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Opposition figures have demanded the reinstatement of Mária Schmidt as director-general of Budapest’s House of Terror Museum and accused the Tisza government of erasing the memory of 1956 in the 70th anniversary year of the revolution.

Zoltán Tarr, the minister for social relations and culture, announced Schmidt’s dismissal and the closure of the museum on his Facebook page on September 15.

Tarr said the building at 60 Andrássy Avenue would stay shut until a review of the exhibition’s content was complete and rights attached to the displays had been clarified. The review would be carried out by researchers from Eötvös Loránd University’s institute of historical studies together with independent experts, he said, and it would reopen “later this year”.

It stayed shut for a day. On September 16, Tarr announced that the House of Terror would reopen on September 22 and be free to all for a week, with the exhibition left in its present form while the review continued.

Writing on September 17, Schmidt, a well-known historian and author, said she had lost the thread of the minister’s reasoning and that he had changed course after seeing the public reaction.

No independent experts existed, she argued, because everyone holds a worldview and political preferences. Anyone claiming a value-free consensus on questions of remembrance was siding with whatever thinking happened to be dominant, in this case the liberalism that rules academic life.

If the permanent displays of every other Hungarian public collection were not reviewed as well, Schmidt said she would again suspect that the museum had been singled out because of her known sympathies for the opposition.

Either the minister found the exhibition acceptable and should leave it alone, she said, or he rejected its central claims and should commission a new one, on which there would be no full agreement either. She invited him to visit, noting there would be no queue.

Opposition party Fidesz called the decision “a shame and a disgrace” and said those involved would carry the weight of it for the rest of their lives. Fidesz had earlier thanked the former director-general for 24 years at the museum.

The retreat was read as a victory by the opposition. János Nagy, private secretary to former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, wrote that the Government had taken fright and that only Schmidt’s return was still outstanding.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar answered him within a minute, with laughing emojis. Schmidt was on their side and they were welcome to keep her, he wrote, adding: “She can organise a coup, too.”

Nagy replied by listing a set of records — public debt, the budget deficit, fuel prices — adding a “record museum closure and reopening”.

The exchange set the tone of a week in which the Government has struggled to explain what the closure was for. Benedek Gyorgyevics, managing director of the state company now operating the site, told HVG the shutdown had no political or ideological motive and was needed to clarify the legal position of the exhibition and to agree a contract with the building’s owner.

Tarr, by contrast, had ordered a review of the content of the displays. Schmidt was removed with immediate effect and told nothing beyond what she read online.

Museum staff had been instructed to blame the closure on technical reasons on the museum’s own channels, she added. Choosing the heads of public museums based on political sympathy did not fit the European political culture that Tisza, a member of the European People’s Party, invokes so often.

Bence Rétvári, parliamentary group leader of the Christian Democrats, said Tisza had built “its own political police, its own ÁVH” and was now closing the museum where the methods of the communist secret police are displayed. The closure was theoretically temporary, he said, in the way that Soviet troops were temporarily stationed in Hungary.

László Dornfeld, lead analyst at the Centre for Fundamental Rights, called the closure “a crime against Hungarian national remembrance”. Antal Ámon, president of the National Association of Hungarian Political Prisoners, called it hasty and ill-considered.

The museum opened in 2002 at the former headquarters of the Arrow Cross Party and later of the ÁVH, and has received more than eight million visitors. Two granite blocks of equal size, one red and one black, stand for the victims of communist and Arrow Cross terror.

The dismissal followed the winding up on September 1 of the foundation that had run the museum since 1999, part of a reordering of public bodies that included state television news bulletins in July.

Plans have been announced for a demonstration outside the museum September 20. Its organisers have also called a march for October 23, the anniversary of the revolution.

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Pro-Israel demonstrators were filmed removing a large PLO flag that had been hung from a building overlooking Dam Square in Amsterdam during a demonstration held at the site.

Video footage posted online shows demonstrators pulling down the flag from the H&M building near the square, as cheers can be heard from the crowd gathered below.

According to local media reports, the incident occurred during a pro-Israel rally at Dam Square attended by numerous demonstrators.

A pro-Palestinian counter-protest had also been planned for the square. According to the local reports, authorities decided to move it to another location due to concerns over possible disturbances.

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Yesterday (17 September 2026, 2.00 pm), a man poured a flammable liquid onto the steps in front of the Bergische Synagogue in the Barmen district of Wuppertal and set it alight. The fire was extinguished immediately. The suspect (aged 37) was arrested by police officers near the scene of the crime. According to initial findings, the 37-year-old man, an Afghan national known to the police, acted alone. The State Security Service has launched an investigation.

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A series of towns next door to migrant camps have said they have turned into “no-go zones” for women in a grim warning to Piddington.

The Oxfordshire village of Piddington symbolically voted for independence over Labour’s plans to convert an MoD site into migrant housing – adding 1,250 “asylum seekers” to the small community.

Women in the village have urged female MPs to intervene, warning they would be outnumbered 10 to one.

But now, locals in Braintree, Chelmsford and Colchester in Essex have opened up on what life is really like after receiving their own batch of neighbours nearby.

Some 800 migrants are currently being housed at MDP Wethersfield, eight miles from Braintree, as they await decisions on their asylum applications.

Locals have said the presence of the illegal migrants have endangered women and girls. They have allegedly been spat at, filmed without consent, harassed and told to “cover up”.

Essex Police Chief Constable Rachel Nolan has claimed migrant crime was “very low” and there was no reason for concern, but residents in nearby towns described a very different picture.

In Braintree, Valerie Spurgeon, 80, told The Sun she was told by three migrants she was “too old to f***” as she withdrew money from a cashpoint.

And Annette Lucas, 74, has been forced to give her 13 and 16-year-old granddaughters rape alarms.

Chelmsford-based personal trainer Tracy, 46, said she had received abuse for ignoring illegal migrants.

“The last time, I heard someone spitting and realised it was at me. I looked and he went, ‘You, come here’,” she said.

The man then hurled abuse towards her, asking why she did not “trust him”.

Reform UK-led Essex County Council has gone so far as to hire six private security guards to patrol the streets and provide a “visible and reassuring presence” to worried locals.

Deputy Leader Russell Quirk, 58, told The Sun: “The Lib Dem MPs who run Piddington council have an open-door policy to migrants. The people of Piddington should be careful.

“I feel angry on their behalf because they are about to have imposed upon them what the people of Braintree, Chelmsford and Colchester have suffered for years.”

Mr Quirk also said taxpayers were “paying for an MMA fighter from Afghanistan” to be “trained how to fight” as he revealed migrants had been provided “gyms with equipment David Lloyd would be proud of”.

GB News previously interviewed Afghan asylum-seeking fighter Jahlil Ahmad in Crowborough, but it remains unclear how many trained MMA combatants have illegally arrived in Britain.

Essex County Council leader Peter Harris told GB News in August that asylum seekers were living in “a holiday camp” with gymnasiums, sports halls, squash courts, a fitness room, two restaurants and a snack bar.

Mr Quirk said: “Now they have 17 minibuses to bring migrants into Essex towns for day trips. It’s presenting a clear and present danger to women and girls.

“Some of those migrants are sticking their fingers up at British society in terms of how they then behave.

“If anyone wants to try and contend that there isn’t a problem here as a consequence of Wethersfield, they need to give their head a wobble.”

The Piddington migrant camp, may, however, be blocked over the presence of endangered animals, including great crested newts, nearby.

Last night it emerged barbastelle bats, a rare species of bats whose numbers have declined across Europe, have been detected near the site and could thwart the migrant plans.

An ecological report for campaign group Wrong Plan, Wrong Site, read: “The presence of barbastelles has the specific legal weight required to entirely halt, delay or force the withdrawal of a major planning application.”

Pedro Collins, an ecologist who was a biodiversity officer with the Environment Agency for more than 20 years, said the presence of a barbastelle raised the issue from just a “standard local level to national and European importance”.

Piddington Parish Council Chairman Tim McNally described the vote for independence as “Ground Zero for a whole number of issues”, and the vote may now embolden towns facing crimes from migrants.

The Home Office has denied allegations of taxpayer-funded activities for asylum seekers at Wehersfield.

“There is no basis for these claims,” it said. “We work closely with local police to ensure the safety and security of communities around the site.

“Large sites such as Wethersfield have been operating for a number of years, with no evidence of rising crime in the area.

“The Government is closing every asylum hotel, saving taxpayers over £1billion on asylum support since the election.

“We are working to fairly house asylum seekers across the country, including former military sites which are designed to be self-contained to reduce impact on the local community.”

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A senior pediatric surgeon has been dismissed with immediate effect by a publicly owned German hospital (photo left) after standing as an Alternative for Germany candidate, raising uncomfortable questions about political freedom in the workplace.

According to reports from Remix News and those in Germany’s press, Dr. Svetlana Spirina (photo) lost not only her bid for local office but, shortly afterward, her position at Klinikum Lippe.

“A female doctor from Lower Saxony, who ran for the AfD, has been dismissed. This is outrageous and an attack on democracy! Candidacy for a public office is, like the right to vote, a cornerstone of the democratic order,” AfD Co-Leader Alice Weidel wrote on X in response to the firing.

The hospital confirms that it terminated Spirina’s employment but still refuses to tell the public why. Spokeswoman Mandy Lange cited privacy considerations and said only that pediatric surgical services would continue, leaving the most important part of the story unexplained.

That silence deserves particular scrutiny because Klinikum Lippe isn’t an ordinary private company. It describes itself as one of Germany’s largest municipal hospitals, employs around 2,800 people, and is ultimately owned by the Lippe district.

Spirina’s political activity was hardly underground extremism conducted behind her employer’s back: she stood in a public election for a legal political party and appeared on the ballot in Osnabrück. Only after another doctor drew attention to her candidacy in an open letter did the affair become a workplace controversy.

The doctor subsequently distanced herself from the AfD and reportedly denied her membership and candidacy when questioned by her employer. Election officials, however, said she had personally signed the declaration required to stand, while earlier AfD material had openly presented her as a candidate.

That contradiction is significant, and it gives the hospital a possible explanation unrelated to ideology. Yet Klinikum Lippe itself hasn’t publicly said that alleged dishonesty was the reason for firing Spirina, so treating that explanation as an established fact would go further than the hospital has been willing to go.

Instead, the public is left with a stark chronology: an experienced physician runs for the AfD, her candidacy becomes controversial, she comes under professional scrutiny, campaign material disappears, and she is then dismissed immediately. The hospital may have another explanation, but so far it has chosen not to provide one.

AfD district chairman Florian Meyer said he removed online campaign material involving Spirina partly to shield her from possible professional consequences. Whatever one thinks of the AfD, the fact that a local party official believed an established doctor needed protection from career repercussions merely because her candidacy had become public illustrates why the episode has caused alarm.

Spirina also left the AfD shortly before the election, according to regional reporting. Whether that reflected personal reconsideration, workplace pressure, or some combination of circumstances hasn’t been conclusively established, but the sequence hardly conveys an atmosphere in which political participation carried no professional risk.

There’s another reason the hospital deserves harder questions: German labor law doesn’t make controversial political affiliation an automatic ticket to dismissal. The Federal Labour Court has held that even political activity involving an organization considered hostile to the constitutional order doesn’t, by itself, automatically justify termination.

The court instead emphasized the need for a concrete connection between outside political activity and the employment relationship, such as an actual workplace disruption, loss of required suitability or interference with official duties. In that earlier case, merely pointing to political activity without proving a concrete impairment wasn’t enough.

That ruling doesn’t automatically decide Spirina’s case, and important facts may still be unknown. But it makes Klinikum Lippe’s refusal to identify the basis for such a severe employment decision considerably more consequential, particularly given that its owner is a public authority.

A labor-law specialist interviewed by Neue Westfälische has likewise described the situation as legally far from clear, and the dispute could ultimately reach the labor courts. Spirina has not publicly indicated whether she intends to challenge the dismissal.

The healthcare dimension makes the decision harder to shrug off as an ordinary political squabble. Spirina was a senior physician in pediatric surgery, a specialized medical role, while Klinikum Lippe itself stresses that medical expertise and maintaining regional healthcare are among its central responsibilities.

The hospital insists that pediatric surgery remains adequately covered following her departure. That may be true, but it doesn’t answer why a senior surgeon was removed with immediate effect or whether anything involving her treatment of patients, professional performance or medical competence contributed to that decision.

Spirina eventually received 408 votes and failed to win a seat, meaning her brief venture into electoral politics ended without public office. Yet the professional consequences proved considerably more concrete than the electoral ones.

None of the evidence currently available proves that Klinikum Lippe conducted an ideological purge, and Spirina’s contradictory statements about her candidacy remain relevant. But when a publicly owned institution dismisses a senior doctor immediately after a political campaign and then withholds the decisive reason, skepticism toward the institution’s handling of the matter is entirely warranted.

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Acting on behalf of the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, the police have arrested the Iraqi national Gailan Al-M. on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack. “In the spring of 2025, he planned, together with others, to carry out attacks in Germany against those he regarded as infidels,” according to a statement issued by the Federal Public Prosecutor on Thursday. “To this end, he had already acquired a firearm and carried out reconnaissance on a church in Bremen. According to his plan, this was to be the group’s first target.”

According to the Federal Public Prosecutor, Al-M. “shares the radical Islamist ideology of the foreign terrorist organisation ‘Islamic State’ (IS)”. He had attempted to recruit further supporters for his plan. He succeeded in doing so with one person, who remains unidentified. “Attempts to recruit further individuals failed.”

The Iraqi man has already been brought before the investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice, “who has issued the arrest warrant and ordered that he be remanded in custody”.
The arrest took place in the Barnim district of Brandenburg by officers from the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police. The arrest warrant was issued by an investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice. Specifically, he is strongly suspected of attempting to establish a terrorist organisation. In this context, he is also accused of preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state and of breaching the Weapons Act.

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Angela Merkel has said Bill Gates used the scale of his foundation’s fortune to put “moral pressure” on governments over vaccination funding and that he told African leaders when Germany was being “stingy”.

The former chancellor spoke in a special edition of the Handelsblatt podcast Meckel & Matthes, recorded last week and now widely clipped in German and Austrian media.

She was answering a question about when she first grasped the political power of private wealth.

It was not the present argument over algorithms, she said, but Gates and the then Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Gate’s money was not only used for silent donations, but also to wield political power and influence.

The money was large enough, Merkel said, that heads of government received him “at least as warmly” as they received the German chancellor.

An unelected billionaire was, in her telling, on level terms with elected leaders. “And he then had the strength, so to speak, to exert moral pressure through money.”

Merkel recalled that “If we didn’t give enough, we were immediately in a bad position.”

The concrete case she referred to was the international vaccine alliance.

If Berlin, in the foundation’s view, put up too little, Germany looked bad.

Gates, she said, would tell African presidents: “Merkel was stingy this year.”

“And with that he had acquired great power”, she realised.

She added that the foundation narrowed itself to a few fields, “for example vaccination”.

She asked Gates whether his foundation would not like to invest more in education, for example. Gates then explained to her that results were much more difficult to measure there.

During the Corona era, the Gates Foundation collaborated with key organisations of the global health architecture and collected extensive funding for worldwide health and vaccine initiatives.

The foundation dropped “Bill & Melinda” and rebranded as the Gates Foundation after their 2021 divorce and Melinda French Gates’s exit as co-chair, a split attributed to Bill Gates close ties with the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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A 30-year-old woman reported being raped Sunday night in the restrooms of a restaurant in Paris’s affluent 16th arrondissement. French police quickly arrested a 40-year-old Syrian-born suspect with Brazilian nationality after he fled the scene, according to French news reports citing sources close to the investigation.

The alleged assault occurred around 10:45 p.m, Sept. 13, at a restaurant on Avenue Kléber. Investigators said a man approached the woman inside the establishment, forcibly pulled her into the toilet stall and raped her. He then fled in a black Skoda with two other men, heading toward the Arc de Triomphe.

Officers from an anti-crime unit responded to the restaurant to gather descriptions of the suspect and the vehicle. The victim was taken to a hospital for medical examinations.

A patrol later spotted the car on Avenue des Champs-Élysées near the George V metro station and stopped it around 11:10 p.m. The main suspect was taken into custody.

The two other men in the car, both also born in Syria and aged 41 and 42, were brought to a police station for questioning.

The suspect is a 40-year-old man born in Syria who holds Brazilian nationality, Le Figaro reported, citing a source close to the case. The investigation was assigned to the 1st District of the Judicial Police.

French media described the account as a reported rape under investigation. No charges had been publicly detailed in the days immediately after the arrest, and the restaurant was not named in published reports.

The case drew rapid attention on social media after activist Claire Geronimi posted about it Monday, noting the suspect’s Syrian birthplace and framing the assault as part of a pattern of attacks on women.

“Another woman assaulted. Once again, the same questions that some stubbornly refuse to ask. Full support for this victim. We must be able to live, go out, and return home without fear,” she wrote on X.

Une femme de 30 ans violée dans les toilettes d’un restaurant à Paris.

Le suspect, âgé de 40 ans et né en Syrie, a été interpellé après avoir pris la fuite.

Encore une femme agressée. Encore une fois, les mêmes questions que certains refusent obstinément de poser.

Soutien… pic.twitter.com/XUB2aLETMY

— Claire Geronimi (@ClaireGeronimii) September 14, 2026

In a case that garnered national headlines, Geronimi was previously raped by an African suspect in Paris.

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A Gosport resident has expressed concerns for his safety amid the Government’s plans to house 600 failed asylum seekers in a nearby detention centre.

Speaking to GB News, David Robinson said the plans are “unsettling” and are making locals feel “unsafe” in their community.

The Haslar Immigration Removal Centre is one of the closest centres to a residential area in the whole country.

Following its closure in 2015, the Labour Government has implemented plans to reopen the detention centre, which will be used to house those who have no right to be in the UK, have had their asylum claims denied or are waiting to be deported.

The first phase of the redevelopment is underway to reopen the site with 130 bed spaces.

However, the Home Office has submitted plans to expand the site to 600 beds, by adding new buildings on nearby seafront land.

Reacting to the plans on GB News, Mr Robinson told reporter Will Godley that he has lived opposite the asylum centre for 20 years.

He said: “In 2022, they decided to reopen the removal centre, and we were told it would be about six months, that they would do updates to the place to bring it up to standard, more or less, and this is actually taken three years.

“Unfortunately, we’ve been subjected to noise, dust, cars parking in the opposite where we live at 6:30am in the morning, slamming doors and blocking people’s driveways.”

Fearing for his safety, Mr Robinson said the prospect of having detained failed asylum seekers across the road from his home is “unsettling”.

He said: “It makes you feel unsafe, basically. When you go to bed at night, you wonder what’s going to happen during the night or even during the day, and it’s just very unsettling.

“This used to be a really nice area to live, nice and safe, and now it’s just unknown. It’s a worry to a lot of people here.”

Reflecting on recent consultation meetings about the site, Mr Robinson told GB News that locals and their concerns have been “ignored”.

He said: “We’ve just been totally ignored, that’s the truth of the situation, we just don’t exist. They had to put planning permission in for an energy station, and our houses weren’t actually on the drawings, they were drawings without our houses, so they tried to say that actually, we don’t actually exist.

“It’s affected house prices too, lots of people saying that they’ve had up to £50,000 knocked off the value of their home. Unfortunately, nobody wants to buy our properties if we want to move off somewhere else, there’s absolutely no interest.”

Expressing her outrage at the plans, local MP Dame Caroline Dineage told GB News that the Government has “mishandled the site from square one”.

Ms Dineage said: “My key concern with the Government was that they communicated properly with local people, and they have absolutely, spectacularly failed to do that.

“The process of redeveloping on the original site has been hellish, nightmarish for people living around this area – noise, dust, disturbance, and a complete lack of interaction.

“We are literally feet from people’s houses. It’s too many on that site, it’s a site that is ill-equipped to deal with it in an area ill-equipped to deal with it. People have already been through hell, and the Government have proven that they can’t communicate this efficiently with local people.”

In a statement, a Home Office spokesman told GB News: “We make no apology for significantly expanding our detention capacity, which will see more than 45,000 additional foreign criminals and illegal migrants removed in the coming decade.”

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False-hearted judges, dying in the webs that they spin… — Bob Dylan

In Italy, some judges are treating migrant criminals with a leniency so great that it is itself criminal. The latest example, where a Bangladeshi man accused of raping a 13-year-old was let out of prison after only two days, can be found here: “Outrage in Italy After Man Accused of Raping 13-Year-Old Is Released,” by Zoltán Kottász, European Conservative, September 2, 2026:

Italy’s political row over judges’ lenient handling of migrant criminals has intensified after a 42-year-old Bangladeshi shop assistant accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in the outskirts of Turin was released from prison after just two nights.

The crime occurred on Saturday, August 29th in Madonna di Campagna, a multi-ethnic district in the northern Italian city.

According to the girl’s account, she entered a minimarket to buy three fruit drinks for her younger siblings. She said the shop assistant gave her a drink, asked whether she had a boyfriend and how old she was, before sexually assaulting her.

Why did this Muslim ask the girl her age? Perhaps he wanted to make sure she was at least nine years old, the age of little Aisha when 54-year-old Muhammad had sexual intercourse with her. Who says a Muslim rapist doesn’t have principles?

Police arrested the man shortly afterwards, with surveillance footage from the shop forming part of the evidence. Prosecutors requested that he remain in custody. However, a judge ordered his release, only requiring him to report to the police.

The judge cited the suspect’s lack of previous convictions, his co-operation with investigators, and his expression of remorse….

Oh, that’s okay then. He hadn’t any previous convictions, according to the judge. But in fact that very day, less than an hour before he raped the 13-year-old, he had sexually assaulted — was it rape or something less? — another female, whose age we do not know. And he expressed “remorse.” Why, of course he did. When caught, these rapists all do. So what?

In Italy, the judiciary has in recent decades become increasingly left-wing, which translates into leniency for criminals, especially if they are Muslim migrants, whom the left in Italy for some reason feels it has a special duty to protect. It’s the same all over Europe, where the left insists on supporting these migrants, and insisting they be allowed in, no matter what mayhem they cause. Think of La France Insoumise, headed by the far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the party that fights any attempt by the government to bring Muslim immigration under control, and to deport Muslim criminals after they have served their sentence. In adopting this stance, Mélenchon hopes to win votes from the constantly increasing Muslim electorate.

In March, Meloni criticised judges after the deportation of a Moroccan migrant with multiple criminal convictions, including involvement in a gang rape, was suspended following an asylum application.

This case made for headlines all over the Italian press, and on television, though it received no coverage outside Italy. This Moroccan, who had been convicted of many crimes including participation in a gang rape, was finally about to be deported back to his country of origin, when all he had to do was apply for asylum status, and an immigration judge ruled he could not be deported while that status was being considered. It was pointed out that there was no reason for asylum status to be granted, that Morocco is peaceful, there is neither a civil war nor any persecution of minorities, and that immigrants from Morocco are exclusively economic migrants, hoping to batten on all the welfare benefits that European states provide. The asylum application ought to have been rejected at once. But instead, it is still being considered, six months after having first been submitted.

Judges in Italy are difficult to replace. But if the right — Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia — gains still more support, with many more representatives in Parliament, as now seems likely given the rise in anti-Muslim migrant sentiment, it may find ways to pressure sitting judges to enforce the law less leniently than they have been doing with Muslim defendants. And Meloni’s party will be sure to appoint to new judgeships people who share the Fratelli d’Italia’s view that the large-scale presence of Muslims in Italy has created a situation that is more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous for the indigenous Infidels, than would be the case without that large-scale presence.

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