Islam and violence

I wrote something on Friday here about Pope Leo’s recent exhortation to love the poor, as Christians should, but complaining, and complaining bitterly, about the part of the document in which he said Christians have a moral duty to open the door wide to migrants. I didn’t send that to the entire list of subscribers, just the paid ones (there are seven times more unpaid subscribers than paid ones), but enough of those who saw the piece put it, or parts of it, on Facebook that I’ve gained over 100 new subscribers in the past 48 hours. That has never happened. So I’m going to post it again to the entire list today, below. There’s clearly demand for it.

The storm over first-cousin marriage deepened last night after experts linked it to terrorist financing, money laundering and people trafficking.

Tories called for the marriages to be banned after The Mail on Sunday revealed last month that NHS guidance promotes their ‘benefits’ despite an associated increase in birth defects.

The marriages are also connected to unregulated, untraceable ‘hawala’ financing – a way of transferring money worldwide that depends on family ties and doesn’t leave a paper trace.

Where were the warning signs, we ask about monsters like the Manchester killer. The answer is: in their domestic lives

Before he made a fake suicide belt and purchased real knives; before he drove his black Kia into a crowd of worshippers gathering outside a Manchester synagogue; before he stabbed and killed and terrorised British Jews on their holiest day, Jihad al-Shamie acquired three wives.

Not serially but cumulatively. The moment a police marksman ended his life, Shamie was married to three women. However, the crime of bigamy, which carries a seven-year sentence under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, did not apply here, since at least two of the marriages were conducted only under sharia law. Besides, Shamie wasn’t a big believer in bigamy. “In Islam a man can have up to 4 wives,” he texted Wife Two, whom he had not told about Wife One, “but these days most women don’t accept it.”

An Afghan migrant has been convicted of threatening to kill Nigel Farage.

Fayaz Khan threatened to shoot the Reform UK leader in a TikTok video after Farage criticised his plan to illegally cross the Channel in a small boat, Southwark crown court was told. He had previously been jailed in Sweden for saying that he would stab and rape a woman.

A Western pathology has shown its face: passion and admiration for the barbarians, hidden under the flag of pity. Little do they know that the barbarians will soon turn on them.

7.000 Islamists took part. They invaded Israel by land, sea and air. Among them, 3,800 members of Hamas’s elite forces, Nukhba, and its Al-Qassam Brigades, and 2,200 members of other terrorist armies, like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Another 1,000 pogromists remained in Gaza to launch rockets at Israel.

1,182 Israelis dead. Another 4,000 were injured. Of the dead, 863 were civilians. 251 people were abducted, 210 of whom are alive, 41 dead.

Two years have passed and there is still new footage we’ve never seen. Now you can see footage of the death squads kidnapping children from the Be’eri kibbutz.

Free speech advocate peer Lord Young hailed a “huge victory” after the conviction of a man for burning a Koran outside the Turkish consulate was overturned by a superior court on Friday.

BREAKING: MAJOR VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH! HAMIT COSKUN WINS HIS APPEAL AGAINST ISLAMIC BLASPHEMY LAW

The Free Speech Union is delighted that Hamit Coskun’s appeal has been successful.

Hamit was convicted under the Public Order Act for burning a copy of the Koran during a… pic.twitter.com/cDOnQaoYPH

— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) October 10, 2025

h/t Patti Jo

This week in October marks the anniversary of an epic event that is not widely known in America except among history buffs, but which nonetheless dramatically shaped the future of the Western world, and which may still hold inspiration for us in the West today.

After the death of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in 632, Islam spread like a bloody tide throughout the Arabian peninsula, north to the Caspian Sea and east through Persia and beyond, westward through Egypt and across North Africa all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. From there it crossed the Straits of Gibraltar and consumed virtually all of the Iberian peninsula, or al-Andalus as the Saracens called it. In a mere one hundred years, the warlord Muhammad’s imperialist legacy was an empire larger than Rome’s had ever been.

Giorgia Meloni has called for a burka and niqab ban in public places in Italy with fines of £2,600 to stop ‘Islamic separatism’.

The bill, presented to parliament by the Italian prime minister’s Brothers of Italy party on Wednesday, would see those wearing the garment in shops, offices, schools and universities fined between £260 and £2,600.

It will also introduce criminal penalties for ‘cultural crimes’ including virginity testing and increase punishments for forced marriages to up to 10 years in prison, with religious coercion grounds for prosecution.