An asylum seeker who abducted and raped a 12-year-old girl has been given a 16-year sentence.
The attack by Afghan national Ahmad Mulakhil last summer led to protests in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.
Jurors last month found the 23-year-old guilty of rape, abduction, sexual assault and taking an indecent video.
A victim of the grooming gangs scandal has accused the government of “another betrayal” after it emerged that key evidence could have been destroyed caused by Home Office delays in ordering the retention of records.
The department has admitted that it took seven months to write to police forces and other agencies to formally request they preserve records relating to grooming gangs in their area.
Fiona Goddard, who was groomed and repeatedly raped by a gang of men of Pakistani heritage in Bradford from the age of 14, said the admission had further undermined trust with survivors.
A senior Left Party politician in Berlin is now under criminal investigation over a widening rape cover-up scandal that has already rocked the capital.
Prosecutors have opened proceedings against Sarah Nagel, Neukölln’s youth councillor, on suspicion of obstruction of justice.
The probe follows earlier revelations that a state-run youth club in the district failed to report the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl—reportedly out of concern about “stigmatizing migrants.”
In this wide-ranging conversation with Mic Martin, we discuss the structure of Islam as presented in the Koran and the Sunnah of Mohammed, and how these sources shape law, society, and relations with non-Muslims. The discussion draws on experiences going back to London in the 1970s, later work administering legislation, conversations with its victims, and many years of study of primary Islamic sources.
An NHS doctor charged with posting on social media in support of Hamas shouted ‘game on’ today after being released on bail.
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court where she indicated not guilty pleas to four counts of inviting support for the proscribed group.
The court heard the charges date from July 23 to December 31 last year, and relate to comments or material posted online.
Oct 7 jewelry?
That’s an October 7th necklace. How many more people like this are there in the NHS and other institutions across the UK? https://t.co/6j0tO635pL
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) March 27, 2026
An Egyptian asylum seeker accused of gang-raping a lone, drunk woman on Brighton beach claimed he filmed the assault to gather evidence for police, a court has heard.
Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, who arrived in the UK on a small boat, said he was shocked when he saw two of his friends raping the woman behind a beach hut.
The 33-year-old woman has claimed she was dragged onto the beach and raped after a night out with friends in the seaside city on October 4 last year.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says Canadian national security agencies are looking into a B.C. company accused of financial ties to the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.
The RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service are “reviewing the situation and then they will have more to say,” the minister, who oversees the agencies, said on Wednesday.
And once again we learn of skullduggery from our neighbor to the south.
In a viral clip, Hitchens spoke about the Muslims’ centuries-long slave trade against Europeans and Americans. He understated the severity of the problem.
Aviral clip is making the rounds showing Christopher Hitchens, who passed away in 2011, giving a talk in 2005. In it, he discusses the Barbary slave trade that captured an estimated 1.5 million Europeans and Americans over several hundred years. If anything, Hitchens understated how aggressive the Islamic world was against the West.
Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We… pic.twitter.com/hbRRR4mCYP
— Taya (@travelingflying) March 21, 2026
It’s not uncommon to see camouflage on the high street in Belgium. It is a peculiarly Belgian reflex: when the state feels the strain, it reaches for the army.
This week, the federal government has done so once more. Soldiers have been deployed to bolster security around Jewish sites and neighbourhoods in Brussels and Antwerp, following a spate of clumsy but troubling attacks across Belgium and the Netherlands. Synagogues have been targeted with arson and a Jewish school struck by an explosion. Mercifully, no one has been injured and the damage has been minor. Yet the intent is clear, and the authorities have been quick to identify the incidents as anti-Semitic acts.
There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned blasphemy debate to get the blood pumping and temperature rising.
After all, you got the incendiary mix of religion, politics, and free speech all rolled into one messy debate. In Great Britain, the debate revolves around whether the nation can be made safe for “Mohammedans,” as Winston Churchill charmingly referred to Muslims. (Referring to Muslims as “Mohammedans” is not a slur. It’s an adjective. And if I can’t use an adjective as a “charming” descriptor for Muslims, I will turn myself in for violating America’s blasphemy laws. Just as soon as Congress passes one.)
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree faced pointed questions Tuesday about why the federal government has deported one Iranian official, despite longstanding concerns about how the regime operates in Canada and abroad.
Finding himself in the hot seat before a parliamentary committee, Anandasangaree said Canada is “aggressively trying to remove” members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — a branch of Iran’s military that Canada listed as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code in 2024 — but said due process has to be followed.
VANCOUVER — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a global network of 16 individuals and entities, including a company in Canada, accused of laundering and diverting more than $100 million to Hezbollah since 2020.
“We all would fight and die for Canada,” declares Abraham Abougouche (BULLSHIT) as snow pelts against his office window. The “we” Mr Abougouche pledges are the staff and pupils of Edmonton Islamic Academy (EIA), the largest of its kind in the Americas. He is the principal. His office bears symbols of a dual identity: boxing gloves emblazoned with the Palestinian flag hang opposite a cabinet of ice-hockey memorabilia. That balance is tricky. “Assimilation,” he says, can be “dangerous if done blindly…you’re going to lose your own personal identity, your own connection with your ancestry.”
Many Muslim parents across Canada share his anxiety. They worry that the country’s state-school system—which mostly separates religion from education, allowing religious schools to operate privately—may distance their children from Islamic values or expose them to Islamophobia. Most Muslim pupils attend the state system, but data from the Islamic Schools Association of Canada show rising enrolment for private Islamic schools. There are long waiting-lists for existing schools and new ones are opening fast.
Security agencies and the police believe Iran could be behind the arson attack on four ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer service.
The agencies have not ruled out Tehran’s involvement in the attacks, in which four Hatzola ambulances were set on fire in Golders Green, north London. They are understood to be keeping an open mind about the attack, which is being treated as a hate crime. No one was injured.
BREAKING 🔴🔴
An IRGC terror group in the UK, called Ashab al-Yamin takes responsibility for torching 4 ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer EMT services in Golders Green, London last night.
The terrorists are on the loose.
The UK is dealing with a serious problem. pic.twitter.com/z728w4R17d
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 23, 2026
Monday, March 23rd saw soldiers deployed on Belgian streets, initially in Brussels and Antwerp. The initial three-month commitment will involve 200 soldiers, tasked with protecting Jewish community sites. Operations will be extended to Liège, including military backing for the railway police—and for large-scale integrated police operations (FIPA).
While the troop contingent will guard synagogues and schools, part of its assignment also includes working against the Kingdom’s burgeoning narcotics trade, especially in the capital.
