An unexpected person helps an anti-Muslim Sikh arrested in London

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by Andrea Widburg

Back in March, I used my podcast to highlight Harman Singh Kapoor and his wife, Khushi Harman Kapoor. They are both Sikh, and they run a restaurant in London. Kapoor has been waging a fierce battle against rising Islam in the UK. Two of the ways he does so are to refuse to serve Halal food in his restaurant and to speak out against Islam. So, of course, the mob has been after him and his restaurant. Here’s just one example of what they face:

In sum, he is an outspoken anti-Muslim, and the mob is determined to silence him.

Things have been escalating lately, not in terms of the mob, but in terms of the Sharia-compliant British government. In March, the police arrested Kapoor following protests outside of his restaurant.

They were acting, they said, because he posted a video saying that if people tried to hurt his family, he was armed and ready to kill in their defense. In other words, the traditional British right of self-defense and defense of others, which no longer exists in the UK. Merely voicing it is an arrestable offense.

In May, the police again arrested him:

And then, last night (November 13), his wife said that the police again arrested Kapoor. Although they eventually responded to the mob (see below), it’s unclear whether any arrests were made, and as of her text, the mob was still baying at her door.

Enter help from an unexpected source: John Cleese—or at least, that’s what Kapoor’s wife claims, and Cleese has not refuted it. Moreover, his subsequent posts suggest he doesn’t intend to. Here’s what she had to say:

Cleese hasn’t explicitly addressed her shout-out to him, but his posts supporting Kapoor (including posts today), along with Cleese’s own revelation that the government is abandoning its ancient free-speech principles to appease Muslims, suggest she’s probably telling the truth.

So, what about John Cleese? We all know him as one of the funniest members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and as Basil Fawlty. He has always been a leftist. But he was also raised in a now-distant UK that had a tradition of liberty. For that reason, he’s begun to realize that the modern UK has a problem.

As part of that realization, Cleese has done at least two things: First, he’s flirting with arrest by making jokes about Muslims:

The Sharia-compliant UK government doesn’t like this kind of thing.

Second, Cleese has been vocal about supporting Kapoor. Here is just one example:

Cleese was also paying close attention to the most recent mobs around Kapoor’s restaurant yesterday, for he retweeted a couple of posts about these attacks, including this one:

Since Kapoor’s arrest, Cleese has continued to voice anger at what happened, and to shout out support for Kapoor himself:

John Cleese has had a revelation that the rest of Britain must have if it is to survive. If it’s any help to the beleaguered Brits, they have America as a role model. In the second half of the 18th Century, British citizens in America were so dismayed by the British government’s failure to extend the ancient rights of Englishmen to the colonies that they fought a war to preserve those rights—and look how well that fight served America.

Keep an eye on this story. Maybe it’ll have legs and be the straw that broke the camel’s back when it comes to what polite, and way-too-meek Brits are willing to put up with from their increasingly sharia-compliant government.

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‘ACAB’: Unrest Across France as Anti-Police Demonstrations Held Throughout Country

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Leftist protests continued on Saturday in dozens of cities across France, with tens of thousands gathering in Paris amid concerns from French intelligence of further acts of violent rioting.

According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Paris police sources expected between 30,000 and 60,000 people to attend the various left-wing demonstrations in the French capital, including potentially “300 to 600” radicals who could spark unrest.

Meanwhile, outside of Paris, some 55 different protests were organised, with around 10,000 people expected to attend.

Le Figaro reported that attendees of a rally in Paris were heard chanting ACAAB (All Cops Are Bastards), “Money for the people”, and “Fuck Israel”.

Clashes were witnessed as the protesters approached the Place de la Nation, with some agitators throwing garbage cans into the street and setting them on fire. Clashes with police were seen in other cities, including Bordeaux, Lyon, and Nantes.

Anti-police sentiment was reportedly a major theme of the protests, which were called in part in response to legislation seeking to legally protect law enforcement officers who are forced to use their weapons during riots.

Leftist protesters claimed that this would amount to a “licence to kill”, while others chanted “Justice for Nahël”, referencing the Algerian-heritage teen who was killed by police after he attempted to flee in a car from the scene of a traffic stop. The killing sparked months of multicultural riots in 2023.

The demonstrations came amid warnings from the Paris Police Prefecture’s intelligence directorate (DRPP) of the risk of more violence in Paris on Saturday, Le Journal du Dimanche reported.

The report warned of a potential “radical bloc” comprised of far-leftists, Antifa and other activists using the demonstrations as a pretext for “verbal and physical provocations against the police” as has previously been the case during the past two months of rioting during the protests supposedly over school conditions.

The intel arm of the Paris Police noted that various left-wing groups are set to attend as well, including the CGT union and the La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI) party of presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who has been accused of manipulating and fomenting the fiery violence seen since September.

The DPPP specifically cited the legislation concerning the use of weapons by police as “the most likely to mobilise” and could mean that the demonstrations would likely have a “very strong anti-police character.”

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Cardinal Müller denounces ‘neo-socialist wokism of our times’

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller. Jim Hale/LifeSiteNews

Cardinal Gerhard Müller recently denounced “neo-socialist wokism” and warned against efforts to reduce the Catholic Church to a mere “humanitarian organization,” according to a detailed report based on a transcript of his remarks published by AdVaticanum.

Earlier this week at the Sturzo Institute in Rome, the former prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith linked the sufferings of the early Christian martyrs to modern ideologies hostile to the Catholic faith, such as Nazism, communism, “political Islamism,” and “the neo-socialist wokism of our times.”

Regarding contemporary Western Christianity, Müller criticized those who confuse the faith with Enlightenment achievements in an attempt to avoid the “scandal” of the Cross.

“Some Christians in the West, unfortunately, still confuse their faith with the achievements of the Enlightenment, thinking they can circumvent the scandal and shame of the cross that the evidence of faith evokes in people today, by defining Christianity merely as a phenomenon arising from bourgeois Christian civilization, with humanist and immanentist aims,” he stated.

The German cardinal warned that such a reduction would leave the Church deserving “recognition by any state or institution only as a humanitarian aid organization,” an idea “cherished and often promoted by certain news networks.”

In contrast, he affirmed, “the Church of Christ, however, has as the sole goal of its journey through time to follow God in Jesus Christ, the Teacher and Lord who is despised, persecuted, and shamefully executed as a criminal of the world.”

‘We cannot be a good Catholic and accept the Woke Ideology’

The remarks serve to reaffirm themes Cardinal Mūller has been emphasizing in public addresses in recent years. In a March 2024 interview, he slammed synodal efforts that seek “to change the Church to another worldly health organization like an NGO.” In a November 2025 homily he declared: “The Catholic Church neither is nor may become an NGO, a religious social organization directed to the earthly paradise.”

He has repeatedly linked such trends to “woke ideology.” In an November 2024 essay he accused synodal factions of seeking to make Catholic teaching compatible with a “neo-gnostic woke ideology” and of subordinating the Church to worldly projects such as Agenda 2030.

In October, he stated there is “no place for rainbow flags in the Church” and criticized the German Synodal Way for focusing on “this modern ideology of wokism” rather than Christ.

Earlier, in 2023, he described the German Synodal Way as “worse than schism” because it has abandoned “the very essence of Christianity” for a “materialistic and nihilistic woke culture,” and he stated plainly last year, “We cannot be a good Catholic and be a Communist … or accept the Woke Ideology.”

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Black boxer claims he is a ‘hungry’ African and not a ‘little Frenchman’ that Jake Paul can easily beat up

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Boxer Cédric Doumbè, who was born in the African country of Cameroon, made a series of controversial remarks at a Paris press conference before his upcoming boxing match with Jake Paul set for Christmas Eve in Dubai.

He stated that Paul “thought he was going to take a little Frenchman and beat him up. But no! He doesn’t know he took a Cameroonian from Douala who is hungry.” Doumbè has French citizenship.

The fact that Doumbè suddenly no longer identified as French but instead as an African when it suited him was not lost on many of his critics.

French right-wing activist and commentator Thaïs d’Escufon responded to his remarks, thanking him for “finally recognizing that you are not French,” adding that “we always knew that you yourself didn’t believe it” and asking whether “we can all stop pretending now.”

The comments from Doumbè highlight the apparent ease with which foreigners take on citizenship in European countries while often despising the host country and its ethnic population. While the left claims that Doumbè is as French as any other Frenchman, he himself views himself as an African. Although this is an individual case, such sentiments play out across the social, cultural and political divides in the West. Migrants form ethnic enclaves, fail to integrate, practice cultural and religious mores that contravene both the laws and traditions of the West, and openly harbor animosity towards White Europeans.

In the long run, activists like d’Escufon warn this will be a disaster for ethnic Europeans and lead to their displacement in their indigenous countries.

Other users pointed out that Western countries like France grant citizenship and often receive very little in return.

“Nine years in Cameroon. 23 years in France. Applied for and obtained French citizenship. France gave him everything. Now claims to be Cameroonian,” wrote another user.

Another user both mocked the situation in France and Doumbè’s home country, writing: “He’s right, Cameroonians haven’t had a government that emasculated them for 40 years. In fact, they haven’t had a government at all.”

Doumbè has long been described in sports media as a Cameroonian-born Frenchman or Franco-Cameroonian. He is a former two-time GLORY kickboxing welterweight world champion, with a roughly 75-7-1 record. He later moved into MMA, winning six of seven bouts, but has limited professional boxing experience.

The Dec. 24, 2026, bout in Dubai is an eight-round cruiserweight boxing match at 200 pounds, which will be Paul’s first fight since his loss to Anthony Joshua that left him with a broken jaw.

Paul has vowed to knock Doumbè out and has said he will retire if he loses.

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Needed: A World War Against Globalism

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by J.B. Shurk

The wars to come will ultimately pit freedom-loving peoples of many nations against the architecture of the State — composed of the bureaucratic Leviathans at the national and international level, taxpayer-funded news organizations, and the broad spectrum of so-called “non-governmental organizations” whose budgets and personnel nonetheless come directly from government agencies (including foreign and domestic covert intelligence services). 

The present War in Ukraine is a throwback to a time that no longer exists — one in which borders meant something.  Consider how strange it is to have the European Commission’s unelected President Ursula von der Leyen, the European Union’s boisterous cheerleaders from France and Germany, and the leftist-globalist leaders of residual nations, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, all clamoring about the sanctity of Ukraine’s eastern border, when these various proponents of supranational and international institutions all denounce the nation state as outdated, fascist, and downright yucky.

As Spain has recently demonstrated with its open borders policy of flooding Europe with North Africans, the E.U. is a borderless schizo-continent.  Forty years ago, the European Economic Community suckered member states into relinquishing sovereignty over their borders with the first iteration of the Schengen Agreement, and Brussels has used that jurisdictional battering ram as the camel’s nose under the tent to incite unlawful mass migration from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. 

Likewise, Canada has huge immigrant populations from India and China.  The United Kingdom grants settlement or citizenship to a fresh-off-the-boat foreigner every single minute, and the number of “boat migrants” who have been resettled into taxpayer-funded digs over the last two years alone is larger than the number of soldiers in the entire British Army. 

Now that Democrats have control over the state governments of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, they will work with their open-borders friends (and Americans’ enemies) in D.C.’s Uniparty to continue the carnage of the Biden presidency, during which the senile, old git resettled twenty million foreigners across the United States. 

It is preposterous for Western leaders to cry about Ukrainian sovereignty when they have abandoned any pretense of defending their own nations’ borders.  Large parts of the populations of Crimea and the Donbas region identify more with Russia than with Ukraine, but the same meddlesome European Commission whose agents canceled Romania’s presidential election when the “wrong” candidate won (a so-called “Euroskeptic,” egad!) insist that “democracy” exists only when territories bow down to the royal edicts of Brussels Eurocrats.

Fighting over the geographical boundaries of Ukraine when the European Union wishes to dissolve Europe’s national boundaries will succeed in getting a lot of boys and men killed for no purpose greater than the vanity of empire-builders and piss-poor students of world history.

I find it remarkable that the British government is prepping citizens to fight WWIII against the Russian Federation when the United Kingdom looks nothing as it did at the turn of the century.  White native Brits have disappeared from the cities, and much of the kingdom has been handed over to third-world immigrants who despise everything about their new home’s history, traditions, and beliefs. 

The British Army keep telling the white population (whose ancestors have called the islands home for a thousand or more years) that they will be conscripted to fight a great war within one thousand days, and the white population (who are quickly becoming a minority in their own kingdom) keep telling the British government that they would rather fight the foreign invaders (and their aiders and abettors within the State) than send their sons and daughters (yes, girls will be sacrificed in the years ahead for the “glory” of the globalist ruling class) off to die in drone-exploding trenches. 

Why would native Brits die for a nation that no longer exists?  From their perspective, the Muslim rape gangs who were never punished for raping hundreds of thousands of British girls clearly have more power than the average white Brit.  If the Islamists wish to protect their newly conquered British Isles in some future war, the mosques should send their jihadis off to do the fighting. 

It is truly bizarre to hear the globalist politicians in D.C., London, Ottawa, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels speak about coming conflicts as if the world that they are constructing is worth preserving. 

I won’t speak for others, but there is no way I will fight a war for “climate change” delusions and expensive “green” energy regulations.  I won’t fight for the “rules-based international order.”  I won’t fight for online censorship and the criminalization of speech that Western leaders justify as necessary for “protecting children,” combating “disinformation,” and silencing “hate speech” — all ridiculous lies meant to create the “permission structures” for killing free speech.  I won’t fight for open borders.  I won’t fight for the idiot ideologues who have taken over the educational system.  I won’t fight for globalism’s awful cultural Marxism, its race-based discrimination, or its obsession with both castrating and having sex with children.  I won’t fight for Islamic supremacy or the construction of more mosques in once tranquil American towns.  I won’t fight for the central banks’ currency debasement and market manipulation.  I have no interest in fighting for that corrupt dwarf-dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy or his equally corrupt Ukrainian thugs.  And I will never fight for the D.C.-London-Brussels Deep State that profits from war by laundering taxpayer money through the meat grinder slaughtering millions in Ukraine and into the bank accounts of family foundations and globalist NGOs.

These are not things for which sane people will lay down their lives. 

We fight to protect our families, homes, neighbors, communities, and countries. 

The globalist governments that have taken over Western nations insist that they own our children and may “trans” them without our consent.  They tax our homes every year, making it impossible to ever completely “own” anything.  They resettle foreign invaders into our tight-knit communities and call us “racists” and “bigots” because we prefer to have neighbors who speak our language and share our religion.  They refuse to enforce national borders and replace the people whose families built the West with third-world peoples who do nothing but exploit the West.  

Why would I fight for the European Union, Canada’s Chinese vassal state, Britain-istan, or D.C.’s imperial Deep State?  These cabals offer a vision for the future that is no better than Vladimir Putin’s strongman-controlled Russia or Xi Jinping’s one-party-controlled communist China.  Speaking of China, why is it that European and American globalists bend over backwards to play nice with Xi and his totalitarian police state while taking the juvenile step of banning Russian athletes from international competitions?  How can European and American globalists pretend to have any legitimacy when it comes to the so-called battle between “authoritarianism” and “democracy” when they partner with authoritarians all over the world — just not Russia’s.

America’s Founding Fathers had it right.  Governments are never the solution; they are always the problem.  Both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution express the Founders’ firm belief that neither governments nor officeholders can be trusted to do what is right. 

If they believed that political leaders were inherently good, the Constitution would be much shorter: Put the most ethical, moral, capable man in charge of the government.  Instead, they created an extremely limited federal government, constrained its powers except for those specifically delineated, divided it into three branches, and included checks and balances meant to keep the branches competing against each other.  If the Constitution were a “bottom line up front” memo, its principal conclusion would state at the top: Governments are always corrupt.

Globalist governments believe that Western citizens can be pressured into fighting WWIII.  I think WWIII will be fought between Western citizens and globalist governments.

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London Has Fallen: Islamists Surround Non-Halal Sikh Restaurant, Threaten to Burn It Down, Rape the Owner’s Family and Kill Him — Met Police Under Sadiq Khan Do Nothing

Harman Singh Kapoor, owner of Singh’s Dining in London, says he and his family have faced death threats, threats of sexual violence, and intimidation over his restaurant’s “Proudly Non-Halal” policy.Screenshot X

A mob of Islamists gathered outside Singh’s Dining in Hammersmith, West London, on November 13, 2026, chanting “Allahu Akbar” and “Free, free Palestine” while demanding the restaurant shut down and its owner be arrested and jailed.

The Indian-owned eatery, run by Sikh chef Harman Singh Kapoor, displays a clear “proudly non-halal” sign and serves jhatka meat in line with his faith. The crowd’s message was unmistakable: comply with their demands or face destruction.

Kapoor has documented months of escalating threats. He has received repeated death threats, including one explicitly naming Friday, November 13, as a deadline.

Attackers have previously tried to force entry; on one occasion his daughter managed to lower the shutters in time. He has reported physical assaults, vandalism, fake one-star review campaigns, website cyberattacks, and a recent roadside confrontation in which a delivery driver allegedly spat on the family, issued a rape threat against his daughter, and claimed to know where she lives.

Kapoor has stated that groups he identifies as Islamists have demanded he sell only halal meat or close the business entirely.

Kapoor wrote on October 28:

Tonight, my family and I experienced something no family should ever have to go through.

Our restaurant, Singh’s Dining Restaurant in Hammersmith, was attacked by a group of Islamists.
We had been receiving death threats every single day, including one that specifically warned us that 28 October would be our last day.

We raised our concerns, and the @metpoliceuk were aware of the threats. Yet tonight, we found ourselves facing the very nightmare we had feared.

My daughter had to close the shutters just in time. I cannot even begin to imagine what might have happened if she hadn’t acted so quickly. We could have lost someone in our family tonight.

The attackers reportedly tried for a long time to break through the shutters to get inside, leaving shortly before the police arrived.

We have serious concerns about how the attackers knew when to leave, and whether they were alerted before the police arrived. These concerns deserve a thorough and transparent investigation.

Tonight, I am left facing a heartbreaking decision, Do we keep our doors open and risk our lives, or do we shut down the business we have worked so hard to build because I don’t serve Halal food.

No family should ever have to choose between their livelihood and their safety. No one should have to live in fear in their own place of work.

I am angry. I am heartbroken. I am frightened for my family’s safety.
I am calling on the @metpoliceuk to take these threats seriously, investigate tonight’s attack thoroughly, and ensure that my family is protected.

Please share this post. Let our voices be heard. We should not have to wait for someone to lose their life before our safety is taken seriously. Enough IS Enough.

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He has repeatedly told the Metropolitan Police about the threats, including compiling evidence of messages received since early November, yet says officers have offered little protection. In one recent visit to a local station he waited hours with no response.

Kapoor wrote on November 12:

“To @metpoliceuk @MPSHammFul: I have compiled the threats received since 9 November, including those against my wife and daughter and a death threat with a Friday 13 November deadline. Please contact me urgently. I can send the evidence file privately or via

“@MetCC. I went to @MPSHammFul police station yesterday to meet an officer but waited two hours without a response. I am aware I will not get any help from Met police but must report this for future reference.:

This is not an isolated incident. Kapoor previously operated the restaurant as Rangrez for roughly 16 years. He closed it in February 2026, citing rising costs, online harassment, repeated disturbances and attacks by groups he described as Pakistanis, and inadequate support from the Met Police. He reopened under the Singh’s Dining name and continued to advertise its non-halal policy.

In March, a large crowd surrounded the premises; Kapoor was arrested (the Met Police later stated the arrest related to a social-media video containing threats to kill, while Kapoor maintains he was targeted for defending his family and carrying his kirpan).

He spent nearly 24 hours in custody and has said he intends to sue the Met Police and Mayor Sadiq Khan over what he calls discriminatory treatment. Earlier history includes 2023 threats and attacks linked to his criticism of the Khalistan movement.

The Gateway Pundit has extensively documented the two-tier policing and cultural transformation of London under Sadiq Khan.

Reports have covered a Jewish man arrested for wearing a Star of David because it allegedly “antagonized” pro-Palestine protesters, the public broadcast of the adhan across Trafalgar Square, the effective enforcement of Islamic blasphemy standards after a man was convicted for burning a Quran, and the broader pattern in which Islamist demonstrations receive accommodation while native British and minority non-Muslim concerns are sidelined.

The same Metropolitan Police that has been slow to act on Kapoor’s documented threats has been quick to act in other politically sensitive cases. London’s mayor has celebrated the city’s multicultural direction while critics, including Conservative figures, have described visible Islamist assertions in public spaces as acts of domination.

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Far-Left Agitators Hound Le Pen for 45 Minutes During Paris Campaign Visit

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Radical-left agitators and supporters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far-left France Unbowed (LFI) subjected Marine Le Pen to nearly 45 minutes of verbal abuse and intimidation during a campaign visit to a major manufacturing exhibition in Paris on Friday, 13 November. The National Rally (RN) presidential candidate accused the far left of attempting to silence political opponents through aggressive tactics ahead of France’s 2027 presidential election.

The confrontation erupted at the Salon du Made in France exhibition at Porte de Versailles, where Le Pen had arrived to promote domestic manufacturing, purchasing power and preferential treatment for French businesses in public procurement. Mélenchon had visited the exhibition earlier that day.

According to AFP, several dozen hostile activists, including secondary-school students and LFI sympathizers, surrounded Le Pen’s entourage, shouting insults and anti-RN slogans. Some demanded that she ‘give back the money’—a reference to her conviction over the misuse of European Parliament funds—while others chanted ‘Mélenchon for president’ and vulgar anti-RN slogans. Around 15 young RN activists attempted to drown out the hostile chants with calls of ‘Marine for president’.

Despite the aggressive reception, Le Pen maintained her composure, smiling and blowing kisses towards the hecklers before briefly taking a break during her visit. She subsequently continued meeting exhibitors without further incident.

Le Pen later denounced the far left’s confrontational methods, accusing Mélenchon’s supporters of attempting to impose through intimidation what they could not achieve through democratic debate.

‘I ask Jean-Luc Mélenchon to call on his activists to allow other candidates to campaign without intimidation, shoving, aggression or insults. This is an essential condition of democracy,’ she wrote on X.

She also questioned Mélenchon’s authority over his supporters, describing such tactics as a ‘trademark of the extreme left’ and warning that their continued use could make normal election campaigning impossible.

LFI MP Aurélie Trouvé dismissed Le Pen’s accusations, portraying the hostile crowd as ordinary exhibition visitors expressing their political opposition. Speaking to BFMTV, she denied that LFI had deployed activists to disrupt the visit.

The confrontation comes as Le Pen maintains a commanding lead ahead of the April 2027 presidential election. A November Toluna Harris Interactive poll placed her on 34–36 per cent, against Mélenchon’s 18–19 per cent. In a hypothetical run-off between the two rivals, Le Pen would win by a landslide, with 68 per cent against Mélenchon’s 32 per cent.

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“Outrageous anti-British scheme”: Braverman attacks Labour’s sharia student loans

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Reform UK Shadow Education Secretary Suella Braverman has condemned plans for sharia-compliant student loans, warning that the government is creating “parallel institutions that are incompatible with the British way of life”.

Speaking to the Telegraph, Braverman said: “This outrageous anti-British scheme creates a two-tier education system and divided society.

“The scheme from Labour proves they are addicted to double standards in all aspects of British life.”

Her comments come as several British universities advertise the proposed Alternative Student Finance scheme, which is designed to enable students who object to paying interest on religious grounds to access university funding.

Islamic law prohibits paying or receiving interest. Under the proposed system, students would instead make an equivalent “contribution”, with repayments ring-fenced to support future participants in the scheme.

Braverman also challenged the potential cost to taxpayers if borrowers do not repay their funding.

“The whole idea is made even more farcical by the fact that the Treasury, and therefore British taxpayers, will have to foot the bill if they fail to pay”, she said.

The government paid Islamic Finance Council UK more than £365,000 of public money to help devise the scheme.

The proposed arrangements are based on the Islamic finance principle of takaful, a form of group-based mutual support. The Islamic Finance Supervisory Board would certify the scheme.

Universities including Bristol, Leeds, University College London and Newcastle have already promoted the proposed finance to prospective students.

Bristol described it as an “interest-free UK government loan”, while Newcastle used the terms “non-interest bearing” and “sharia-compliant finance”.

The Department for Education has not announced an introduction date, although Bristol and Leeds have advised students that the scheme could become available during the 2026-27 academic year.

Reform UK Shadow Home Secretary Zia Yusuf also condemned the plans, calling the scheme “literally the definition of ‘two-tier’”. “Reform will stop this madness”, he said. 

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Cyber Polygon Launched?

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Cyber Polygon was a rehearsal for a total “cyber pandemic” that wipes out energy grids and the internet following warnings by Klaus Schwab about potential cyber risks that could disrupt national power grids, cause full internet collapse, banking system lockdowns, or global communications blackouts in a COVID-like manner.

It was a WEF annual cybersecurity training event (primarily 2020 and 2021). It combined public conference elements with closed technical drills for corporate IT/security teams. The technical exercises also involved defending simulated corporate networks, tracing phishing, and related forensics.

In 2020 it focused on an advanced persistent threat targeting data theft and reputation damage (about 120 organizations from 29 countries) and 2021 focused on a software supply-chain attack via a compromised update (about 200 organizations from 48 countries).

A planned 2022 edition was postponed indefinitely after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.

Not Exercises

There are recent real-world examples of cyber disruptions to connected systems that affect food, healthcare, and retail operations. In October, hundreds of French supermarkets (estimates up to ~700) saw freezers/refrigerators switched to high temperatures (around 50°C / 122°F), spoiling large amounts of food and causing significant losses; some units even caught fire.

On or around 2 November, a similar wave hit stores in at least seven countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Ireland, Estonia, Netherlands, Finland, and others). Dozens to over 100 locations were affected, including chains such as Delhaize/Ahold, Carrefour, ICA, Coop, SuperValu, Spar, and others. Temperatures were raised (reports up to 50–55°C), food was discarded. EU officials described it as a deliberate attempt to disrupt the food supply chain.⁠

A related-style cyber attack targeted refrigeration/cold-storage systems at three sites of the French Blood Establishment (EFS). Attackers raised temperature and defrost thresholds to extremely high levels on plasma storage units.

A coordinated wave of malicious hoax bomb threats targeted dozens of commercial flights, airports, and media organizations across Europe in early November 2026.

This week, major employers and Workday clients including Walmart, Target, Chipotle, Skechers, and others (Workday serves 11,500+ organizations) experienced a widespread service disruption. Workday, Inc. is an independent, publicly traded company and one of Oracle’s biggest direct competitors in cloud human resources and financial software.

These are concrete illustrations of how internet-connected operational technology (refrigeration controllers) and cloud SaaS platforms can create real disruptions in food supply, healthcare cold chains, and workforce systems. They highlight risks that cybersecurity exercises (including ones like Cyber Polygon) aim to exploit.

All US Domestic Flights Grounded

The outage on November 13, hit all 22 regional Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the U.S., forcing officials to suspend departures for safety reasons, making it the longest nationwide ground stop since September 11, 2001.

Comparison to Event 201

The parallel is stark: both were publicly documented tabletop/readiness exercises on known risk categories (pandemic pathogens after prior outbreaks like SARS/MERS; cyber supply-chain and data threats). Many view it a predictive blueprint or script for engineered crises.

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UK: Small boat migrant found guilty of raping woman in tent after threatening her through translation app

A small boat migrant has been found guilty of two counts of rape Google Maps

A small boat migrant has been found guilty of two counts of rape after dragging a woman into his tent at a homeless encampment.

Moustafa Elbohy, 32, used the Google Translate app to tell his victim, “I want to f**k you”, before attacking her.

The woman, who cannot be named, had been out drinking with work colleagues in central London on September 20 2025, when she encountered Elbohy and a group of men.

Southwark Crown Court heard that the woman was “interested in the language they were speaking”, Arabic, as there “is a lovely Middle Eastern community” where she lived.

Jurors were told that despite her interest in Arabic, she did not speak or understand the language.

Following their initial encounter, the woman was then taken by Elbohy under the Hungerford Bridge towards a homeless encampment.

The victim recalled walking a short distance from the station to a “dark and dingy” place with “tarpaulin-type tents”.

Prosecutor Richard Milne told the court that she had “not felt threatened in any way” by the 32-year-old.

Mr Milne said: “Her recollection is that there was a wall which, she says, he dragged her over.

“There were tents that appeared to be tarpaulin-type tents, blue crinkly material, and there were homeless people living there, one of whom in particular looked very unwell lying on the ground.”

Elbohy is then said to have used Google Translate to tell her that “he wanted to f*** her.”

The prosecution told the court: “She was so scared of what she thought might happen, particularly things like if she had screamed, that he might in fact hurt her.

“She described a very angry man and she was trying to play nice to calm his anger down. She described him as an extremely volatile man.”

Mr Milne added: “She knew she was going to be raped and she just wanted to get it over and done with as quickly as possible.”

Elbohy had entered the UK on a small boat just three months before the attack on June 19, and was put up in a hotel where he made an asylum claim that was refused.

The Egyptian national, whose address was formerly given as the DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton Reading in Wokingham, Berkshire, denied two charges of rape, oral and vaginal.

He claimed that the woman had consented to sex.

The woman said she felt “violated, horrible” and also “I felt (I wanted him to) get it over with, he’s got what he wanted, it’s done.”

She said: “I felt fear and scaredness, I felt disgusting.”

Elbohy will be sentenced on November 17.

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