Ever since the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) conquered the Syrian capital Damascus with Turkey’s help in December of 2024, HTS fighters and their affiliated militias — often offshoots of ISIS and al-Qaeda — have been massacring religious minorities throughout the country. The internet has been flooded with images — some discredited as old or manipulated, but many not — of Alawite men, women and children being barbarically shot at close range.
An Islamic State financier from Toronto has admitted he used online fundraising platforms to collect tens of thousands of dollars for the terrorist group’s fighters overseas.
At the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Monday, Khalilullah Yousuf pleaded guilty to terrorist financing and participating in terrorist group activity.
Driver jailed for murdering biker who did wheelie
A driver who chased and murdered a biker by deliberately ramming him with his car after seeing him do a wheelie has been jailed for life.
Abdirahman Ibrahim, 21, “weaponised” his Seat Leon and twice drove into Liam Jones, 22, as he rode his e-motorbike in Sheldon, Birmingham, on 1 August 2023, Birmingham Crown Court had heard.
Ibrahim remained emotionless in the dock as he was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 22 years on Monday.
NEW: Man fatally mows down e-bike rider to “teach him a lesson” for doing wheelies
Abdirahman Ibrahim, 21, followed Liam Jones, 22, to a quiet residential street in Stechford, Birmingham, and rammed into him twice
West Midlands Police released CCTV footage after Ibrahim was… pic.twitter.com/D2TxVNEQEg
— Unlimited L’s (@unlimited_ls) February 19, 2025
My parents were Anglophiles. Therefore, I was an Anglophile, gobbling up Masterpiece Theater, majoring in British history at college, and spending an utterly delightful junior year abroad in England a long, long time ago. Of late, though, I’ve come to revisit my fondness for England. That’s because England doesn’t really seem to exist anymore. Instead, it’s an increasingly Third World country, complete with blasphemy laws, and a likely collapse of its power grid.
The trigger for this, my latest in a series of essays I think of as illustrating that “there won’t always be an England,” is a article in the Daily Mail that looks at the city of Leicester.
In three of the areas affected by the sex abuse scandal, victims’ families and campaigners say children are still targeted, and a culture of fear endures
It’s just past 3pm in Rotherham town centre when groups of teenagers make the short walk from Rotherham sixth-form college to the bus station interchange. Some huddle inside, laughing together at videos on their phones. Others linger outside, waiting to meet friends and boyfriends. It’s a standard scene in any town on a midweek afternoon. But for some people in the town, teenagers congregating there is causing concern.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election victory speech included a note of humility: “Over my long career, I have made many mistakes, and I will make more, but I commit to admitting them openly, to correcting them quickly, and always learning from them.” Yet it is too late to correct one of his big mistakes. Will he at least admit to and learn from it?
During the election campaign, 28 Liberal candidates (19 of them elected) signed onto a five-point anti-Israel Vote Palestine platform. Vote Palestine began as a BDS project, and quickly gathered steam after a trial run in the 2021 election. The platform contains demands — such as a two-way arms embargo against Israel, a full boycott of Israel-controlled territories and recognition of Palestine as a state — that do not reflect current Liberal policy. In total, 362 candidates signed on.
A Muslim housing development in Texas is under investigation by the Justice Department amid concerns it would “violate the constitutional rights of Jewish and Christian Americans”.
The proposed development, put forward by the East Plano Islamic Centre (Epic), is touted as a “thriving ecosystem” that “paves the way for prosperity” and would be centred around a mosque and a private Islamic school.
Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, accused the planner of creating an exclusively Muslim community that would impose Islamic law on residents.
Axel Rudakubana, the man jailed for the murder of three young girls in Southport, has attacked a prison guard inside the high-security prison where he is being held.
The 18-year-old is said to have thrown boiling water over a prison officer on Thursday afternoon, requiring the officer to go to hospital.
Police and the prison service are investigating the incident, including how he was able to access the scalding water.
His kofia, the flat cylindrical hat favoured by Somali Muslims, gleams white as he picks me up at the station. A flowing kameez tunic gathers in his lap beneath the steering wheel.
‘Welcome to Leicester, sharif [Sir]!’ says ‘Ahmed’ with a grin.
Originally from Somalia, Ahmed – he doesn’t want me to use his real name – is a publisher, amateur historian and part-time imam. He will be my guide to the city.
‘Are you a meat person?’ he asks. ‘Let’s go eat.’
Interview with author Douglas Murray: ‘Canada has disgraced itself’
With rising Jew-hatred, what might be the tipping point for Jewish North Americans?
DM: It’s extremely hard to say, because everybody has their own early warning system in their heads, in their hearts. All I would say is that many Jews in the West have felt the first time in their lives, the re-eruption of hatred of Jews.
And by the way, nowhere more so than in Canada. To my mind, Canada has disgraced itself in the last 18 months by showing that that anti-Jewish hatred is permissible and is tolerable in a way which hatred of no other group would be.
I would submit that if there were a large number of protests across Canada calling for lynching of black people or Indigenous people or gay people or anything else, that all of the strength of government and civil society would condemn the people doing that. Swiftly, too.
This is the great shame of Canada, that synagogue after synagogue and Jewish school after Jewish school across Canada should have been attacked, fire bombed, shot at. Canada’s politicians, if they care about Canada’s view in the world, should address this. But of course, seems that they’re doing the classic thing of feeding the crocodile.
The average Canadian does not share the toxic values of our elite.
Our political class, the crony capitalists who crave cheap foreign labour and the 5th columnists who infiltrated the academy and our government bureaucracy are responsible for this mess, ordinary Canadians had nothing to do with it.
Canadians were bullied and bludgeoned with the smears of Islamophobia and racism if they dared declare the obvious, that Islam is a violent cult and should never have been allowed to gain a foothold in Canada.
Rather than admit their lunatic decision to import Islam was a horrid disaster our government encouraged DEI programs that ensured white working class people were scapegoated as Canada’s “official national oppressors”. All because our skin tone automatically makes us Nazis.
So it should be a slam dunk that Canada’s many many millions of Nazis could make a case that the Swastika has been culturally appropriated by Islamists and their useful idiots.
Unfortunately Islamist marches have more “Jews For Palestine” in their ranks than wannabe white Hitlers nixing that notion.
I wonder what plans Carney’ immigration advisor Wiseman has in store for us. What other countries besides Canada does he think should enjoy the benefits of unvetted mass immigration?
Please forgive my confusion but why should we rally to our cynical elites call to fight an evil they imported and continue to support? Wouldn’t that be Islamophobic?
A gift from Canada’s elite to you.
Had enough of these pigs? I sure have. @fancypants_s https://t.co/gKjslEi3mJ
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) May 10, 2025
Prosecutors have rewritten charges against a man for burning a copy of the Koran after being accused of resurrecting the offence of blasphemy “by the backdoor”.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has amended the charge against Hamit Coskun, 50, who set fire to a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London so that he is no longer accused of harassing the “religious institution of Islam”.
MPs and lawyers had claimed the phrase was tantamount to reintroducing a blasphemy offence and “plainly defective” as the “religious institution of Islam” was not a person under the Public Order Act through which Mr Coskun was being charged.
Does freedom of speech include the right to blaspheme? In 21st-century Britain, you’d have thought the answer would be ‘yes, obviously’. Our last blasphemy conviction was in 1977. England’s blasphemy law was abolished in 2008, having been a dead letter for decades. The centuries-long struggle for free speech in this country, as in so many others, was built on defaming gods, kings, clerics, prophets. Without the right to blaspheme, there is no right to speak freely. But in this identitarian age, what was once taken for granted is fast melting into air.
A paedophile who plied a 10-year-old schoolgirl with booze and drugs before grooming her to perform sexual acts on his friends has had his jail sentence increased to 24 years.
Yusuf Kayat, 54, sexually abused the primary school child, who he met when he was 19 and she was 10, more than 30 years ago between 1989 and 1992.
He was known to her as ‘Kosh’ and would drive her around in his car in Dewsbury and Mirfield, West Yorkshire, and buy her alcohol, cigarettes and cannabis, before forcing her to engage in sexual activity with him and his friends.
The days of exclusionary signs at golf clubs have been replaced by open calls for jihad in Jewish neighborhoods. This will not end well.
Late last year I sat down to breakfast in Ottawa, Ontario, with Dr. Einat Wilf, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She had come to Canada’s capital to speak about the war in Israel, what Palestinians really want, and the future of a possible two-state solution. Near the end of our chat, I asked if she had seen any of the “pro-Palestinian” rallies that had become a weekly occurrence in the city. “One of them went by my hotel last night,” Wilf said. “There’s a very dark energy to them. Serious pre-pogrom vibes.”
The word pogrom is the Yiddish word for “devastation” or “destruction.” What it refers to, historically, are the mob attacks that were a regular feature of life for Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries—attacks that most often were passively or openly supported by the state.
The Canadian state has chosen to side with the Islamists for good reason.
It was the state that enabled Muslim immigration and now it has blown up in their faces.
The bureaucrats and politicians responsible for this fiasco fear having to face accountability for their heinous act of social engineering.
So they chose to double down and support these latter day Storm Troopers because they fear them more than they fear the Jews and anyone else for that matter.
In a just world they would be in shackles and they know it.
A few decades ago, no one would have believed that a Western European country would have to resort to legislation to ban virginity tests in order to protect the lives of women and girls, yet here we are.
The Swedish government is now preparing to criminalize the practice, which currently only carries the risk of professional disciplinary action if discovered.
According to the proposal, medical professionals who partake in “virginity control” and issue “virginity certificates”—based on the observation of the hymen—or carry out surgical procedures aimed at restoring the hymen will be subjected to criminal charges.
