Allah's Willing Executioners

by Giulio Meotti

There is only a deep bitterness to feel about the state of what the great writer Maurice Dantec called “Zeropa.” And as often happens, it is an Italian video that reminds us of it.

Italy’s so-called “head of diplomacy” Antonio Tajani writes:

“The Italian merchant ship ‘Grande Torino,’ of the Grimaldi group, just hours after the signing of the agreement between the USA and Iran, was among the first to cross the Strait of Hormuz. It is now sailing toward the East. A success for Italian diplomacy. Great news for the resumption of commercial traffic and especially for all the sailors on board and their families in Italy.”

Tajani’s video looks like it came straight out of my book Titanic Europe: an Iranian official grants permission to an Italian ship to pass through a strait over which Tehran has no legal claim, and the Italian captain thanks him in broken English.

It’s not that I expected Italian frigates to be sent to reopen Hormuz, but why publish a video like this?

Then Giorgia Meloni telling Donald Trump to be “tougher on the enemies of the West” is even funnier than Tajani posting the Grimaldi ship begging Tehran for passage through Hormuz.

What is Meloni talking about?

There is a magnificent saying by Hilaire Belloc: “Always keep a-hold of nurse, for fear of finding something worse.”

Between Trump’s defeat in Iran and European mediocrity, there is little to be cheerful about.

“The Islamic Republic wishes the Italian company every success,” it ironically comments in the meantime.

We have delegitimized and boycotted this war by pinning it not on the West but on Trump and Bibi Netanyahu – bogeymen whose defeat gives many Westerners a perverse physical pleasure.

Since 1979, theocratic Iran has held half the world hostage, and now the knights of Allah are jumping down from their trucks to demand the ransom of dhimmitude.

Once upon a time – as Carl Schmitt teaches – European powers imposed free passage on the seas with warships and treaties written with cannon fire. Today an Italian merchant ship sails through Hormuz and the Farnesina thanks those who, until a few hours earlier, could close it at will.

If this is not Western decline, it is very close to it.

And the “guaranteed permission” is the perfect metaphor for a Europe that begs.

“Braaaavo,” the liar Emmanuel Macron was meanwhile saying to Trump after he signed the agreement with Iran under the ceilings of Versailles – the lavish setting of the palace that embodied the apogee of a grandeur long gone.

Another grotesque video: the French president, who lives outside history in the palace of kings, applauds a treaty with the Islamic Republic that Paris helped create in 1979 by launching Ayatollah Khomeini.

Despite the overwhelming military superiority of the West, the real weakness has once again shown itself in that sociocultural apparatus called “public opinion,” made up of newspapers, television, bureaucracies, the UN, and public squares. We peaceful Westerners – are we still willing to acknowledge the existence of an enemy?

Cowardly France no longer hides its hostility (or is it jealousy of its selling power) towards Israel.

At Eurosatory, the military fair in Paris, barriers were erected around the stands of Israeli defense companies, even though those companies complied with French restrictions requiring Israeli firms to display only defensive weapon systems.

Those of China, Turkey, and other countries are of course on full display.

Victory against Iran seemed closer than ever. After the blows inflicted first in June 2025 and then in March of this year, Iran was in ruins: its military infrastructure destroyed, the senior command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps eliminated, the Supreme Leader killed. Iran had lost two-thirds of its missile and drone production capacity, hundreds of launchers, and 250 air defense systems. Economic damage reached $140-150 billion. Major factories, power plants, and bridges were destroyed. Over 85% of Iranian petrochemical exports had been disabled.

How unexpected was Trump’s decision? Not very, at least for me.

Israeli scholar Meir Javedanfar, born in Iran, tells the Wall Street Journal that in Tehran they are “euphoric.”

Not only has the Islamic regime survived, but it has managed to impose its own conditions on the most powerful nation in the world and humiliate it, forcing the United States to pay in the form of sanctions relief and asset unfreezing.

Dozens of geopolitical analyses of the war can be read, but the best is the one by Algerian-French novelist Kamel Daoud, who places it after the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate, Bin Laden’s 9/11, and Sinwar’s October 7.

Now the grandson of Khomeini said it: “The Great Jihad begins today.”

October 7 was not a conventional war between two recognizable armies. It was a deliberate massacre of civilians. Families were exterminated in their homes. Children were murdered. Women were raped. Elderly people were kidnapped. Hundreds of hostages were dragged into the tunnels of Gaza. No state in the world would have accepted such an attack without reacting. No democratic government would have survived politically without a response.

But the West demands of Israel what it demands of no other nation: that it wage a war without war, neutralize its enemies without fighting them, eliminate an armed organization without touching the human environment in which it deliberately chose to embed itself.

The courage of the small Jewish state, which wants to annihilate the very terrorists ready for war with Zeropa, highlights the Pétainization of Europe – ready for every compromise with totalitarian and conquering Islam, even to beg for maritime passage with a diplomatic video to prove it.

I have just returned to the Venice Ghetto: five synagogues, art shops, a few kosher restaurants, a retirement home, and more police than tourists in an area no larger than two soccer fields. There was wonderful peace and serenity, broken only by a few wise men chanting.

I thought again about the fact that I will never understand the hatred the West feels for this small Jewish people who have only enriched our civilization, yet are destined to play the role of eternal scapegoat.

There is little to celebrate when the West comes out defeated.

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by J.R. Dunn 

It never ends. No sooner do we hear of the resignation of Keir Starmer, Lord DEI of the Western World (and declared enemy of AT by way of his censorship-crazed chief of staff, Maurice McSweeney), than we get the release of a video from the UK showing a group of young white girls being battered by police. That is not an exaggeration – the English bobbies, beloved for generations, are actively slugging these girls, knocking them to the pavement, and treating them the way they would a full-grown adult male criminal.

There’s not a lot of context, so it’s possible that these girls did something actionable, like looking cross-eyed at an ancient mullah or failing to genuflect when a recent immigrant (or is it “undocumented subject” or “new Englishman” – somebody help me out here) walked past. But there’s plenty we can derive from what we can see.

First, these girls are about 12 or 13, an age when nonfatiguer kids tend to be rambunctious rather than deadly. I’s unlikely they committed any first-order felonies. Second, most of them are dressed in delicate, filmy white dresses. They look like a group of woodland nymphs skipping across the fields as opposed to torn jean, fifty+ piercings street rats.

But more to the point, this incident occurred in Rotherham, one of the centers of the decades-long Muslim grooming scandal. Which means that these cops are members of the same force that turned its back, for purely DEI reasons, when girls of this same age were being brutalized and exploited by gangs of immigrant thugs. That raises the question of where they get the standing to give orders of any kind, lawful or otherwise. It seems to me that they gave up all forms of legal authority the first time they looked away when they saw a weeping girl being dragged off by Muslim thugs – and they have certainly done nothing to regain it.

In fact, I strongly suspect that’s the motivation as regards this group of girls. Which puts them firmly in the camp of the Belfast rioters, the demonstrators across the UK, and the upsurge in public feeling that drove Starmer out of office.

One thing for sure – you’d never catch any British officer treating a Pakistani or Somali the way they did these girls.

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German railway operator Deutsche Bahn is removing frozen french fries from its onboard bistro menu, forcing passengers to forgo the classic currywurst mit Pommes combination over the EU’s strict F-gas Regulation, which is phasing out the synthetic refrigerants needed to keep fries frozen on trains.

Brussels is banning certain gasses from refrigeration and freezing equipment due to their potential role in global warming.

According to a DB spokeswoman, many of the refrigerants previously used onboard can no longer be employed or can only be used under heavy restrictions because of the EU rules, the Frankfurter Allgemeine reported.

As a result, the railway is abandoning deep-freeze capacity for fries.

Instead of fries, passengers will now be offered potato wedges (Kartoffelecken) with their currywurst.

Currywurst remains one of DB’s bestsellers, with around 600,000 portions sold annually in long-distance trains.

The loss of fries has already sparked irritation among regular passengers who see the humble side dish as an essential part of the meal.

The move is a direct consequence of the revised EU F-gas Regulation (EU) 2024/573, which entered into force in March 2024.

The legislation phases down fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) with high global warming potential, imposing bans on many refrigerants used in commercial refrigeration and freezing equipment.

Self-contained refrigeration units with GWP of 150 or more face prohibitions starting in 2025.

Deutsche Bahn had already been exploring natural refrigerants such as CO₂ and propane for its fleet in anticipation of the rules, but retrofitting or replacing onboard systems for food service has proven costly and complex.

Because of the de facto ban on freezing products on board, other products, such as ice cream or ice cubes are also set to disappear from the trains.

Existing freezers are to be replaced in large part by normal refrigerators at the end of the year, according to the DB spokeswoman. This would create further capacities for cooling particularly sought-after beverages.

She also noted that the potato wedgies were selling better than the fries did.

Where demand did drop was with the vegan currywurst. There the DB decided to pull it off the menu and replace it with something more liked.

The story has triggered predictable outrage on German social media and among transport commentators, who see it as yet another example of Brussels regulation producing absurd real-world consequences for ordinary citizens.

Amsterdam has become the world’s first capital city to prohibit public advertisements for meat products, alongside fossil fuels,. https://t.co/sylWV79SpF

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Massoud S., aged 19, who was born in Afghanistan and arrived in France in November 2025, was sentenced on Monday evening by the court in Aix-en-Provence to thirty months’ imprisonment, to be served whilst he remains in pre-trial detention. He stood trial for sexual assaults and serious abuse of six animals – goats and a six-month-old lamb – at the educational farm and animal shelter ‘Un moment’ in Les Pennes-Mirabeau, near Marseille.

The offences, which were committed on several occasions between February and April, were reported after a vet had noticed signs of restraint on the legs of some of the animals, injuries to the vulva and traces of blood. After installing a CCTV camera, the owner, Cassandra Sortino, had spotted the silhouette of a man on several occasions. The accused was finally arrested in the act in early April behind a goat, wearing latex gloves and with his trousers down. His DNA was found on the animals, and his mobile phone was tracked near the farm on several occasions.

During the hearing, Massoud S., who is staying at an asylum seekers’ centre in Marseille’s 3rd arrondissement, denied the allegations. “That’s impossible,” he said. In response to the judges’ questions, he replied: “I don’t know how to explain it.” He explained that on the night of his arrest he had missed his train to Marseille: “That place was very close to the station; for me, there was nowhere else I could have spent the night.”
During the psychiatric assessment carried out whilst he was on remand, the doctor found that he did not suffer from any mental disorder and that the defendant had partially admitted to the offences. “People are making a big deal out of it, but after all, it’s just animals,” the defendant is reported to have said. He also explained that whoever had done this had certainly done so to “avoid raping a woman”, as the goat would not recognise him anyway. In court, he found it difficult to recall these statements, which the lawyers for the animal welfare organisations, acting as civil claimants, had drawn attention to. “I’m a perfectly normal person,” he said in his defence.

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First on the platform, then on the suburban train and finally at the main station: a 22-year-old man is alleged to have attacked several people in the Cologne city area on Sunday afternoon. According to the Federal Police, the series of incidents began at around 3.10 pm at the Köln-Trimbornstraße stop. There, the Syrian suspect is alleged to have struck a passenger and attempted to pull him towards the tracks. Bystanders intervened and prevented anything worse from happening. The victim suffered bruises and grazes. The man then boarded the S19 train heading towards the main station. Near the Köln Messe/Deutz stop, he is alleged to have suddenly punched two as yet unidentified passengers in the face.

The violence continued at Cologne Central Station: in a chain restaurant, the 22-year-old is alleged to have punched and kicked a 47-year-old passenger. When federal police officers arrived, he was reportedly still punching the man, who was lying on the floor.

The officers arrested the suspect. According to the police, he was under the influence of drugs and had already come to their attention on several occasions for violent offences. Following the incident, he was admitted to a psychiatric facility.

The Federal Police are now specifically seeking the two as yet unidentified victims from the suburban train, as well as further witnesses.

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Asbestos has been found in at least 1,000 wind turbines throughout the UK after components containing the banned substance were imported from China, sparking concerns about worker safety and prompting calls for a government investigation.

The Times reports that the hazardous material was discovered in brake components used in lifts and hoists within 1,000 wind turbines in the UK. The parts are believed to have originated from third-party Chinese suppliers and contain chrysotile, a form of white asbestos that has been completely prohibited in the United Kingdom since November 1999. British law makes it illegal to buy, sell, or export any materials containing this substance. The GMB trade union has formally contacted the UK government and the Health and Safety Executive requesting a comprehensive account of the cleanup operation that is currently underway.

Louise Gilmour, the secretary of GMB Scotland, expressed strong concerns about the situation. “Every one of the contracts sent abroad as operators chase the bottom line has cost our country jobs and apprenticeships. To discover we have been exporting skilled work while importing asbestos beggars belief,” Gilmour stated. “Our country banned asbestos decades ago because it was killing workers and their families, but we now pay for it to be ferried here from the other side of the world and then pay again to remove it? We deserve to be told exactly how this happened and what is being be done to prevent it happening again.”

There is no indication that the lift suppliers or wind farm operators were aware of the asbestos presence in the components at the time of installation. The discovery appears to have been made during routine inspections or maintenance activities, though the exact circumstances of how the contamination was identified have not been disclosed.

The Energy Institute, which serves as the membership body for professionals working in the energy sector, has confirmed its awareness of the issue and provided details about the current status of the contamination. According to the organization, industry reporting to date suggests that the asbestos, where present, remains confined within sealed brake housings. The institute indicated that the material is encapsulated and non-friable, meaning it is not generating airborne fibers under normal operating conditions.

The Energy Institute stated that it has been coordinating with member companies to share data with the Health and Safety Executive. The organization is also engaging with lift manufacturers and turbine original equipment manufacturers to confirm replacement components and establish safe change-out methodologies for removing the contaminated parts.

In its statement, the Energy Institute sought to reassure workers and the public about current safety levels. “At present, there is no indication of worker health risk, and no evidence of wrongdoing by turbine operators,” the organization said.

Asbestos was widely used in construction and manufacturing throughout much of the twentieth century due to its fire-resistant properties and durability. However, exposure to asbestos fibers has been linked to serious health conditions including mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis. The UK began restricting certain types of asbestos in the 1980s, with chrysotile being the last form to be banned in 1999.

The discovery of asbestos in wind turbine components highlights ongoing concerns about the importation of materials from countries with different regulatory standards. While China has restricted some uses of asbestos, it has not implemented the comprehensive bans that exist in the UK and many other Western nations.

The cleanup operation now underway will involve carefully removing and replacing the contaminated brake components while taking precautions to prevent exposure to asbestos fibers. Such operations typically require specialized contractors trained in asbestos handling and disposal, adding to the cost and complexity of addressing the problem.

Read more at the Times here.

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A former Spanish cabinet minister once regarded as Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s closest political ally has been sentenced to 24 years in prison in a landmark corruption case that has plunged the government into fresh turmoil.

Spain’s Supreme Court on Monday convicted former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos and his longtime adviser Koldo García over a scheme involving public contracts awarded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ábalos was sentenced to 24 years in prison, while García received a 19-year sentence.

The ruling marks the first corruption case involving a former Sánchez minister to reach a final, non-appealable verdict and is likely to intensify pressure on the Socialist prime minister, who is already facing a series of investigations involving figures in his political orbit.

The case centres on contracts for masks and other medical supplies awarded during the pandemic. Judges found that Ábalos, who also served as secretary of the ruling Socialist Party (PSOE), used his position to favour businessman Víctor de Aldama and companies linked to him.

In return, according to the court, Ábalos received a series of benefits, including accommodation for a former partner, access to properties, and other personal advantages. The judges also found that associates of the former minister were given positions in state-owned companies.

Aldama was also convicted but avoided prison despite receiving a four-and-a-half-year sentence. The court substantially reduced his punishment after concluding that his cooperation had helped expose the wider corruption network. Instead of jail, he will be subject to supervision, community service, and other conditions.

The Supreme Court delivered an unusually severe assessment of the affair, warning that corruption at the highest levels of government damages democratic institutions and undermines public trust. Judges stressed that the offences were committed by a serving minister who held one of the most influential positions in both government and the ruling party.

The verdict immediately sparked calls for Sánchez to step down.

Opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo demanded the prime minister’s resignation and called for fresh elections, arguing that Sánchez bears political responsibility for the actions of one of his most trusted former lieutenants.

“Neither Pedro Sánchez would have been possible without Ábalos nor Ábalos without Pedro Sánchez,” Feijóo said, accusing the prime minister of turning a blind eye to conduct that was allegedly well known within political circles.

VOX reacted even more forcefully, arguing that the convictions demonstrated that Sánchez’s government had become politically untenable.

Speaking shortly after the ruling, VOX spokesman José Antonio Fúster demanded Sánchez’s resignation and renewed calls for the People’s Party (PP) to table a motion of no confidence.

“What more has to happen?” Fúster asked, arguing that the conviction of a former minister for crimes committed while in office left no justification for Sánchez remaining in power. He urged Feijóo to stop discussing future coalition arrangements and focus instead on forcing an election.

VOX accused Sánchez of being the political link connecting the growing number of corruption scandals surrounding the PSOE and the prime minister’s wider circle. Fúster described the current administration as a “criminal mafia” and insisted that Spain should return to the polls as soon as possible.

According to Spanish media, Ábalos becomes only the fifth government minister since Spain’s return to democracy to receive a prison sentence—and the 24-year term is the longest imposed on any former minister.

Although Sánchez’ government has argued that Ábalos was expelled from the PSOE once the allegations became public, the conviction is expected to deepen the political crisis facing the prime minister and fuel opposition claims that corruption reached the highest levels of his administration.

For Sánchez, the most damaging aspect of the verdict may be that the first corruption case involving one of his former ministers to reach a final verdict concerns the man who for years served as his closest political lieutenant and one of the most powerful figures in Spanish politics.

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CONTENT NOTICE: This article contains disturbing details regarding the sexual abuse and sexualization of very young children. Reader discretion is appreciated.

A male politician credited as being the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for child sexual exploitation. Stacie Marie Laughton, born Barry Charles Laughton Jr., requested and received child sexual abuse material from a former romantic partner who worked at a Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, daycare.

Laughton was first charged in 2023 after the police department in Nashua, New Hampshire, received a report that he had sent child sexual abuse images to another individual. Disturbed, that individual brought the images to police, who confirmed that Laughton had sent four images depicting the genitals of extremely young children to this individual via text. NPD then interviewed Laughton, who admitted to receiving child sexual abuse images from his former partner, Lindsay Groves, who was an employee at the Creative Minds Early Learning Center in nearby Tyngsborough, Massachusetts.

Speaking with police, Groves admitted to taking the images, and stated that Laughton had asked her to do so after expressing a sexual interest in children.

According to court records, police obtained a search warrant for both of the suspect’s devices, and found they had exchanged over 10,000 messages that included explicit discussions of the sexual abuse of children.

Groves began to take exploitative images of the children at her workplace and sent them to Laughton for his sexual gratification. The images include photos of boys and girls as young as 3 years of age being told to expose their genitals for the camera, and were taken during bathroom breaks or routine diaper changes before the children took naps.

On June 13, 2023, just days before their arrest, Groves sent Laughton a photo of a three-year-old boy with his genitals exposed and a second photo of a three-year-old girl with her genitals exposed. 

Groves said, “I took these for you today so I’m horny.” 

Laughton responded, “I like that I would like to see more of the pussy but I like that it[’s] fucking hot,” and asked, “Is that one of the girls we get to play with[?]”

Groves boasted neither of the child victims “gave her an issue.” 

The first openly transgender US representative is now facing charges of child sexual exploitation after receiving disturbing pornographic photos of toddlers.

Stacie Marie Laughton described in detail how he wanted to sexually abuse a 3-year-old girl.https://t.co/CAwermOMqr

— REDUXX (@reduxx) July 20, 2023

Laughton continued: “That girl looks sweet … Do you think she would like sucking me and me rubbing my dick on her?” To which Groves responded, “Yeah.”

Laughton added, “It’s just a bummer she wont let me put my dick inside of her,” and Groves answered, “She’s not even 3 yet.”

The next morning, Laughton wrote to Groves in a lengthy, nervous message: “And I’m sorry I talk so much but the other thing I think about is do you think God is OK with us being bad girls[?]”

He continued, “…[some people] say having sex with kids is a bad thing and God never addresses sex with children in the Bible and God never really condemns say different sexual lifestyles but what do you think? Do you think we still have a place in heaven? Do you think God would still be OK with me being a minister[?]”

As previously revealed by Reduxx, Laughton became an ordained Minister and delivered his first sermon on YouTube earlier this year. According to GetOrdained, Laughton affiliated himself with Buddhism, Methodism, New Age, Oneness Pentecostalism, Pentecostalism, Protestantism, Rastafarianism, Spiritualism, Tibetan Buddhism, Unitarian Universalism, and the Universal Life Church.

Laughton and Groves were ultimately charged with federal child sex offenses as their crimes crossed the border between two states – New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

In the 2023 press release from the US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts on his charges, Laughton was described as a “woman.” He was also referred to by feminine pronouns throughout the course of the trial.

Laughton was formerly a Democratic representative in New Hampshire, first elected to the legislature in 2012. He became known as the first openly transgender individual to hold public office in the United States, but withdrew before taking the role when it was revealed that he had served four months in prison in 2008 on a felony conviction for identity and credit card fraud and falsifying physical evidence. 

A special election was scheduled a few weeks later, and Laughton signed up to run again. But officials barred him from holding public office as, according to state law, he had not completed his sentence.

After the sentence related to the 2008 conviction was exhausted, Laughton was allowed to run for office again in 2019. He was elected selectman in 2011, 2019, and 2021. He was also elected state representative in 2020. 

Laughton pleaded guilty to three counts of Sexual Exploitation of Children in November of 2025.

Earlier this week, Laughton’s defense submitted a memorandum requesting he be sentenced to just over 17 years in prison for his crimes. The memorandum describes Laughton as a “complex 42-year-old woman” and refers to him as an “ordained minister who championed civil rights including transgender rights and stood for increased minimum wage and mental health care for college students.”

The memorandum appears to place most, if not all, of the blame for the child sex offenses on Groves, and argues that Laughton should not receive a higher sentence than Groves. It also uses Laughton’s gender identity, mental health challenges, and learning impairments as mitigating factors.

Laughton’s defense includes an assessment by Dr. Joseph Plaud, a clinical forensic psychologist, who reportedly confirmed that he was developmentally disabled. References to a 1999 psychological report were also included, in which the assessing doctor had determined that Laughton’s intelligence quotient was trending downwards towards retardation.

While the defense’s sentencing memorandum painted Laughton out to be a victim and attempted to place the majority of the blame on Groves, the prosecution strongly disagreed and noted that Laughton had admitted to “coaxing” Groves into committing the crimes.

“[Laughton] talked extensively throughout their messages about potential or fantasized sexual contact with kids … As demonstrated in the text communications, the defendant’s voice was, to put it mildly, the more prominent one in the ongoing conversation regarding the sexual exploitation of the victims in this case,” the prosecution detailed in its sentencing memorandum, going on to use feminine pronouns for Laughton.

“To be clear: Groves was an active participant and is not a victim. She knew what she was doing was wrong and that, at minimum, her career would be in jeopardy if they were found out. But the defendant’s borderline obsessive focus on sex throughout the weeks of communications that she deleted from her phone demonstrate that she was, in large part, the driver of this conduct.”

The prosecution sought 40 years imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.

On June 16, Laughton was sentenced to 33 years in prison, eclipsing Groves’ sentence of nearly 22 years.

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A Tunisian man who was already sentenced for the brutal beating of an elderly pensioner in Varese, Italy, is now facing fresh charges after it emerged that he allegedly raped a woman twice just hours before the attack.

The 44-year-old, who has already been definitively sentenced to ten years and six months in prison for attempted murder of the elderly man, is accused of further acts during a night of violence dating back to Dec. 30, 2023.

According to prosecutors, the Tunisian attacked the 67-year-old pensioner on Corso Moro, who was left bleeding on the ground in the center of Varese. A street cleaner who witnessed the assault came to the elderly man’s aid, recalling: “I saw a man kick a grandpa who was already on the ground.”

The court determined the brutal beating was delivered without warning and was unprovoked. The elderly man was hospitalized with severe injuries. Using surveillance footage and traces of blood found on the attacker’s shoes, police were able to identify and arrest him, according to Il Giorno.

However, authorities are now pursuing charges related to a complaint filed by a female victim, who said she had met the man shortly beforehand at a bar and they went to her home together. She alleges that he then forced her into two sexual encounters over the course of the same night. The accused denies the allegations, which will now be weighed by the Tribunal.

The woman has joined the case as a civil party.

However, these are not the only cases where the 44-year-old Tunisian has been convicted. In recent days, the man was convicted in another case for resisting a public official over an earlier incident on Via Veratti, where he allegedly made serious threats against one of the officers involved in his deportation proceedings.

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by James Zumwalt 

A “learning curve” is the concept correlating proficiency with experience to sharpen one’s skills. Historically, the Brits have demonstrated a good grasp of this, although a recent independent study indicates a dangerous lapse exists today.

Prior to the American Revolution, the learning curve served British General Edward Braddock well. Fighting the French and Indian War (1754–1763), he led a force of 2,000 troops through Pennsylvania on a mission to capture a French fort in Duquesne. Having only trained on European battlefields where tactics involved tight formations confronting each other, Braddock approached the fort, marching his men in such a manner. But the French, advised by their Indian allies to implement an ambush—contrary to normal European fighting tactics—successfully forced his retreat. Braddock quickly learned he had to adopt similar guerrilla tactics.

As Braddock realized, speed in recognizing a problem and adopting a solution is a learning curve factor to maximize survival. Yet for decades now, as Britain has opened its doors to Muslim immigrants, a plague has spread across the country, taking a toll among its young white female community, while the learning curve went unheeded for the most damning reason.

Literally, tens of thousands of girls—some as young as eleven—were brutalized, abused, and even murdered by Muslim rape gangs, mostly from Pakistan. Allegedly, the UK government intentionally suppressed these cases and even helped criminals in some instances due to fear—not fear of retribution but, unbelievably, fear of being called racist!

It is said that “every day is a learning experience,” thus empowering one to enjoy continuous improvement, resilience, and fulfillment in life. However, when a government chooses to base its learning curve on what it wants rather than the reality of what is, it tragically allows victimization of members of society least able to defend themselves.

“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.” But, as the study below reveals, for years now, the British government lacked any willingness to learn what has been brutally afflicting its young female population. Absence of such willingness stems from a UK leftist fascination with society promoting a welcoming tolerance towards immigrants, even when the immigrants respond with intolerance. Accordingly, what we are witnessing in Britain is a focus demonstrating intolerance of Islamophobia and outrageous tolerance of Islamophilia.

Islamophobia is a word often heard in Western societies to condemn critics of Islam. It suggests adherents harbor “a dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.” As an “anti-Muslim or anti-Islamic sentiment, [it] is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or hatred of the religion of Islam or Muslims in general.”

Islamophilia, on the other hand, is a newly coined word used by “some politicians, sociologists and journalists to describe an unwavering and uncritical admiration of Islam.” The absolute opposite of Islamophobia, it reflects an admiration for Islamic civilization.

Indian-born British writer Kenan Malik suggests the problem in Britain today is, “Whatever Islamophobia may exist [in the UK] is matched by what can only be called institutionalised Islamophilia.”

However, reading reports emerging from Britain, one gets the impression no equivalency exists between the two ideologies. Publicist Koenraad Elst claims, “Islamophilia runs amok.” He adds that Muslim suicide terrorist bombings in the country, such as those on July 7, 2005 that claimed 55 lives, “seem to have reinforced the taboo on criticism of Islam.”

Examples of adverse law enforcement behavior influenced by fear of racist labelling include the following:

• On December 3, 2025, British student Henry Nowak, 18, was walking home in Southampton when he encountered Vickrum Singh Digwa, 23. It resulted in the latter stabbing the former. When police arrived and a dying Nowak struggled to talk, they placed him in handcuffs because Digwa claimed Nowak had assaulted him, made racist comments about his Sikh faith and, contrary to what should have been obvious, Nowak had not been stabbed. Police refused to believe a bleeding Nowak was wounded—with the five stab wounds he received and lack of immediate medical attention ultimately taking the teenager’s life.
• Citizens have been arrested for simply saying, “We love bacon” in protest against Muslim immigrants. Meanwhile, while mere words get non-Muslims arrested, a Nigerian who raped a teenager was let off for having a “troubled background.”
• The Islamophilia mindset embraced by police towards Nowak triggered a petition, signed by over 11,000 Brits, condemning the two-tier policing system in the country.
• It was outrageously revealed that, during their training sessions, police officers are required to chant “Islam is a religion of peace.”

Rupert Lowe is a member of Parliament who released a citizen-funded research study titled “The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.” Almost 200-pages long, it was published following a 16-month inquiry into the country’s “grooming” gangs. It alleges numerous institutional failures by police, local councils, social services, health services, courts, and the media as being responsible for the victimization of these minor females. He calls this scandal “one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country.”

While not yet fully verified, an audit and the re-opening of files by the British government seem to confirm the study’s findings. The only dispute so far appears to be the alleged number of victims impacted (reported to be 250,000). Nonetheless, charges concerning the underlying institutional failures are proving to have merit. The study’s executive summary indicates what occurred was the “systematic targeting of vulnerable girls, overwhelmingly White British, by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs.”

The study may already have claimed its first victim as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the liberal Labour Party—who has been feeding the Islamophilia alligator—just announced he will resign shortly. 

During the 1992 presidential election, the political catchphrase “It’s the economy, stupid” evolved to simply explain what was the primary concern of American voters. The time has come to provide UK voters with a similar catchphrase. Contrary to the British government’s naive belief the primary concern is Islamophobia, “It’s islamophilia, stupid!”

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