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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/reality-upside-down-in-the-netherlands/

It doesn’t just happen in Britain.

In the southeastern Dutch province of North Brabant, halfway between the cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen, lies a town called Uden, which has a population of approximately 38,000 and is a part of the municipality of Maashorst. On the morning of April 18, Maashorst’s municipal council held a meeting at which it was addressed by a resident of Uden named Seb van Lier.

Let it be said that van Lier cuts an imposing figure. He brings to mind John Fetterman, the massive, broad-shouldered, bald-headed senator from Pennsylvania. Van Lier, unlike Fetterman, has a shaggy salt-and-pepper beard; and he arrived at this public meeting dressed, like Fetterman, in a dark hoodie. As you can see in the video of his remarks, which the valiant Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek posted on X, van Lier began by telling the council that on January 10, one of his five daughters, aged 15, was “brutally raped” by a Syrian asylum seeker, and that ever since that day she’s experienced severe physical and psychological suffering.

Van Lier looks like a hell of a tough dude, but after spelling out these basic facts, he choked up. One of the council members asked him if he wanted a glass of water. He said no. After a pause he resumed speaking. In his view, he said, the mayor and the council were partially responsible for his daughter’s suffering. Why? Because “we feel that the rapist was portrayed as the victim and we, the family, as the perpetrator.” Because the council had been “playing down the seriousness of the case” and trying to “cover it up.” Because the therapist who’d been appointed by the council to treat van Lier’s daughter had advised him, van Lier, not to tell the council his daughter’s story. Because in statements to the media, the mayor of Maashorst, Hans van de Pas, had suggested that he didn’t believe the 15-year-old’s account of her rape. Because the mayor and council had seen fit to publicly emphasize that the alleged perpetrator lived not in Maashorst but in the nearby town of Veghel (so what?) and that he was a minor (even though there was no reliable way of establishing his age).

Van Lier had additional grievances. He’d been depicted in the media not as a legitimately troubled father but as a “rioter.” He’d been arrested by the police “with great violence.” Most egregious of all, the perpetrator had not been arrested. As of April 18, he was still walking free.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21573/china-helping-houthis-attack-us

China’s regime, despite repeated warnings from Washington, is helping the Yemen-based militia try to kill American sailors.

“Providing satellite data that is being used to identify U.S. and other ships in the Red Sea for missile strikes appears to be part of a deal between Beijing and the Houthis that would end attacks on Chinese shipping.” — Bill Gertz, Washington Times, April 18, 2025.

President Donald Trump should invoke the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 and end trade and investment ties with China. China’s regime, by its actions and its words, is America’s enemy.

“We have to stop China before they sink an American ship.” — Blaine Holt, retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, to Gatestone, April 2025.

“We can confirm the reporting that Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. (CGSTL) is directly supporting Iran-backed Houthi terrorist attacks on U.S. interests,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on April 17th at her regular press briefing

Specifically, CGSTL has been providing targeting data and probably raw satellite imagery to the Houthis for their attacks on U.S. Navy vessels in the Red Sea.

China did not issue a clear official denial of the State Department charge.

By now, one thing is clear: China’s regime, despite repeated warnings from Washington, is helping the Yemen-based militia try to kill American sailors.

The Trump administration should designate the Chinese regime as an enemy and impose costs accordingly.

https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/qed/uk-labours-lost-loves/

On a quiet parliamentary afternoon, just before the House of Commons adjourned for the Easter Recess, Sir Keir Starmer’s  own government launched a destructive missile, not an unguided one either but one aimed squarely at the Labour Party, in the hope that MPs would be so keen to leave for the holidays that they wouldn’t notice or mind very much.

Governments do that kind of thing from time to time, and sometimes it works by pushing an embarrassing controversy into a future when public opinion has “moved on,” i.e., is distracted by a later and more outrageous ministerial decision. But the maneuver collapses when the topic is a truly incendiary one.

On this occasion the topic was the scandal of Muslim grooming-and-rape gangs and their mainly white working-class young English women victims, some of whom were children (and not only legally so.) That scandal is now entering its third decade—first rumors of it were heard in 2001 and it broke into national news with the Rotherham episode in 2013—as it simultaneously morphs into an even more serious scandal of official and police complicity in both the original rape scandals and the subsequent cover-up.

It’s not the case that nothing has been done in the intervening twelve years. More than fifty major cities across Britain have had grooming gang scandals, trials, and convictions which resulted in lengthy sentences for perpetrators since the Rotherham scandal went national in 2013. There have been ten official enquiries, from which a general picture emerges of organized gangs of “South Asian” or “Pakistani-heritage” Muslim men who prey on vulnerable teenage English girls, seduce them, beat and brutalize them, demoralize them as worthless sluts, and then prostitute them to friends and clients in other towns.

The mass media has also reported these stories, run commentaries on them, and interviewed some of the surviving victims. But they have done so at intervals in response to the latest city “shamed” rather than in a sustained and detailed way that would compel government action to discover what was happening and to set it right once and for all. Similarly, the enquiries, though serious and informative, have been limited in their impact because they have had neither the powers to compel witnesses to give evidence under oath nor terms of reference covering police and official complicity that would force the worst aspects of the scandal into the sunlight of public and political debate.

Accordingly, the scandals have rumbled on in the background of politics with some of its key facts hard to establish. “Grooming” of the kind described above doesn’t exist as a specific criminal offense and “rape” covers a larger category of offenses. Statistics about the numbers of such rapists and their victims are scattered—the Office of National Statistics doesn’t keep them and tells inquirers to write to the Home Office. Over the years both official inquiries and police investigations have refused to divulge some of their findings “in order to protect community relations” which is sometimes a sanitized explanation of the fear of being accused of racism. And there are underlying disagreements in Westminster, Whitehall, and the media over whether Muslims are disproportionately represented in such crimes and if so, whether their religion has anything to do with it, and if so, whether such a connection should be discussed.