Islam and violence

‘Let’s be clear, we don’t have blasphemy laws in the UK.’ So said Jonathan Reynolds, the UK’s business secretary and premier solicitor impersonator, to the BBC earlier this week. Reynolds was pushing back against US vice-president JD Vance, who gave European leaders a very public dressing down at the Munich Security Conference last week for censoring their voters, and Britain for criminalising its Christians. Of course, Reynolds’s denial was about as trustworthy as his CV.

Seven months after their daughters were injured in the attack, a family speaks for the first time about the day that shattered their world

It has been seven months since the attack and seven months since the parents last shared a bed. They take it in turns to lie next to each of their traumatised daughters, alternating every night. They have swapped out the singles in the girls’ shared bedroom for a king-size bed, in the hope of snatching a few hours of rest themselves.

Since July 29 sleep, however fitful, has become vanishingly rare. Before bed, the girls insist on checking again and again that every door in the house has been locked. They pore over doorbell video, looking for shapes in the dark.

Berlin – Wassim al M. was a recognized refugee who allegedly fled the Assad regime in Syria at the age of 17 – on Friday he was arrested with blood on his hands after allegedly stabbing a tourist in the middle of Berlin.

During his interrogation, the now 19-year-old Syrian stated that he wanted to kill people out of hatred of Jews. This decision had been brewing in him for several weeks. Investigators found a Koran, a prayer rug and the suspected murder weapon, a hunting knife, in the perpetrator’s backpack. He approached his victim from behind and tried to cut the Spaniard’s throat.

Over the past decade, Germany has experienced a series of Islamist attacks that have exposed the deficiencies of both the country’s and the European Union’s immigration policies, at a high human cost. According to reports from the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), the number of individuals classified as dangerous Islamists has increased drastically, rising from 550 in 2015 to over 2,000 in 2025, representing an almost fourfold increase in just ten years.

This sharp growth has led to a tightening of security policies, with increased surveillance and preventive detentions of terrorism suspects. However, some of these measures have sparked criticism, as they have involved restrictions on individual freedoms, including home raids for social media posts deemed “offensive,” a trend that has also been observed in the United Kingdom, especially for non-Islamists posting.

We compiled a list of the most vicious attacks that have occurred in 2024 and 2025, as well as a list of thwarted terror attacks that could have caused havoc had they not been prevented.

Over the past years, not a week has gone by without a jihadist terror attack in some European city being reported in the news. Most of the perpetrators turn out to be failed asylum seekers, highlighting the fact that Western European governments have failed to protect their own citizens by mismanaging the migration crisis that started a decade ago—failing to stop illegal migrants from entering, and failing to deport those who have no right to stay.

While the terrorist acts of late may not resemble the more coordinated attacks of previous years, characterized by shootings and suicide bombings like the ones Parisians had to endure in 2015, the lone wolf-style attacks are just as daunting and terrifying, prompting European voters everywhere to turn to anti-establishment, right-wing parties that vow to get a grip on the situation.

An Islamic State-linked graphic is circulating on social media, calling on Jihadists in major European cities to drive into large crowds, as if to emulate the recent actions of an Afghan asylum seeker in Germany. The campaign asks:

What are you waiting for? The streets are full of targets. Run them over!!

Once again, UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has restated her view that not all cultures are created equal. And, once again, this statement of obvious fact has been greeted with predictable outrage.

This week, Badenoch made a speech at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in east London, in which she criticised cultural relativism. She warned that some migrants who come to Britain bring with them ‘behaviours, cultures and practices’ that undermine Western civilisation and ‘the values that helped make us great’.

Anti-Muslim hate at record level in UK, report says

Anti-Muslim hate in the UK surged to record levels last year, an organisation tracking Islamophobia has found.

Almost 6,000 reports to Tell Mama were confirmed by it as anti-Muslim incidents, more than double the number two years ago, with men targeted more than women for the first time since the charity was founded in 2012.

In its report the organisation said there had been a “surge in rhetoric that falsely portrays Muslims as terrorists or terrorist sympathisers” following the Israel-Gaza conflict and Southport murders.