Islam

Three Iranian former asylum seekers have appeared in court accused of spying for Tehran.

The three men, who had been granted leave to remain after arriving in Britain in lorries and small boats, were charged with engaging in conduct likely to assist a foreign intelligence service between Aug 14 last year and Feb 16, this year, following an investigation by counter-terror police.

Mostafa Sepahvand, 39, Farhad Javadi Manesh, 44, and Shapoor Qalehali Khani Noori, 55, all living in London, appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court flanked by eight prison officers after being arrested earlier this month on suspicion of committing offences contrary to the National Security Act 2023.

Many Muslim illegal migrants who move to Western nations are happy to take welfare and benefit from our greater material prosperity yet retain their barbaric Islamic ideology. This is the enemy within.

Not all, of course, but too many Muslim immigrants to Western countries (especially the males) aim to turn those countries into Islamic sharia hellholes too. They import their misogyny, violence, hatred, and sexual perversion from their Muslim nations straight to their new homes. Take two recent stories, one from America and one from the UK.

Renowned novelist Sir Salman Rushdie has backed out of a college commencement speech at the eleventh hour amid intensifying backlash over “troubling statements.”

Claremont McKenna College President Hiram Chodosh wrote in a campus-wide email Tuesday that Rushdie, 77, had decided to withdraw as graduation keynote speaker for its May 17 ceremony, the Daily Bulletin reported.

“This decision was his alone and completely beyond our control,” Chodosh wrote. “We remain steadfast in our commitment to Sir Salman’s visit to CMC and have extended an open invitation to him to speak on our campus in the future.”

CRUELTY upon cruelty. Lucy Connolly, one of the most egregiously persecuted Southport protesters, appealed yesterday against her jail sentence of two years and seven months for a tweet which she deleted and apologised for. The Appeal Court did not need time to make a judgement. But they did. She still doesn’t know whether she’ll have to rot in jail with serious criminals for another two years. That the judge delayed making a decision – which should be obvious to any reasonable lawyer – is yet another damning indictment of our injustice system.

Besides the growing number of UK residents who are Muslim to begin with, there are the others for whom the fear of a violent Muslim backlash dictates the limits of free speech. This in the land of the Magna Carta, no less.

We live in strange times, when the Pulitzer Prize is awarded to the Palestinian Arab poet who attacks Israeli hostages and denies that the Bibas children were strangled and mutilated in Gaza.

Strange times, given that the “thoughtcrime” prophesied by George Orwell’s pen – those committed by those who dare to think things that the “Ministry of Truth” has decided should not be thought – is now a reality in the country of the author of “1984.” Orwell’s book was written in 1948 when the Soviets had swallowed up half of Europe and were eager for more.

The backlash against Keir Starmer has begun. Some senior figures within the Labour party have criticised the Prime Minister’s warning on Monday that Britain is in danger of becoming an ‘island of strangers’.

Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, and Eluned Morgan, the first minister of Wales, are among those who believe the PM is being alarmist. Morgan said one should not use ‘divisive language when it comes to immigration.’ She added that reducing immigration, in the manner Starmer outlined on Monday, would damage Wales’s care sector.

And also presumably the country’s hairdressing industry. Yesterday it was reported that the town of Porth in south Wales (population 5,970) will soon have its 14th barber shop, this one run by a Kurdish businessman.

“They think women can be afraid on the street, but they don’t make the connection with immigration.”

Collectif Némésis is a French association that defends women’s safety in public spaces and women’s values in European civilisation. We spoke with its founder, Alice Cordier, about why she started the association, what it has achieved, and what frustrates her about the right wing when it comes to standing up for women’s rights.