ISLAM is an aggressively proselytising religion. It seeks to expand with a view to ultimate dominance in the form of a global caliphate.
When it is strong, it expands by waging open war on ‘the infidel’. When it is weak, it wages its war of expansion by stealth. As Muhammad said: ‘War is deceit’.
Something truly callous happened in London on Saturday. Shortly before the grieving mother of a young woman who was murdered by an illegal immigrant was about to go on stage and share her heartbreak, activists flashed the slogan ‘Immigration makes Britain brilliant’ on a huge screen. As the mum was no doubt going over her notes, steeling herself for her nervous speech about the horrors inflicted on her daughter, ‘progressives’ decided to remind her and her dumb admirers that actually immigration is fab. And there it was: the iron fist of cruelty in the velvet glove of ‘Be Kind’.
The Telegraph splashed last week that Sinn Féin intends to work with the SNP and Plaid Cymru to “break up the UK”. Cue the usual outbreak of pearl-clutching from Westminster, where people who cannot run a railway timetable suddenly speak as if they are Metternich preserving the Congress of Vienna.
But perhaps we should all calm down and ask an awkward question.
What if they’re right? Not morally right. Not romantically right. Not Braveheart right. But economically, culturally and politically right.
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Libya are all among the world’s top oil producers, and mega-rich oil sheikhs have been a fixture of the international cultural landscape for decades. But there were wealthy and powerful Islamic states before anyone had need for massive quantities of petroleum, and the way that they became wealthy and powerful should make Western political leaders think carefully about their foreign and domestic policies. Not that they will actually do so, of course.
Once a week, as predictably as death or taxes, the collector makes his rounds.
He drives to GTA restaurants, coffee shops and businesses, handing out winnings and collecting from losers.
The collector generally travels alone, but it would be dangerous to attack and rob him. He’s acting on behalf of frightening people in the Hells Angels and the Mafia.
If the losers balk at paying, they likely have a small window to reconsider, says a retired GTA-area organized crime cop whom the Star is not naming because he is not authorized to speak on behalf of the RCMP about his investigations into the Toronto collector, and others like him.
The Trump administration continues to release tranches of previously classified documents on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the preferred term that includes traditional sightings of UFOs. “Traditional sightings” is a strange admission, don’t you think? Aliens and UFOs have been part of our national conversation for eighty years, long enough to constitute a “tradition,” even though the public has few answers for the questions this “tradition” brings.
Candidate Mark Carney presented himself as someone capable of securing a strong deal with President Trump for Canada. Both before and after his becoming prime minister, his comments about President Trump and the US have been framed by his negative narrative and often fail to discuss the facts. He has also made a number of negative comments critical of America while implying that the President is a problem without being direct. At the same time, Brookfield Asset Management, where Mr. Carney previously served as chair, remains headquartered in New York rather than in Toronto, where it used to be. He had advised the company’s shareholders to support the move to America. He has positioned himself as a spokesman for the world’s “middle powers.” He promotes a “new world order,” but critics argue that this largely repackages the hyper-globalization economic model of the late twentieth century. This is not how one engages in international diplomacy and trade. Furthermore, he has not negotiated a new trade agreement between Canada and the US.
Britain’s grooming gangs, where authorities turned a blind eye to thousands of girls abused by drugs and sexual exploitation, have come to Austria, and the impact has been fatal.
In Innsbruck, young girls are being driven into drug addiction and prostitution, with three teens, aged 13, 14, and 16, dying due to suspected overdoses since just this last February. In the case of the youngest, the autopsy revealed that she had died after consuming several hard drugs, including cocaine, opiates, and psychotropic medications.
You may not be much interested in politics, but politics—to borrow from Trotsky’s famous dictum on war—is certainly interested in you. With indigenous land acknowledgements to sit through, rainbow-coloured sidewalks to tiptoe over, and approved slogans to recite on cue, political preoccupation has colonized nearly all thinking. Entertainment, education, sport, business, and even private conscience now arrive freighted with ideological significance. Everything must justify itself politically before it can simply exist.
President Donald Trump said that Iran “better get moving” or else “there won’t be anything left of them.”
Trump posted to Truth Social on Sunday as the U.S. and Iran try to negotiate to end the conflict that started on Feb. 28.
Hmmmm …
Cuba Acquires Over 300 Attack Drones As Tensions With US Rise
A new report indicates that the Caribbean state of Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones after tensions between the country and the United States have continued to escalate over past months, according to Axios.
Canadian-funded programs in occupied Ukraine accused of putting activists at risk
The Canadian government says it is taking seriously allegations that programs it funded to promote pro-Ukrainian sentiment in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine put the lives of activists in danger.
The Kyiv Independent reported last month that a pair of Canadian-backed programs known as Yellow Ribbon and Zla Mavka had resulted in the persecution and detention of pro-Ukrainian activists in occupied parts of southern and eastern Ukraine, where Russia’s FSB security service has a heavy presence. The fate of some activists who reportedly disappeared into Russian custody remains unknown.
Your tax dollars at work.
An African doing white face and making fun of Americans? I feel personally attacked.
Where’s the outrage? Where’s the crying and screaming? I’m literally shaking. pic.twitter.com/AekwUriwAm
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 17, 2026
At Tuesday’s anti-Semitism ‘summit’ in Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer achieved a personal first. He used the word ‘Islamists’. But in order to utter a word he had previously avoided in relation to the subject, Sir Keir had to approach it crabwise. Instead of identifying Islamists as the main ideological and physical threat to British Jews, he said: ‘We’re clear-eyed about the fact that anti-Semitism does not have one source alone: Islamists, far-left, far-right extremism, all target Jewish communities.’ Islamists were thus inserted into the conversation but also downplayed. It is obsolete not to recognise that the far right in Britain – for the moment at least – more or less leave Jews alone. The far left is indeed a breeding ground for anti-Semitism, but not a factor unrelated to the Islamists. Indeed, the two have forged the modern equivalent of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Prime Minister cannot say this, because he is not brave and because that pact is now so strong that he feared further punishment in Thursday’s local elections if he suggested its existence. If you watched Kemi Badenoch dealing firmly, two days earlier, with a verbal attack by a pro-Palestinian activist, you could see a leader who speaks freely because she knows what she thinks. Has poor Sir Keir ever known?
Croatia has stormed the Eurovision final with a historic anthem that denounces the Ottoman occupation and revives the ancient Christian tattoo tradition to protect young girls from rape
Performed entirely in Croatian, the song slams centuries of Islamic Turkish occupation of… pic.twitter.com/E0N30C6mrz
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) May 17, 2026
A little late but still worth it.
Time is corrosive—it wears away everything: coastlines change, mountains erode, whole continents drift, stars go nova. Anything human is particularly temporary. Our bodies age, our socks get holes, our computers become obsolete, customs change. Things we used to do, we don’t do any more. What man wears Brylcreem in his hair nowadays? What child tends to her Tamagotchi or Chia Pet?
