Illustration. FlyDubai Boeing.Wikimedia Commons, Konstantin von Wedelstaedt, GFDL-1.2
by Giulio Meotti
A terrorist stabbed a flight attendant and forced his way into the cockpit of a plane bound for Turkey with 170 people on board. The pilots reported they were under attack, transmitting the international hijack alarm code. When the Boeing 757 landed at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport, the terrorist had already been neutralized by two security officers, one of whom was traveling undercover among the passengers. No one was injured.
That plot dated to 2002; the terrorist, Tawfiq Fukra, wanted to “redo 9/11″ by crashing into Israel. Shortly afterward, Israel ran a simulation: a skyscraper struck by an aircraft in the Israeli city of Givatayim. It was the first exercise of its kind, a scenario similar to the attack on New York’s Twin Towers.
The plot foiled in Dubai-an Omani pilot who wanted to crash a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv with 180 Israeli passengers on board-has brought back to mind numerous attacks stopped by Israelis. Another 9/11 was interrupted at cruising altitude thanks to the intervention of Israeli passengers. Some call it “militarization of the sky.” That is a euphemism used by people who live under sleepier skies.
Take the case of the spy Israel infiltrated into ISIS, who provided intelligence on a plan to bring down a passenger jet in Europe using a bomb hidden in a laptop. According to information Donald Trump incautiously revealed to the Russians, the device had been able to pass airport security checks undetected. The information was so reliable that the United States and the United Kingdom banned laptops in the cabin on many flights from the Middle East.
Here Israel did not stop a single already-boarded flight: it stopped a method intended for dozens of aircraft. Two years earlier, ISIS had already claimed the attack that blew up a Russian airliner over Sinai, killing more than two hundred people.
In 1986, on a flight from London to Tel Aviv, a Palestinian Arab, Nezar Hindawi, planted a bomb in the suitcase of a passenger-his companion, Anne Marie Murphy-who did not know she was carrying it. The plane was carrying four hundred people. The same year, on a flight from Madrid to Tel Aviv, Nasser Hassan al Ali tried to detonate a suitcase on a flight with a hundred passengers on board. Fast-forward to 2006, when an Israeli aircraft was the target of another terrorist plot. This time the plan centered on Frankfurt Airport.
In 2017, an Australian citizen sent his brother to Sydney Airport to board an Etihad Airways flight to Dubai, carrying a bomb disguised in a meat grinder and built on Islamic State instructions. Khaled Khayat and Mahmoud Khayat, the two terrorists, were sentenced to forty years in prison. “Israeli intelligence thwarted the downing of an Australian airliner; it would have been an unimaginable massacre,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Australia called it “one of the most sophisticated plots ever attempted on Australian soil.”
A year later, at a NATO summit, Netanyahu revealed that Israel had “stopped dozens of serious attacks, some against civil aviation,” including in Europe, “preventing hijacked planes from crashing into European cities.”
It was political confirmation of what the public sees only a fraction of. Israel had warned Belgian officials weeks before the attack about inadequate security measures at Brussels’ Zaventem Airport. The warning came from Israeli officials tasked with assessing security standards at airports operating flights to Tel Aviv. The Israelis had found “significant shortcomings” at the Belgian airport, which days later became the scene of the attacks. A member of the cell had also wanted to strike the gates for passengers to Tel Aviv and the United States.
This time, only the readiness of the Israelis on board made it possible to avoid a 9/11.
The Jewish State continues to land planes full of the living. The West should thank Israel every day for existing.
Reduxx can reveal that a leading figure behind the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an organization which promotes the medical ‘transitioning’ of children, has a long history of working with pro-pedophile academics. Eli Coleman, a former WPATH president who oversaw and influenced the Standards of Care for transgender medical protocols for decades, has professional ties to multiple academics who either defended or advocated favorably for adult-child sexual relations, and had himself previously drafted Standards of Care for sex offenders.
Coleman is an American sexologist, professor emeritus, and former director of the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (previously the Program in Human Sexuality) in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota — where WPATH was previously based for several years. Coleman was an instrumental figure in the development of WPATH Standards of Care (SOC), specifically contributing to the three most recent iterations: the sixth, seventh, and eighth editions.
Significantly, Coleman served as the Chair and Lead Author for the development of the Standards of Care 8, which recommended the validation of a “eunuch gender identity”, and would later be revised to remove specific age limitations on the prescription of puberty-halting drugs to children.
On December 3, 2021, WPATH released draft guidelines which included, for the first time, the category of ‘eunuch’ as a protected “gender identity.” WPATH’s SOC 8 recommends medical treatment and services for those with a self-declared gender identity, and describes the relationship between “eunuch-identified people and other transgender people.”
The document states, “Eunuch-identified people may share with other gender-diverse people a desire for reduction or elimination of masculine physical features, masculine genitals, or genital functioning.”
It also goes on to claim that “eunuch-identified people may suffer the same minority stress as other stigmatized groups,” and refers extensively to research collected from a hardcore fetish site called the Eunuch Archive — a site that features child sexual exploitation fantasies centered around stopping little boys from going through puberty, as well as erotic stories about sexually abusing children.
Through a series of investigative reports, Reduxx revealed that the Eunuch Archive, the forum sourced by WPATH, was co-founded by a man who would be convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in a pedophile ring. Thomas Pidel was linked to over a dozen individuals who had subscriptions with a Belarus-based child pornography enterprise which sold thousands of paid memberships internationally to access child sexual abuse content.
Pidel, who described himself as a “boy lover,” was active in multiple Usenet groups dedicated to pedophilia activism and castration fetishism in the years just before his arrest in 2004. Some of the groups Pidel was active in during this time were alt.support.boy-lovers, alt.fan.prettyboy, and alt.eunuchs.questions, the latter of which would become the Eunuch Archive.
The most popular stories in the Eunuch Archive depict the forcible castration of children, and, as previously revealed by Reduxx, of the approximately 10,000 pornographic stories on the site, over one-third involved minors.
Three academics identified exclusively by Reduxx as having played a foundational role in the Eunuch Archive gathered opinions from anonymous forum members which were published as research. The leading figure behind this work, Professor Emeritus Thomas W. Johnson, presented research they co-authored together at a 2009 conference in Oslo held by WPATH.
🚨Reduxx has learned that an academic associated with the world's top transgender health authority was directly involved in the creation of erotic fantasies centered around the sexual slavery of children.
In the private, members-only area of the Eunuch Archive forum accessed by Reduxx, Johnson could be seen claiming he worked with Eli Coleman, and was personally invited to contribute to the development of the SOC 8.
In 2016, Johnson claimed to have been specifically chosen to rewrite a portion of the Standards of Care by former WPATH president Eli Coleman, who “pointed at me and announced that I was expected to provide input on eunuchs for the revision. Now is our opportunity to help devise the standards of care that will be most helpful.”
For nearly twenty years, the Eunuch Archive has hosted an annual “Meeting of Members.” The event has typically been held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where former WPATH president Eli Coleman has lived and worked for decades.
But the disturbing connections between Coleman and pedophile-adjacent academics does not end there. By purchasing archival records from a California-based university library, Reduxx learned that Coleman sought approval for his WPATH leadership position from a fellow sexologist, Vern Bullough, who had direct professional contact with a founding figure behind the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization which advocated for adult male homosexual relationships with children.
For years Bullough, himself a founding member of the organization which would become WPATH — The Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), kept a formal correspondence with a founding member of NAMBLA, and the group’s attorney: Lawrence Stanley.
In July 1987, Stanley wrote to Bullough imploring him to read and consider his article “The Hysteria over Child Pornography and Pedophilia,” which was soon published in Paidika: The Journal of Pedophilia and Playboy. In an introductory letter, Stanley told Bullough: “With respect to sizeable collections of child pornography, it is my impression that the Kinsey Institute’s is larger than the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.”
Stanley’s article, “The Hysteria over Child Pornography and Pedophilia,” argued that law enforcement officers engage in deliberate entrapment schemes. “Under the guise of ‘protecting children,’ millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to investigate and prosecute would-be consumers of child pornography, many of them individuals who do not pose any immediate danger to children.”
Bullough replied in a letter dated January 1988, congratulating Stanley on the publication of his article. “As far as collections of movies of child porn, the San Francisco Institute is much larger, simply because the major distributors of porn films in the United States, particularly child porn, got rid of incriminating evidence by donating it to the Institute in San Francisco.”
In a follow-up letter the next month, Bullough suggested: “If you get good duplicates of material and don’t know where to send them, I would like to add to my collection, most of which is now in the California State University, Northridge, library.”
In September 1989, Stanley was found in possession of hundreds of child pornography publications, as well as five videotapes, which he had kept locked in a safe under his bed. As the court proceedings were underway in 1991, Bullough submitted a character testimonial in favor of Stanley, calling him a “knowledgeable professional in the field of human sexuality,” and that he would “strongly vouch for his character and integrity.”
Bullough wrote: “I have known Lawrence Stanley for four or five years and worked closely with him for part of that time in publishing a newsletter for the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.”
Bullough, who was influential during the formative years of WPATH, would also go on to publish the academic journal Paidika: The Journal of Pedophilia, which advocated for sexual relationships between adults and children.
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Reduxx has learned that one of the founding academics behind the World Professional Association for Transgender Health was a pedophile sympathizer.
Vern Bullough defended pedophiles and called opposition to child sexual abuse "hysteria."https://t.co/rxxQEK4HIF
Coleman and Bullough frequently contributed to the same sexology texts and compiled volumes throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Both served alongside each other on editorial and advisory boards for peer-reviewed academic journals in sexology, including the Journal of Sex Research.
“It would be very hard to find somebody that had so extensively studied so many areas within sexuality,” Coleman said. “Vern was all over the field — not in a superficial way but in a very deep way.”
Prior to working with WPATH on the Transgender Standards of Care, Coleman had also previously devised Sex Offender Standards of Care and advocated for the rights of sexual criminals and men with paraphilias, or sexual pathologies, including pedophilia.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, while directing the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota, Coleman co-authored and led the development of clinical treatment standards for adult sex offenders, and published an initial proposed set of clinical guidelines in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.
Coleman partnered with a nun belonging to the Catholic organization Sisters of Mercy in order to promote medical treatments for sex offenders. In 1990, Eli Coleman and Sister Margretta Dwyer authored “Proposed Standards of Care for the Treatment of Adult Sex Offenders”, which was published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. The document was subsequently approved by the United Nations as aligning with its Sustainable Development Goal 16, “Peace.”
“From puberty through adulthood, males more than females experience erotic fantasies and dreams of a paraphilic type. A paraphilia is a condition of compulsive response to, or dependence upon, an unusual and unacceptable stimulus in the imagery of fantasy, for optimal initiation and maintenance of sexual arousal, and the facilitation or attainment of orgasm,” write Coleman and Dwyer.
“Various ‘appropriate care’ philosophies have been suggested by many professionals who have identified themselves as experts on the topic of sex offenders,” the paper continues. “Although some standards exist, until the present, no statement of the ‘Standards of Care’ to be offered to the sex offender has received official sanction by any identified viable professional group.”
Coleman led the first International Conference on the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (ICTSO) in 1989 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This event was followed by two further conferences in the same city in 1991 and 1993. The fourth conference, in 1995, was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
As the founding organizer of the ICTSO series, Coleman co-chaired and organized the Amsterdam meeting alongside European hosts. In that role, he would have had significant influence over who was invited to participate in the meeting.
At the inaugural First International Conference on the Treatment of Sexual Offenders in Minneapolis, Coleman invited a Norwegian psychologist and sexologist with deep connections to multinational pro-pedophilia advocacy, including the now-disbanded Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) of England.
Thore Langfeldt was among the international participants invited by Eli Coleman and the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota to the first conference, which served as the initial gathering to build an international network of clinicians and set the groundwork for the collaborative drafting of the Standards of Care for the Treatment of Adult Sex Offenders. He also attended and spoke at the subsequent three conferences organized by Coleman.
Thore Langfeldt has written extensively about “child sexuality” and positively conveyed case studies of pedophilic relationships throughout the 1970s and 80’s. His academic publications sought to portray adult-child sexual contact as normal and non-pathological.
Reduxx has learned that a pro-pedophilia activist spoke on transitioning children at a conference held by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Thore Langfeldt stated that toddlers may become sexually active from the age of 2.https://t.co/IcaRpAZ5SI
Previously a schoolteacher, Langfeldt was involved with the Norwegian pro-pedophile organization called the Pedophile Working Group (Pedofil Arbeidsgruppe – NAFP) in the 1970’s. The NAFP was established at the University of Oslo in 1975, where the group had registered a post office box – and where Langfeldt was specializing in psychology. That year, Langfeldt wrote a letter to the Ministry of Justice requesting an alteration to the criminal code which would lower the legal age of consent from 16 to 14 years old.
The NAFP directly invited the leader of the Paedophile Information Exchange to speak at a panel event in Oslo, the Amnesty for Love and Affection conference, at the Hotel Viking in June of 1979.
While attending the inaugral ICTSO, having been invited by Coleman, Langfeldt argued that sex offenders can be identified in childhood, and that some boys, even as young as toddlers, have an urge to castrate themselves. “We have known that these children have existed for a long time, but people working at the kindergarten level have refused to acknowledge the existence of sexuality in children,” Langfeldt said.
Following his participation in the Minneapolis and Amsterdam meetings, Langfeldt joined Eli Coleman as a co-author and reviewer of the subsequent revisions of the Standards of Care for the Treatment of Adult Sex Offenders.
However, Coleman’s professional relationship with Langfeldt did not end there. In 2009, Langfeldt organized a WPATH conference in Oslo — the same conference attended by academic representatives of the pedophilic forum the Eunuch Archive, who claim to have been invited directly by Coleman himself to contribute to WPATH Standards of Care.
On June 18 of that year, Langfeldt presented on the topic of “The Child in the Discourse of Transsexualism.” According to the abstract, Langfeldt’s lecture used “cases from the shemale movements and pornography to question the medical discourse and its power in forming the child into a suitable medical diagnosis.”
The ICTSO series, of which both Coleman and Langfeldt are charter members, was rebranded during the fifth international conference. The International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO) was formally founded on March 24, 1998, formalizing the ongoing international conference series that Eli Coleman and his colleagues had initiated in Minneapolis in 1989.
Langfeldt was selected by the IATSO Scientific Committee to deliver a headline plenary address in the conference’s main hall on Friday, August 29, 2025, titled “The history and current state of our understanding of pedophilia.” During his presentation, Langfeldt argued that minor-directed attractions should be evaluated as a disorder requiring treatment.
Similarly, the Norwegian psychologist served as the Scientific Conference President for the 11th International IATSO Conference, which was held in Oslo, Norway, from September 1–4, 2010. Just months before, in June, the Sexual Offender Treatment, IATSO’s official academic journal, published Langfeldt’s article: Is “Pedophilia” a Useful or a Confusing Concept? An Empirical Study on Sexual Abuse of Children, Sexual Orientation and Typology: Implications for Therapy.
Protocols devised by Coleman to treat sex offenders included the recommended usage of anti-androgens, sometimes referred to as chemical castration when used in a punitive sense. For decades, Coleman has written about the treatment of pedophilia with pharmacological management alongside cognitive therapy.
As clinical options evolved, Coleman, alongside fellow researchers, have reviewed the efficacy of more recently-developed GnRH agonists, such as Lupron, which lower testosterone levels to castrate men with pedophilic tendencies.
After devising Standards of Care for the treatment of pedophiles, Coleman’s work shifted towards Standards of Care for WPATH, or “transgender health,” which advise clinicians to administer castrating drug Lupron to children. Protocols published by WPATH recommending the medical “transitioning” of children through the use of drugs which halt puberty have since been implemented internationally, and in 2022, the transgender health authority removed specific minimum age requirements for puberty-blocking drugs such as Lupron, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries that were present in previous drafts.
Early versions of the WPATH Standards of Care, and specifically revisions 1 through 5, published between 1979 and 1998, explicitly listed the administrative contact address as: Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis.
Coleman’s personal academic office at the University of Minnesota served as the official publicly listed mailing headquarters for WPATH for years. This exact suite housed the University’s Program in Human Sexuality, now renamed the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, where Coleman served as director and professor emeritus.
Mr Munye described homosexual acts as a ‘crime’, before noting that participants are ‘executed’ under Sharia law | YOUTUBE/DAARHADEETH
A preacher at a London mosque has sparked backlash after encouraging Muslims to “discipline” their wives if they are disobedient.
The Hackney Islamic Community Centre, which has charitable status, publishes lectures given at the mosque to its YouTube channel.
In one sermon, a teacher describes homosexual intercourse as “one of the most evil of acts”, while another shows the same preacher hailing Saudi Arabia for executing those suspected of “witchcraft”.
Yasin Munye delivered a lecture posted on the channel where he reads from Manthumatu al-Kaba’ir, a poem which outlines what are considered major sins in the religion.
He notes one as: “Disobeying the husband, leaving the house without his permission, and disobeying the husband when it comes to calling her to bed, when it comes to calling her for intimacy, when she says ‘no’ without any excuse.”
Mr Munye adds: “Advise her, and boycott her in bed, don’t touch her in bed – and discipline them physically as well, by lightly hitting them to show them who is in charge.”
The preacher goes on to describe homosexual acts as a “crime”, before noting that participants are “executed” under Sharia law.
He said: “Scholars, they differ on how the execution occurs. Some of them say he is executed through the sword, like every other normal execution.
The Hackney Islamic Community Centre’s charitable status allows the mosque to be exempt from paying a number of taxes.
According to its published accounts, it did not pay a penny on the £191,097 income it received in the year to March 2025.
Just shy of £155,000 of the total income was raised through donations.
The mosque describes its purpose as assisting “mankind” through its push to “advance the Islamic faith”.
The Hackney Islamic Community Centre re-registered its charitable status in April – a move branded “alarming” by National Secular Society (NSS) head of campaigns Megan Manson.
She said: “Hackney Islamic Community Centre is just one of many charities promoting misogyny, homophobia and other harmful ideologies through the charitable purpose of ‘the advancement of religion’.
“This charitable purpose must be urgently reviewed. It is evidently facilitating the advancement of ideas which, far from benefiting the public, could fuel discrimination, division and abuse.”
The NSS has reported the mosque to the Charity Commission, warning that the content it pushes out are not compatible with holding charitable status.
The Charity Commission confirmed it has received the complaint and will weigh up the concerns outlined before determining whether to launch a statutory inquiry.
A spokesman said: “The Commission has clear expectations that all charities, regardless of their purpose, must operate for the public benefit and provide a safe and trusted environment for all.
“Concerns have been raised with us about alleged sermons and social media content linked to Hackney Islamic Community Centre and we have opened a regulatory compliance case to further assess these. This will determine any next steps.”
Earlier this year, the Charity Commission refused to censure Hatch End Islamic Centre preacher Ahmed Shah, despite him declaring it was “mandatory” for women to serve their husbands in a now-deleted sermon.
Instead of taking away its charitable status, the commission insisted it would offer “advice and guidance” to the north London mosque.
GB News has approached the Hackney Islamic Community Centre for comment.
A seminar to train British police officers about Islam used Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage and other Reform UK party figures in lessons on “prejudice” and racially aggravated crimes.
British police officers who attended the York and North Yorkshire Hate Crime Conference in 2025 were treated to a heavy-handed seminar in which delegates were taught that Islam is compatible with British values, that women are not oppressed by Islam, and that views expressed by mainstream British politicians should be legally actionable, according to footage leaked to a British newspaper.
The Daily Telegraphstated the presentation to officers was given by former cop, Abbas Najib, who now runs the Better Communities Bradford activism group, and that it was intended to bust “myths and misconceptions about Islam”. The session told the audience that “Muslims, the immigrant, the brown person” are scapegoated by society, while the problems are actually down to “the rich”, the report states.
Several prominent British politicians were used to illustrate hate crime, with top politicians now involved with Reform UK featuring heavily, among them Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Michael Gove, and Matt Goodwin. Najib is reported to have said that if Islamosceptic remarks by such politicians had been said about Jewish communities instead, the politicians would have been arrested, and that the same approach should apply to scepticism of Islam.
Attendees were challenged to consider whether Nigel Farage speaking causes physical hate crimes to happen in real life, and to “draw your own conclusions”.
Further, it is stated that typed materials handed out to attendees stated that Islam is compatible with the recently coined modern British values, and that it doesn’t oppress women.
The revelations about the form of training given to some police officers on Islam and what is called Islamophobia may go some way to explain why it is that some British police forces appear to have become so proactive in pursuing not just criminal speech, but non-criminal “hate incidents” as well. A report from the Free Speech Union earlier this month revealed an enormous disparity in arrest rates between British police forces, with some arresting ten times as many people as others.
The footage published by The Telegraph also recalls a report published last week by Policy Exchange, blowing the whistle on what they said was an erosion of police impartiality by the spread of special interest staff networks, and particularly the association of Muslim police officers. This organisation is among those that have politicised policing, they claimed, stating it was pushing for terms like “Islamist” to be phased out by police because it drives “Islamophobia”.
David Sanchez, brother of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, and Miguel Angel Gallardo, former leader of the Extremadura branch of the ruling party PSOE, attend the start of their trial at the provincial court of Badajoz, Spain, 28 May 2026. Screengrab youtube
The leader of a drug-trafficking clan in southwest Spain has told Guardia Civil investigators that a member of the network around Leire Díez, the former Socialist official known in Spain as the party’s plumber, asked her to have the judge who investigated Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s brother removed from the case.
Officers of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) travelled to Badajoz on September 24 and questioned Cintia Rocho, head of the Los Rochos clan, for four hours at the local barracks, which reported the interviews on September 30. She said a member of the network had supplied her with detailed personal information about the private life of magistrate Beatriz Biedma.
Rocho named Luis José Sáenz de Tejada, a former judge struck off in December 2022 after convictions for domestic violence offences. He has since run a YouTube channel from which he attacks judges, prosecutors and journalists.
Investigators questioned a second man the same day as a witness. He is said to have acted as intermediary with a trafficker known as El Gitano, meeting Sáenz de Tejada in a café in Badajoz in late 2024 and taking delivery of photographs documenting the surveillance of Biedma and her two young daughters.
The trafficker was questioned in prison at 7.30am on September 25. He confirmed that his intermediary had told him the network’s interest extended to other female judges as well as to Biedma.
Biedma led the investigation that ended in the conviction of David Sánchez in July, when the Badajoz provincial court found the Prime Minister’s brother guilty of administrative malfeasance over a post created for him at the provincial council.
Spain’s National Court has admitted the magistrate as a private prosecutor in the case against the Díez network. Investigating judge Santiago Pedraz restricted that to a possible offence of slander and declined, for the moment, to open a specific line of inquiry into a note found in Díez’s diary referring to a judge in Badajoz, heroin and a clan name.
Pedraz said the UCO could not establish the significance of the note without further material. He is separately examining whether the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) can be charged as a legal person in the wider case.
Biedma is due to give evidence on October 8. Díez has consistently denied running any smear campaign against officials investigating the party.
The PSOE has said that neither Díez, a former member, nor Santos Cerdán, its former organisation secretary, holds any post in the party, and that it is not itself a party to the proceedings. The Guardia Civil and the interior ministry have made no public statement on the Badajoz questioning, which was first reported by El País.
A 22-year-old Syrian man is accused of seriously assaulting several rail passengers in Cologne in June during a rampage attack. However, details have now emerged of just how serious this man’s criminal history is after a parliamentary request from politician Markus Wagner of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Currently, the Syrian remains in a psychiatric hospital while prosecutors investigate, but the man’s long history of criminal offenses is truly remarkable.
Federal police said the attacks began about 3:10 p.m. on June 21 at the Cologne-Trimbornstrasse stop. A police spokeswoman said a 22-year-old man “grabbed a traveler and tried to pull him toward the tracks.” Both fell to the ground. Bystanders pulled them apart, but the victim suffered bruises and abrasions.
Police told Westdeutscher Rundfunk that the witnesses “behaved correctly” by acting together and separating the attacker from the victim.
The suspect then boarded an S19 train toward Cologne Central Station, police said. Near the Cologne Messe/Deutz stop he suddenly punched two passengers in the face, according to witnesses and video.
At the main station, in a fast-food restaurant, he punched and kicked a 47-year-old man and continued striking him on the ground after federal officers arrived.
Officers managed to detain the man and later said he was under the influence of narcotics.
He was taken to a psychiatric facility. The Justice Ministry said he “is currently provisionally accommodated in a psychiatric hospital” under Section 126a of the Code of Criminal Procedure, a measure used when investigators believe a suspect may have acted without full criminal responsibility.
Cologne prosecutors are investigating, among other counts, intentional bodily harm, attempted dangerous bodily harm and attempted dangerous interference with rail traffic, the ministry said.
Asked what police already knew about the suspect, the government listed suspected prior offenses that had led to complaints or investigations: five thefts, one case of receiving stolen goods, one robbery, one insult, three threats, 11 assaults, 13 dangerous assaults, 11 narcotics violations, one rape allegation, one count of resisting officers, two property-damage cases and two fraud cases.
However, none of these arrests have resulted in convictions. The ministry stressed that police records “rest on suspicion” and “do not allow a conclusion on the correctness of the allegation.”
Regarding formal prior sentences, the government said the man’s Federal Central Register extract “shows solely sanctions under youth criminal law that are not entered in the certificate of good conduct.”
In other words, most of these offenses were either handled in juvenile court or were never formally tried in court due to the man’s psychological state. German youth-court measures often do not appear on the clearance certificate employers and agencies commonly request, meaning these criminal entries would not be available to potential employers.
Asked about citizenship, the ministry wrote that, “as far as known,” the suspect has Syrian nationality.
Notably, he has never been deported despite the trail of mayhem he has left behind him.
Commie Canada and the dis-United Kingdom should be renamed the “Dumb and Dumber” of the British Commonwealth.
King Charles III’s North American prime minister, Mark Carney, ran to The New York Times last week to talk about his military combat preparations against the United States in the event that President Trump crosses Lake America and liberates Canada from its delusional leaders. What a showboating dunce. The U.S. singlehandedly sustains Canada’s economy and national security, yet the tiny central banker huffed and puffed in a hilariously Napoleonic display of fake strength.
In the same interview with the failing Times, Con-man Carney outlined his intent to integrate Canada’s economy with that of China and the European Union and to replace the U.S. Dollar with a China-linked global reserve currency. Rhetorically defending Canada’s sovereignty while insulting his U.S. benefactor, Little Mark Carney explained how he would subjugate his socialist nanny-state to Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping and unelected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Mark is the global mascot for “educated” idiots everywhere.
Not to be outdone by not-so-Great Britain’s Canadian cousin, U.K. Prime Minister Poindexter (er, I mean Andy Burnham) informed the United Nations General Assembly last week that his government was constructing yet another speech-police organization (this one given the august name, “National Centre for Information Defence,” which should not be confused with the “Research, Information, and Communications Unit,” the “Government Communication Service,” the “Counter Disinformation Unit,” the “Defending Democracy Taskforce,” the “Information Threats and Influence Directorate,” the “Rapid Response Unit,” the “National Cyber Force and Social Cohesion Taskforce,” the “Media Monitoring Unit,” or any of the other information-control agencies already mobilized across totalitarian Britain) to protect the British people from scary thoughts and words. Burnham blamed the Russians for spreading “a narrative of decline, stoking division, and sowing despair” in the U.K. (and definitely not Westminster’s promotion of decline, division, and despair!) and promised to counteract this “information warfare” by censoring Britons’ public speech and feeding his collapsing country a steady diet of State-sanctioned propaganda. In order to beat back the Russians, Dilapidated Britain must have its very own digital Iron Curtain! Two cheers for democracy! Hip hip…who cares.
The British people are screwed. On average, their government grants settlement or citizenship to an illegal alien every single minute. These foreign nationals receive more welfare from British taxpayers than ever before. The third-world invaders (I mean, “newcomers”) use Britain’s streets as public toilets. Rather than securing the kingdom’s borders, the Home Office hands out a nine-page booklet informing mostly-Muslim men of military age that it is illegal to rape women and children while they conquer the islands. In the last two years alone, the number of illegal immigrants (and future citizens!) arriving by boat has exceeded the size of the entire British Army! But if these outrageous facts disturb you enough to publicly express your feelings on social media, you will most likely join the roughly 65,000 Brits who have been arrested for “speech-related offenses” over the last five years. Foreign invasion? Good! Free speech? Very bad!
Apparently, the British police state also plans to imprison anyone who would rather not fight WWIII against the Russian Federation. During a recent episode of former cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg’s “State of the Nation” on GB News, one leftist-globalist commentator in favor of mass conscription argued, “We would have to lock a few people up…some of the pro-Russian voices, people saying there isn’t a threat, don’t fight for your country, don’t go to war for Burnham, we’ll have to lock ‘em up.” Rather than responding with horror at the suggestion that his fellow Britons should be imprisoned for opposing a catastrophic war, Rees-Mogg pedantically replied, “Well, we suspended habeas corpus during the Napoleonic Wars…indeed, yes.” In another interview, Rees-Mogg nonchalantly remarked that British citizens have a “duty” to “die” for Britain in a war against Russia.
In Burnham and Rees-Mogg’s Britain, the only way to “defend democracy” is to imprison anyone who disagrees with the British Establishment and to sacrifice everyone else to the killing fields! The British Isles might as well be renamed the “Gulag Archipelago.”
Interestingly, GB News — which leans conservative — discovered last week that Britain’s media regulator, the Office of Communications (Ofcom), had covered up data showing that viewers trust GB News more than the BBC. GB News, in fact, is ranked above all other networks with regard to viewpoint diversity and impartiality. British authorities apparently did not want the public to know these inconvenient truths because the BBC is treated as an objective, trustworthy, and premier source of news (fact check: false!). In an effort to control the public’s perception of the BBC, Ofcom restricted what information the public was permitted to know. P.M. Burnham takes the “defense of information” very seriously!
How seriously? Burnham and the British government force citizens to pay for the BBC’s awful dreck whether they watch it or not! Every household in the U.K. must fork over a £180 license fee to the BBC each year. Because more households are refusing to pay the license, the government is considering the imposition of a mandatory £11-a-month Internet tax in order to keep the BBC’s fake news funded. The BBC says that the “fee is essential for maintaining the quality and diversity of public broadcasting in the UK.”
What does “quality and diversity” look like at the BBC? Two “reporters” just did a major exposé describing how women who don’t polish their nails perpetuate “white supremacy.” No joke! “Nail art’s historical and creative roots are linked back to black, Latino, and Asian communities and the suggestion that bare nails are now a sign of high status could stigmatise bold manicures,” the BBC “reports.” “They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty.” Yes, Burnham, force Britain’s working-class to pay for this race-baiting propaganda posing as hard news!
Earlier this year, British authorities announced that YouTube and other social media platforms would be forced to manipulate their algorithms and push BBC “news” to the top of feeds in order to counter “disinformation.” In other words, Whitehall steals money from British citizens to pay for State-run TV and then forces them to watch it. During the Cold War, we called that Soviet-style propaganda. Yet if you ask the fake “reporters” at the BBC, Canada’s publicly-funded CBC, or America’s NPR or PBS, all these propagandists would insist that they have nothing in common with the Soviet Union’s Pravda or the Russian Federation’s RT (Russia Today) News. In the West, State-funded media are somehow not State media. Does that sound more like propaganda or breaking news?
Britain’s State-imposed “narrative control” is utterly totalitarian. Dismissing the “narrative of decline” and “despair” in Britain as a “corrosive narrative…which bears no resemblance to reality” and a “distorted and untrue narrative about Britain,” P.M. Burnham casts all public dissent as “far-right narratives.” As military historian Professor Michael Rainsborough mocks, “The problem isn’t the problem, the problem is the people noticing the problem.” Rainsborough points out that right after Burnham rebranded “decline” as “disinformation,” the prime minister laid out a “10-year plan” to fight inflation, housing costs, hopelessness, inequality, and division. “The narrative of decline,” in other words, “bears no resemblance to reality, although reality apparently requires a 10-year plan.”
Both Canada and Britain are failing. The public has noticed. Carney and Burnham wish to whitewash reality with fake “narratives.” The worse things become, the more difficult it will be for their ministries of truth to succeed. Expect the BBC to blame Trump, Putin, and “white supremacy.”
The killing of a 1-year-old Dutch child through euthanasia is a “fundamental violation” of the toddler’s dignity, Cardinal William Eijk of the Netherlands said recently.
Controversy has grown in the past several weeks after further details emerged on the murder of an almost two-year-old boy in the Netherlands. Though the killing occurred last year, Dutch authorities only recently released their review of the matter, sparking renewed interest. The euthanasia occurred just one year after the Netherlands expanded its assisted suicide regime.
The child, nearly 2 years old, had been born at 26 weeks’ gestation. He had severe brain damage, cerebral palsy, seizures, and a developmental age of about six weeks. Although the child was not dying, doctors and parents chose to sedate and kill him, as LifeSiteNews first covered in June.
The report argues that the child “had multiple, very severe disabilities, both mental and physical, and the prognosis was that the child would be dependent on support with all activities of daily living for the rest of their life,” with a “very high probability of the child dying at a very young age due to complications.”
“In the course of the child’s short life, there was a complete lack of development or improvement,” the report claims, with parents and physicians “convinced that the child was suffering unbearably and without prospect of improvement.”
Some doctors objected to the killing, so the child’s parents simply found other doctors who supported euthanasia and endorsed their plan.
But killing disabled children is not compassionate, Cardinal Eijk toldCrux during a recent interview.
“The word ‘merciful’ is often used nowadays to justify ethically questionable actions. However, is it merciful to violate the fundamental dignity of the human person by ending their life,” he asked.
Euthanasia violates the dignity of the human body, Eijk said.
“Objectively speaking, however, a human being is not merely his body, nor is he merely his soul, but both soul and body,” he said. “The body is an essential part of the human person. The termination of his body is therefore a fundamental violation of his inherent dignity.”
A selfish culture, beginning in the 1960s, that places the wants and desires of individuals first leads to not only euthanasia, but the mutilation of the bodies of gender-confused individuals, the Catholic cardinal said.
The prelate said:
Initially, this autonomy meant that an individual should not be prevented from doing as they pleased, unless it caused harm to others. Gradually, the ideal shifted to the extent that autonomy also came to mean being whatever one wished to be – man, woman, binary, or, through gender reassignment procedures, belonging as closely as possible to the opposite sex.
This autonomy also came to mean that the individual had the right, under certain conditions, to have their life ended through euthanasia.
He suggested palliative care as the better, moral option.
The Catholic Church has always condemned the practices of euthanasia and assisted suicide.
“Intentional euthanasia, whatever its forms or motives, is murder,” the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2324) states. “It is gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person and to the respect due to the living God, his Creator.”
LifeSiteNews writer Jonathon Van Maren previously warned that this toddler would not be the last.
“In 2024, the law changed,” he wrote. “Now, a child has been killed. More will certainly follow.”
Eva Vlaardingerbroek is a Dutch right-wing political commentator and activist. Photo credit: Instagram
A study by sociologist Ulrich Rosar of the University of Düsseldorf, evaluated by the German mainstream weekly newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS), concludes that conservative and liberal politicians are more frequently perceived as more attractive than their left-wing counterparts.
For the study, people in several countries were shown thousands of photos of politicians they didn’t know. Researchers then compared these ratings with election results and party convention data. According to the findings, more attractive candidates received more votes, had fewer opponents, required fewer rounds of voting, and were more frequently nominated in promising constituencies. An Ifo study from 2023 also concluded that good-looking politicians earn higher additional income. In parliament, they are more likely to attain prestigious leadership positions and are more likely to be perceived as courageous when they deviate from the party line.
Voters also more frequently associate physical attractiveness with intelligence, creativity, honesty, authenticity, trustworthiness, and competence. Attractive politicians are more likely to be forgiven for their mistakes and receive more support and attention during crises. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) writes: “Disadvantages based on skin color, gender, or sexual orientation are often discussed. But ugliness remains taboo.”
The fast track for the attractive starts early: pretty children more often have friends and better grades, and as adults earn more and are promoted more frequently. And there’s another important correlation: those who see themselves as winners are more likely to perceive society as fair and are more inclined to support conservative or liberal parties.
Differences also exist between the parties. In the European Parliament, conservatives were rated as 25 percent more attractive than social democrats, in Australia the gap was 32 percent, in Finland 41 percent and in the USA 14 percent.
Panu Poutvaara of the Ifo Center for Migration and Development Economics even considers it possible that conservative voters infer political convictions from appearance. More attractive, unknown candidates were more frequently categorized as right-wing in tests. Even left-wing voters preferred attractive candidates: “In our study, we found that left-wing voters also preferred better-looking candidates, even though they had a greater ideological distance from them.”
A Scandinavian analysis of the American National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health reached a similar conclusion. People who rated themselves as attractive were more likely to identify as conservative.
Illustration. FlyDubai Boeing.Wikimedia Commons, Konstantin von Wedelstaedt, GFDL-1.2
A flydubai flight was diverted Wednesday morning to Saudi Arabia after the pilots clashed in the cockpit, the airline confirmed.
During the fight, the pilot activated a distress code used to signal unlawful interference with a flight, which may be used in cases of a suspected aircraft hijacking.
Aftermath of incident. צילום: לפי סעיף 27/א
Flight FZ1073, which had been en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv with 180 Israelis on board, turned around while flying over Jordan and changed course. A few minutes after the distress code was activated, the pilot signaled that it was on its way to Israel, and once again changed direction.
Data from the Flightradar24 flight-tracking app shows that during the incident, the aircraft made an unusually rapid descent from an altitude of approximately 34,000 feet to around 14,000 feet.
According to the data, at one point the aircraft registered an instantaneous descent rate of approximately 30,976 feet per minute. Sharp changes were also recorded in the aircraft’s ground speed.
Israeli Air Force fighter jets were scrambled toward the aircraft, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz held an urgent meeting to discuss the situation.
The IDF said: “Following reports, the IDF Chief of the General Staff conducted a situational assessment in recent minutes with the Commander of the Israeli Air Force, the Head of the Operations Directorate, the Head of Military Intelligence, and additional commanders.”
However, the plane’s pilots did not contact control towers, and the flight disappeared from Flightradar24 and other flight-tracking apps.
Soon afterwards, the plane contacted Saudi authorities and safely landed in Saudi Arabia.
Later, flydubai confirmed that the distress signal had been entered due to the violent flight between the pilots. Channel 12 News reported that the pilot is Russian, and the copilot is Ukrainian.
A passenger who was aboard the flight told i24NEWS that during the unusual incident, an attempt was made to stab the pilot.
“The entire cockpit was covered in blood. The Israeli guys took control of the situation and caught the attacker,” the passenger said, adding, “We were either going to crash or be murdered. It was like a terrorist attack in mid-air.”
Passengers aboard the flight said that one of the pilots was stabbed with a penknife and that they noticed a large amount of blood. According to them, the pilot lost control of the flight for several minutes, and the Israeli passengers helped regain control of the situation.
According to a passenger, “There were moments when we were sure this was the end. We heard screaming and yelling and then we saw them open the cockpit and that there was blood there.”
Another passenger commented: “As soon as the cockpit opened, numerous Israeli passengers rushed forward. We heard shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar.'”
Authorities are investigating suspicions that one of the pilots attempted to take his own life and crash the plane, which later made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. The second pilot, together with Israeli passengers on board, reportedly prevented the suspected attempt.
Following the incident, flydubai’s CEO informed Israeli transportation authorities that a plane will soon be sent from Dubai to Saudi Arabia and will continue from there to Israel.
The Prime Minister’s Office stated: “Following concerns of an aviation incident, Prime Minister Netanyahu held discussions on the matter and followed the developments.”
“The incident is under control, and we are now using all means available to bring the Israeli passengers safely to Israel.”
“Following situation assessments and passenger testimony, Israeli authorities are treating the incident as a terror attack in every respect,” a statement read. “It appears that the copilot repeatedly stabbed the captain.”
“Once the incident began, crew members and numerous passengers managed to breach the cockpit door and overpower the terrorist.”
A senior Israeli official said that a much greater disaster was prevented. The copilot is now being questioned, and indications are mounting that he intended to take control of the aircraft and crash it with the passengers on board.
Another senior Israeli official stated that there was an additional crew of pilots on the plane as part of a routine procedure, and they took over. “The flight was lucky they were there – otherwise we would have had another 9/11.”
A senior military official said it appears that the pilot involved in the incident is Omani, and that authorities are investigating the possibility that he attempted to take his own life using the aircraft.
At this stage, it remains unclear whether the motive, if such an attempt did in fact take place, was psychological or nationalistic. The official described the incident as “a great miracle” and attributed the outcome to the resourcefulness of the crew members and the assistance of Israeli passengers.
The IDF Chief of Staff is currently holding a situation assessment and considering whether to dispatch Israeli Air Force Hercules aircraft to Saudi Arabia, alongside Flydubai’s decision to send an aircraft to the country to return the passengers to Israel. The Air Force has raised its readiness level in preparation for the possibility of carrying out the mission.
