A new poll from the presitigous ifop polling firm shows that a large majority of French citizens believe in a core tenent of the Great Replacement.
Authored by Paul Birch via DailySceptic.org,
These people have never been in a life-or-death situation like the arresting officers
One would think that even when the police successfully detain a suspect who was alleged to have been conducting a marauding knife attack, the professional activists would have a day off.
But you would be wrong. Amid all the ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ cliché bingo, voices of criticism were heard. Among them, the blue-tick career race-baiter Shola Mos-Shogbamimu. She was quick to take to X following yesterday’s attack on the Jewish community in Golders Green, north London. The 45 year-old suspect, a British national of Somali origin, had reportedly stabbed two Jewish men at random. The suspect – depressingly, inevitably – had previously been referred to the Government’s counter radicalisation programme, Prevent.
Shola Mos-Shogbamimu criticised police officers who are shown kicking the suspect in the head while he is on the ground. She opined:
Contemptible abuse of police power. Why kick him in the head several times when he’s already Tasered and in your control? Should he not be alive to be brought to justice in a court of law for stabbing two Jews??!! Disgusting.
Also, Green Party leader Zack Polanski, still playing at politics, was quick to condemn the actions of the arresting officers, using a retweet to maintain that:
Essentially his (Commissioner Mark Rowley’s) officers were reportedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head when he was already incapacitated by taser.
What Shola, Zack and other commentators do not understand – because they have never been in a life-or-death situation – is that force is not judged by how it looks in a six-second clip. It is judged by necessity in the moment. These keyboard warriors have no idea what it’s like to face immediate and possibly lethal violence armed with often nothing more than some irritant spray and a stick. Your priority is to keep members of the public safe, followed by yourselves as much as possible.
These officers would have had no idea in such a fast moving situation whether the suspect was acting alone or as part of a cell. He needed to be neutralised as soon as possible in order to keep people safe. He wasn’t showing his hands; he was still holding a bloodied weapon that he had just used to attack Jewish members of the public; he had been moving rapidly towards them, and they would have had no idea if he was wearing an explosive vest (wearing a coat on a warm day is never a good sign).
Policing is not theatre. It is not performed for social media approval. It is messy, fast and often brutal. Because the people officers deal with are messy, fast and often brutal. A man armed with a knife who has already stabbed two people, who refuses repeated commands to disarm and who continues to pose a threat even after being tasered, is not “under control”. He is an active danger until the weapon is removed. That is the reality, no matter how uncomfortable it makes Left-leaning commentators feel.
The idea that officers should politely wait or somehow apply ‘gentler’ tactics while a suspect still has the capacity to kill is not just naïve in the extreme, it is dangerous. It puts officers’ lives at risk. It puts the public at risk. And it reveals a complete detachment from reality (I am reminded of the occasion when then Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, declared that Islamic State murderer Mohammed ‘Jihadi John’ Emwazi should have been arrested in war-torn Syria rather than killed.)
This is the gap at the heart of modern public debate on policing. One side deals in real-world consequences. The other deals in optics. The officers in Golders Green had seconds to act. Not minutes. Not the luxury of hindsight, slow-motion replays or viral commentary. Seconds. In those seconds they made unquestionably the right decision: remove the threat as quickly as possible, by whatever means necessary short of lethal force. And that point matters. Because the same voices now condemning ‘excessive force’ would be the first to demand answers if those officers had hesitated and others had been stabbed.
There is also an uncomfortable truth that many would rather avoid: this attack was not just violent, it was targeted. Two visibly Jewish men were attacked in broad daylight in a part of London with a large Jewish community. That context matters. It should matter. It’s part of an ever growing pattern of antisemitic attacks carried out by people holding extreme Islamist ideologies.
Yet instead of sustained outrage about antisemitic violence, the conversation was almost immediately derailed, redirected toward the conduct of the officers who stopped it. That inversion of priorities is telling.
It reflects a culture where the instinct is no longer to back those who confront violence but to scrutinise them first, and often most harshly. Where the benefit of the doubt is extended to offenders, those enforcing the law are expected to meet an impossible standard of perfection under extreme pressure – often from their own senior management.
And it is precisely this culture that erodes effective policing. If every split-second decision is second guessed by people with no operational understanding, officers will become more hesitant. More risk-averse. Less pro-active. That is not compassion. It is a recipe for more victims.
None of this means police should be beyond scrutiny. Of course they shouldn’t be. But scrutiny requires context. It requires full evidence. It requires intellectual honesty. A selectively edited clip on social media is not scrutiny. It is propaganda. That is the real issue here.
Not just one commentator getting it wrong, but an entire ecosystem that rewards outrage over accuracy, speed over truth and narrative over fact. The Metropolitan Police, to their credit, did something increasingly necessary: they put out the full body-worn footage. They showed the public what actually happened. And when people saw the complete picture, the narrative collapsed. Because reality is stubborn like that.
In the end, strip away the noise and the incentives of social media and the situation becomes very simple. A violent attacker stabbed two innocent men. Two unarmed officers confronted him. They stopped him. They went home alive, and so did everyone else.
That is not a scandal. That is policing working exactly as it should.
“Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s name appears at least six times in recently resurfaced court documents from the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud case, fueling speculation about whether the Minnesota socialist had a hand in the widespread scam in her district.
The documents were part of the 2025 federal trial of Aimee Bock, the founder of the Feeding our Future nonprofit who was convicted of wire fraud, conspiracy, and bribery for masterminding the scheme that falsely claimed to serve millions of meals to children while pocketing federal funds through bogus food sites and shell companies. Bock is in custody awaiting a sentencing hearing on May 21.
Omar came up in a Feb. 5, 2021 email chain with Bock, with the subject line “help with USDA food program,” the trial exhibits show.
The Congresswoman’s MEALS act loosened oversight of federally funded food programs during the pandemic, which critics said paved the way for the Feeding Our Future’s fake claims and inflated reimbursements.
A few days after Bock’s email to Omar, on Feb. 28, Bock exchanged messages with Abdikerm Eidleh, a Feeding Our Future employee who fled the country after he was indicted in 2022. The subject line of their emails was “Ilhan’s Office,” according to the court documents.
While the list of exhibits is public, the contents have been sealed by the court.
The exhibits also include a text message string between Bock and Omar, which was uncovered during a raid of Bock’s Minnesota house, records show.
Bock has been leaking documents from behind bars through her college-age son ahead of her sentencing to try to shift some of the blame to elected officials, Minnesota federal prosecutors have alleged.
It’s unclear if those leaked documents were related to Omar.
After she failed to show up last week to a hearing of the Minnesota Fraud Committee on the case, committee chair and state assemblywoman Kristin Robbins sent Omar a letter demanding she turn over correspondence related to the case.
“I think it shows just incredible arrogance and disdain for the people of Minnesota,” Robbins, who’s running as a GOP candidate to take over lefty Tim Waltz’s job as governor, told The Post.
“She is refusing to show up and answer questions in person, she’s refusing to respond to our requests for data, and I mean, honestly, she’s even refusing to respond at all. When I say they ghosted us, it’s because we’ve had no replies. She’s an elected public official, she should at least want to share with the public how her office was involved in this, and I think taxpayers deserve that.”
“We need to understand what they were communicating about.”
Omar has until May 5 to turn over documents to the committee.
Her office didn’t return The Post’s request for comment.
A Romanian immigrant released early from prison for sexually abusing a middle-school boy is now wanted by ICE after landing back behind bars for allegedly violating her probation.
Rebecca Fratila-Ilies is now facing deportation after she was convicted on two counts of carnal knowledge of a child and statutory rape following her December 2022 arrest in Virginia, according to ICE.
She was cut loose early from a Staunton prison while serving a decade-long sentence, only to relocate to North Carolina, where she was hauled back into custody by the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office for an alleged probation violation on March 25, 2025.
“Fratila-Ilies is a lawful permanent resident, but she’s been convicted of sex crimes against a child, which means she’s amenable to removal,” ICE Director Todd Lyons said in a statement.
“She’s currently in removal proceedings and ICE is standing by to deport her upon a Department of Justice immigration judge’s order.”
It’s unclear when she was released from prison or what her alleged probation violation involved.
After her latest run-in with the law, the sheriff’s office tipped off ICE, which slapped an immigration detainer on April 17 and urged authorities not to let the child predator walk free as their case plays out.
The convicted sex offender arrived in the US as a child and was handed a green card in 2006, federal officials said, but later discovered her mother filed a fraudulent asylum case – invalidating her permanent resident status.
An immigration judge ordered Fratila-Ilies deported in absentia in 2017, but she appealed the ruling and later won relief from removal in 2022, before she was convicted.
Lyons said her sickening sex crimes now make her eligible for deportation.
Fratila-Ilies remains in police custody pending the outcome of her probation violation case.
The chair of the California Republican Party and other conservatives on social media are calling for the vice mayor of Los Altos, California, Larry Lang, to resign after he posted “86 47” on social media multiple times, including in response to one of the state Republican Party’s Facebook posts.
The now-deleted posts, screenshots of which were shared by the California Republican Party and reviewed by Fox News Digital, show that at some point this week Lang updated his Facebook “cover photo” so it was the same image of a “86 47” seashell formation reading that resulted in former FBI Director James Comey getting indicted in federal court last month for threats against the president.
Meanwhile, Lang also commented “86 47” on a post shared by the California Republican Party earlier this week on Facebook. The clip included a news segment featuring California GOP Chairperson Corrin Rankin talking about a recent debate between California’s current gubernatorial candidates. She argued during the segment that Democrats in the state “have no solutions,” adding that Californians are ready for new leadership after 16 years of Democratic Party rule in the state.
“This death threat directed at Donald Trump is unacceptable. Either this elected ‘leader’ is completely unaware of recent events, or he is somehow fueling the violence that erodes our political system,” Rankin said Friday in a post on X that included calls for Lang to resign. “Los Altos deserves leaders who unite the community and focus on solutions.”
A recent festival in southern Nigeria has sparked outrage after multiple videos surfaced online showing women being chased through the streets, stripped and sexually assaulted by groups of men in broad daylight.
The footage, recorded during the annual Alue-Do fertility festival in Ozoro, Delta State, has prompted a police investigation and resulted in several arrests, with authorities confirming that multiple suspects were in custody.
The videos have sparked global outcry, with many online describing the event as a “rape festival,” a term that highlights the scale and brutality of what was captured on camera.
In clips circulating on social media, women are seen running through crowded streets while groups of men pursue them. Moments later, the women are surrounded, their clothing torn off as they are groped and assaulted, while bystanders film and shout, with some appearing to cheer.
This wasn’t an isolated incident.
Multiple videos appear to show similar attacks unfolding across various locations during the festival, involving large groups of men and even young boys. Many of the victims, believed to be female students from a nearby university, have reportedly been hospitalized.
The scale of the violence and the number of participants quickly turned the incident into a national and international flashpoint, prompting a response from authorities.
Police in Delta State confirmed the arrest of multiple suspects in connection with the attacks, including a community leader and four young men identified in viral videos. Investigations are still ongoing.
State police spokesperson Bright Edafe said those involved would face charges, while Delta Police Commissioner Aina Adesola ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the State Criminal Investigation Department.
“The Commissioner of Police has instructed that the suspects be transferred to the State CID without delay. The Commissioner is committed to ensuring that anyone involved will be arrested and brought to justice,” Edafe said.
Describing the incident as sexual assault and public humiliation, Edafe noted that no formal rape complaints had been filed at the time and urged victims and witnesses to come forward with any information.
In the days that followed, the number of arrested suspects rose, with more than a dozen people in custody as investigators comb through videos and witness accounts. Police said the arrests were the result of a targeted investigation, adding that more suspects could still be identified as the probe continues.
But even as arrests were being made, authorities were also beginning to shape how the incident was understood. The police described the attacks in a preliminary finding as the work of “criminal elements” who hijacked the festival, a framing that attempts to separate the violence from the cultural event itself.
Local community leaders went further, denying that any rape had taken place and insisting the festival had been “misinterpreted.”
In a statement, they described the Alue-Do festival as a fertility ritual, saying symbolic acts such as dragging and pouring sand on individuals are traditionally meant to invoke blessings for couples struggling to conceive.
They added that claims of widespread sexual violence were “false and misleading,” maintaining that no rape had been officially recorded despite the multiple videos circulating online.
The leaders acknowledged that some individuals may have acted “irresponsibly,” but stressed that such behavior was not part of the tradition and should not be seen as representative of the festival itself.
However, that explanation has done little to reduce the backlash. Throughout social media, reactions have been swift and furious.
Videos of the attacks have been viewed millions of times across Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly known as Twitter), with many viewers shocked not only by the blatant violence, but how it was carried out in broad daylight and without intervention.
Different videos showed groups of men laughing and filming as they closed in on victims. In one clip, a young woman is seen crying and clutching her torn clothes while being assaulted by men who surround her.
One of the victims, Ezeugo Ijeoma Rosemary, a student, told authorities she was attacked moments after arriving near the area on a bike.
“Immediately I came down, they started shouting ‘hold her, hold her, that’s a woman’, and they swooped on me like bees,” she said.
“A large crowd started pulling my clothes until they stripped me naked. They were pulling my breasts and touching my whole body … I was shouting for help.”
She said she was eventually rescued by a bystander, but her phone was taken, adding that she is still dealing with pain and trauma and has not returned to school since the incident.
The visibility of the attacks has transformed the story from isolated incidents to a troubling pattern of collective violence in public spaces, perpetuated by a large group of men.
Local reports suggest that women were required to stay indoors during parts of the festival, with those who did not comply facing public targeting.
This context frames the footage as less random chaos and more as a response to an environment actively challenging women’s presence in public, sometimes violently.
Women’s rights advocates say the incident points to a deeper problem, one that extends beyond a single event.
“This is not just about what happened in those videos,” said Rita Aiki, a gender rights advocate with the Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA).
“It’s about the conditions that make it possible for this kind of violence to happen in public, with so many people watching and no one stepping in.”
For many, the reaction surrounding the attacks has been as disturbing as the violence itself.
“It tells you something about what is being normalized in a given society,” Aiki said.
“When people can do this in the open, and others treat it like spectacle, it goes beyond individual actions.”
The incident has renewed concerns about the safety of women in public spaces, especially during large gatherings where accountability can easily diminish.
While authorities have stressed that the festival does not support violence, critics argue that separating the tradition from the incident does little to clarify how such attacks could happen openly and on such a large scale.
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