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Religion

Talarico Credits ‘Islamic Mystics’ for Influencing His Christian Beliefs.

Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico’s past comments on drawing inspiration from Islamic mysticism have sparked renewed scrutiny of his professed Christian faith as he campaigns against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico credited “Islamic mystics” for shaping his Christian faith.
📺 DETAIL: James Talarico, the Democrat candidate in Texas’ Senate race, said that “Islamic mystics” shaped his Christian faith. In a resurfaced video from April 2024, Talarico asserted that Islamic mystics, such as Rumi, a Muslim scholar and Sufi poet, shaped his faith just as much as Christian writers. “I know personally that I’ve learned as much about my faith from Salman’s tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers,” said Talarico. The comments were made during an appearance on The State of Belief, a religion podcast hosted Paul Brandeis Raushenbush. Talarico further asserted that studying Islamic mystics could bring “new flavors and new colors” to one’s religious identity. “I’m not asking you to join an organized religion. I’m asking you to join something bigger than yourself… Find a spiritual practice that works for you, whether it’s meditation or fasting, gardening, or bird watching, whether it’s in a church, or a temple, or a book club, or a neighborhood group, find a community that can help you touch the ground of your own being,” Talarico said during an address to Paul Quinn College back in May.
🎯 IMPACT: Talarico’s resurfaced comments are likely to create problems for the Democrat candidate. Texas is a Christian, conservative stronghold where Democrats have not won a U.S. Senate seat in over 30 years. Talarico’s comments continue to spark questions about the authenticity of his Christian faith. This is not the first comment of its kind from Talarico, who previously hailed the virtues of non-Christian “spiritualism.” Talarico will face off against Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in November later this year.
📺 FLASHBACK: Last week, it was revealed that Talarico had accepted large donations from Reid Hoffman, a billionaire with connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Hoffman donated $11.5 million to Lone Star Rising, a super PAC supporting Talarico, despite the Democrat candidate’s rhetoric about challenging “the Epstein class.”

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Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico's past comments on drawing inspiration from Islamic mysticism have sparked renewed scrutiny of his professed Christian faith as he campaigns against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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2 hours ago
Bonkers Britain
Education
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Scotland Now Has ‘Halal’ University Accommodation ‘Created Exclusively for Muslim Students.’

A university accommodation provider in Scotland is running “halal-only” halls catering to Muslim students, raising questions about Islamization and segregation.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: ILM Halal Student Halls in Dundee, Scotland, is running halal-only student accommodation halls, described by its owners as having been “created exclusively for Muslim students.”
📺 DETAIL: ILM Halal Student Halls’ accommodation, which began operating in late 2025, includes “faith-led” communal areas such as Islamic prayer rooms and halal-only kitchens which prohibit alcohol and pork. “We operate three fully-equipped shared student kitchens that are strictly halal-only (pork and alcohol are strictly prohibited). This gives Muslim students absolute peace of mind when preparing meals and sharing dining spaces,” ILM states. The accommodation hosts students from several universities, including the University of Dundee, the University of St Andrews, and Abertay University, starting at £165 (~$220) per week. Despite claiming that “students of all backgrounds who respect our halal environment and community values” are welcome, ILM’s social media posts explicitly advertise the halls as having been created “exclusively” for Muslims spaces. Founder Kashif Rashid does claim he hosts three Christian students in a long interview with the Islam Channel, but frames this as a form of religious outreach. It is possible that the technical ability of non-Muslim students to apply for accommodation in the “halal” halls exists to satisfy anti-discrimination legislation.
🎯 IMPACT: The halls demonstrate the Islamification of higher education in the United Kingdom, the wilful lack of integration among younger Muslims in the country, and the emergence of parallel societies, despite British laws which mandate inclusion and nominally prevent discrimination based on religion, ethnicity, and other characteristics.
📺 FLASHBACK: This is not the first instance of a Western education system becoming vulnerable to Islamification. Earlier in the year, it was reported that a school in Calgary, Canada, had introduced “food-free zones” in its cafeteria during Ramadan. The policy was shared with parents in an email informing them that it was meant to accommodate Muslims observing Ramadan, a period of Islamic religious fasting from dawn until sunset.

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3 hours ago
Immigration
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Court Backs ‘Hate Speech’ Ruling Against Populist Leader Who Told Anti-British Muslim Senator to Go Back to Pakistan.

An Australian court has upheld a ruling that populist leader Pauline Hanson violated racial discrimination laws by telling a Muslim senator who attacked that late Queen and the British Empire to go back to Pakistan.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: An Australian appeals court has unanimously upheld a 2024 ruling that One Nation party leader Senator Pauline Hanson racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi by telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan” in a 2022 social media post, after Faruqi attacked Queen Elizabeth II and Australia’s history following the late monarch’s death. The Full Federal Court rejected Hanson’s arguments that her remarks were protected by free speech and that Australia’s racial discrimination law was unconstitutional on Monday.
📺 DETAIL: Faruqi, who immigrated from Pakistan in 1992 and became Australia’s first Muslim woman elected to parliament, welcomed the decision, saying it was a victory for everyone who has been told to “go back to where you came from.” However, the dispute began after Faruqi attacked the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II following her death, writing, “Condolences to those who knew the Queen. I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples. We are reminded of the urgency of Treaty with First Nations, justice & reparations for British colonies & becoming a republic.” This prompted Hanson to respond, “Your attitude appalls and disgusts me. When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country. You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in a parliament. It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan.” The appeals court agreed with an earlier ruling that the post was reasonably likely to offend, insult, humiliate, and intimidate Faruqi, as well as Muslim Australians and migrants, describing the comment as a variant of the slogan “go back to where you came from.” The judges also found Hanson failed to establish that her remarks qualified as fair comment on a matter of public interest, namely the Queen’s passing and people’s reaction to it. Hanson said she was disappointed with the ruling, arguing Australians are increasingly prevented from expressing their views, and indicated she is considering an appeal to the High Court of Australia.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “Hate speech is not free speech, and the Federal Court has reaffirmed that today.” – Mehreen Faruqi
🎯 IMPACT: The ruling reinforces Australia’s censorship regime, setting a precedent for how public figures are allowed to address immigrants attacking the country and its heritage.

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An Australian court has upheld a ruling that populist leader Pauline Hanson violated racial discrimination laws by telling a Muslim senator who attacked that late Queen and the British Empire to go back to Pakistan.

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4 hours ago
News

Oil Prices Drop Amid Pause in Iran Fighting, Hope for Fresh Ceasefire.

A temporary pause in hostilities between the U.S. and Iran has eased oil prices.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Oil prices fell below 90 US dollars a barrel after a three-day pause in fighting between the United States and Iran raised hopes that peace negotiations could resume and allow the Strait of Hormuz, a key global oil shipping route, to reopen. Benchmark Brent crude dropped as much as eight percent to 87.55 US dollars a barrel after briefly reaching 100 dollars last week during renewed hostilities.
📺 DETAIL: The renewed fighting in the Middle East, triggered by Iranian attacks on commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, disrupted the waterway that normally carries nearly one-fifth of the world’s crude oil supplies, fueling sharp increases in energy prices. Markets have largely anticipated a return to de-escalation, and analysts believe oil prices could eventually fall back toward 70 US dollars a barrel if a lasting settlement is reached. However, Bryn Jones, head of fixed income at Rathbones Asset Management, warned that reopening the continued attacks in the Red Sea by Iran-backed Houthi forces based in Yemen continue to threaten global energy supplies and elevated inflation.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “Traffic through Hormuz remains a mess… we can’t ignore the fact that the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea are putting pressure on prices globally—and do create inflation.” – Bryn Jones, Rathbones Asset Management.
🎯 IMPACT: The easing of oil prices may provide global central banks, including the Federal Reserve, with some assurance on inflationary pressures as they consider interest rate adjustments. Analysts suggest oil prices could retreat further if a lasting resolution to the Iran war emerges, which could stabilize global markets and reduce energy price-driven inflation.

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5 hours ago
News

Far-Left Green Party Leader Zack Polanski Shares Death Threat Against Nigel Farage With Over 700,000 Followers.

Zack Polanski, leader of Britain’s Green Party, shared a death threat against Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage to his over 700,000 followers on Instagram, just weeks after Reform UK immigration and justice spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe was brutally murdered in an apparent politically-motivated terror attack.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party in the UK, posted an image on Instagram showing an image of a man wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “We’re only making plans for Nigel,” accompanied by an picture of a guillotine. Widely understood to be a death threat against Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage, Polanski’s post comes just weeks after Reform UK immigration and justice spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe, 78, was beaten to death with a hammer in her home, in a murder case being investigated as an act of terrorism.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “If I was to post anything as inciteful then I would expect to be arrested, and so should Polanski,” Farage responded on social media on Monday.
🎯 IMPACT: The post has sparked outrage, particularly in light of Miss Widdecombe’s recent murder. Farage has been subject to hundreds of death threats and multiple physical attacks over the years, but prior to the attack on Miss Widdecombe the British Home Office, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, had cut his security.
📰 DETAIL: Polanski has deleted his post, with the Green Party claiming he “unequivocally does not support this type of dangerous message,” despite the fact that he shared it. However, no public apology has been issued as of the time of publication. Reform Shadow Home Secretary Zia Yusuf remarked, “Zack Polanski has posted to his 713k Instagram followers a photo of a man in a T-shirt calling for the beheading of Nigel Farage. To do this just 2 weeks after our friend Ann was murdered is staggering. Polanski is inciting murder. It must be treated as such by the police.”

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Zack Polanski, leader of Britain's Green Party, shared a death threat against Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage to his over 700,000 followers on Instagram, just weeks after Reform UK immigration and justice spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe was brutally murdered in an apparent politically-motivated terror attack.

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6 hours ago
Media
News
UK

Murdoch’s Times Newspaper Stalks Federal Judge, Widow at Reform UK Donor’s House.

The Sunday Times — owned by Rupert Murdoch — sent long lens photographers to stalk a U.S. federal judge on vacation in an effort to link her to a Reform UK donor’s pardon application.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times photographed Susan Brnovich, a Trump-appointed federal judge, during a private vacation in Montenegro, the homeland of her late husband’s family. The newspaper linked her visit to George Cottrell, a donor to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, and his ongoing pardon application, attempting to create an appearance of impropriety despite her having no official role in the process.
📰 DETAIL: Cottrell, who previously served time in the U.S. following a wire fraud plea, previously paid the late Mark Brnovich, Judge Brnovich’s husband and the former state attorney general for Arizona, for legitimate legal advice. Contrary to The Times‘ efforts to portray this as a surreptitious arrangement, it was conducted via a well-established New York law firm, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, and reported by Mr. Brnovich in routine federal paperwork. Cottrell dedicated his book How to Launder Money: A Guide for Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Policymakers, recommending stronger anti-money laundering laws, to Mr. Brnovich, a supporter of President Donald J. Trump, and maintained a personal friendship with Judge Brnovich after she was widowed in January. Significantly, she did not stay with Cottrell in Montenegro, with The Sunday Times acknowledging that she had her own hotel accommodation and merely paid the Reform donor a social visit. 
💬 KEY QUOTE: “Judge Brnovich is a personal friend, as was her late husband. She was visiting on a family vacation and did not stay with me. I consider the tactics employed by The Sunday Times, in photographing her on a private family holiday, and then contriving to link her social visit to my application for a pardon, a matter over which she, as a sitting judge, has no say, to be nothing more than tactics designed to intimidate me and those around me in furtherance of its own politically motivated agenda.” – Statement from Cottrell’s lawyers at Carter Ruck
🎯 IMPACT: The incident highlights the aggressive tactics of the Murdoch press, and raises concerns about privacy invasion and media bias against allies and supporters of Nigel Farage and Donald Trump.

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7 hours ago
Crime
News
World

Pride Parade Attacker Was a Known Member of ‘The Islamist Scene.’

A recent Islamist attack in Berlin, Germany, has raised questions about the country’s handling of known terror threats.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: An Islamist attack on Berlin Pride in Germany has left one dead and at least 29 injured.
📺 DETAIL: On Saturday, at approximately 22:00 local time, Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German citizen with a Lebanese migration background, struck pedestrians with a van. Ballout was later shot and killed by police. Alexander Dobrindt, Germany’s Interior Minister, said Ballout was known to the authorities for a “high volume of criminal offenses, radicalization, and affiliation with the Islamist scene.“ Last year, Ballout tried to join the Islamic State in Syria, but was arrested in Lebanon in July of the same year. He was subsequently imprisoned for just three months. Ballout was arrested again upon his return to Germany in November 2025. “He was sentenced… under juvenile criminal law… And then, unfortunately, the court handed down a suspended sentence. I don’t want to pass judgement on that—that’s the independence of the judiciary—but I’m really at a loss for words,” said Kai Wegner, Governing Mayor of Berlin. In response to the attack, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said:” We will have to respond with prudence, but also with determination.”
💬 KEY QUOTE: “If an Islamist threat known to the police was able to carry out such an act, a thorough investigation must be carried out to establish why he was still able to move about freely in the first place,” said Martin Hess, Alternative for Germany (AfD) Home Affairs spokesman.
🎯 IMPACT: Critics have characterized the incident as a complete failure of security policy. Questions remain about how someone with such an extensive history of extremism, who was also known to the authorities, was not already in prison. Officials also face pressure to review and reform Germany’s counter-terrorism measures to close loopholes in monitoring and sentencing. The information surrounding the suspect and the attack is likely to boost support for the AfD, which is currently leading the polls ahead of the governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), formerly led by Angela Merkel. The CDU governs in coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SDP), its establishment left-leaning counterpart.

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8 hours ago
Bonkers Britain
News

Britain is Letting Islamic Bookshops Selling Jihadist Texts Sponsor ‘Skilled’ Migrant Visas.

The British government allowed Islamic bookshops selling “extremist” material to sponsor overseas workers on Skilled Worker visas.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Islamic bookshops in the United Kingdom have been granted the ability to sponsor “Skilled Worker” immigration visas, despite selling extremist material.
📰 DETAIL: The bookshops include texts which are classed as radicalization material by the British authorities. One of the books sold at the Islamic bookshops, Milestones by Sayidd Qutb, a prominent figure from the Muslim Brotherhood, opposes “world Jewry” and calls for “physical power and jihad” to overthrow Western governments. Qutb’s works also call for jihad to be “carried throughout the earth to the whole of mankind” and claim Jewish people “try to destroy all values and all that is sacred to mankind.” Another work sold at such bookshops, The Fundamentals of Tawheed by Islamic cleric Bilal Philips, states that “un-Islamic government must be sincerely hated and despised.” Philips’s works also support Muslim men beating their wives. It is estimated that dozens of visas have been issued since the previous Conservative government to staff the bookshops. However, despite such material being classed as “extremist” by inspectors from Britain’s Prison Service, it is not illegal to purchase and remains available on major platforms.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “It’s a perfect illustration of 14 years of Tory failure: rather than doctors and engineers, we brought in staff for Islamic shops selling books on ‘jihad’. It is beyond belief that the Home Office did not realize this. It has failed in its basic function of vetting visa sponsors for the public good. There should be an immediate investigation into how this has happened, removal of sponsorship powers, and revocation of all visas granted.” – Lee Anderson, Member of Parliament and Chairman of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party
🎯 IMPACT: Britain’s Skilled Worker visa, which is equivalent to the United States’ H-1B visa, has long been controversial. Critics have accused the visa of using a very broad definition of “skilled” work, far beyond the way successive governments have advertised it as a means to admit medical professionals, scientists, and technologists. The decision to allow Islamic bookshops to sponsor overseas workers coincided with the so-called Boriswave, an unprecedented wave of mass immigration into Britain under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. New Labour Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, is reportedly planning to scrap planned changes to “indefinite leave to remain” rights and permit the Boriswave migrants to stay permanently.

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9 hours ago
Crime
News

Three Killed, Five Wounded in Seattle Festival Shooting.

A shooting near Seattle’s Space Needle left three dead and five injured during the Bite of Seattle festival.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: A shooting near the Space Needle during the Bite of Seattle festival resulted in three fatalities and five injuries, including a two-year-old boy. One suspect has been apprehended, while another remains at large as of the time of publication.
📍 WHEN & WHERE: The shooting occurred on Sunday evening, shortly after 6 PM, near the Space Needle during the final hours of the annual Bite of Seattle festival in Seattle, Oregon.
📺 DETAIL: Witnesses reported crowds fleeing for safety as gunfire erupted, initially mistaking the sound for fireworks. Emergency responders confirmed two deaths at the scene and transported several victims to local hospitals, with injuries ranging from stable to critical. The Seattle Center was cleared, and transportation services were suspended as authorities secured the area. Two firearms were recovered. Currently, the shooting is believed to have been carried out by two suspects who were targeting each other.
💬 KEY QUOTE: “What happened at the Seattle Center today was an act of horrific violence,” said Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson (D). “Impacted families are living through the worst moment of their lives.”
🎯 IMPACT: The incident raises concerns over public safety at large events, with questions surrounding the city’s surveillance camera policies and law enforcement preparedness. Officials, including Governor Bob Ferguson (D), have pledged support for the investigation and assistance for affected families.

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9 hours ago
Immigration
NatSec
News

Knife Attacker Shouting ‘Allah Ordered Me’ Stabs Three Women.

A knife attack in Paris has left at least three women injured, with the suspect claiming that Allah “ordered” him to do it.

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❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Three women were stabbed in Paris, France, by a man wielding two kitchen knives on Monday morning. Video of the suspect shows him saying “it is Allah who ordered me” after he was restrained. The attack took place in a square in the north-west of the French capital and was halted by an off-duty police officer.
📰 DETAIL: The suspect made “incoherent statements” according to Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, who suggested mental health issues might be involved and downplayed a possible terrorist motive. “[W]e need to be very careful with respect to the motives for this very violent attack,” he insisted. The women, one of whom is reportedly pregnant, are aged 19, 24, and 36. They were hospitalized with severe injuries but are reportedly not in life-threatening condition.
🎯 IMPACT: The French anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office is “monitoring” the investigation. The incident elevates ongoing concerns about public safety and terrorist threats in Europe, particularly from Muslim men with a migration background. The stabbing spree follows a recent attack in Berlin, Germany, where an Islamist radical drove into a Pride parade, killing one and injuring 29.

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