The Iconoclast

From AFP via the Times of Israel French media reported that a woman crying “Allahu akbar” — “God is great” in Arabic — hurt two people with a box cutter at a supermarket in southern France on Sunday. A man was struck in the chest during the late-morning attack in La Seyne-sur-Mer, outside the ...Read More...

Behind the peeling façades of Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney, America is a monster, and not always an amiable one by Conrad Black At this point, everyone on both sides of the proverbially unguarded (except for aggressive customs and immigration officials) Canada-U.S. border wins from the ...Read More...

It's a suspended sentence so don't get too excited. From the Swiss edition of The Local A Swiss court on Friday slapped a 20-month suspended sentence on an official of a prominent Islamic group for alleged production and distribution of jihadist propaganda but acquitted its leader. The three ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis Blogger Alison Chabloz arriving at Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, where she is accused of posting an anti-Semitic song online denying the Holocaust. Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire There is an optmistic forecast there'll be a change in the weather, a change in the ...Read More...

Not just France this week but Germany. Yet another plot. From the Telegraph A suspected Islamic extremist arrested in Cologne succeeded in making ricin and was planning a “biological weapon attack” in Germany, prosecutors said on Thursday. Sief Allah Hammami, a 29-year-old Tunisian, was held on ...Read More...

From the French edition of The Local and France 24 French police have thwarted two terror attacks, including one at a swingers' club, sources close to the investigations said Thursday. Two men in their 20s have been arrested in the greater Paris region over a suspected plot to carry out a terrorist ...Read More...

by Conrad Black President Trump’s idiosyncratic methods conceal the strength of his effort to reverse the disintegration of America as a Great Power and a just force in the world. Beneath or with his almost avuncular comments on Kim Jong-un being “a nice guy,” the president has gained Mr. Kim’s ...Read More...

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From the Oxford Mail A 'PREDATORY and cynical' gang which groomed and sexually abused young girls across Oxford has been jailed for a total of nearly 70 years. The depraved grooming ring was convicted at Oxford Crown Court after a five-month trial which ended in March. Throughout the trial, which ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis We would all like to be, or to be considered, saints. When the saints go marching in, yes I want to be in that number. Since saints are so few it's best to string along with good people who have faults. This is pertinent to a new case of possible canonization, the first British ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald For some reason Donald Trump thought  he should hold an Iftar dinner this year. He didn’t hold one last year, and contrary to some predictions at the time, the sky did not fall. No doubt his advisers thought this would be a suitable way to show goodwill toward Muslims. But ...Read More...

From Associated Press via News 24 Mozambique's government has been shaken by beheadings and other deadly attacks by suspected Islamic extremists in a northeastern region touted internationally for its offshore reserves of natural gas. Since last month, men with machetes have spread terror in several ...Read More...

Hard on the heels of the Free Tommy Demo in London on Saturday came the annual Al Quds march calling for Death to Israel. I had a prior engagment for once so I couldn't attend the groups countering the abomination (terrorist flags off our streets!) but enough of my friends did that I have some photographs ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis Did you say Americans, some adults as well as many snowflakes have got a lot to learn? Many studies have made us aware of the civic ignorance, and the historical amnesia of citizens in the US. Though Thomas Jefferson is often incorrectly quoted as the author of the axiom, it ...Read More...

To London for the Free Tommy Robinson march and rally. I arrived early as I wanted to see the flypast after the Trooping the Colour. The Red Arrows set a suitably patriotic tone. Tommy’s supporters were already gathering round Nelson’s column. I couldn’t find the open top bus (it was later ...Read More...

Jack Montgomery writes in Breitbart: Massive crowds turned out in London on Saturday to rally for free speech and hear Dutch firebrand Geert Wilders demand the release of Tommy Robinson from prison. “It’s so good to see so many of you here today, you are all heroes for being here today,” said ...Read More...

by Theodore Dalrymple When I was a medical student, we were often tested by multiple-choice questions that were marked by computer. There was one among us who consistently got fewer questions right than could have been expected by chance. The puzzle then was whether this implied knowledge of ...Read More...

From the Guardian of Trinidad and Tobago and the Jamaica Observer I am forbidden access to the reports of the Trinidad and Tobago Express due to the latest EU regulations, GPDR. Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says raids on mosques over the Carnival period were justified after “lethal weapons, arms ...Read More...

From the Mirror (who fund Hope not Hate) and the local newspaper the Chronicle A 'Free Tommy Robinson' rally through the streets of Newcastle has been scrapped following police advice.  A group called the Northeast Frontline Patriots had planned a march through Newcastle on Saturday to protest ...Read More...

From Trafalgar Square at 2.30 to Whitehall for 3pm. A red open-top London vintage bus is expected to tour central London taking the message to those not in Whitehall. There should be plenty of people in and around the area for the Trooping the Colour before HM The Queen during the morning and the flypast ...Read More...

by Brian of London Tommy Robinson interviews an activist at Brexit rally “It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a good name, must find Tommy Robinson to be a neo-Nazi, racist, Muslim hating, Jew hating thug." In the UK today, for a Jew to support Tommy Robinson ...Read More...

by Gary Fouse I vividly recall watching Bill Clinton walking through the bowels of the Staples Center in Los Angeles for what seemed an eternity (Perhaps, he was lost?) when he spoke at the DNC 2000 convention. As he made his way to the stage, head held high in a triumphant pose, captions informed ...Read More...

by Michael Curtis Let's have Hope, even Crosby, in Singapore. The summit wind came blowing in from across the sea. It lingered there in the luxury Capella Hotel in Sentosa Island, Singapore until the arrival of President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, 34 year old leader of the Democratic People's ...Read More...

From the Swedish edition of The Local Rakhmat Akilov, the Uzbek national who carried out the April 2017 Stockholm terror attack, has been sentenced to life in prison for "terrorist crimes". Stockholm District Court also found him guilty of 119 counts of attempted murder and 24 counts of endangering ...Read More...

by Hugh Fitzgerald Henda Ayari, the first woman to have accused Tariq Ramadan of sexual assault, has changed her account of the events that led up to the incident, the French daily Liberation first reported on Wednesday, May 30. Here is the story from Al Jazeera: “Tariq Ramadan’s accuser changes ...Read More...