A Statement of Conscience on October 7 I will not start by saying ‘as a Muslim’ or ‘as an imam’, but as a human being. On October 7, over 1,200 innocent people were killed in a single day. Families were shot in their homes. Young people out dancing were hunted across open fields. Over 250 people, including children and the elderly, were dragged into Gaza as hostages. I think of a mother hiding in a safe room with her baby’s mouth covered. I think of a father listening as the line went quiet. I think of families who waited month after month for someone to come home, only to receive a coffin. I didn’t need my faith to recognize the evil of what happened. My heart told me first. But I’m a Muslim and an imam, and I owe the world one honest sentence: what was done that day was a crime against God. God teaches that whoever kills one innocent soul, it is as if he had killed all humanity. This day has an author: Yahya Sinwar. He planned it, ordered it, and knew what would follow. Every death of that day and war he started rests on him and Hamas leaders who sat in tunnels and foreign hotels and called slaughter a victory. It rests on every Palestinian leader who cheered, excused, handed out sweets, or said nothing. They chose this. They own it. But Sinwar did not invent himself. He was the fruit of a tree planted almost a century ago by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas named itself in its founding charter as the Brotherhood’s branch in Palestine. The Brotherhood’s poison is slow. It arrives through study circles, youth camps, charity boxes, and kind words to lonely young men. Drop by drop, it teaches him that his religion is a political party, his neighbour is his enemy, the Jew is the cause of his sorrow, and God is pleased by rage. By the time the gun arrives, the soul is already taken. I have seen this poison in mosques where sermons became rallies and young men could recite slogans but not sit still for a verse on mercy. Every people that let the Brotherhood in has paid in blood and ruined generations. It has never built anything it did not first set on fire. Behind Hamas stands another hand: the IRGC. It was the IRGC’s money, weapons, and training that turned a hateful idea into an army. One calls itself Sunni and the other Shia, and they may curse each other’s creeds, but they are united in what they worship. It is not God. It is power. The same IRGC that armed the killers of October 7 shoots Iranian girls for showing their hair, hangs young men for asking to be free, and has left graves from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut. They speak in God’s name. So did Pharaoh speak in the name of heaven. So let me say this clearly. Hamas and the IRGC are not merely enemies of Islam. That would be too small a charge, as if their crime were only against us. They are enemies of God. God is the Giver of life, yet they deal in death. God calls Himself the Most Merciful, yet they have made cruelty a sacrament. God honoured the children of Adam, yet they look at a child and see a target or a shield. To murder what God created and sign His name to it is the oldest blasphemy. And we Muslims have been too quiet. Some of us were afraid. Some told ourselves it was not our business. Some, God forgive them, felt something other than horror that morning and never confessed it. Silence was the soil this poison grew in. I will not add to it. So on this anniversary, let us say plainly what our scripture already says. The Jews are not our enemies. They are our cousins in Abraham, and their dead were created by the same God who created us. Today belongs to them: the murdered, the hostages, and families who still set a place at the table. To them I say: I am sorry for what was done to you by men who used the words of my prayers. You’re not alone in your grief or remembrance. The enemies of God are those who murder in His name. We know their names. It is time we said them from our own pulpits, in our own voices, before they speak for us again. Imam Tawhidi

One of the more disturbing elements of the world of Fahrenheit 451 is that the classics still exist, they’ve just been wholly rewritten to remove anything that makes them interesting or challenging. Our addiction to a fully frictionless existence is going to kill us.

“Cutting red tape costs taxpayers nothing”

You couldn’t make it up….

I just don’t understand it. WHY is the UK state going to such extreme, expensive lengths to do something massively unpopular & stupidly dangerous. Locking down entire towns to ship in illegal immigrants Imagine trying to explain these scenes to a Briton in 1926. Or even 1996

I wonder if any of the Home Office officials who help out at Care for Calais dealt with the case of this murderous Afghan who, guess what? - lied about his age before butchering a gentle and quiet dog walker who had the misfortune to be in the wrong place. news.sky.com/story/afghan-mi…

A GP who entered false data in 31 death certificates to reduce her workload has been suspended from the UK medical register for 10 months bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…

"If Labour parliamentarians are idiotic enough to pass it, they will set up a toxic conflict with discrimination law, women’s rights and the established rights of parents to choose how they bring up their children that would take years and likely many unjust criminal prosecutions to work its way up to our highest courts." thetimes.com/comment/columni…

UK officials have now admitted that the under-16 ban will require *adults* to verify their age with a passport. And that the under-16 ban is the beginning, not the end point, of the online safety campaign. This is why we’ve been warning about the coming risks to online speech.

🚨🇩🇰 BREAKING: Denmark has suffered a major security breach involving the country’s central population register. Unauthorized actors gained access to names, addresses and national identification numbers belonging to approximately 8.8 million people. Danish authorities say the attackers abused a private company’s legitimate access to the national CPR system during September. The company’s access has now been terminated and police are investigating the incident. Authorities say it is currently unknown who was behind the breach.

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped along the journey, says Shabana Mahmood They know they are importing rapists, but they carry on doing it anyway They must really trust in the persuasive power of those leaflets

Shabana Mahmood's government has expanded its Online Safety Act to make anonymity impossible on social media, including X. This will come into affect in Spring 2027. Mahmood wants to know who we are in order to arrest and prosecute us. This is very serious. legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/202…

Missing schoolgirl, 11, found dead in village park, her death is being treated as 'unexplained'. This is every parent's worst nightmare. Those first few hours count, so why can't we have a USA style Amber Alert system for missing children? Her poor family. 💔 thesun.co.uk/news/40580599/m…

‘Conversion Practices Bill is a licence for trouble’. Such a good article by Sonia in The Times. A vital read especially if you are a parent. This bill will put all the power in the hands of your child, being coached online, as we know they are, to put you in prison for simply saying no, please just wait. thetimes.com/article/a2fb187…

"The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the United States." nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us/po…

We’re constantly told that no man would pretend to be a woman to sexually assault a woman, that he doesn’t need to bother to do that. Exactly. Because once men can just go into woman only spaces, which they can now due to trans ideology, bad men doing just that is inevitable.

We are not a safe country. Let that sink in.

A convicted child rapist is in custody after sexually assaulting multiple women in an "inclusive" female locker room at a Massachusetts Planet Fitness. The franchise has previously defended its policies allowing males to enter the women's areas. reduxx.info/man-arrested-aft…

This will be any parent who tries to stop their distressed or gay child from destroying their bodies! In years to come people will look back & say how was this not stopped? And when that happens, whenever that eventually is… if you’ve promoted & encouraged it … own the damage!

@nimbusdis isn’t just an “access aid” when its symbols and verification decide whether the door opens. That’s private gatekeeping of #disabled people’s access, dressed up as convenience. Who exactly holds the bouncer to account?