‘I hate Democrats, but I love Abdul’: voters who left over Gaza return for progressive push

‘I hate Democrats, but I love Abdul’: voters who left over Gaza return for progressive push

Two years ago, Zainab Bibi Ahmed thought she had turned her back on the Democrats for good. Now, she is volunteering for the party’s US Senate nominee in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed.

Ahmed was one of 100,000 people to vote uncommitted in the February 2024 Democratic Michigan primary, in a bid to send a message to then US president Joe Biden about his support for Israel, as people watched what Amnesty International later called a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza on their screens.

That November, Ahmed – a resident of Troy, Michigan, and an academic staffer at Wayne State University – opted to vote for the Green party’s Jill Stein amid calls to punish Democrats over the administration’s support for Israel.

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Europe’s Jihadi Migrants: Mapping Migrant Involvement in Jihadi Terrorism in Europe (2015–2025)

Europe’s Jihadi Migrants: Mapping Migrant Involvement in Jihadi Terrorism in Europe (2015–2025)

In a warm summer evening in late August 2024, a 26-year-old Syrian national named Issa al-Hasan carried out a mass stabbing at the ‘Festival of Diversity’ in Solingen, Germany, killing three people and injuring eight others.1 The attack took place in front of the main stage during a live performance by DJ Topic, who later revealed that security personnel had urged him to continue his set to prevent mass panic among the crowd. He kept playing for another 10–15 minutes, until the music was finally stopped. Eyewitnesses reported that al-Hasan, who had been in contact with an ISIS handler on Telegram the day before the attack, had shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the assault.2 One of his victims, Ines Wallusch, a 56-year-old pharmacist, bled to death in the arms of her husband after suffering a fatal stab wound to her carotid artery.

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Revealed: The full scale of illegal ‘family voting’ at the Birmingham polls – as election watchdog is urged to investigate

Revealed: The full scale of illegal ‘family voting’ at the Birmingham polls – as election watchdog is urged to investigate

The elections watchdog has been urged to investigate after the country’s biggest town hall admitted the full scale of illegal ‘family voting’.

Birmingham City Council revealed staff witnessed attempts to breach the secret ballot at 50 polling stations in May’s local elections.

A list of incidents obtained by the Daily Mail showed presiding officers repeatedly had to tell voters it is against the law to enter a booth with someone else and tell them which candidate to pick – and received abuse in return.

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Islamism and the silence of the ‘progressives’

Islamism and the silence of the ‘progressives’

The German state cannot fairly be accused of inattention when it came to Abdul Ballout. It had been observing him for the better part of a decade. It had convicted him three times and had, by the start of July, arrived at an assessment of his character that turned out to be entirely accurate. The counsellors of the deradicalisation programme into which a Berlin court had released him in May had logged their misgivings, concluded that his cooperation was a performance, and set about drafting a recommendation that he be removed from their books. They were still drafting that recommendation on Saturday 25 July, when the 21-year-old drove a white van into the closing party of Christopher Street Day, a part of Berlin’s Pride season, a few hundred yards from the Brandenburg Gate. He killed one person and injured 29 others, and then proceeded to set about the survivors with a machete.

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Full-face veils banned in Portugal after president signs ‘burqa law’

Full-face veils banned in Portugal after president signs ‘burqa law’

Portuguese President António José Seguro has officially signed into law a bill banning face-concealing attire in public spaces, with the move seen targeting the full-face Islamic veils like the burqa and niqab.

Addressing the national debate, President Seguro framed the decision around human interaction, stating: “The face should be considered a central element of human identity and communication.”

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Who Needs Islam?

Who Needs Islam?

Short answer: Nobody.

Long answer: Not only does nobody need it, but the world would be better without it. Nowhere does Islam touch that doesn’t get worse. Nowhere does Islam conquer that doesn’t leave its inhabitants more oppressed. Nowhere does Islam “flourish” that doesn’t witness a new dark age in terms of freedom, education, and human progress. And nowhere does Islam reign that doesn’t unleash the darkest impulses of man’s insatiable desire for power.

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FBI arrests woman over alleged plot to bomb New York capitol building

FBI arrests woman over alleged plot to bomb New York capitol building

The FBI has arrested a New York woman who was allegedly planning to bomb the state capitol building in Albany to kill lawmakers.

Prosecutors allege that Jessica Bowie, 35, had previously pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group (IS). She is charged with providing material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organisation.

Bowie had “repeatedly surveilled the building” in advance, and was carrying a fake bomb and a defective gun, which had been supplied to her by undercover agents, prosecutors said.

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Two Afghan migrants ‘raped and assaulted a 14-year-old girl on a train from Kent to London’

Two Afghan migrants ‘raped and assaulted a 14-year-old girl on a train from Kent to London’

Two Afghan migrants raped and assaulted a 14-year-old girl on a London-bound train, a court heard.

Baryalai Rahimi, 25, and Mirebadurahman Sadat, 29, allegedly attacked the teenager on a service from Sturry to London Bridge on February 5.

Rahimi, of Southall in west London, and Sadat, of Cricklewood in north west London, denied all ten charges against them at an earlier hearing.

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The Islamic Republic of NYC

The Islamic Republic of NYC

Twenty-five years ago, America was attacked on its own soil, a first since 1812. A new generation of voters never directly experienced the horrors of that once-in-a-lifetime experience, played out on TV screens like a Hollywood horror movie.

Lessons have been learned in the years since. But not by all Americans, particularly many New Yorkers.

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Halifax Man Ali Assakereh Faces New Charge After Allegedly Threatening To Bomb US Consulate

Halifax Man Ali Assakereh Faces New Charge After Allegedly Threatening To Bomb US Consulate

Federal prosecutors have laid a new charge against the Halifax man accused of making a bomb threat against the United States Consulate in the city earlier this month.

A Crown lawyer confirmed in court on Aug. 18 that federal prosecutors had charged Ali Assakereh, 54, of Halifax, with threatening an internationally protected person.

The charge is under the Criminal Code provision covering threats involving internationally protected persons and their official premises.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes aim at Muslim washing stations in airports

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes aim at Muslim washing stations in airports

HOUSTON — For years, travelers passing through Texas’s two biggest airports have had access to small washing stations for a ritual called wudu, in which Muslims clean their hands, arms, head and feet before the five daily prayers.

Such facilities have become more common in states with the largest Muslim populations, including Texas, where on Wednesday travelers and others popped in and out of washing stations at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The tiled wudu room sits along an airport hall just past a vending machine, with a small sign showing a draped person kneeling.


No accommodation for the cult.

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