Five years after he was first arrested, a Calgary man accused of travelling to Syria to fight with the Islamic State has been found guilty on three counts of participating in terrorist activities.
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Germany on high alert to protect Christmas markets from terrorism
Under a rainbow-lit dome, hundreds of people gathered to drink pink glühwein and watch Jacky-Oh Weinhaus, a celebrity drag queen, at the opening week of Berlin’s LGBT Christmas market.
“This is an adult market,” said one of the security guards at the entrance, solemnly. “I have a duty to tell you your children may see pictures of penises and things of that nature.”
Until three years ago, the Christmas Avenue festival was held out in the open on Nollendorfplatz, the heart of the gay district, immortalised nearly a century ago by the Berlin novels of Christopher Isherwood.
Claims Afghans Were ‘Vetted’ Contradict Federal Investigations And Common Sense
On Friday President Donald Trump announced his administration would pause asylum processes and stop issuing visas to Afghans in response to the shooting of two National Guardsmen, one of whom later died. It was an Afghan national, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, admitted into the United States through a Biden-era program, who allegedly shot and killed Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and critically injured Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe.
Of course, the propaganda press insisted this was an isolated tragedy and certainly not evidence of a failed system.
We didn’t listen to Churchill
Two West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot just before Thanksgiving Day (allegedly) by an Afghan terrorist immigrant. While one has died and the other remains in critical condition, the question remains why they were shot. The answer may well have been given to us 126 years earlier by a young Winston Churchill.
Before 3:00 pm on November 26th, three Guard members were on foot patrol, blocks away from the White House. Suddenly, without warning, the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, jumped from behind a corner. Armed with a revolver, he first began shooting at Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20.
Europe’s Growing ‘Honour Killing’ Problem
Last May, two brothers allegedly bound their 18-year-old sister in packing tape, gagged her, and drowned her in a swamp. This was an honour killing, motivated by what the girl’s brothers saw as her ‘westernisation.’ During the trial last week, WhatsApp messages revealed that the family’s main grievances were the fact that she had refused an arranged marriage, had a boyfriend, and had stopped wearing a headscarf. “There is no other solution,” one of the brothers wrote in a message. The girl’s own mother said that she was “a disgrace to the family and deserves to die” and should be “wrapped in a shroud.” In a secretly recorded conversation, one brother said he believed the family had been humiliated by the girl’s behaviour, and the only way out was her death.
Portland sparks outrage for city’s woke ‘tree’ lighting ceremony: ‘They can’t even say Christmas tree’
Portland has sparked outrage after stripping its Christmas tree of its name, referring to it only as “the tree” during its lighting ceremony.
As thousands gathered in Pioneer Courthouse Square for the Oregon city’s 41st annual tree-lighting on Friday night, leaders and speakers avoided mentioning “Christmas” at any point — including in the ceremony itself and the event’s ads.
Vienna …
In Vienna, they surrounded Christmas markets and called for Islamic jihad. This won’t end well. pic.twitter.com/zy7e6vUp4G
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) December 1, 2025
The jihadi mastermind who fled MI5 to bring Isis back from the dead
When word came from the interrogation room that a captured Isis fighter had divulged the location of Abdul Qadir Mumin’s hideout in a cave high in the arid mountains of northern Somalia, it was only a matter of hours before US jets were in the sky and raining down missiles.
The soldiers who went to inspect the wreckage found a number of charred corpses, but none of them were Mumin’s. Once again, the man believed to be Islamic State’s global leader, had slipped through their fingers.
Captain Omar Yusuf Mohamed, 40, is an officer in the Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF), which has been fighting an international cadre of militants in a brutal war to decapitate the terror group. “The day we kill Mumin will be the happiest day of my life,” he said. “He’s like a virus that has come here and infected our land with his ideology of hatred, and brought death and suffering to our people.”
Kristi Noem claims suspect in national guard shooting was ‘radicalized’ in US
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, claimed on Sunday that the suspect in the national guard shooting in Washington DC was “radicalized” in the US and blamed the Biden administration, though the suspect’s asylum was approved under Donald Trump.
The shooting suspect, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was granted asylum under the Trump administration in April 2025. He worked with CIA backed units in Afghanistan, coming to the US in September 2021 under an Operation Allies Welcome program.
“We believe he was radicalized since he’s been here in this country,” Noem said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “We do believe it was through connections in his home community and state, and we’re going to continue to talk to those who interacted with him, who were his family members, who talk to them.”
The problem with Islam is the violence at its heart
BRITISH people, according to polls and to ‘lived experience’, have a problem with Islam. That is not a ‘hate crime’, and we must be allowed to talk about it.
The problem is that Islam is both unregenerate and inherently resistant to regeneration. Other religions evolve, while maintaining their essence, as ‘time makes ancient good uncouth’. Islam does not do this. It cannot do this; or rather, it cannot do this without denying its foundational selling point: that the Koran is, quite literally, the word of God.
How Somali Fraudsters Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness.
Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
At first, many in the state saw the case as a one-off abuse during a health emergency. But as new schemes targeting the state’s generous safety net programs came to light, state and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality.
France’s Schools Are on the Verge of Collapse: Uncontrolled, unassimilated immigration is destroying the French education system.
French schools are failing badly. A report from the Observatory of Immigration and Demography (OID), published this week, lays bare the extent of the education system’s struggle with immigration. The report’s author, teacher and writer Joachim Le Floch-Imad, delivers the verdict that “immigration is not the primary cause of our schools’ problems, but it exacerbates all of their difficulties.”
After all, France’s demographics have changed at a rapid pace, placing unprecedented pressure on classrooms, teachers and the basic mission of the school system. In 2024, 31% of newborns had at least one parent born outside the EU. Births to two non-EU-born parents are up 74% since 2000. Today, 40% of children under four in France are either migrants or have a migrant background. And more than one in five fourth-grade (aged nine and 10) speaks a language other than French at home.
The strange silence over slaughtered Nigerian Christians is ending
Douglas Todd: More people in the West are overcoming ignorance or indifference to learn about the atrocities being visited upon many church members in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country.
There are many reasons that massacres of Nigerian Christians haven’t received much media attention in the West, particularly compared with the coverage of conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
And one of those reasons is that many Nigerians, including in Canada, are afraid to speak out publicly against the atrocities carried out by Jihadist extremists and others, some of which occur during worship services. NGOs estimate tens of thousands of deaths and abductions.
This Is War
The day before Thanksgiving, a “thoroughly vetted” military age male, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, decided he had pressing matters to attend to that didn’t involve spending the holiday expressing gratitude to the United States for granting him asylum and giving him an unearned and unprecedented opportunity to build a life here, rather than languish another half century in that squalid dump we call Afghanistan. Rather, he decided that jihad took precedence, and opened fire on two National Guardsmen who were spending their holiday not with family, but on the streets of our own squalid dump we call Washington D.C., in an effort to keep its beleaguered citizens safe.
What drove the DC shooter?
WHAT DROVE THE DC SHOOTER? Three days before an Afghan refugee ambushed two National Guard soldiers in Washington, killing one and critically wounding the other, Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin appeared on ABC News to express her fear that members of the Guard would soon attack innocent civilians. “It makes me incredibly nervous,” Slotkin said, “that we’re about to see people in law enforcement, people in uniformed military, get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians.”
Slotkin, of course, had it completely wrong. In real life, the Guard did not attack civilians. A civilian attacked the Guard.
Over 5K Afghan migrants flagged on ‘national security’ grounds since 2021, document reveals
More than 5,000 Afghans brought to the US after American forces withdrew from the country got flagged for “national security” issues, Department of Homeland Security data obtained by The Post reveals.
In all, the feds uncovered “potential derogatory information” on a total of 6,868 people who came from Afghanistan as part of President Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome in 2021.