“What’s wrong with the niqab?” It’s not the question that goes through my head when I see a woman with her face hidden, except for the eyes. I wonder why she’s wearing it, whether she’s chosen it or been coerced through some form of pressure. Demanding that women, but not men, cover their faces in public is so obviously discriminatory that it makes me — and many other people — uncomfortable.
Afghan knifeman attacks multiple people at Jehovah’s Witness stand in German train station before being overpowered by hero civilians
An Afghan knifeman has attacked multiple people at a Jehovah’s Witness stand in a German train station.
The 35-year-old attacker was then overpowered by heroic civilians at Würzburg Central Station who rushed to the victims’ aid.
Police are treating it as an attempted homicide and have arrested a suspect in connection with the attack who is now in custody.
h/t Patti Jo
The more excitable and less well-educated elements of the liberal left are forever apt to observe that politics today resemble those of the 1930s, being prone to denounce a development or policy they disdain as being ‘just like Nazi Germany’. To be fair, they have a point. It’s not just the street brawls we’ve seen in Manchester and Lyon over the last week, between hard left and hard right youths, that should arouse such unnerving comparisons. It’s also because we are living in an age of appeasement. And this time it’s the liberal left who are doing the appeasing.
🚨BREAKING: Muslim thugs attack patriots at the march for Remigration in Manchester 🇬🇧
They were antagonising and pulling flags off of patriots but they soon backed off when literally THOUSANDS of people were chasing them
The police were frantically trying to protect the… pic.twitter.com/JNyIq2o08z
— BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧 (@BROKENBRITAIN0) February 21, 2026
3 men, 1 youth arrested in GTA human trafficking investigation involving female youths
Three men and one youth have been arrested following a two-year investigation into human trafficking across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
In a release on Monday, Peel police said in January 2024, investigators with their Vice and Human Trafficking Unit began looking into allegations that several young female victims, ages 11 to 14 years old, were being trafficked and exploited in the sex-trade throughout the GTA.
The backlash against Congressman Randy Fine for speaking plainly about Islam exposes the West’s central contradiction. Politicians routinely claim they oppose sharia, yet condemn anyone who actually recognizes what sharia is.
Mr. Fine wrote on X: “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.”
This followed a post by the leader of one of the key Islamic groups that supported the new Mayor of New York City. She wrote: “Finally, NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets. Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean.”
Lessons from Lepanto: confronting Islamism, authoritarianism, and the crisis of Western resolve.
On October 7th 1571, two great fleets collided off the coast of western Greece in one of history’s greatest naval battles –and one of the most consequential for the history of what we once were pleased to call “Western Civilization.” As part of its ongoing campaign to claim Europe for Islam, the Ottoman Empire assembled a huge fleet of war galleys, intending to wrest control of the Adriatic Sea — and ultimately, the entire Mediterranean — from the several Christian powers, notably Venice and Spain.
To counter this threat, Pope Pius V called into existence the “Holy League,” a coalition based upon the combined naval resources of Venice and Spain. Under the leadership of Don John of Austria, the illegitimate half-brother of King Phillip II of Spain, the fleet of the Holy League won a resounding victory, known to history as the Battle of Lepanto.
A TTC employee has been suspended and faces criminal charges after he allegedly sexually assaulted a female coworker “numerous times.”
While Toronto Police have not identified the accused man’s employer, the Toronto Transit Commission has confirmed authorities were contacted after a female employee complained about serious workplace “misconduct” allegedly by a male co-worker.
‘Privatisation of justice’ in some Muslim communities blamed as only 3pc of so-called honour crimes are successfully prosecuted
Police have been accused of turning a blind eye to the spread of sharia courts in Britain.
Newly released Government figures show that less than 3 per cent of so-called “honour crimes” were successfully prosecuted last year.
The data show the authorities are consistently failing to prosecute and prevent honour-based abuse, which can include offences such as female genital mutilation, homicide (honour killings) and forced marriage.
🚨BREAKING: Patriots waving British and English flags have completely gridlocked Manchester city centre in a major fight back against immigration.
Beautiful scenes 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/5bqQTXilGB
— God Save Great Britain (@GSGB01) February 21, 2026
When I published my previous essay in the Daily Sceptic on the rape-gang scandal, I attempted to describe what a serious integrity mechanism would look like in a state that wished to root out corruption rather than narrate it. Drawing on the example of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), I set out, in practical terms, what such a body would require: independence from police and ministerial control, genuine investigative authority and a simple governing proposition: that no institution can be trusted to police itself when it is itself the problem.
My former colleague and sometime co-writer David Betz remarked on X that the piece read like a final appeal to reason – a last attempt to delineate what accountability might resemble if the contemporary administrative state in Britain still possessed the will to pursue it. We both agree that it does not have the will and have written several times to this effect.
That observation points to what the earlier essay left insufficiently examined. The pressing question is not what an integrity mechanism would look like. It is why such a mechanism has not appeared, and why, under the present dispensation, it cannot.
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that 15,000 to 20,000 people, including Islamic State affiliates are now at large in Syria, after an exodus from a camp that held jihadists’ families, U.S. officials familiar with the estimate said.
Security experts have long warned that the wives of Islamic State fighters were effectively raising the next generation of militants at the sprawling Al-Hol facility. Security at the camp fell apart in recent weeks after Syria’s government routed the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which had guarded Al-Hol for years, raising concerns about the release of people who might have become radicalized during the years held behind the razor wire.
Chutzpah much?
Somali community activists in Minneapolis held a press conference to demand grants and emergency relief following recent ICE enforcement actions.
Members of Neighbors United called for direct payments to immigrant-owned small businesses earning less than $200,000 a year, and speakers described “ICE terror,” claimed widespread trauma, and asked state and federal officials to fund housing support and business stabilization.
🚨 JUST IN: Americans are telling the Minnesota Somali community to SCREW OFF after they demand “reparations” because of the “damage” done by ICE
Are you kidding me?
THEY should repay US for all the fraud!
Pay us back and GTFO.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 20, 2026
Frankfurt must continue permitting twice-weekly protest prayers outside the closed Imam Ali Mosque after the Hessian Higher Administrative Court ruled that the gatherings are protected under Germany’s constitutional freedom of assembly.
The court held that the prayers—held every Thursday and Friday at noon in the Rödelheim district—amount to a “performative expression” of the message: “We want to use this mosque, but we are not allowed to.” Because the events serve a purpose of public communication, they qualify as assemblies under the Basic Law, even though they take the form of religious acts. The ruling means the city must tolerate related road closures and bus diversions through 2026.
An Afghan man who allegedly stabbed three people including his landlord while facing eviction may never be fit enough to stand trial for murder, a court heard
Safi Dawood, 22, is accused of murdering council worker Wayne Broadhurst, who was out walking his dog at the time of the assault.
Dawood’s landlord, Shahzad Farrukh and a teenage boy were also hurt in the disturbance.
A ‘monster’ who raped a 13-year-old girl ‘passed on from one man to another’ in Rotherham has been jailed for 20 years.
Father-of-three Riyasth Hussain, 45, raped the girl, who had been abused since the age of 11, between 2004 and 2008.
Now in her 30s, the woman told Hussain from the witness box at Sheffield Crown Court: ‘You didn’t just steal my childhood, you stole the rest of my life.’
The key to the Qatari approach lies in embracing the Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy of infiltrating Western institutions, including through the electoral process. But this does not translate into adapting to Western values, notes scholar Mark Menaldo. Instead, it advances an ideology developed by the Muslim Brotherhood’s intellectual founder, Sayyid Qutb, that ‘cannot accommodate democratic principles such as legal pluralism’ outside Islamic practice.
