The sad crisis of uglification

Jamie Wilson's written about the modern obsession on the left with uglifying everything, and how beauty's suffered from it as a result:

Tolkien shows us exactly how it works. The ruffians and “gatherers and sharers” that took over the peaceful Shire don’t just loot; they uglify. They close the old inns, fell beloved trees, replace hobbit-holes with ugly, mean brick houses, pollute the water, and craft and post ugly rules and propaganda. But why bother making things hideous? Why is it important to destroy beauty?

Because beauty is quietly powerful. The ordinary hobbit could go outside in the evening and smoke his pipe, gazing out across the lovely green hills of the Shire. Daily, they saw that life could be ordered, delightful, and worth defending. Once beauty is ruined, there is less to care about, less to fight for. Compliance becomes normal — after all, the Party Tree has already been cut down and left to rot, so there's nothing to fight for. Quaint Bagshot Row is an open quarry. Gatherers take surplus and more, despoiling what they don’t take. The hobbits grumble, of course, but they are demoralized, hungry but not starving, and much easier to control because they just don’t care anymore.

We saw the same things in the old Soviet Union. Socialist realism, with its austere lines and solid colors, replaced real art with propaganda posters praising the USSR and the worker. Beautiful, graceful cathedrals and exotic Russian onion domes were replaced by brutalist concrete blocks. Fashion and music and gathering places, things of delight, were flattened into drabness, functional but not fun. Because the state could not redistribute beauty, and because beauty gives people joy and hope, beauty was pathologized, called bourgeois, and replaced with an antiseptic, dark aesthetic. The common man was given enough “culture” to be sated, but never enough to satisfy the hunger of his soul for beauty. Other, darker things filled that void.

Today’s Quiet Uglification

We’re watching a softer version play out in real time, especially in the cultural sphere. One of the most visible symptoms is the trend toward ugliness among segments of young liberal or feminist women in America and Europe, especially: deliberate androgyny, rejection of makeup or feminine presentation, garish and jarring hair colors, glorification of obesity under the banner of “body positivity,” and an overall embrace of what can only be called uglification. This is not simply a trend or fashion or a fad, but rather the same dynamic we saw in the Soviet Union and the Shire. But this dynamic uses guilt and fitting in as enforcement mechanisms. Striving for conventional beauty is “internalized patriarchy,” “fatphobia,” or complicity in oppression. The message is don’t try too hard, or you’re betraying the group. The result? Personal self-sabotage that signals virtue inside the subculture, transferring the ego boost young women once got from looking nice to the “you go girl” affirmation from her peers.

Obviously, this is terrible it's happened over the past decade, and we can only hope the art scene will recover. But what's also angering is that in the past, religious hysteria also played a part in leading to this. Locally, I've felt extreme ultra-Orthodox influence had its own role in damaging women's dignity, along with imagery in advertising, by seeing to it said imagery would be censored altogether, along with singing/music. Such cases make me wonder if leftists thought that the religious communities weren't serious about supporting women's rights and dignity, to the point where they believed said religious communities wouldn't give a damn if they turned everything ugly. As a result, the left filled a vacuum that was shamefully enabled by hysterical pious folks. And of course, that means religions that aren't Islam, or anything similar to it.

I'm very disappointed in western religious movements that came within even miles of leading to the situations they did in past years, because they put the keys in the ignition for what the left brought about in the past decade. And any religious figures who don't address this, and don't have the courage to, are only furthering the disgrace. So I'd highly appreciate it that after October 7, 2023, Judaist religious figures who really don't want to let division continue in any way kindly address issues like what Wilson's spoken about, and call for stopping all the anti-sex hysteria they led to that's deeply hurt women's status and civil rights. The atrocities that the Haredi extremists caused in the past decade and more can't go ignored anymore by anybody who understands the issues involved.

Ukraine's president makes a horrific PR mistake by visiting Syria's autocrat

While Russia's war against Ukraine is abominable, so too is Syria's conduct under Ahmed al-Sharaa, and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made a serious mistake by paying the Islamofascist a visit:

President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, receiving a warm welcome from President Ahmed al-Sharaa and reportedly discussing cooperation on food and security exchanges.

Zelensky and Sharaa met once before, in New York, while both were attending the United Nations General Assembly in September. Both their countries have experienced significant aggression by both Iran and Russia – Ukraine is facing an ongoing Iran-backed Russian invasion, while Syria endured over a decade of civil war in which both Iran and Russia supported deposed dictator Bashar Assad. On the groundwork of these shared experiences, Sharaa and Zelensky appear to be pursuing closer collaboration.

This is an utter embarrassment, and truly disgusting. As though it weren't bad enough the Trump administration had to be lenient on al-Sharaa, now Zelensky's getting chummy with the monster, and at the UN, no less. This does not help Ukraine's situation at all.

Israeli pilot shoots down Iranian-piloted plane

In what's being described as a historic first, an Israeli pilot manning a F35 fighter jet gunned down an Iranian jihadist pilot manning a Russian made Yak130 jet over Tehran:

An Israeli pilot in a U.S. built F-35 stealth fighter took out a manned Russian-made Iranian fighter jet over Tehran early Wednesday, reportedly a historic “world first” during Operation Epic Fury.

An Israeli F-35 ‘Adir’ fighter jet, using the jet’s Hebrew name that translates to “Mighty One,” downed a Russian-made Yak-130 in air-to-air combat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on X.

“This is the first shootdown in history of a manned fighter aircraft by an F-35 ‘Adir’ fighter jet,” the IDF said.

Until now, in the assault on Iran the F-35 jets, a product of the U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin, have reportedly only downed unmanned military targets, including drones.

It’s also the first time in more than four decades that the Israel Air Force engaged in air-to-air combat with manned aircraft.

“The last time IAF jets shot down a manned enemy aircraft was on November 24, 1985, over Lebanon. In that incident, an IAF F-15 downed two Syrian MiG-23 fighters,” according to the Times of Israel.

This is also informative of how Iran's relying on Russian-made machinery, and it's repugnant but not suprising the neo-communists of Russia would continue to supply the Religion of Peace with weapons.

Last year saw Trump's administration tell Europe to stop committing suicide

Kurt Zindulka wrote about how the Trump administration's been making an effort to get Europe to stop jumping off the cliff for the sake of Islamofascism:

Neo-liberal politicos have frequently mischaracterised the ‘American First’ foreign policy of President Donald Trump as a return to the isolationism of the 19th century; however, the past year has seen the American administration actively intervene to break the globalist chokehold on Europe and to revive the spirit of the West.

Perhaps no president since Harry S. Truman, who helped rebuild Europe in the wake of two World Wars with the Marshall Plan, has been as involved in shaping the old continent according to his will as President Donald Trump. Building off the success of using the White House bully pulpit during his first term to force NATO allies to finally invest in their defence rather than solely relying on American military might, in the first year of his second term, President Trump has rebalanced the Transatlantic trade relationship, and has put heavy pressure on European allies to reject the dominant ethos of mass migration and political censorship.

Three weeks after taking the oath of office, U.S. Vice President JD Vance was dispatched to the Hotel Bayerischer Hof to represent the Trump administration at the Munich Security Conference, one of the highlights of the globalist conference circuit.

Tensions were high in the German city, with dozens of people being injured the day before the conference after an alleged asylum seeker from Afghanistan ploughed a car into a trade union rally. However, inside the luxury hotel, bigwigs from across Europe and the world waited, filled with anticipation to see the new American government’s stance on the international landscape, particularly on Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Yet the 41-year-old Vice President had other thoughts in mind and, in a landmark speech delivered from the main stage of the conference, proceeded to excoriate the leadership of Europe for their increasingly censorious approach to their own citizens, proclaiming: “In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”

Much to the chagrin of those in the room who have attempted to cast themselves as the champions of democracy in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine and Moscow’s alleged election “interference”, Vance noted that the Cold War was fought against the Soviet Union in defence of the very liberties being trampled on today across supposedly democratic Europe.

The Vice President further declared that the greatest threat facing the West is not Vladimir Putin’s Russia or Xi Jinping’s China but rather from “within”, from the forces that seek to censor the public, use lawfare against political opponents, and even cancel elections as occurred in Romania just months prior, following a surprise victory for a Trump-aligned candidate.

While this is important news, it's still unfortunately a long way to repairing the massive damage wrought, especially when Portugal's now seen a socialist elected premier, no thanks to establishment "conservatives" who also backed him, in an act reminiscent of French establishment "conservatives" who backed Emmanuel Macron against Marine Le Pen. So there's still much work to do in order to one day turn around a horrifying situation as it's to be seen now in Europe.

Why all these Mamdanis keep getting spawned in the USA

Liel Liebovitz looks at how a serious defeat was suffered in east coast elections in the USA, what with Zohran Mamdani now NYC's first Muslim mayor, and how such awful politicians end up elected. And something to consider is that Republicans are blowing it badly, which only serves to draw attention away from these pressing topics:

On one side stand figures like Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who promise a return to classical conservatism: a muscular foreign policy, aggressive free-market economics, and an unrelenting fight against the progressive chaos that took root in America under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. On the other side are candidates like Vice President J.D. Vance, pulling the party in a very different direction.

A troubling example of that direction came just last week. Vance spoke at a Turning Point USA event, the conservative movement founded by his late friend Charlie Kirk, who was murdered earlier this year by a left-wing gunman. A student in the audience asked Vance: "I'm a Christian," he said, "and I don't understand why we support Israel, a Jewish state that doesn't seem to share our values."

Vance could have easily explained the importance of the US-Israel strategic alliance. He could have emphasized the obvious point that, in a war between a Jewish democracy and an Islamist terrorist organization, there should be no question where America stands. Instead, Vance mumbled something about Trump and how Israel doesn't tell him what to do, then veered into theology: "The reality is that Jews don't believe Jesus Christ is the Messiah," said Vance, a Catholic convert baptized in 2019. "My approach has always been that if we have disagreements, we should discuss them publicly."

Imagine for a moment a serious presidential candidate declaring that Americans should publicly debate whether Catholic politicians can be trusted to represent voters rather than follow the pope's orders from Rome. Or whether Hindus, who don't believe in one God, should be allowed to run for office. Such questions sound absurd, and rightly so. The separation of church and state is a bedrock principle of the American constitution. So what made the vice president, one of the GOP's highest-ranking figures, think that the right response to a political question was to turn it into a religious one?

The answer, in short, is Tucker Carlson.

The popular television host was ousted from Fox News in 2023 under complex circumstances. He launched his own podcast and wasted no time steering it in a new ideological direction. In February 2024 he traveled to Moscow for a warm interview with Vladimir Putin, who claimed, among other things, that Poland was to blame for the Nazi invasion in World War II and that Volodymyr Zelensky was the villain in his war with Ukraine. Carlson then toured Moscow's subway and shops, telling his audience that such order and cleanliness couldn't be found in any American city.

Some raised eyebrows, lavish praise for Russia and propaganda that demeaned the US hardly sound conservative. But Carlson was just getting started. Months before the presidential election, he hosted online influencer Darryl Cooper, who told viewers that Hitler was the real victim of World War II and that Winston Churchill refused to compromise with the "peace-loving" German chancellor only because a small group of people—no need to specify who, but they control the banks and the media—pressured him.

Last month, Carlson invited an even viler guest: Nick Fuentes, a social-media personality who has repeatedly expressed admiration for Hitler and Stalin.

What drove the supposedly conservative pundit to such extremes? The reasons are many, but the overall direction is clear: Carlson, and now Vance after him, understand that to capture the imagination of young and apathetic voters, one must sound extreme and exciting.

What's told about Vance is certainly galling, because his complaint about Jews not believing in Jesus was entirely uncalled for. It would be wrong to complain that far eastern countries like India and Japan don't believe in one god, so why is Vance dampening the impact as he is? What matters is whether even non-monotheists can be vigilant and realists. Doesn't that matter to Vance any more than anybody else?

It's also troubling that the movement founded by Kirk, a pro-Israel guy who was tragically murdered, appears to be hosting somebody with "values" that are anathema to what Kirk stood for. Is Turning Point USA deteriorating? Who knows? But Vance is certainly not setting a good example here, and if he keeps this up, it will only make things worse, and take away attention from the next Mamdanis who're planning their run for office in the USA. Division on the right is one of the problems that led to where we are now.

Did Trump prevent Azerbaijan from attacking Armenia?

According to this report by Zack Jewell, president Donald Trump prevented a war that Azerbaijan was likely planning against Armenia:

In March, Trump administration officials were briefed on U.S. intelligence that Azerbaijan was planning a major offensive against Armenia, reigniting hostilities two years after Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing campaign uprooted thousands of Armenians from their ancestral homeland in Nagorno-Karabakh, Kopalyan said. The American intelligence assessment sparked immediate action from the Trump administration. Later that month, the president’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, opened up negotiations with Azerbaijan as the White House sought to prevent another armed conflict.

“Once U.S. intelligence had that information, the Trump administration decided that they had to step in and put diplomatic pressure on Azerbaijan not to attack, and then initiate diplomacy to find a solution,” said Kopalyan, who previously wrote about the significance of Trump’s Armenia-Azerbaijan deal. “So if it were not for the Trump administration, Azerbaijan would have attacked, and we would have had severe instability in the region.” [...]

Armenia and Azerbaijan have been in and out of severe conflict for the past 35 years, with Azerbaijan most recently taking full control of Nagorno-Karabakh — a large patch of land inside of Azerbaijan that was inhabited by Armenians for centuries. In 2020, conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh resulted in thousands of casualties before a ceasefire was agreed upon. Nearly three years later, Azerbaijan launched a full-scale offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, forcing Armenians to flee the region.

For the past five years, Azerbaijan has threatened to encroach on Armenia’s sovereignty, pushing for its own trade route — called the Zangezur Corridor — that would cut through Armenia and connect Azerbaijan to its landlocked exclave, Nakhchivan. With Azerbaijan potentially setting its sights on southern Armenia and risking the breakout of another war, the Trump administration had to move fast. [...]

Under the TRIPP proposal, Armenia and the United States would build a major trade route through Syunik that Azerbaijan could use freely to gain better access to Nakhchivan.

“The United States’ presence would alleviate Armenia’s concerns. It would also mitigate Azerbaijan’s concerns, and Azerbaijan would no longer have the Zangezur Corridor premise to attack,” Kopalyan said.

Not all Armenians were pleased with the deal, with some in the diaspora arguing that Trump’s negotiations favored Azerbaijan. The biggest criticism of the deal is that it does not address Azerbaijan’s past human rights abuses against Armenians, such as the ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh and allegations that Azerbaijan’s government is holding at least 23 Armenians — likely more — hostage in Baku.

While this is a valid and vital point, there is a downside here that's problematic:

The Armenian National Committee of America — which is affiliated with the pro-Russia political wing in Armenia called the Armenian Revolutionary Federation — blasted the Trump-negotiated deal. The group said that the deal was “rewarding [Azerbaijan’s] aggression, compromising Armenia’s sovereignty, and consolidating Azerbaijan’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of over 150,000 indigenous Armenian Christians.”

Good grief. Do they realize any support for Russia practically risks even retroactively validating Josef Stalin, the tyrant who practically led to damage against Armenia over a century ago when he enabled Muslim countries like Azerbaijan to take over regions vital to Armenia? If the ANCOA really does support Russia as it is under Vladimir Putin, that's bad, and as a result, a better representative may be needed to make the arguments they do, because communism is no better than Islamofascism.

In a phone call with The Daily Wire, Garen Jinbachian, the community coordinator for the Western Region of the Armenian National Committee of America, said that Trump’s Armenia-Azerbaijan deal “seems like a huge PR stunt to some extent.”

“Frankly, you cannot have lasting peace, you cannot have real peace if one of the parties is held at gunpoint and practically coerced to sign it,” said Jinbachian. “The whole deal is based on injustice, the lack of justice in the region. Ethnic cleansing is not justice.”

While Trump's staff may have recognized that it was wrong for Azerbaijan to attack Armenia if they were plotting so, it's also wrong to act as though Azerbaijan's leadership is legitimate, based on what they were doing, and already did when they committed ethnic cleansing in Arsakh. The human rights abuses are also another grave felony. So it remains to be seen if Trump's going to do anything to mend that damage, and have any and all hostages held in Azerbaijan released too. The creep running Azerbaijan cannot be considered a legitimate politician based on what he enabled in the past number of years, period, and that's something that must be brought up in the next few years too. Simultaneously, ANCOA must distance themselves from any potential support for Russia as it stands under Putin.

Update: and seriously, should Trump have met with Putin in Alaska? Even if they're not meeting at the White House, it's very troubling that Trump would meet with somebody like Putin any more than Syria's current despot, al-Sharaa.

Russia gives Afghanistan its backing

Russia's government continues to demonstrate how evil their neo-communism truly is by recognizing the Taliban's dictatorship over Afghanistan:

The Russian Federation has made history by becoming the first nation to formally recognize the Taliban's authority in Afghanistan, with Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi describing Moscow's move as a "brave decision."

The diplomatic milestone occurred during Thursday's meeting between Muttaqi and Russian Ambassador Dmitry Zhirnov in Kabul, where Zhirnov officially transmitted his government's recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Muttaqi characterized the development as marking "a new phase of positive relations, mutual respect, and constructive engagement," emphasizing that this precedent would serve as an "example" for other nations to follow.

We can only imagine what Russia under Putin and anybody else as repugnant as him have in store for the "motherland" after a caliphate takes over in the future, when their population becomes more Muslim to boot. Now, Ukraine isn't perfect and Volodymyr Zelenskyy has questionable positions of his own, but even Ukraine's never shown they're as bad as Russia's now proving to be under Putin.

This is certainly also different from the 1970s-80s when Russia was ostensibly fighting against jihadists in countries like Afghanistan. Then again, a century ago under Josef Stalin, they did appease regions like Azerbaijan when it came to the area of Arsakh, all at Armenia's expense.

Trump has sadly made a serious mistake when it comes to dealing with Syria's new jihadist autocrat

Many no doubt were disturbed when Emmanuel Macron met with Ahmed al-Sharaa recently. But now, Donald Trump has caused more damage to the ability to deal properly with Islamic terrorism in Syria - and anti-Christian persecution occurring there - as he was willing to meet with al-Sharaa and even lift sanctions against Syria:

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the jihadist terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), praised President Donald Trump in an address on Wednesday for taking the “courageous and historic” step of lifting sanctions on his country.

Sharaa delivered a speech to the Syrian people following an in-person meeting with President Trump in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where President Trump concluded the first of three stops in a Middle East tour on Wednesday. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who first met Sharaa shortly after HTS toppled the half-century-old Assad family regime in Damascus, arranged and presided over the meeting.

The event was the first time in 25 years an American president had met a Syrian head of state.

President Trump announced that he would lift sanctions on Syria on Tuesday before the meeting. He reinforced his commitment to the decision in remarks to reporters following his meeting with Sharaa, who he called “pretty amazing.”

Syria is currently on the State Department’s list of State Sponsors of Terrorism and the subject of extensive, onerous sanctions. All stem from the behavior of former dictator Bashar Assad, who allied himself closely with Iran and its entire terrorist proxy network and, throughout over a decade of civil war, committed a host of atrocities against his own people. HTS, the al-Qaeda offshoot Sharaa led under the alias Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, overthrew the Assad regime in December, sending the dictator fleeing to his patrons in Moscow.

As one of several factions actively combatting the Assad regime, HTS made a longstanding enemy of Iran and the Shiite terrorist axis and did not participate in the Assad regime’s crimes – though it engaged in its own atrocities, particularly against groups that Assad did not persecute, such as Christians and Alawite Shiites. HTS massacres of Alawites have been documented to have occurred as recently as this March; Sharaa has attempted to distance himself from the violence.

Seriously, this causes terrible damage to the cause of Christians who fell victim to horrific crimes of jihadists in the area, and the whole notion al-Sharaa had nothing to do with it is naive. It's regrettable Trump is doing this, no matter what for.

A similar concern could be raised about whether Trump intends to meet with Vladimir Putin:

President Donald Trump said Friday that he would like to set up a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin “as soon” as possible.

Trump made the comments in Abu Dhabi as he prepared to return home to the United States at the end of his Middle East tour. He had previously floated a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Putin in Turkey, but the Russian president refused to attend.

“They all said Putin was going and Zelensky was going. And I said, If I don’t go, I guarantee Putin is not going, and he didn’t go,” Trump said. “And I understand that, but we’re going to get it we’re going to get it done. We’ve got to get it done. Five thousand young people are being killed every single week on average, and we’re going to get it done.”

While Ukrainian and Russian officials are meeting in Turkey on Friday, Trump said he believed he would have to meet with Putin to make real progress toward ending the war.

And this meeting between Putin and Zelensky is being conducted in equally bad territory, Turkey? Well that's got to be telling too in its own way. No matter how one looks at this, what's regrettable here is the whole notion Putin cannot be brought down in any way, even though he's the one who began all this, not to mention that he still acts as an autocrat. And meeting in Turkey is not improving the situation either.

Russia's willingness to fund Iranian nuclear sites makes clear why it's still just as dangerous as during the Cold War

Russia's made faustian pacts with Iran's mullahs to fund the construction of more nuclear sites in the latter country (Hat tip: the Daily Wire):

Russia has pledged to fund the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Iran as part of a broader energy agreement that also includes a major gas deal between the two countries, as relations between Moscow and Tehran continue to deepen.

On Friday, Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad traveled to Moscow to meet with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Tsivilev, as part of the 18th Joint Economic Cooperation Commission.

Paknejad announced that Moscow and Tehran are strengthening their bilateral ties in what he described as “peaceful” nuclear energy, with the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Iran, to be financed through Russian funding.

Obviously, Vladimir Putin's part of the problem too, and this is just one more reason why Russia remains as much a danger as Iran is. On which note, Iran suffered a serious blow when one of their main seaports exploded a few days ago. But it's obviously not enough to prevent their nuclear warfare from continuing, and this is decidedly why Russia in its current communist state will have to be brought down somehow, just as much as Iran in its current Islamic state.

Islam rising in Russia

Giulio Meotti warns that the Religion of Peace has gained considerable traction in Russia over the past 3 decades, something overlooked by many:

There are 25 million Muslims in Russia, or 17 percent of the total population. They are the majority in 7 of the 21 republics of the Federation. Not only does Russia have a far greater percentage of Muslims than any other European country (almost double that of the UK), but China and the Islamic Ummah have only to watch the war in Ukraine and alternately root for both sides while waiting for a historical phenomenon ignored by Western newspapers to run its course.

The Telegraph reveals that “Rybar”, alias Mikhail Zvinchuk, a former Russian officer with 1.3 million followers and founder of one of the most followed Telegram channels “Z”, blacklisted by the European Union and the Kiev government, has just published a scathing analysis of demographic changes in Russia, using the Moscow suburb of Kotelniki to illustrate the point: “In schools, only 50 percent are Russian”.

Responding to Rybar, Ria Katyusha, another nationalist channel, compared the situation in Kotelniki to “similar stories about Paris, Hamburg or British cities”. Boris Rozhin, a blogger with over 850,000 subscribers, says Moscow’s transformation is reminiscent of “minority-dominated neighborhoods in Marseille and Paris.”

St. Petersburg in recent days: 150,000 Muslims gathered for prayers at the walls of the central mosque, near the Gorkovskaya metro station. The mosque could not accommodate everyone who wanted to come, streets were closed, changes were made to the operation of public transport, and tram service was suspended.

Political scientist Yuriy Podorozhniy says: “The Muslim population of Russia is growing. In a certain period, the share of Slavic and Muslim populations will change. Russia will naturally turn into a Muslim country. That is why Putin is negotiating with them, this will be a significant topic in the future.”

Sergey Mironov of the Duma said in December that Russia’s demographic rates were driving the country to “extinction.” Extinction.

By the middle of this century, Russia could have a Muslim majority.

According to Paul Goble, a leading analyst of Russian affairs, Moscow will be Islamic in 20 years.

Last year, more than 8.5 million migrants arrived in Russia, including more than a million from Tajikistan. And that’s not counting the growing number of Russians who have converted to Islam.

Russia imported 11 million migrants between 1991 and 2023 (officially, 11 more are needed million by 2040), while the population of the federation has shrunk by 16.7 million.

The Atlantic Council, a US think tank, said: “Vladimir Putin’s war has virtually guaranteed that for generations to come, Russia’s population will not only be smaller, but also older, frailer and less educated. It will certainly be less ethnically Russian and more religiously diverse.”

In 1991, 120 mosques. In twenty years, they have built 8,000. The largest mosque in Europe is in Moscow.

And the imam of the Great Mosque of Moscow, Ildar Alyautdinov, said: “Muslims have a great demographic mission: because of the high birth rate, to make Russia a Muslim majority country.”

Well just look at that. Only so much incompetence indoctrinated by communism has now resulted in what'll lead to replacement by a more demonic ideology. One that'll lead to a situation worse than the Cold War. One of the reasons this situation's come about, one could argue, is because nobody insisted or demanded that Russia improve their political system to abolish communism altogether, and it resulted in Putinism knocking it all back by more than a century. Now, Putin's own wrongdoing is making things much worse.

Syria's Assad regime falls, but may not see positive replacement

One of Syria's worst dictatorships has fallen to other Islamists:

Reports from the Middle East indicate that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has fallen, with the dictator fleeing the country as rebel forces entered the capital city of Damascus.

Unconfirmed social media reports also suggest that Assad’s plane crashed.

The part about whether Assad's plane crashed appear to be inaccurate, unfortunately. But he has been deposed, and has fled to Russia.

The sudden collapse of the Assad regime, dating back over half a century to the rule of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father, has rocked the Middle East and could mean the Iranian regime, a Syrian ally, is in danger.

Assad was one of the most notorious tyrants in the world, one who used chemical weapons against his own people. His regime nearly fell in the civil war that erupted during the Arab Spring in 2011, but he was shored up by Russian and Iranian forces.

President Vladimir Putin used Syria to restore Russia’s presence in the Middle East for the first time since the Cold War, while Iran used Syria as a conduit to Hezbollah in Lebanon, sending weapons and advisers.

Assad had bombed rebel-held cities with no regard for civilian life, and torturing suspected rebels and dissidents. President Barack Obama drew a “red line” in 2012 when he said the U.S. would intervene militarily if Assad used chemical weapons, but then failed to act.

President Donald Trump launched airstrikes against the regime in 2017 after a chemical weapons attack, firing nearly 60 cruise missiles at Syrian air bases, which had the intended effect.

Trump reduced the U.S. troop presence in Syria, though small forces remained to counter threats from the so-called “Islamic State,” or ISIS, which still operated in the country. Turkey also had an interest in Syria, targeting Kurdish militias operating in Syrian territory.

While Trump's said the USA shouldn't intervene in what's going on now, these "rebels" appear intent on imposing Islamic sharia upon what's left of the Syrian piecemeal, and that's something that shouldn't be allowed to continue, any more than the Taliban's reimposition of sharia in Afghanistan. Other than that, it's understandable why some can't care less if these Islamofascists tear each other apart.

An interesting advantage for Israel is that the IDF was able to take over a buffer zone on the mountain between Israel and Syria:

On Friday, the IDF said that it had reinforced Israeli positions on the Golan Heights, the plateau seized by Israel from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. (Syrian forces had used the Heights to shell the Israeli villages below for years.)

On Sunday, Israel’s Army Radio reported that the IDF had moved tanks into the demilitarized zone between Syria and Israel, an area that is supposed to be free of any military presence under the disengagement agreement that ended the Yom Kippur War in 1973. In that war, Syria and Egypt conducted a surprise attack on Israel during the holiest day on the Jewish calendar; Syria nearly overran the Golan Heights before IDF reservists pushed it back.

It's seriously time to take back that area; Syria's never deserved it, nor any other area where Islam's had a foothold. For now, Assad won't be missed, but ultimately, even the terrorists now taking over Syria's remnants can't be allowed to maintain their reign of terror for long. As Reuters was actually willing to point out:

Western and Arab nations fear that the HTS-led rebel coalition may seek to replace Assad's regime with a hardline Islamist government, or one less able or inclined to prevent the resurgence of radical forces, three diplomats and three analysts told Reuters.

"There is strong fear inside and outside the region of the power vacuum that Assad's sudden collapse may cause," said Abdelaziz al-Sager, director of the Gulf Research Center, a think tank focused on the Middle East. He cited the civil wars that followed the toppling of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in 2003 and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

One senior Western diplomat in the region, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that - with the rebel forces fragmented - there was no plan for how to rule Syria, a complex nation divided into various sects and ethnic groups, each with its own regional power base.

The senior diplomat expressed fears that lawlessness in Syria could allow the flourishing of extremist groups like Islamic State (IS), which in 2014 swept through large swathes of Syria and Iraq and established an Islamic Caliphate before it was driven out by a US-led coalition by 2019. [...]

So far, Washington had mostly thrown its support behind Syrian Kurdish groups, such as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), whose areas of control are in northeast Syria. These groups, however, are in conflict with one of the main victorious rebels factions, the Syrian National Army (SNA), backed by regional power broker, Turkey, which opposes Kurdish influence.

Any movement that supports the Religion of Peace cannot be upheld, that's for sure.

Update: a number of European countries are now suspending asylum applications from Syria, hopefully out of concern terrorists could infiltrate.

Vladimir Putin goes to Azerbaijan

Russia's autocrat, who pointlessly started a war with Ukraine all for the sake of it, is now visiting Azerbaijan, and they don't seem to have any issue with it:

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Azerbaijan on Sunday for a two-day state visit, looking to bolster Russia’s relationship with the aggressive Islamist power even as relations with Armenia — Russia’s former best friend in the region — deteriorate.

Azerbaijan is on the relatively short list of countries Putin can visit safely, as he faces an outstanding warrant for his arrest on war crimes charges related to his invasion of Ukraine. Azerbaijan is not a signatory to the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC), so it has no legal obligation to arrest him.

Putin’s visit comes at a bad moment for Russian military pride, as Ukraine is now almost three weeks into a surprising border incursion that has brought several Russian towns under Kyiv’s control. Armenia already had a very low opinion of Russia’s ability to protect vulnerable borders.

The Armenians are seething because Russia did not lift a finger to prevent Azerbaijan from seizing, and ethnically cleansing, the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in September 2023. Russia deployed “peacekeepers” to the area after brokering a truce in the Armenia-Azerbaijan war of 2020, but they merely stood by and watched as Azeri troops rolled in, then packed up their gear and headed off for the front lines in Ukraine.

Nagorno-Karabakh was rated the most unfree region in the entire world by Freedom House six months after the Azerik conquest. Freedom House noted the Armenian Christian population was already sick, hungry, impoverished, and terrorized from a brutal Azeri blockade before the conquering army rolled in and forced most of them to flee.

And the disgusting "reporter" Rachel Avraham made things worse by acting as an apologist for a country adhering to the Religion of Peace. One must wonder if she thinks Putin's associations with Azerbaijan are as acceptable as their taqqiya (deception). Severe damage has been done, and you can be sure the Democrats in the USA won't lift a finger in Armenia's defense.

Well that's surely something to ponder

One of the Federalist contributors, Joy Pullman, had something interesting to say involving a certain president from not very long ago during a video interview on subject of the transsexual ideology cult:

“The roots of [transgenderism] go all the way back to Woodrow Wilson and [Franklin D. Roosevelt] and including Ronald Reagan. His federal government and bureaucracy oversaw the deepening of federal racial and sexual quotas through laws that had been put in place under Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter,” Federalist Executive Editor Joy Pullmann said during an interview with Daniel Horowitz. “Feminism … does the same thing as transgenderism in basically pushing each sex to adopt the behaviors, the attitudes, the life-circuit of the other sex.”

Now it may not be surprising FDR could've sown the seeds, nor Carter, for example. But that Reagan could've had anything to do with this modern tragedy is as disturbing as it's eyebrow raising. It should be noted that back in 1983, Reagan withdrew all USA military from Lebanon following the tragic terrorist bombing that murdered 241 servicemen, and even 58 French officials. In other words, Reagan failed the troops and never avenged them. Is that setting a good example? Regrettably, Foreign Policy's writer seemed to think so.

And while Reagan may have brought down the original USSR, he failed to apply the same standards to China as he did to Russia. There's probably at least a few more unfortunate errors Reagan made in his time that're just as troubling. And this all has to make clear that, despite what some people might want us to think, Reagan sadly wasn't as effective a leader as we wish he could be. I wouldn't be surprised if there's Chinese dissidents and Lebanese Maronites who think that. Now, in addition to such history, we also sadly have to learn Reagan, even unwittingly, may have sown the seeds during his administration for the LGBT tragedy we're seeing unfold in this day and age.

Armenian government selling out homeland and citizens to Azerbaijan, who may have incited riots in Nouvelle Caledonie

This news may be a few weeks old, but it's still very chilling, whether it already happened or not:

In early March 2024, Azerbaijan demanded that Armenia hand over eight villages along the two countries’ borders. To avoid a new war, Yerevan agreed to transfer four villages to Azerbaijani control; the border delimitation process is now underway. Local residents, however, oppose the decision; they want Armenia to refuse to concede any territory and have appealed to international human rights organizations for help. Photographer Egor Kirillov traveled to the border village of Kirants, which is still Armenian territory, to photograph residents’ fight against the transfer. [...]

“We’re losing our homeland. Every Armenian needs to understand: our old enemy, the one who committed genocide against us, could come knocking on any door at any moment,” local resident Mariam Simonyan told Meduza. Even if the protests don’t change anything, she wants her descendants to know that she opposed the land’s transfer to Azerbaijan.

Yikes. This is similar to how the Israeli Labor party originally surrendered parts of Judea/Samaria to the PLO over 30 years ago, and look where that got Israel on October 7, 2023. Now, Armenia's government is acting in pure cowardice, with the worst part being much of the world's turning a deaf ear and blind eye to this atrocity. This will lead to a horror story sooner or later. And the aforementioned coward Rachel Avraham will doubtless sugarcoat this awful news too.

Also eyebrow-raising is this news of France accusing Azerbaijan of being involved in riots on New Caledonia:

Days of clashes between demonstrators and police in French-controlled New Caledonia are fueled by foreign interference, Paris declared on Thursday, as local officials vowed to restore order in the South Pacific territory.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that the violence, which has claimed the lives of three indigenous Kanak people and a police officer, had been actively supported by Azerbaijan.

“This isn’t a fantasy,” he insisted on Thursday. “I regret that some of the separatists have made a deal with Azerbaijan.” However, “even if there are attempts at interference, … France is sovereign on its own territory, and so much the better,” he added.

Speaking to POLITICO, a French intelligence official granted anonymity to discuss sensitive issues of national security, said that “we’ve detected activities from Russia and Azerbaijan in New Caledonia for weeks, even a few months. They’re pushing the narrative of France being a colonialist state.” [...]

Relations between France and Azerbaijan have hit rock bottom in recent years as a result of French military and political support for the South Caucasus country’s neighbor and historic rival Armenia — a situation only intensified by Baku’s military seizure of the ethnic Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh last year.

And no surprise Russia could be involved in this distraction either. This is similarly repellent news, and coupled with how Azerbaijan's even had jihadists coming from their territory, not to mention associated with the late Ebrahim Raisi, and Russia's made use of Iranian-manufactured weapons, it makes clear both countries are a very bad influence.

Biden insults Japan and India

Fraud-in-chief Joe Biden attacked countries like Japan and India for not letting in virtually every foreigner no matter their background, in another example of how Biden's not concerned with all the Islamic infiltration that's destroying much of the world:

Joe Biden has claimed Asian allies Japan and India’s “xenophobic” policies towards immigrants were causing their economies to stall.

“One of the reasons why our economy’s growing is because of you and many others. Why? Because we welcome immigrants,” Mr Biden said at a Washington fundraising event for his 2024 re-election campaign.

"Why is China stalling so badly economically, why is Japan having trouble, why is Russia, why is India, because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants. Immigrants are what makes us strong," he said, kickstarting the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month on Wednesday.

This sure isn't likely to mend failing relations with Japan and India, and it's shameful and disgusting how he lumps them in with communist-led countries like Russia and China. The part about allegedly failing economies is also questionable, and as explained here:

Our GDP growth is 1.9%. Japan is at 1.0%. India’s is 7.2%. China’s is 3.0%.

I wouldn’t brag about being ahead of Japan considering that we’re neck and neck with Burkina Faso and South Africa and lagging much of the world.

Opening up your borders to every invader who wants to cash in on your welfare state is not a plan for economic growth. As the mayors of NYC, Denver, and Chicago have been explaining to Open Borders Joe.

India is a net exporter of immigrants to this country so arguing that it needs immigrants is a confusing thesis. All of the above countries do have declining birth rates and that is bad news, but the solution to that is raising birth rates, not bringing in millions of illegal aliens to loot your cities, as Biden has done.

One could also point out that better education is in sore need everywhere, and that too is something many PC advocates don't seem to have what it takes to raise in discussions.

Biden's statements about Japan and India are offensive and degrading, completely inconsiderate of the need for security, and let's hope their publics will be disappointed with the Democrats for all of this.

Update: both Japan and India responded in dismay to what Biden said.

Biden pulls USA military out of Niger

Joe Biden's pseudo-government continues to enable the collapse of safety in key areas around the globe by withdrawing military from Niger, and allowing Russia and China to maintain a foothold along with jihadists:

President Joe Biden suffered humiliation on the global stage again this week as the U.S. is reportedly set to give up its bases in Niger and evacuate the thousand American troops deployed there.

The move upends U.S. counterterrorism efforts and security policy in the politically unstable Sahel region of Africa, which stretches across the northern central part of the continent and includes Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan, and Eritrea.

The region is one of the most dangerous in the world and is a hotbed for multiple major Islamic terrorist groups, including ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and many more.

The New York Times reported that the Biden administration is pulling the troops out in the coming weeks after the country’s democratically elected government was overthrown by its own weak military.

This is exactly why African nations with common sense can't rely upon the USA anymore, and will have to learn to how to defend themselves. The same goes for Europe.

Russia attacked by Islamic State

Russia's been appeasing Hamas in its own way, along with attacking Ukraine, and now, a terrorist attack occurred on Russian soil, proving that their siding with jihadists is not helping them. And making matters worse, they're trying to pin the blame on Ukraine:

Russia on Saturday said it had arrested 11 people — including four gunmen — over the attack on a Moscow concert hall claimed by the Islamic State, as the death toll rose to 115.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was yet to comment publicly on the attack and Moscow has not addressed the Islamic State’s claim of responsibility, even as some lawmakers pointed to a possible Ukraine connection.

Camouflaged gunmen opened fire at the packed Crocus City Hall in Moscow’s northern suburb of Krasnogorsk on Friday evening ahead of a concert by Soviet-era rock band Piknik in the deadliest attack in Russia for at least a decade.

Russia’s FSB security service said some of the perpetrators had fled towards the Russia-Ukraine border, adding that the assailants had “appropriate contacts” in the country.

It did not provide further details.

Some Russian lawmakers also pointed to Kyiv, without providing evidence.

Most likely, they wouldn't cite any verses in the Koran that led to this tragedy either. It should be noted that Russia employed Iranian-made drones to attack Ukraine, and even has considerable backing from Chechnya, based on their own jihadist beliefs. And Putin's just continued his downplay of the Religion of Peace's content with a speech that could've just as easily been written by George W. Bush:

Despite the hype about how tough and serious Putin is, his speeches about the Islamic terrorist attack in Moscow could have been written for George W. Bush.

The officially translated remarks after the attack made no mention of Islam, but a follow up one on measures being taken after the attacks do mention Islam in a way Bush and Obama would have been fine with.

“We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists, whose ideology the Islamic world itself has been fighting for centuries,” Putin initially stated.

That’s not a bad translation. he said, “radikalnih Islamistov” or “radical Islamists”.

The “Islamic world”, according to Vlad, has been fighting these “radical Islamists” for centuries.

It gets more pathetic from there as Putin tries to suggest that America, Ukraine and whoever else was really behind the attacks because Muslims, especially Muslim terrorists, love Russia too much.

According to Putin, America is suspiciously trying to convince the world that “the bloody terrorist attack was carried out by followers of Islam, members of the ISIS organization banned in Russia.” [...]

Hasn’t Russia sided with Hamas? Why would Islamic terrorists attack Russia since it sides with Hamas? Sure there’s the whole Chechnya thing and a lot of history before that. Also the fact that Islamic Jihadists want to conquer the world. And Russia is in the world.

What Putin fails to recognize, in all his horrific appeasement, is that the Religion of Peace, in the long run, does not spare specific countries based on appeasement at all. Even before an evil deed is done in their favor, they're willing to attack, sooner or later. Now, that very appeasement's come back to haunt Russia, and it's all Putin's fault.

USA military no longer has presence in Niger

Andrea Widburg points to the latest chilling situation on the globe, where the USA military has been banished from Niger, a country overrun with Islam:

Nobody in America thinks about Niger in Africa, but Niger matters in the war against radical Islam and in the world’s balance of power. Now, though, we must think about Niger because it appears that Biden’s foreign policy incompetence, combined with America’s general weakness, has led to the new military junta kicking America out of a forward base that allowed it to attack radical Islam in the region and a country that’s one of the world’s biggest uranium suppliers.

Because Niger isn’t on anyone’s radar, here’s a bit of background:

Niger, a former French colony, is a landlocked nation in northwestern Africa. It’s home to multiple ethnic groups, but they’re bound together by one thing: Islam, which accounts for over 99% of the population. Despite being one of the world’s poorest countries, it’s also home to some of the world’s largest uranium deposits, making it a very important country.

It’s not just uranium that makes Niger an important country. For a long time, Niger has cooperated with the American military, allowing it to have outposts there. These outposts enabled the U.S. to keep an eye on and attack violent Islamist groups in North Africa. They also served as a counterbalance to Russia, which is desperate to gain influence there (as, seemingly, is China).

As with almost all African countries, Niger has had an endless modern history of tyranny and poverty. The latest tyranny cycle occurred last July when a military junta overthrew a democratically elected president (and I’m sure that election was as honest as 2020’s in America). The current leader is Abdourahamane Tchiani (aka Omar Tchiani), who supported the losing president in that election.

According to an analysis shortly after the coup, it’s probable that the State Department’s inattention and the Biden administration’s ineptitude contributed to the coup’s success. Given the many coups sweeping the region, it wasn’t hard to guess that more were in the works. An administration with its eye on the ball wouldn’t have been as surprised as Biden and his team were. The same essay has a long list of flabby Africa policies in the White House that kept it from knowing what was happening and responding appropriately.

So there we have yet another sad situation, where the Religion of Peace is dominant in a foreign country, and nothing was ever done to get the residents to abandon adherence to Islam. And that failure will end up becoming very costly in the long run.

Russia's neo-communists give their backing to Hamas

There's only so much corrupt politicians around the world who're working to get a palestinian state recognized, Hamas included, at Israel's expense. One of the countries whose overlords are the worst offenders in this sense is Russia under Vladimir Putin:

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PLO’s Palestinian Authority and the other Islamic terrorist groups who make up the official “Palestinian” leadership have been invited for unity talks in Moscow.

The terrorist unity talks scheduled by the Putin regime for the end of February are a homecoming for a “Palestinian” movement invented by Soviet propagandists. Mahmoud Abbas, the long-serving dictator of the PA, wrote his Holocaust denial thesis while studying at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University which had trained a generation of third world terrorists.

The invitation to Moscow comes from Putin’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. Materials from a KGB defector revealed that Abbas had worked for the KGB under Bogdanov. Back then Abbas had the KGB codename “mole”, these days, his code name is “president”.

Some of the same ex-Soviet operatives who helped set up and fund the PLO, the PFLP and the rest of the “Palestinian” movement are now trying to unite them all under one single banner.

This makes clear that communists today are as evil as they were decades before, if Putin and company want to associate with monsters who're just as dangerous to Russians as they are to Israelis.

Making matters worse is how the New York Times continues employment of an alleged "journalist" who participated in the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023:

The New York Times proudly announced last Monday that it had “won three George Polk awards, including two for its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.” Those prestigious journalism awards went to “Samar Abu Elouf and Yousef Masoud of The Times” for “photojournalism for their photographs of the conflict from inside Gaza, capturing the horrific toll of Israel’s airstrikes on civilians, including the death and injury of many children.” The Times neglected to mention, however, one telling detail: Masoud has been unmasked as a member of Hamas who participated in the Oct. 7 jihad massacres inside Israel.

The Paper of Record shows no sign of firing Masoud or returning the George Polk award he won, but the Jerusalem Post had the story on Thursday, noting that the media watchdog Honest Reporting had “highlighted his accreditation to a photo provided to the Associated Press, with the caption, ‘Palestinians wave their national flag and celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis southern Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023.’ How had Masoud gotten on the scene so quickly, so as to be in a position to take this picture? Honest Reporting “questioned Masoud’s explanation of his presence that he’d been woken up at 5.30 a.m. by rocket fire even though the firing only started an hour later.”

What’s more, “Masoud’s name was included in an investigative report from November showing that journalists from leading news outlets, including The New York Times, AP, Reuters, and CNN, joined Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip on October 7 to document the events with their cameras.” The New York Times responded indignantly: “The accusation that anyone at The New York Times had advance knowledge of the Hamas attacks or accompanied Hamas terrorists during the attacks is untrue and outrageous. It is reckless to make such allegations, putting our journalists on the ground in Israel and Gaza at risk.”

Honest Reporting, however, said that claims it had “jeopardized the safety of all media working in Israel and the Palestinian territories” were nothing more than “a deliberate attempt to deflect from the real issues we raised.” And that’s true. Why doesn’t Masoud explain how he came to be on the scene of a Hamas operation on the morning of Oct. 7, and why he stated that he was awakened by rocket fire an hour before the rocket fire started?

I just don't understand why some people won't boycott the NYT and save money for a change. The whole paper is repellent and shouldn't be given any financial backing, based on the evils they've enabled.

Britain's Rishi Sunak makes a proper point about the conditions for a ceasefire, yet blows it too

The current premier of the UK, Sunak, acknowledged that the only way a ceasefire can take place when it comes to Gaza is for Hamas to be defeated and release all Israeli hostages, but still indicated support for the PLO, as though they're qualified:

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak answered questions from Members of Parliament today (Wednesday) at a Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) session, during which he responded to an MP's call for the UK to support a ceasefire in the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza.

[...] However, he said that for his government to support a ceasefire, certain conditions would have to be met. “Hamas would have to agree to release all the hostages, Hamas would no longer have to be in charge of Gaza and the threat of more rocket attacks from Hamas into Israel would have to end, and the Palestinian Authority – boosted with assistance would need to return to Gaza in order to provide governance and aid."

While the part about Hamas is correct, the part about the PLO most definitely is not, considering they've thrown their support behind many terrorists with monetary provisions. And it could also be wondered why Sunak hasn't done anything to improve the police system that's allowed Islamic incitement to violence to occur in the UK.

In related news, France's foreign minister panned the South African government for their anti-Israeli stance:

French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne criticized the South African government's decision to attempt to charge the State of Israel with genocide.

“Accusing the Jewish state of genocide crosses a moral threshold. The notion of genocide cannot be exploited for a political end," Sejourne told the French Parliament.

"We said this also when Russia used this claim to justify the war in Ukraine," he added.

Of course, even in France, they have a problem of doing too little to prevent antisemitism even within the system, recalling the Sarah Halimi murder, and there's also the serious issue of Muslim rapists still invading the country. The point can also be made regarding the failure in Britain to prevent Muslim rapists from going after local girls in Rochdale, in example.