A 43-year-old man charged with an attempted arson attack on a mosque owned by Kettering Muslim Association has appeared in court.
Yesterday, (Tuesday, October 7) Arif Ali Rafiq of Harlestone Road, Northampton, appeared at Northampton Magistrates Court.
In line with new guidance, Mr Rafiq’s ethnicity was given out by Northants Police as a ‘British-born Asian man’.
h/t Patti Jo
Amirah Sharhan recalls it being a regular fall afternoon in October 2024.
The Yemeni American, who had been living in the Dearborn and Detroit area for four years, was preparing dinner while her mother took Amirah’s seven-year-old daughter, Saida, to a nearby playground to play with her friends.
But when the door of their home slammed open a little after 3pm, everything changed.
Saida rushed in, holding a napkin against her neck. When Amirah moved it away, she saw a long, deep cut across her daughter’s neck. A man had approached her on the playground, grabbed her head and slit her throat with a knife.
Guardian horseshit:
Amirah is convinced her daughter and mother were targeted for being Muslims; the attack happened two days after the first anniversary of Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and her grandmother was the only visibly Muslim person in the park.
That the accused was not ultimately charged with committing hate crimes has angered the local Muslim and Arab American communities who have been feeling abandoned and afraid since 7 October 2023.
The real Dearborn
People in Dearborn, Michigan chant Death to America, Death to America but Rashida Tlaib refused to condemn it
Raise your hand ✋️ if you don't think Rashida Tlaib should be a member of any commitees
She hates this country, and shouldn't be privy to its sensitive information pic.twitter.com/AUkT5eD5RN
— @Chicago1Ray (@Chicago1Ray) September 23, 2025
Saying he doesn’t “believe” it was accidental, Ontario’s education minister lambasted a Toronto high school Tuesday for playing an Arabic version of O Canada as Jewish students mourned the second anniversary of the barbaric mass murders of Oct. 7.
h/t Patti Jo & Auntie Polly
As Germany commemorates the 35th anniversary of reunification, the contrast with 1990 could not be more stark. Back then, jubilant crowds gathered spontaneously at Brandenburg Gate and atop the crumbling Berlin Wall. Last week’s celebrations still drew many people, but the atmosphere was tainted by fear. In Germany today, one question looms over every public gathering: will we be safe?
Why Christians Should Care about the Cultural Surrender of Britain
I don’t live on the south coast of England anymore, so—even at an imaginative level—the relentless thousands of fighting-age Muslim men arriving on the shores of Britain on boats each week does not appear to affect my life, my family, or my nation.
I do see it up-close in cities in the Midlands and the north, of course, where multiculturalism has simply been an open drawbridge for cultural Islamism, and where whole areas of such cities look like a completely different place to the Britain most of us grew up knowing.
For most of Britain’s population—even myself—it is remarkably easy to block it all out and pretend it’s not really happening. But it is happening. And it shows no signs of stopping happening anytime soon. Why do we pretend it’s not happening?
Via Rod Dreher’s Diary – There Is No Israel For Most Of Us
OTTAWA – Two years into the war in Gaza, the conflict continues to spread anger, frustration and pain across Canada, while Israelis and Palestinians fear the region will never exit the cycle of violence.
Hamas militants and affiliates attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 civilians and soldiers and taking roughly 240 people hostage. Israel responded by bombarding the Gaza Strip, killing more than 67,000 civilians and militants, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry.
Israel insists it is neutralizing threats that have been supported by Iran’s government, and is seeking the destruction of Hamas so it can no longer threaten Israel. Israel also argues the United Nations hasn’t done enough to tackle these threats.
It’s the fact that it happened in Britain that is so disturbing. We can no longer tell ourselves that this is a safe country, a country that elevates civic order and religious tolerance, a country that leaves anti-Semitism, along with other forms of extremism, to excitable foreigners.
Until this week, British Jews had been spared the horrors visited on their co-religionists in even our nearest neighbours. France has seen stabbings at a Marseilles synagogue, children shot in a Jewish school in Toulouse, a hostage siege in a kosher supermarket in the Île-de-France, a knife attack on a Jewish community centre in Nice and hundreds of incidents of desecration, intimidation and abuse.
Like Great Britain Canada imported Islam.
Who thought inviting a cult that hates us was good idea?
The Manchester synagogue terrorist had a tangled love life with several women including a Muslim convert, it has emerged.
Jihad al-Shamie, 35, was living with his mother after splitting from his wife and is said to have been obsessed with an Islamic dating app.
He is said to have sent abusive messages to an ex-girlfriend whom he had encouraged to watch “extreme” videos and married a Muslim convert in secret before his wife left him six months ago.
Residents of an East Sussex town where a mosque was set on fire have called the attack “disgraceful” and said it represented a wider problem across the UK.
Two people inside the mosque in Phyllis Avenue, Peacehaven, managed to escape after the front entrance and a car parked outside were set alight on Saturday.
Sussex Police has released CCTV footage of two people it wants to identify after the blaze, which it is treating as arson and a hate crime.
h/t Auntie Polly
Six people were injured in a shooting on Friday night in the town of Gävle, Sweden. Gunfire erupted around 2 a.m. local time on a lively street lined with bars, restaurants, and shops, where people were out enjoying the evening. Swedish Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer described the incident as as “a very serious and ruthless act of violence.”
None of the victims—all teens—sustained life-threatening injuries, but all required hospital care, police spokesman Tobias Ahlén-Svalbro told Expressen.
Members of a pro-Palestine protest in Rome reportedly defaced a statue honouring the late Pope John Paul II with graffiti that described him as a “fascist”.
The statue of Pope John Paul II in the Piazza Cinquecento outside of Rome’s Termini railway station was spray-painted with the communist hammer and sickle symbol and the words “fascist shit”. Meanwhile, a keffiyeh headdress was wrapped around the statue’s neck.
A statue of Pope John Paul II in Rome defaced by left-wing protesters during a pro-Palestine march: a "fascist piece of shit" tag with a communist symbol discovered. pic.twitter.com/ptSs7X3BDS
— Israel News Pulse (@israelnewspulse) October 5, 2025
“What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community… [J]ihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa…. It’s very dangerous for the national security of the United States…. Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed.” — Alberto Miguel Fernandez, geopolitical analyst and former U.S. diplomat, Fox News, August 7, 2025, Mozambique.
A white Muslim convert widow was among three people arrested on suspicion of terrorism in relation to the Manchester synagogue attack.
Officers raided a house in Bolton on Thursday night, hours after Jihad al-Shamie had attacked the Heaton Park Synagogue in Crumpsall, killing two people and injuring several others.
Police arrested a 43-year-old man, a 46-year-old woman and an 18-year-old girl at the address in Bolton “in connection” with the knife attack, which ended when armed officers shot and killed al-Shamie.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned comments by Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, who announced his intention to host right-wing activist Tommy Robinson in Israel later this month.
According to the Board, “Tommy Robinson is a bully representing the worst of Britain. His presence undermines the sincere efforts of those genuinely working to combat Islamic extremism and foster community cohesion.”
The ‘Board of Deputies of British Jews’ seems akin to the ADL suicidally left wing at heart.
I am not sure what allies the ‘Board’ expects to gain by ostracizing Tommy Robinson.
The ‘Board’s’ opposition is to my view dismissive of working class concerns regarding the toll population replacement scale migration has wrought on their lives.
Tommy has many well documented faults but he remains immensely popular especially among the white working class.
Condemning him will be perceived by many as identical to the ADL’s vicious smear of Charlie Kirk.
They best tread carefully or the silence will roar as never before.
“Tommy Robinson is a thug who represents the very worst of Britain. His presence undermines those genuinely working to tackle Islamist extremism and foster community cohesion. Minister Chikli has proven himself to be a Diaspora Minister in name only. In our darkest hour, he has… https://t.co/BswfB4mXZ6 pic.twitter.com/LZ1rkPFzOe
— Board of Deputies of British Jews (@BoardofDeputies) October 4, 2025
According to Visegrád24 on X, a motion in the Dutch Parliament to ban the Muslim Brotherhood narrowly failed today, falling just two votes short. The proposal was introduced by Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), and MP Maikel Nunes. Despite strong backing from the PVV, the motion collapsed after the right-wing anti-immigration party Forum for Democracy (FvD) unexpectedly withheld its support. It is unclear at this point what made FvD change its mind.
