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Three days ago, the New York Post published an item on a recent tragedy in rural France—a “mob of about 10 knife-wielding thugs” had forced their way into a town celebration described by the mayor as “a very simple ball with a sound system organized by the village festival committee.” In the immediate aftermath, details about the identities and motive of the attackers weren’t “known” (but of course if you have a brain, they were); initial stories indicated a “brawl” while the prosecutor of Valence even suggested that the attack was to “settle a score” between rival criminal gangs. Now...

A staggering 46 percent of Pakistani newborns in the “English” city of Bradford are the direct product of cousin marriages, falling from over 60 percent over the past decade, according to the BBC, which has attempted to contextualize inbreeding amongst minority communities. The BBC drew on a recent study entitled “Born in Bradford,” which recruited 2,317 pregnant women from “inner city wards” without regard for their ethnicity between 2007 and 2010 and then another 2,378 mothers between 2016 and 2019. They found that 62 percent of the Pakistani women involved married either their first or second cousin in the first...

A “radical” Jordanian national living in Texas was allegedly plotting an attack on Houston’s Jewish community before he was arrested on gun charges. Sohaib Abuayyash, 20, had been studying how to build bombs and posted about his support for killing Jews, federal officials claim. “He has viewed specific and detailed content posted by radical organizations on the internet, including lessons on how to construct bombs or explosive devices,” FBI Director Chris Wray told the Senate Homeland Security Committee, though he declined to identify Abuayyash by name. “And that defendant has made statements to others that support the killing of individuals...

As thousands of immigrants cross the United States’ southern border illegally every week, a recent report by two global Christian relief organizations has found that the U.S. has reduced the resettlement of Christians fleeing global persecution by 70% compared to 2016. Open Doors, which annually ranks the 50 countries in which it is most difficult to live as a Christian, and World Relief, a global Christian humanitarian organization, issued a joint report in September that in 2022 the U.S. government resettled barely one-third of the number of Christian refugees who were granted asylum in 2016. In 2022, the number of...

As thousands of immigrants cross the United States’ southern border illegally every week, a recent report by two global Christian relief organizations has found that the U.S. has reduced the resettlement of Christians fleeing global persecution by 70% compared to 2016. Open Doors, which annually ranks the 50 countries in which it is most difficult to live as a Christian, and World Relief, a global Christian humanitarian organization, issued a joint report in September that in 2022 the U.S. government resettled barely one-third of the number of Christian refugees who were granted asylum in 2016. In 2022, the number of...

NEW YORK -- As more asylum seekers arrive in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams faces more hurdles finding them housing. A number of migrant shelters now have to be closed because the fire department says they're fire traps When it comes to the migrant crisis, it often seems like the mayor is between a rock and a hard place. The rock? More asylum seekers arriving every day. The hard place? Some of the shelters are less than ideal.

A teacher was killed in a knife attack in a school in the northern French city of Arras on October 13 and the investigation has been handed over to the anti-terrorism prosecutor's office. The regional Pas-de-Calais authority said the suspected assailant, who also wounded a second teacher and a school security guard in the attack, was arrested. The suspect was a Russian-born Chechen and former student of the Lycee Gambetta high school where the attack happened, a police source said. He was on a watch list of people known as a potential security risk in connection to radical Islamism, the...

Feras Al-Jayoosi followed the woman into a staff-only storage room and shouted at her for giving him a dirty look, a court heard A convicted Hamas supporter told a UK shop worker “I’m going to cut your head off” just two days after the Israel attacks began, a court heard. Feras Al-Jayoosi followed the woman around One Below, in Swindon, Wiltshire, before she started her shift, repeatedly shouting “Don’t ignore me” on Oct 9. The court heard Al-Jayoosi, 36, followed her into a staff-only storage room, where she told him: “Please leave me alone, I’m not on shift yet.” He...

In the early hours of Thursday, a loud explosion ripped through a quiet residential street of new-build family homes just north of the Swedish city of Uppsala. Soha Saad, 24, was killed in the blast. She lived with her parents, and had recently qualified as a teacher. In footage of the aftermath, her mother can be heard screaming for her daughter, cursing the nation to which they once fled. Saad was one of three victims of gangland violence in a violent 12-hour spell last week, and one of 12 people to be killed in September - Sweden's deadliest month since...

What a foul betrayal of basic human decency. After years of shamelessly smearing Republicans as racist Neanderthals for daring to suggest that a physical barrier may stem the raging migrant crisis, President Joe Biden is – all of the sudden – building the wall. 'There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers… to prevent unlawful entries into the United States,' his administration announced this week. You don't say.

Years of budget cuts and staffing shortages have left the New York City Department of Health too hobbled to contain a sharp rise in local cases of tuberculosis, according to a bombshell new report. “TB is the top killer of people worldwide among infectious diseases,” Dr. Bruce Hirsch, infectious disease specialist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., told The Post. And there have been about 500 active cases of TB in NYC so far in 2023. That’s an increase of about 20% over the same time last year, according to “internal preliminary data” reported by Politico, making 2023...

Chicago residents have expressed fury at the city's government for offering shelter to a massive influx of asylum seekers, as a youth football team is set to be kicked off their home field to make room for a migrant camp. More than 17,000 migrants have arrived in the Windy City since August 2022, with more than 10,000 in shelters and close to 3,200 staying in police stations and the O'Hare International Airport. The city government says it has so far allocated $328 million in aid. An infuriated local called mayor Brandon Johnson and Democrats 'criminals' for their handling of the...

A case of malaria has been confirmed in Arkansas and is the first locally acquired case in the state in at least 40 years. The patient, who was not named, lives in Saline County and had not recently traveled out of the country. The case makes Arkansas the fourth state to report a locally acquired case of the disease this year, in another sign the disease may be gaining a foothold in the US for the first time in two decades. The patient was also the tenth to be infected on US soil this year, after seven locally-acquired infections were...

When I first moved to Norway in 1999, I often heard the term amerikanske tilstander – “American conditions.” It was never, ever used positively; it didn’t refer, for example, to things like freedom and prosperity. No, it was always used to describe some dreaded social or cultural or economic phenomenon that was supposedly on the rise in Norway and that threatened to make the country look more like – horrors! – the United States. Evangelical Christianity? Amerikanske tilstander! Gun crime? Amerikanske tilstander! Rough-and-tumble election campaigns? Dumb TV shows? Private medical options? Growing economic inequality? Amerikanske tilstander! Back then, you never,...

The Swedish government is rushing to prepare the public for expanded police use of biometric systems including those monitoring from traffic stanchions and drones. Gang violence that includes firearms and explosives has pushed the government and a far-Right conservative party to examine the proposed surveillance change in a fast-tracked inquiry, according to local reports. The nation’s justice minister this week said the inquiry will be completed in half the usual time for such a body. A finding could be published by spring. Government inquiries generally are used to bury a topic or to show the public an action has been...

[Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]The American people are suffering the dire consequences of President Biden’s disastrous open border, catch and release immigration policies. The number of migrants crossing the border into the United States unlawfully has spiked to near-record levels in recent weeks. The final tally of migrant apprehensions this fiscal year, which ended on September 30th, is likely to match, if not exceed, the whopping 2.2 million apprehensions in fiscal year 2022.Every day, thousands of migrants are seen making their way into the United...

A man accused of jihadism and considered by the authorities to be dangerous has disappeared in Spain and his whereabouts are currently unknown. According to anti-terrorist sources of larazon.es, Allal el Mourabit Ahammarb managed to remove the electronic tagging device that he had been fitted with and left in the Salburúa park in Vitoria. The bracelet was subsequently found by police officers after an operation had been initiated to locate it. As explained by the same sources, these tagging devices do not presuppose permanent monitoring of the individual carrying them. What they do presuppose is to control that he/she never...

New York governor Kathy Hochul welcomed asylum seekers with 'open arms' and pledged to house them just three years before telling migrants to 'go elsewhere' because the city is at its limit. The Democrat addressed the migrant crisis on Wednesday, warning that asylum seekers who arrive in New York City will not be housed in hotel rooms as they have been in the past. 'We have to get the word out, that when you come to New York, you're not going to have more hotel rooms, we don't have capacity,' Hochul said on CNN. 'So we have to also message...

A Sudanese asylum seeker convicted of attempting to meet up with a pedophile hunter posing as a 14-year-old girl on the internet has been spared prison time in the U.K. and sentenced to 30 hours of community service. Mofasim Abdulkarim, 23, pleaded guilty to attempted sexual communication with a child and asking a child to take indecent pictures; he appeared before Leicester Crown Court on Aug. 30. The court heard how Abdulkarim, who had been living in taxpayer-funded hotel accommodation in Leicester since arriving in the U.K., befriended a fake profile on Facebook portraying a 14-year-old schoolgirl called Milly. The...

This is the thing with all of this stuff happening – there is no finality. It’s all just “change your life, indefinitely.” It’s the same thing with the economy in Europe. They are just telling people to get used to being poor. Remix: Police in the Swedish county of Värmland have urged residents not to wear branded clothing or expensive jewelry when walking through the county’s largest city of Karlstad due to a rise in robberies and migrant gang violence. As reported by the Samnytt news outlet, citizens are being told to dress poorly to ensure they aren’t robbed, with...