Month: October 2026

A new report has revealed that 25 percent of people euthanized in Belgium in 2025 were not deemed “terminally ill,” demonstrating the normalization of the deadly practice in the European country.

The report by the Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation showed that 1,117 euthanasia deaths in 2025, accounting for 24.9 percent of all registered euthanasia cases, were carried out on individuals whose death wasn’t “expected in the short term” and who had “incurable” conditions, including common ailments in the elderly.

Some of those who allegedly requested to die did so due to psychiatric or cognitive conditions like dementia, while others had “chronic” conditions. While most people killed by euthanasia were elderly, one who died by assisted suicide in 2025 was a teenager.

According to the government report, the responsible commission approved 85.6 percent of cases at the first hearing without requesting further information about the patient. This was up from the previous year, when the commission approved 80 percent of cases without asking any questions. While the other cases required additional information or clarification from a doctor, all requests were ultimately granted, and every person who requested euthanasia was killed.

As LifeSiteNews reported previously, a record number of 4,486 people were killed via assisted suicide in Belgium in 2025, representing a 12.4 percent increase from the previous year and four percent of the total deaths in the country.

Since legalization in 2002, over 42,000 people in Belgium have died by assisted suicide. In the first full year of legalized euthanasia (2003), 235 people were killed by assisted suicide. That number has steadily risen every year since the introduction of the law.

The Belgian law does not require those seeking “assisted dying” to be near the end of their lives. Since 2014, age restrictions have been removed, allowing minors “with capacity of discernment” to legally end their lives as well.

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In April this year Eurostat said the population of the European Union would peak in 2029 at 453.3 million and then fall to 398.8 million by 2100.

Around 150 BC Polybius recorded much the same about Greece: a shortage of children and a general depopulation, with no war or plague to account for it. The cause, he decided, lay in men who would not marry, or raised one or two children so that each might have more.

Twenty-two centuries on, what Pierre Chaunu called in 1976 the peste blanche, the white plague, is handled either in anaesthetised technical language or in euphemism. Demography moves quietly for decades and then turns irreversible at a stroke. The mothers of 2050 have already been born, and what is changing in Europe is not only the number of inhabitants but who they are.

In 2025, 4.81 million people died in the EU and 3.46 million were born, the 14th consecutive year of natural decline. The population rose all the same, to 452 million, carried by net migration of 2.05 million. Since 2012 every year of growth has come from abroad. Spain gained 442,428 residents in 2025 although more people died there than were born, and one in five of its 49.6 million residents on January 1, 2026 had been born abroad.

Fertility in the EU fell in 2024 to 1.34 children per woman, the lowest of the series, against 2.62 in 1964 and a replacement threshold of 2.1. Not even France, at 1.61, comes close, and Spain stands at 1.10, Italy at 1.18. One in four children born in the Union that year had a foreign-born mother.

Aristotle placed the family at the origin of the city and Leo XIII wrote in 1891 that it precedes civil society. Every function the family stops performing is taken up by power, so a State that grows and a family that shrinks are not two phenomena but one.

Of the 203 million households in the Union, 23.4 per cent contain children, and the commonest type, at 37.5 per cent, is the adult living alone. Between 2016 and 2025 the EU population grew by 8 million people while couple-with-children households fell by 2 million. The European Commission has kept a demographic toolbox since 2023 with immigration among its instruments, which is to confuse size with identity.

The material condition of any family is a home, and in Europe it is out of reach at the age of parenthood. Between 2010 and 2025 house prices in the Union rose 58 per cent and rents 28 per cent, while real wages have barely recovered their 2019 level. Young Europeans leave their parents’ house at 26 on average, Spaniards and Italians at 30. Of every €100 it costs to employ an average worker in Spain, more than €40 goes in tax and contributions before reaching his pocket. Proletarius in Rome was the man who owned nothing but his offspring. Europeans have inverted the equation.

Mass immigration is presented as the remedy when it is part of the same machine. The United Nations calculated in 2000, in Replacement Migration, that the EU of 15 would need some 47 million immigrants by 2050 to hold its population steady, and around 700 million to preserve the ratio of workers to pensioners. Its own authors concluded the second figure lay beyond reach.

The official account insists immigrants do the work Europeans will not. Spain has 2.5 million unemployed, one of the highest jobless rates on the continent, and one of the lowest shares of unfilled posts, 0.9 per cent against an EU average of 2 per cent. What is scarce is not labour but pay that will support a life. Foreign workers there earn €1,846 gross a month on average against €2,508 for nationals and hold 55 per cent of domestic service jobs, trades Spaniards worked in the 1990s on a wage that covered a mortgage. The immigrant accepts what the native cannot without giving up a family, fixing a price for work paid by natives with the least and enjoyed by those with the most. The OECD puts their net fiscal contribution for 2006-2018 at between −1 per cent and +1 per cent of GDP across most of its members, negative in 18 of 25 once public goods are charged to them.

Social protection absorbs about 27 per cent of the Union’s GDP, and each State operates in practice as an enormous pension fund. A pay-as-you-go system of the kind Europe generalised after 1945, heir to the insurance Bismarck devised in 1889, requires contributors who increase without end. When they stop, there are two roads: Reform or import. Governments took the second and called it humanitarianism.

A census can grow while the nation dissolves. Edmund Burke described society as a partnership between the living, the dead and those yet to be born. The demographic question is not one of pensions or labour supply but of whether Europeans still take themselves for heirs of a civilisation. Polybius wrote while Rome was razing Corinth. Plutarch noted later that all Greece could barely muster 3,000 hoplites. The cities were still standing, with their magistrates, their temples and their laws. Without Greeks.

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Police arrested an 18-year-old Syrian man on suspicion of raping a 17-year-old girl in a stairwell in a popular nightlife district, authorities said.

The incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. Sunday in a multi-family building on Königsbrücker Strasse in Dresden’s Neustadt neighborhood, near Albertplatz, according to police and media reports. The area is known for bars, pubs and clubs that remain busy into the early morning hours.

The man reportedly dragged her into the stairwell of a building and raped her there. Neither he or the victim lived in the building.

The girl escaped her alleged attacker, fled the building and encountered a police patrol on the street, where she reported the rape, police said. Officers immediately launched a search and arrested the suspect nearby a short time later.

The Syrian man was brought before an investigating judge Monday and ordered held in pretrial detention at Dresden’s justice prison, according to Bild newspaper. Criminal police are investigating the case as rape. Investigators are still determining whether the two knew each other beforehand.

Police have released few additional details about the circumstances of the incident or the girl’s condition. The suspect has not been publicly identified by name. The investigation continues.

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A father who murdered his two young children and was transferred to a women’s prison after beginning to identify as transgender has been accused of sexually harassing female inmates while authorities look the other way. Paulus Said Foukaih Abdelshahed, an Egyptian national, was transferred to a women’s prison after changing his name to “Lily,” where he is serving a life sentence for the killings.

On April 23, 2024, police and ambulances services were dispatched to Abdelshahed’s residence in response to a call that he had made. Abdelshahed told emergency services that his two children – a boy and a girl, both under the age of 10 – were not breathing, according to a criminal indictment lodged in November that year.

When officers arrived at the residence, they found both children dead. Court documents and subsequent reporting state that prosecutors determined Abdelshahed had placed bags over each child’s head and pumped helium into the bags through a hose, depriving them of oxygen. The prosecution described the killings as intentional, carefully planned, and particularly ruthless. Investigators recovered items from the home consistent with this method, including bags, tape, and gas-related equipment.

Before the murders, for example, Paul Abdelshahed had Googled “killed his own children,” “die together” and searched for “the most gentle way to kill someone.”

Abdelshahed admitted to killing the children during the investigation, and admission prosecutors cited alongside forensic findings and other physical evidence. A psychological examination ultimately concluded that Abdelshahed did not suffer from a serious mental disorder of the kind that would justify sentencing him to compulsory psychiatric care rather than prison.

In December 2024, the Södertälje District Court convicted him on both counts and sentenced him to life imprisonment and deportation in the event he was ever released. Abdelshahed quickly appealed the verdict, arguing that the court should have imposed psychiatric care rather than a life sentence. However, his appeal was quashed by the Svea Court of Appeal in February 2025.

Yet during this process, Abdelshahed had applied to change his sex marker on official identification documents, and legally changed his name to “Lily”. As a result, it was discovered he had been transferred from Tidaholm men’s prison into a women’s prison in Ystad (Ystadsanstalten) some time near the end of 2025.

SWEDEN: An Egyptian migrant convicted of murdering his two young children has been moved to a women's prison after changing his legal sex to "female."

Paulus "Lily" Abdelshahed claimed he would not have committed the crime had he been born a woman.https://t.co/zKFeccJwH7

— REDUXX (@reduxx) December 22, 2025

Abdelshahed began crossdressing publicly in 2023, when he would go to his job at Scania in Södertälje dressed up as “Lily”. On some occasions, he would also wear a wig and women’s clothes when picking up his children from school.

During police questioning that followed his initial arrest, Abdelshahed appeared to blame his “gender dysphoria” for the murders of his two children. “I was born in the wrong body… If I were born Lily, I would be happy and still have my children… [and] live my life as it is,” he told authorities.

New reports tell of how Abdelshahed has been accused of continuous sexual harassment by multiple female inmates at the women’s prison where he is being held. Correctional officers employed at Ystad and six inmates came forward to tell Expressen of the ongoing “inappropriate behavior”, which includes Abdelshahed exposing himself to the women there.

According to the report, Abdelshahed walks around the facility while wearing a short night gown without underwear, with his penis exposed. “[He doesn’t] wear underwear, like the rest of us do. When I and others have told the staff, we are told that we are LGBTQI-hostile,” said a woman who was recently incarcerated at Ystad.

One woman who suffers from PTSD after surviving a sexual assault has had a panic attack after seeing Abdelshahed leave his room wearing nothing but a short night gown. Despite this, she was the one reprimanded by staff for inappropriate behavior, not Abdelshahed.

Another inmate explained that Abdelshahed repeatedly slaps her on the rear. “He has told me that he likes women, which makes me even more uncomfortable,” she said.

Still another inmate says that he has tried to enter the shower room — an area which can’t be locked — while other female inmates were showering on several occasions. She described the situation as a “horror scenario”, and said that he has walked in on her as she did her laundry there just to expose his penis to her: “The shower room also serves as a laundry room and Lily deliberately goes there when I’m washing, just to show [himself] naked,” the woman said.

Other inmates also describe how Abdelshahed invites younger women to his room on the premise of applying their makeup. Staff who came forward to Expressen reported feeling confused about how to handle the situation, and fear of retaliation from management for voicing concerns.

Additionally, reports of sexual harassment have been filed against Abdelshahed with both the police and the Ombudsman, but the cases have been dropped. According to Chief Safety Officer Jimmy Nyberg, female inmates “feel that their experiences of the challenges are not taken seriously by management.”

Abdelshahed is said to have initially lied to the female inmates about the reason for his incarceration. He reportedly told them he was only going to be held at the women’s prison for one year. Female inmates discovered the truth of his life sentence only after seeing a news segment about him on television.

“There was an entire correctional force for Lily’s department. They guarded him from other inmates until he was allowed to move out to a special ward in eight places and since then he has been there,” one woman said.

Inmates also described how Abdelshahed would wear makeup when he first arrived, but has now given up on applying cosmetics. “You can see without any problems that it is a man,” a correctional officer said.

The director of the women’s prison at Ystad, Anders Jansson said: ”There is nothing in our regulations that specifies how we should handle these cases. We have determined that this person is a woman. [Abdelshahed] is a woman, and if you have a female personal identity number, you’re going to be placed in a women’s prison.”

Sweden’s Legal Gender Recognition Act (Könstillhörighetslagen) officially came into force on July 1, 2025. The legislation streamlined the process for changing sex-identifiers on legal documents, without a requirement for surgical intervention. Previously, under a law passed in 1972, legal sex changes required approval from the Legal Advisory Council of the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), as well as a formal psychiatric diagnosis of transsexualism, or gender dysphoria. Under the new process, an applicant needs only a healthcare statement confirming an experience of “gender identity”, with no formal psychiatric diagnosis required.

A transgender pedophile is the prime suspect in the murder and dismemberment of a young woman in Rönninge, Sweden.

"Vilma" Andersson had previously tried to kidnap a 10-year-old girl, and was caught with child pornography and photos of female corpses.https://t.co/XwQoVnOenP

— REDUXX (@reduxx) January 1, 2026

Late last year, a trans-identified male and convicted pedophile was arrested as the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a young woman in the residential area of Rönninge, Sweden. Robin Andersson, who recently began calling himself “Vilma,” was arrested on December 30 and detained under suspicion of murder and the gross desecration of a corpse.

Andersson had previously attempted to kidnap a 10-year-old girl in 2019 and was found in possession of over 42,000 files depicting child sexual abuse and graphic images of female corpses. Andersson had targeted the girl while wearing a black mask, and equipped with zip ties and duct tape, attempted to force the girl into his car. The child managed to escape, and during court proceedings Andersson described his predatory behavior as a “cry for help.”

While under suspicion for the attempted abduction, a forensic investigation uncovered the significant quantity of graphic content in Andersson’s possession, which included both depictions of dead women and child sexual abuse.

The female corpses were also dismembered, as they were photographs from autopsy examinations. The convicted pedophile was also reportedly searching specifically for autopsy images of female genitalia.

Andersson’s internet search history showed that he was looking for information about drugging girls and disposing of their corpses. Investigators were able to track down certain internet searches he had made, such as: “Make someone unconscious,” “chloroform,” and searches for dead female bodies.

A forensic psychiatric examination conducted at the time determined that one of Andersson’s driving forces behind the attempted abduction was his “sexual interest in children and death,” adding that he “does not believe that the plaintiff has been harmed by the act and states that it is not clear that the children depicted in the abuse material feel bad about it.”

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Inspiration for us in the West today.

As I watched Paris burn recently at the hands of what the whitewashing news media call “students,” I was reminded that last week was the anniversary of an epic battle that dramatically shaped the future of the Western world, and which may still hold inspiration for us in the West today.

After the death of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in 632, Islam spread like a bloody tide throughout the Arabian peninsula, north to the Caspian Sea and east through Persia and beyond, westward through Egypt and across North Africa all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. From there it crossed the Straits of Gibraltar and consumed virtually all of the Iberian peninsula, or al-Andalus as the Saracens called it. In a mere one hundred years, the warlord Muhammad’s imperialist legacy was an empire larger than Rome’s had ever been.

By 732 that fallen Roman empire had devolved into a patchwork of warring barbarian tribes across what is now continental Europe. When Abd-al-Rahman al-Ghafiki, the governor of al-Andalus, crossed the Pyrenees with the world’s most successful fighting force and began pillaging through the south of what would become France toward Paris, there was no nation, no central power, no professional army capable of stopping them.

No army except one – led by the Frankish duke Charles, the eventual grandfather of Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. His infantrymen, as historian Victor Davis Hanson puts it in a fascinating chapter of Carnage and Culture, were “hardened veterans of nearly twenty years of constant combat against a variety of Frankish, German, and Islamic enemies.” Hanson writes that the Roman legions had crumbled “because of the dearth of free citizens who were willing to fight for their own freedom and the values of their civilization.” But the seasoned warrior Charles had gathered spirited, free fighters under his command who were willing to defend their Christian society, and he led them to intercept the marauding infidels leaving a ravaged trail toward the ultimate prize, Paris.

In October 732 (the exact date is disputed, but it is commonly held to be the 10^th), the two armies met on a wooded field between Poitiers and Tours (and so the ensuing confrontation is sometimes called the Battle of Poitiers), barely 175 miles from Paris as the crow flies. Abd-al-Rahman arrayed his cavalry against Charles’ solid block of Frankish footsoldiers, which at 30,000 was by some estimates not even half the size of the Arab and Berber army (Hanson speculates that the armies were more evenly matched, but the Franks were unquestionably outnumbered).

The opposing forces sized each other up for a full week before Abd-al-Rahman ordered the charge that October morning. But his cavalry, which normally counted on speed, mobility, and terror to lay waste to undisciplined tribes, could not penetrate the highly disciplined, heavily armed Frankish phalanx. In his must-read book Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West, my friend, historian Raymond Ibrahim, quotes a contemporary chronicler who described that the Franks “stood as motionless as a wall, they were like a belt of ice frozen together, and not to be dissolved, as they slew the Arab with the sword.”

At the end of the day’s carnage, both sides regrouped for the next day’s assault. But at dawn, Charles and his men discovered that the Muslim army had vanished, beginning their retreat toward the Pyrenees, leaving the booty stolen from ransacked churches and abbeys behind, as well as at least 10,000 of their dead – including Abd-al-Rahman himself. Exact figures in historical sources are questionable, but Arab chroniclers, Ibrahim reports, “refer to the engagement as the ‘Pavement of Martyrs,’ suggesting that the earth was littered with Muslim corpses.”

It was not the last Muslim incursion into Europe – Charles racked up subsequent victories against the Saracens for a few years afterward – but it was the beginning of the end, and Islam never again penetrated militarily as far into European territory. The victory at Tours helped solidify Charles’ standing among the Franks as a great leader and defender of Christendom (he was afterward dubbed Martel, or “the Hammer”; the Pope reportedly labeled him “the Hammer of God”). He became ruler over all the Franks, essentially unifying all the fragmented territory of western Europe and paving the way for the rise of his grandson Charlemagne to become “the Father of Europe,” the first great ruler of Christendom.

Some historians today downplay the magnitude of the Muslim threat that Martel countered, claiming that Abd-al-Rahman’s force was only a raiding party with no grander designs on seizing the whole of the European continent. They minimize the significance of the Battle of Tours’ outcome, too; at least one historian has even claimed Europe would have been better off if Islam had conquered it.

But Hanson notes that “most of the renowned historians of the 18^th and 19^th centuries… saw Poitiers as a landmark battle that signaled the high-water mark of Islamic advance into Europe.” Edward Creasey included it among the fifteen most decisive battles of world history. Many – myself included – believe that if Charles had not stopped Abd-al-Rahman at Tours, there would have been nothing to prevent the Islamic tide from sweeping across the continent and making Europe Islamic. Edward Gibbon called Charles “the savior of Christendom” and wrote in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1776 that if not for Charles’ victory, “perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford.”

If only Gibbon could see Oxford now. Not only is the interpretation of the Koran taught there, but Islam thrives in Oxford, thanks partly to the patronage of the UK’s current dhimmi king. In his essay “Islam in Oxford,” faux moderate Muslim scholar Muqtedar Khan wrote that “Gibbon would have been surprised to learn the lesson that military defeats do not stop the advance of civilizations and the globalization of Islam is unimpeded by the material and military weaknesses of the Muslim world.”

Apart from his dubious suggestion that Islam has anything to do with the advance of civilization, Khan is right: today the Islamic incursion into Europe is of the demographic, not military, sort. The continent faces an immigration crisis due in no small part to at least one generation of young Muslims, many of whom not only are willfully unassimilated, but who are waging cultural and physical aggression against their hosts, establishing parallel communities – “no-go” zones ruled by sharia and in which infidels are unwelcome, to put it mildly. “Nothing can stop the spread of Islam,” insisted Islamic apologist Reza Aslan. “There are those who would try, but it simply will not happen. Absolutely nothing can stop the spread of Islam.”

In 732, Charles Martel begged to differ. What it took was the will, the discipline and training, and a warrior spirit and righteous faith. Where are the Charles Martels of today who can bring those same heroic qualities to the battle to save a Europe once again reeling from Islamic invasion?

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Flávio Bolsonaro has been given a 99.5 per cent chance of defeating left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s 25 October presidential runoff by the Global Election Simulator (GES), as conventional polls and betting markets point to a strong position for the conservative candidate.

The projection, published on 11 October, anticipates a 53–47 per cent victory, suggesting that the Bolsonaro family could return to the presidency four years after Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat. Similarly, a polling roundup by Poder360 showed Bolsonaro leading in four of the five latest nationwide surveys. PoderData put him at 53 per cent against Lula’s 47; AtlasIntel/Bloomberg measured 52.8 to 47.2; Ipespe recorded 52.7 to 47.3; and Datafolha found a narrower 52–48 lead. Only Vox Brasil gave Lula a slight advantage.

🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro is projected to win by 19 points in São Paulo, 10 points in Minas Gerais, and 2 points in Amazonas, while losing Pará by only 2 percentage points. He currently has a 99.5% chance of winning the second round.
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Prediction markets have similarly moved towards Bolsonaro, with Polymarket currently putting his chances at around 84 per cent, compared with 16 per cent for Lula. The favourable polling data have shifted increasingly towards Bolsonaro across virtually every platform since the right-wing challenger’s upset victory over Lula in the 4 October first round, when he won 47.03 per cent of the vote against the incumbent’s 45.16 per cent. Bolsonaro finished roughly 2.2 million votes ahead of Lula.

As no other candidate advanced to the runoff, Bolsonaro has further strengthened his position by absorbing much of the vote cast for other right-wing candidates in the first round. Some influential regional leaders, such as São Paulo Governor Tarcísio de Freitas, have already backed Bolsonaro in the runoff, while the broader right’s gains in Congress have raised the prospect of a presidency with a more supportive legislature rather than another term of confrontation between a Socialist government and a conservative legislative majority.

One of the most interesting findings of recent polls is how united evangelical Christians have become in supporting Bolsonaro. A recently published AtlasIntel/Bloomberg survey found that 72.7 per cent of evangelicals back the right-wing challenger, compared with just 23.5 per cent for Lula. Among Catholics, the same poll found an almost exact split: 48.7 per cent for Bolsonaro and 49 per cent for the president.

The figures reflect a broader and longer-term transformation in Brazilian society, as well as a potential opportunity for conservatives to strengthen their electoral base in the coming years. Evangelicals accounted for only 5.2 per cent of the population in 1970, when Catholics represented 91.8 per cent. By the 2022 census, evangelicals had reached 26.9 per cent, and Catholics had fallen to 56.7 per cent among residents aged ten and over. The evangelical population in that age group numbered approximately 47.4 million, compared with 100.2 million Catholics.

Evangelicals are still a minority, but their expanding numbers, combined with their pronounced preference for Bolsonaro, make them a growing component of the conservative electorate. Catholics remain far more numerous but are much less politically unified. Analysis of the first-round results also found Bolsonaro performing more strongly in municipalities with above-average evangelical populations, where he reportedly secured 52 per cent of valid votes. By contrast, Lula is losing ground even in areas where his party traditionally enjoyed a substantial advantage.

‘One of the most interesting findings of recent polls is how united evangelical Christians have become in supporting Bolsonaro’

With two weeks remaining before the runoff, Lula nevertheless has time to reverse the polling deficit. More than 33 million eligible Brazilians abstained in the first round, leaving both campaigns room to mobilize additional voters. Following his disappointing first-round performance, Lula has overhauled his campaign, adopting what his advisers call a ‘strategy of fear’ centred on attacking Bolsonaro and warning voters that social benefits could be lost under a conservative government—a claim immediately rejected by his challenger.

Beyond Brazil, a Bolsonaro victory would accelerate Latin America’s broader shift to the right, following conservative victories in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru and several other countries. As the region’s largest economy and most populous nation, Brazil would give the realignment unprecedented geopolitical weight. It could also fundamentally reshape relations with Washington: while Lula has clashed with Donald Trump over trade tariffs and accused the Bolsonaro family of undermining Brazilian sovereignty, Flávio has advocated closer ties with the US president and his MAGA movement.

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The recent riots in France have mainly been described as a revolt of high school students, stemming from deteriorating conditions, overcrowding and understaffing in French high schools (lycées). That presentation is largely inaccurate. Although students were incited by a few agitators to voice grievances, political leaders, primarily from the political left, immediately stepped in to urge them to go further and resort to violence.

Many students apparently did not need much urging. Alerted by social media, labor-led activists and members of Muslim gangs from the suburbs joined their ranks. Trash cans were set ablaze, followed by school buildings. Firefighters arriving to extinguish the blazes were attacked and police officers assaulted. Police vehicles and a fire truck were torched. Teachers were physically attacked and, in at least one instance, doused with gasoline. More than 700 police officers were injured, some seriously, as well as more than a hundred teachers and school officials.

What happened was not an accident. The protests have been fanned by the direct involvement of France’s main left-wing party, La France Insoumise (“France Unbowed”). Almost all the political leaders who urged the students to go further were members of France Unbowed — a “coincidence” that should come as no surprise.

The founder and leader of France Unbowed, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is a Trotskyist who, already in his youth, embraced the concept of “permanent revolution”. After belonging to the Internationalist Communist Organization (the French branch of the Fourth International), he joined the left wing of France’s Socialist Party, a move that enabled him to become a member of parliament and from June 2001 to May 2022, even serve as a minister in a left-wing government. He left the Socialist Party in 2008 to rally other Trotskyists around him to form an even more radical movement, the Left Party. In 2016, he founded France Unbowed.

Since then, he has ceaselessly urged hatred toward the police, repeatedly declared at public rallies that police officers are murderers and used the slogan “the police kill.” He has aligned himself with groups that engage in violence and has paved the way for Raphaël Arnault — founder of The Young Guard, one of France’s leading Antifa groups — to become a member of parliament. The Young Guard incites violence and has physically assaulted what they consider “right wing” individuals. Several of its members beat to death a young conservative Catholic, Quentin Deranque, in Lyon on February 12, 2026. Two parliamentary assistants to Raphaël Arnault, Jacques-Elie Favrot and Adrien Besseyre, were charged with intentional homicide and placed in pre-trial detention.

Mélenchon, over the years, has made no secret of his desire for a radical transformation of France. He supports the Islamization of the country and advocates a “great replacement” of the native French population with a new demographic from the Muslim world that would constitute what he calls the “new France.” He has forged ties with Islamists and “pro-Palestinian” movements. He recruited Rima Hassan, a Syrian-born young woman of Palestinian and Kurdish ancestry, who frequently appears by his side wearing a keffiyeh, the Palestinian headscarf popularized by the late Palestinian terrorist leader, Yasser Arafat. She supports the Iranian-backed Islamist terrorist organization Hamas — describing its actions as “legitimate” and asserting its “right to armed struggle“. Hassan speaks at high schools and universities, where she advocates hatred against Israel and Israeli Jews. The leaders of France Unbowed generally do not hide that they share her views. France Unbowed is, in fact, the only major French party whose leaders have refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization.

With antisemitism widespread among young Muslims living in France’s 751 “no-go zones” — suburban enclaves where police no longer venture and where Muslim gangs and radical imams hold sway — Mélenchon, like other representatives of his party, now publicly makes antisemitic remarks.

Mélenchon has run for president three times, garnering around 20% of the vote on each occasion — principally through securing an extremely high proportion of the Muslim vote (69% in 2022). He plans to run again in the 2027 presidential election. While he probably realizes he will not win, he nevertheless appears to plan to use the campaign to mobilize his supporters. It is against this backdrop that the recent riots should probably be viewed.

While the riots originated in high schools, they quickly became something profoundly different. High school students seeking better educational conditions have no reason to wave Palestinian flags or shout “Free Palestine”, “We are children of Gaza,” or write “October 7. Day of Celebration” on walls.

Extremely visible in the recent riots was a deep, intense hatred of the established order. Although two high school teachers were murdered in the recent past — Samuel Paty was beheaded in 2020, and Dominique Bernard had his throat slit in 2023 — this was the first time in France that so many police officers, teachers, firefighters and fire trucks were attacked during riots.

The rioters express support for not only the Palestinian cause but also for Islamic terrorism. Many repeatedly chanted the name of Mohammed Merah — the murderer of Jewish children and a rabbi at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012. In a church that was stormed in Soullans, a small village in Western France, a group of young Muslims and leftists played a song by a rapper praising both Mohammed Merah and Salah Abdeslam, who is the sole surviving terrorist from the 2015 attack on the Bataclan concert hall and cafés in Paris.

Mélenchon, rather than disavowing the MPs from his party who incited violence, instead merely stated that “combat discipline” was required.

Many leftist and Islamist movements, however, apparently saw an opportunity to fan the flames.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron has remained basically silent about the riots. He did say that the police response was too “harsh and lacking empathy” – sparking fury among many police officers.

“Macron is a coward,” stated National Rally MP Matthieu Vallet, a former police officer himself; “he’s scared stiff.” Vallet recalled that Macron had shown the same attitude when riots broke out across France after the death of a young criminal, Nahel Merzouk, and more recently, when Muslim gangs from the suburbs swept into Paris, where they ransacked bank branches, restaurants, and shops during the recent football World Cup.

The French government has basically appeared impotent and weak. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, carefully ignoring the insurrectionary and Islamic nature of the riots, called for a moment of “democratic dialogue” in high schools. He did not implicate France Unbowed, or even denounce the party.

The only leaders who pointed out that the events were primarily an Islamist and leftist insurrection were those from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party and a few other right-leaning politicians. MEP Marion Maréchal stated that an “Islamist spirit of revenge” is at work. Revenge for what? For the French welcoming Islamists into their country and showering the immigrants with benefits?

The French mainstream media did not show all the footage of the riots, Instead, they insisted on framing the unrest as a high school student movement, while glossing over the Islamist and leftist dimensions of the events.

Polls show that a great number of French citizens realize that France is not only economically and financially ruined but also teetering on the brink of chaos, and that they are extremely anxious about the future of the country and hope for a profound political change.

All polls continue to indicate that Le Pen has a strong chance of winning the presidential election set to take place in France in six months.

Security experts warn that the recent riots are a wake-up call, foreshadowing actions France Unbowed might take before or during the presidential election to try to prevent Le Pen from winning, or should she win regardless, to stop her from actually assuming the presidency.

In France today, there are effectively two populations. One, attached to law, order and France’s cultural identity, is watching helplessly as the country plunges into a deepening catastrophe. The other population, that of the “no-go zones” and Islamic neighborhoods, is participating in the riots and represents the “new France” that Mélenchon is invoking.

The police, who stand for law and order, face a government and a president that appear paralyzed by the unfolding events. The violent leftists and Muslims participating in the riots and the leftists supporting them have become increasingly emboldened. The gangs controlling the no-go zones — and now even certain neighborhoods in Paris — have large quantities of weapons and appear to be relying not so much on improved education as on drug trafficking.

Meanwhile, France’s riots have begun spreading across Europe to Belgium, Greece, Italy, Ireland and Austria. Behind France’s riots, according to investigative journalist Asra Nomani, are “Communists, unions and a global propaganda network”:

“From France to the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Greece and India, adults with deep pockets are tapping France’s school protests and turning a domestic education dispute into a platform for broader political and ideological confrontation….

“In a digital analysis of scores of news articles, social media posts and public statements, Fox News Digital has identified 50 organizations in the French student protest movement and its wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, revealing an activist ecosystem extending far beyond the students who launched the demonstrations.

“Of the network of 50 groups, 15 are student or youth groups, including several communist youth movements and a Muslim student association.

“The remaining 35 adult groups include a dozen labor unions; eight communist or socialist organizations; five groups spanning other issues from taxes to parental advocacy, environmental activism, economic justice, international media and diaspora organizing; five civil-rights or human-rights groups; four political parties, including La France Insoumise, or France Unbowed, and the French Communist Party; one Palestinian advocacy group that complete the ‘red-green’ alliance of leftists with Muslims….

“‘What we’re seeing here is the same Red-Green ecosystem that disrupts infrastructure choke holds in our country such as the Brooklyn Bridge, college campuses and congressional hearings,’ Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital….

“‘The communist Red and the Islamist Greens have nothing in common but a common enemy, the Judeo-Christian, capitalist, free West, led by the U.S.,’ Gonzalez said. ‘Their goal is to dismantle us.'”

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A Somali rapist has won a court battle against the NHS after painkillers were prescribed to him in prison during Ramadan.

Dahir Ibrahim was first jailed for 10 years in 2006 for raping three sex workers at knifepoint in Birmingham.

He was then given a life sentence with a minimum term of 10 years in 2016 for raping two more women in 2014, whom he also threatened with weapons.

Now, the 41-year-old has won his case against Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust after he claimed its policy of only dispensing the opiate-based painkiller codeine at HMP Birmingham in the morning or afternoon during Ramadan breached his human rights.

The dispute dates back to May 2019, when Ibrahim was first prescribed codeine for knee pain while being held at HMP Birmingham.

Ibrahim then brought a case against the NHS Trust at Birmingham County Court in 2024 and won.

The trust then appealed to the High Court in a case heard in May and July; however, a judgment issued on September 29 ruled in Ibrahim’s favour.

Ibrahim, who is currently being held at HMP Whatton, in Nottinghamshire, is set to be considered for release by a parole board in the coming months as his minimum jail term comes to an end and he could be deported.

The court heard how Ibrahim would have to “present himself” at a medication hatch each day at HMP Birmingham, which was opened by guards during fixed hours each morning and afternoon.

However, during the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan in 2019, from May 6 to June 4, Ibrahim declined to take the painkiller during the allotted times, reports The Mail.

Upon approaching the hatch at around 5pm on May 6, Ibrahim was told by the nurse that codeine could not be taken away.

He was told that if he wished to take it, “he would have to do so there and then under her supervision”, which he refused.

The incident repeated itself for two more days before Ibrahim made an appointment with the prison’s GP.

On May 9, he received paracetamol as a temporary alternative that he could take away from the hatch with him; however, he claimed he suffered withdrawal symptoms from not taking the codeine.

After being transferred, he brought his legal claim against the trust, accusing medical staff of breaching his rights to private life, freedom of religion and freedom from discrimination.

In 2024, Birmingham County Court ruled that the dispensing policy amounted to indirect religious discrimination.

During the County Court hearing, Judge Mohammed Shakil Najib ruled the dispensing policy amounted to “indirect” religious discrimination under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

He told the court: “The policy had no such impact on prisoners who had been prescribed medication which could only be taken under supervision but were not Muslim”.

However, he rejected the claims relating to private life and freedom of religion.

The trust then appealed the decision, arguing that providing routine medication outside routine hours would be impractical in a prison operating under strict security and staffing constraints.

At the appeal hearing at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre, Mr Justice Soole rejected the trust’s warning that Judge Najib’s ruling could lead to further claims, adding the 2024 decision was based on “very particular facts and circumstances”.

A Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust spokesman told MailOnline: “We respect the Court’s judgment, will learn from it and are considering how to apply its findings. We are committed to preventing any discrimination in our services at HMP Birmingham.”

The Home Office said they would “pursue Mr Ibrahim’s deportation at the earliest opportunity following his release”

A spokesman added: ‘Our thoughts are with the victims of these sickening crimes. Foreign national offenders are referred for deportation at the earliest opportunity post-sentencing and will be barred from ever returning.

“Over 11,700 foreign criminals, including murderers and rapists, have been removed since the last election, a 41 per cent increase when compared to the previous two-year period.”

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A Nigel Farage government will shut down the nation’s asylum system altogether, as the Reform UK leader pleaded for Britain to return to normality, with functioning borders and a government that puts its own people first.

In the latest big-ticket launch, apparently triggered by a growing sense that Britain may be heading towards a snap election in which mandate-less Prime Minister Andy Burnham means to shoot Farage’s fox, Reform UK have announced a planned return to historic norms of the country functioning normally and in its own interests. While this may seem radical, given how far Britain has deviated from this historic and global norm, Farage insisted it was nothing out of the ordinary and represented a simple, sensible border policy most countries have long had.

Speaking in front of a giant inflatable boat — a 1:1 scale replica of a real migrant boat that recently landed 230 illegals on British shores — Mr Farage said years of government policy giving the country de facto open borders had created a national security crisis, where the enormous costs of migrant arrivals are forced on the taxpayers, and the criminal implications are forced on the nation’s women and girls.

The Brexit pioneer said: “We know the statistics, we know the greater likelihood of people from Afghanistan to commit sexual assault than people born in Britain. These are cultural issues”.

Because the situation has deteriorated so appallingly, to the point where the government no longer knows who is in the country, it is now necessary to shut down the asylum system altogether, and get control of the borders so to take stock. Stating a Reform government would suspend the asylum system for up to five years if elected, Mr Farage said he would “end the asylum scam”:

… the public want action, not just a continual series of false promises, or the absolutely extraordinary current government line ‘the numbers are coming down so that’s OK, then. It’s only 20,000 this year, so that’s OK then‘. If I’d said you a decade ago 20,000 people in the first nine months would be processed through the Port of Dover, having come by dinghy, you literally wouldn’t have believed me.

Do you see the point I’m making? All we’re asking here is for normality, all we’re asking is for normal service to be resumed. So yes, we will end the asylum system for up to five years. And why will we do that? Because we’re in the most terrible mess as a country. We literally have no idea who is here… right at the heart of that are Non Government Organisations [NGOs], multiple charities, and publicly traded companies all of whom are the direct beneficiaries of illegal migration. Many of them making vast amounts of money out of the system.

While the migrant boats crisis is perhaps the most visible single indicator of government failure on border control, as noted by groups including Migration Watch, boat arrivals only account for less than one-in-ten of net arrivals each year. The whole migration issue undermines faith in government, Farage said, saying both Labour and Tory governments in recent decades had “betrayed” the hopes of the British people to lock in border control, and that the simple fairness question was turning people away from the legitimacy of the state.

Farage Vows Tariffs, Visa Bans, Airline Restrictions Against Countries That Refuse Deportationshttps://t.co/ZnVFPVYpCb

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 11, 2026

Mr Farage went on:

We just want this to be a normal country. That’s all. Nothing radical or crazy, we want to get back to being a normal country. A country that puts national security at the top of the agenda. A country that does everything it can to protect its own citizens… there is a growing feeling in this country, a growing sense of anger… there’s a growing sense and feeling not just of fairness, not just that it’s wrong, but that frankly we treat people who come here illegally better than we treat our own people.

Between the government and its allies in the press, mass migration has always been a story Westminster would rather wasn’t being spoken about at all, and Farage pointed back to when he first started talking about the migrant boats and was roundly condemned for it, including being told it wasn’t a real issue and that he was wrong to try and turn it into one. Yet Farage’s early intervention appears to have been vindicated years later, with border control remaining one of the top-polling policy areas of concern for British voters and pushing Reform UK up the polls, as it did the Brexit referendum over a decade ago.

Farage said he recalled the I remember the “howls of indignation” when he first started talking about the boats, including claims “that somehow I’d lost touch with reality, that I was desperately seeking a new political life now that Brexit was done, and of course much, much abuse”. He added:

Well, now that 200,000 have come I can say ‘I was right’. I was well ahead of the rest of the pack… I was the first person to go and film one of the migrant hotels, and this wasn’t the first time that I’d talked about this subject. Indeed in 2015 as the first boats started across the Mediterranean I stood up in the European Parliament and said if the European Union launches a refugee policy that says basically anyone who crosses that sea can stay, millions will come.

Farage’s deputy, Zia Yusuf, also spoke on Monday morning, pointing to the fiscal cost of Britain’s asylum crisis at a time when endless other areas of government funding are left begging for cash. He noted that the £32 billion asylum bill could fund 40 “state-of-the-art hospitals”, 70,000 new police officers for five years, or even massively re-equip the armed forces.

Yusuf claimed the asylum bill could pay for “two Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers, two Type 26 anti-submarine frigates, four Astute Class attack submarines, nine Poseidon submarine hunters, 70 F-35B Lightning Fighter Jets, and 150 Challenger 3 Battle Tanks”, which would represent a meaningful boost to the British armed forces for decades to come.

But more fundamentally, he said, border control was a simple question of survival. Yusuf said: “If we fail to do that, if we fail to uphold the law, if we fail to say that Britain’s borders mean something, [then] we will not have a country at all”.

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by Eric Utter

The Green Party of England and Wales voted about a week ago to classify Zionism as a form of racism, understandably annoying Israel, and once again showing itself to be comprised of spectacularly ignorant tosspots, many of whom still live in their parents’ flats and worship Greta Thunberg. 

According to Reuters:

Britain’s Green Party voted to class Zionism as a form of ‌racism, drawing criticism from British Jews and from the Israeli government which said it now viewed the party as “a body that gives legitimacy to terrorism”.

The Greens – who received 6% of the vote in a national election in 2024 and have around 10% support in recent opinion polls – said they regarded Zionism as “an ethnonationalist political project” and repeated their call for Britain’s Labour government to end all arms trade with Israel.

Here is my definition of Zionism: (noun) a movement for (originally) the re-establishment of a Jewish nation in Palestine and (now) the development and protection of Israel.

Key word, re-establishment. 

If Zionism is racism, than so is nationalism in any form and any nation. So is “America First,” “Oh, Canada,” and the desire of any nation to develop and protect itself.

Everything can’t be racist or else nothing is racist.

But wait, isn’t the last sentence I just typed RACIST? I must have had nefarious reasons for writing it. Am I a racist? 

How I long for the time when racism meant dislike or abuse of someone because of their race. Those were simpler times!

Now, reading is racist, as are kindness, punctuality, intelligence, highways, weather, history, national parks, Legos, toast, and breathing. Among countless other things. And the color of one’s skin matters far more than the content of one’s character. But wait, isn’t that racist? Wouldn’t Martin Luther King, Jr., himself deem it so? (Did I make a mistake in assuming King’s preferred pronouns? If so, I deeply apologize!)

In truth, it is usually the people who casually hurl accusations of “RACIST!” at everyone — and everything — else who are the actual racists.

If the Green Party of England and Wales wants to equate an historically demonized and persecuted people’s quest for a tiny country of their own, a safe space if you will, with racism, they have it backwards.

I detest the Green Party, not because its members are green, or any other color, but because their beliefs and preferred policies would necessarily lead to needless hardship for the vast majority of citizens of … planet Earth. Ergo, I would call them not just plain old, garden variety racists, but multi-race racists. (Equal opportunity racists?) 

I have seen the idiocy, hatred, and hypocrisy on local college campuses. There were Palestinian flags at my daughter’s graduation ceremony. And I have seen it in the eyes of folks such as Tucker Carlson (whom I used to respect) and Candace Owens. 

Zionism isn’t racism. Is unfounded hatred of the Jewish people racism? Technically no. But it is nonetheless despicable, hypocritical, and idiotic. 

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