Allah's Willing Executioners

by Silvio Canto, Jr.

The so-called students are busy in Spain. What started over “school supplies” in Paris has now gone continental — Europe, that is. Over the weekend, we saw Paris in Barcelona — radical demonstrations, that is. Let’s check out the latest from Spain:

Riots and looting spread to Barcelona, Spain, on Saturday evening as local youths sought to imitate the unrest seen in France and other European nations in recent weeks, apparently motivated by little more than a desire to cause destruction and loot stores.

Hundreds of mostly young, hooded teenagers dressed in black descended upon the city centre of Barcelona on Saturday afternoon, destroying street furniture, clashing with police, and looting shops, the local Vanguardia newspaper reported.

Hooded teenagers dressed in black clashing with police? That’s sweet.

My first question, who is paying for this? Who is feeding them? Who bought the face masks and so on? It’s clear to me that someone is paying for all of this. 

Another issue driving these protests in Spain could be youth unemployment, one of the unintended consequences of misguided labor policies. This is huge:

Spain’s youth unemployment rate is 22.7% as of August 2026, from official Eurostat data. It fell from 22.8% the previous month. Over the period shown it has ranged from 22.7% to 43.3%. That is 7.7 percentage points above the euro-area average of 15.0% — the 3rd of 21 member states that report it.

I’m not saying that they are throwing bricks at store windows because they’re uinemployed. At the same time, one cannot deny that such high unemployment is going to make a lot of people miserable. They may listen to the socialists lie about capitalism if the economy is not employing them.

Another weekend in Europe, and I don’t mean touring historic sites.

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Germany’s governing coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD), increasingly desperate to cling to power as the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) continues to hammer them in the polls, is turning ever more totalitarian.

For a start, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has made it clear that he wants to end anonymity on the internet.

“I want to see real names on the internet. I want to know who is speaking,” Merz said back in February. “In politics, we engage in debates in our society using our real names and without visors.”

In other words, Merz wants the government, and the big tech companies, to know exactly who is behind every single comment, tweet, and meme on the internet.

Internet anonymity makes it harder to arrest people for inconvenient speech — “hate speech” and “insults” — and Germany’s police have been raiding the homes of such internet participants for years. Merz himself has filed hundreds of criminal complaints against ordinary German citizens perceived to have insulted him online, including against a 71-year-old pensioner who committed the unconscionable crime of calling him “Pinocchio” on Facebook, and others who called him “Lügenfritz” (“Lying Fritz”) and “Lackaffe” (a poseur or slick monkey).

Insulting a politician is considered an especially monstrous crime in Germany – it carries a sentence of up to three years in prison or a fine. German police have entire specific departments, whose task it is to comb through the internet to detect people who dare to insult the Great German Leader or engage in other incommodious speech.

It appears that the end of internet anonymity in Germany may be fast approaching. On October 14, the government officially approved a policy framework establishing a roadmap to block children under 13 from major social media networks. This ban, however, would most likely to make it impossible for anyone to access social media without first identifying themselves. The most logical outcome will be identification taking place by means of a “Digital ID,” which the European Union has demanded that every member country implement by the end of 2026.

The desire to see an end to internet anonymity is rife among European governments. The European Commission itself is currently working on a bill, known as the EU KIDS Act, that will ban social media for teenagers under a certain age, “to restrict social media platforms’ access to children in the EU.” Paired with the Digital ID, it is the easiest road to end anonymity on the internet. It may not happen immediately, but the EU train is barreling towards that goal.

Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the totalitarian strain has become just as strong, if not worse. The government has been making examples of citizens who protest the mass migration, which has been continuing across the UK’s open borders. Most recently, Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tommo, was arrested for criminal damage after he slashed an inflatable dinghy at sea, the kind of boat in which illegal migrants arrive. The government did not simply arrest him, but locked him in prison and refused to release him bail until his trial 17 months from now — in March 2027.

By contrast, the men who were arrested on September 27 for what is believed to have been an Iranian-orchestrated attempted attack on England’s RAF Fairford air base, used by U.S. warplanes to carry out strikes on Iran, were all released on bail the next day. Then again, the UK government has released more than 70,000 criminals early since 2024 under the Labour government’s plan to “combat jail overcrowding.” So far, since their release, a third of those released have committed new crimes. One man sexually assaulted a woman the day he was freed. Some of the victims of the criminals released early have fled the country.

“The early release scheme is necessary because without it prisons would get so full that police would not be able to make arrests” stated Jake Richards, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for sentencing. “Without intervention we risk running out of prison places, leaving courts unable to sentence offenders and police unable to make arrests.”

The room they are eager to make in prisons seems to be for ordinary citizens fed up with how their country is run and had the gall to state it. That is how it works in totalitarian systems. Criminals are freed so that dissidents can take their places. In addition to Tommo, a man was recently arrested who protested against the arrival of a large dinghy carrying illegal immigrants by throwing a small empty plastic bottle into the air at a police line and then shouted “f–k off” at them. For this outrage he was arrested; his case was processed through the justice system at record speed, and he was sentenced to an unconditional two years in prison.

“Throwing a plastic bottle is simply about inflaming the actions of others. He lobbed it in that general direction. He is chucking something,” the judge ruled.

“It is important to distinguish the right to peaceful protests and offences when people cease to protest peacefully. Many of those were wearing face coverings adding to the air of intimidation. The community impact of that night’s violence has been profound…. this offence is so serious that the only punishment can be immediate imprisonment.”

You don’t say.

Over three years of pro-Hamas protests inciting violence in the form of calling for a “global intifada” and “intifada revolution is the only solution” on the streets of Britain, not a single protester even came close to that kind of sentencing, even though Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organization in the UK. Protesters who wore the Hamas paraglider symbol or the Hamas headband were convicted of terrorism offenses but discharged by friendly judges and never served any time in prison.

Judge Tan Ikram told the three women who used the paraglider symbols:

“You crossed the line, but it would have been fair to say that emotions ran very high on this issue. Your lesson has been well learned. I do not find you were seeking to show any support for Hamas.”

It is evidently all right to be carried away by emotion in favor of Hamas’ mass slaughter, dismemberment and rape of Jews. The judge even seems to be saying that their view is understandable, not a sign of support for terror. When it comes to trying to protect your family from predatory third-world illegal male migrants arriving by the thousands on the shores of your country, that is not all right.

“The offence here was Mr Hajsaad wearing a bandana at a demonstration,” Judge Nina Tempia ruled in a Hamas headband case.

“In respect to harm, I agree with the prosecution that there was harm as the conduct linked to support of a proscribed organization. The offence was committed after (the October 7 attacks). Not days or weeks later, but seven weeks later. I would not classify the harm as serious.” The terrorist supporter was spared both prison and fines “on account of his ‘extremely limited budget’ of £49 per week used for food and travel.”

This seems to be how the UK “justice” system works. If you support Hamas, a terrorist organization, it is considered either not really support at all, or not to cause “serious harm.” Instead, protesting illegal immigration must immediately be punished with unconditional prison sentences. If this is not an example of the state emboldening terrorism, it would be hard to say what is.

When ordinary citizens are imprisoned for standing up for the safety of their families and their country, while terrorist supporters are coddled, you know that your country is being ruled by what the late Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski, in his book Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism, labeled them: “psychopaths.”

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An Iraqi migrant has won an asylum appeal after a judge accepted he had faced “death threats” after his affair with another man’s wife was exposed.

The man, known only as HI and aged in his twenties, escaped a confrontation with the husband after his lover was shot.

Home Office officials had challenged HI’s story as inconsistent and implausible, but Judge C R Cole found that sending the migrant back to Iraq would put him “at risk of serious harm” from the woman’s husband and family.

The husband was said to be a “well-connected and powerful” man within the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

HI arrived in the UK in November 2021 and his asylum and human rights claims were rejected in August 2024.

The First-tier Tribunal for the appeal in Manchester heard that HI’s relationship with the woman began “before she was married”.

Her father then arranged for her to marry another man, but the affair continued, with the pair meeting at her home before they were discovered by her husband.

Describing HI’s account of the confrontation, Judge Cole said: “He gave significant detail about exactly who was where, what lights were on, how the husband reacted and then how he was able to escape, but unfortunately his partner was shot.

“This was a surprising and emotion-filled event that was understandably chaotic and frightening. In my judgment the appellant’s account is plausible.

“I find that it is an account that, when considering all the circumstances, is sufficiently detailed and consistent to be accepted.”

HI fled to a friend’s house and later learnt that death threats had been made against him at his family home, according to the account accepted by the tribunal.

HI had also travelled through France without claiming asylum, which Judge Cole said he “did have an opportunity” to claim asylum there.

He told the Tribunal: “His account for not claiming asylum in France is not objectively reasonable. The appellant did have the opportunity to claim asylum in a safe country.”

However, he concluded that this factor only undermined HI’s credibility “to a limited extent” and still accepted that what happened in Iraq was likely to be true.

The Judge said said: “I find that it is reasonably likely that the appellant will be subjected to serious harm on return to Iraq from his partner’s husband and family due to the appellant’s relationship with her.”

The Home Office accepted that, if HI’s account was believed, he would not have sufficient protection in Iraq and could not safely move elsewhere in the country.

HI also succeeded on a separate ground after the judge accepted that he risked persecution for his political opposition to the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Home Office suggested that his activism was an attempt to “bolster a weak asylum claim”, but Judge Cole accepted his beliefs as “genuine”.

Instead, he found that HI would face “serious harm” if he expressed his political views in Iraqi Kurdistan in the same way as he had in the UK.

His appeal was allowed on asylum and human rights grounds in a decision signed on October 24, following a hearing on October 20.

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Conservative leader Flávio Bolsonaro has been summoned by the Federal Police to hand over his passport within 24 hours.

The order was issued by the wicked Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

Moraes argues that there is a risk that Flavio Bolsonaro could flee abroad to avoid prosecution.

Lula and Moraes want to jail Flavio with his father Jair Bolsonaro – There crime was daring to oppose them in an election and forcing the communists to make an obvious steal.

This is sickening! It took less than 24 hours following the very controversial election that allowed Lula to keep polling stations open late.

Conservative Flavio Bolsonaro called for Sunday’s presidential results to be annulled in Brazil.

This comes after socialist tyrant Lula da Silva callled his personal attorney and Brazilian Justice Christiano Zanin to hold the polls open for two extra hours. Lula arrested the former pro-American leader Jair Bolsonaro following the previous election and is still persecuting the man – like a typical communist.

Flavio Bolsonaro was predicted to win on EVERY single polling aggregator in the country.

Flavio Bolsonaro spoke out after the results were called. He called the results INVALID and stated Lula stole the election from him.

So now, the communist henchman Alexandre Moraes wants to jail him.

Via Mario Nawfal.

🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro WAS ORDERED to surrender his passport a day after losing to Lula

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued the order, delivered by police as Flávio left his father’s home.

The judge cited fears he might flee, partly based on a comment by his brother…

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 26, 2026

Steve Bannon was right! The US must cut off diplomatic relations with the Communist Brazilian government.

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Over 30,000 Spaniards peacefully gathered in Madrid on Sunday to demand solutions for Ceuta as the North African exclave nears the third month anniversary of the ongoing mass illegal migrant invasion of its territory.

Sunday’s peaceful demonstration at the Spanish capital city was organized by Mujeres Caballas, a female civil organization that arose in the aftermath of the late July migrant invasion of Ceuta. The group reportedly identifies itself as an apolitical, multi-religious organization of women united in the defense and future of their city.

According to Spanish outlets, Mujeres Caballas started as an initiative from women who immediately began to suffer the consequences of the invasion in their lives and that of their families and communities. Many of the female group’s members are mothers of young children, healthcare professionals, teachers, and security officials.

The demonstrators once again called upon the government of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to finally enact urgent measures that can restore normalcy for the ailing city, whose inhabitants continue to experience a severe deterioration of their livelihood after tens of thousands of illegal migrants swarmed into the exclave.

The head of Ceuta’s local government, Juan Jesús Vivas, accompanied the Madrid demonstration.

Vivas, who has repeatedly denounced the situation in Ceuta over the past months, reiterated to reporters that the situation at the invaded city is far from normal and “absolutely unsustainable” three months later — emphasizing that the city’s residents feel legitimately “indignant” with the actions of the Sánchez administration, or lack thereof.

Vivas stressed that his office estimates that there are still about 15,000 illegal migrants that remain inside Ceuta following the late July invasion, an amount equal to 20 percent of the exclave’s current population.

He detailed that the continued presence of the invading migrants has led to a 60 percent increase in crime, and a staggering 400-percent increase in medical emergencies across Ceuta healthcare facilities. Additionally, the invasion’s lingering consequences caused a five percent GDP drop in the city’s economy over the past three months, Vivas’ office found.

The official accused the Spanish central government of not having carried out a single deportation of an invading migrant through administrative channels. Per, Vivas Pedro Sánchez “could have used all available means and resources to restore normalcy to Ceuta immediately, but he did not.”

“Ceuta is not for sale, Ceuta is defended,” Vivas exclaimed, calling for a similar situation to never happen again.

“Together and united, we will move forward,” he added.

#Canal24Horas | En Madrid, en unos minutos comienza la manifestación convocada por Mujeres Caballas

A esta hora, comparece ante los medios el presidente de Ceuta, Juan Jesús VIvas pic.twitter.com/1kcTgBVjbt

— RTVE Noticias (@rtvenoticias) October 25, 2026

Per the public broadcaster RTVE, Maxi Lacasa, a Ceuta resident and police officer that travelled to Madrid to organize Sunday’s rally, denounced that that there are only “two civil guards” currently guarding Ceuta’s borders with Morocco. She warned that the city has not seen a single solution from the Spanish government over the past three months.

“Ceuta needs the immediate return of migrants and a strengthening of its borders with more human, material, and technological resources,” she said.

El Pueblo de Ceuta observed that the rally’s organizers read a manifesto containing nine critical demands urging the Spanish government to address the situation in Ceuta — including the reinforcement of the exclave’s borders; greater responsibility from Spain and the European Union in the protection of the city; an urgent Royal Decree that expedites the deportation or voluntary departure of the remaining invading migrants; reforms to the Spanish migration laws; and the urgent restoration of security and normalcy so that Ceuta’s residents can finally return to their normal lives and safely make use of the exclave’s public areas, among others.

The organizers gave a 30-day deadline to the Spanish government to “start seeing solutions.”

In addition to Sunday’s mainland rally in Madrid, local Ceuta residents staged an equally peaceful demonstration at the exclave right in front the headquarters of the central government’s delegation, expressing the same demands for solutions that can finally bring an end to the ongoing invasion of their city.

Per El Faro de Ceuta, several of the protests’ participants affirmed that they believe the central government could have already solved the crisis if it had the “willingness” to do so.

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Swedish residential landlord Heimstaden Bostad has frozen new capital allocations to Germany, with co-chief executive Christian Fladeland declaring the country “uninvestable” if Berlin’s prospective left-wing coalition advances plans to seize large private housing portfolios.

The group holds roughly 20,000 flats in the capital valued at about €5 billion, around 15 per cent of its portfolio, and estimates that nearly half could fall under the proposed scheme, potentially exposing it to a €1 billion hit if compensation is set well below market value.

The plan, agreed in exploratory talks between Die Linke, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens after Die Linke’s victory in the Berlin election on September 20, would force private owners with more than 10,000 flats in the city to transfer surplus units into public ownership.

Die Linke took 25.7 per cent of the vote, ahead of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on 18.8 per cent. The three parties set out their housing agreement on October 18.

Total compensation would be capped at €16 billion, an average of about €100,000 per flat, far below book values for major landlords. Die Linke lead candidate Elif Eralp has said the measure would cover about 160,000 flats held by Vonovia, Adler, Heimstaden, Covivio and the DVI group.

Legislation is targeted for mid-2028, with the law due to take effect in mid-2029 at the earliest. The 2021 referendum that set the process in motion had sought a threshold of 3,000 flats.

Fladeland warned in an interview with Bloomberg that the uncertainty is already steering capital elsewhere and said he could “not find a worse way of actually discouraging any capital to come into the city” to address its housing shortage.

He said he thought there was a “very, very low likelihood” that the expropriations will ultimately actually be implemented, as it would fail in court, though noted that the talks alone were doing a lot of damage.

Fladeland said he hoped the federal government would step in to block further plans on expropriation.

Regarding Berlin’s housing crisis, the Heimstaden co-chief executive said that the German capital has been too slow to provide space for new housing and should attract more private capital to increase supply instead.

Europe’s largest landlord, Vonovia, has similarly paused new residential projects in Berlin, citing lack of investment certainty, while shares across the sector have come under pressure. Heimstaden’s hybrid bond has slipped from about 98 cents in August to 82.5 cents.

Vonovia chief executive Luka Mucic said the proposed plans were unconstitutional.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s federal government has moved to counter the regional push, with interior minister Alexander Dobrindt preparing an investment protection act (Investitionsschutzgesetz) to raise hurdles on such nationalisations, requiring states to exhaust other options, pay market value in cash and face constitutional scrutiny.

Merz has stressed that property rights and market confidence must not be experimented with, telling an investment summit in Berlin on October 20 that both were the foundation of the country’s market economy.

Critics, including the banking sector, argue the mere debate already damages Germany’s reputation as an investment location and will worsen the very housing shortage the expropriation is meant to solve. The Association of German Pfandbrief Banks has warned that writing off mortgage charges would push up the cost of property credit.

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Italy’s Catholic bishops are promoting a new Islamic education program that describes the Koran as the “revealed Word of God,” while Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has said Catholic religion classes should be treated as a “laboratory of culture and dialogue.”

On October 21, Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), presented the new educational initiative, “Factsheets for Understanding Islam,” at an event in the Palazzo Borromeo – the seat of the Italian Embassy to the Holy See in Rome. Promoted jointly by the CEI, the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, and the Italian diplomatic mission, the program is designed for teachers of Catholic religion classes in state schools.

Reflecting on his years as a religion teacher, Zuppi stated: “The only thing that was clear was that there was no need to teach catechism.” For this reason, according to him, Catholic religious education classes in schools should be conceived as a mere “laboratory of culture and dialogue.”

“The eleven sheets go beyond the usual clichés. They begin with ‘What Is Islam?’ and ‘A Brief History of Islam,’ then go on to address faith and theology [and] the Qur’an as the revealed Word of God,” Vatican News reported.

Created by a joint team of Catholic and Muslim experts who negotiated over differences to produce a single, mutually agreed text, the 11-module curriculum presents Islamic doctrine, including describing the Koran as the “revealed word of God,” under the pretext of eradicating “ignorance” and fostering social cohesion.

“I would send everyone to school, because there is remarkable ignorance [about Islam]…. The sheets represent the exact opposite of the clash of civilizations,” Zuppi added. He also praised the joint Catholic-Muslim text as a great “antidote to violence and ignorance,” while warning that news headlines critical of Islamic proliferation are “dangerous with islamophobia.”

The curriculum consists of 11 modules covering topics including “What is Islam?” “A Brief History of Islam,” Islamic theology, “following the example of the Prophet,” the Islamic concept of worship (‘ibāda), the Islamic concept of religious community (Ummah), Islamic spirituality, and interreligious dialogue.

Prominent Islamic organizations collaborated in drafting and reviewing the materials, including the Union of Islamic Communities and Organizations in Italy (UCOII), the Italian Islamic Religious Community, the Italian Islamic Confederation, and the Tevere Institute. During the presentation at Palazzo Borromeo, UCOII President Yassine Baradai cited his own experiences in his youth at a Catholic parish center as a “sign of openness which allowed him to better understand himself” as Muslim.

Father Alberto Gastaldi, director of the CEI National Office for Education, School, and University, defended the initiative by describing interreligious dialogue as “the very hallmark of Catholic educational commitment” and hailing the classroom as “the first true laboratory of dialogue.”

“In a school classroom, learning about Islam through reliable and respectful resources does not mean abandoning one’s own identity. Rather, it means practicing that integral humanism which knows how to make room for the other.… Interreligious dialogue is not an occasional concession,” Gastaldi declared.

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A male Camas High School runner who finished 76th in a boys’ junior varsity race in September has taken second place in a girls’ district cross-country championship. Logan Mihailoff finished ahead of two female athletes who previously protested competing against him.

Mihailoff placed second at the October 21 Class 4A Greater St. Helens League district cross-country championships in Camas, Washington, narrowly behind first-place finisher Sophia Rogers. Skyview High School runners Charlie Garrett and Sierra Retzlaff finished third and fifth, respectively. The two girls would have placed second and fourth had Mihailoff not competed in the girls’ field.

The result marks the latest development in a dispute that has increasingly divided athletes, families, and school communities over whether males should be permitted to compete in girls’ sporting categories. For Garrett and Retzlaff, Wednesday’s finish was particularly significant: the two girls had previously walked away from the starting line during an earlier meet to protest competing against the male athlete.

Garrett and Retzlaff had made their objections public by painting messages supporting women’s sports on their arms and legs before walking off the starting line at a September meet. “We did it because we didn’t want to act like we were OK with what was happening,” Retzlaff said at the time. At the October 21 championship, however, both competed, and finished one place lower than they otherwise would have due to Mihailoff’s participation.

One girl, Elise Bierer of Battle Ground High School, was recorded walking off the starting line in protest of Mihailoff’s presence. According to OutKick, the young girl broke down in tears after forfeiting her championship hopes.

The lone girls who walked off the field yesterday!

“Elise Bierer, a Battle Ground High School runner, walked off the starting line alone at a district cross-country championship Wednesday rather than compete against a boy, sacrificing her opportunity” video by @thehoffather…

— Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology (@KnownHeretic) October 22, 2026

But Mihailoff’s athletic success is incredibly recent and followed his decision to “identify” as a girl.

According to The Post Millennial, Mihailoff was still competing against boys in early September, and finished 76th in the Ultimook boy’s junior varsity race. Later on that same month, after beginning to identify as a girl, Mihailoff placed second among 195 runners in the girls’ junior/senior junior varsity race at the Nike Portland XC Invitational. Three days after that, Mihailoff came in first place in a girls’ varsity race against Union High School, finishing ahead of 45 female competitors.

At the October 10 Nike Hole in the Wall Invitational in Arlington, Mihailoff placed 39th among 135 runners in the girls’ elite 5K, recording a time of 18:36.8. The Post Millennial reported that the same time would have placed him last among the 159 competitors in the boys’ race.

Women’s rights advocates argue that these results should raise questions about competitive fairness and the opportunities available to female athletes, particularly when race placements determine qualification for subsequent competitions. Wednesday’s championship has brought those concerns into sharper focus, with the placements of individual runners illustrating the immediate competitive consequences at stake.

Mihailoff’s silver championship placement comes after nearly half of Camas High School’s own girls’ cross-country team walked off the starting line during an October 13 meet against Battle Ground, demonstrating their opposition to the district’s so-called “trans inclusive” policies.

These girls are heroes. pic.twitter.com/imSoOOh4Dy

— Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology (@KnownHeretic) October 14, 2026

The school district has defended its approach by citing Washington state law and Washington Interscholastic Activities Association eligibility rules, which permit students to compete in accordance with their gender identity. The district also previously indicated that it would continue following those requirements unless the governing rules or laws changed.

The controversy drew further attention Wednesday when supporters gathered near the championship for the “Camas Courage: Support Our Girls” rally, organized by women’s rights advocate Amy Sousa to support female athletes who oppose males competing in girls’ sports.

Sarah Babb, whose daughter Madeline has competed on Camas’s cross-country team for three years, told rally attendees that her daughter was among the runners who had participated in the October 13 walkout.

“She is one of the girls that decided to walk out the race last week to let the coaches and the administrators know that they are tired of competing against a boy on the girls team,” Babb said. “It isn’t right. It isn’t fair. And the girls are frustrated.”

Babb argued that the dispute had distracted athletes from their primary goal of running and competing.

“This has been going on since the second week of the season. It’s been a distraction from their desire to just run and compete against other girls, which is what they are entitled to do according to Title 9, something so many women fought for in the seventies,” she said.

Her remarks reflected the position of campaigners who believe sex-based sporting categories are necessary to protect female athletes’ opportunities. The legal application of Title IX, however, depends on the relevant legal and regulatory framework and should not be determined solely by statements made at a rally.

Also addressing the crowd at Sousa’s rally was Frances Staudt, a Tumwater basketball player who previously refused to compete against a male opponent. Staudt described the personal criticism she said she faced after speaking out about eligibility rules.

“Two years ago, I stood up for something I truly believe in. I stood up for fairness, I stood up for privacy, and I stood up for the rights of girls to compete in sports that were created for us,” Staudt said, according to The Post Millennial.

“And because I stood up, I was called a bigot. I was called hateful. I was told I was the problem. Why? Because I refuse to stay silent.”

Staudt praised the Camas runners who walked away from the earlier race rather than compete under the existing policy, arguing that girls should not have to sacrifice their participation to make their concerns heard.

“We shouldn’t have to walk away from the starting line just to make our voices heard,” she said, adding that female athletes should not be publicly shamed for expressing their views.

The rally also served as a platform for political action, with Staudt urging Washington voters to support Initiative IL26-638, referred to by supporters as Initiative 638. The measure would prohibit biological males from competing in designated girls’ school sports and require health care provider verification of biological sex through sports physical documentation.

“Believe the girls,” Staudt said. “We’re in the 12th round of this fight, and we need to deliver the knockout punch and vote yes on I-638 to protect girls’ sports.”

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Another day in France, another minor revealed to me the victim of forced prostitution. 

Five men are facing trial at the Rhône Assize Court from Oct. 26 to Nov. 2 on charges of aggravated pimping involving a 12-year-old girl, referred to by the pseudonym Louna. While the suspects are being prosecuted, none of her clients face charges.

Louna, a vulnerable out-of-school youth who was also the alleged victim of a gang rape at age 10, ran away twice in 2022. On June 17, 2022, she left a campsite in southern France where she was vacationing with her grandmother. Six days later, a client recognized her from a missing person flyer and notified authorities, writes Le Progres. 

Police located Louna in a rundown apartment on Quai Gillet in Lyon’s 4th arrondissement, discovering physical injuries (bruises and knife cuts) and that she had cocaine in her bloodstream.

The minor told police that she was manipulated online by a 19-year-old named Moha, whom she believed was her boyfriend. Moha and three accomplices allegedly groomed her with promises of luxury items, coerced her into using cocaine, and managed her prostitution.

Using the now-defunct website Coco, she was forced to see roughly 30 clients in a single week. The suspects threatened her with physical violence if she did not generate €500 to €1,000 a day, monitoring her actions closely.

This is just the latest in a slew of sex crime cases involving minors. Back in 2022, 12-year-old Lola Daviet was brutally raped and murdered in Paris by an Algerian woman, with the case possibly linked to a North African custom involving the killing of a White child with blonde hair.

Grooming gangs have also been on the rise. Child prostitution in France has risen by 43 percent over the past four years. French police are identifying “younger and younger girls” being trafficked.

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Almost two months have passed since Sweden’s highly controversial parliamentary election, which saw the Social Democratic-led leftist bloc secure a razor-thin victory over the anti-immigration Tidö coalition of right-wing parties. Yet, hardly a day has passed without more suspicious details emerging about that victory.

Most recently, former Social Democratic MP Widar Andersson filed a complaint against the Migration Agency over its decision to grant citizenship to Mohamed Abdukardir Ali, a newly elected Somali-Swedish MP for the far-left Left Party (V), whose unexpected election is already under scrutiny as part of a police investigation into suspected fraud.

Andersson asked the Parliamentary Ombudsman to examine why Ali received Swedish citizenship in February 2026 despite having previously been rejected over his financial conduct. ‘It is obvious that something has gone wrong,’ he said on Sunday, 25 October.

Documents obtained by Kvartal show that Ali received permanent residence through family reunification in September 2013, although the authorities did not formally verify his identity. He was also issued an alien’s passport noting that deficiency. His application had been submitted at Sweden’s embassy in Addis Ababa in May 2012, when he was 16.

‘Former Social Democratic MP Widar Andersson filed a complaint against the Migration Agency over its decision to grant citizenship to Mohamed Abdukardir Ali’

In January 2023, Ali declared that he had no debts and referred to Sweden’s Enforcement Authority, despite entering a five-year restructuring arrangement only months earlier. The Migration Agency rejected his application, citing his failure to meet the good-conduct requirement. During subsequent proceedings, his representative claimed the arrangement had ended, and his debts had been settled; official records showed it ran until June 2027. In a later appeal, Ali again described the debt as fully repaid. Nevertheless, he was naturalized on 20 February 2026, six months before the election. The agency has not publicly explained its reversal.

Ali’s claimed business connections with Somalia have also unravelled under scrutiny. He described himself as the founder and chief executive of Verisom, an international development venture that Expressen could not locate in corporate registers. Through the Swedish company Afritech Growth, he pursued digital identity and other projects purportedly involving Somali officials. His business partner, former Moderate politician Agneta Nyvall, said she helped finance his trips to Somalia but now doubts whether the promised meetings took place.

Swedish authorities said they knew nothing of the venture, while the government denied that Ali participated in its separate Somalia aid agreement. According to Expressen, Ali had also cited the proposed business project in his citizenship proceedings.

To top it off, after returning to the Riksdag from a month-long absence following the election, a series of brief interviews exposed another controversial aspect of Ali being an MP representing Swedish people: he cannot speak proper Swedish. Moderate MP Louise Meijer questioned how this was even possible for a Swedish citizen, proposing a ten-year citizenship requirement before someone could be elected to Parliament.

Ali entered Parliament from ninth place on the Left Party’s Dalarna list after securing 648 personal votes, enough to displace its leading candidate. Police are investigating allegations that voters were transported to polling stations and given pre-marked ballots; three people are now suspects, and interviews are expected this week. Ali has not been formally accused of any offence and denies involvement.

The election result heightens the significance of the Ali scandal. The left-wing bloc secured 176 seats against 173 for the anti-immigration Tidö parties, with Reuters reporting 73,000 additional opposition votes across 786 immigrant-heavy districts compared with 2022. In Stockholm’s Rinkeby, roughly 94 per cent supported the opposition. The Left Party’s failure to properly vet Ali now hangs over a parliamentary majority partly secured through immigrant votes, making the entire post-election process resemble more of a Somali fraud investigation than the functioning of a Western democracy.

‘Interviews exposed another controversial aspect of Ali being an MP representing Swedish people: he cannot speak proper Swedish’

Yet that victory has produced no government. Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson’s proposed minority cabinet was rejected, while Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist abandoned coalition negotiations on Monday after failing to secure sufficient support. The Centre refuses to govern with the Left, which insists on ministerial positions despite the scandals surrounding its newly elected MP and its overall election performance.

The party nevertheless continues to defend Ali as pressure mounts. Former Social Democratic politician Jan Emanuel on Monday demanded Ali’s resignation and argued that he should never have been granted Swedish citizenship. Accusing the Left Party of prioritizing electoral gains over scrutiny of candidates, Emanuel said the party did not want Ali himself, but rather the immigrant votes he could attract. He also called for a new election, arguing that voters should be allowed to respond to the scandal.

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