In Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district, an alleged case of love jihad has been reported wherein a Hindu girl was lured to Lucknow by accused Sabir and converted to Islam.
Sabir took the girl to a maulvi, who converted her to Islam and the accused then performed nikah with the girl. A video of the incident is viral on social media.
The 20-year-old girl said that she was assaulted by her in-laws’ in Chhapia. After fleeing, the victim went to the office of Gonda Superintendent of Police and requested action against Sabir and his family.
A case was filed with the Chhapia police under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and investigation is underway. Additional Superintendent of Police Radheshyam Rai said that directions have been issued to take action.
Around two years ago, 21-year-old Sabir trapped a 20-year-old Hindu girl from a village near Chhapia police station. The accused is a resident of Narayanpur in the Chhapia police station area. After luring her into his love trap, Sabir persuaded her to flee and brought her to Lucknow.
The victim said that she was locked in a room for several days and beaten. During this time, the girl was put under pressure to convert to Islam. She further alleged that she was forced to perform nikah (Muslim wedding) to Sabir. A video showing the Hindu girl being converted and accepting the nikah has surfaced online.
Moreover, the girl said that even after the nikah, the physical assault and harassment continued. Not only Sabir but his father Abdul and mother Sirajul Nisha also beat her. As per reports, Sabir’s mother and a village head had told the victim that a court marriage will be arranged for them but instead they forced her to do nikah.
The victim said that after the nikah Sabir and his parents told her that if she wanted to live in their home, she must convert to Islam and only then may she could stay in their home. “We will not keep you unless you change your religion,” the accused reportedly told the victim.
The girl managed to escape to Lucknow and reach Gonda, where she filed a complaint against her husband Sabir, father-in-law Abdul, and mother-in-law Sirajul Nisha, accusing them of assaulting her, forcing to convert to Islam and making her perform nikah with the accused.
NCF Director Peter Whittle joined Carl Benjamin on the Lotus Eaters podcast to discuss the play “Slave Play”, whose playwright desired to have nights for black audience members to watch the play free from the “white gaze”.
A 52-year-old Iraqi man who allegedly raped an 18-year-old girl on a train has already been released, ending up back out on the streets less than 24 hours after his arrest.
The alleged sexual assault occurred on Friday at 6.30 p.m. on a train near Nienburg in Lower Saxony. The Iraqi man allegedly penetrated the woman’s genital area and bit her, resulting in the woman alerting a train attendant about the incident, who called the police.
The man was arrested at Leese station, according to T Online.
Due to injuries the woman sustained, she was transported to the hospital for treatment.
However, the Iraqi man was released by authorities less than 24 hours after his arrest, with the prosecutor claiming the man was not a flight risk, as he had a permanent address on record. The man is still under investigation by police.
The accused has a history of criminal offenses related to drugs and sexual assault.
German public transport has in recent years seen a number of high-profile crimes involving migrants.
In January this year, an Afghan asylum seeker raped a teen who fell asleep on a train, saying that he “felt like it.”
However, it is not only Germany’s public transport system that is becoming more dangerous for women and men. A rape crisis has been declared as a result of government crime data showing that 8,590 German women have been sexually assaulted and raped by migrants since 2015.
Following a four-week ‘hate speech’ investigation, the European Parliament has formally reprimanded a Flemish MEP for referring to the EU’s asylum policy as a form of “organised replacement” during a plenary debate. Tom Vandendriessche, of the populist political party Vlaams Belang, and who has represented the Flemish separatists since 2019, made the comments at a Strasbourg debate marking the start of the Belgian presidency of the European Council in January.
Responding to a suggestion from the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, that the EU’s recently agreed Migration Pact would allow the bloc to more effectively control migration from the Global South, Vandendriessche declared that the purpose of the Pact was, in fact, to “attract more migration.” The Migration Pact includes a mechanism for Member States to receive 30,000 relocated asylum seekers annually from “frontline” countries, or alternatively to make a “solidarity payment” to those countries of €20,000 per asylum seeker refused. Vandendriessche spoke critically about the intentions behind the proposal:
There is no upper limit on the number of asylum seekers and there is no return mechanism for asylum fraudsters. … Illegal migration is therefore not what this EU migration pact is about. The real intention is more migration. Commissioner Johansson openly admits it: there are too few European births, and she wants to replace them by importing four and a half million non-Europeans per year. Deliberately organised repopulation [“omvolking”], the colonisation of Europe, the subjugation of Europeans, the suicide of our unique European civilization—this EU migration pact is pure madness.
Despite the function of the debate being to encourage ‘debate,’ outraged progressive MEPs chose instead to protest to the Maltese President of the Parliament, Roberta Metsola, that Vandendriessche had committed ‘hate speech.’ Metsola then swiftly announced that she would launch an investigation into Vandendriessche’s words and examine if they broke Parliament’s rules of conduct.
Dutch MEP Sophie in’t Veldt specifically accused Vandendriessche of “employing Nazi terminology” when referring to “organised repopulation.” “Omvolking” is a Dutch calque of the German “umvolkung”—which Vandendriessche has used before in Parliament—and relates to radical change in the demographic composition of a population, through immigration and influencing reproductive behaviour. The alleged breach of procedure was under rule 10 of the European Parliament’s procedure rulebook, which states that a “member shall not resort to offensive language,” where that term is taken to include the inherently vague and largely subjective category of ‘hate speech.’
Following her four-month investigation, Metsola has now issued Vandendriessche with a public formal expression of disapproval and requested that the ID group MEP refrain from using such expressions in the future. “The connotations of certain expressions are particularly delicate,” she said, adding that MEPs should “always consider the impressions their speeches leave on citizens, and the emotions it can provoke in them.”
In his official reply to Metsola, Vandendriessche said that what he had meant was “diametrically opposed to the interpretation she and MEP Sophie in’t Veld have suggested.” “‘Omvolking’ is used to describe the process where the original population is replaced by migration,” Vandendriessche continued. “My rejection of this policy is unequivocal and if any connotation exists, it is in opposition to the policy associated with it.” The MEP also said that he believed in’t Veld was trying to “intimidate him” to stop him airing his political views.
The disciplinary investigation against Vandendriessche is just the latest example of a growing trend for left-wing activists, civil society groups, and MEPs to abandon the principle of robust counter-speech—i.e., speech that aims to remedy potential harm brought about by other speech—in favour of weaponising parliamentary procedures to punish those who express lawful but potentially offensive views, while also chilling the speech of other, similarly minded parliamentarians.
As an example, in 2018, a letter of complaint drafted by Italian Socialist MEP Cécile Kyenge and signed by 50 other MEPs was sent to the then-president of the Parliament, Antonio Tajani, after ENF group member Marcel de Graaff accused Muslims of “returning Europe back into the Middle Ages” during a plenary debate. Having called for disciplinary measures against de Graaf, the letter said: “His speech was clearly based on Islamophobic rhetoric and is an unacceptable behaviour on [sic] hate speech and incitement to hatred for an MEP.”
Last year, Romania’s Christian Terhesch (ECR), Denmark’s Anders Vistisen (ID) group, and Italy’s Isabella Adinolfi (EPP) were reported to President Metsola for ‘hate speech’ by three left-wing female colleagues following a debate on gender-based violence, in which they described transsexual women as “male perverts” and claimed that the legal recognition of the existence of transgender women is “the biggest threat to women.” “It is our firm belief,” MEPs Malin Björk, Evin Incir, and Samira Rafaela said in their letter, “that the European Parliament … needs to put its foot down and show that it does not tolerate this kind of hate speech in its chamber.”
More recently, Spanish MEP López-Istria White, who served as the secretary general of the EPP for two decades, was accused of breaching European Parliament rules and proceedings regarding “inappropriate behaviour” and “hate speech,” having allegedly “insulted” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, MEPs from the centre and the left groups, the president of the socialist group (S&D) Iratxe García Pérez, and civil servants during a plenary session in December.
And, in what is perhaps the most troubling development to date, last November the European Parliament accepted the recommendation of its legal affairs committee (JURI) to strip four right-wing Polish MEPs of their immunity, following allegations that they incited hatred against migrants during the country’s 2018 local elections. Previously, the European Parliament had been clear that MEPs cannot be subject to any form of legal proceedings deriving from opinions expressed in their official capacity.
Now, however, Beata Mazurek and Tomasz Poręba (from Poland’s PiS) and Beata Kempa and Patryk Jaki (part of the PiS junior coalition partner, Suwerenna Polska) will be prosecuted in Warsaw for the ‘crime’ of liking and sharing a social media video which used clips from TV stations across Europe to link “enclaves of Muslim refugees” with sexual assaults and violent attacks, while suggesting that a win for Polish opposition party Civic Coalition would lead to an influx of migrants, making residents “afraid to go out on the streets after dark.” The MEPs argue that the indictment, brought by a Polish NGO that has previously received funding from organisations linked to George Soros, is an attack against freedom of speech.
Speaking on behalf of the four MEPs, MEP Patryk Jaki said: “The showed excerpts of incidents with migrants shown on TV stations across Europe, so banning MEPs from what is not banned in Europe would be a blow to the freedom of public debate. … The case is therefore about freedom of speech, which is what immunity was established for.”
The European Parliament’s crackdown on right-wing debating points comes amid predictions that populist parties are heading for big gains in June’s European elections. According to the European Council on Foreign Relations, “anti-European populists” are likely to top the polls in nine member states (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Slovakia) and come second or third in a further nine countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden), making a right-wing majority in the EU Parliament a distinct possibility.
A video is currently circulating on X (formerly Twitter) that allegedly shows Muslims using the university library at the University of Essen as a prayer room. It was shared by Nius reporter Joelle Rautenberg, among others, who sharply condemned it in her commentary on the video: “This video comes from the University of Essen. Muslims there are misappropriating the university library as a prayer room with a naturalness and shamelessness that is hard to believe. #Islamisation.” This “genuflection” to the rituals and practices of a religion that does not belong there and is problematic for a number of reasons is emblematic of a society “that constantly wants to be tolerant but does not realise that public spaces are now being Islamised”, says Rautenberg.
Dieses Video stammt von der Uni Essen. Dort zweckentfremden Muslime die Universitätsbibliothek mit einer Selbstverständlichkeit und Schamlosigkeit als Gebetsraum, die kaum zu glauben ist. #Islamisierungpic.twitter.com/qDorJnQr1y
In the comments under the shared video, there are only one or two users who show sympathy for the young men: “Very nice gesture. If the University of Essen were to set up a prayer room, it would be good for everyone involved,” writes one. “Would they have a prayer room they could go to instead? This is apparently the back corridor in a large library that they use for half an hour. They apparently want to cause as little disturbance as possible and just pray,” defends another. But most users criticise the misuse of the room: “Unbelievable. There is a lack of the slightest respect,” says one user. “There are library staff in university and court libraries. Why don’t they intervene? After all, other students can’t access the bookshelves at this time. Why doesn’t a student dare to complain? Special rights again?” wonders another user. One user refers to the university’s domiciliary rights and explains that a library is not a prayer room and that the university can take action on the basis of its domiciliary rights. Another user points out that the university even has its own quiet rooms, which are available for just such things: “That’s not acceptable at all,” he comments on the misappropriation.
Sławomir Mentzen MP, a leader of the Polish right-wing Confederation party who was at a farmers’ protest outside the Polish Parliament, accused the police of tear-gassing him and other demonstrators who were, he said, behaving peacefully.
Mentzen claimed on March 6 paramedics treated him after the incident, adding police had “escalated” the situation outside the government building rather than trying to defuse it.
He said such alleged actions seemed to be a “return to the days when the police attacked the Independence Day marches” during the lifetime of the previous Donald Tusk-led government.
That appeared to be a reference to reports of the police having used agent-provocateurs to incite violence at such demonstrations, including an arson attack outside the Russian Embassy.
Conservative (PiS) MP Adam Andruszkiewicz told news portal DoRzeczy.pl that the current Tusk-led Government had shown the demonstrators “bare knuckled fists” rather than dialogue, adding it “had used force to take over public media”.
Fellow PiS MP Anna Kwiecień said the trouble at the latest protest was not of the farmers’ making “but the work of unknown provocateurs, intent on sowing discord with firecrackers” and throwing paving stones.
Her colleague Ryszard Bartosik claimed police had used “excessive force” and that they had treated the farmers as “adversaries rather than Polish citizens”.
Tak gazuje koalicja 13 grudnia. I nie jest to gaz rozweselający uśmiechniętej Polski. pic.twitter.com/OyXM7ukiJJ
According to law-enforcement authorities, several officers were injured and scores of demonstrators arrested as they tried to break through police cordons to get into the parliament building.
There were, they added, instances of car tyres being set aflame outside the Prime Minister’s Chancellery as well as the burning of a make-believe coffin bearing the inscription “farmer killed by the Green Deal” and numerous European Union flags.
The protest organisers had hoped farmers would be able to drive their tractors into the city as part of their demonstration. Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, an ally of current Prime Minister Tusk, denied them permission, arguing it would be “dangerous and disruptive”.
Tomasz Obszański, chairman of the Solidarity of Individual Farmers’ organisation, told Brussels Signal the protests were receiving public support.
“This action is one which demonstrates the solidarity of farmers, workers, miners, hunters and foresters,” he said.
“There is also solidarity coming from consumers and all people who care that this [EU] Green Deal should be dismantled.”
The farmers were demonstrating in Warsaw over the Green Deal as well as cheap food imports from Ukraine.
They claim an embargo against Ukrainian grain has proved ineffective as transit of that produce through Poland is not properly controlled. Along with the PiS opposition, they are demanding the Government stop all Ukrainian agricultural products entering Poland unchecked.
The farmers’ demonstrations first erupted on February 9 and have since focused on blocking roads and border crossings to and from Ukraine.
Tusk met farmers’ leaders on February 29 and pledged he would “seek EU restrictions of Ukrainian imports”, a ban on Russian and Belarusian food imports and the “suspension” of those parts of the Green Deal that “impact negatively” on Polish agriculture.
According to our information, an employee of the Paris Prefecture of Police was arrested on Saturday March 2 for glorifying terrorism on the corner of Place de la Concorde and Rue Boissy d’Anglas in the eighth arrondissement of Paris. At around 4.10pm that day, he accosted a passer-by by talking about terrorism and saying that he was “going to cause a bloodbath”, a police source told Valeurs actuelles. He was taken into police custody and has since undergone a psychiatric examination and been sent to the psychiatric hospital of the Paris police prefecture (IPPP).
The accused is called Tanguy Le N., is 28 years old, a French citizen, was born in Sèvres in the Hauts-de-Seine department and lives in Saint-Denis in the Seine-Saint-Denis department.
“Police custody may be resumed at the end of the accused’s observation period in the psychiatric infirmary if he is not hospitalised. No decision has therefore yet been taken on the judicial follow-up,” said the Paris public prosecutor’s office, which was contacted by Valeurs actuelles.
The accused is Tanguy Le N., 28 years old, a French citizen, born in Sèvres in the Hauts-de-Seine department and living in Saint-Denis in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. He works as a contract employee as part of the organisation of the 2024 Olympic Games, according to a police source.
“The accused, a contract agent and media designer at the Prefecture of Police, was arrested on Saturday March 2 after making some disturbing statements (the majority of which appeared rather delusional),” confirmed the Paris prosecutor’s office, contacted by Valeurs actuelles.
“In view of his state of health, the person concerned was immediately taken to the psychiatric hospital and was therefore not taken into police custody. He will therefore be heard at the end of the observation period in the psychiatric infirmary if he is not hospitalised,” the public prosecutor’s office added.
The investigation, which has been entrusted to the commissariat of the 8th arrondissement, is continuing, so it is not yet known what legal action will follow.
JK Rowling, the well-known author who penned the globally successful Harry Potter series, called a ‘trans’ TV presenter in the UK, India Willoughby a “male narcissist”. Offended over Rowling’s remarks, Willoughby accused the author of ‘misgendering’ and ‘hate crime’. In response to an X user asking if India Willoughby is a misogynist then why did she become a woman, Rowling said that the ‘trans’ activist “India didn’t become a woman. India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is.”
India didn't become a woman. India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is.
Responding to another X user’s video post featuring Willoughby dancing, Rowling wrote on 4th March, “You’ve sent me the wrong video. There isn’t a lady in this one, just a man revelling in his misogynistic performance of what he thinks ‘woman’ means: narcissistic, shallow and exhibitionist.”
You've sent me the wrong video. There isn't a lady in this one, just a man revelling in his misogynistic performance of what he thinks 'woman' means: narcissistic, shallow and exhibitionist.
JK Rowling refuses to bow down to trans politics, stands for women’s rights
This, however, riled up India Willoughby who accused Rowling of ‘misgendering’ and “grotesque transphobia”. “Genuinely disgusted by this. Grotesque transphobia, which is upsetting. I am every bit as much a woman as JK Rowling. Recognised in law, and by everyone I interact with every day. The debate about whether JK Rowling is a transphobe is over,” the trans activist wrote on X.
The Harry Potter author, slammed the ‘trans activist’ calling Willoughby a “trans-identified man” adding that “there is no human right to universal validation.
“Accurately sexing trans-identified men who send misogynistic abuse to women is not discrimination. ‘Man’ is not a slur. I know a lot of you think the UN should intervene whenever women bruise your egos, but there is no human right to universal validation,” Rowling wrote on X.
Accurately sexing trans-identified men who send misogynistic abuse to women is not discrimination. 'Man' is not a slur. I know a lot of you think the UN should intervene whenever women bruise your egos, but there is no human right to universal validation. pic.twitter.com/xmQfeBEdlR
On Thursday (7th March) it was reported that India Willoughby had called the police and reported against JK Rowling “for an alleged hate crime for misgendering her.”
“JK Rowling has definitely committed a crime. I am legally a woman and she knows I am a woman and she calls me a man. It is a protective characteristic and that is a breach of the Equalities Act and the Gender Recognition Act. She tweeted that out to her 14 million followers. I have been to the police and I have reported it as an issue,” Willoughby said while asserting that Rowling’s remarks against her amount to ‘hate crime’…” Willoughby said.
EXCLUSIVE 🚨🚨🚨@IndiaWilloughby has called the police and reported @jk_rowling for an alleged hate crime for misgendering her.
Willoughby had wanted to ‘kidnap’ Rowling, author says his acts can be legally called harassment
Responding to this, JK Rowling posted a thread on X and said that India Willoughby’s “obsessive targeting” of her may “may meet the legal threshold for harassment.”
“Some time ago, lawyers advised me that not only did I have a clearly winnable case against India Willoughby for defamation, but that India’s obsessive targeting of me over the past few years may meet the legal threshold for harassment,” she posted.
In her next post, Rowling shared screenshots of Willoughby’s X posts exposing the trans activist’s “homophobia” and “racism”. “I ignored this advice because I couldn’t be bothered giving India the publicity he so clearly craves. Nevertheless, we must all do our bit to combat hate, so India will be glad to know I’ve taken note of his homophobia, racism, and humane stance on immigration,” Rowling added.
The renowned author further stated that gender-critical opinions can be protected in as “philosophical belief”. “Surprisingly for such an eminent legal authority, he appears to have forgotten that the Forstater ruling established that gender critical views can be protected in law as a philosophical belief. No law compels anyone to pretend to believe that India is a woman,” she wrote.
Aware as I am that it's an offence to lie to law enforcement, I'll simply have to explain to the police that, in my view, India is a classic example of the male narcissist who lives in a state of perpetual rage that he can't compel women to take him at his own valuation. 5/5
Concluding the thread, Rowling accused Willoughby of lying to law enforcement. Moreover, she called Willoughby a “male narcissist” who wants women to agree to his fantasies and beliefs. “Aware as I am that it’s an offence to lie to law enforcement, I’ll simply have to explain to the police that, in my view, India is a classic example of the male narcissist who lives in a state of perpetual rage that he can’t compel women to take him at his own valuation.”
She shared an earlier post of Willoughby where he had expressed the desire to kidnap women, including Rowling herself and Maya Forstater, a woman who was sacked for saying that biological sex is real and men should not be allowed into women-only spaces.
For reference, this is the individual whose precious feelings are more important than truth, according to some of his fellow men. If you think women calling this person a man is more offensive than him publicly fantasising about kidnapping women, I can't help you. pic.twitter.com/mrqIC8jbtL
Rowling has been vocal against trans identity politics, supports women-only spaces for women’s safety and rights
For the unversed, back in 2019, Rowling had published an X post with the hashtag “StandWithMaya” expressing solidarity with researcher Maya Forstater. The British woman had claimed online that there are only two biological sexes, for which she was fired by the U.K. poverty think tank that employed her for questioning government plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender.
“Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill”, Rowling wrote on X on 19th December 2019.
Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya#ThisIsNotADrill
In 2021, Rowling had received online hatred, and abuse for questioning Scotland Police’s stand that they would be recording rapes committed by offenders with male genitalia as being “committed by a woman” if the rapist just says he is a woman.
In July 2021, JK Rowling received death threats from LGBTQ activists for flagging the dangers women face in public toilets by men identifying themselves as women. Rowling shared a screenshot of a tweet posted by one of the nasty internet trolls, who apparently wished her “a very nice pipebomb in the mailbox”.
“Allowing trans-identified males poses danger to women’s safety”: JK Rowling on allowing trans persons in women’s changing rooms
It all started with one of JK Rowling’s X posts on 4th March 2024 in which she complained about trans persons being allowed in women’s changing/locker rooms. “When men – all men, however they identify – are banned from women’s spaces, those who disregard the ban can be challenged, inside the space and out.”
Rowling emphasised in her post that allowing males into female-only spaces merely because they claim to be women makes the law banning men in women’s spaces as ineffective since the “obstacle” that increased women’s safety has been removed.
“Nobody claims the rule has successfully kept out every single man who wants to commit voyeurism or sexual assault. What we’re saying is that allowing males into female-only spaces on the basis of their claim to be a woman removes an obstacle that has hitherto been *proven* to increase women and girls’ safety,” Rowling wrote.
We don't leave our doors and windows wide open when we go out because 'thieves will find a way in, anyway.' Strangely, I've never heard anyone say 'let's stop background checking teachers, because paedophiles will always find a way to interfere with kids.'
‘Women being coerced to surrender their rights to those posing a danger to them‘: JK Rowling
In a separate thread posted on 2nd March, JK Rowling outlined the risks of eradicating single-sex spaces adding that though not all, but several trans-identified males have sexually assaulted women and girls. She stressed that women are being pressured to surrender their hard-won rights.
“It is possible to want trans people to be safe and happy while recognising that there are risks to women and girls in eradicating single sex spaces. Women and girls are being pressured to surrender their hard-won rights to a group that poses a proven danger to them. The statistics don’t lie. Some – not all – trans-identified males have committed sexual and violent offences against women and girls. Some male predators have capitalised on gender identity activism to claim a trans identity they never espoused pre-conviction or assault, “Rowling stated.
“Telling women and girls they must accept increased risk to themselves to appease male feelings is the very definition of the patriarchy you claim to stand against. Vulnerable women are paying the price for a fashionable fallacy that has serious, real-world consequences, “ she added.
Telling women and girls they must accept increased risk to themselves to appease male feelings is the very definition of the patriarchy you claim to stand against. Vulnerable women are paying the price for a fashionable fallacy that has serious, real world consequences. 3/3
Notably, JK Rowling has always been unapologetic in voicing her opinions against gender identity politics which is rapidly becoming mainstream in the Western world. In some countries, biological male sex offenders are being sent to women’s prisons, only on the basis of self-identification where a male just needs to ‘claim’ to be a woman and then he gets ‘identified’ as a woman.
Back in 2022, Rowling drew the ire of ‘gender-identity’ fanatics for wishing “merry terfmas”. Notably, TERF is an acronym that stands for a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist”.
Recently, she launched an X trend “#NotOurCrimes” slamming the media reports calling a transgender cat killer and convicted murderer “a woman”.
“I’m so sick of this shit. This is not a woman. These are #NotOurCrimes,” the Harry Potter author wrote.
Coming back to India Willoughby, this is not the first time that Rowling and Willoughby have been at loggerheads over their views on gender identity. In January last year, Willoughby claimed that she is “more a woman” than JK Rowling. “I’m more of a woman than JK Rowling will ever be,” Willoughby wrote.
Hitting back at the ‘trans activist’, Rowling simply wrote, “Citation needed.”
When JK Rowling preferred to go to jail than accept trans persons as women
Interestingly, Rowling has received immense support as well as criticism for her unapologetic opinions on gender identity politics. The author had once said that she would rather “happily” go to jail than refer to a trans person as a woman.
I'll happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex. Bring on the court case, I say. It'll be more fun than I've ever had on a red carpet.
“I’ll happily do two years if the alternative is compelled speech and forced denial of the reality and importance of sex. Bring on the court case, I say. It’ll be more fun than I’ve ever had on a red carpet,” she stated.
A Syrian asylum seeker found guilty of sexually assaulting four 11-year-old girls in the swimming pool of a Center Parcs holiday resort in the Netherlands has been sentenced to 60 hours of community service.
A total of 10 young girls and women filed police reports concerning the behavior of the 29-year-old migrant who targeted and groped visitors of the swimming complex in Zandvoort on Feb. 19, 2023.
Hart van Nederland reported how some of the girls had their buttocks groped by the man, while others claimed the migrant had clamped his legs around their waists and pressed his genitals against their hips.
A Dutch court heard testimony from the victims and their families about the psychological effects the assaults had inflicted upon them, including from the mother of one 11-year-old girl who said her daughter still suffered considerable pain and suffering as a result of the incident, and now experiences anxiety attacks and refuses to leave the house on her own.
The man’s defense lawyer denied that any approach toward the girls was sexually motivated and claimed his client is homosexual — an increasingly common tactic for adult males arriving in Europe from predominantly Islamic countries to use due to the human rights protections afforded to them.
On the contrary, the Syrian national then claimed in mitigation that his wife and daughter were awaiting approval to come to the Netherlands from Turkey under family reunification laws and expressed his concern to the court that a conviction would harm his chances of being granted asylum.
Nonetheless, the asylum seeker was convicted by a Dutch court on Tuesday on four counts of sexual assault against a minor but will not spend time behind bars, despite the prosecution pushing for a custodial sentence of four months.
Instead, he was handed a suspended sentence, a two-year probation period, and ordered to undertake 60 hours of unpaid work.
“If that is not a reason to immediately throw an asylum seeker out of the country, then our country is lost. Get rid of these kinds of people,” he posted on X.
Sadiq Khan was handed a £5,000 donation from restaurant bosses who were later fined for employing illegal workers.
The London Mayor accepted the donation from the Tayyab family in 2010 while he was serving as the Labour MP for Tooting.
They were subsequently fined £95,000 in 2017 for employing at least five people who didn’t have the right to work in the UK at their restaurant Tayyab’s in the capital’s East End.
The London Mayor then attended a Labour fundraising dinner at Tayyab’s just months later, although it’s not known if he was aware of the action taken against the restaurant.
Despite that, he has been criticised for his lack of judgement from rival politicians.
Former Immigration Minister Kevin Foster MP said: “Whilst Sadiq Khan is always keen to attack others, his own judgement is often found wanting.
“Employers found to be breaking immigration rules should not be the venue for his fundraising efforts.”
GB News has asked the Mayor’s office if Mayor Khan will be returning the donation he received from Tayyab’s in 2010 while a sitting Labour MP.
In August 2017 Tayyab’s in Whitechapel, London, was raided by the Home Office’s Immigration Enforcement agency.
A closure notice was served, and the business was shut for 48 hours following a raid conducted by immigration officials.
Following the swoop it was alleged that some of the 40 staff working at the premises were doing so illegally or lacking correct permits to work.
A statement from the Home Office in 2017 said: “Acting on intelligence, Immigration Enforcement officers visited Tayyab’s, Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel on Friday 25 August.
“Nine offenders were encountered. Six Pakistani nationals were arrested, with five of them being detained while steps are taken to remove them from the UK. The sixth is required to report regularly to Immigration Enforcement.
The statement continued: “A Civil penalty referral notice was also served on the business, which carries a fine of up to £180,000.”
The donation of £5,000 made to Sadiq Khan in 2010 from Tayyab’s was the second largest donation the former Labour MP for Tooting received that year, according to The Register of Members Financial Interests for MPs.
The Tower Hamlets Labour fund-raising event at Tayyab’s restaurant which Khan then attended in 2018 raised proceeds towards the party’s local election campaign in London.
The Labour-led London authority were themselves involved in an alleged corruption controversy the year before – a controversy which resulted in Tower Hamlets Council referring itself to the National Crime Agency.
Reform UK’s Mayoral candidate, Howard Cox, told GB News: “It is more than disturbing as to why the mayor revisited the restaurant for a campaign cash raising event.”
Mayor Khan’s office has been approached for comment by GB News on three separate occasions but has yet to provide any response.
Tayyab’s Restaurant has also been approached for comment by GB News.
