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Rape Gangs and Liberal Silence B. Duncan Moench

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/rape-gangs-liberal-silence

Few issues expose the self-blinding of the Western progressive left more than the sexual violence waged against working-class girls in the UK by predominantly-Pakistani grooming gangs. The scandal, long ignored by polite society and actively buried by both law enforcement and politicians, only broke into a broader American consciousness when Elon Musk began posting about it on X. The king of the techno-barons is no friend of the working class but, on this issue at least, he has successfully played the part of a working-class champion far more convincingly than his progressive counterparts.

The scandal continues to horrify not just because of the systemic sexual violence waged on children and teens, but because it reveals the deliberate sacrifice of vulnerable population groups who in theory should be able to count on the protection of the administrative state. Instead, institutions operating under a calculated bureaucratic plan offer poor and working-class adolescents up as sacrifices to the altar of multiculturalism.

For over a decade in towns like Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford, young native British girls—some as young as eleven—were groomed, drugged, raped, and trafficked by networks of immigrant men from East Asia. The young girls were first love-bombed with gifts and flattery, then lured into private spaces—plied with alcohol and pills—then passed between grown men who raped them repeatedly. Sometimes lines of abusers waited their “turn” to ravage these teens in a manner that merely describing here would provide the reader with images so harrowing that they’re impossible to forget.

Girls who physically resisted their rapists were beaten and threatened with death. Some resistors were threatened with guns, others doused in gasoline with the captors threatening to burn them alive. Some were thrown from moving vehicles. If all this weren’t insane enough, the families who reported the crimes were firebombed by the perpetrators. Those who continued to contact authorities had their windows smashed and often faced further threats of arson.

For years, UK authorities resisted doing anything to address this mass sexual terror inflicted on children. Why? Well, every educated Western liberal person knows exactly why. Because some things are unsayable. To acknowledge the horrific crimes committed against young girls would also mean acknowledging the ethnic and religious backgrounds of their attackers, which might in turn suggest that not all foreign cultures are automatically compatible with the basic norms of Western civilization. And then what?

Educated civil servants and elected officials dehumanized their own citizens—not out of hatred, but out of commitment to a different kind of utopian eschaton.

WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING AT ISRAEL

https://www.irelandisrael.ie/

The Ireland Israel Alliance (IIA) is a grassroots, non-profit organization based in Dublin, Ireland. The aim of the IIA is to bring clarity to public perception of issues surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and to ensure such issues receive fair and impartial treatment within the Irish media. We engage with supporters and organizations from both secular and religious backgrounds across the political spectrum. We seek to engage with the Government of Ireland, the political parties, public interest groups, schools, colleges and other educational establishments. We also use social media to engage with and inform the wider public about such issues. 

Watch this video of Jamie O’Mahoney defending Israel…skip the breaks and read the responses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci3u6JXOJUk

Brussels: The Muddy Mirror of a Europe in Crisis by Drieu Godefridi

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21662/brussels-crisis

Brussels, the self-proclaimed capital of the European Union, is no longer the beacon of a united Europe, but an advanced symptom of its disintegration.

The normalization of radical Islamic and anti-Semitic discourse we are witnessing in Brussels is the result of 15 years of leaders abrogating their responsibility. Brussels, through its inability — or unwillingness — to make unpleasant but necessary choices, is setting itself up as the first potential locus of protracted European unrest.

The Islamist Team Fouad Ahidar party embodies a new situation: a political Islam that no longer hides its identity. Instead, it advocates that a religious identity be the underpinning of national cohesion. This fragmentation reflects a profound breakdown in the social contract, between the old European society, which confines religion to the private sphere, and the “new Europeans” (Muslims), who want everything to be subject to their religious doctrine.

Crime rates are rising everywhere in Brussels, particularly in an area in the spotlight for its frequent shootings: the Bruxelles-Midi Zone (Saint-Gilles, Forest, Anderlecht). Between 2022 and 2023, notes the newspaper L’Echo, robberies and extortion rose by 23%, robberies without weapons by 34%, pickpocketing by 27%, and armed robberies by a staggering 53%.

The Brussels-Capital Region is not merely on the brink of bankruptcy; it is already at the bottom of a financial abyss.

Jew-hatred, often marketed in unconvincing, transparent disguises as “anti-Zionism,” flourishes in many other Islamic-centered and radical left-wing circles…. in Brussels, Jew-hatred enjoys almost total impunity.

As of 2023, 74% of Brussels’ population is of foreign background, compared to a European average of 10%…. This demographic transformation or “great replacement,” far from being accompanied by an effective integration policy, has saturated Brussels — overcrowded schools, overwhelmed hospitals, sorely inadequate housing — and exacerbated communal tensions.

In 2022, a report revealed that 35% of young people with an immigrant background in Brussels were living in households where nobody has a job — a breeding ground for delinquency and radicalization.

Brussels is not only a city in crisis, it is a city on the brink of implosion.

Brussels, the self-proclaimed capital of the European Union, is no longer the beacon of a united Europe, but an advanced symptom of its disintegration. For the past 15 years, the signs of a deep crisis — political paralysis, an explosion in crime, fiscal bankruptcy, the rise of Islamism and migratory engulfment — have been piling up, heralding an inevitable tipping point.

The Day VicPol Finally Did its Job Peter Lavac

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/anti-semitism/the-day-vicpol-finally-did-its-job/

On Sunday the 18th May, 2025, I had the great honour to stand shoulder to shoulder with the courageous Lions of Zion and supporters to face down an enraged mob of 20,000 pro-Hamas marchers in Melbourne. The Lions are fiercely proud Jewish Australians and allies formed in response to the national antisemitism crisis which has seen incidents surge by over 700% in Australia. To Australia’s great disgrace, this surge was in response to the largest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust, the biggest terror attack in Israel’s history, and Hamas’ declaration of war on October 7, 2023.

We stared down the thousands of pro-Hamas thugs spewing hatred and vitriol as they proceeded on their march from the Yarra to St Kilda — their sick little joke about “River to the Sea”. St Kilda and neighbouring Caulfield are meccas for Jewish life in Melbourne. Of all available destinations, there can be no doubt this route was chosen for maximum intimidation.

Early on that Sunday morning I was picked up at my hotel by a film crew from Rebel News. I was hooked up with an audio wire. It was important that my conversations with the police be recorded.

We then drove to end of Princes Bridge, where I met with the brave Lions, proudly displaying Aussie and Israeli flags. They were very happy to see me and gave me a very warm welcome. One member of the group furiously shook my hand and said, “We heard there was a criminal barrister coming down from Sydney to stand with us. We are so glad you are here.”

I gave them a briefing, first of all asking if anyone had any weapons. Of course none did. They were armed only with Israeli flags, Aussie flags,  fierce pride and great courage. Some were huge, powerfully built bodybuilders and martial arts experts. I myself am a former wrestling champion and have been a lifelong body builder. But we were only 40 against 20,000 screaming Hamas supporters and all their left-wing woke neo-Marxist hangers-on. I explained to the Lions the law of self-defense: if attacked by the Hamasnik thugs, the law does not expect them to turn the other cheek. The law allows them to use reasonable force to protect themselves and to protect each other. But this force must not be excessive. You are not allowed to pound your assailant into a coma.

I then approached the top cop in charge of the several hundred present at the scene. I introduced myself with my barrister’s ID card. He inspected it twice. I explained who I was and why I was there: to protect my people from assault, not only by the thugs, but also from assault by Victorian Police. I was there to protect their legal rights.

And what an indictment this is. At a so-called “pro-Palestine” protest outside the Victorian Parliament, police stood by and let this happen. Viral footage has repeatedly exposed a VicPol policy of protecting threatening mobs while arresting those few who are brave enough to stand against the terrorism of October 7 and the hate washing weekly over our own streets. In Sydney, at a pro-Hezbollah march in October, 2024, police allegedly said “We’re here to protect the protest.”

In Melbourne, officers were non-responsive when a protester screamed across police lines at a man draped in an Australian flag: “I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!” The intended target implored the police, “Are you going to do anything? He just threatened to kill me! Are you going to act?” The answer from the cop was a deafening silence.

This non-policing policing is not keeping the peace. This is total surrender to the mob. These are not peaceful protests — they are fueled by hate, intimidation, threats and open support for terrorists. There is no red line that these protests haven’t already crossed. And the police have enabled it, allowed it, even encouraged it.

The only reason police acted differently last weekend was because I was there to read them the Riot Act and tell them what I expected of the police that day. After consulting with his command, the officer finally advised me, “We’ll give you a chance to protest peacefully.”

Had I not been there, I am pretty sure VicPol would have told all 40 Lions and their supporters to go away, arresting them should they fail to comply.

I was there not only to defend the legal right of the Lions to protest peacefully, but also to ensure they were protected from assault by thugs, and also from assault by the police, which has often occurred in the past. I told police directly: I was also there to prevent any unlawful arrests. I made it very clear to the top cop that I expected him and all his officers to do their job properly, concluding by saying: “You now know my position, and this is what I expect.” We then shook hands and he said we will work together.

Sydney University’s shameful slide into anti-Israel bigotry Students are demanding the ‘elimination’ of the Jewish State. Hugo Timms

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/02/sydney-universitys-shameful-slide-into-anti-israel-bigotry/

At a meeting of Sydney University’s student council last month, a motion stating that it is ‘not anti-Semitic to call for the elimination of the apartheid state of Israel’ passed almost unanimously. The motion also called for the creation of a ‘single secular democratic state across all of historic Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea’.

Let’s be clear about what this motion really means. Realistically, the ‘elimination’ of Israel could only be achieved by the forced removal of a significant proportion of the seven million Jews who live there. You would need to be staggeringly naive to imagine that a Palestinian state might soon emerge as a ‘secular democratic’ nation where Jews would be safe to carry on living. Right now, Gaza is controlled by Hamas, an Islamist terrorist outfit, which has openly pledged to slaughter Israelis. It is only thanks to Israel’s willingness to defend itself that horrors like those of 7 October 2023 do not repeat themselves regularly.

This is why the Sydney students’ motion is so disgraceful. It betrays a total indifference towards the fate of almost half the world’s Jews. Yet so far, senior figures from the university have been reluctant to forcefully condemn it. The University of Sydney itself responded to say merely that it ‘does not endorse or condone’ the views expressed at last month’s meeting.

The pretext for the recent motion is as grim as the outcome of the vote. In February, Australian universities were forced to adopt a definition of anti-Semitism after a well-documented outbreak of bigotry targeting Jewish students and academics. At Sydney University, Australia’s oldest, there were months of anti-Israel protests last year. During this period, swastikas were spraypainted on university buildings and protesters called for an ‘intifada’ (that is, a violent uprising).

The new definition states that it is anti-Semitic to call ‘for the elimination of the state of Israel’. In their furious response to this, activists have only revealed their own intolerance and idiocy. At last month’s student-council meeting, members of the (outrageously misnamed) Students Against War group claimed that Israel’s ‘entire reason for existing’ is to ‘displace and massacre’ Palestinians. Apparently, it is therefore perfectly legitimate to call for the Jewish State to be – in that cold and dispassionate phrase – ‘eliminated’.

Liberals Embrace Islamic Extremism in Canada Despite warnings from U.S. officials, Canada’s lax border policies and political denial have allowed Islamic extremism to take root and spill into the United States. By William Barclay

https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/02/liberals-embrace-islamic-extremism-in-canada/

When FBI director Kash Patel condemned Canada for allowing Islamic terrorists to gain a foothold in North America, Canadian politicians and pundits, including new Prime Minister Mark Carney, dismissed Patel’s assertions as baseless fearmongering.

Unfortunately, it is clear that the Trump administration is correct: Radical Islamic ideology has become endemic in Canada over the past decade.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service itself has confirmed that, since 2015, radical Islamic ideology has become commonplace throughout Canadian society, as a result of the porous borders and the Liberal government’s unwillingness to effectively regulate the influx of international migration into Canada. Numerous terrorist leaders and those with intimate connections to terrorist organizations, such as Samidoun and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, have been permitted to migrate within the Canadian state and promote their own nihilistic ideology over the past decade.

Islamic schools in Canada are not compelled to abide by a standardized curriculum and, consequently, covertly promote radical Islamic ideology and extremism to vulnerable children in Canada. At one prominent Islamic school in Canada, the East End Madrassah, administrators were recently pressured to issue a public apology after it was exposed for “… teaching children that treacherous Jews conspired to kill the Islamic Prophet Mohammed.”

Since 2015, explicit Islamic terrorist acts have become increasingly prevalent in Canada.

According to data from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “[N]early a dozen terrorism-related incidents [have occurred] in Canada or abroad involving Canadians” since Oct. 7, 2023, alone. In addition, “The number of terrorism charges laid in Canada jumped 488% last year,” and “Canadian police have foiled six terrorist plots in the last 12 months alone, with arrests spanning from Edmonton to Ottawa to Toronto.” The Liberal government recently publicly downplayed a report from the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development Office that a “terror attack attempt in Canada is very likely.”

URGENT: World Health Organization About to Give Itself Unlimited Power ‘Dr.’ Tedros Will Decide How You Must Live by Robert Williams

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21659/urgent-world-health-organization-about-to-give

On May 20, the WHO Pandemic Treaty was adopted at the 78th session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. It will have to be ratified by at least 60 states, however, before it can come into effect, which means that it is up to citizens to prevent that from happening.

The deadline to opt out of the International Health Regulations is July 19 –less than two months from now. It is time to notify your lawmakers to take immediate action in their parliaments and say NO to these regulations. So far, no country has opted out, and due to lack of media coverage most people appear completely unaware that a problem even exists.

Last summer, on June 1, 2024, WHO’s 194 member states agreed to sweeping amendments of the WHO’s International Health Regulations that give WHO’s Director-General — currently “Dr.” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — not a medical doctor, and to all appearances in the pocket of China — overwhelming authority to declare not only actual international public health emergencies, but also potential ones.

“The WHO is as interested in public health as the arms industry is in world peace: Not at all.” –Christine Anderson, German member of the EU Parliament for the Alternative für Deutschland party, X , May 2, 2023

On July 19, unless stopped, the unelected UN officials of WHO are about to give themselves the power to declare … lockdowns, vaccines, restrictions, possibly “fines” — in short, the rollout of whatever response they find necessary — and all member states would have to comply.

“The WHO’s proposed amendments… present the most serious threat to national sovereignty in a generation.” — Suella Braverman, former UK Home Secretary, telegraph.uk, April 20, 2025

Now public health, according to the WHO and its member states, is intertwined with “climate change.” If Bill Gates, the climate warrior, and his WHO cohorts feel like it, they can declare a climate pandemic, pronounce lockdowns and a rollout of whatever measures they might see fit “to save the planet.”

Sadly, [WHO] is a fully disgraced and corrupt body, so deeply in the pockets not only of [Bill] Gates and the pharmaceutical industry, but also of Communist China.

During Covid-19, the WHO and “Dr.” Tedros actually praised China for its “extraordinary” handling of the pandemic.

“If you liked how the COVID-19 crisis was handled – in large measure thanks to the incompetence and malfeasance of the WHO and the insidious influence of the perpetrator, the Chinese Communist Party,… – you’re going to love this new world order. Among its consequences will be: universal health IDs, vaccine mandates, obligatory censorship, technology transfers, open-ended financial costs and the proliferation of viruses with the potential to cause pandemics – all ‘managed’ by greatly empowered and unaccountable international bureaucrats.” – Frank Gaffney, X, April 17, 2025

There is, however, another, newly acquired, instrument in the UN’s toolbox, “The Digital Compact,” that seeks to make it impossible to criticize this new UN/WHO reign of terror:

Without an ever-present, imminent and terrible sounding “pandemic” there would be no legitimacy for WHO to seize all this power and gain access to so much control. This arrogation of power to itself could reasonably turn into runaway totalitarianism unless lawmakers step up immediately and demand that their governments object to the amendments to the International Health Regulations — and opt out of them.

The World Health Organization (WHO) might finally be getting just what it wanted: Unlimited power and control.

They Dress Like Cops – But Enforce Sharia From London to New York, Islamic enforcers are claiming the streets. by Aynaz Anni Cyrus

https://www.frontpagemag.com/they-dress-like-cops-but-enforce-sharia/

We all know what Sharia enforcement looks like in the Islamic world.

We saw it when Mahsa Amini was murdered on September 16, 2022 by Iran’s “morality police”—beaten to death for resisting their hijab code.

She wasn’t some rebel.

She was a 22-year-old girl with a little too much hair showing. And they killed her for it.

That brutality sparked global outrage.

And then—just like the outrage—it faded.

Western feminists removed the hashtags. Politicians moved on. But the system that killed her didn’t disappear. It just got quieter—and closer.

But Sharia didn’t.

It just changed zip codes.

Across cities like London, New York, and Wuppertal, Germany, Islamic vigilantes are now patrolling Western streets—in police-style or military-like uniforms—confronting civilians, issuing Sharia commands, and declaring entire neighborhoods “Muslim zones.”

These aren’t volunteers.

They aren’t public servants.

They’re self-appointed enforcers of Islamic law—operating freely in democratic countries.

Qatar – The Real Face of the Snake How does a tiny Gulf state wield such outsized power – and why does the West keep looking the other way? by Dave Gordon

https://www.frontpagemag.com/qatar-the-real-face-of-the-snake/

How could it not raise eyebrows? Donald Trump is set to invest some $5.5 billion in Qatar, according to news reports, and he’s just received a $400 million jet from the Qataris.

This is the same Qatar that unabashedly hosted Hamas leaders, and funds the terror organization into the billions of dollars. It’s the same oil-rich country that is bankrolling Al Jazeera, a channel virtually synonymous with Jihadist propaganda, and that is also being sued for having alleged terror ties. To top it off, Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister has a history of pro-Hamas tweets.

Yet, if Qatar’s place in the world could be described as a Facebook relationship status, it’d be “It’s complicated.”

Complicated, indeed. After all, Qatar has announced that it is no longer playing the role of mediator between Israel and Hamas, and that it is closing the terror group’s offices within its borders. The country the size of Connecticut has also invested $50 million in pro-Trump American media Newsmax in 2019 and 2020. It gave the green light to thousands of fresh kosher meals being provided to Israelis during the 2022 World Cup in Doha, which now hosts a recently opened Jewish center.

Additionally, Qatar also houses Al Udeid, the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East with 10,000 troops, a sign of cooperation that arose after the U.S.’s Saudi military base was shut down.

“It’s a massive amount of money that they have spent on an air base, that America got for free. And what they have done through this direct foreign direct foreign investment, is they have effectively convinced American decision makers, Congress people, the White House, to look the other way,” says Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

In an exclusive interview with this author, Schanzer described the country of 330,000 citizens as “this weird place” that, by his calculation, has “invested $150 billion to $300 billion in the United States’ influential spheres” — which has been revealed in detail lately by The Free Press.

In 2023, The New York Daily News reported that Qatar invested advertising contracts and sponsorships for A-list media and entertainment outlets such as Foreign Policy, VOX, Sundance, and Buzzfeed. $5 million was given to the L.A. Mayor’s Fund, and $20 million for the Nixon Foundation, and the Endowed Journalism Fellowship for the Carter Center. The “Qatari influence ecosystem” expands its reach to think tanks, influencers, PR firms, lobbyists and universities, and all of this “has effectively advanced the virulently antisemitic and anti-Israel views of the Al Thanis.”

India and Pakistan: ‘A Bad Nuclear War’ by Gordon G. Chang

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21654/india-pakistan-nuclear-war

The Trump administration, which had previously displayed a lack of interest in the conflict, then quickly intervened and brokered a ceasefire.

“[T]he possession of nuclear weapons may have incentivized risky confrontations that pass just below the ambiguous nuclear threshold.” — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, May 23, 2025.

Pakistan did not have to detonate one of its nuclear warheads to shake the world. Now, an emboldened Islamabad will almost certainly hit India again.

Nukes are supposed to moderate national leaders and make them cautious. When it comes to India and Pakistan, however, the opposite now looks true.

“We stopped a nuclear conflict, I think it could have been a bad nuclear war, millions of people could have been killed, so I’m very proud of that,” President Donald Trump told reporters on May 12.

Proud he should be. Although New Delhi refuses to acknowledge Washington’s role in brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, the Trump administration was nonetheless instrumental in stopping fighting that could have escalated, as Newsweek wrote, “to the brink of all-out war.”

On April 22, gunmen murdered 26 Hindu tourists and others at Pahalgam, in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan also claims that territory.

New Delhi blames Islamabad for harboring militants who staged the attack. Pakistan denies involvement.