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Five women from across England who were groomed and abused as children or young adults have told BBC Newsnight about the ongoing impact it has had on their lives. All were targeted by adult men, mainly from a British Asian background, often against the backdrop of chaotic upbringings. They shared their stories on the same day the government confirmed the publication of a review into grooming gangs has been delayed. Kate Elysia - not her real name - was abused by a gang of men of Pakistani origin in the Shropshire town of Telford. She was first raped when she...

He had no doubts at first, but slowly they emerged. He was struck, he says, by the fact that the first coins bearing Muhammad’s name did not appear until the late 7th century — six decades after the religion did. He traded ideas with some scholars in Saarbrücken who in recent years have been pushing the idea of Muhammad’s nonexistence. They claim that “Muhammad” wasn’t the name of a person but a title, and that Islam began as a Christian heresy. Prof. Kalisch didn’t buy all of this. Contributing last year to a book on Islam, he weighed the odds...

The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq's prime minister announced on Friday. Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or "Abu Khadija," was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement. The prime minister described al-Rifai as "one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world." U.S. President Donald Trump reacted to the news on his social media platform Truth Social, saying al-Rifai's "miserable life was terminated." "Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq...

Three politicians in a small municipality near Philadelphia were indicted this week on charges they tried to fraudulently win the mayoral race in 2021 by producing about three dozen false mail-in ballots. A federal grand jury accused Mohammed Nurul Hasan, Mohammed Munsur Ali and Mohammed Rafikul Islam of conspiring to register people who live outside 1,200-population Millbourne as borough residents, to have mail-in ballots sent to themselves and then to return the completed ballots to the Delaware County elections board. Hasan was serving as vice president of the borough council and had lost the Democratic mayoral primary in the heavily...

As an amateur historian -- and probably not a good one -- I go nuts when I see amateurish fictions tendered as core premises. This is no more frequently found than in Hollywood; but do not kid yourself, it is not confined to Hollywood. The following famous movie scene (based on the play) is a case in point, one worse than most: Camelot is unique. And we have, by far and away, the most equitable climate in all England -- Camelot (1967)A) The King Arthur stories hail back to the collapse of Celtic Briton, after the Roman garrison left in...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec ‘Muhammad’ cracks top 10 names for baby boys in New York City From thepostmillennial.com 11:30 AM · Dec 28, 2024

Muhammad cracked the list for the top ten names for baby boys in New York City for the first time ever according to health officials. Muhammad tied with Michael for the 9th most popular name for baby boys in the Big Apple. Chart via 1010 WINS Radio NYC According to the QGazette. While most of the names in the top ten from 2022 stood their ground, new names made their way to the top of the 2023 list. Sofia returned to the top ten after being bumped by Esther the previous year. Isabella and Amelia moved up a few spaces,...

A military judge ruled Wednesday that plea deals sparing accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other terrorists the death penalty must remain in effect. The stunning move comes three months after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin revoked the shocking plea deals handed out to Mohammed and two alleged accomplices by the Office of Military Commissions in July. ... The order, issued by Air Force Col. and Judge Matthew McCall in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ... Family members of the victims of the heinous terror attack, which killed nearly 3,000, were outraged by the judge’s ruling.

The Failure of Interreligious Dialogue with IslamLast week, on the morning of August 7th, Pope Francis, just before his regular Wednesday general audience, received a group of representatives from the Afghan Muslim community in Italy. He touched upon the “complicated and dramatic history [in Afghanistan], marked by a succession of wars and blood-stained conflicts, which have made it very difficult for people to lead peaceful, free and secure lives.” The pontiff went on to tell the Afghan males—there were, surprisingly, no women at the encounter—“to continue in [their] noble endeavour to promote religious harmony and to strive to overcome misunderstandings...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday big-footed the brigadier general overseeing the war court at Guantanamo Bay and revoked the plea deals she had struck with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh-Mohammed and two co-conspirators, which took the death penalty off the table. We support Austin’s move, but what does tough-as-nails former prosecutor Kamala Harris, the anointed Democratic presidential nominee, think about this issue? It would be nice to know, should the press ever dare to ask her a question. There are a couple of reasons to wonder. The first is her brother-in-law Tony West’s role as a "key campaign adviser" to...

A secondary school in Treviso, Italy, has come under fire after it was revealed that Muslim students were exempted from studying Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" due to the poem's depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in Hell. The epic poem, spanning Inferno, Purgatoria, and Paradiso, shows the fate of many non-Christians, per the immagination of the legendary Italian poet. Ancient poets Virgil, Aristotle, and other pagans are depicted as existing in Limbo due to their lack of Christianity. According to a report by The Telegraph, the school allowed two Muslim students, aged around 14, to skip classes during the study...

While the Arab states make a hue and cry about Israel’s wrongdoings in Gaza, they themselves are not doing anything to help Palestinians in distress US Presidential aspirant, Nikki Haley has put the cat amongst the pigeons by asking some straight questions. She stated, “You're going to hear all those Arab countries vilify Israel for what's about to happen. You're going to hear all of them say, how dare you not do more for the Palestinian people?” and then posed bluntly, “But where are the Arab countries? Where are they? Where is Qatar? Where is Lebanon? Where is Jordan? Where...

Arras, France – A horrific act of Islamic terrorism unfolded on the grounds of the Gambetta-Carnot school complex in Arras, France, leaving one literature teacher dead and three others injured at his former High School. The assailant, identified as Mohammed Mogouchkov, a 20-year-old illegal Chechen Muslim migrant who had already been considered a potential threat to national security (S File) but was never deported, launched a brutal attack while shouting the Islamic battle cry, “Allahu Akbar,” sending shockwaves throughout the nation once again. Islamic attacks in France are part of a new normal in a country struggling with mass illegal...

CUNY's law school banned student speakers at future commencements after last year's anti-Israel rant that called the NYPD and other groups 'fascist.' In a now-infamous speech from last year, Yemeni immigrant Fatima Mousa Mohammed claimed laws are 'white supremacy' and attacked American institutions. The speech drew immediate backlash from numerous organizations and elected officials, even as Fatima defended her words and doubled down on her message. Now, administrations have quietly banned student speakers at the school's graduation, though they will still give speeches as 'pre-commencement' events. 'It's a great step in trying to combat hate speech at the law school...

DEARBORN, Mich (FOX 2) - Four teens who dined and dashed at a Dearborn restaurant turned themselves in after police used social media to look for them. On Sunday the teens went to Red Sea Restaurant on Michigan Avenue. "They got lobster tails, snow crab, shrimp, there were four," said Red Sea owner Suhail Mohammed. "They had a good amount of food." But when they finished eating., no one at the table stayed around to pay the bill - which was about $400.00. "They ran out so all of us we ran towards them but they were already in the...

‘Mohammed’ was overwhelmingly the most common name among those arrested during the recent French riots, reports the French newspaper L’Opinion, which analyzed a sample of the most common monikers amongst over 2,000 arrested throughout the uprisings in late June. Mohammed appeared 81 times in a sample of 335 arrests, 50 times more than second place Yanis –another name with Arab origins – which appeared 31 times. In fact, several Arab names were prevalent among the random sample of 335, with Yacin appearing 11 times, Ali appearing 13, and Ibrahim at 10. The names were revealed after the French Interior Minister...

Lawmakers including Ted Cruz slam NYC college for allowing 'hateful graduation speech' by law grad who called for attacks on 'fascist' NYPD and military - all while getting her education on the taxpayer's dime Fatima Mousa Mohammed was chosen by City University of New York's law school to speak at the ceremony on May 12 The future lawyer claimed that black prisoners are murdered daily in US jails - while also turning on her own university for 'cooperating with global violence' .....

Thanks to Medforth. Note that one of those who posted photographs observes that previously, London was only decorated in this way for Christmas. How long before the Christmas decorations come down, and only these are permitted? Meanwhile, this is what London is celebrating: “Ramadan is not a month of laziness but rather a month of activity, of effort, and of hard work, and as it also was in the life of the Prophet, a month of jihad, conquest, and victory.” — Palestinian Authority Supreme Sharia Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash

Zohreh Sadeghi had filed a no-contact order against the man who killed her . Ramin Khodakaramrezaei killed Sadeghi and Mohammed Naseri Thursday. He had stalked both of them, texting Naseri up until weeks before the killings. ... A Seattle podcaster and her ex-Google engineer husband who were shot dead by a crazed stalker have been pictured hours after being slain at their $1.6m home. Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, a self-styled 'techie', was shot and killed by .. Ramin Khodakaramrezaei ... Khodakaramrezaei climbed through a window at 2am and shot Sadeghi and her husband, Mohammed Naseri, 35, then himself. Sadeghi's mother was...

These “love jihad” incidents stem from supremacist assumptions. Muslim women are forbidden to marry non-Muslim men: “Do not marry idolatresses until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave woman is better than an idolatress, even though she pleases you. And do not give your daughters in marriage to idolaters until they believe, for indeed, a believing slave is better than an idolater, even though he pleases you. These people invite you to the fire, and Allah invites you to the garden, and to forgiveness by his grace, and explains his signs to mankind so that perhaps they will remember.” (Qur’an...