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A powerful figure has emerged in the Muslim world, and his newly founded religion is gaining followers worldwide. Shockingly, on Easter Sunday, his followers declared him to be the new pope, and the next day, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had passed away. Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq, commonly known as Abdullah Hashem, was born in 1983 in Indiana to an Egyptian father and an American mother. He is an Egyptian-American and the founder of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL), not to be confused with the Ahmadiyya community discriminated against in Pakistan. He claims to be the...

Three people have been killed in a shooting in the Swedish city of Uppsala, police have confirmed. The shooting took place at a hair salon close to Vaksala Square in the centre of the city, local media reported. The shooter, who fled on a scooter, is still on the run, according to the reports. Officers have cordoned off a large area and a murder investigation is under way. The incident happened on the eve of the Walpurgis spring festival, which brings large crowds onto the streets of Uppsala, a city located north of the capital Stockholm, and known for its...

More and more mosques are being built in Sweden, including mega projects potentially funded from abroad.. Sweden has seen massive demographic changes over the last 25 years, and this is not only reflected in the demographic composition, but also the religious composition of the country. While churches continue to close their doors, the country went from approximately seven mosques in 2000 to now 300 in 2025. The exact figures are difficult to ascertain, however, the 300 mosques refers to permanent prayer places built for Muslim worship, which often feature a minaret and a dome. If unofficial places of Muslim worship...

Newly uncovered photos and online accounts purportedly associated with the Wisconsin teen school shooter suggest a deeply disturbing obsession with other school shooters such as Columbine killer Eric Harris — and even show her wearing a t-shirt of his favorite band. A now-eerie snapshot of Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, 15, was posted on her father’s Facebook page and shows her aiming a rifle at a shooting range wearing a shirt from the German industrial rock band KMFDM. Harris was seen in photos also wearing one of the band’s T-shirts before he and Dylan Klebold went on to murder 13 people in...

@JohnStossel @SenSanders say America should become more like Sweden. I agree. Sweden has a private pension system, school vouchers, and no minimum wage law Clip...

Battery cell maker Northvolt has filed for bankruptcy in Sweden, the company said on Wednesday, marking one of the country's largest corporate failures and effectively ending Europe's best hope of developing a rival to challenge China. "This was a decision we did not take lightly" and it was the only "realistic path forward," Northvolt Chairman Tom Johnstone told a press conference, saying every avenue had been pursued to avoid bankruptcy for the company, which puts 5,000 jobs at risk. The EV battery maker sought U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November as its cash pile dwindled and it scrambled to...

Former Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, leader of the left-globalist Social Democrat party, has thrown her support behind a radical proposal that, if enacted into law, would see the state mandate the redistribution of migrant populations from alien cultures into areas with higher numbers of native Swedes. The controversial plan, which has sparked significant backlash, was pitched by socialists to Sweden’s people under the guise of ‘combating segregation’ and calls for the demolition of apartment buildings in migrant-heavy areas and the relocation of foreign-born residents to neighborhoods with larger native Swedish populations, the Swedish newspaper Expressen reported. The former prime...

The United States has told its allies that it does not plan to participate in military exercises in Europe, according to reports.The move, the latest in Donald Trump’s pivot away from the bloc, would see America pull out of exercises beyond those already scheduled for this year.The withdrawal concerns exercises that are on the “drawing board”, according to Swedish newspaper Expressen.It means that Nato countries will be forced to plan exercises without the participation of the US military, the largest in the alliance.

A more than 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden isn't a Viking vessel after all, scientists have found.A 15th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden may be Scandinavia's oldest shipwreck built in the innovative "carvel" style — a design that gave it the strength to carry heavy cannons, archaeologists say.The wreck at Landfjärden, south of Stockholm, is one of five in the area that have been known since the 1800s. They were commonly thought to have been from ships dating to the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066).But last year, maritime archaeologists at Vrak, the museum of wrecks in...

🇨🇦 Canada 🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇮 Finland 🇳🇴 Norway 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇱🇹 Lithuania Several more are still expected

Of all the countries in Europe you would expect to be liberal on immigration policies, Sweden and Denmark would be near the top of the list. We all know that Poland and Hungary are standing firm on border issues. Georgia Meloni in Italy won on a "get strict "policy on immigration. But Sweden and Denmark? Yep. It turns out that they are now hard core when it comes to taking back their countries. Sweden is even paying migrants to pack up and leave. In other words, they're going in the direction of Danish policy. It'll be interesting to see if...

Sweden is planning gun bans and tighter gun control after the country’s stringent controls failed to a prevent a February 4, 2025 school shooting. On February 4, Breitbart News reported at least five people were killed in the shooting. On February 7, Reuters noted the reported number of deceased had increased to eleven. Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer told Reuters they are looking to ban AR-15 rifles as a “preventative measure.” Strommer said this even though the specific type of firearm(s) used in the attack has not been reported. Authorities have only indicated that the attacker, a 35-year-old man, had rifles...

The first noticeable thing about Aron Verständig was that he arrived without a security detail. For a man who was the target of a murder plot by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, walking around without bodyguards could appear almost reckless. But the bespectacled chairman of the Judiska Centralrådet, or the Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities, has taken it in stride. Granted, the Iranian agents who were planning his murder were arrested and deported, but the regime has a long memory and is unforgiving. Many in Sweden are already pointing fingers at Tehran for last week’s murder of Islam critic...

It is amazing, very revealing that today's radical democrat party uniformly praised and elevated Greta Thunberg, a vegan Swedish professional protester and activist with no degree and no training at age 15 for demanding tens of trillions of dollars be lost from the econmy6, be diverted and be dedicated to fighting natural climate change. This same worldwide group of liberal democrats are cursing and attacking the five professional programmers hired through Musk's DOGE government workshop, some only 18 years old, who are exposing more billions in government waste and democrat party corruption every hour.

Hadi Matar finally went on trial Tuesday for attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie back in Aug. 2022. There is little, if any, doubt about Matar’s guilt .. for he stabbed Rushdie multiple times in full view of a shocked crowd at the Chautauqua festival. .. Barone managed to delay the trial for over a year. Now that it has begun, both Barone and his opposite number, Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt, seem curiously intent on preventing any discussion of Matar’s motive. Matar tried to kill the man who, at the time of the stabbing had carried for...

... Police wouldn’t say whether the shooter had multiple guns, nor would they say what kind of firearm was used in the shooting.... ... Police haven’t said if the man was a student at the school.... They haven’t released a possible motive... Police raided the suspect’s home after Tuesday’s shooting, but it wasn’t immediately clear what they found. Police cautioned the public against spreading incorrect narratives on social media.

It's 24 hours after the worst mass shooting in Sweden's history, and we still aren't absolutely sure how many people died, how many were wounded, who the shooter was, and what his motive may have been. We believe that 11 people, including the shooter, were killed at Campus Risbergska, a school for adults in the city of Örebro, about 125 miles from Stockholm. "At least" six people were seriously wounded, according to the police. In this case, local media is filling in some of the blanks. The police say that the attacker "acted alone." They say he was "unknown to...

At least five people have been shot at a school in Sweden "with an automatic weapon". "Several people" were initially said to be injured at Risbergska School in Orebro, southern Sweden - with police locking down the building and urging the public to stay away. "Listen to the police officers at the scene," a police statement read shortly before 12.30 UK time. "The operation concerns threats of deadly violence. The operation is still ongoing." A later statement confirmed: "There has been a shooting at the school. Four people have been shot. The extent of the injuries is unclear. The operation...

At least five people have been shot at a school in Sweden "with an automatic weapon". "Several people" were initially said to be injured at Risbergska School in Orebro, southern Sweden - with police locking down the building and urging the public to stay away. "Listen to the police officers at the scene," a police statement read shortly before 12.30 UK time. "The operation concerns threats of deadly violence. The operation is still ongoing." A later statement confirmed: "There has been a shooting at the school. Four people have been shot. The extent of the injuries is unclear. The operation...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte agreed with US President Donald Trump regarding Greenland, particularly on the issue of defense, Bild reports. "When it comes to defense in the Arctic, Trump is right. What I think is very good is that the Prime Minister of Denmark immediately began negotiations with President Trump. Essentially, it was about the high relevance of defense in the far north," he said. According to Rutte, this applies not only to Greenland but also to Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Canada. "We all need to work together to protect these territories. And Trump is right," emphasized the...