At Least STP Gets Some Action

 https://www.fox9.com/news/st-paul-police-chief-files-sexual-harassment-complaint-against-mayor-kaohly-her

Because DFL, blue city mayors are awesome.   

BOT

 https://x.com/rezac1/status/2081900191909642345?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Compared with 2019, the reported violent crime rates are: • Violent crime: +58.62% • Murder: +248.10% • Rape: +161.07% • Felony assault: +135.87% • Robbery: +4.24% When nearly every major violent crime category has risen dramatically since 2019, no amount of political spin from Kathy Hochul can change the reality riders face underground."

 

Because blue cities are  paradise.

 

 https://x.com/danfriedman81/status/2081834755335614664?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "The entire reason the American system of government has been so stable and durable is that it requires supermajorities to make major changes to the American deal. Most people's lives should not change dramatically as a result of an election. Governments without an overwhelming mandate should not have the power to do stuff so disruptive a large percentage of the country would engage in violence to stop it."

 

Unless the  DFL allows the DSA to control the left wing agenda. 

 

 "“You don’t have a right to a house, you don’t have a right to a job, you don’t have a right to medical care. You have a right to your life and what you do with it. But once you claim a right to something that is material, that means you are claiming a right to somebody else’s labor, and that is a form of slavery.” – Ron Paul"

 https://x.com/glennbeck/status/2081819905310314599?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" If you have a son or daughter who's starting to think that socialism is the answer to our problems, I want you to try something and report back: Next time you talk, don't argue. Sit down, ask these questions, and just listen: - When you say "socialism," do you mean that you want the government to pay for a bigger safety net like in Denmark, or that the government owns the means of production? Because those are two very different countries. - You say the system is rigged. Who rigged it? And who should be handed the power to un-rig it? - Who sets the price of bread? If not a single person or corporation, what causes that price to remain steady or go up? - Can you name a country where the state took ownership of the means of production and the poor got richer? - When borders open or the walls fall down, anywhere in the world, which direction do people run? Towards the free market system or the socialist system? And before the boundaries fell, which way were the guns pointed? - Would you rather be poor today, or rich in 1900? By the way, only one of those has antibiotics. - If you and I make a voluntary trade, and we both walk away happy, who got hurt? - Someone has to decide what your work is worth. Would you rather it be you and the person paying you, or a bureaucrat with an army who has never met either of you?"

https://x.com/elliotmalin/status/2081071579648364575?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 Fascinating look into the hunger issue and malnutrition in Gaza. The data suggests that malnutrition is extremely low, and lower than pre-war, which suggests there’s greater access to food than before. This should make us happy to see, unfortunately it raises legitimate questions about the declaration by the IPC and rhetoric around it. Either way, let’s pause and appreciate that there’s more access to food in Gaza than previously, and that malnutrition is lower than pre-war."

 https://x.com/EirikSchr/status/2081029200740319358

" The results of the SMART survey (high-quality survey of malnutrition) in Gaza is finally out. Very low malnutrition rates, even lower than pre-war. Also, this slide is the coup-de-grace of the original famine declaration, which depended entirely on the premise that WHZ rates were twice as high as MUAC rates:"

 

 

 

 https://x.com/ne_pas_couvrir/status/2040508107378348275?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Mass migration and 'diversity' was always a scam to destabilize the West. This was known. China knows its a scam. They admit almost no international migrants (0.01%)."

 

 

 

   

 

 https://x.com/rezac1/status/2080435541045125563?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "I don't know who needs to hear this, but the top three worst landlords by open Class C immediately hazardous housing violations in NYC are: 1. NYC HOUSING PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT (GOVT) 2. NEIGHBORHOOD RENEWAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORP (TAX-PAYER FUNDED/PSEUDO GOVT) 3. NYC HOUSING AUTHORITY (GOVT)"

 

Islam Stuff

From the Colson Center 

"Recently, a handful of popular podcasters have claimed that Islamic regimes are historically “very kind” toward Christians. Those who make this claim are either willfully ignorant or are advancing an agenda. The historical record is not ambiguous.

For example, the claims that relations between Islam and the Christian world were peaceful for 500 years until the First Crusade are false. Mohammad died in 632. By 732, Islam had taken the Holy Land and North Africa from the Christian Byzantine Empire. It had also conquered Spain and advanced into France a few hundred miles from Paris.

After taking additional land in southern France and establishing bases in the Alps, Muslims launched raids into Germany. They also sacked the outskirts of Rome and took control of Sicily. In 1071, they defeated the Byzantines and took control of most of modern Turkey. Twenty-four years later, the Byzantine Emperor asked the Pope for help, leading to the First Crusade.

Christians in these conquered territories were treated as dhimmis, second-class citizens who were required to pay the jizya, a special tax and sign of submission that was often accompanied by ritual humiliations. Failure to pay the tax could result in death, enslavement, and the destruction of the local church building.

No public displays of Christianity were allowed, including the ringing of church bells or even praying aloud in one’s own home within earshot of a Muslim. No new churches could be built, and no old churches could be repaired without permission, which was rarely given. Criticism of Islam and evangelizing Muslims was strictly forbidden. In court, a Christian’s testimony was worth less than a Muslim’s. Christians could not have authority over a Muslim or have a house taller than a Muslim’s. They could not bear arms or ride a horse. At times, they were forced to wear distinctive clothing.

Another claim is that Muslim rulers protected Christian holy sites and repaired them when damaged. Again, nothing could be further from the truth. Typically, important Christian holy sites were converted to mosques to show the victory of Islam. The most prominent example is Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, the largest church in Christendom for 1000 years. When the city fell to the Turks, it and other churches were desecrated and converted to mosques.

An exception was the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, perhaps because it was a major pilgrimage site that generated revenue for the Caliph. However, in 1009, Caliph Al Hakim destroyed it. It lay in ruins for decades until his successor allowed the Byzantines to rebuild it, likely to again collect pilgrimage revenues. 800 years later, the church was severely damaged in a fire. Local Christians blamed Muslims, but the official story is that it was caused by a candle or oil lamp. The Ottomans allowed it to be repaired using Christian funds donated from overseas. They did not pay for the repair.

In the Ottoman Empire, that some claim was kind to Christians, boys were taken from Christian homes to be raised as Janissaries, or Muslim slave-soldiers who were taught to despise their Christian families. Girls were often taken as slaves into harems, and violence often broke out against Christian communities in Ottoman territories. The worst violence was the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocides of the early twentieth century, in which between 1.5 million and 2.5 million people were killed by the Ottoman government.

The same violence against Christians continues today, with abductions, forced marriages, murders, arson of churches, and oppression of Christians in places like Pakistan and Egypt, and increasingly in Europe. There is a prohibition of churches in Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries and, of course, the ongoing slaughter of Christians by Islamists in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa.

So no, Islam has not been kind to Christians. The only reason to make this claim is to make the occasional anti-Christian acts of Israelis look worse. But there is no comparison. Christians in Israel have more rights and freedoms than in any Muslim country, especially in history. To claim otherwise is to ignore reality.."

More On Zorhan's Grocery Stupdidity

 https://x.com/phil_mcalister/status/2081847255452262534?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" A few very obvious points on Mamdani's grocery stores: 1. The supply of the discounted groceries will run out on day 1, and every day there is a new shipment. This is basic econ 101. 2. This means only the people who are lucky enough or fast enough will get these discounted groceries. Expect to see the city ration these groceries in some other way. By income, or neighborhood or some lottery system. 3. Grocery margins are notoriously low as it is (like 2-3%). These stores will lose a bunch of money selling 30% below market, or they'll sell so little it will be insignificant. 4. There is absolutely zero chance that government bureaucrats can source these products from global supply chains as efficiently as Walmart, or Meier, or Whole Foods, whose survival depends on it. Their costs will be far higher (unless they use government bludgeon to force distributors to sell to them at lower prices). 5. It's actually an incredible triumph of capitalism that you can get a pound of bananas that were shipped to your neighborhood from Equador for like 60 cents, or fresh grapes from Chile in the dead of Midwestern winter for 2 bucks a pound, and Norwegian salmon to cook in Italian olive oil for $15 -20 bucks or so. Truly stop and think about that for a minute. It's a miracle. The median full time hourly wage is around $31 dollars. For ONE HOUR of work, the median working American can get all of the groceries listed below, which is about 22,000 calories. They can feed themselves for 10 days (or a family of 4 for around 2 and a half days), with an hour of labor. This is the stupidest industry for socialists to go after."

What A Scam, More Vote Buying

 https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/minnesota-paid-leave-has-paid-out-nearly-double-what-workers-employers-have-paid-in/

So, the wonderful DFL folx who control MN blew billions of budget surplus (without giving any of it back to taxpayers) and who ignored billions of dollars in fraud, decided that starting an underfunded slush fund for DFL constituents was a great plan right before Walz and company left office.   Who in the world could have ever predicted that the "balance" in this slush fund wouldn't have immediately gone into the red?  

What a freaking scam.  End this farce NOW! 

The Crushing Power Of The State, Applied Against Small Businesspeople

 https://x.com/badhombre/status/2081785412108857599?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "If (huge if) the government-run grocery stores ever open in NYC, this is what will happen within 2 years of grand opening: 1. Local competitors within a 5-10 mile radius close because they can’t compete against a store that receive government subsidies. 2. Suppliers have fewer stores to sell their products to and must raise the price they charge per unit to the government-run grocery stores. 3. Private operators of the government-run grocery stores inform the city government that they are unable to simultaneously pay above-market union wages and continue to provide discounted goods. They must break or renegotiate the contract. 4. The city government scrambles to find ways of increasing subsidies to cover the cost of labor and increased supplier costs, but the wealthy tax base it relies on has moved on to greener pastures. 5. The government-run grocery stores operate with severe shortages for a while but eventually shut down, leaving people in real food deserts."

 

 https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2081743239313309882

 

Let's ignore, for the moment, the utter failure of government owned grocery stores.  Let's ignore, for the moment, that this is one man using the power and coercive force of the State to financially ruin local businesses that have served their neighborhoods for years. Even if we ignore that, how in the world is it possible for NYC to lose money on every one of these items without raising taxes much more than the alleged "savings"? Not to mention the likelihood that they'll try to strong arm suppliers into losing money as well. 

Socialists/communists have no idea how things actually work, and choose to live in a fantasy world. Except Zorhan can always escape to his luxurious compound in his home country of Uganda.  

 

 https://x.com/jimiuorio/status/2081790068830994770?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" It’s not a mystery as to where Mamdani’s city run grocery stores will lead. It’s an economic law not a theory. The government will commit resources to these stores that will hold prices 30% below market price for a short time. The privately owned grocery stores that previously served the neighborhoods will lose market share and, due to already razor thin margins, will go under. The government run stores will deteriorate as all government programs do and soon there will be product shortages etc. the area will be left far worse off than it started. But that’s not what’s interesting here. The real story is that Mamdani and his cohorts are just as aware of this progression as we are. The only debate is; why would they intentionally destroy a system and a neighborhood they promised to protect? I’m not sure the answer but it’s worth mentioning that their hold on power and influence becomes greater the more suffering they cause…that’s probably it.."

 

If Only It Wasn't A Muslim (Updated)

 https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2081502495684087877?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" “I had hoped that the attacker was not a foreigner, but a white Christian person”"

This statement encapsulates everything wrong with the ASPL in one sentence. They pathological hatred of "white Christian" people and the willingness to ignore the actions of Muslims. 

 https://x.com/drewpavlou/status/2081356913254744482?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Abdul Ballout was born in Berlin, but he left Germany for Lebanon. Germany identified him as an Islamist threat, so they had him arrested in Lebanon and FLEW HIM BACK TO GERMANY to put him on trial for plotting terror attacks. He was convicted and sentenced for terrorism offences in May 2026 but released on time served. By July 2026 he was back on the streets. German authorities told him to attend de-radicalisation counselling sessions. He responded by carrying out a jihadist terrorist attack on a pride parade."

 https://x.com/realmaalouf/status/2081388910526034102?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/germany-islamist-foreign-extremism-alternative-fur-deutschland-afd-martin-hess/

96% of all terrorism investigations linked to one group seems like it might indicate a trend.  

 https://x.com/creativededuct/status/2081457852468576570?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Interesting theory. 

 https://www.instagram.com/p/DbQqix-DgPB/?igsh=MWZveHN4c2hwNGNqaQ%3D%3D

 

 

 

 https://x.com/labanderaes/status/2081651807361667557?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

This is like the most bizarre case of Stockholm Syndrome in history.  

Much Like With Human Rights, Maybe It's Not Wise To Have A Representative Of An Empire Known For Colonization Speaking Out Against Colonization

 https://x.com/RS613506/status/2080319599698964513

 "At the World Decolonization Forum, Dr. Esra Albayrak, the daughter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, spoke about their endeavour to “decolonize” the West. The first phase of their plan as she says is not within the political realm, but the realm of knowledge and thought. Their alliance is not advocating for a world without the West, rather, there is an open invitation for the West to accept its own “decolonization”. The current centers of knowledge located in Paris, London, Amsterdam. And New York; need to be replaced by new centers in Istanbul, Jakarta, Addis Abbaba, Rabat, Cairo, and Gaza."

 https://x.com/dimitrissoudas/status/2080675404046598172?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/ruud_koop_mans/status/2080558568504168712?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/simonmontefiore/status/2080648147634737556?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "There is great confusion about what Decolonization and indeed Colonization means. The fact is: it means very little except 'a culture or mindset you dont like.' For whatever reason. And that usually means: the West. Since the West decolonized long ago, it really means the Western liberal democracies. It is a smart criticism because it means nothing, and hence it is hard to disagree with nothing and furthermore since the West itself is embroiled in a mix of moral fuddlement, political paralysis and cultural self hatred, you can be sure that Western leaders are very embarrassed by the very use of the word and many in the West will actually agree - even though they are not sure what they are agreeing with. it is a very useful rhetorical tool because Westerns are always going to be worried to answer in any meaningful way other than guilt and shame; and it is a growing industry - perfect for endless conferences. Like this one. The reality of empires and colonies is something else entirely. In early modern times, the Ottoman Turks conquered colonized enslaved exploited murdered and forcefully converted millions and ruled a vast tricontinental empire for four centuries; the Western powers led by Spain Portugal France and Britain later joined by Italy Germany Belgium also conquered colonized enslaved exploited murdered and converted using missionaries huge empires across the continents. The Iberians lost much of their empires first; the Ottoman sultanate-caliphate started to decolonize with the Greek war of independence in 1820s and totally disintegrated in 1918; the British and French decolonized between 1940s and Sixties. You could argue the Americans and Soviets comported themselves like anti-imperial imperialists during the Cold War and after - and indeed today's America toys at times with neo-tsarist expansionism - Greenland etc . Thats it - noone in the Legacy Powers Britain or France etc seems keen on colonizing anything now; there are almost no colonizations left to decolonize - though many love to denounce their own country's past which is for some a most enjoyable enriching and virtuous pastime. But in real life, empire and colonization are happening, often perpetrated by the very proponents of antiWest rhetoric. Russia is attempting to retake its limotrophic empire in Ukraine right now the old -fashioned way: by conquest and killing; a phalanx of Middle East neo-imperial powers are engaged in tournaments of power in failing states like Somalia, Libya and benighted Sudan; Iran established an informal empire across Iraq Syria Lebanon Yemen in its Six Armies strategy - its final destiny as yet undecided on the battlefield of the Third Gulf War; and Turkish leaders now regularly and openly declare their wish to reassert Ottomanist power in former Ottoman vilayets Syria Lebanon Israel, and former Ottoman cities Damascus Beirut Jerusalem.... So imperialism and colonialism just mean: other people, but never you."

Let's See How This Goes

 "Making Helen a Black woman is for amateurs. If you want to really stir the pot, you should make Muhammad a Black woman."

 

The Gun

 https://x.com/kristof_poland/status/2081017140405006594?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "The gun is the most misunderstood object in Western civilization. Not a weapon. A technology. The technology that made the idea of equality physically real. 1. The longbow democratized warfare – a peasant could kill a knight with a stick and a string, and Agincourt proved it. The gun completed the process. The armored warrior class whose claim to social dominance rested on physical superiority became obsolete. The aristocratic monopoly on violence ended not with a philosophy but with a mechanism. The gun is the physical enforcement of the idea that all men are created equal. Which is why the American founders put it in the second amendment – not as an afterthought, but as the guarantee of everything else. 2. The Roman citizen had the right to bear arms. The Greek citizen had it. The English yeoman had it. The Swiss canton built its entire civilization on it. The disarming of the population has always been, in every civilization, in every century, the first act of the government that intends to stop being answerable to that population. Show me a disarmed population and I will show you a population that lost something else shortly after. 3. The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is not about sport. It is about the relationship between the armed citizen and the state – the explicit constitutional acknowledgment that the citizen’s right to defend himself, his family, and his civilization against any threat, including the government itself, is not granted by the state and cannot be revoked by it. Power flows upward from the armed citizen, not downward from the armed state. 4. The gun defends the family. The woman alone with her children. The farmer on the edge of civilization. The shopkeeper in the neighborhood the police no longer patrol. The gun is the equalizer – the technology that makes the physical difference between a large man and a small woman irrelevant. Every argument for disarmament is, at its core, an argument that the state will protect you better than you can protect yourself. The evidence for this proposition is not encouraging. 5. In Europe, the disarmament is now nearly complete – and it happened precisely as the state’s ability and willingness to protect its citizens began to decline. The timing is not coincidental. A population that cannot defend itself must trust the state to defend it – which is a population that cannot effectively question whether the state is doing so. The dependency is the design. 6. The gun is a civilizational technology in the deepest sense: it requires responsibility, judgment, and the willingness to accept the consequences of your decisions. You cannot outsource it. You cannot have a committee fire it. It is the most anti-bureaucratic object ever invented – a direct, personal, consequential instrument that puts the full weight of the decision on the individual holding it. Which is precisely why the administrative state finds it intolerable. Not because it is dangerous. Because it is sovereign. 7. The family that can defend itself does not depend on the state for its most fundamental security. The civilization that can defend itself has not yet outsourced its survival to an institution that will negotiate the terms of that survival on its own behalf. The gun determines who controls violence – and therefore who controls everything that violence can threaten. Which is everything. The Sobieski who rode down the hill had a sword and sixty thousand horsemen. The equivalent today is the armed citizen who understands what he is defending and why. Every civilization that forgot this discovered it the hard way. The ones that remembered it are still here."

Video (And Other) Evidence Of Right Wing Extremists Being Racist And Xenophobic (Updated)

 https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2081238037581754682?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/politicalstacy/status/2081099959009722544?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Bill Clinton 1993: "We have to end welfare as a way of life and make it a path to independence and dignity." Barack Obama 2005: "We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected undocumented unchecked and go around our communities without our knowledge of them." Hillary Clinton 2008: "If they've committed a crime deport them. No questions asked. They're gone." Chuck Schumer 2009: "Illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple." Joe Biden 2006: "I voted for a fence. I voted for 700 miles of fence." Harry Reid 1993: "No sane country would grant citizenship to children of illegal immigrants." Bernie Sanders 2015: "Open borders is a Koch brothers proposal that would make everybody in America poorer." The Secure Fence Act of 2006 had yes votes from Obama, Hillary, Schumer and Biden."

 

 https://x.com/brivael/status/2080960492965650735?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2080675270768394262

 https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2010912807869644896

Why Should We Believe This?

 https://x.com/yossibenyakar/status/2081295404398739763?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/realmaalouf/status/2081043338317168891?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/realmaalouf/status/2080810588498747693?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/gbnt1952/status/2080638097230889190?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Do Americans not realize that when Islam claims it is the religion of peace, they aren’t actually lying? Their worldview is that the world cannot see peace until every person on earth submits to Allah. That means that anyone who does not submit to Allah is directly combatting their peace and must be force converted or killed. That’s the entirety of their ideology masquerading as a religion. Thats why they have killed or force converted hundreds and hundreds of millions since their pedophilic warlord created their “religion” nearly 1400 years ago."

 
https://x.com/jordanbpeterson/status/2079970018914381974?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" 

Of course there was a cover-up. Of course it continues—witness the deafening silence of the legacy media in response to Rupert Lowe’s crowdfunded Rape Gang Inquiry, a silence identical to that which greeted every earlier report of the sexual atrocity now seemingly integral to multicultural Britain.

How could it possibly be otherwise?

The events documented in Lowe’s Inquiry are so foreign to Western experience and so incomprehensibly terrible that anyone normal first responded to their revelation with minimization, avoidance, disbelief—even outright denial— and search for fault with the victim. This proved particularly true of the modern liberal citizen, with his fervent but untested faith in intrinsic human goodness, certainty that all cultures are equally valuable, and insistence that tolerance is the supreme virtue.

The Honest Society

Such views, however, are justified and productive only within so-called high-trust societies—and those are prohibitively difficult to establish, and therefore rare. The default human being is selfish, and the default community tribal, violently so: “I against my brothers; I and my brothers against my cousins; I, my brothers, and my cousins against the world.” Only the disciplined, endless application of carrot and stick transforms those default conditions into their trustworthy and productive alternatives.

This is not to say that the child lacks the impulse for good. But the better angels of his nature will not prevail in the absence of programmatic encouragement of the good and placement of stricture on the bad. Pursuit of immediate gratification is the natural motivation, simple, and requiring a minimum of foresight, planning and energy. Consideration of others and of the future is, by contrast, a complex, demanding enterprise.

It might be noted, too, that “high-trust” is a misnomer, as it places the cart before the horse—and it is important, as we shall see, to get the terminology exactly right. High-trust societies do not arise from a pre-existent blind faith in human nature. They emerge instead because the typical transaction, even between strangers, has become transparent, so that the parties involved say what they mean and do what they say. This pattern of exchange characterizes what are properly termed honest societies—a term avoided, I suspect, for the judgment it implies about cultures that do not qualify. But the facts remain: in some places people follow an ethic that transcends the local, and in others they don’t. It is to the former that citizens of the latter flee when the situations in their states degenerate beyond tolerability.

It was the Judeo-Christian ethic that made truthfulness, in the West, a matter of eternal consequence. Integrity in word and deed, on pain of hellfire: from that demand grew the majority of the world’s most peaceful and productive societies. On the reward side? Heaven beckoned to those who conducted themselves in the requisite manner. A culture that had made revenge an art gave way to one in which the admirable man was honest in all things. A society noble in the archaic sense—one where the strong, as a matter of course, oppressed the weak—was transformed into one where strength itself came to be defined as willingness to stand up for and protect the vulnerable. The magnitude and impossibility of this accomplishment can hardly be overstated.

On the stick side was a judicial system that, from 1500 to 1750, executed or otherwise eliminated one to two percent of men per generation. During this period, homicide and other crime rates plummeted. Some argue that such severity exerted genuine evolutionary pressure, reducing the prevalence of antisocial traits; most scholars, less controversially, attribute the transformation to psychological and social factors alone.

The West was not entirely alone in this. Take the case of Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868). The carrot: reputation as capital. The Ōmi merchants’ sanpō-yoshi— “good for seller, buyer, and society”—made honesty the norm, and their house codes carried it down the generations.

The stick: gonin-gumi—five-household groups, within a rigid caste structure, collectively responsible for any member’s transgression. Every neighbour, then, an enforcer. Draconian punishment for fraud: beheading, crucifixion and banishment.

Thus, in West and East, reputation came to be prized over short-term advantage. This is the essence of civilization: recognition that, in the long run, honesty and true profit become indistinguishable. Fair dealing between strangers—as if kin—enables trade; trade generates wealth. Where truth cannot be assumed, every interaction becomes a costly, paranoid competition—making permanent the poverty that is man’s common lot. Honesty may be the only natural resource.

How else to explain Switzerland, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea— prosperous, high-trust, but conspicuously lacking the mineral wealth unthinkingly assumed to be prosperity’s prerequisite? Or the reverse—the so-called “resource curse”: states blessed by plentiful but unearned natural wealth tend towards a corrupt stagnation (Venezuela, Nigeria). Easy money, it seems, has its cost.

If everything hinges on honesty, the human psyche should reflect that. Indeed, when psychologists first analyzed the language people naturally use to describe one another, the most powerful dimension that emerged was moral evaluation itself. Before the now-standard Big Five personality traits could be derived, purely evaluative adjectives—good, bad, worthy, despicable—had to be set aside. Their inclusion collapsed the entire structure of personality into one giant factor: good versus evil, bluntly speaking. All other differences were obscured.

We are wired to ask first whether another person can be trusted not to exploit or betray us. On that determination rests safety, trade, cooperation, and the very possibility of peace. The absence of trustworthiness renders everything else—warmth, energy, composure, diligence, creativity—irrelevant.

Wolves Among Sheep

There is a risk, however, when civilized behavior becomes predictable. When honesty, safety, and security become the norm, their unlikelihood, the difficulty of their achievement, and the persistent reality of criminal actors (or worse) can be forgotten. Where a widespread peace has reigned throughout living memory, the fact that man can be a wolf to man becomes foreign. Trust degenerates into naïveté; empathy becomes less a laudable virtue than an incautious invitation to exploitation. Once people are more sheep to be fleeced than courageous traders, the wolves close in.

Evolutionary game theorists— most famously Robert Axelrod, whose tournaments pitted strategies against one another in the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma — demonstrated that cooperators outperform defectors, generating collective wealth through trust and repeated exchange. But successful cooperation creates opportunity for defectors. Without defenses—reputation-tracking, punishment for cheating, conditional strategies such as Tit-for-Tat — defection spreads until the cooperators are overrun and the wealth they built is lost.

Cooperation builds peace and prosperity—but every store of trust, like every store of grain, draws its parasites—and, in time, its predators. At the level of the individual, these wear the faces of the Dark Tetrad: the narcissist, who deems himself entitled to what others have earned; the Machiavellian, who treats every human interaction as an opportunity for manipulation; the psychopath, unburdened by empathy or remorse; and—worst of all—the sadist, for whom the suffering of the victim is not cost but reward.

At the level of the group, exploitation takes a form older and arguably more dangerous: the tribal or religious insistence that the ingroup alone is truly human, while the outgroup is not merely barbarian but legitimate prey—its property ripe for pillage, its women for rape, its civilization for demolition.

When the personal and the social variants combine—when the predator finds in his creed a warrant for his predation—the result is not crime as we ordinarily conceive it, but something approaching campaign. Is it not exactly such a combination that confronts us in the case at hand?

The Scale and the Character of the Crimes

Perhaps the first fact relevant to that question is the sheer scale of the crimes—although the deepest scandal is that their scale cannot be established. No one knows how many native English girls were sexually assaulted. When the state agencies charged with protecting children cannot even count them, something has gone seriously astray. Lowe’s report claims 250,000.

That figure has been criticized as exaggeration, but it is in keeping with estimates such as those offered by Baroness Williams of Trafford—a Conservative peer and former Home Office minister—who as early as 2020 suggested approximately 7,000 victims per year. Extrapolated across the thirty or so years that the organized rape has been occurring, a figure of the same order emerges. The true number, whatever it is, is large enough that no further argument should be required.

Some context, for indication of severity: when the Imperial Japanese Army so infamously overran the Chinese city of Nanking in 1937, an estimated 20,000–80,000 women were raped. The situations are not directly comparable—the Nanking perpetrators were uniformed soldiers of a specialized military apparatus, and the atrocities were compressed into a single month. But the comparison establishes the order of magnitude, given that the rape of Nanking is rightly regarded as one of the low points of human conduct in the brutal twentieth century. Whatever the true British figure, it is far beyond scandalous.

The second relevant fact is that even the term “rape” understates the character of these crimes. The terminology itself formed a gradient of evasion. “Asian grooming gang” diluted responsibility across extremely diverse ethnic groups, implicating, for example, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hindu and Sikh communities with absolutely no connection to the offending. “Grooming gang,” per se, avoided all direct reference to the sexual violation and downplayed its organized, sustained and programmatic nature.

Even “rape gang ,” the bluntest of the three, names the crime but not the context—leaving the ethnic, cultural and religious dimensions unspoken. In reality, the documented cases involved networks of men—predominantly of Pakistani Muslim heritage—systematically targeting vulnerable white British girls, with first encounters commonly at ages eleven to fourteen.

Survivor testimony and court evidence from Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford, Telford and other towns recount the same brutal story: girls passed from man to man, subjected to repeated gang rapes, physical torture, psychological degradation, and explicit racial and religious contempt. The victims were routinely slurred as “gora,” “kuffar,” “white slags,” “easy meat”—language marking them as inherently inferior and available for abuse precisely because they were white and non-Muslim.

The fact that the girls were typically so young adds to the heinousness of the crimes. Violation of innocence is, of course, the signature of the sadist—and the manipulation of what were essentially children for sexual purposes something particularly unforgivable. Add to that the fact that this was all done in a manner purposefully designed to indicate cultural superiority as well as to humiliate and degrade, and the true nature of the acts becomes clear: the crimes combined sexual violence with collective sadism and identity-based dehumanization on a scale that consideration of individual pathology alone does not explain. None of this was incidental, either: cruelty, humiliation, and demoralization were the point—and the sexual gratification, in the final analysis, was not.

What this directly means is that large numbers of men, drawn disproportionately from the most populous subgroup of the UK Muslim immigrant population, were actively engaged in what can only be called hate crimes, directed at the most vulnerable members of their host society—and worse: that within the networks these men organized, the crimes were regarded not as immoral but as justified, warranted by the supposed religious and cultural depravity of the girls, and of the society that produced them.

And exactly where does that leave us when trying to determine the potential causal role of the broader system of Islamic belief in relation to motivation for such crime?

And of course all that would be covered up—because who could believe it? And who would dare withstand the catastrophic personal consequences of suggesting or revealing such horror?

And it’s still worse: the “gora kuffar” were exploited not in the reprehensible but vaguely comprehensible manner of the opportunistic individual rapist, but in an organized, entrepreneurial, long-term manner—industrial in scale, multi-year in duration, involving dozens of men per network, with victims passed between “party houses,” hotels and towns. In documented cases the purposefully sadistic and degrading assaults often involved ten to twenty men per event, with individual victims catastrophically degraded, over time, by fifty to several hundred different men.

And worse yet: the direct perpetrators may have been a small percentage even of the community most directly involved. But a much larger and as yet unspecified proportion of their tightly bound fellows—bound by culture, marriage and kinship, cousin marriage being a common occurrence in such communities—were at least aware of the activity, if not actively abetting it. That proclivity to secrecy, that enabling and tacit approval, was mirrored precisely on the side of the UK authorities, producing a situation dangerous beyond comprehension for the girls so dreadfully involved.

And worse still: though the crimes were explicitly racially and religiously motivated—though the victims, and everything they represented, were purposefully subjected to cruelty and degradation over and above the sexual exploitation—virtually none were prosecuted or sentenced as racially aggravated offenses. No category of offense fits the designation of hate crime more precisely, or better justifies its existence.

And if that’s not enough—and it’s already more than enough—the crimes included not only the sexual sadism, exploitation and domination graphically outlined in Lowe’s Inquiry, but the equally reprehensible official response: cover-up, and even prosecution of the victims. Subsequent investigations confirmed what victims and some frontline workers had reported for years: police, social services and local councils knew, and preferred not to admit, what was happening. In consequence, thousands of girls were raped, trafficked and degraded while the authorities stood by, afraid of being called racist and anxious to protect “community relations.”

That’s not negligence. That’s not institutional failure. That’s collusion with the worst of men—in the service of an illusory, even fraudulent multicultural peace. Let us be crystal clear: the ethnic, cultural, and religious dimensions of both the perpetration and the cover-up are central, not incidental, to this story; their recognition is necessary to understanding how it happened and preventing its return.

What Cannot Be Named Cannot Be Understood

But recognition requires a name—for what cannot be named cannot be understood. What is the opposite of a cover-up, when dealing with crimes of this severity and magnitude? What should we even call this thing? What name fits a multi-decade, systematic, culture-and-religion-based campaign of the most sadistic sexual assault, undertaken to degrade, demoralize and destroy—and perpetrated on the most defenceless available victims?

To uncover such crimes—to confront even incontrovertible evidence of them—is to initiate a deep and dreadful process of exploration: What went on here, exactly? What caused it? How should it be dealt with? Much that is horrifying must be exposed before understanding becomes possible, to say nothing of amelioration or justice. When things are peaceful, after all, a shallow naïveté suffices. When things have gone this badly wrong, it is the presumptions held most dear that must be questioned. Something is the error. Something caused it. Something fundamental must change.

To not cover up is to accept that human depravity renders any naive view lethally inadequate, to question the doctrine that all cultures are of equal value — and thereby to undermine the entire multicultural project. It is also to expose oneself, personally, to the pitiless demolition of character reserved for those who fail to adhere to the party line: accusations of fostering dangerous divisiveness; expulsion from community, job and profession; the epithets far-right, racist, fascist, Nazi. To not cover up is to ask questions as serious as the crimes themselves:

Was this grooming?

Was this rape?

Was this sadistic sexual assault?

Was this sadistic pedophilic sexual assault?

Was this organized, systematic, sadistic pedophilic sexual assault?

Was it organized, systematic, sadistic pedophilic sexual assault aimed at the degradation and psychological destruction of its targets?

Was this something cultural?

Was this something religious?

Was it a demonstration of domination?

Was it an organized religious demonstration of domination?

Was it something akin to war?

Not grooming, then. Not even rape. Something more brutal, efficient and planned; something motivated, furthermore, by the presumption of individual and cultural superiority, on ideological, moral—even religious—grounds.

Something akin to domination. Something akin, even more precisely, to… conquest. But let us also not forget the specific and dreadful means of domination and conquest—one so often applied on the open battlefield: rape, of the most vicious sort. Thus, a more fitting term: sexual conquest.

These then were sexual conquest gangs: organized networks for whom the bodies of the outgroup’s daughters were territory to be held in contempt, taken and spoiled—the ancient tribal warfare of pillage and rape, conducted under conditions of nominal peace, against a host society too trusting, too tolerant, and finally too afraid to name what was happening.

Who could or would withstand the pressure of inquiring more deeply; of defining, particularly once the chance of collateral damage—to family, for example—was factored in? The psychological consequence of realizing that evil genuinely exists is truly something to fear. Combined with the savaging of a good name, the suffering of loved ones, and genuine social exclusion, it can be lethal—or worse than lethal, because there are forms of suffering worse than death. And it is good people who are most vulnerable: they have reputations worth ruining, families they cannot bear to see suffer, and the stubborn habit of telling the truth.

To not cover up is therefore to become a martyr.

The Cascading Implications

And what exactly are we admitting exists, if we refuse the cover-up? What are the cascading implications of the fact that sexual conquest gangs operated untrammelled and unrecognized in what was until recently an honest, secure and productive society—one where high trust was the proper order of the day?

Certainly the societal division we are constantly warned against, not least by those attempting to justify their own failure to act. Certainly the demand for justice for the victims and criminal responsibility of the perpetrators—a demand mounting rather than declining with the passage of time. Certainly the necessity of reconsidering the cherished liberal axioms that produced mass immigration from the very cultures in which such predation found its justification—and that forbade naming it once it arrived. And what does that imply for the multicultural project itself? For immigration policy going forward? For the—justified?—resurgence of nationalism?

There are yet more brutal questions waiting to be asked. How does honest admission of the problem embolden that element of the right for whom mass deportation is the most rather than the least liberal of the available options? Why should the traditional British public not conclude that a virtual state of war now exists in the country they patriotically cherish? Given that thousands of men in organized networks sadistically exploited, physically brutalized and psychologically destroyed hundreds of thousands of that country’s most vulnerable citizens, justifying their predation on essentially religious grounds, and prosecuting it with a toxic combination of sex and violence?

What is the appropriate interpretation of that situation? How, indeed, should the public respond?

Note, too, that the continued failure of those properly responsible for administering justice virtually ensures that much rougher consequences will be called for, and perhaps implemented, by those no longer willing to tolerate the moderation we have come to expect from democratic police, judiciary and elected officials.

Those on the leftward side of the spectrum are already decrying the increasingly obvious resurgence of the so-called far right. But the standard defenses against such movements are rapidly losing their force. Accusations of racism are effective only when prejudice itself is regarded, axiomatically, as evil, and when the accusers retain some integrity of reputation, so that their finger-pointing remains credible. The self-evidence of both preconditions is eroding. Meanwhile the epithet “far right,” with its connotations of obvious unacceptability, is leveled against people who are not far right at all—or not yet. It is a dangerous thing to lump traditional patriots and believers in their culture together with true fascists, let alone with those who use patriotism as camouflage for essential cruelty and an appetite for force.

What Must Be Done

What should be done—indeed, what must be done, lest such things continue, or worse? The perpetrators, particularly the ringleaders, must be brought to justice — untempered by any cowardly or ideologically motivated consideration of identity, community relations, or political convenience. Justice must be done, to put it simply, and be seen to be done. Their kinsmen and communities, silent and complicit—even approving—in their knowledge of what was occurring, must also be brought to account. The same goes for those in authority guilty of willful blindness and conscious cover-up—those outside the immediate community of perpetrators, who violated the integrity of their professional positions and broke faith with the public they swore to serve.

The guilty and the complicit alike must be punished with a severity that matches the crime—a crime which combines the worst elements of mafia-like organization, sexual assault, sadism, pedophilia, traitorous betrayal, and racial, religious and ethnic hatred. Indeed, a truer and more serious crime of hate—precisely the offense so recently codified by those most likely to turn a blind eye in this case—can scarcely be imagined.

In the absence of a proper response to the sexual conquest gangs now so undeniably documented, an over-correction is certain. Continued suppression of the normative majority’s insistence that cultural norms be upheld—that is, that vicious, hate-motivated serial rapists face consequences—will do nothing but ensure that when the tide turns, it turns with a vengeance.

The writing is already on the wall."

 

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" Here are the three Stages of Jihad in Islam. Islamic sources and classical jurisprudence describe the spread and establishment of Islam as occurring in three distinct stages, each defined by the relative strength or weakness of the Muslim community and the corresponding rules for dealing with non-Muslims. These stages are derived from the chronological development of the Quran (early Meccan → late Meccan → Medinan) and the principle of naskh (abrogation), where later verses override earlier ones. Stage 1: No Retaliation / Peaceful Preaching (when Muslims are a weak minority) Period: Early Meccan phase (first ~13 years of prophethood). Instructions: No fighting permitted, endure persecution patiently, invite others with kindness and wisdom. Key verses: Quran 109:6 – “To you your religion, and to me mine.” Quran 73:10 – “And be patient over what they say and avoid them with gracious avoidance.” Quran 16:125 – “Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best.” Quran 20:130 – “So be patient over what they say and exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord…” This is the phase most often quoted in modern interfaith contexts and dawah when Muslims are still a small minority. Stage 2: Defensive Fighting (when Muslims have gained some strength but are not yet dominant) Period: After the Hijra to Medina, when the Muslim community has a base of power. Instructions: Fighting is permitted, then made obligatory, but framed as “defensive” (though the definition of aggression expands to include insults to Islam, refusal to accept Islam, etc.). Key verses: Quran 22:39–40 – “Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged…” Quran 2:191 – “And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you…” Quran 2:216 – “Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you…” This is the transitional phase where jihad becomes a religious duty once the community has sufficient power. Stage 3: Offensive Warfare / Total Dominance (when Muslims are strong and in control) Period: Later Medinan revelations and after the conquest of Mecca; considered the final and permanent ruling by classical scholars. Instructions: All limitations are removed. Non-Muslims must be fought until they submit, pay the jizyah (protection tax) while humbled, or are eliminated. Key verses: Quran 9:5 (the “Verse of the Sword”) – “And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way.” Quran 9:29 – “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture—[fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.” Quran 8:39 – “And fight them until there is no fitnah [disbelief/persecution] and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah.” Sahih Muslim 19:4294 (or 1731) – “I have been ordered to fight the people until they say ‘There is no god but Allah’…” Classical scholars of all four major Sunni schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, Hanbali) and most Shia scholars agree that offensive jihad to expand Islamic rule becomes a communal obligation (fard kifaya) once the Muslim state has sufficient strength. Summary of the three stages: Muslims weak → Stage 1: “No compulsion in religion,” peaceful coexistence. Muslims equal in strength → Stage 2: Defensive jihad (broadly defined). Muslims strong → Stage 3: Offensive jihad until Islam dominates or non-Muslims submit under dhimmi status."