Far-left riots in France lead to destruction of ancient Limoges city hall, and Italy's Milan also sees similar incidents

Jean-Luc Melenchon's repulsive communist party's machinations have resulted in the destruction of the Limoges city hall:

Local prosecutors said that at least 15 people have been arrested in connection with the riots that broke out in Limoges and the arson which destroyed the city’s historic City Hall.

The supposed demonstration against the cost of living and education spending on Saturday evening saw the destruction of Limoges City Hall, an 1883 Neo-Renaissance building designed to pay homage to Paris’s Hôtel de Ville.

Designated as a historic monument in 1975, the 143-year-old building was largely destroyed in a fire allegedly set by rioters who entered the building. Dramatic images shared on social media show the building’s tower collapsing amid the conflagration.

According to Limoges prosecutor Emilie Abrantes, police have made “more than 15 arrests” in connection with the fire and the riots, which also saw six police cars burned and multiple businesses in the city centre looted.

The Limoges-based Le Populaire du Centre newspaper reported that, according to a City Hall source, “the rioters entered through a cellar door beneath the council chamber. They reportedly threatened to kill those inside.

When the rioters threaten murder, that speaks volumes. It makes no difference what their ethnic/religious/ideological background is, they cannot remain in the country, period, and exiling violence monsters is going to have to become a serious issue to be brought forth.

And now, of all times, Macron's government actually has what it takes to blame the far-left for this terrible incident:

The French government has accused the far-left of stoking the riots that engulfed the nation on Saturday, resulting in widespread clashes with police, looting of shops, as well as vandalism and arson of government buildings.

What began last month as a small protest over teacher shortages at a school in the Créteil suburb of Paris has become a full-on national revolt, with various leftist unions and other organisations also taking to the streets in cities across the country on Saturday, with an estimated 550,000 demonstrators.

At a press conference in Paris, Minister of the Interior Laurent Nuñez said that unlike other protests, where rioters wait until the end of the event to turn violent, the violence on Saturday “started right from the beginning”, Le Figaro reported.

Nuñez specifically blamed the “radical left” for stoking the riots, saying that “groups of several hundred or thousands of rioters, clearly instigated by the far left, attacked the police,” leaving at least 60 officers injured. He said that around 400 people, mostly adults, have been arrested. However, the minister noted that “the day isn’t over yet.”

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu also pointed to “ultra-left groups” being behind the demonstrations and having “organised violence in several French cities”.

“Peaceful demonstrations have their rightful place in our Republic. Arson, looting, and attacks have no place whatsoever,” he said. “To those who clearly want to use these acts of violence as a ‘warm-up’ before the presidential election, I say this plainly: we will not be intimidated. No one will impose their political agenda through violence.”

Well this sure is audacious of them, after Macron went and made a faustian pact with them just to keep the RN from getting a real majority in parliament a few years ago. Did he actually think this was going to literally change their ideological beliefs and make them take up civilized lifestyles? Sorry, but this is coming awfully late, and now the country's paying a heavy price for Macron's irresponsibilities.

Making matters worse, the riots have now spread even to Italy:

The European anarchy has set the stage for a particularly disturbing scene in Milan, Italy, as one of Christianity's most recognizable landmarks became the backdrop for violent unrest.

Flames rose from makeshift barricades, fireworks exploded, and thick smoke filled the square outside Milan Cathedral, the magnificent Gothic church that has stood at the heart of the city for centuries. [...]

The violence erupted during a left-wing demonstration that drew more than 5,000 people to Milan. What began as a protest over high prices, low wages, and deteriorating public services descended into clashes between police and groups of masked rioters, some of them clearly North African immigrants.

According to Italian news reports, rioters hurled stones, firecrackers, and makeshift explosives at officers while setting fire to rubbish, street furniture, and barricades. Police responded with tear gas, water cannons, and charges.

Windows were smashed, shops closed their shutters, and tourists fled the city center as police fought to regain control of the square. ANSA reported that police officers were injured and approximately 20 people received medical attention in the area.

The cathedral itself was not reported damaged. But the spectacle unfolding beneath its spires was extraordinary. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the violence.

"Demonstrating is a right. Setting our cities on fire is not," Meloni said in a statement reported by ANSA.

The location makes the images particularly jarring. Milan Cathedral, known as the Duomo di Milano, is one of Europe's great Christian monuments. Construction began in 1386, and its elaborate marble facade and towering spires have become inseparable from the city's identity.

So now it's clear Europe is being plunged into a war that was bound to happen sooner or later, and who knows if anybody in the USA's willing to help them now, after all the horrific university and school indoctrination that went unchecked and uncurbed for many years? I don't believe even the shoddy Federalist editor John Daniel Davidson's willing to go to war if that's what it takes to put an end to what the Religion of Peace is resulting in (and Sean Davis is no better). I mean, where were people like these when Betty Mahmoody was trying to save her daughter from being turned into a hostage of Islam in Iran 4 decades ago? Some people may not realize it, but some of the worst enablers of Islamofascism came from within the conservative movement and put the keys in the ignition for the left to spread further. Those "conservatives" who aren't willing to fight for freedom have no business even commenting on the issues, period.

Update: sadly but predictably, a synagogue was also the subject of looting.

Trump administration is enabling exile of Christians from Syria

Catherine Salgado points to how Christians are disappearing from the middle east, and one part sticks out in particular for pondering:

Between the Islamic civil war in Syria and the current dictatorship under the genocidal Syrian President Abu Mohammad al-Golani (also known as Ahmed al-Sharaa) and his terrorist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, the Christian population of Syria has almost vanished. Within living memory, Lebanon was Christian; now it is mostly Muslim. In Iran and Iraq, ancient communities of Christians have shrunk almost to nonexistence. In Turkey, where Constantinople was once a glory of the Christian world, the Muslims have stolen Christian heritage and Christian lands. In Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and numerous other countries in the Middle East, Christians have disappeared or are barely hanging on. Gaza’s and Bethlehem’s Christian populations have dropped under Palestinian Authority control. This is the legacy of Islamic takeover. Israel stands out in the Middle East because its Christian population is actually growing. Christians can visit the holiest sites of our religion because of the Israeli government.

So as you see, Salgado doesn't hold back in her description of al-Sharaa, and she's right that the whole notion anything is literally improving for Christians in other parts of the middle east is mistaken. Let's also not forget what it's like in certain parts of Africa like Nigeria, which Trump has addressed, but lately hasn't done so as much, and that could be troubling too. Either way, that he would be willing to recognize an Islamofascist and approve of his becoming an autocrat in Syria is very disturbing, and does serious damage to the efforts to put an end to the Religion of Peace's tyrannical reign anywhere.

It's not enough that Israel be considered a place where Christianity can survive. Even other parts of the middle east and Europe have to count.

"Gays for Gaza" activist was murdered by Muslim migrant in Arizona

A left-wing gay photographer fell victim to the very ideology practiced by the "community" he sided with:

A Gambian immigrant fatally shot two men in the parking lot of the Tucson gay bar Monday before killing himself, in what police have confirmed was a premeditated hate crime targeting the homosexual community.

Tucson police say Ousman Ceesay, 44, opened fire on Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, and Cameron Davis Capara, 33, around 12:30 a.m. outside Venture-N, a longtime gay bar near the University of Arizona campus, NBC News reported. Both victims died at the scene. Ceesay turned a 9mm handgun on himself and later died at a hospital.

Investigators said Ceesay had no known connection to either victim and had only recently relocated to Tucson from Oklahoma City. He was carrying a written list of other LGBT-associated businesses in the area, though surveillance footage reviewed by detectives showed he never attempted to enter Venture-N itself during the attack.

A search of Ceesay’s home turned up a separate note that police say confirmed he acted alone and that the shooting was deliberately aimed at the gay community, the outlet reported. Tucson Police Chief Monica Prieto called the killings “especially heinous” and said bias-motivated violence has no place in the city. Officers have since mad[e] contact with every business named on Ceesay’s list and increased patrols nearby, though authorities say there is no known ongoing threat.

Ceesay had no criminal record in Pima County and was legally permitted to own firearms, police said.

According to his cousin, interviewed by the Arizona Daily Star, he had worked as an Uber driver and was a practicing Muslim who prayed five times daily. Ceesay and his wife filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2018 after accruing more than $76,000 in debt, and that the couple faced eviction over unpaid rent as recently as last year.

Capara, a photographer, had spent years documenting the gay scene, campus life, and pro-Palestinian demonstrations and anti-ICE rallies around Tucson. His father, Jeff Capara, separately told the Star his son cared deeply about people he considered marginalized.

This is almost similar to the antisemitic tragedy in Australia last year, when a jihadist who had a gun permit attacked a Chanuka celebration at the beach. The difference here is that one of the victims was far-left, and an Antifa activist:

According to reporter Andy Ngo, Ceesay is a Muslim, and one of his victims, Capara, was afflicted with the left-wing movement known as Antifa.

“He advocated anti-American views and supported mass illegal migration,” Ngo said of Capara.

Yet in the end, his standings did not protect him from the Religion of Peace. And no telling if any other leftists at the site of incident will reevaluate their beliefs.

Cornell university's one of the repulsive places to be

The following investigation (via Accuracy In Media) reveals they have some very disgusting students there:

The Cornell University student who became notorious for declaring that he would not work for “a Jew” revealed the broader extent of his antisemitism in an undercover conversation published last week, discussing Holocaust denial, racial hierarchy, and conspiracies about Jewish power with a woman he believed shared his views.

“It might not have been the smartest thing to say,” Austin Franco told an undercover investigator working for Accuracy in Media, referring to the message he sent the Jewish founders of a rental-technology startup. “But the reaction was overwhelming, not equal to what I said. I thought I was being nice. This is why I don’t want to work for them.”

Franco, 19, claimed that his hostility toward Jews intensified after he was fired from a job by a Jewish supervisor, describing the episode as a turning point that pushed him toward online personalities and publications promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.

“You just have to lay the cards on the table and realize there is no way you’re getting to power — I mean, unless you want to wear the little hat, right? Kiss the wall,” he said. Franco then recommended a Substack writer whose work he described as interesting, while acknowledging that he did not necessarily believe everything the author said about Jews and the Holocaust.

Franco also discussed supposed racial differences in intelligence, arguing that Black people should accept being intellectually inferior to other groups even while outperforming them athletically.

Absolutely obscene. They seem to have quite a few students and professors there who're really pulling some bigoted atrocities, including on subjects like October 7, 2023. Why anybody believes you have to attend a university in order to learn things that could just as well be studied at home is mystifying. Of course, it could also be asked how we allow these universities to continue being under whatever irresponsible ownership they're under, and why nobody sensible wants to buy them out. Something must be thought of in order to buy out these universities if that's what it takes to put an end to these atrocities there.

Muslim invasion in Spanish Ceuta enclave leaves at least 67 dead

While some of these casualties of the latest Muslim "migrant" crisis around Spain's Ceuta enclave may be the invaders themselves, there do appear to sadly be innocent bystanders who were victims too:

The death toll in Spain’s Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67, the Spanish government said Saturday. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.

Spain announced it was installing a 500-meter-long containment barrier along the breakwater fence into the sea after between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants breached the tiny Spanish territory’s frontier between Thursday and Friday.

A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta’s urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border. Spain’s interior ministry says the majority of those who entered the Spanish territory in North Africa have already returned to Morocco.

After days of chaos and streets packed with people who had hoped for a better life in Spain, residents of Ceuta woke up Saturday to an uneasy calm.

Even so, security for residents of the autonomous city of 84,000 remained bruised.

Well, Pedro Sanchez's disastrous policies have definitely done it again. If this reaches mainland Spain itself, it'll spell an absolute horror.

Why not say what that ideology is clearly?

Federalist writer Brianna Lyman argues it's not Zohran Mamdani who's the problem in the USA now, but rather, immigration of people who uphold the same kind of ideologies he does, which she curiously won't specify:

That said, conservatives still face a serious problem — it’s just not the threat Cruz and McCain are warning against.

The real danger is an immigration system that has imported millions of new residents and aspiring leaders (like Mamdani) who seek to fundamentally destroy the republic and replace it with the same kind of failed ideologies found in the very places these immigrants fled.

Mamdani is example No. 1: a Ugandan-born socialist whose politics are fundamentally hostile to and incompatible with the republic. An October survey from Patriot Polling showed just how necessary New York’s foreign-born population was to Mamdani’s winning coalition. The poll found he led among foreign-born New York residents with 62 percent support compared with just 31 percent of American-born support. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa had 40 percent and 25 percent support, respectively, among native-born Americans.

Mamdani himself has acknowledged that immigrants were decisive in his rise. He made a point of relating a conversation with one voter who said, “I just got my citizenship. And I’m voting for you.”

Mamdani then specifically thanked immigrants for powering his campaign during his victory speech: “We will fight for you, because we are you. Or, as we say on Steinway, ana minkum wa alaikum. Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city, who made this movement their own. I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas. Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses. Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.” He went on to assert that “New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant.”

The speech was an acknowledgment of an electorate fundamentally transformed by immigration. America willingly imported foreigners who are fundamentally incompatible with the republic, and they make it clear through their voting patterns.

The part where Mamdani made use of an Arabic phrase is the closest this item gets to alluding to anything about the Religion of Peace. Gee, why exactly doesn't Mrs. Lyman have the courage it takes to raise the issue outright? How can even communism be opposed if nobody's going to make things clear? Why, what about Scientology? Let's not think that couldn't also be a problem.

This is another Federalist article that falls way short of potential, all because specific ideologies aren't named, and it's not enough to mention socialism either if you don't also make clear why Islam's a serious problem. Not that we should be surprised an online magazine whose own editor is a bad lot could water things down so laughably. For all we know, if the editor's a shameful person, who knows if he's even willing to advocate defending Europe if they're conquered by Islam? This is sadly a far different era than that of WW2, and if he won't support defeating Iran's Islamofascist regime convincingly, then we can't take his word at face value that he allegedly cares about Europe. Failure to clearly acknowledge Islam and communism being an enemy is another serious letdown.

Geert Wilders is right: when streets turn violent, we must reclaim them

Following riots in France that occurred after a sports match, Geert Wilders has written about the need to take back our streets for safety's sake:

Following a football match, rioters in Paris went on a rampage in the French capital, looting shops setting cars on fire, attacking, even firing at police officers. Videos and television footage showed that many rioters had an immigrant background. It is a scene Europeans have become all too familiar with – not just in France, but all over the continent.

In the past decades, Europe’s ruling elites have allowed millions of immigrants from Africa and the Islamic world to settle in our midst. Some of them hate their host country to the extent that they want to destroy it. They loot and vandalize, assault and rape, and even murder.

Leading politicians – such as Emmanuel Macron in France, Rob Jetten in my own Netherlands, Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, and many others in their ivory towers – think that people do not notice what is going on. But they do notice, and they are deeply worried. They want the chaos to stop. They also realize the root cause of our societal break-down: Mass immigration by people who contribute absolutely nothing to our societies and reject our cultural values.

While our cities begin to resemble war zones, our governments continue their march of folly. In my country, the authorities want to force literally every municipality in the Netherlands to house a quota of asylum seekers. These fortune seekers, many of whom are young men, are being lodged in hotels, holiday resorts, former schools, former army barracks, even on cruise ships.

I have called on the Dutch people to resist – firmly, but always in a non-violent manner – the establishment of centres for asylum seekers in their neighbourhoods. I have recently begun a nation-wider resistance tour, visiting local communities where the authorities are planning new asylum centres.

The response has been overwhelming. The mainstream media do not report on the protests because the demonstrators are peaceful and law-abiding.

It is not our people who go rampaging in the streets, ravaging their neighbourhoods! We are not conquerors like the thugs in the streets of Paris; we defend our homes. We do not destroy our communities; we love them. We do not loot our neighbours; we protect them. We do not harass and attack our women; we stand up for them.

Well if Donald Trump can perform mass deportations of monsters from the USA, so can European governments, and that's something the public must dedicate itself to demanding now. Wilders is right that something must be done.

Pope Leo's tour of dhimmitude continues

The current Catholic pope, whom Donald Trump recently took issue with over his disturbing kowtowing to bad causes, is now disembarking on a journey to Algeria, where he'll be the first pope to visit the Muslim dominated country:

Leo XIV will become the first pope to visit Algeria on Monday, taking a message of dialogue with Islam on a trip that also represents a personal pilgrimage for the American pontiff.

Algeria is the first stop on an 11-day tour of four African nations, covering 18,000 kilometres and also taking in Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea from April 13 to 23.

No other pontiff has visited Algeria, a North African country where Islam is the state religion, and the 70-year-old’s arrival is being eagerly awaited by the Catholic minority.

The visit also holds a strong personal dimension for Pope Leo, as modern-day Algeria was home to Saint Augustine (354-430), a great Christian theologian whose spiritual legacy permeates his pontificate.

As the world watches anxiously with war raging in the Middle East, peaceful coexistence will be at the heart of the pope’s message in a country where 99 percent of its 47 million inhabitants are Muslim.

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the pope’s aim was to “address the Islamic world, but also to confront a common challenge of coexistence”.

Algeria’s constitution guarantees freedom of worship, although the authorities must approve both the place of worship and the preacher.

Yet human rights groups say the repression of religious minorities has continued in Algeria in recent years.

Don't count on Leo bringing up the persecution of Christians in the region, or even in Syria, for that matter. Islam doesn't recognize co-existence. It only recognizes erasure and replacement of all other cultures, though what's really horrific is the violent content of the koran.

Predictably, Leo responded to Trump's criticisms about how you could possibly expect:

Pope Leo XIV responded Monday to President Donald Trump criticising him over the U.S.-Israel war in Iran, telling reporters the Vatican works for peace and reconciliation based on the teachings of the Gospel, adding he fears neither the Trump administration or vigorous debate.

“To put my message on the same plane as what the president has attempted to do here, I think is not understanding what the message of the Gospel is,” Leo told the Associated Press aboard the papal plane en route to Algeria where he is beginning an historic four-country Africa trip.

“And I’m sorry to hear that but I will continue on what I believe is the mission of the church in the world today.”

And that's "turning the other cheek" when it comes to a savage-run country building nuclear weapons, huh? Leo's doing nothing to turn the tide on the Religion of Peace, and John Daniel Davidson at the Federalist news site so far hasn't commented on where the pope's going, which only suggests said site's not really interested in getting rid of Islam as a "teaching tool".

Senegalese jihadist murdered 3 people at bar in Austin, Texas

A Muslim immigrant from Senegal committed murder at a Texas bar before being gunned down by police, and now authorities have discovered more evidence of his ideological drivings:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has discovered evidence at the scene of the mass shooting at a popular Austin nightclub that indicates a potential nexus to terrorism. During a press conference held in Austin early Saturday morning, FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Alex Doran of the San Antonio FBI office said the evidence was discovered on the shooter and in his vehicle. [...]

Speaking at the latest press conference, Doran told reporters that the FBI is working with the Austin Police Department to collect and process evidence at the scene, including the agency’s evidence response team and digital forensics specialists. Commenting on the nexus to terrorism, Doran said, “It’s still way too early in the process to determine an exact motivation, but there were indicators that, on the subject and in his vehicle, indicate potential nexus to terrorism.”

Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis provided more details on the shooting, telling reporters the incident began when the suspect, who has not been identified, drove his large SUV-type vehicle up to Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden and began shooting toward the establishment with a pistol. According to Davis, the shooter struck several patrons at the bar who were on the patio and at the front of the establishment.

Here's more:

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) echoed the reports on the shooter’s shirt with an X post: “I’ve heard from multiple sources that the Austin shooter wore a shirt saying ‘Property of Allah.’ — in addition to Quran in car, and naturalizing from Senegal just over a decade ago”

And the worst part is that the monster was apparently doing it out of revenge for taking down the Iranian ayatollah:

A law enforcement official told AP that the attacker was wearing clothing with an Iranian flag design and declared “Property of Allah." The shooting occurred a day after the United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran.

Police shot and killed the gunman at the scene. According to authorities, he used both a pistol and a rifle during the attack. [...]

The suspect was identified by the Department of Homeland Security as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne. DHS said Diagne first entered the United States in 2000 on a B-2 tourist visa. He became a lawful permanent resident six years later after marrying a US citizen and was naturalized as a US citizen in 2013.

According to multiple individuals briefed on the investigation who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity, Diagne was originally from Senegal.

Authorities discovered “indicators" on the suspect and in his vehicle that led the FBI to examine the possibility of terrorism, said Alex Doran, the acting agent in charge of the FBI’s San Antonio office.

Some could say the monster was an Iranian sleeper agent, and that's another reason the spread of Islam over past decades in the west is so abominable, because of all the danger it's led to domestically. One more reason why a denaturalization process and exiling is needed to deal with these trojan horses.

Update: here's more news about what the investigation found.

The first pope from the USA proves to be a very bad one

Pope Leo announced he'd be visiting the Italian island of Lampedusa, site of many Muslim illegal immigration arrivals (H/T: Front Page):

Pope Leo XIV will spend July 4 visiting a Mediterranean island known for migrant crossings into Europe.

The Vatican announced this week that the first American leader of the Catholic Church will visit Lampedusa, a small Italian island that has for years served as a gateway for migrants and refugees traveling to Europe from Africa and the Middle East.

Pope Leo expressed a desire to visit Lampedusa in a video message sent to volunteers there last year, in which he said they “have shown … the smile and the attention of a human face to people who have survived in a desperate journey of hope.”

His predecessor, Pope Francis, celebrated Mass on the island in 2013 on an altar made of shipwrecked migrant boats, throwing a wreath into the ocean in honor of migrants who lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

The Vatican announced earlier this month that Pope Leo would not be visiting the U.S. this year, after Vice President J.D. Vance personally delivered an invitation from President Donald Trump during a visit to the Vatican in May last year.

Pope Leo also pandered to Ramadan adherents, so there's something else quite telling about his MO. He may be the first Catholic representative from the USA who was elected pope for the Vatican, but he's definitely proven to be the worst, and he's embarrassed the USA as a result. Note how he won't even visit his homeland or travel to the White House to meet with the POTUS and the Veep, and that's very telling as well. Leo's one of the worst sellouts of his sort.

A positive message by Marco Rubio

The USA secretary of state delivered an important message while attending a conference in Germany:

“We want allies who are proud of their culture … and able to defend it,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a meeting of European politicians, generals, media, and influencers in Germany on Valentine’s Day.

Rubio’s eloquent speech got a standing ovation from the Europeans because it was a strong, diplomatic rebuke of the reckless European left-wing parties that dominate European politics. The left-wing parties hate the European citizen-led nations and are deliberately dissolving them in an acidic sea of resentful migrants, civic chaos, welfare spending, and low-tech poverty.

Rubio urged Europe’s elites to adopt a low-migration, high-tech policy that protects citizens’ valuable culture, promotes productivity and innovation, and expands wealth-creating trade with developing countries in Asia and Africa.

His speech matched Trump’s January speech to Davos leaders and Vice President JD Vance’s November comments to a TV interviewer.

For now, Europe has to prove they can deport the Islamist invaders, if they ever want to one day improve the situation. And we have to hope the USA will be willing to aid the native populations on all relevant issues.

Israel first to recognize new sovereign Somaliland, a breakaway from Somalia

Something I'd wanted to comment on before, but only now have found the time, is Israel being the first to recognize the sovereignty of the new area that's broken away from Somalia called Somaliland:

In a conversation on Wednesday between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the issue came up, and India may be the next country to recognize Somaliland. For the Indians, strategic partners of Israel in trade to and from Europe, a foothold on the coast opposite the Bab al-Mandab strait is particularly important.

Trade from India to Europe has been damaged due to attacks by the Houthis, who are located on the other side of the Gulf of Aden. In the conversation with Netanyahu, other issues came up, including strengthening cooperation in combating terrorism, advancing initiatives on trade and communication routes, and collaborating in military technologies.

Israel Hayom has learned that, besides India, Israel has been holding discussions with other countries about recognizing Somaliland – countries that have identical interests to Israel on the issue. Among others, these include Ethiopia, which previously signed a memorandum of understanding with Somaliland authorities, and Kenya, which suffers from Islamist terror organizations whose bases are in Somalia.

At the end of last month, Israel became the first country in the world, and the only one so far, to recognize the independence of the African territory. This week, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar made a historic visit to Somaliland to mark Israel's recognition of the nation. His visit sparked significant anger. The recognition stemmed from strategic considerations – Somaliland sits on one of the world's vital shipping routes.

It's welcome based on how it does undermine the main Somalia itself, but one problem is that Somililand may also be run by Islam. So beyond whether it gives the main Somalia what they deserve, does it do much good to recognize them? I suppose one good thing is that Israel's government may be doing this because of a possible arrangement where Gazan Muslims can move there instead. Even so, we still have to be careful about how to provide recognition to any country or region where the Religion of Peace reigns.

About time: Trump administration attacks jihadists in Nigeria

Donald Trump's government has wisely launched an attack against jihadists like ISIS in Nigeria, in a mission to defend persecuted women and Christians:

President Donald Trump stated that, acting as Commander in Chief, he directed the United States to carry out a “powerful and deadly strike” in northwest Nigeria against ISIS terrorists, whom he identified as responsible for targeting and killing innocent Christians at historically severe levels.

On Christmas night, President Donald Trump announced:

“Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!” Trump wrote:

I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.

It's a vital first step, and must be followed up by making sure to conduct ground raids to rescue women who were taken hostage by the jihadists. What's more, the corrupted Nigerian government, now run by Islamofascists, must be declared illegitimate, and brought down. If Trump's willing to do that, it's an important step for his 2nd term as POTUS.

More anti-Israel activists in Zohran Mamdani's committee

NYC's first Muslim mayor has added 2 more notable anti-Israel activists to his committee:

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's inaugural committee includes pro-Palestinian voices, children’s video educator Rachel Griffin Accurso, known to child viewers as Ms. Rachel, and Cynthia Nixon, in addition to Jewish anti-Israel activists, Mamdani revealed on Sunday. [...]

Nixon, noted on the inaugural committee webpage as being an "Actress and Activist," has been known for her role in Sex and the City as well as her anti-Israel statements during the Israel-Hamas war. She has claimed that American antisemitism “largely comes from the right wing, not from young people worried about Palestinians,” and in January signed a petition supporting South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

StopAntisemitism nominates Ms. Rachel for 'Antisemite of the Year'

Children's entertainer Rachel Griffin Accurso, better known as Ms. Rachel, has spoken against Israel and in defense of Palestinians numerous times. In November, she accepted Glamour Magazine's Woman of the Year award while wearing an outfit adorned with drawings by children from Gaza. She was also nominated for Antisemite of the Year by StopAntisemitism.

"For those Jewish New Yorkers considering relocating, StopAntisemitism is happy to put them in touch with realtors eager to help in Florida, Texas, and other locations where they will be safe," the organization said following the announcement of Ms. Rachel's inclusion on the committee.

This is exactly why I'm glad I never watched SATC, which is now notorious based on what was discovered about one of its male cast members a few years ago. IIRC, Nixon's TV show also contained insulting stereotypes of Jews as ugly. What do we need something like that for anyway?

In the meantime, Mamdani definitely is proving he's bad news for the Big Apple, which is bound to rot into utter misery under his coming tenure as mayor.

Trump bans entry to USA for people from PLO-dominated areas, along with several other Muslim/communist countries

While the Australian government, among others, continue their pathetic refusal to be realists, Donald Trump is taking a wise step by banning entry for certain Muslim/communist region inhabitants from entering the USA:

The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries — plus the Palestinian Authority — and imposing new limits on 15 others, doubling the number of jurisdictions affected by sweeping limits announced earlier this year on who can travel and emigrate to the U.S.

The administration said Tuesday it is banning citizens of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria from entering the U.S., as well as people travelling on documents issued by the Palestinian Authority.

Citizens of Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Dominica, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia and Zimbabwe will face partial restrictions.

The move is part of ongoing efforts to tighten U.S. entry standards for travel and immigration, and follows the arrest of an Afghan national in the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., over the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend.

It's interesting they wisely took steps to bar Syrian nationals entry to the USA, though it doesn't mean they're learning any clear and consistent lessons why it was wrong to validate Ahmed al-Sharaa as a "leader". That's something that'll need to be reversed if they really want to maintain proper security.

7/10 of French voters support a ban on Islamic veils

More opposition to Islamic niqabs is growing among the French public:

Opposition to outward displays of devotion to Islam appears be growing among the French people, with a survey finding that seven in ten voters would back a ban on the wearing of veils in public.

The liberal secularist values of the Fifth French Republic look set for a collision course with the burgeoning Muslim population, which has been imported mainly from France’s former colonies in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

With surveys suggesting that second and third generations of migrants are becoming more radical in their adherence to the Qur’an as groups like the Muslim Brotherhood take advantage of the emerging parallel societies fostered in ethnic minority enclaves, the issue of assimilation has become more pressing.

One integrationist proposal which appears to be gaining ground is to expand the restrictions on Islamic garb in public. In 2011, the government prohibited full face covering veils such as the burqa or niqab, and now some argue that this should be extended to head coverings such as the hijab.

According to a CSA survey for Le Journal du Dimanche, 69 per cent of French voters would support a ban on the Islamic veil in public. This, the paper noted, was an increase of eight points since 2022, when 61 per cent said that they were in favour of such a move.

Unsurprisingly, supporters of right wing parties such as the populist National Rally and the establishment centre-right Les Républicains were most in favour of a law to bar veils in public, at 82 and 80 per cent respectively. This was followed by supporters of the liberal Macronist coalition, 65 per cent of whom backed a ban.

Overall, 51 per cent of leftist voters also favour a ban, yet, supporters of the hard left Greens or the radical France in Revolt (La France Insoumise/LFI) party of Morocco-born Jean-Luc Mélenchon were both opposed at 65 and 56 per cent.

I think that can tell quite a bit about modern communists, and that perhaps they don't consider their positions as good as those of the Religion of Peace. Suggesting they consider more barbaric ideologies better than their own. That's one of the main reasons the 21st century resurgence of communism is such an awful thing - because it's clearly willing to align itself with the Religion of Peace, which does consider socialism acceptable, and has thus led to considerable disaster for many years now.

This is good to know much of the French public does consider it bad that Islamic veils have become a wide influence. And serious action must be taken against that, along with immigration from countries run by the Religion of Peace too.

Zohran Mamdani's transition team includes quite a few anti-Israel activists

NYC's soon to be 1st Muslim mayor has predictably arranged for a number of anti-Israel activists to be on his transition team:

Waleed Shahid describes himself as a democratic political strategist. He has a track record of mocking Jewish outlets and making anti-Israel comments on social media.

On October 7, 2023, the day of Hamas’ massacre, Shahid tweeted, “Similar to violent militias in Ireland, South Africa, and many places around the world, Hamas is also a byproduct of Israel’s violent policies of occupation and the second-class status of Palestinians.”

Responding to his appointment, the current mayor Adams administration said, “Waleed Shahid’s role in Mamdani’s transition team isn’t a surprise - it’s confirmation. Shahid’s track record of mocking Jewish outlets aligns perfectly with Mamdani’s own silence on antisemitism.”

“Mamdani didn’t just hire Shahid - he built a pipeline for activists who treat Jew-hatred as a punchline. Meanwhile, Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn can’t walk safely, and Mamdani’s response is more committees stacked with the same extremists who cheer BDS.”

That's one beginning example of what Mamdani's staff is bound to look like very soon. Another is Tamika Mallory, and there's more about her here too:

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team announced on Monday includes a prominent activist with a history of alleged antisemitism.

Tamika Mallory, a leader of the Women’s March movement, stepped down from the board of the feminist group in 2019 amid allegations of antisemitism among the organization’s leadership.

Mallory had lionized the antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and refused to condemn his discrimination against Jews. Mallory also reportedly said that Jews were responsible for the oppression of people of color, a charge she denied.

If that's the kind of libel she's going to spew, it's chilling to think, what if she's fully okay with Islamic regimes normalizing slavery? No doubt, there'll be plenty of repellent figures on the municipal staff and in Gracie Mansion soon enough, one more reason why NYC is clearly a most insufferable place to be at this point.

Trump did not take an objective position with Mamdani at White House meeting

When president Donald Trump met NYC's first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, at the White House for a special meeting, no firm stance on the latter's negative leanings was taken:

President Donald Trump offered an optimistic view of the direction of New York City after meeting with Democratic socialist Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday.

During a press conference that followed, Trump said the two found common ground in their desires to reduce the cost of living, while also cracking down on crime. He also acknowledged that Mamdani has “views that are a little out there,” adding that he’s likely to change.

“I feel very confident that he could do a very good job. I think he is gonna surprise some conservative people, actually,” Trump told reporters from the Oval Office.

Forget it, this does nothing to properly address the bad things Mamdani said during his campaign, and only excuses him for the offensive statements he made about Trump too. In fact, it dampens the impact of Trump's previous meeting with South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa, where the POTUS took a more objective stance regarding some of the most awful things going on the country Ramaphosa's leading, including, but not limited to, anti-white racism. Sure, Trump may have hinted he's ready to withhold funding for NYC if Mamdani follows through on anything bad, but even so, this is not the tour de force White House meeting many may have been hoping for. And that's a real shame. It won't improve the USA's situation.

Update: as noted here, Trump also failed to address Mamdani's anti-Israel rants:

After the meeting, Mamdani repeated his claims that the government of Israel is carrying out "genocide in Gaza," and said that the U.S. government is funding those actions.

"“I shared with the president in our meeting about the concern that many New Yorkers have about wanting their tax dollars to go toward the benefit of New Yorkers and their ability to afford basic dignity. There’s a desperate need not only for the following of human rights but also the following through on the promises we’ve made New Yorkers. We've spoken about the Israeli government committing genocide and I’ve spoken about our government funding it."

President Trump did not respond to those remarks during the meeting with reporters. When Mamdani was asked about the president's efforts to advance agreements in the Middle East, he replied "I appreciate all efforts toward peace. We’re tired of seeing our tax dollars fund endless wars, and I also believe that we have to follow through on the international human rights, and I know that still today those are being violated, and that continues to be work that has to be done, no matter where we’re speaking of.”

Later, Trump was asked about Mamdani's threat to detain Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to New York, and he briefly answered, "We did not discuss that."

In addition, Mamdani's spokeswoman Dora Pekec, referenced his recent objections to the Nefesh B'Nefesh event held in a New York synagogue: "The Mayor-elect has discouraged the language used at last night’s protest and will continue to do so. He believes every New Yorker should be free to enter a house of worship without intimidation, and that these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law."

Through his spokeswoman, Mamdani continues to take a double-standard on the issue of immigrating to Israel, and Trump's failure to discuss Mamdani's use of a forked tongue approach is hugely disappointing.

NYC district attorney lets off Muslim rapist taxi driver from Algeria

Alvin Bragg, who won reelection as NYC's district attorney by an alarmingly comfortable margin, took a lenient position with a Muslim rapist who attacked women in the taxi he drove (H/T: Breitbart):

He’s hell on wheels.

An Algerian immigrant NYC cabbie driving without a partition or a camera allegedly assaulted two women in the back of his yellow taxi in separate incidents — and is still on the road, thanks to soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, according to sources and court documents.

Mohammed Bellebia, 34, was allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges in at least one of the incidents, records showed. [...]

In Bartow’s case, Bellebia was facing misdemeanor charges of forcible touching and sexual abuse and could have faced a sentence from probation to a year in jail.

Instead, he pleaded guilty in March to disorderly conduct, a mere violation, and was set free on a conditional discharge — meaning he was to get no jail time as long as he stayed out of trouble, records showed.

Bartow said Bragg’s office left her in the dark about the slap on the wrist.

The prosecutor “never told me that he pled guilty to a lesser charge,” Bartow said. “The only reason I was even informed was because I reached out three times — two of those were not returned.

A terrible example of how what occurs in Europe is also occurring in the USA. This horrific case is one more reason why it's astonishing how Bragg could be reelected as DA by such a comfortable margin as 70-plus percent. This is also a chilling forewarning what more horrors could be awaiting NYC with Zohran Mamdani now elected as the Big Apple's first Muslim mayor.

Tucker Carlson continues to perpetuate antisemitism on the right, and ignorance of Islamic slavery in Africa

Jamie Glazov addresses the sad case of reporter Tucker Carlson's antisemitism, and what he ignores in all his obsessions

Tucker Carlson recently interviewed Nick Fuentes on his show. During the program, Tucker — unsurprisingly — argued that Israel is bad, wrong, and evil because, among numerous other things, it believes that if you are born Palestinian, you are not human.

This is a vicious and grotesque lie.

Israel does see Palestinians as human — and that is exactly why Israel sacrifices the lives of its young men and women in war to try to spare Palestinian lives (going door-to-door in searches instead of carpet bombing, for example). The IDF’s unprecedented moral efforts on this score are documented here. This is precisely why Hamas uses its own children as human shields — KNOWING that Israel values Palestinian lives, which Hamas and Islam do not.

The real issue in terms of what Tucker is discussing is that Israel gauges a horrific truth in its fight for survival: that from the moment Palestinians are born, a death cult brainwashes and indoctrinates them to hate and kill Jews. That is the issue, and it poses a horrific problem for Israel. That problem is Islam.

Connected to this problem is the sobering reality that Palestinian mothers celebrate their own children’s “martyrdom” — especially when they die in any process that involves the killing of Jews.

We are still waiting for Tucker to devote a show to this particular phenomenon.

All of this explains why Hamas terrorists — and the Palestinian civilians who joined them in the savage attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023 — were ecstatically calling their parents to brag that they had raped/mutilated/killed Jews, and why their parents celebrated in exhilaration upon hearing that news. This “dynamic” is rooted in myriad Qur’anic verses, and in the genocidal Hadith: Sahih Muslim 6985 — a Hadith with which 73% of Palestinians agree.

THIS is the issue that Tucker avoids and distorts. THIS is the issue that Tucker hasn’t had a show about. [...]

Tucker has yet to have a show on how Muslims kidnap Christian girls in Pakistan, rape them, and force them to convert to Islam. He is yet to have a discussion on how Islamic texts inspire and sanction these Muslim rapists and kidnappers as they engage in this crime against humanity. He can invite FrontPage Mag contributor Uzay Bulut, who documents these Islamic atrocities, on his show to discuss these aspects of Islam.

Well he hasn't invited any Front Page contributor to raise the issues on his program, and if he vehemently refuses to say a word in defense of Christians in Pakistan, and women in Afghanistan, then it's not hard to guess what he thinks of Betty Mahmoody by extension.

Republican senator Ted Cruz, it's good to learn, is speaking out against Carlson's reprehensible MO, as he addressed the topic of antisemitism on the right:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told leaders of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) at their annual summit in Las Vegas on Thursday night that the GOP faced a “time for choosing” in confronting growing antisemitism on the right.

“In the last six months, I’ve seen more antisemitism on the right than I have in my entire life,” Cruz told the gathering. “This is a poison, and I believe we are facing an existential crisis in our party and in our country.”

Traditionally, the Thursday evening event that kicks off the conference is restricted to top donors and senior leaders in the RJC.

But Cruz’s address was opened to the press in the hours before the gathering, after a day in which social media erupted in reaction to a video statement by Kevin Roberts, the leader of the Heritage Foundation, in which he defended commentator Tucker Carlson for interviewing antisemite Nick Fuentes.

While some applauded Roberts for opposing cancel culture, others were appalled that he appeared to deflect criticism of Fuentes’s anti-Jewish, white nationalist views by casting them as a debate on foreign policy.

In his remarks, Cruz — whom Tucker Carlson told Fuentes he “despises” because of his Christian Zionism — i.e. his support for Israel based partly on his Christian beliefs — said the GOP had to root out antisemitism.

Cruz is doing the right thing to be alert for antisemitism on the right, and those who espouse it cannot be trusted to be against Islam's influence, which has already poisoned the left. Some could say Carlson's picking up from where Michelle Malkin left off when she associated with Fuentes in the past several years. And it's definitely disturbing that even Roberts is acting as an apologist for Fuentes. That's not helping even in the slightest, and Roberts should resign from his job. The Heritage Foundation deserves far better than him.

Update: Robert Spencer weighs in on the subject, and now that I think of it, perhaps it'd be better if the Heritage Foundatoin were boycotted after this humiliation.