“For over two centuries, the Home Secretary has safeguarded the nation. Today, we begin a new chapter as we welcome Shabana Mahmood to the Home Office as the new Home Secretary,” the British government announced.
It is indeed a new chapter for the Pakistani Muslim politician, who took her oath of office on a Koran and who has now become the highest-ranking Muslim in the British government.
The trial of the three women, all from the Clain family, opened in Paris on Monday. They are accused of being members of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group.
The trial of three women accused of joining the so-called Islamic State (IS) terror group opened at a special court in Paris on Monday.
The trial, which is expected to run until 26 September, is taking place at a special court with no jury, a standard practice in terrorist cases in France.
Church leaders are deeply concerned about supporters of the far-right agitator Tommy Robinson co-opting the Christian faith and symbols including the Cross.
In an open letter, senior figures representing a spread of denominations warned against the “misuse of Christianity”.
The signatories include Lord Williams of Oystermouth, a former Archbishop of Canterbury; the Right Rev Philip Mounstephen, Bishop of Winchester; Gavin Calver, chief executive of the Evangelical Alliance, and Bishop Mike Royal, general secretary of Churches Together in England.
Oh Brother. It’s not as if these woke “Christians” were doing anything useful with it.
Abdullahe Nur Jesow, age 65, became the 56th defendant to plead guilty in the massive Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson.
Jesow was one of eight defendants charged in United States v. Hassan. This group, the S&S Catering group, purported to run food program sites, including on Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Université de Sherbrooke is sticking to its decision to admit a student to its medical school despite mounting concerns by parents and Jewish doctors’ groups over social media posts he is alleged to have made that were antisemitic, homophobic and sexist — and despite the fact Quebec’s lieutenant-governor has now stripped him of a youth medal over the controversy.
Even if the notwithstanding clause is required for its execution, the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) is poised to pass a bill “to strengthen secularism in Quebec” — an expansion of Bill 21 — that will ban mass prayer in public areas. The law will also require immigrants to adopt Quebecers’ “shared values.”
Last December at a press conference, Premier François Legault announced his intention to confront the mass prayer issue head on. “I want to convey a very clear message to the Islamists,” Legault said. “The fundamental values we have in Quebec, like secularism, like equality between men and women, we will fight for them, and we will never, ever accept people disrespecting those fundamental values.”
David Smith Court is a housing complex in the suburbs of Reading. One of the five red-brick blocks consists solely of retirement flats with communal lounge and dining area, laundry room, hairdressing salon and gardens (where residents can opt to look after their own patch).
Many of those who live here are in their 70s, 80s, even 90s. So a more unlikely setting for controversy you would be hard-pressed to find.
Yet, as improbable as it may seem, the same frustration and anger fuelling much of the social unrest around Britain is being mirrored, in microcosm, in this genteel Home Counties retreat for the elderly.
Islamic State has issued a fresh call for terror attacks across Britain, the United States, Europe, and beyond, urging followers to target Christians, Jews, and their “allies” in what it calls revenge for Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza.
In an online message titled O Zealous Monotheists, ISIS spokesman Abu Hudhaifa al-Ansari told supporters to “chase your prey… in the streets and roads of precious America, Europe, and the world. Break into their homes, kill them, and punish them by any means you can.”
He was allegedly an obsessed man with multiple identities, a stun gun, and a kayak.
U.S. authorities allege a Michigan man snuck across the border with a kayak and a bicycle in his plot to strangle a Windsor woman — and kidnap her four-year-old son.
The details are among many bizarre allegations the U.S. Attorney’s Office recently levelled against Royal Oak’s Shahzad Hameedi.
WITH remarkable honesty, a senior Roman Catholic cardinal has criticised the weak response of British authorities to Muslim rape gangs, citing the scandal as an example of how ‘woke’ activists throughout the West are instrumentalising Islam ‘as a tool to weaken Christian culture and tradition’.
At a recent Dearborn City Council meeting, Michigan resident Edward Barham, a practicing Christian, expressed concerns about new street signs honoring The Arab-American News publisher Osama Siblani.
The Mayor of Dearborn is telling an American citizen, someone who actually lives in Dearborn, that he’s not welcome there. Why? Because the man opposes naming a street after a Hezbollah terrorist..
Mr Mayor is a terrorist supporter.pic.twitter.com/QUpdnNQ1Nk— ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi (@__Injaneb96) September 17, 2025
This is not justice for a grieving family.
Craig MacDonald’s relatives burst into tears as his killer was sentenced to just nine years in prison — and with credit for pre-sentence custody, Abilaziz Mohamed has only 3.9 years left to serve.
A federal judge ordered Wednesday that immigrant Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist behind some of the radical protests at Columbia University, be deported — either to Algeria, or to his native Syria.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/lJeRYKCi3o
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) September 18, 2025
There must come a day when the demons who did this to Canada are held accountable.
h/t Patti Jo
Since Labour came to power, it has become clear that the battle against extremism has taken a back seat to political expediency. Labour has always had a counter-extremism problem, and after two decades of work I have done in this area which started post 7/7 under the Blair government, Labour continues to flounder in challenging Islamism in Britain.
This Government, it seems, is being straight-jacketed by Islamist loudmouths who have hijacked the public discourse space on who represents Muslims in the UK. These political extremists who have hijacked Islam continue to smear and threaten those within Muslim communities who dare to challenge their poisonous and divisive discourse. In the meantime, instead of supporting the Muslim voices who challenge Islamist organisations and their penumbra of supporters, this Government has opened its doors to these toxic groups in the mistaken belief that they are needed to placate Labour’s electoral base.
