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Sunday, March 1, 2026

Islam in America > Mass Shooting in Austin - was it the first home-grown reaction to the assassination of Khamenei?

 

Texas: Austin bar mass murderer is Muslim migrant, had Qur’an in car

Technically, it's not a mass murder if only 2 people died.


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How many mass murderers have to be carrying Qur’ans before authorities anywhere in Europe or North America begin to get the idea that maybe, just maybe, there is something in that book that incites violence?

“Austin bar mass shooter possibly motivated by Iran attacks, Quran found in car as FBI eyes terrorism after 2 killed, 14 injured,” 

by Joe Marino, Patrick Reilly, and Chris Nesi, New York Post, March 1, 2026:

The fiend behind Sunday’s bloodbath at a packed Austin bar was an ex-New York City resident wearing a “Property of Allah’’ hoodie — and possibly out for vengeance over the US attack on Iran, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

Texas shooter Ndiaga Diagne, 53, had a Quran in his car and was possibly also wearing an undershirt featuring the Iranian flag or other Iranian symbols when he opened fire on Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden near the University of Texas-Austin campus, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

Diagne, a US citizen originally from Senegal, was naturalized in 2013 and applied for asylum in 2016, sources said.

The gunman was a known emotionally disturbed person in both the Big Apple and Texas, sources said.

He also had a history of arrests in New York City and Texas. He is believed to have lived in the Big Apple for years, arriving in 2000 and then racking up a string of arrests between 2001 to 2016, sources said.

He was arrested in 2001 for illegal vending. His other three city busts are sealed, sources said.

“Obviously it’s still way too early in the process to determine the exact motivation but there were indicators on the subject and in his vehicle that indicate potential nexus to terrorism,” said Alex Doran, acting Special Agent in charge of the FBI’s San Antonio office, to reporters….



Corruption is Everywhere especially in the EU > EU doing everything to get rid of Orban - Weidel; Two politicians disappear before elections in Narco Colombia

 

EU manipulating polls in bid to oust Orban

 – German opposition leader


Brussels is using “every means necessary” to force “regime change” in Hungary ahead of April parliamentary elections, Alice Weidel has said
EU manipulating polls in bid to oust Orban – German opposition leader











The EU is desperately attempting to engineer “regime change” against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in next month’s parliamentary election, employing tactics such as poll manipulation and energy blackmail, German opposition leader Alice Weidel has claimed.

In a post on X on Wednesday, the co-chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party accused Brussels of using “their puppet,” Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar, in a bid to remove Orban. 

“They want Orban gone, and they are willing to use any means to achieve it,” Weidel wrote, pointing to the ongoing “blockade of oil supplies” from Ukraine to Hungary through the Druzhba pipeline, and “manipulation of election polls.”

Weidel was responding to a recent survey by Hungarian pollster Median showing Magyar’s opposition Tisza Party with a 55% to 35% lead over Orban’s ruling Fidesz-KDNP alliance. Irish economist Philip Pilkington dismissed the figures as “really crazy polls,” comparing them to surveys in Georgia ahead of elections in 2024, which were followed by unrest.

Hungarian opposition pollsters have a track record of significant inaccuracies. In 2022, left-leaning polling firm Publicus was wide of the mark by 20 points, while Median itself underestimated Fidesz by 7 points in its final pre-election survey. Orban ultimately secured a 20-point victory.

Budapest and Brussels have been in an escalating standoff over Hungary’s continued opposition to EU policy on Ukraine and Russia. Budapest has repeatedly blocked or vetoed EU initiatives, including a recent €90 billion ($106 billion) emergency loan for Kiev and the bloc’s latest sanctions package against Moscow. 

Orban has also vehemently opposed Ukraine joining the EU, arguing that Brussels’ support for Kiev draws the bloc closer to direct war with Russia and ignores Ukraine’s failure to meet requirements for candidates.

The Hungarian leader has described recent attempts to offer Kiev a form of ‘membership lite’ as “an open declaration of war against Hungary,” accusing Brussels of disregarding the will of the Hungarian people and being “determined to remove the Hungarian government by any means necessary.”

Orban has also accused Brussels of using “censorship, intervention, and manipulation” to undermine his government, framing the upcoming April 12 election as a choice between “war or peace.”

Right-leaning governments in Europe need to stand up against this political tyranny because once they get rid of Orban, they will be coming after you.


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Two congressional candidates disappear in Colombia

   
Colombian President Gustavo Petro (top-C) attends the opening of the new session of Congress in Bogota, Colombia, in July 2025. File Photo by Mauricio Duenas Castaneda/EPA
Colombian President Gustavo Petro (top-C) attends the opening of the new session of Congress in Bogota, Colombia, in July 2025. File Photo by Mauricio Duenas Castaneda/EPA

Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Two candidates for Colombia's Congress were reported missing this week, less than two weeks before the March 8 legislative elections for the Senate and House of Representatives.

Ana Libia Guetio, a House candidate for the Special Transitional Peace District in the department of Cauca, has been missing since the night of Feb. 25, the local newspaper El Espectador reported.

Her campaign team said they lost contact with her about 8:40 p.m. while she was traveling from the municipality of El Tambo to Morales after carrying out campaign activities.

"We have serious concern because the area where contact was lost poses high risks for social leaders," said Eduin Mauricio Capaz, human rights coordinator of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca.

The campaign team called for the immediate activation of search mechanisms and for guarantees of her safe return.

Guetio is competing for one of the special seats created in the House after the 2016 peace agreement, intended to represent territories affected by the armed conflict. Members serve four-year terms.

In a separate incident, Senate candidate Andrés Vásquez, of the Colombian Conservative Party, was reported missing Feb. 25 in the department of Cesar.

Vásquez was heading to a political meeting when his trail was lost. His vehicle was found with the doors open and his belongings inside.

The Conservative Party issued a statement demanding that authorities activate all search protocols and strengthen security guarantees for candidates during the campaign.

"We reject the kidnapping of candidate Andrés Vásquez and demand his prompt release alive," political leader Marcos Gómez said on X.

The candidate's father, Eustorgio Vásquez, told local media that the family had not received threats, and he called for his son's release.

"We have never been involved in any problems. My job is selling lottery tickets to have money to eat. If I had money, I would give it for my son, but that is not the case. Maybe they will realize whose son he is and release him." he said.

The Senate and the House of Representatives are elected on the same day in national elections. The Senate has 108 nationwide seats, while the House has 188, including the special peace districts.

The disappearance of both candidates occured amid recurring concerns about the security of social leaders and candidates in regions with the presence of illegal armed groups during the electoral period.


Saturday, February 28, 2026

Germany's AfD dodges a political bullet, for now

 

Germany’s AfD hails ‘major victory’ against Berlin’s

domestic spy agency


A court ruling has suspended the top opposition party’s designation as
a “confirmed right-wing extremist” group
Germany’s AfD hails ‘major victory’ against Berlin’s domestic spy agency

















Alternative for Germany (AfD) party co-leader Alice Weidel hailed as “major victory” for the party and the nation a Thursday court decision that suspended its designation as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organization.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, slapped the top opposition party with the classification in May 2025, having previously branded it a “suspected extremist group.” 

An administrative court in Cologne granted a temporary injunction at the party’s request, pending a final ruling. The court said radical statements on migration and religion by some AfD members were insufficient to assess the party’s nature as a whole.

Federal law grants the BfV special powers to surveil and investigate members of groups it designates as extremist. Such labels can also influence voter preferences. The injunction comes ahead of March regional elections in Baden-Wurttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. National polls show the AfD as a credible challenger to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right Christian Democrats for the top spot.

Weidel said the ruling “indirectly threw a spanner in the works for the ban fanatics,” referring to mounting calls from the party’s mainstream rivals to outlaw it. Lawyer Ralf Hoecker, who represented the AfD, said the decision makes a proposed ban “no longer conceivable. It’s off the table.”

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, a Christian Democrat, advised patience regarding the full legal process, insisting that the AfD “must be driven out of the country, not banned.” Carmen Wegge, judicial policy spokesperson for the center-left Social Democrats parliamentary group, said she remains “firmly convinced that the AfD is anti-constitutional” and that it “must be examined by the Federal Constitutional Court.” The Left Party has indicated that it supports a ban.

Sahra Wagenknecht, leader of a left-wing opposition party named after her, called the ruling a “slap in the face” for the BfV. The decision is “a campaign gift for the AfD,” she said, blaming those who “tried to combat their political competition with a commissioned favor-currying expert opinion, instead of finally realizing that their own lousy policies are what make the AfD ever stronger.”

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

The Islamization of Europe > Mentally ill Muslim beheads girlfriend in Florence; Assaults on churches across Europe increases; Muslim attacks 3 JWs in Germany

 

Italy: Muslim migrant beheads woman, he is ‘known to suffer from mental health problems’


When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks,” says the Qur’an (47:4). But of course, we know that had nothing to do with this incident, for the perpetrator is “known to suffer from mental health problems.” That would be significantly more credible if it weren’t the fallback excuse that European authorities so frequently use for jihad activity. They do not admit the existence of Islamic jihad, and many have decided to classify jihadis as mentally ill. This does not, however, make the global jihad disappear.



German homeless woman decapitated in Florence: Report

AFP, February 20, 2026:

Italian police said Friday they have identified a suspect in the beheading of a woman in Florence, who media reports described as a homeless 44-year-old German.

Police “found the decapitated body of a woman” at an abandoned site in Scandicci, a suburb of the Tuscan city, after a homeless person raised the alarm Wednesday.

“The investigation resulted in the seizure of several items, including a machete and a knife with blood traces, found in the immediate vicinity of the body,” the police said in a statement.

“A man, already known to law enforcement and currently hospitalized under surveillance, is a serious suspect in the brutal crime,” it said….

The suspect was a young man from North Africa and known to suffer from mental health problems, it said.

The pair were “seeing each other” and shared a makeshift shelter in the area, it added.




In Europe, the Assault on the Churches Continues


No, the stories about attacks on churches in Europe seldom contain the words “Islam” or “Muslim.” But everyone knows who is vandalizing the churches in Europe, breaking the altars and smashing the baptismal fonts, setting fires, stealing church silver, urinating and defecating in the chapels, in the pews, and on the floors. More on the latest horror — the setting of two fires at a historic church in Germany — can be found here: 



Arsonists set two fires at historic German Catholic church

by Antonino Cambria, LifeSite News, February 16, 2026:

Arsonists set fires on both the altar and near the entrance front of the historic St. Peter Catholic Church in Huttenheim last month.

On January 28, unidentified individuals set two fires in the 18th-century, Baroque-style church, one on the altar cloth and another on a table in the front of the church with a set of brochures, per German media. A woman inside the church and several passersby quickly spotted the flames and extinguished them before authorities arrived, with the fire ultimately causing no major damage but will still cost an estimated 8,000 Euros to repair….

Indeed, arson attacks on Catholic and other Christian churches have skyrocketed across Europe in recent years. OIDAC Europe’s (Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe) 2025 report showed that the number of arson attacks on churches and other Christian buildings doubled in 2024 compared with the previous year, with 94 reported cases.

Germany had the highest number of documented arson attacks at 33. Numerous German churches continued to be attacked in 2025. In September alone, the Diocese of Passau reported that 15 churches were targeted by theft and vandalism.

“We usually have about 15 to 20 burglaries in a whole year, and now we currently only have 15 cases in the month of September,” Josef Sonnleitner, the diocese’s finance director, said at the time.

Within the last year alone, there have been several incidents of vandalism and desecration at notable European churches. A November incident in Lourdes, France, saw the entrance of the Sacré-CÅ“ur parish, among the city’s principal places of worship outside its renowned Marian sanctuary, vandalized with graffiti containing the sacrilegious expressions “À mort Jésus-Christ” (“Death to Jesus Christ”), and the right-hand side carried the words “Sale race de Jésus-Christ” (“Dirty race of Jesus Christ”).

Who do you think would write “Death to Jesus Christ” or “Dirty Race of Christians”? The very people whom the late Italian journalist, the brilliant Oriana Fallaci, who knew them well from her days interviewing Khomeini, Qaddafi, and Arafat, described as “the sons of Allah.”

That same month, in Rome, human feces were found at various parts of San Nicola di Bari Church (St. Nicholas of Bari) in Ostia, including the altar. Within the same week, urine and human excrement were also found in multiple corners of a Catholic chapel, including the altar, at the Termini Railway Station, Rome’s main train station, which frequently draws Catholic pilgrims traveling to the Eternal City.

Last February in the Vatican, a man jumped onto the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica and kicked off the historic candelabra along with the altar cloths. Then in October, another man urinated on the basilica’s high altar during Mass.

Urine and excrement in this church in Ostia and that chapel at Rome’s main railroad station. Urine on the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica during Mass. Muslims take evident pleasure in showing their contempt for Christians and Christianity in such a fashion. Remember Fallaci’s fury — see her The Rage and the Pride — about the Muslim migrants urinating on Ghiberti’s sublime Baptistery gates, known for their beauty as the “Gates of Paradise”? And how many remember the stories of what was found when the Palestinian terrorists, who barricaded themselves in the Church of the Nativity while the IDF lay siege for 39 days in April-May 2002, finally came out? The entire Church “reeked of urine,” with filth and human waste found throughout. Many of the gunman had deliberately defecated inside the Grotto of the Nativity, the very spot where Jesus is believed to have been born.

Instead of hundreds of churches being vandalized and desecrated each year in Europe, as now happens, within a few years, thousands of churches in Europe will each year be damaged, desecrated, vandalized, with furniture inside set ablaze, altar cloths ripped up, baptismal fonts smashed, candelabras kicked over, anti-Christian graffiti scrawled on walls, surfaces everywhere urinated and defecated on, all of it expressing the deep Muslim hate for Christianity and Christians. Who will stop them? Who will say them nay?






Germany: Afghan Muslim migrant stabs three people at Jehovah’s Witnesses stand in train station


“They are also investigating the man’s ‘exclamations’ and ‘gestures’ he made during the attack.”

Hmmm, what might those “exclamations” have been? It’s a mystery! Why don’t German authorities say what they were? Another mystery!

Polizei Unterfranken said “there is currently no danger to the public.”

Of course there is. There is a danger from all the other jihad-minded Muslim migrants whom leftist German authorities have brought into the country. You’d almost get the idea that they’re sinister Marxist internationalists who want to collapse the existing system and are waging proxy war against the German people by means of the Muslim migrants. Inconceivable, I’m sure.


Afghan knifeman attacks multiple people at Jehovah’s Witness stand in German train station before being overpowered by hero civilians

by Jake Holden, Daily Mail, February 23, 2026:

An Afghan knifeman has attacked multiple people at a Jehovah’s Witness stand in a German train station.

The 35-year-old attacker was then overpowered by heroic civilians at Würzburg Central Station who rushed to the victims’ aid.

Police are treating it as an attempted homicide and have arrested a suspect in connection with the attack who is now in custody.

Bavarian Police reports say the suspect was in the entrance hall of the Würzburg Central Station at around 7.50am. Würzburg is located in central Germany, east of Frankfurt in the Bavaria region.

He approached the Jehovah’s Witness stand and then stabbed at a 68-year-old man and physically attacked a 55-year-old and a 51-year-old, police said….

Three of those attacked by the suspect sustained minor injuries, police confirmed. They did not suffer any cuts or stab wounds and are currently receiving medical attention by emergency services….

They are also investigating the man’s ‘exclamations’ and ‘gestures’ he made during the attack….

Local police service Polizei Unterfranken reported that, following the arrest, ‘there is currently no danger to the public.’…

Right! the public has been in danger since 2015 when Ma Merkel made the worst decision of her career. Her second-worst decision was to go along with the tricking of Putin into agreeing to the Minsk Accords, buying time for Ukraine to arm itself for the coming war. Just in case you were wondering.