Antisemitism, Antizionism, Jihadism and the Reunited Germany. News by Fred Alan Medforth
On today’s #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellows Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Dr. Philip Kiszely and Amy Gallagher of Stand Up To Woke discuss:
The number of people who think the United Kingdom is in a “bad state” continues to rise, polling has found, and a plurality think it’s doing worse than other Western countries.
Just one per cent of Britons think the country is in a “very good state”, polling by YouGov finds, while an overwhelming majority are much more pessimistic.
A massive 82 per cent of respondents said the UK is in a bad state, and 36 per cent viewing the country as being in a “very bad state”. This number has crept up slightly since the last time this question was asked by the pollster, with 80 per cent saying “bad state” last Spring, just before the UK’s previous general election.
While a two per cent increase in total bad feeling isn’t huge, overall pessimism was shown by the YouGov figures to have soared massively that time by the number of people who say they believe things will get worse.
Six-in-ten Britons said they think the condition of the country will get slightly or much worse over the next year, up from just four-in-ten last year.
Under one per cent of Britons polled — less than a rounding error — said they anticipate things are likely to get “much better” in 12 months time.
Comparing the state of Britain to other Western nations, the country is more uncertain, but nevertheless the plurality is still for gloom, with the largest group being for the UK in a “worse state than most Western countries”.
In all, the doing-less-well camp accounted for 48 per cent of respondents while 31 per cent said Britain is doing “about average” for the West.
In Cologne’s upcoming local election campaign, all major parties except the Alternative for Germany (AfD) have pledged to speak only positively about immigration and avoid linking it to social problems.
The CDU, SPD, Greens, FDP, Left Party, Volt, and Die Partei signed a “fairness agreement” initiated by the “Cologne Round Table for Integration” association.
The pact commits the signatories not to blame migrants or refugees for unemployment, crime, or security concerns. It also promises an active fight against racism and antisemitism, with compliance monitored by Protestant and Catholic church representatives. Citizens are encouraged to report possible breaches of the agreement by party campaigners or candidates.
The agreement explicitly excluded the AfD from the process, with those involved insisting the right-wing party does not share their values and should not be welcomed to sign, not that there was any suggestion that the party would do so.
The deal has sparked sharp criticism from both academics and political rivals. Political scientist Werner Patzelt told Bild that the decision was “tactically stupid,” arguing that leaving migration concerns unaddressed hands the AfD an open goal. “Our parties are so stupid that they don’t see the tactical disadvantage and are so weak-minded that they don’t see that they themselves are damaging our democracy by not wanting to talk about important issues,” he said.
The AfD condemned the agreement as an attempt to silence debate. The party’s Cologne district spokesperson, Christer Cremer, told RTL, as cited by T-Online: “I view this fairness agreement somewhat critically, because I believe it is intended to suppress debate. Especially during the election campaign, it must be possible to address all issues, including issues of migration, but also many other things.”
Taking to X, the local AfD party wrote, “The AfD is not going along with this. We won’t allow the left to forbid us from saying what we say. We address problems and propose solutions.”
The CDU has already been accused of violating the agreement with the distribution of a flyer opposing a planned initial reception center for 500 refugees in Cologne’s Agnesviertel district. While church ombudsmen monitoring the pact stopped short of calling the flyer discriminatory, they warned its wording was misleading. Claus-Ulrich Prölß of the Cologne Refugee Council went further, calling it a “gross violation of the fairness agreement.”
CDU leader in Cologne, Serap Güler, rejected the accusations as “absurd,” adding that the CDU had no intention of stirring hostility toward refugees, but insisted: “At this point, we simply believe a facility of this size is wrong.”
A Focus Online analysis of reader comments found most focused on criticizing the party’s strategy to avoid talking about the issues linked to mass immigration, while others highlighted the security concerns related to the topic, and the third most popular response expressed concern over hindrances to free speech and democratic debate.
The local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, including Cologne, are scheduled for September 14.
In a grim essay last December in First Things, British writer Louise Perry detailed a laundry list of crises in the United Kingdom and across the Western world, and then bluntly laid out the primary source of these problems.
“The people on whom modernity depends are failing to reproduce themselves, which means that modernity itself is failing to reproduce itself,” she wrote. “Most voters have no idea that this is happening. Nor do most politicians. But it is happening nonetheless, and we are experiencing its early stages in the form of diverse political crises across the modern world.”
If the utter collapse of birth rates is any indication, the West is shriveling and dying. Populist politicians can say whatever they like about curtailing mass migration and canceling cancel culture and embracing our heritage. But none of it will matter if nobody has babies. Without babies, there is no future. That should go without saying. But the fact is that few are saying it, and it is happening. Almost every week brings a new grim headline about our population freefall.
According to new data from the National Records of Scotland, for example, a mere 45,763 live births were registered in 2024, 172 fewer than in 2023. This is the lowest birth rate since 1855, marking yet another decrease in the country’s fertility rate from 1.27 to 1.25. 1855, by the way, is when records first began to be kept.
As the BBC put it: “The NRS said that for a population to replace itself, if there is no migration, the total fertility rate needed to be around 2.1. It said the overall numbers reflected ‘long-term changes in our population.’” But there seems to be little interest in discussing what those “long-term changes” mean if these trends continue, as it seems likely that they will. Keep in mind that these changes are happening even as the stillbirth rate is also the lowest recorded, and the infant death rate fell to 3.5 per thousand live births.
The report included a few other grim statistics, as well. In 2024, there were 16,528 more deaths in Scotland than births. Scotland has now had more deaths than births each year for a decade. Fifty years ago, most women had babies in their 20s. Now, for the past 15 years, most babies are born to mothers over thirty. Over half of babies—51.7%—were born out of wedlock. Meanwhile, 18,710 babies were aborted in Scotland last year, the highest on record according to Public Health Scotland. The abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 rose to 17.9.
Meanwhile, Scotland—like the rest of the United Kingdom—actually funds, with taxpayer dollars, both abortion and birth control. It is difficult to conceive of a more suicidal social policy than paying for the elimination and prevention of the next generation, but it is unquestioned and unquestionable political orthodoxy that to do so is a necessity. Why? Because in practice, fewer children appears to have been the de facto goal of successive governments for a very long time, despite all their garbled noises to the contrary.
The collapse in birth rates, Louise Perry writes, seems to be modernity’s “self-destruct button,” which we have tripped. “The nature of geometric progressions means that a population drop can be very sudden if the fertility rate does not recover to replacement level. When fewer children are born, fewer future parents are available to raise the next generation, and so on,” she observed. “In South Korea—the country with the world’s lowest TFR, at 0.7—the number of babies born in 2100 is on track to be 93 to 98 percent lower than the number of babies born this year.”
Indeed. These words have stuck with me since I read them: “No disease or invading army has ever managed to destroy a country so thoroughly, and the word that springs to my mind, when contemplating such an event, is ‘biblical.’”
Liana (16) dies in June at Friedland station. At first, it’s called a “tragic accident.”
Weeks later: DNA traces on her shoulder. Arrest of an Iraqi (31), rejected asylum seeker, mentally unstable, never deported.
The act appears deliberate: he claimed he “heard voices” – and acted.
While girls are dying, the state protects perpetrators with claims of “mental illness.”
Remigration saves lives!
Girl killed by Iraqi
— Martin Sellner (@Martin_Sellner) August 29, 2025
🟥 Friedland: 16-year-old girl pushed in front of train by Iraqi – police cover-up?
▪️ Liana (16) dies in June at Friedland station. At first, it’s called a “tragic accident.”
▪️ Weeks later: DNA traces on her shoulder. Arrest of an Iraqi (31), rejected… pic.twitter.com/bbvh6hAUb8
New figures released by Germany’s federal government have reshaped the rankings of citizen’s allowance recipients in the country, placing Mohammed and its many spelling variants at the top of the list.
A recent government response to an Alternative for Germany (AfD) inquiry originally suggested that Michael, Andreas, Thomas, and Daniel were the most frequent first names among those receiving the allowance, known locally as Bürgergeld. However, the government’s list had separated different spellings of the same name, resulting in distortions.
AfD lawmaker René Springer requested additional data that consolidated all variations of the same name. The government’s updated response, obtained by Bild, shows that Mohammed — counted across 19 different spellings and variants such as Mohamed, Muhammad, and Mahamadou — now ranks first with 39,280 entries.
By comparison, Michael (including Michel, Mischa, and Maik) comes second with 24,660 entries, followed by Ahmad (20,660), Andreas (18,420), and Thomas (17,920). Names with fewer spelling variations, such as Andreas and Thomas, lost ground, while Ahmad, which has multiple common versions including Achmet and Amed, rose to third place.
The federal government stressed that first names cannot be used to directly determine nationality, though they undeniably serve as an indicator of native Germans and those of a migration background.
Three Islamic names, Mohammed, Ahmad, and Ali, were included in the top 10 first names of recipients.
At the end of 2024, a total of 5.42 million people in Germany received a citizen’s allowance, including 2.82 million Germans (52 percent) and 2.6 million foreigners (48 percent).
Critics argue that these numbers understate the role of foreign-born individuals, since many migrants are now naturalized German citizens and therefore counted as “German” in the statistics. Bild also reported that nearly half of Germany’s €17.68 billion housing support budget for 2024 went to foreigners.
The debate comes as the Federal Employment Agency continues to advertise welfare benefits to migrants, with parts of its website dedicated to “people from abroad,” promising financial support to cover living expenses.
Germany’s governing CDU/CSU bloc is finally calling for stricter limits on migrant reliance on welfare. Deputy parliamentary leader Mathias Middelberg argued earlier this week that job centers need to do more to integrate Afghans and Syrians into work. “Just 100,000 more people in work instead of relying on the citizen’s allowance could, depending on wage levels, relieve the federal budget in the low single-digit billion range every year,” Middelberg said.
Government figures show that 52.8 percent of Syrians and 46.7 percent of Afghans in Germany receive a citizen’s allowance, while fewer than 40 percent in both groups are in jobs subject to social security contributions.
“We cannot accept that hundreds of thousands of young asylum seekers here in Germany are unemployed for decades,” Middelberg added.
Earlier this month, two Social Democratic Party district administrators in Thuringia also broke with their party’s national leadership by demanding that non-EU migrants, including asylum seekers and recognized refugees, should receive social benefits only as interest-free loans, repayable once they find employment.
An association with ties to a Turkish Islamist sect operates a mosque with a Koranic school in a commercial property in Leonding, Upper Austria (photo above). Although the municipality has now confirmed the illegality of this, the landlord must continue his years-long, costly legal battle with the extremists.
This seemingly never-ending story began 20 years ago with a rental agreement that four men signed with Siegfried Meinhart’s M+M Immo GmbH. The four wanted to set up a private club on two floors of his commercial property on Welserstraße in Leonding. The landlord only found out by chance that the ‘Islamic Assembly and Education Association’ had been registered there shortly afterwards. From that point on, according to Meinhart, there were repeated disputes with other tenants, as reported by exxpress. The issue was parking spaces. Customers of the companies also renting space there could no longer park because all the spaces were taken by association members.
‘The kuffar (unbelievers, ed.) have no say over me and my brothers; we have the right here,’ reported a security company in March 2023, which had been hired by an insurance broker who had since moved out as a car park attendant, describing the altercation with a club member. Another former tenant reported that after an argument over a blocked driveway, ‘the new VW bus in front of the entrance was worth 20,000 euros less overnight.’ The company boss could not prove that the punctured tyres, smashed windows and scratched paintwork were related to the argument. He also preferred to move out. Just like the wellness oasis company ‘Delfin’, which, according to managing director Harald Kogler, changed location in 2010 ‘not only, but also because of the mosque in the building’.
The economic fiasco caused by lost income from premises that could no longer be rented out due to the mosque’s operation was exacerbated by a legal defeat. For years, Meinhart tried in vain to get rid of the unwelcome tenant on the grounds that the establishment of a mosque in his building had not been agreed upon. The Traun District Court dismissed an eviction suit last January. Among other things, it gave this remarkable reasoning: ‘It is not comprehensible why the operation of a Koran school or a prayer room in breach of contract should constitute grounds for termination (according to § 30 of the Tenancy Law Act, ed.).’ The legal costs of €40,000 were payable by the unsuccessful plaintiff.
The Leonding municipal council, where the case was briefly discussed in May 2023, also saw no problem with the association. According to the minutes of the meeting, a question from the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) to Mayor Sabine Jelinek (Social Democratic Party of Austria, SPÖ) was answered by Thomas Dirngrabner, head of the building authority. He reported information from the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism (LVT) that no mosque was being operated on Welserstraße: Dirngrabner: ‘The (constitutional protection authorities, ed.) observed this, so to speak, but classified it (the association, ed.) as unproblematic.’
The state police’s clearance certificate is surprising. Because if you had looked really closely at that point, you would have seen that the association with the harmless-sounding name identified itself as part of an Islamist network. In any case, the official name of the association was not displayed at the entrance to the association’s premises. However, a disc-shaped logo with a diameter of about one metre was stuck to the inside of the outer glazing with the Turkish inscription: ‘Ismailaga Avrupa – Oberösterreich Subesi’ (in English: Ismailaga Europe – Upper Austria Branch). In addition, there was the information ‘Darul Kur’an Medresisi’ (= Koran school). This inscription, which was also legible from the outside through the glass wall in mirror writing, was removed immediately after it had been discussed in a hearing before the Traun court. Although photos of it exist, a member of the association who was asked about it denies that such an inscription ever existed here.
A glance inside the clubhouse confirms not only the existence of a mosque – recognisable by its minbar (pulpit), foot washing basin and carpet facing Mecca – but also its close ties to the Turkish Ismailaga sect. On a shelf lies a stack of brochures about the Ismailaga headquarters in the Fatih Carsamba district of Istanbul. One tabletop is designed as a map, apparently showing the sect’s expansion in Europe. Among others, Ismailaga branches in Vienna (Viyana) and Innsbruck are also mentioned.
The bookshelves contain numerous works by Ismailaga founder Mahmoud Ustaosmanoglu, who died three years ago, including his multi-volume epic ‘Sohbetler,’ which conveys an exclusivist doctrine of Sunni Hanafi Islam. Women must wear veils. At Ustaosmanoglu’s funeral, they were unwelcome at the express wish of the deceased. Mahmoud Efendi, as his followers called him, rejected secular education and urged girls in particular to attend Koranic schools instead of secondary schools. The Ismailaga headquarters’ website explains its educational philosophy: ‘Let us adhere to the sciences of Sharia. … May Allah protect us from useless knowledge.’ This website also provides a deep insight into the anti-Semitic thinking of this Muslim Brotherhood. A series of articles lists ‘the ugly characteristics of the Jews’. The Jews are a ‘corrupt people who cause mischief on earth,’ it says. Or: ‘They do not hesitate to plunge all of humanity into misfortune in order to protect their own interests and advantages.’
Brussels apparently did not take a closer look either. This is the only way to explain why the Ismailaga Youth Foundation Yavuz Sultan Selim was able to obtain €31,455 from the Erasmus+ funding pot in 2022 for workshops against discrimination against Muslims, which is not exactly widespread in Turkey. It was only when criticism was voiced in the European Parliament that the European Commission demanded the money back two years ago. To date, however, the EU authority cannot or will not say whether the €31,455 has actually been repaid. Despite repeated inquiries, the only response has been that the money has been reclaimed.
The local Ministry of the Interior is also reluctant to provide information. It is impossible to ascertain whether the Office for the Protection of the Constitution now knows more about this sect’s Austrian connection. Despite repeated inquiries about Ismailaga activities in Austria, the Ministry of the Interior insists that ‘no specific information is provided about organisations or groups and their activities’. Unlike its German counterpart, the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s report also makes no mention of this. In Germany, the Ismailaga sect is classified as an anti-constitutional and extremist group, which must be of interest to the Austrian authorities insofar as preachers from Germany were also spotted in Leonding during this year’s Ramadan.
Ultimately, however, it is not these questionable connections that will bring about the demise of this mosque. Following a fire safety inspection carried out in April – under police protection – with the participation of the building authority, what had long been obvious has now been officially confirmed. The municipal building authority recognised ‘that a structure requiring approval is being constructed or has already been constructed without a building permit’.
However, the landlord had to pay up once again.
Formally, he is the perpetrator and must ensure that the situation is restored to a legally compliant state. In order to enforce this against the tenant, Meinhart had to hire an architect and, absurdly, apply for retrospective approval of the mosque construction measures, which had not been agreed with him and which he did not even want. He did this in the hope of receiving a negative decision. This decision has been available since mid-July: on the grounds that the property in question is designated in the zoning plan as a ‘mixed-use area restricted to commercial use’, the submitted project has been rejected. The decision of the municipal building authority states literally: ‘Places of assembly or churches, as well as the house of prayer in question, cannot be subsumed under commercial use and are therefore excluded from this zoning.’
M+M Immo boss Meinhart finally believed he had a legal title in his hands that proved the tenant’s unlawful use of his property and would enable immediate termination. But it’s apparently not quite that simple. The association, whose chairman Yilmaz Gürsel refuses to answer journalists’ questions, is making no move to vacate the premises of its own accord. Friday prayers continue to take place regardless of the official decision.
Meinhart’s previous solicitor believes that an eviction lawsuit that has already been dismissed once cannot simply be reintroduced without any change in the facts of the case. Since the district court had already refused to consider the breach of contract as grounds for termination before the official confirmation was received, a new eviction lawsuit must be substantiated. With a new solicitor, Meinhart, whose doubts about the rule of law are growing along with the costs, now wants to bring this never-ending story to a conclusion.
The UK Home Office is advertising for teachers to meet with illegal migrants and tutor them on an array of crafts to aid their “mental wellbeing” including – but not restricted to – hairdressing, “balloon craft,” flower arranging and cake decorating.
The BBC reports the job adverts said applicants must “promote, design, as necessary, and deliver workshops in relevant creative skills including floristry, cake decorating, balloon-craft, arts and craft activities to meet the needs of the residents and contractual requirements”.
Another, for a painting and decorating tutor, was intended to ” proactively promote, design and deliver painting and decorating workshops to resdent (sic).”
Both positions were advertised as paying £31,585 ($42,568) per year, all from UK taxpayers.
The classes are meant to heal and soothe the delicate sensibilities of illegal migrants as they await the outcome of their asylum claims.
As Breitbart News reported, up to one million illegal migrants are already receiving direct financial support from the universal credit welfare scheme in Britain at a cost to the taxpayer of £7.6 billion ($10.2 billion) in 2023 alone.
This welfare money paid out to migrants does not include the support payments and accommodation provided to those awaiting their asylum claims, which totalled £5.4 billion ($7.2 billion) during the same year.
The opposition Conservatives said the jobs and skills now sought to occupy migrants in detention were indefensible, the BBC report notes.
“Hiring gym managers and balloon craft tutors for people who must be removed is indefensible and must be stopped immediately,” said Chris Philp.
“If you come here illegally, you should not be rewarded with courses and comforts, you should be deported swiftly.”
But asylum seekers’ rights charity Detention Action said the government had a “duty” to provide roles like this.
A spokesperson for Mitie, the company charged with finding the tutors, said the roles were for activities supporting the “physical and mental wellbeing of detained individuals” and were “part of our contractual obligations.”
Home Office minister Seema Malhotra has since instructed Mitie to remove the ads after the Sun first reported plans to hire the tutors for the Heathrow immigration removal centre.
Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s Green mayor, has sparked controversy by posting crime statistics on sexual offences while seemingly not understanding the numbers herself. Halsema claimed the statistics showed migrants were unfairly blamed for crime.
The debate followed the high-profile murder of a 17-year-old girl in Amsterdam, allegedly by an asylum seeker.
Halsema went on Bluesky to refute an often shared graph, made by Dutch migrant expert Jan van de Beek, who wrote an in-depth book on the matter: Migratiemagneet Nederland.
The graph, nuancing age groups and gender, showed how migrants from certain countries were, per capita, more represented in sexual assaults.
It presented the number of male sexual crime suspects per 10,000 men, comparing Dutch-born men with six nationalities commonly associated with asylum seekers: Syrian, Iranian, Eritrean, Iraqi, Afghan, and Somali.
This showed that men from these countries commit sexual offences four-to-20 times more often than native men and that non-western men between 12 and 45 years-old were two-to-five times more often suspected compared to native men.
The numbers were biased in favour of migrants, because many received the Dutch nationality, inflating the numbers of Dutch offenders.
1/ Mannen uit typische asielherkomstlanden plegen 4 tot 20 keer vaker een seksueel misdrijf dan autochtone mannen👇
— Dr. Jan van de Beek (@demo_demo_nl) August 23, 2025
Bron: Migratiemagneet Nederland blz. 322, https://t.co/yO2yUPCuVx
Steun mijn werk: https://t.co/AODDQKjGRq pic.twitter.com/psBtWCuUmx
Mayor Halsema was not impressed and went on a tirade on Bluesky.
“To be clear, violence against women or sexual violence is not something that has been imported: we have a long history of it here,” she said.
She juxtaposed a different graph, to counter the work from van de Beek, seemingly showing there were many more Dutch suspects than suspects from the migrant countries.
“On the left, in absolute numbers, on the right, after trickery,” Halsema said.
“The objective is to push the responsibility for sexual violence over the border. This is part of the problem.”
Links in absolute aantallen, rechts zoals na gegoochel gepresenteerd. De bedoeling is om de verantwoordelijkheid voor seksueel geweld letterlijk over de grens te duwen. Dit is onderdeel van het probleem.
— Femke Halsema (@femkehalsema.bsky.social) 26. August 2025 um 13:07
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There was a lot of reaction to her post, with opponents arguing that presenting absolute numbers without accounting for population size distorted the issue.
Van de Beek himself responded critically, accusing Halsema of misrepresenting data. He argued that her use of absolute numbers (1,460 Dutch men vs. 150 men from specific migrant groups suspected of sexual crimes in 2022) ignored the significant over-representation of certain migrant groups when adjusted for population size.
He accused her of “demagoguery” given that he never spoke about absolute numbers.
Others criticised the mayor of Amsterdam. Ronald Plasterk, former minister for the Socialist Party and a scientist, said “it certainly wasn’t ‘trickery’ to share crime statistics per head.”
“It is precisely the omission of this information that is misleading.”
Former Dutch Senator Henk Otten said: “Starting to understand even better why Femke Halsema only began studying criminology at the age of 23 after an unfinished teacher training programme in history. Seriously curious whether she ever took (and passed) the statistics course during her studies. It doesn’t look like it.”
Former law professor Paul Cliteur noted that Halsema “must stop behaving like a left-wing debater. She should focus on her role as mayor, which includes safeguarding the safety of Amsterdam’s residents — a responsibility in which she is failing spectacularly.”
Halsema, together with other progressive politicians and many journalists, spread a narrative after the murder of the 17-year-old girl in Amsterdam that the problem were not migrant rapists, but men in general.
They blamed the so-called ‘manosphere’, with influencers such as Andrew Tate spreading “toxic masculinity” as well as “the women-unfriendly design of parking facilities”.
The girl, Lisa, was stabbed to death while on the phone with the police, reporting that she was being followed by a suspect described as an asylum seeker.
Geert Wilders also made negative headlines regarding the case. He said in the parliament that the police had arrested the suspect a week before his assault on Lisa, but released him, enabling him to commit the crime. But he had to retract this after proven wrong by the police.
“That was a mistake. It turned out not to be the case. I thought I had read it,” Wilders said. “I shouldn’t have done it. I’m sorry.”
The image, a screenshot from a smartphone video, became an international icon overnight.
In Dundee, Scotland, a male migrant whose face we don’t see, but whose accented voice we hear off camera, videotapes two young teenage Scottish girls. The girls tell him to leave them alone. One girl, whose name we now know is Mayah Sommers, brandishes a knife in one hand and a hatchet in the other. She yells at the man holding the camera, telling him that he is “f***ing battering kids, mate… You’re f***ing kid bashers.” Her companion screams at the migrant, “Don’t f***ing touch my little sister! She’s only twelve! She’s only twelve, and you’re f***ing badgering me!”
“Show the knife,” the foreigner says. “Show the knife.” He moves toward them, apparently trying to goad the frightened children into doing something that will get them in trouble. In the 44-second clip, we glimpse two male adults standing nearby, unwilling to come to the girls’ aid.
Get them in trouble it did. The weapons-wielder—blonde, pony-tailed Mayah Sommers—was arrested by Scots police and charged with having blades.
That’s right: the British state, unwilling or unable to protect little girls from migrant sexual predators, arrested one who tried to protect herself and her sister. If there is a more potent image capturing the utter shame and disgrace of Britain today, few of us could bear to see it.
The clip not only disgraces the British authorities, from local police up to Parliament and the prime minister, but all men of that disintegrating country. How can it have come to this, where a girl has to carry a knife and a hatchet to protect herself from being raped by migrants? Do the British—especially British men—have no hearts? No courage? No basic decency?
True, we do not know what events preceded the clip posted by the migrant creep online, but it is undeniable that when his presence caused the girls intense distress, he did not leave them alone but continued to approach and tease them. The unidentified man might not have intended to do sexual violence to them, but he was very clearly harassing them. It is difficult to imagine a situation in which that unseen man is entirely innocent.
It is not possible to determine the extent to which migrants, asylum seekers, and people of foreign, non-British backgrounds attempt sexual assault. British authorities do not record the ethnicity of the accused. Nevertheless, Britain has been shaken to its core by the Pakistani rape gang scandal, in which thousands of young working-class girls like Mayah Sommers were systematically abducted, drugged, and gang-raped by Pakistani Muslim men. Police authorities, elected officials, and many in the media either looked the other way or downplayed the incidents.
Multiple testimonies by victims of the Pakistani rape gangs claimed that their abusers smeared them with terms like ‘white slag’ as they were being raped, and told that white girls deserved to be raped. British media tend to shy away from such cases out of fear of “inflaming community tensions”—a euphemism for making white Britons angry over what Muslims are doing to their children. Yet, thanks to X, video clips of older brown-skinned males attempting to kidnap or sexually harassing white English girls are widely available.
The horrific stories emerging from the scandals have many British children and parents on edge. Last year, when I was visiting a family in East Anglia, their 12-year-old daughter and her schoolmate ran into the kitchen from the street, telling their mother that “an Asian man was following us.” (‘Asian’ is a British term that includes Pakistanis and others from southern Asia.) The man might have been guilty of nothing more than walking down a sidewalk, but given the magnitude of the rape gang crimes and that they target young white English girls, paranoia is a reasonable response.
What happened to Mayah Sommers—now dubbed “Sophie of Dundee” online—evokes a primal response in all morally healthy men. Rape has forever been a weapon of war. Soldiers sexually violating the enemy’s women is part of combat, a method designed to humiliate the vanquished. If the Pakistanis raping English girls were Vikings that came ashore in longboats to pillage Saxon villages, Britons would know exactly what they were.
Similarly, if the hundreds and even thousands of fighting-age young ‘Asian’ and African migrants landing in dinghies on England’s south coast were carrying guns, they would be shot as invaders by the British Army—and would deserve to be.
But these men understand that the British people today have been disarmed by sentimental humanitarianism and the terror of being called racist or Islamophobic. That, or they are afraid of being sent to jail by their government, which acts as if the real crime in these matters is disapproving of foreigners coming illegally to Britain and breaking the law.
Last year, Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 31 months in prison over an angry tweet about migrants, which she soon deleted. She was released recently after serving 40 percent of her sentence. Meanwhile, activists have highlighted multiple cases of migrants and asylum seekers convicted of rape or other serious crimes who have received sentences less than or roughly equivalent to the sentence Connolly received for tweeting hurty words.
Public trust in British institutions is at a historic low, especially among younger Britons. A July survey by YouGov found that 90 percent of Britons favor an official inquiry into the rape gang scandal, but most Britons do not trust authorities to be fair and honest in doing so.
Will Sophie of Dundee be a tipping point for the frightened, furious British people? John Robb thinks she might be. The prominent U.S. military and counterterrorism analyst describes the iconic image of Sophie as an “empathy trigger”—an image or story that stimulates instant solidarity in individuals or groups and has the power to mobilize them quickly for action. About Sophie, Robb wrote:
They see her face, her desperation, and they instantly recognize the same face they had, or a friend had, when they stood up to a relentless bully who targeted them while growing up. A bully nobody would protect them against. A bully they took desperate measures against. However, they aren’t just seeing her, they feel her desperation inside themselves, emotionally and physically. It connects them at a deep level and they form a bond. Her enemies are their enemies now. Her anger is theirs now.
She is a brave child who was prepared to stab or hack away at a grown man she feared was threatening to rape her. In a normal world, girls like her would be able to spend their days playing in the park. But Britain today is not a normal world. It has imported several million immigrants—many legal, others not—since Sophie was born in 2011. These migrants arrived to a culture that has become entirely demoralized and unwilling to defend itself and its people. Would it be more depressing if vigilante gangs arose to protect these girls, or if they didn’t? Hard to say.
Britain today lives in a state of what the late American political theorist Samuel Francis called “anarcho-tyranny,” which he defined as the condition in which the state fails to enforce basic order, while at the same time imposing oppressive control over law-abiding citizens. Young Sophie of Dundee, as they call her, is the face of anarcho-tyranny. If brave little Sophie’s plight does not shame to the core the men of the UK and rally the British to outrage and action to solve the migration crisis, what on earth will?
If the state will not protect girls from rape at the hands of migrant men, and native-born British men won’t do it either, what choice do the Sophies of that soul-sick nation have but to arm themselves?
