A series of gangland-style killings in inner-city Brussels has highlighted the city’s continued descent into narco-terrorism, with one local mayor warning that drug gangs have “taken the city hostage.”
Police descended on the southern municipality of Saint-Gilles early on Wednesday morning as locals reported the fatal shooting of a local dealer by rivals just hours after a similar gun attack in the same area.
The country’s self-image as tolerant, decent and hard-working is being smashed. It’s only going to get worse
Britain’s decline over the past 25 years has been staggeringly rapid. Almost everything is getting worse, and almost nothing is getting better. Our public and private institutions are broken, presided over by an incompetent, selfish and narcissistic ruling class. Living standards, when adjusted properly for living and property costs, are declining.
Even the simplest things don’t work any longer. Queuing, scarcity and congestion are rife, our infrastructure is embarrassingly poor, and the honest and hardworking face endless bureaucratic battles to obtain what they are due. Free riding, crime, disorder, fraud, littering and generalised rule-bending are rife, and all too often tolerated by apathetic citizens and an indifferent state. Britain’s residual virtues, our individualism, independence of mind, tolerance and openness, uniquely appealing features of our national character, are fading.
Read this and sub Canada for Britain.
A family who left a young bride in a vegetative state after she was poisoned with prescription pills and doused with a corrosive substance have been jailed for seven years.
The victim, Ambreen Fatima Sheikh, 39, originally from Pakistan, was “tricked or forced” into taking glimepiride — a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes — in July 2015 because she had “not lived up to expectations” following her arranged marriage to Asgar Sheikh.
A row has broken out after a judge who decided to let three women wearing parachute images at a pro-Palestine march walk free admitted to liking a social media post branding Israel a ‘terrorist’.
Tanweer Ikram is facing calls to be investigated for a conflict of interest after he liked a LinkedIn post calling for a ‘free Palestine ‘ by a barrister who had previously promoted conspiracy theories claiming that Israel allowed the October 7 attack.
The senior district judge admitted to liking the post ‘by mistake’ three weeks ago, but was told by the Judicial Office that the matter would not be investigated further.
The federal government paid to have a “high-speed” ship on stand-by to evacuate Canadians in Lebanon, then later canceled the $440,000-a-week contract after five weeks, deciding it wasn’t needed after all, officials say.
Joining with one or more other countries to put the ship on retainer — and later scrapping the deal — underscores the tricky logistical and political challenges Ottawa faces around the conflict on Israel’s border with Lebanon.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a demonstration outside of Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital on Monday a “reprehensible” display of antisemitism.
Trudeau posted a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, in response to reports of a protest outside of the institution, which was founded by the Jewish community in Toronto over a century ago.
With permission:
A female Jewish doctor who was trying to drive home when the protest in front of Mount Sinai Hospital started said that her car was stopped by the crowd.
There were demands by protesters that she honk her horn in support. When she asked protesters to move, they… pic.twitter.com/vzo7cx69GB
— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) February 13, 2024
h/t Sweetpea
Aroma Cafe, Mount Sinai, Davos, Crowncrack.com, Soho Theatre and many more instances of anti-Semitism reported in just the last 48 hours.
It seems an international coordinated effort is underway to push the boundaries of publicly acceptable anti-Semitism.
Gone are the days when a Swastika or a chant of “From the river to the sea” were the “extreme”.
The goal now is to intimidate people and institutions with an implied if not actual threat of violence.
The brazen unashamed thugs tearing up hostage posters and the open support of Hamas atrocities as legitimate resistance were my first clues that a page had been turned.
Though the numbers of Pro- Hamas protesters marauding about are smaller today their choice of targets has succeeded in pushing the envelope and making the streets of Toronto “safer” for worse acts of anti-semitism to come.
Large-scale protests are inevitable and given the size of the GTA’s Muslim diaspora potentially very violent.
Will our police be prepared? I don’t know. This is a hot potato our politicians hope just goes away without having to risk the Islamist vote.
This is the Canada we live in. The Canada destroyed by identity politics and the mass immigration of incompatible cultures.
There’s more anger at a Wall Street Journal op-ed for noticing radical rhetoric in Dearborn than at the rhetoric itself.
Democrats and journalists are upset at the Wall Street Journal.
They can’t explain why, exactly. They only know the paper did a terrible thing.
“27,000 people dead in Gaza,” Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief Louisa Loveluck, currently reporting on the war in Gaza, wrote last week on social media, “most of them civilians, as the world’s most powerful newspapers publish stories likening Arabs to insects, aid operations to terrorist outfits, and an entire Muslim community in Michigan to jihadists. The world is upside down.”
The Church of England has admitted for the first time that it may have been “scammed” by asylum seekers falsely claiming to have converted to Christianity to boost their chances of staying in the UK.
The Rt Revd Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, the Bishop of Chelmsford, conceded it was “very difficult” to look into the hearts of converts and be 100 per cent certain that they were genuine.
How Western media treats the ‘Islamic threat’
Edward Said, a Palestinian Christian scholar, wrote that those who control Western media are powerful and can be dangerous because they are able to shape peoples’ thoughts. Said’s book “Covering Islam” opened my eyes as a student and framed my engagement with the media.
In the post-cold-war era the West had moved from the “red scare” to the “green menace.” The flavour of the day, or more accurately flavour for the decades to come became the “Islamic threat.” Said’s Occident v. orient thesis popularized in his book, “Orientalism,” became more vivid.
Then as a lawyer in the wake of 9/11, Said’s thesis came alive again, but this time the zeitgeist broadened to go beyond foreign Muslims, to include Western Muslims like me. Through some Western eyes, even the “them” living among “us” can be the “enemy.”
Can be the enemy? We’re all those terror attacks listed by TROP committed by Christadelphians?
Islam is the enemy. It is a 5th Column whose goal is the destruction of the West.
The suspect in the Clapham chemical attack most likely drowned in the River Thames, police believe.
Abdul Ezedi had been on the run after a 31-year-old woman and her two children, aged three and eight, were doused with an alkali substance last Wednesday.
The CCTV of the last known sighting shows him on the bridge just before 11.30pm last Wednesday.
Two years ago, Éric Zemmour was the most talked-about man in France and a serious contender to be the ninth president of the Fifth Republic. A controversial journalist turned incendiary politician, he vied with Marine Le Pen for second place behind Emmanuel Macron in the polls. Crucially, he seemed to have something she lacked – an ability still to appeal to the Catholic bourgeoisie while tapping into widespread anger at mass immigration.
But then Russia attacked Ukraine, the mood of Europe changed, and Zemmour’s political fortunes sank as quickly as they had risen. He finished a distant fourth in the first round of the presidential election, with 7 per cent of the vote. The experience did not put him off running for high office, however, and today he is back in campaign mode looking ahead to the European elections in June and beyond.
British Columbia’s premier says Selina Robinson, who resigned as post-secondary education minister recently over Mideast comments, has received a death threat.
David Eby called the action inexcusable in a statement posted on the social media platform X.
He says police are investigating to find out who is responsible and that Ms. Robinson is safe.
Police in Switzerland have shot dead a man armed with an axe and a knife who took 15 passengers hostage on a train on Thursday night.
The hostage-taker, reported to be a 32-year-old asylum seeker from Iran, boarded a local train near Yverdon.
He forced the driver to stop the train and to join passengers in the carriage.
Officers stormed the train and “fatally wounded” the man after he attacked them, police reports say. The hostages were all released unharmed.
Reverend Matthew Firth tells how he wanted to hit stop button on the ‘conveyor belt’ of asylum seekers converting to Christianity
In 2018, when the Reverend Matthew Firth took up his new post at St Cuthbert’s, the church which has been at the heart of the north-eastern market town of Darlington since the 12th century, he was eager to bring new souls to the faith he passionately believes in.
It didn’t take long, however, for Matthew to figure out that there was something suspicious about the large number of souls from the Middle East who were queuing up to be converted to Christianity.
Forty illegal migrants being housed on the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge in Dorset are reportedly converting to Christianity. That amounts to almost one in seven of those said to be on board.
But officials fear that migrants are faking conversions simply to have their asylum claims accepted, and are considering limiting the role of the Church of England in the approvals process. Allison Pearson, columnist at The Daily Telegraph, asked “how stupid and craven is the Church of England” to believe that all of these claims are genuine.
