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When visiting a new place, one should follow local rules and customs. Hence the old axiom, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Apparently, in modern Britain, that requires a nine-page government instruction manual. The U.K. Home Office recently published “Understanding Behaviours and Expectations in the UK: A Guide for Asylum Seekers.” It begins by acknowledging the obvious: We understand that coming to a new country can be difficult, and that laws and customs here may be different from your home country. Fair enough. Every country has its own laws and customs. But the British government’s instructions go well...

Home Office figures reveal that 27 children aged five were referred to the Forced Marriage Unit between 2021 and 2025. Image for illustration purposes only. By DFID – UK Department for International DevelopmentMore than 100 children aged 12 or under were referred to the British government’s Forced Marriage Unit between 2021 and 2025, new Home Office figures show. The figures include 27 children aged five or under. Dame Jasvinder Sanghera, a campaigner who escaped a forced marriage when she was 14, described the number of very young children as “deeply disturbing.” She warned that some children could disappear from school...

California could soon formally recognize two of Islam’s most important holy days under legislation that would give state workers greater flexibility to take them off and allow public schools to close in observance of the holidays. The measure, which overwhelmingly passed the state Assembly and is awaiting Senate action, would recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha in state law and could soon head to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Assembly Bill 2017, introduced by Democratic San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney, passed the Assembly 64-1 in late May. It must clear the Senate before the legislative session ends Monday to reach...

Imagine for a moment that you are a terrorist, and you had a large number of rockets, guns, rifles, ammo, explosive devices, and grenades on hand, and more coming in all the time. Where would you store it all? Hamas recently came up with an answer to this question that would confuse and distress its leftist American supporters who have swallowed all the nonsense the establishment media propaganda outlets have inundated us with over the last quarter-century, about how Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance, and Muslims only resort to violence when they’re fighting back against oppression. That’s...

A product of Greek mythology, the Trojan War tale includes a great deception that ended it. After a ten-year siege of Troy, residents awoke to find a massive statue of a horse outside their city gates with the Greek army nowhere in sight. Assuming the horse was a gift offering to end the fighting, the Trojans brought it within their city walls, and later that night, Greek soldiers exited the statue via a trap door and opened the city gates to the rest of the waiting army. In warfare, deception is the mother of invention—and the greatest opportunity for deception...

On Friday, August 7, 2026, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey signed a defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, referred to by many as a “(Sunni) Muslim NATO.” U.S. president Donald Trump praised the agreement without considering the consequences for America or its ally Israel, as well as how Greece and India would react to this deal. In a post shared on social media, Trump said he was “very happy” that the three countries had signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, adding that it showed the Middle East was “coming together” and would allow countries to defend themselves “in a more...

Calls for a new crusade against Islam are growing louder and becoming more explicit across the West. Are we really witnessing the return of the Crusades—and, if so, what does that actually mean? 🟧 Subscribe to Raymond Ibrahim's Substack: https://substack.com/@raymondibrahim 🌟 Check out his bestselling books: https://www.raymondibrahim.com/books ✍️ Get a signed copy: https://www.raymondibrahim.com/signed... ☕️ Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/raymondibrahim

Founded by Alexander Hamilton as the first industrial city in America, Paterson, N.J., is now home to America’s largest Palestinian community and largest proportion of Muslim residents. Today, New Jersey’s third-largest city is effectively run by its 30,000 Muslims, some of whom say they don’t need to learn English because it’s like living “back home” in an Arab city. [snip] In June 2023, Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh signed a sister city agreement with the mayor of Ramallah, a city in the West Bank and the seat of power of the Palestinian Authority, which officially celebrates the killing of Israelis. And...

One ideology is premised on faith in Allah, and the other on faith in government, but what they share is that once you check in, only death gets you out. Classical Islamic law treats leaving the faith as a capital offense with no statute of limitations. The doctrine rests on a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari, “whoever changes his religion, kill him,” and legal manuals such as Reliance of the Traveller, codify apostasy as a capital crime. Abdul Rahman discovered the doctrine still had force in 2006. He was arrested in Kabul that February for converting from Islam to Christianity sixteen...

The agency referred a former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school teacher and Hamas operative for debarment for allegedly receiving and holding civilian hostages beginning on October 7, 2023. ================================================================== The United States' Agency for International Development's Inspector General's office announced Wednesday that it has referred more than 100 current or former employees of a United Nations relief agency to the State Department over their participation in the October 7 terror attacks in Israel. The referrals include three people they suggested be debarred by the department, including a former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...

Americans for Citizen Voting Chairman Paul Jacob: 'You can't cheat the people of Michigan and get away with it' =================================================================== Lansing—Democratic members of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted Monday against certifying the Americans for Citizen Voting initiative, leaving the proposed constitutional amendment to require proof of citizenship off the November ballot after a contentious debate. The four-member board deadlocked 2-2, with Republican members Chair Richard Houskamp and Paul Cordes voting to certify the petition and Democratic members Vice Chair Mary Ellen Gurewitz and Heather Cummings voting against certification. Since the Board has four members in order to have...

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh went to prison for working with ISIS. His college put him back on campus, without knowing why he'd been in federal prison. Sarah Adams was a targeting officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. It’s as cool as it sounds. She was in charge of disrupting terrorist attacks by identifying the people and organizations that pose a threat to the United States, a job that put her on the ground in the Middle East. She helped lead the investigation into the deadly terror attack on our diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, and then wrote the book on it....

Police in the UK have for years been practicing affirmative action for Muslims, the principle being that since Muslim areas are the most crime-ridden, police officers should “look like” those they are policing. Presumably a population that regards white policemen, infidels all and thus “the most vile of created beings,” as “the enemy” will see Muslim officers more sympathetically. One of those Muslim trainees is Mohammad Hassan of the Greater Manchester Police, who has just gotten himself into a world of woe. Christine Douglass-Williams wrote about him here, and more on Mohammad Hassan’s off-duty activity, not fighting crime but committing...

TRUMP IS OUR PRESIDENT NOW!

Because Donald Trump comes from the business world, unlike his predecessors in office, he has made it clear he prefers negotiating with adversaries to war, and economic strangulation when negotiating with them fails. From Genesis on, the naming of things has been deemed significant. Leftist pols know this and are careful how they label what they are doing. The right, not so much. Earlier this month I wrote about the ridiculous D.C. federal courts' efforts to halt construction of what has been called the “Trump Ballroom.” I think it’s time to call this what it really is: the renovation of...

Organizers of an East Texas pastoral summit are seeking 300 pastors for a Saturday gathering centered on the Muslim Brotherhood and what organizers describe as its threat to America. “The Muslim Brotherhood wants to destroy America. We need 300 pastors to stop them,” a promotional flyer for the Northeast Texas Pastoral Summit declares. Pine Baptist Church will host the August 22 event from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 284 FM 1522 in Pittsburg. Pastor Ben Warrick invited church leaders to join him for “a full day of awareness training” in a July 7 post. Organizers list admission as free...

Outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had formerly headed the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) which had offered a pass to the Muslim sex grooming gangs who had trafficked and raped as many as 250,000 women and girls in the UK. Starmer had initially refused to launch a national inquiry into the grooming gangs, claiming that they were merely a local matter, before finally giving in to political pressure. “In a number of cases presented to us, particularly in cases involving groups, there’s clearly an issue of ethnicity that has to be understood and addressed,” Starmer awkwardly admitted. “The CPS, under...

On the heels of Thursday's drop from the U.K. government, "Understanding Behaviours and Expectations in the UK: A Guide for Asylum Seekers," a nine-page guide for asylum seekers that gives instructions on public behavior and how to treat women, another rape was reported — this one of a 14-year-old girl who was simply riding the train to London. It's sickening.Amazing that they actually had to publish something like this:"The UK Home Office has officially published a new behavioral guidebook and poster campaign for asylum seekers that explicitly details British laws regarding sex and consent" https://t.co/KX0xrnRyAe— R Rydinsky (@Riverplaza1) August 21,...

Is Erdogan siding with the jihadis? Probably. Who let Turkey into NATO? Broadcast coming in 10 minutes. Will be available for playback after the program is over.

Michigan pastor Lorenzo Sewell delivered a blistering address at a Dearborn City Council meeting this week, accusing local leaders of allowing the city to fall under Sharia law. VIDEOS AT LINK............. Sewell stepped to the microphone and seemed intent on refusing to bend the knee in his messaging. It's impossible to overstate the amount of courage it takes to make this kind of stand. "America, we have lost this city,” he declared, his tone rising with urgency. “This is a city that is no longer under American laws; we are under Sharia law. We will not have it anymore.” "Enough...