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acher told me she couldn’t study set texts with the children at this school for GCSE, which included The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, because she said they kept coming out with things like, ‘If only Hitler were here today, he’d sort out the Jews once and for all’. It was becoming a breeding ground for extremism. From that school, three girls left to join ISIS. So when I talk about education, I’m not just talking about the moral rot that is taking hold at universities. I’m talking about the hotbeds of radicalisation that have been at play in city-centre schools. Unfortunately, when these individuals grow up, their opinions also shape political discourse.

No prizes for guessing what the dominant religion at that particular school would have been.

Full interview here.

ont-size: 11pt”>"We look up to women like Sahar Emami, the Iranian news anchor who was delivering a report when her building was bombed on live television by the Israeli regime.  […]

"These are the kinds of women we look up to, that we admire. We know that we are on the side that stands with women. […]

"The imperialist media also wants to claim that war with Iran is about protecting gay rights. We are supposed to believe that regime change in Iran – potentially causing millions of deaths in the process – would be just wonderful for the LGBT community. These people think we are stupid!"

And they're quite right.

"We say: No war on Iran!"

Crowd: "No war on Iran!"

Once upon a time, musicians challenged the stifling and benighted status quo.

These days, it's often just "go with the hate flow, man".

Fontaines D.C. at Finsbury Park. Nice old-fashioned Germanic calligraphy there. Classy. pic.twitter.com/uMEE7pHbLz

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Twenty years ago today, I left work early and hurried home to be with my husband as it became clear that London had been attacked by members of a murdered Islamist death cult. In the days that followed, a formula that would become all too familiar after many further atrocities…

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Twenty years ago today, I left work early and hurried home to be with my husband as it became clear that London had been attacked by members of a murdered Islamist death cult. In the days that followed, a formula that would become all too familiar after many further atrocities was deployed: keep calm, carry on, don't let the terrorists divide us and let's do everything we can to avert the tsunami of Islamophobia these events would undoubtedly unleash among the lower orders.
The tsunami never came; in all of the 20 intervening years, it's never happened, even in spite of there having been so many Islamist attacks, I've lost track.
And yet, now we have a government trying to create a new definition of Islamophobia while allowing rampant Jew-hatred to be paraded through the streets of London every week. We have a man convicted of burning a Koran as if blasphemy laws existed in this country. We have ministers so in thrall to the Muslim vote, they had to be dragged kicking and screaming into setting up a national inquiry into Pakistani-dominated grooming gangs. We may be safer, on the whole, than we were on 7/7/2005, but we seem to have learned little else.

kers. Just people at a music festival having a great time.

And – ooh yes – class. It's not so easy nowadays to talk about class in Britain, but here we are. Glastonbury is defiantly, stereotypically, middle class, while heavy metal has always been a working class genre – here in the UK, at least. And, as Villa Park shows, the fans, despite the image, have always been the best.

ft: 40px”>The experience surely lifts the bonnet on why accusations of anti-Israel bias – and, at times, naked antisemitism – continue to dog the BBC. Namely a culture of weakness that runs right to the top. A spineless, craven unwillingness to offer a concrete and consequential response in the face of first-hand testimony – whether from anguished Northern licence payers or, in the case of Glastonbury, unequivocal death chants.

ction of the total output about Pride produced that month by the corporation) none of them mentioned that two Pride organisers had been jailed for nearly 35 years for child sexual abuse offences. Stories it did cover included that a banner had been torn….

Have lessons been learnt from the Jimmy Savile affair? In short, no. No lessons have been learnt.

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The aim of this report, put together by Israeli gender and legal experts and partly funded by the British government, is “to counter denial, misinformation and global silence” in what it says is “one of the most under-reported dimensions of the attacks” and “to set the historical record straight: Hamas used sexual violence as a tactical weapon of war”.

“Clear patterns emerged in how the sexual violence was perpetrated,” it states, “including victims found partially or fully naked with their hands tied, often to trees or poles; evidence of gang rapes followed by execution; and genital mutilation.”

The attacks took place at the Nova music festival, Route 232, the military base at Nahal Oz, and three kibbutzim: Re’im, Nir Oz and Kfar Aza. Those taken hostage were also abused.

But every excuse has been used to diminish the absolute horror of what Hamas did, from the UN on down. Meanwhile we watch the surge of antisemitic rhetoric and violence across the world, while mindless talk of a genocide in Gaza becomes part of everyday discourse.

It is a response to anger at the inadequate response from international organisations such as UN Women in the light of reports of sexual violence by The Sunday Times and others; questions raised by false claims from first responders and from those who insist that, as an Islamic organisation, Hamas would not rape women (despite examples such as Islamic State and Boko Haram); and arguments that the issue had been “weaponised” by the Israeli government to justify its own atrocities in Gaza.

As we've seen, sexual violence has been, and still is, a feature of many Islamic organisations.

512679694418271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>July 5, 2025

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ccording to the Global Slavery Index, there are 740,000 people living in modern slavery. Marozzi opens his book in the Kayes region of western Mali, where hereditary slavery persists, as does the right of masters to rape the wives and daughters of their slaves.

And why sex slavery in Syria is conducted by men quite convinced of their Islamic virtue.

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The historian Bernard Lewis once lamented that, thanks to contemporary sensibilities, it had become “professionally hazardous” for bright young things to probe slavery in Muslim societies.