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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Terrorism Around the World > Videos of Bangladeshi terrorist attacking woman in Hong Kong; Are some forest fires being started by Jihadists? 90% of France's forest fires were started by humans; Customers support bagel shop shot up last week in Toronto

 

Hong Kong: Muslim migrant from Bangladesh stabs woman in the neck, tries to stab others


All around the world, countries are letting in Muslim migrants without any hesitation, because it would be “racist” and “Islamophobic” even to entertain the possibility that some of them might be Islamic jihadists, or might become Islamic jihadists. And yet everywhere in the world where there are Muslims, there are Islamic jihadists. Yet no nation seems to be willing to do what is necessary to protect its own citizens, and all of them are determined to put the well-being of the Muslim migrants first. It is a shame that if immigration laws were tightened, some innocent people would be inconvenienced. But isn’t it also a shame that incidents of this kind keep happening?

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4)


Two injured in knife attack at Hong Kong luxury housing estate

The Star, August 11, 2026:

HONG KONG: Two injured people were hospitalised after a man was arrested on suspicion of a random knife attack at a luxury residential estate in Hong Kong’s Southern District on Monday (Aug 10).

According to local media, the knife-wielding suspect – said to be a 22-year-old resident at the Baguio Villa – wore only sweatpants while leaving his unit at block 47 around 9am.

Outside block 43, the man, bare-chested and barefoot, charged at a male passerby, who narrowly dodged the attack.

The suspect then turned on a security guard and fought until fellow security staff rushed over.

Fleeing the clash, the man stabbed a passing foreign domestic helper in the back. Security guards and passersby intervened to restrain the man before police officers arrived and arrested him….




Humans Have Set 90% of Those Wildfires in Europe


In France and Spain, wildfires have already spread across huge areas of both countries, causing billions of dollars of damage and requiring the evacuation of 350,000 people as of July 29, and the fires show no signs of being contained. French authorities have now revealed that they believe humans caused ninety per cent of those “wildfires.” More on this conclusion can be found here: 


Wildfires: What penalties do intentional arsonists face?

translated from “Incendies : que risquent ceux qui les allument volontairement ?,” by Madeleine Meteyer, Le Figaro, July 14, 2026:

ANALYSIS – Since July 6, 184 people have been detained for starting fires—whether intentionally or accidentally—since the beginning of the year. The legal framework addressing these acts was strengthened in 2004.

Massive fires are currently raging; over 115,000 hectares of forest have been scorched in the last six months, homes have been destroyed, and firefighters are exhausted. Behind much of this destruction lie actual individuals responsible for the acts—a portion of whom (30%, according to the French Forest Observatory) acted out of malice. According to the Ministry of the Interior, nine out of ten fires are caused by human activity. On Tuesday, July 28, Laurent Nunez announced that 184 people had been detained for such acts since the start of the summer. These suspected arsonists represent a mix of criminals and individuals acting out of negligence.

What penalties do they face? The legal framework has been strengthened since 2004. On March 9 of that year, a law was passed in the wake of the summer 2003 heatwave—which saw over 2,000 fire outbreaks, 60,000 hectares of forest destroyed, and ten fatalities—increasing the penalties by placing greater emphasis on the danger posed to people and the environment. Our Penal Code distinguishes between fires caused by…

Summer heat has helped to dry out vegetation that is then more susceptible to being ravaged by wildfire, but humans start the fires themselves, or 90% of them.

In the past, wildfires in Greece and in Spain’s Canary Islands have both been attributed to arson. And now French authorities insist that 90% of the wildfires in France have been set by humans. The question is: who are the people setting these fires?

We have a clue in Israel, where for years both Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, and Israeli Arabs have been successfully prosecuted for starting fires, as the Israeli courts have concluded, “for nationalistic reasons” — meaning a desire of the Muslim arsonists to damage the Jewish state.

Here, for example, is what the Israelis discovered during the wave of “wildfires” that swept the country in 2016:

Two Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting brush fires have confessed to the crimes, police reportedly told ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.

The suspects were said to from the Israeli Arab towns of Umm al-Fahm and Deir Hanna in northern Israel, the Hebrew-language Ynet news website reported. The report did not specify which fires the two admitted to igniting or offer details on the suspects….

At least 35 people have been arrested since Thursday on suspicion of setting fires or inciting others to do so. More than 15 were Palestinians arrested by the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security service, an army spokesperson said. At least 10 of those held are Israeli Arabs, according to Hebrew media reports. Police did not offer a detailed breakdown of how many were being detained for incitement and how many for arson.

Police chief Roni Alsheich said Sunday that there had been similar arson attacks in the past and that they should be considered acts of terror, Army Radio reported.

“If setting the fire was deliberate it is definitely terror,” Alsheich said during a visit to the West Bank settlement of Halamish, where a fire destroyed 18 homes on Friday night. “By the way, that is nothing new, there have been arson incidents in the past. The concentration of a relatively large number of days, and the number of incidents and the weather conditions, brought about these results but there is nothing new and there were incidents like this in the past.”

In addition, both Al Qaeda and ISIS have for many years urged Muslims to engage in what they call “forest jihad,” and have periodically published online statements or graphics encouraging lone actors to start forest fires in Western countries. More on this incitement can be found here.

At Reddit, Muslims have been commenting on the wildfires in France. Here are two such comments;

May Allah ï·» burn the country of those who adamantly mock the rasool ï·º and oppress the Muslimeen. Then may they be resurrected and burnt in the next life as well.

As a Muslim I am glad to be considered a psycho by weirdos like yourself OP. They’re a kaffir country [France] that oppresses Muslims and openly mocks our religion. May they burn in this dunya and the akhirah, though I hope the innocents caught in between be spared. Ameen.

Will the French and Spanish governments make known this history of Muslims starting fires in Israel? Will they make public any evidence they may have of wildfires being started in their countries by Muslims determined to harm Infidels? I think if far more likely that they will conceal such evidence, so as not to contribute to “Islamophobia” and to calls for a halt to Muslim migration.

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Locals Line up To Show Support at Toronto Bagel Shops Hit With Gunfire, Vandalism

by Shira Li Bartov, JTA, July 29, 2026:


Two locations of Kiva’s Bagel Bar, a fixture for Toronto Jews since it opened in 1979, were targeted late Saturday and early Sunday. Gunfire hit the windows of one storefront just an hour after another storefront was vandalized and its front glass shattered,
according to the Toronto Police Service.

Police said their Hate Crime Unit was investigating, and they believed the same SUV may have been involved at both scenes. The bakeries were closed at the time and no injuries were reported.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he was “appalled” by the attacks. “Jewish Canadians should be able to live, work, and worship free from fear, intimidation, and hate,” he said on X on Monday. “Canada’s government is absolute in our commitment to combatting the scourge of antisemitism.”

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow added on X that the incidents were “vile and unacceptable” and said she “will always stand with Toronto’s Jewish community against antisemitism.”

Residents flocked to Kiva’s and sold out their bagels by 10:30 a.m. on Monday, according to the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, an advocacy arm of the Jewish Federations of Canada. Resident Adrian Rocca, the founder of a local real estate company, posted a photo on LinkedIn of his employees lined up outside….

Jews and non-Jews in Toronto expressed their outrage at the attacks, and their support for the victims, in the most telling way possible: they showed up in vast numbers to buy bagels from Kiva Bagels as soon as the stores opened on Monday morning. And how many of those, who came as first-time customers to demonstrate solidarity, will continue to give the bagel stores their custom?

Carney pledged in June to fight antisemitism through a new Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality, and Inclusion. In his speech at Toronto’s Holy Blossom Synagogue, he said that the country was “failing Jewish Canadians.” Two-thirds of Canada’s religion-motivated hate crimes last year were directed at Jewish Canadians, who make up only 1% of the population, Carney said.

Carney, of course, does not connect his series of anti-Israel remarks, including his seeming endorsement of the charge of “genocide” flung at the Jewish state, with the upsurge in antisemitism in Canada.

But we can connect those dots. And we do.




Friday, August 7, 2026

Terrorism Around the World > Jihadi murders co-worker because she was Christian; Red Cross deletes film about heroic murderer; Man with Axe in Vancouver

 

Greece: Muslim migrant says he murdered Scottish migration advocate because he is a jihadist and she was a Christian


There you have it: a violent Muslim who openly admits to being a jihadist. Now what will authorities in Greece, as well as in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain do? Will they tell him, “No, you aren’t?” Will they force him to enroll in a “deradicalization” program, so that he can learn that jihad is a peaceful interior spiritual struggle? Will they claim that he is mentally ill, as they have claimed of so very many other jihadis? One thing is certain: they won’t take his statement at face value. They won’t study Islam and jihad in order to understand the mindset of people such as Sharif Ahmadzai. Above all, they won’t take any steps to protect their people from other jihadists. To do that would be “Islamophobic.”

Sharif Ahmadzai, Facebook/Sharif Pakteyawall


Athens suitcase suspect ‘told victim’s friends he was jihadist who murdered her because she was Christian'

by Peter Stevens, GB News, August 5, 2026:

A man suspected of murdering a British woman in Athens allegedly told her friends and family he was a jihadist who murdered her because she was Christian.

Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, also sent the message to his American wife and other friends of Elisabeth-Jane Ross, who was found dead in a suitcase just days ago.

Ahmadzai, an Afghan migrant who arrived in Greece by small boat in 2016, is due to appear in court in Athens today.

The migrant, who is also a professional boxer, married Alaina Hall in 2023, after they met at a refugee centre in Athens.

The pair went on to run a pro-migrant NGO called Love Every Nation Athens after marrying, and have one child together despite opposition from Mrs Hall’s family.

Ahmadzai is said to have denied killing 38-year-old Ms Ross in police interviews, claiming he found her dead in the bathroom of an apartment.

He is now accused of sending messages to Ms Ross’s family and friends from the Briton’s phone before switching off the device.

He then allegedly bought a burner phone and texted her friends and his wife, claiming to be a jihadist who killed Ms Ross because of her Christian faith, according to local media reports….

The couple’s website claims his father, a military commander in Kabul, survived six assassination attempts but was eventually killed by the Taliban when he was four.

His older brother was later kidnapped by the terrorist group, and his mother, brother and sister were killed in a suicide car bomb, according to the site….

Notice that this is solely Ahmadzai’s unsuppported claim.

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Red Cross deletes sympathetic film about Afghan migrant now accused of killing British woman and hiding her body in a suitcase

by Isabella Machin, Daily Mail, August 6, 2026:


The Red Cross has deleted a film tracking the journey of an Afghan migrant who is now accused of killing a British woman and hiding her body in a suitcase in Greece.

Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, was arrested on Monday over the murder of Scottish Christian Elisabeth-Jane Ross, in Athens.

Ahmadzai, a professional boxer who arrived in Greece on a small boat in 2016, is accused of killing Ms Ross before stuffing her body into a suitcase and ditching it in a derelict building.

The 38-year-old’s body was found by a homeless man on July 18, three days after she is believed to have been killed.

It has now emerged the Afghan-national collaborated with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and a London artist to create a film following how he escaped Afghanistan and reached the Greek island of Lesbos aged 15.

The four-minute animated film, named Game of Life: The Story of Sharif, was first shown on YouTube in December 2016, and includes a narration of his six-week migrant crossing.

The sympathetic video follows how his father, who was a military commander, was killed in an ambush and his mother and siblings were killed by a suicide bomb attack in Kabul.

Ahmadzai, accompanied by friends, was then smuggled out of Afghanistan’s capital and journeyed through Iran and Turkey, before he reached a refugee camp on Lesbos, named Moria.

The interview was conducted in Moria, and took place after Ahmadzai had been in the camp for six months.

The video opens with, ‘each migrant has a story worthy of a Hollywood movie’….




Man arrested after allegedly threatening people with an axe in Vancouver


Published 9:56 am Friday, August 7, 2026


A man was arrested in Vancouver after allegedly threatening people with an axe, police say.

Vancouver police received reports that a man was “threatening passersby, throwing cutlery toward a restaurant storefront, and smashing plates on the restaurant’s patio” near Main Street and 24th Avenue Thursday evening (Aug. 6), a news release Friday says.

Police say the officers responded immediately and found the suspect “within minutes.”

He was taken into custody with help from the Vancouver Police Department’s Canine Unit.

The suspect, a 29-year-old, was taken to hospital with injuries. He was released on an undertaking and is scheduled to appear in court at a later date.

Charges have not yet been approved.