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News reports about Islamic terrorist attacks are awkward. Videos even more so. Australian authorities have refused to use the “I” or “M” word to discuss the Muslim terrorist attack on a bishop.Now they’re demanding that Twitter take down a video of the stabbing on the Australian Jewish Association Twitter account.At issue is the right of X to publish a video showing the moment a 16-year-old allegedly stabbed a bishop in an Orthodox Christian Church in Sydney earlier this month.Australian authorities say the clips threw fuel on a riot that erupted outside the church after the attack and shouldn’t be available...

Capitol Hill Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed during the invasion at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. The media ran with the story that Officer Sicknick was beaten over the head with a fire extinguisher by Trump supporters. It was only later that the facts came out. Propublica reported that Sicknick told his brother he was merely pepper-sprayed. But according to Officer Sicknick’s family, he suffered from a blood clot and stroke and was put on a ventilator, according to Western Journal. Officer Sicknick’s family begged that his death not become a political ping-pong ball. But it looks...

A 17-year-old Islamic State sympathizer planned to set off a pipe bomb near Ramstein Air Base but changed his mind because he didn’t want to “kill so many people,” according to media reports. The Austrian weekly newspaper Falter reported this week that the 17-year-old, identified only as Lorenz K, told police of the plan after he was arrested in Vienna on Jan. 20 when an acquaintance reported him to authorities. Falter said it had obtained a transcript of the youth’s questioning. German police and Austria’s Interior Ministry refused to comment on the report. “Report Mainz,” a German television show, had...

"...leaving one ‘BLINDED IN ONE EYE’ and 4 others horrifically injured as they waited for a train. —- Young group were standing at Ockendon station, Essex, when attacked — Doused in corrosive liquid by group of Muslim assailants who then fled — One of the teenagers left blind in one eye while a second badly burned —Three others also hurt but released from hospital with minor injuries