Allah's Willing Executioners

Water industry regulator Ofwat has launched a research project encouraging Asian and Muslim households to reduce the amount of water used for cooking rice and ritual washing.

The project, led by South Staffordshire Water, cost more than £270,000 to conduct – examining ways of encouraging water-saving practices among minority communities in Britain amid drought pressures on water companies this summer.

Researchers focused in part on rice washing, after finding that some households used an average of seven litres of water to clean grains before cooking.

Celebrity chef Ping Coombes, who won MasterChef in 2014, was recruited to promote the guidance, noting it was common practice to wash rice five to seven times until the water ran clear.

The project also examined water use during wudu – the ritual washing performed by Muslims before prayer.

Researchers found that those using a fully running tap could consume between six and 12 litres during a single session.

One point of reference saw a group of Muslim households connected with Cambridge Central Mosque advised to perform wudu using about one litre of water.

The water company estimated this advice could reduce water use substantially, potentially saving up to 55 litres per person each day for those performing the ritual five times.

The study suggested that water-saving messages could be promoted through Islamic television channels and other community networks.

It also cautioned that water companies should “avoid giving the impression” that any particular religion was responsible for excessive water consumption.

The initiative has, however, prompted criticism, with questions over whether billpayers’ money should have been used to address cultural and religious practices – while water companies are dealing with leakage from ageing infrastructure.

Mike Wood, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, said reducing water waste was a worthwhile objective, but criticised the spending of customers’ money on what he described as “bizarre schemes” focused on cultural and religious practices.

The controversy comes after an exceptionally dry summer, resulting in hosepipe restrictions for millions up and down the country amid increased pressure on the industry to reduce consumption.

The new scheme comes after the £600m Water Innovation Fund was launched by Ofwat in 2020 to finance research into new approaches to tackling environmental and water-management challenges.

Projects have included encouraging consumers to reduce consumption through rewards and loyalty points.

South Staffordshire Water said water efficiency was an important part of managing resources, and that its engagement reflected the communities served by the company and Cambridge Water.

Ofwat defended the project, echoing how prolonged dry weather created the need to use water more efficiently.

The regulator said the pilot, which ended in April 2025, was developed in collaboration with water companies, charities and multiple faith groups.

Ofwat also stressed that the initiative provided practical suggestions rather than instructions, saying it did not tell people what they could or could not do, and did not interfere with religious worship or customs.

gbnews

Emma Trimble hosts this week’s debate with Jack Hadfield and Aman Boghal.

A Ghanaian immigrant and local politician in Germany said that he would not fight for Germany in case of war but would fight for Ghana.

Suraj Mailitafi, who was born in Ghana and moved to Germany at age nine, gave an interview to the left-wing German podcaster known as Marcant. Mailitafi is a German citizen who has served as a municipal councilor for the leftist Green Party in Bersenbrück since 2021. He is also the spokesperson for “Bündnis Widersetzen,” an “antifascist” activist group that wants to “resist the AfD, fascism, and right-wing politic s— through mass civil disobedience.”

Marcant said that right-wingers often argue that immigrants with dual nationalities would not fight for Germany in case of war but would fight for their original home country, showing that their loyalties do not lie with their adopted home even if they have lived in Germany for many years.

He asked Mailitafi how he viewed this narrative. His answer turned into a viral clip online because it confirmed right-wing critiques against mass immigration.

“I wouldn't fight for Germany or for any European country.
I would fight for Ghana.”

German liberal podcast host tries to debunk the stereotype that migrants wouldn’t fight for Germany in a war.

His African guest just confirms it’s true.

Black pill. 💀 pic.twitter.com/FvaLhQdF0k

— Naomi Seibt (@NaomiSeibt) August 18, 2026

“The question is: What are we fighting for? Whose power are we fighting for? And what does this power give me?” Mailitafi said. “What do these wars give me? And especially in the capitalist system that we live in, it’s not like I’m fighting for myself.”

“I fundamentally would not fight for Germany or for any European country. And I’ve often asked: ‘Okay, I’m native Ghanaian, would I fight for Ghana?’”

“And I think yes, I would fight for Ghana,” he stated.

“Because when we look at it historically and globally, the reality is that Africa — and the Global South as a whole — faces a stark power imbalance compared to Europe, and we’ve always been the ones who’ve been exploited. And when it comes to breaking that cycle, I’m on board,” Mailitafi concluded.

lifesitenews

The number of migrants receiving direct welfare payments from the British taxpayer has hit a record high, government data revealed this week.

Figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) showed that some 15.5 per cent of all Universal Credit (UC) welfare claimants were foreign-born, or around 1.3 million out of a total of 8.4 million people, both of which were new record highs.

According to calculations from The Telegraph, the number of foreigners on the dole as of May was around 20,000 higher than a year prior.

The largest cohort of recipients of Universal Credit — Britain’s principal welfare scheme for out-of-work or low-income people — was from the European Union, who were granted access to the UK welfare state under the Brexit withdrawal agreement negotiated by the former Conservative Party government.

EU nationals accounted for 8.9 per cent of all UC claimants, or around three-quarters of a million people.

Meanwhile, around 233,000 migrants receiving Universal Credit held Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), a residency status granted to those who have lived and worked in Britain for at least five years, after which they are granted visa-free stay in the country and full access to the same benefits as native Britons.

The impact of Indefinite Leave to Remain on the British welfare system has become a major point of debate, given that some 1.6 million migrants who arrived under the so-called Boriswave post-Brexit influx will soon be eligible for the status.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has proposed kicking the can down the road by extending the required time spent living in the country from five to ten years; however, it is unclear whether her left-wing party will back such a move.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has said that if elected, it would abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain altogether and replace it with an American-style five-year work visa system.

Reform has estimated that the Boriswave migrants who came to the UK between 2020 and 2024 will, over their lifetimes, take out an average of £20,000 ($27,000) in welfare benefits from the state, more than they contribute in taxes. This would cost the British taxpayer some £622.5 billion ($849bn) by 2085, the party predicted.

On top of ending Indefinite Leave to Remain, Reform has said that it would prohibit all foreigners from receiving welfare benefits, including those under the EU settlement scheme.

Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick said that doing so would save the British taxpayer £21 billion ($28.5bn) by 2029.

breitbart

Gendarmes eventually puncture and deflate the dinghy with a knife.

For years now, the United Kingdom has been paying France for help against the small-boat invasion of the British Isles.

But so far, the work by French authorities has left much to be desired.

Yesterday (20), a police operation targeted the launch of one of these ‘water taxis’, and left many hoping this marks a new, tougher enforcement era in the Channel.

But by no means will it be an easy task, as footage captures the moment the police officers are attacked by migrants as they intercept the launch of a migrant boat.

Footage released by the UK's Border Security Command shows migrants clashing with police on a beach in northern France, with an officer slashing a small boat with a knife.

Sky's @joncraig looks at the context behind the incident.

Read more: https://t.co/U9z4DwhLro pic.twitter.com/OrOv2mYpMu

— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 20, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“The video shows migrants wearing life jackets appearing to throw objects at the police to try to keep them away from their dinghy.

The officers then use Pava spray before slashing the inflatable boat with a knife.”

The truth about illegal immigration across the Channel.

This summer, I investigated what’s actually happening on the French coast and in the Channel.

I watched French police stand by as migrants boarded a dinghy, and was told, "Our order is to let them go."

Later at sea, a… pic.twitter.com/GX8S0d2Y2u

— Chris Philp MP (@CPhilpOfficial) August 19, 2026

British border authorities claim this is evidence of a new ‘bold’ approach to trying to stop the boats, upping the pressure on the smuggling gangs to prevent the crossings.

“French police say they have boarded 12 migrant ‘taxi boats’ in their first interceptions at sea since the UK signed a new £662m [$902 million] deal to tackle small boat crossings.

The French have previously resisted intervening at sea because of the risk to life.”

thegatewaypundit

A long-serving Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politician has broken with his party’s political line, donating €10,000 to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and urging conservatives to vote for the party in a State election in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany, on September 6, 2026.

Bernd Prange, the CDU mayor of Altmärkische Höhe and a member of the Stendal district council in Saxony-Anhalt, made his position public on August 19, 2026, in an open letter published in full by the Ostdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.

The AfD is polling above 40 per cent and could win an outright majority in the State parliament, a result the CDU is trying to prevent under Minister-President and lead candidate Sven Schulze. Schulze took over as head of the State government on January 28, 2026, after Reiner Haseloff stood down early.

Prange confirmed in his letter that he had donated a total of €10,000 to the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, in two instalments of €5,000 each, and announced that he would vote for the party. The AfD State branch confirmed that it had received the two donations.

AfD lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund had disclosed the first €5,000 at the campaign launch at the end of July without naming the donor, the Volksstimme said.

In his open letter, Prange wrote: “That was not a spontaneous decision and certainly not taken lightly. It was a conscious step, taken after careful consideration, out of deep concern for our country.”

The 59-year-old haulage contractor has been a CDU member since 1992 and sits on the Stendal district council for the party.

He has been mayor of Altmärkische Höhe since the municipality was created in 2010 and was confirmed in the post in October 2023.

Prange argues that voting for the AfD is necessary to force his own party to abandon what he sees as its leftward drift.

“My conservative values – performance, order, security, national sovereignty, economic reason and the protection of our cultural identity – I find increasingly less represented in the CDU,” he wrote.

Prange accuses the CDU of moving steadily to the left while maintaining an increasingly rigid Brandmauer, the political firewall against cooperation with the AfD. The policy rules out any deal with the party, often leaving the CDU dependent on left-wing parties in order to govern.

“Whoever defends the firewall against the AfD while simultaneously looking to the left is destroying the CDU as a bourgeois popular party,” Prange wrote.

He also criticised cooperation with left-wing and radical left-wing politicians, warning that parts of the CDU are abandoning their own voters. He named Schulze, calling on the Union to break with those prepared to make pacts with the Left or the Greens.

“I have the justified concern that parts of the CDU are betraying and selling this country and their own party to the Left,” Prange wrote.

Prange calls on conservatives to vote for the AfD as a way of forcing the CDU to change course. He has also demanded the removal of Chancellor Friedrich Merz as CDU federal chairman, calling him the symbol of a leadership giving up the conservative core of the Union.

“I will cast my vote for the AfD in the state election on September 6, 2026, and hope that many other conservatives will do the same, so that the AfD achieves an absolute majority in Saxony-Anhalt and the CDU comes to the realisation that it must change its course,” he wrote.

Asked by Focus why he did not simply resign from the CDU, Prange said he wanted the party to throw him out.

On August 20, 2026, CDU Saxony-Anhalt secretary-general Mario Karschunke said the party was taking the reports seriously and called the matter a very serious question of party law should the donation be confirmed. The Stendal CDU district executive is expected to consider a possible party-expulsion procedure.

Karschunke also delivered a political message to Prange: “Nobody is forced to remain a member of our party if they no longer share its fundamental political convictions.”

Dennis Radtke, chairman of the CDU’s workers’ wing, told Handelsblatt that anyone calling for a vote for the AfD should draw the consequences and leave the party.

Schulze has also distanced himself from Prange. On August 20 he criticised the recommendation on the Politico podcast Berlin Playbook, saying: “I don’t think that is good.” He added that he could not prescribe what was right but considered Prange’s approach wrong.

Schulze ruled out dealing with the issue before the election.

The AfD is established as the leading political force both in Saxony-Anhalt and across Germany. The pollytix poll conducted from August 3 to 8 and published on August 12 put the AfD at 43 per cent in the State, compared with 23 per cent for the CDU, and an INSA poll conducted from July 31 to August 6 gave the AfD 42 per cent and the CDU 22 per cent.

At national level, an INSA poll published on August 18 put the AfD at 28.5 per cent, ahead of the CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), at 20.5 per cent. A Forsa poll published the same day also had the AfD in first place, at 28 per cent, compared with 21 per cent for the CDU/CSU.

In Saxony-Anhalt the AfD and CDU together command 66 per cent in the pollytix survey, and nationally the AfD and CDU/CSU account for around 49 per cent. Yet the Brandmauer prevents the two largest forces on the right from cooperating politically, leaving the CDU to seek governing majorities with other parties.

On the pollytix figures the AfD would take 41 of at least 83 seats in Magdeburg, one short of an absolute majority.

The election could have consequences well beyond Saxony-Anhalt. An outright AfD majority could strengthen the argument that the party can no longer be treated as a marginal force and increase pressure on the CDU to reconsider its strategy towards it.

brusselssignal

Around 80.5 percent of asylum seekers from North African countries were accused of one or more offenses in Switzerland, underlining the massive amount of criminality present in this foreign population. The data comes from the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM).

For asylum seekers as a whole, the rate of criminality is much lower, with only 12.5 percent having been accused of one or more offenses. Nationals from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are therefore extremely overrepresented compared to other asylum seeker groups.

North Africans also have little chance of having their asylum applications accepted by Swiss authorities, with 99 percent of all applications rejected, according to Swiss newspaper Blick.

n 2024, a “24-hour” rule was introduced for accelerated asylum procedures for North African countries, which enables Swiss authorities to process asylum claims with a low chance of success more quickly. Applicants can still appeal the decisions, which can significantly increase delay in reaching a final decision.

“Criminals must leave Switzerland quickly. This is a priority of the asylum strategy,” said SEM spokesperson Daniel Bach.

However, the process is often delayed by the actions of asylum seekers, including refusing to provide fingerprints and failing to show up for deportation appointments.

Many applicants also obstruct the accelerated procedure: they refuse to provide their fingerprints, do not show up for appointments or quickly leave Switzerland. In these cases, their request can be filed without formalities.

Authorities are now working to implement new measures to quickly deport asylum seekers, including the “systematic use of coercive measures against the perpetrators of repeated offenses.” Authorities are also planning to introduce stricter rules for administrative detention.

The SEM also wants to increase cooperation with North African countries and recently signed an agreement with Morocco to accelerate the of asylum seekers ordered to be deported and help facilitate their return.

rmx

by Giulio Meotti

Two great black squares that look like cosmic embrasures, where the Twin Towers once rose.

The 9/11 Memorial is called “Reflecting Absence.” The water, dense and dark, does not flow: it plunges. It falls without respite into the voids, in a continuous gushing that fills nothing, consoles nothing, and forgets nothing.

It is a hole of black water, a vertical maelstrom that swallows the light and returns a low, monotonous, liturgical sound.

I approach the edge, emerging from the subway that rises beneath Calatrava’s Oculus. I had been missing from this chilling place for some years.

The surface is still up to the brim; it breaks and plunges in thousands of dark threads, thin as strands of mourning hair. It is not a waterfall: it is a continuous hemorrhage. The water does not foam, does not splash: it descends with a funereal dignity, as if it knew it had to safeguard a silence greater than itself.

One has the sensation that the Western world is still leaking, drop after drop, second after second.

A rectangle of sky replaced by a bottomless well. The towers were not demolished: they were subtracted from the horizon, and in their place this double abyss remains, which continues to drink.

The black water does not reflect the faces of those who lean over to look at it; it absorbs them, dissolves them, carries them away. Those who lean over here are not seeking their own image: they are seeking what can no longer be found.

I look at the names of the three thousand dead engraved in bronze. Each of them is a thread that the black water continues to drag downward. There is no hierarchy, no rhetorical consolation. Only the endless list of those who did not return home. The water falls on those names, wets them without erasing them, makes them shine for an instant before carrying them away again. It is a baptism in reverse: it does not wash away sin, but perpetuates the memory of blood.

The city that saw the towers fall under the weight of planes piloted by men who invoked Allah has elected a mayor who bows to the same cultural tradition that speaks the language of those who, in other latitudes, still today consider the West an enemy.

I leave the area of the Twin Towers and pick up New York’s glossiest magazine.

New York as “Habibi City.”

The phenomenon described by the New York magazine series “Habbi City*,” glorifying Palestinian terror and likening Zionism to a variety of racism to be overcome, focuses on the SWANA generation, the English acronym for Southwest Asia and North Africa, which includes people from a range of countries from “Palestine” and Iran to Sudan. According to the article, signed by journalist Zaina Arafat, this cultural energy has transformed New York into a “Middle Eastern enclave”.

The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor is presented as decisive proof of the golden age of this community.

Meanwhile in Michigan they were celebrating the victory of Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic primaries for the Senate.

El-Sayed is the son of Egyptian immigrants, an openly declared Muslim, and, should he be elected in the general election of November 2026, he would become the first Muslim to sit in the United States Senate.

Kamel Daoud writes in Le Point:

“One wakes up to this news in France. America, the one that knew McCarthyism against communism, September 11, Obamacare, and hyper-nationalism-is it Islamizing? Will America one day be an Islamist empire? Perhaps yes. Western democracy, this universal solution now under assault from its own contradictions, resembles a rigged poker game. As an amused echo, an article published a few weeks ago in Al-Quds Al-Arabi, one of the main Arab newspapers: ‘Did Muslims discover America before Columbus?’ The article is a bit confused, but it summarizes well what is being plotted today: an America to be claimed, in its mythologized past as in its future to be conquered.”

Meanwhile the conquest proceeds according to plan.

A few hours before I left New York, there was an attempted attack on the Central Synagogue of Manhattan.

I wonder how much longer this dark water will have to fall before the Western void is filled. The answer, I already know, is: none.

That hole is not destined to close. It is destined to remain open, to continue gushing, to remind anyone who passes that something irreparable happened here, and that the irreparable has taken the form of this black water that never stops plunging and of this demographic energy that transforms everything.

It will continue to gush, black and incessant, because the West has chosen not to fill that hole with its own substance. Habibi City is not an imposed destiny: it is the result of an absence of will.

The black water descends and we count the drops instead of building dams.

israelnationalnews

The city of Vienna has published a “contraception brochure” for people of all ages that promotes abortion and advocates for LGBT causes.

The 90-page document, titled “Very Intimate: My Body, Our Contraception,” was funded by the Vienna Women’s Health Program and is targeted at women and girls.

Regarding the question “what sexuality means,” the brochure states: “Sex can mean many different things. When it comes to sexuality, many people think of love, comfort, and security.”

“For others, sex is an adventure. They want to explore every possibility. Some seek confirmation through sex that they are attractive. For still others, sex is a spiritual matter. For them, it’s about more than just the physical experience. Many people want to have a pleasant and pleasurable time during sex, free from stress. Good sex means something different to everyone. Over the course of a person’s life, what they want sexually and what they consider good sex usually changes,” the brochure states.

Continuing, it adds: “It helps to know your own body and understand which areas and types of touch feel good. That way, you know how to experience pleasure. Masturbation is a particularly good way to learn this.”

Journalist Anna-Sophie Prosquill noted in the Austrian news outlet Exxpress that the brochure targets “girls and women” but gives no age restrictions, implying it also targets very young girls.

The document, published by the city, also states that there is a variety of sexual orientations, including “asexual, bisexual, heterosexual, lesbian, pansexual, gay.”

“It’s not possible to categorize exactly what feelings one has or who one is attracted to,” the brochure suggests. “Feelings and sexual orientation can vary.”

The document also promotes and explains various forms of contraception, including the use of an intrauterine device (IUD) after having sexual intercourse, which can also act as an abortifacient by preventing the embryo from implanting in the uterus. It also informs women and girls of the possibility of getting an abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy in Austria.

The document furthermore promotes transgender ideology. “Sexual organs are not always clearly female or clearly male,” it states. “This is the case for about 1.7 percent of people. This is called intersex.”

The 1.7 percent figure for those considered intersex is disputed, as it is based on a 2000 paper that used an overly broad definition of intersex. Critics like psychologist and family physician Leonard Sax have argued that, with a more precise definition, the prevalence of intersex is only about 0.018 percent.

“It also happens that people do not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth,” the brochure continues. “For example, a person with a penis might feel like a girl.”

The document links to a site that provides information on “transsexuality,” including explanations of how to “transition,” i.e., receive hormone therapy and mutilating surgeries if one suffers from gender dysphoria.

Peter Hacker, city councilor for health, praised the document as a “great” guide: “This digital compass provides an overview of the pros and cons of all current contraceptives, as well as their effectiveness and use. It’s a great way to prepare for a consultation with a gynecologist.” Hacker said they also wanted to reach out to men. Contraception is “not just a women’s issue,” he said.

Vienna-based physician Dr. Marcus Franz criticized the brochure. He told Exxpress that the stated goal of removing female genitalia “from the realm of shame and taboo” is problematic.

“On the one hand, sex education is good – no question about it. On the other hand, what’s being presented here is questionable when they say that shame should be eliminated. Cultural shame exists for a reason – shamelessness is, after all, a negative term; it’s something undesirable. Shame serves a purpose; it also protects the most intimate areas, not just for women, but for men as well.”

He characterized the statement, “It’s important to bring female genitalia out of the realm of shame and taboo” as absurd.

“What is that supposed to mean? That every woman should expose her intimate areas or treat them as casually as she does other body parts?”

He argued this creates a contradiction: “On the one hand, women are resisting sexualization and, quite rightly, sexualized violence; on the other hand, they’re now supposed to demonstratively expose their genitals. You can’t be outraged by the sexualization of women on the one hand and reject modesty on the other – that doesn’t hold up logically.”

The project of providing “education” on contraception and LGBT issues is not a novel idea for the city of Vienna. The brochure is very similar to a document released by the city in 2020.

lifesitenews

Two Afghan nationals raped a woman at knifepoint during a terrifying attack in an east London park after approaching her while she was star gazing with a date.

Afghani Khan Agah and Noorullah Ahmdzai attacked the woman in Barking Park at around 11pm on August 16 last year, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.

The pair pinned her down after confronting her and told her they “just wanted to have some fun with her”.

Ahmdzai, 26, raped the woman while Agah held a Swiss Army-style knife to her date’s throat and threatened to kill him if he called police.

The pair then switched roles, with Agah also assaulting the woman while her date was held at knifepoint.

Prosecutors said the woman was suffocated during the “petrifying and awful” attack, which left her “numb”.

The victim had met her date through an online dating app around two weeks earlier.

She told the trial she had been lying in his arms beneath the stars after he had serenaded her with his guitar when the two men approached.

Nutan Fatania, prosecuting, said the defendants had treated the woman as an “object they could use and abuse”.

She said the pair had approached two strangers who were lying together and overpowered them before carrying out the attack.

The woman’s date was allegedly threatened with the words: “I will kill you right now.”

He was unable to call police while the assault was taking place because of the knife being held against him.

DNA recovered from the victim’s clothing following the attack was used by police to establish the defendants’ involvement.

Ahmdzai claimed the woman had offered to have sex with the pair for £20, but a jury rejected his account after deliberating for nine hours.

Both men were convicted of two counts of rape, two counts of threatening with a knife, assault by penetration and false imprisonment.

They are due to be sentenced in October, with Judge Leslie Cuthbert warning they face “lengthy custodial sentences”.

The court also ordered dangerousness reports for both men, while a separate report will be prepared to establish Agah’s age.

Agah claimed during the trial that he was 16 when the attack happened and is now 17, although court records state he is 19.

The Daily Mail successfully challenged a reporting restriction which had prevented Agah from being named, arguing there was a public interest in identifying him following his conviction.

The temporary restriction had been imposed because of uncertainty over his age.

Ahmdzai arrived in Britain in a small boat in August 2023 and was initially housed in a Home Office hotel in London before being moved to Liverpool.

His asylum claim was rejected and he later returned to London while pursuing an appeal.

Agah also entered the UK illegally, although the court heard his precise route into Britain was unclear.

Home Office guidance means both men are expected to face deportation if, as anticipated, they receive sentences of more than a year.

Detective Constable Megan Lelliott, who led the investigation, described the attack as a “horrific ordeal”.

She praised the victim for her courage in reporting what happened and reliving the experience during the trial.

The officer said the woman’s bravery had ensured that two “dangerous men” would be held accountable for their actions.

gbnews