“Islamophobia”

A 90-year-old woman was raped in her home in Nice last week after opening the door to a man she believed was her nurse, with prosecutors later confirming that the suspect was living illegally in France despite being under a deportation order.

The alleged attacker, a 29-year-old Tunisian national, was arrested and placed in police custody before being formally charged with rape of a vulnerable person and remanded in pre-trial detention, according to the Nice public prosecutor.

A plan to honour the Polish king who saved Vienna from an Ottoman siege has sparked a diplomatic row after the Austrian capital refused to erect the monument, citing fears it could offend the Muslim community.

The long-running dispute centres on a proposed statue of King John III Sobieski, intended for Vienna’s Kahlenberg mountain—the site of his decisive victory over the Ottoman army in 1683. First proposed in 2013 and formally approved in 2018, the project had been stalled for years before being definitively rejected by the city authorities at the end of 2024.

Britain has quietly repatriated Islamic State-linked women and children who were held alongside Shamima Begum in Syria, according to a director of the camp that holds the so-called Isis brides.

Six women in camps held by the western-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been sent back to Britain without fanfare, along with nine children.

There have been concerns that Isis prisoners might escape in the chaos engulfing eastern Syria as the central authorities begin to reclaim territory from the Kurdish-led SDF.

Bloodstains and stab wounds: Germany has been shaken by a series of serious stabbings. Incidents in Berlin, Lüneburg, Friedrichshafen, and Duisburg have raised concerns about escalating knife violence involving both adults and minors, prompting ongoing police investigations.

In Berlin’s Treptow-Köpenick district on the evening of Friday, January 25th, a 19-year-old man was seriously wounded in a knife attack at a bus stop when two unknown assailants reportedly attempted to rob him. He suffered stab wounds to his chest and abdomen and was taken to hospital for surgery, while the perpetrators fled and police launched an investigation.

News reports of this arrest are sparse, yet two days ago, French police arrested 20-year-old feminist activist Yona Faedda for conducting an interview on the rise of radical Islam in France, while maintaining her position that this rise poses a threat to women.

SO FAREWELL then, Chief Constable Craig Guildford, slithering off meekly into shameful early retirement. Enjoy counting your 30 pieces of pension silver.

I doubt that Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans will care much after Guildford banned them from attending a Europa Cup match against Aston Villa. Actually, they should have a whip-round for the bloke, because I can’t find flights/connections that take less than 15 hours each way and don’t cost a week’s wage. For a grotty November night in Birmingham? When your team lost 2-0? A result for the fans, I’d say.