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LOVE JIHAD: THE PREDATOR PLAYBOOK UK journalist and political activist Tommy Robinson sits down with Lara Logan to describe what he says is the systematic method used by grooming gangs targeting vulnerable girls. Robinson explains that the process often begins with a boy the same age befriending a girl at school. Over time, older men are introduced who shower her with attention, gifts, and status. They gradually isolate her from her parents and friends while introducing alcohol, drugs, and a new social circle. By the time the girl realizes what is happening, she may already be emotionally dependent and cut off from her support system. Robinson says the next phase often involves manipulation or blackmail, sometimes with recorded sexual encounters used as leverage. Victims are then coerced into sexual exploitation or prostitution. He warns that the process rarely happens overnight. It can take months of grooming and isolation before the abuse begins, which is why he believes parents and communities must understand how these networks operate. Watch Episode 69 of @GoingRoguewLara | @TRobinsonNewEra: bit.ly/goingrogue-ep69 #GoingRogue #TommyRobinson #HumanTrafficking #ChildExploitation #InvestigativeJournalism

This is Tehran. Today, right around 10:15 AM. I want the world to hear this: life is flowing here. We are actually doing fine. For years, this occupying regime has choked our city in a permanent, toxic smog. We never get to see a blue sky. But look up today. The air is beautifully clear. The only darkness in the sky is the black pillar of smoke rising exactly where they struck the regime's oil depot. The poison is finally burning. The politicians and pundits in the West are terrified of escalation. They are begging for peace. But walking these streets, seeing the iron of our cage melting before our eyes, we are not afraid of the fire. We only have one true, suffocating fear: we are terrified that the strikes will stop before the rescue mission is finished. We are afraid of this regime's survival. And more than anything, we are afraid of losing our one real chance to end them for good.

These are the names of the 25 Iranian footballers who stood in silent defiance against the Islamic Regime. Say their names. Save our girls. Fatemeh Shaban Fatemeh Makhdoomi Mohaddeseh Zolfi Atefeh Imani Zahra Pourheydar Fatemeh Amineh Borazjani Melika Motevalli Atefeh Ramazanizadeh Fatemeh Pasandideh Sara Didar Roujin Tamrian Afsaneh Chatrenoor Zahra Sarbali Golnoush Khosravi Mona Hamoudi Maryam Dini Shahnaz Jafarizadeh Raha Yazdani Mahnaz Rezazadeh Zahra Khajavi Sana Sadeghi Zahra Ahmadizadeh Zahra Ghanbari Koswar Anbari Maryam Yektaei

This week the Home Secretary was asked a simple question. Why was Pakistan not included in the government's visa crackdown when Pakistani nationals are the single largest group claiming asylum and account for a quarter of all visa-to-asylum switches? She didn't answer it. My latest piece sets out exactly what the statistics show and why @ShabanaMahmood's conflict of interest at the heart of this decision cannot be ignored.

This story is absolutely insane. Senior Iranian regime propagandists threatened to have members of the Iranian women’s football team killed because they didn’t sing the national anthem at a game in Australia this week. The women were then basically held under armed guard in Australia by Iranian officials to prevent them escaping - they were even seen making SOS signals on their team bus. The Australian government inexplicably dragged their feet on saving them right up until the last possible moment. Five girls just escaped and claimed asylum. The rest face a flight home tomorrow to almost certain persecution. This is the same Australian government which wants to import literal ISIS members from Syrian prison camps - they’ve spent the past month trying to get ISIS brides back on planes to Australia. But they had to be dragged kicking and screaming to protect 5 women fleeing Islamist persecution

🇺🇸This is possible the most accurate and powerful message coming from a citizen of Iran.🇺🇸

Hello Australia, this is your moment. We need your support. Iran’s women’s football team refused to sing the regime’s anthem right after the killing of Ali Khamenei. State TV called them “war-time traitors.” Now they’re on a bus back to Iran, flashing the SOS hand signal through the window. I call on Australian government to them. Don’t send them back to danger. Please give them protection.

@russellquirk @GBNEWS It's actually much more serious than 'for fear of upsetting their Muslim voter base.' The cover-up of the industrial-scale rape of children points to something deeper and far more dangerous. x.com/recusant_raja/…

The Grooming Gangs Inquiry must go further. Add your voice to the consultation and help bring justice for survivors. groominggangjustice.uk

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Yanar Mohammed, one of Iraq’s fiercest defenders of women’s rights, has been murdered by pro-IRGC militia in Baghdad. For decades, Yanar sheltered abused women, defied extremists, and refused to be silenced. Be her voice, for Western "feminists" certainly won't be. Rest in peace.

Shabana Mahmood flew to Copenhagen last week. She came back convinced she had found the answer. On Thursday she announced it: Britain will pay failed asylum-seeking families up to £40,000 to leave. She called it the Danish model. Denmark would barely recognise it. This is the political equivalent of visiting a Michelin-starred restaurant, asking for the recipe, and coming home with the napkin. Denmark's success on immigration is not built on paying people to go away. It is built on making sure they don't want to come in the first place, and on removing them efficiently when they do. The payment scheme exists in Denmark as a minor instrument inside a much harder overall architecture. Mahmood has extracted the instrument and left the architecture behind. Here is what the Danish model actually consists of. Political consensus across left and right that the system must deter arrivals, not attract them. Asylum treated as temporary by default, with regular reassessments and a clear expectation of return. Benefits for new arrivals cut below standard welfare levels. Family reunification tightened. Rapid decisions. Rapid removals. Return agreements with origin countries treated as a diplomatic priority. Integration demands that are explicit and enforced: learn the language, work, respect Danish law. Denmark didn't find a magic policy. It decided what it wanted its system to do and then aligned everything around that goal. What has Mahmood adopted from this? The leaving payment. One tool from the toolbox, with the toolbox left in Copenhagen. And even on its own terms the comparison doesn't hold. Denmark offered up to £30,000 per person – three times the British rate. But the figure is beside the point. The payment works in Denmark because it sits inside a system designed to make staying impossible. Strip that system away and the number becomes irrelevant. What remains is a cash offer to people who have already been told they have no right to be here. That is not the Danish model. It is one line from the Danish model, lifted out of context and dressed up in Scandinavian branding for political cover. Now consider the pull factor. The people crossing the Channel in small boats are overwhelmingly single young men. That is what the data consistently shows. This scheme is explicitly targeted at families. So where are these families coming from? And what signal does a publicly announced £40,000 family payment send to anyone considering the crossing? Come as a family, fail your claim, take the money. Labour's Alex Norris went on television to insist this would not act as a magnet. He would say that. The incentive structure says otherwise. There is something deeper here too. Mahmood has been warned by her own department that the system creates perverse incentives – that people place children on dangerous boats precisely because families are harder to remove. Her answer to that perverse incentive is to attach a £40,000 reward to it. The deterrent and the incentive have changed places. Mahmood is at least trying. The 30-month asylum review, the welfare restrictions, the Article 8 changes – there are genuine moves here that previous governments avoided. But trying is not the same as succeeding, and borrowing Denmark's reputation without borrowing Denmark's methods is not a policy. It's a press release. The 150 families sitting in Home Office hotels got a text on Thursday morning giving them seven days to decide. The Home Secretary spent a week in Copenhagen and came back with a payment card and a photo opportunity. Denmark took twenty years to build the system she is claiming to have copied. Someone is getting a good deal here. It isn't the British taxpayer. "On Thursday [Shabana Mahmood] announced it: Britain will pay failed asylum-seeking families up to £40,000 to leave. She called it the Danish model. Denmark would barely recognise it."

Dear Prime Minister & Home Secretary, I hope this letter finds you well, fully caffeinated, and in possession of a calculator. I’m writing with what I believe is a modest, fiscally responsible proposal. I understand the Government is offering up to £40,000 to certain individuals to voluntarily leave the United Kingdom. First of all — bold strategy. Nothing says “strong borders” quite like a cashback scheme. Now, I regret to inform you that I am, in fact, a fully tax-paying, law-abiding British citizen. I know — awkward. I appreciate this may disqualify me from the premium exit package, but I’m willing to negotiate. I would like to formally apply for £35,000 to leave. You see, unlike some applicants, I haven’t broken any laws to get here. I didn’t arrive by dinghy. I didn’t require processing, housing, or legal appeals. I’ve actually been funding the whole operation through PAYE for years — which I believe makes me a loyal shareholder in this enterprise. Given that you’re prepared to offer £40,000 for someone to depart voluntarily after entering illegally, I feel £35,000 for someone who’s been here legally all along represents excellent value for money. Think of it as a “Buy British, Get One Gone” discount. For £35,000 I will:    •   Leave quietly.    •   Not require a press conference.    •   Not demand a diversity officer to wave me off.    •   Even carry my own suitcase to the airport. I may also tweet a polite thank-you note on departure, praising the efficiency of the scheme. Frankly, it feels like I’ve misunderstood how incentives work in modern Britain. All these years I thought obeying the law, paying taxes, and contributing to society were the winning strategy. Turns out the real pro-move is to arrive unlawfully and wait for a loyalty bonus. Who knew? While British families are juggling rent, energy bills, and the weekly food shop like contestants on a dystopian game show, it’s reassuring to know the Treasury has located a spare £40,000 per head for voluntary goodbyes. May I ask — is there a points card? Ten years of National Insurance contributions and I get a free exit bonus? If so, I believe I’m overdue. In the spirit of fairness and fiscal responsibility, I am not even asking for the full £40,000. I’m trimming £5,000 off to help balance the books. That’s the kind of responsible budgeting I was raised on. If successful, I promise to:    •   Leave via a scheduled flight (economy is fine).    •   Not stage a protest on the runway.    •   And refrain from re-entering on a small boat to see if I qualify twice. All I ask is equal treatment. If departure is now a funded career pathway, I would very much like to submit my CV. Yours in hopeful relocation, A slightly confused taxpayer

German politician Armin Laschet. "Iran(lslamic regime) is in violation of international law in everything it has done for the past 40 years, And now, when "the people in Iran are cheering in the streets, we start international law debates..."

She was persecuted, oppressed, abused and tortured as a child by Muslims in her homeland of Lebanon. She fled, became an American citizen and since then saving America from Islam. Please retweet if you support Brigitte Gabriel!

The Restoring the West Manifesto I spent the first part of my life living under oppression. I know what it means to be silenced, to have your freedom stolen, to watch a civilization reject the very values that make human flourishing possible. I also know what it means to be free. And I know that freedom is not inevitable — it must be defended, understood, and taught anew to every generation. The West is at risk of losing that fight. And too many people who should be leading the defense have no idea how to do so. That’s why we’re launching Restoring the West. The Crisis We Face The civilization that gave the world individual liberty, the rule of law, scientific inquiry, and human dignity is under siege — not primarily from external enemies, but from internal collapse. Many of our institutions have been captured. Too many of our universities teach students to despise their own inheritance of broad thought and discourse. Our media amplifies every grievance to leftist ideology, while ignoring threats from intolerant ideologies and forces. Our leaders lack the moral vocabulary and fortitude to defend what we’ve built. Meanwhile, illiberal ideologies — from political Islamism to postmodern identity politics — advance unchecked, demanding submission to group identity over individual conscience, censorship over free speech, and tribal loyalty over universal human rights. Classical liberals and conservatives? Too often, we’re losing. We win elections but lose the culture. We defend policies but surrender the principles. We react to provocations but fail to plant ideas that endure. We even wage wars to liberate oppressed people in other nations, yet we fail to explain—both to outsiders and to our own citizens—the moral absolutes that demand we use our power against evil, such as the death cult that served as the operating system of Iran’s Islamist regime. The West will not be restored by winning news cycles. It will be restored by winning the argument for why the West is worth preserving. Our Guiding Principles: DEFEND JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES, UNAPOLOGETICALLY The features that have uniquely made our civilization a place where all can flourish are rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition: individual liberty, equality before the law, freedom of conscience and expression, and the dignity of every human being. These values built free societies. These values are now under attack. We will defend them without apology or equivocation. FIGHT ILLIBERALISM IN ALL ITS FORMS Whether cloaked in religious orthodoxy or academic jargon, illiberalism seeks the same end: the suppression of individual freedom in service of collective control. We oppose political Islam, which seeks to impose religious law on free societies. We oppose postmodern ideologies that replace individual rights with identity hierarchies. We refuse to choose between these threats. We recognize them both as enemies of Western civilization. PLANT IDEAS THAT ENDURE This publication is not about outrage or affirmation. It's about intellectual ammunition. Every piece we publish will advance a clear argument, address serious objections, and connect to the project of civilizational renewal. We write for people who need to be persuaded, not just people who already agree. Our goal is to shape minds, change debates, and arm veterans and new generations for the work ahead. SPEAK WITH MORAL CLARITY I did not escape one form of oppression to tolerate another. I will not pretend that all cultures are equal, that all ideas are equally valid, or that we can restore the West through euphemism and evasion. Moral clarity is not extremism — it's the precondition for moral action. We will say what is true, even when the truth is uncomfortable. FIVE PILLARS, ONE MISSION Everything we publish connects to the civilizational foundations we must restore: Faith & Family - The roots of free societies Education - Where the future is won or lost Law & Liberty - Without which we are subjects, not citizens Nation & Citizenship - The framework for self-governance Media, Arts & Culture - Where values are formed or deformed These aren't talking points. These are the fronts in a war for civilization itself. SMART BREVITY, SERIOUS PURPOSE Busy people need clear arguments, not bloated essays. We respect your time by making every word count. But efficiency serves substance, not the other way around. We will never sacrifice intellectual rigor for algorithmic reach or dumb down complex arguments for easier consumption. Excellence is the standard we want restored in our civilization — it’s the standard we hold ourselves to here. Why This Matters I have seen what happens when civilizations abandon their principles. I have lived under the thuggish sandal of illiberalism. I know the price of freedom because I know what life costs without it. Too many of the institutions that once defended Western civilization have failed or been captured. The task of restoration falls to us — to those who understand what’s at stake and refuse to surrender what generations before us built and bled for. This is not pessimism. This is realism coupled with resolve. The West can be saved. But only if we’re willing to make the argument for why it deserves to be saved — and then do the work required to save it. Welcome to Restoring the West. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

@triffic_stuff_ About time Trevor Phillips acknowledged the work done to highlight these Pakistani rape gangs by @TRobinsonNewEra and @recusant_raja, both of whom have been vilified by Britain's msm!?

🚨BOMBSHELL EXPOSÉ: TREVOR PHILLIPS RIPS LID OFF LABOUR'S GROOMING GANGS COVER-UP 💣 Keir Starmer and the Labour Party Sabotaging National Inquiry to Hide Racial Targeting of White Girls and Decades of Failure in Their Own Councils In a devastating intervention, Sir Trevor Phillips has blown the whistle on what he calls a deliberate political cover-up at the heart of Britain's grooming gangs scandal. The former Equality and Human Rights Commission chair accuses Labour of sabotaging the national inquiry because of its explosive racial implications — and because so much of the abuse took place under Labour-controlled councils that did nothing to stop it. “The government clearly never wanted these two things to be put together,” Phillips declared. He points to Labour's efforts to downplay “the intersection of race and sexual predation,” insisting the perpetrators deliberately targeted victims because they were white and outside the groomers' community. “These children are chosen because of their race. They are chosen because they are white and because they’re outside the community of the groomers.” Phillips highlights the chilling uniqueness of these crimes: unlike typical child abuse kept hidden, grooming gangs operate in plain sight — with perpetrators knowing they are shielded. “The other thing is these people know that they are protected. They’re protected politically, they’re protected by social workers, they’re protected by local police. That is the scandal here.” He pulls no punches on why a full reckoning has been avoided: “Much of this took place in local Labour councils and the authorities who were supposed to be watching over this, stopping it, monitoring it and all the rest of it were controlled by those councils and they did nothing.” This is not just institutional failure — it's a politically motivated shield thrown over horrific, racially aggravated sexual exploitation that went on for years under Labour's watch. Right now, they deserve justice — and Britain deserves the full, fearless national inquiry that has been denied for far too long.

Iran built the most comprehensive civilian surveillance network in the Middle East. Cameras on every street. Facial recognition at universities. License plate readers that automatically fined women for removing their hijab in their own cars. A mobile app called Nazer that let citizens report uncovered women. Drones at beaches. The infrastructure that killed Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and crushed the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising that followed. Israel hacked nearly all of it. According to the Financial Times, citing two people familiar with the matter, nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras had been compromised for years. The footage was encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel. One camera near Pasteur Street proved especially valuable. It was angled in such a way that Israeli analysts could see where members of Khamenei’s security detail parked their personal cars. Through that single camera angle, Israeli intelligence built files on the bodyguards’ home addresses, work schedules, commuting routes, and which senior officials they were assigned to protect. Unit 8200 used algorithms to process billions of data points into what intelligence officers call a “pattern of life.” A person familiar with the process described it as “an assembly line with a single product: targets.” “We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem,” an Israeli intelligence official told the Financial Times. “And when you know a place as well as you know the street you grew up on, you notice a single thing that’s out of place.” On February 28, when intelligence confirmed Khamenei would attend a morning meeting at his compound near Pasteur Street, the operation entered its final phase. Israel disrupted approximately 12 cellular antennas in the area, causing phones to appear “busy” when dialed. Khamenei’s security detail could not receive warnings. Israeli aircraft fired 30 precision munitions. The strike was carried out in daylight for tactical surprise. Former Mossad official Sima Shine told the Financial Times that Israel’s strategic focus on Iran dates to a 2001 directive from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Twenty-five years of patient intelligence collection culminated in a single Saturday morning. Here is the part that should stay with you. The cameras Israel hacked were not military installations. They were the regime’s domestic surveillance apparatus. The same cameras that tracked women who removed their hijab. The same system that sent automated text messages to women in Isfahan accusing them of “improper veiling.” The same infrastructure the Guidance Patrol used to build digital dossiers on Iranian women and girls for the crime of showing their hair. Israel turned the tools of the morality police into the tools of the regime’s destruction. There is a viral claim that after the assassination, Mossad wiped the morality police’s databases on Iranian women. No Tier 1, 2, or 3 source confirms this. It traces to a single unverified social media post. I will not present it as fact. But the verified reality is extraordinary enough. The regime built a surveillance state to control its own women. A foreign intelligence service co-opted that state to kill the man who ordered it built. The cameras that watched women became the cameras that watched Khamenei die. That is poetic justice written in code. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…