look at all those Clean Car Rules guts spread over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut….

‘The MAGA Flag Is in Tatters’ (New York Times)

Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King? (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)  Yet another Lefty ‘journalist’ who thinsk she can read Trump’s mind.

House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option (Lisa Mascaro/Associated Press)  Democrats always have big plans, most of which involve spending other people’s money and persecuting people they don’t like.

A ‘Big Problem’: Trump’s War With Iran Drags Down Republicans in Midterms (Tim Balk/New York Times)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

Poll: Trump’s MAGA loyalists don’t think he has an affordability problem (Jessie Blaeser/Politico)  Gee, I wonder why? Perhaps because he doesn’t.

Trump Promotes Criticism of Republican Who Broke With Him on Immigration (New York Times)  Goodness, how astonishing.

I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned (Daniel Dale/CNN)  Lie early and often to promote the Narrative.

Daniel Dale: An In-Depth Examination of Trump’s Lies  No in-depth examination of CNN’s lies, of course.

Newsbusters.

On Friday’s Morning Joe on MS NOW, the show continued misinforming viewers about the recent ICE shooting in Austin in spite of the fact that fact checkers like Fox News host Will Cain had already debunked some of the claims pushed by liberals.

Read it.

Higher education is suffering through a self-inflicted crisis of declining public confidence. Only now are its faculty members and administrators starting to recognize that fact, but they collectively remain incapable of acknowledging the heart of the issue.

That’s my take from a recently released report from Cornell University titled “Report of the Committee on the Future of the American University.” The Wall Street Journal reported that it “confronts the crisis in higher education.” But I disagree. Instead, it plucks at a few well-known but serious issues that plague modern colleges and dodges the real cause of the crisis.

In fairness, a separate, largely accurate Wall Street Journal editorial calls the report a “limited self-critique,” but I’d go even further than that. I’d say that it’s an attempt to sidestep and distract from the bigger problem that the authors know exists but want to ignore (because abandoning it would be akin to abandoning their religion).

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I bet you didn’t know that.

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Just in case you were wondering.

Saturday Evening Post, a relic of a better time.

Today, vending machines are an ordinary sight in offices, hospitals, subway stations, and other high-traffic locations, offering everything from snacks and drinks to fresh meals with the tap of a card. But the idea of purchasing a product without interacting with a seller is far from modern.

The first known automated dispensing device was designed in Roman Egypt — an imperial province that served as an economic powerhouse for the Roman Empire from 30 BCE to 642 CE — by a Greek engineer and mathematician named Hero of Alexandria. The automated device served as a tool to ration goods and prevent theft without requiring regulation by a temple attendant.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

Newsbusters.

Here a Crack. There a Crack. Everywhere a Crack Crack!

Yes, if Politico is seeing cracks (of the GOP variety) then you know it must be election season. And right on cue with a little over a month left until the midterm elections Politico is seeing huge cracks in the Republican party. In fact they are so insistent on GOP cracks that you almost get the sense they want Republican-inclined voters to get demoralized and neglect to vote this year.

For an example of how much Politico is desperately hyping the GOP Crack theme you need only to look at their Friday front page. The big crack headline at the top of that page (as of this writing) has a couple of Florida crackers, Gary Fineout and Kimberly Leonard, boldly declaring that things are so bad for the cracking GOP in Florida that they seem to need a life boat to rescue them from the inevitable: “‘We are hemorrhaging’: Cracks emerge in GOP’s Florida firewall.”

Just a couple of stories down, Politico’s Myah Ward and Erin Doherty gaze upon yet more emerging crack in “Poll: A crack is emerging in Trump’s coalition over deportations.”

Let us now watch the “Cracks emerge in GOP’s Florida Firewall,” or at least what the pair of Florida crackers desperately want us to believe is emerging:

Newsbusters.

MS NOW’s Ari Melber welcomed author Naomi Klein to The Beat on Friday to continue her End Times Fascism book tour. Both would hail New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “compelling offer against fascism,” while showing a fundamental lack of understanding of what fascism actually is.

In their eyes, fascism is anybody who disagrees with them. Pretty straightforward.

The Foundry.

Two hypothetical college graduates who are married now have a combined annual income of $240,000; they each earn $120,000 per year.

Should an American who graduated from high school but never went to college—and who now works as a delivery truck driver, earning $43,950 per year (the median annual earnings for that job) be forced to help pay off the federal student loans of these two college graduates who make $240,000?

If former President Joe Biden had gotten his way, that truck driver and other hardworking American taxpayers would indeed have seen their tax dollars help pay off those loans.

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Palestinians in the Italian city of Turin — and presumably their allies among left-wing extremists in Italy — have chosen October 7 as an appropriate day to express support for Gaza and celebrate the “resistance”.

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When Nick Freitas walks down a city street in the opening scene of his new documentary, recounting his days as a Green Beret, most viewers might think he’s somewhere in the Muslim world. I certainly did.

He’s in Britain. And the transformation he documents there, driven by decades of mass Muslim migration and a political class unwilling to demand assimilation, is one Americans ignore at their peril.

Freitas, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, joined me on “Midterm Report” to discuss “The Immigration Crisis That Will Destroy the West,” a film he made with The Heritage Foundation and The Blaze. It features Heritage experts Mike Gonzalez, Nile Gardiner, and Lora Ries.

Asked how a nation is demoralized and destabilized, Freitas has a simple answer.

“In the simplest terms, you give it an identity crisis,” he told me. “And I think we’re suffering that in the West in general, and we’re starting to see it become a significant problem in the United States.”

Poll: A crack is emerging in Trump’s coalition over deportations (Politico)  The Crust love polls, especially those whose results they can jigger.

Duckworth: Trump’s Arch Could Threaten Air Safety

Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map (Jason Rosenbaum/NPR)

Senators Tell Trump to Uninvite Putin From the G20 Summit (Hamed Ahmadi/The Washington Sun)  Because, for politicians, virtue-signaling is more important than actually getting anything productive done. Your Tax Dollars At Work.

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for ‘Musk’ (Exclusive) (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter) Trump cooties!

White House blocks CNN from trip on Air Force One (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

ABC Still Bashes Trump Over White House Media Bans and Iran At End of Xi Summit

Trump’s disruption to TV coverage during Xi visit frustrates Chinese officials (CNN)

Trump Is Predicting Midterms Success but Republicans Are Starting to Panic (Wall Street Journal)  They hope, they hope, they hope.

White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee (CNN)

Trump Angers Lawmakers With $810 Million in Cuts (Joseph Pisani/Wall Street Journal) Spend that money! Spend that money!

White House Removes CNN From Planned Weekend Trip (Melissa Korn/Wall Street Journal)

CNN ‘Barred’ From Trump Trip to Tennessee, React As You Would Expect

Trump posts map showing ‘Trump Strait’ off Iran, and other Mideast developments (MS NOW)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

A 7-Day Standoff That Said So Much About Trump and the Media (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)  More about the latter than the former.

‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)

Trump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting. (Ilan Greenberg/Politico)

White House Blocks CNN From Air Force One (Erik Wemple/New York Times)

Poland to Pay Up to $4.4 Billion for Fort Trump, Report Says (Wojciech Moskwa/Bloomberg)

House Democrats Plan Broad Trump Oversight, Impeachment Possible  Possible? Almost certain.

White House TV pool appears to be back in operation, but CNN’s media analyst calls situation ‘fluid’ (Hallie Golden/Associated Press)

Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit,  as he so often does.

Not the Bee.

My, what a surprise.

‘Trans’ people are demonstrably mentally ill. ‘Parthers’ of ‘trans’ people are arguabley even more mentally ill.

And yet their vote is as good as yours…. (Depending on the state, sometimes even better.)

Newsbusters.

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart’s Friday appearance on PBS News Hour provided a revealing look at the media’s Main Character Syndrome as he falsely declared that journalism is the job protected by the Constitution while taking a victory lap on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico returning to the White House. Meanwhile, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks was not completely useless. While he criticized Trump for the initial ban, he also criticized the media for being too friendly with Democrats.

Host Amna Nawaz and asked Capehart to juxtapose Trump’s actions with the fact that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping was in town for a state visit. Capehart began incorrectly declaring, “Everything is upside down, Amna. One, covering the White House, access to the White House is a right. It is a public facility. The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of our role of informing the citizenry. And so this is another example of the president sort of warping what it means to be in the White House, to be president of the United States.”

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his first United Nations speech this week to announce a ‘National Centre for Information Defence’ – a new state machine to “detect, attribute and disrupt” what ministers call hostile information attacks, and to stop a “distorted and untrue narrative about Britain.”

Unfortunately for him, most of the ‘distorted and untrue narrative about Britain’ come from the Left, the Narrative Media, and the Labour Party.

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An 18-year-old woman has been gang raped and beaten by up to ten different men, many of them with a Syrian background, in the Dutch city of Dordrecht. Although the rape occurred in May 2025, the suspects are only now being arrested. In response to the rape, political leader Geert Wilders wrote that the Netherlands also has Islamic grooming gangs and called for all the perpetrators to be removed from the country along with their families.