An Algerian woman who raped, tortured and killed a 12-year-old French schoolgirl has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Dahbia Benkired, 27, was handed the maximum possible penalty by a Paris court for the killing of Lola Daviet, making her the first woman to receive a full life term in France.
The week-long trial into the 2022 killing caused political outrage after Benkired was found to have overstayed a student visa and failed to comply with a notice to leave the country.
Wednesday evening, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s official X account posted an AI-generated campaign attack ad against his opponent in the New York City mayoral race, titled, “Criminals for Zohran Mamdani.” The video features several criminal characters endorsing Mamdani due to his proposed decriminalization policies: a domestic abuser bragging that a “kumbaya” social worker will show up instead of an officer; a smug shoplifter comforted by decriminalization laws; a drug dealer hailing the policies as open season; a sex trafficker revealing a van full of women and boasting of better business; and more. It ends with a protester burning an American flag and declaring, “Long live the intifada.”
This is the wildest attack ad I’ve ever seen in politics. Andrew Cuomo pulling out all the stops. pic.twitter.com/rPQ77Z3bE7
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) October 23, 2025
An Islamic preacher who was banned from Britain earlier this year has now been barred from entering Canada for a planned countrywide speaking tour.
The preacher, Sheik Uthman ibn Farooq, was prohibited from entering the U.K. by the British government in May after it was reported he had said it would be permitted under Islamic law to have sex with females taken as captives in war.
I give him credit for being true to the Islamic cult’s beliefs.
Here’s a sample of the true Islam he preaches
HEY TEXAS—LISTEN UP
Radical preacher Sheikh Uthman Ibn Farooq is moving to Texas—and it’s no accident.
This is the same man who openly defends chopping off hands, pledges to fight his own father if he opposes Islam, and mocks Muslims who “water down” Sharia.
He’s not… pic.twitter.com/adf00ySxoP
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) May 2, 2025
If we don’t close the UN, the UN will close the West and replace it with the “Global South”.
Since they made the mistake of sabotaging his teleprompter, Donald Trump spoke off the cuff at the UN and said the unadulterated truth – that “your countries are going to hell,”
Which countries? Those who have massacres in synagogues, those where Islamic terrorism is being celebrated in the streets, those with terror plots against Notre Dame and heads of government.
Under these conditions, the next five years will be the last electoral cycle for Western Europe. Then it will no longer make sense to place hopes in the 2033 or 2045 elections. It will already be in hell.
What has become clear is that liberal democracy may not depend on shared ethnicity, but it absolutely depends on a shared culture.
At a Fidesz party meeting last weekend, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán opened his remarks by noting how Donald Trump has been forced to deal with extraordinary efforts by the liberal establishment to destroy him.
One day earlier, anti-Trump forces around the U.S. gathered for coordinated public protests called “No Kings 2.0.” It was kind of a joke, honestly. Critics noted the disproportionate presence of white liberal Baby Boomers. Well, it turns out that a conservative research team relying on publicly available information discovered that the No Kings movement is funded by—surprise!—George Soros and other progressive oligarchs.
But his parents thought he was a ‘good boy’ and it was all ‘someone else’s fault’
A headteacher today described the Southport killer as ‘sinister, unpredictable and the most unusual’ pupil she had ever encountered in her career.
Axel Rudakubana was enrolled at The Acorns School, in Ormskirk, Lancashire, aged 13, after being expelled from mainstream education for taking a knife into classes.
Headteacher Joanne Hodson told the public inquiry investigating his crimes that, from his first day, she realised the teenager was ‘very high risk’.
To quote Malmö’s imam Basem Mahmoud, “whether Swedes like it or not, in ten or fifteen years, Sweden will be ours.”
The cinemas in Malmö refused to host the Jewish Film Festival.
Out of seven cinema chains, not one theater in Sweden’s third-largest city had the courage to host an innocent Jewish film festival. No more “Fiddler on the Roof”.
From shtetl to casbah.
In Britain and the United States, there are signs that creeping Islamization has now accelerated to a gallop.
Until recently, America viewed the erosion of Western norms by Islam as a British and European problem from which America was largely immune. That is now far from the case.
Last week, the 34-year-old Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, the New York state assemblyman who is the runaway favorite to become mayor of New York City in next month’s election, posted pictures of himself at Masjid At-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y., with its imam, Siraj Wahhaj, who he described as one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders.
If Zohran Mamdani is elected the next mayor of New York City, he will face the next anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America as either an undisguised hypocrite or honest enough to reveal his expansive contempt for a nation that remains the beacon of freedom around the world.
Try as he might, on that solemn day of remembrance, Mamdani will not be able to have it both ways.
Elon Musk’s blunt warning that “violence is coming” to the UK because of its failed immigration policy dating back decades has turned out to be chillingly prophetic. Within just weeks of the tech entrepreneur issuing his dire warning, two Jewish worshippers were killed and three others wounded in a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester, carried out by a Muslim jihadi.
The unprovoked attack, which took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, should serve as a warning to the US and other Western countries about the dangers of lax immigration policies.
The narrative of London having miraculously escaped the scourge of child rape grooming gangs may be on the verge of starting to unravel, with accusations of a “cover-up” being levied as investigations have uncovered potential examples of abuse operating in the British capital.
OTTAWA — A Bangladeshi man in U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody is permanently barred from returning to Canada, a Canada Border Services Agency spokesperson said.
Mahin Shahriar, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi national who had lived in Canada since 2019, said he inadvertently crossed the Canada-U.S. border in May and has been in ICE custody ever since.
In an interview from an ICE detention facility in Buffalo, N.Y., Shahriar said he believes he was led across the border in a human trafficking attempt by “a friend” who offered him a place to stay while he was dealing with mental health issues.
I represented more Muslims than any other Conservative MP for the best part of a decade in High Wycombe from 2001 until 2010. I was elected a few months before 9/11, and stood down after a procession of horrors: the Afghanistan war, the Iraq conflict, 7/7, 21/7, the attack on Glasgow airport, two major conflicts between Israel and Hamas and one between Israel and Hezbollah. The first house in which I lived in the constituency turned out to be close by the home of the quartermaster of a plot to blow up a transatlantic aircraft.
During the 25 years that have passed since I was first elected, most British Muslims have been quietly getting on with their lives – like everyone else. But our common life together, in key respects, is getting worse rather than better.
Islam does not play well with others.
Keir Starmer’s national grooming gang inquiry has suffered a blow after a prominent survivor resigned from its overseeing panel saying she disagreed with a shortlist of two possible chairs.
Fiona Goddard, who was abused by an organised street gang in Bradford while living in a children’s home, stepped down on Monday from the victims survivor liaison panel, voicing concern over political interference and the “condescending and controlling language used towards survivors” during the process.
Two prospective candidates to chair the inquiry, the former deputy chief constable Jim Gamble and the chair of the child safeguarding practice review panel, Annie Hudson, are due to meet the panel on Tuesday.
A cruel farce.
I’m sending you an extra newsletter today because I’ve just read (in French) a stunning interview in Valeurs Actuelles, the Paris magazine. I reproduce it below in translation; the italics are in the original:
Is France on the verge of tipping over? “With 28 knife attacks per day, the country is no longer safe. We’re heading straight for disaster,” Jean-Louis Sanchet replies bluntly. This private security consultant created and commanded CRS No. 8, the national police’s specialized unit for combating urban violence from 2021 to 2023.
