“Islamophobia”

“If you are supporting our prisoners, you are supporting some of the best people on the planet,” stated Coalition for Civil Freedoms (CCF) prisoner and family support coordinator Nada Dibas during a recent webinar on “Ramadan Behind Bars.”

These “best people” — CCF’s clients — include terrorists in American prisons. Yet to Dibas and panelists like the Islamist, slavery-defending Georgetown University professor Jonathan Brown, they’re victims of America’s Islamophobia.

PARIS (AP) — The only surviving member of the Islamic State attack team that terrorized Paris in 2015 asked Friday for forgiveness and expressed condolences for the victims, wiping away tears during court testimony as he pleaded with survivors to “detest me with moderation.”

For years, Salah Abdeslam stayed silent about what happened Nov. 13, 2015 in the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and the national stadium, and the 130 people who were killed. After his trial opened last year, he had a few outbursts of extremist bravado, but for months he refused to answer most questions.

Then this week, his words started flowing, in lengthy testimony that at times contradicted earlier statements. His words at times prompted angry outbursts from the public.

The main defendant in the trial over the 2015 Paris attacks has apologised to victims at the end of his testimony.

Prosecutors say Salah Abdeslam, 32, is the only surviving member of the so-called Islamic State cell that targeted Paris that night, killing 130 people.

“I wish to express my condolences and offer an apology to all the victims,” he told the court.

Prosecutors say his suicide belt malfunctioned, but Salah Abdeslam said he had changed his mind.

Islamization becomes irreversible when the Muslim population reaches 20%. French election results can speed the process or slow it.

“The British will be a minority by 2066”. The banner with those words flew over the heads of the spectators at the football match between Manchester City and Liverpool. A light plane with a banner attached passed over the Etihad Stadium, causing a wave of outrage on social media. “Who pays to fly these racist Etihad banners?”

Unfortunately, the phrase (“the British will be a minority by 2066”) does not come from an old English fascist like Mosley, but from David Coleman, the most important demographer in England, a professor at Oxford. “By 2066, whites born in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be outnumbered,” writes Coleman in the left-wing Prospect magazine. “The 50 percent threshold has no special demographic meanings, but it will have a considerable psychological and political impact and the transition from majority to minority will represent a huge change in cultural, political and religious identity.”

When two unarmed officers arrested the murderer of Sir David Amess MP, they did society an enormous favour. The assailant, Ali Harbi Ali, now a convicted Islamist terrorist due to be sentenced today, wanted to be martyred. Denying him that narcissistic prize, and putting him on trial, has helped us know more about what needs to be done to stop violent extremists. I hope that gift wakes him up every morning for the decades he will spend behind bars.

We can’t talk to dead terrorists, however much some deserve that fate. So it’s people like Harbi Ali who hold a mirror up to the systems and doctrines we use to try to interrupt the journey from thought and lethal action. It’s not a pretty sight.