“Islamophobia”

The vibes continue to shift. Five minutes ago, “cousin marriage” was the punchline to a highbrow joke about the Hapsburg Jaw, or perhaps a lowbrow one about what counted as Normal for Norfolk. Now all of a sudden, the relative silence about it reveals the “unspeakable face of liberalism” according to Matthew Syed in The Times. And it seems lots of others agree with him.

Formerly in the historical deep freeze, it’s the fact that cousin marriage occurs disproportionately in British Muslim communities that has turned it into a hot button issue. Syed — himself of Pakistani extraction — first drew attention to its prevalence in an influential column last year, reminding us that where cousin marriage is practised over several generations, it exposes couples to a significantly heightened risk of bearing children with autosomal recessive disorders. Obstetricians in isolated rural communities have always known this, and now modern access to gene mapping is emphasising the risk.

The next James Bond is increasingly unlikely to be representative of the British Isles, thanks to the British intelligence services (MI5, MI6, and GCHQ) who are offering final year university students a 2025 summer internship, provided they have the good taste not to be ‘White British’:

For the 2024/25 academic year, if you’re in your final or penultimate year of university and from a Black, Asian, mixed heritage or ethnic minority background and from a socially or economically disadvantaged background*, this Internship will help you discover if a career in intelligence is right for you. You won’t just be sitting on the sidelines – this is your opportunity to get unique access to our operations, gain experience, and make key contributions to real projects.

Two men have been charged with assaulting police officers following a brawl at Manchester Airport in July.

Mohammed Amaaz, 20, faces two charges of causing actual bodily harm, one charge of assaulting an emergency worker and one charge of common assault. Muhammed Amaad, 25, is charged with causing actual bodily harm.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said no police officers will be charged.

Sunni brothers Ammad & Amaz charged for assaulting police officers at Manchester airport

No charges were brought against the police officers

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A British sharia council was given credibility by the High Court when a judge used one of its fatwas to decide a case.

The Islamic Council, founded by the hardline preacher Haitham al-Haddad, issued a religious ruling forbidding a health trust from allowing a brain-damaged child to die. Secular campaigners said using fatwas in civil courts undermined liberal democracy.

The future of 100,000 marriages in Britain fall under the control of the Islamic authority, which is banned in 23 majority-Muslim countries, including Egypt

After suffering an onslaught of psychological abuse from her husband and increasingly unhappy in her marriage, Aisha finally decided she wanted a divorce.

There was one problem, however: her husband refused to allow it unless she paid him a five-figure sum covering all the money he spent on her during their marriage.

She offered instead to return her rings but he demanded the money they cost, a sum of thousands of pounds she could not afford.

For years, writers like Douglas Murray, the late Christopher Hitchens and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have been warning us that radical Islam is the greatest threat to the West, to our cultural and physical security. “You don’t have to be paranoid or bigoted to be alarmed,” Hitchens said.

And the canary in the Western coal mine is Europe, which is disintegrating into enclaves, while the numbers indicating Islamization continue to grow.

“Islam is advancing and I see in the West a desire to disappear,” Michel Houellebecq told the Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera.