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• Sep 17, 202659x their median

  Saudis are under attack by Houtis. Did they call Allah in Mecca for help? No They called Israel for help. Strange that!

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• Aug 21, 202641x their median

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• Sep 4, 202639x their median

  When 740 children died at sea and every country said "no," one man—who had reason to remain silent—said "yes." The year was 1942. The ship drifted in the Arabian Sea, like a floating coffin. There were 740 Polish children on board. Orphans. Survivors of Soviet labor camps, where their parents had died of the flu or starvation. They had escaped through Iran, but a more terrible punishment awaited them. No one would accept them. The British Empire—the most powerful power of its time—refused entry to port after port along the Indian coast. "It's not our responsibility. Sail away." Almost finished with food. No medicine. Time was running out. Twelve-year-old Maria held her six-year-old brother's hand. She had promised her dying mother to protect him. But how do you protect someone when the whole world turns on them? And then news came to the small palace in Gujarat. The ruler was Jam Sahib Digvijay Singhji, Maharaja of Navanagar. In the royal system, he was just a minor prince. The British controlled the ports, trade, and army. He had every reason to obey and remain silent. When his advisors told him that 740 children were stranded at sea after the British refused to take them to any port in India, he asked one question: "How many children are there?" "Seven hundred and forty, Your Majesty." He paused and calmly said: "The British may control my ports. But they do not control my conscience. These children are docked at Navanagarh." The advisors warned him: "If you challenge the British—" "So I will stop. " He sent a message to the ship: You are welcome here. When British officials protested, the Emperor remained firm. "If the strong refuse to save the children," he said. I, the weak, will do what you cannot. In August 1942, the ship struggled to enter Navanagara harbor under the blazing summer sun. The children walked like ghosts—exhausted, blank-eyed, many too weak to walk. They had learned to hope for good. Hope had turned dangerous. The Maharaja was waiting for them on the dock. Dressed simply in white, he knelt down to be at their eye level. Through interpreters, he spoke words they had not heard since their parents died. "You are no longer orphans. You are my children now. I am your Bapu—your father." Maria felt her brother's handshake. After months of rejection, these words seemed surreal. But he was serious. He didn't build a refugee camp. He built a home. In Balachadi, he created something amazing—a little Poland in India. Polish teachers who understand trauma. Polish food flavored with memory. Polish songs in an Indian garden. A Christmas tree under a tropical sky. “Suffering tries to erase you,” he said. “But your language, culture, and traditions are sacred. Let's keep them here.” " Children who were told they had no place in the world finally found a home. They laughed again. They played again. They returned to school. Maria watched her brother chase a peacock in the palace garden, and her body remembered again what safety meant. The Emperor used to visit them often. He remembered names. He celebrated birthdays. He watched high school plays. He comforted children crying for parents who would never return. He paid for doctors, teachers, clothing, and food—from his own wealth. For four years, while the world was torn by war, 740 children lived not as refugees, but as a family. When the war ended and it was time to leave, many wept. Balachadi became the only home they had ever truly known. These children have grown and moved around the world—becoming doctors, teachers, engineers, parents, grandparents. And they have never forgotten. Warsaw's Good Emperor Square appeared in Poland. Schools bear his name. He was awarded Poland's highest honor. But the original monument wasn't made of stone. It cost 740 lives. Today, at 80 years old, they still gather. They tell their grandchildren about an Indian king who refused to turn compassion into political calculation.

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• Sep 4, 202631x their median

  On 2nd September 2010, an 89 year old woman died alone in her flat in Torquay, England. To most people around her, Eileen Nearne appeared to be simply a quiet elderly woman living an unremarkable life. Then they began going through her belongings. They found medals. They found wartime documents. And an extraordinary story began to emerge. Nearly seven decades earlier, Eileen had been a British secret agent operating behind enemy lines in Nazi occupied France. She was just 23 years old when she was sent into France in 1944 as an agent of Britain's Special Operations Executive. Her job was incredibly dangerous. Eileen worked as a clandestine wireless operator, transmitting secret messages between resistance networks in France and London. Every time she switched on her radio, she risked discovery. German direction finding teams hunted illegal transmitters, and wireless operators could be captured if they remained on air for too long. Eventually, they found her. In July 1944, German security forces raided the house from which Eileen was transmitting. She was arrested and interrogated. Her captors wanted to know who she was working for and what she knew. Eileen refused to reveal the truth. Instead, she maintained a cover story, claiming she was an innocent Frenchwoman who had been sending messages for a businessman. She was tortured. She still did not give them the information they wanted. Eileen was eventually sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious concentration camp for women, and later transferred to another camp where she endured forced labour. Then, as Nazi Germany collapsed in 1945, she escaped during a prisoner transfer. After everything she had survived, Eileen made her way through Germany while hiding from enemy forces until she finally reached safety. She returned home after the war. And then she largely disappeared from public view. For decades, many of the people living around her had little idea what the quiet woman in their neighbourhood had once done. When Eileen died on September 2, 2010, there was initially concern that she might receive a simple council arranged funeral because no close relatives were immediately known. Then her wartime possessions were discovered. The forgotten elderly woman had been anything but ordinary. She had been parachuted into occupied France. She had transmitted secret messages while the Gestapo hunted people like her. She had been captured. She had survived interrogation, imprisonment and a concentration camp. And she had escaped. Eileen Nearne had carried one of Britain's most dangerous wartime jobs when she was only 23 years old. Most of the world only learned the full extent of her remarkable story after she was gone. Today, we remember Eileen Nearne. 1921–2010 R.I.P.

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• Sep 5, 202625x their median

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• Sep 16, 202624x their median

  She dared to remove her chador before Ayatollah Khomeini. In October 1979, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci traveled to Qom, Iran, to interview the Islamic Revolution's supreme leader. To get inside the room, Fallaci was forced to cover herself from head to toe in a heavy black chador, leaving only her face visible. The conversation inside the room was tense from the very start. Fallaci did not hold back her questions. She pushed the Ayatollah on political executions, the sudden shutdown of independent newspapers, and the sharp loss of rights for Iranian women under the new regime. When she asked about the forced wearing of the veil, Khomeini dismissed her concerns and claimed the garment was meant to protect young and respectable women. He then added, "If you do not like the Islamic dress, you are not obliged to wear it." Fallaci took his words literally and replied, "Thank you, Mr. Imam. Since you tell me so, I am taking it off right now." With a quick move, she pulled the chador off her head, leaving her hair completely exposed right in front of the Supreme Leader. Khomeini was furious. He stood up without saying another word and walked out of the room. The room fell silent, and the interview was abruptly stopped. However, Fallaci refused to leave Iran until he returned a day later to finish the conversation. This confrontation became legendary in the history of journalism. It showed a reporter refusing to bow down to authority, even in one of the most dangerous settings imaginable. Fallaci proved that real journalism requires standing up to power, asking hard questions, and refusing to be silenced by fear or tradition. When journalists trade raw courage for easy access and comfortable silence, we lose one of our strongest shields against tyranny. In an era where true courage in reporting feels rare, her brave stand reminds us that honest journalism still has the power to light up the dark, giving a voice to the voiceless and inspiring future generations to speak truth without fear.

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• Aug 23, 202620x their median

  Confrontation during an interview with the Iranian crown prince: German journalist asks Pahlavi: "Are you an Israeli agent?" Prince Reza Pahlavi: "NO, but my grandfather gave refuge to Jews when you burned them in the ovens." https://t.co/dv22p5Ck9a

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• Aug 24, 202620x their median

  A Muslim country is warning Europe about Islamism. Not Christian conservatives. Not the "far right". Not anyone you can wave away as an Islamophobe. The United Arab Emirates. The UAE has spent years taking a hard line against political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood, which the country classifies as a terrorist organisation. And in June 2026, the UAE's ambassador to the EU, Mohammed Ismail Al Sahlawi, sat in the European Parliament at a conference with this title: "Muslim Brotherhood: a real threat to Europe." Hard to misread. The warning was about the Brotherhood's methods. Infiltrating European societies and institutions, influencing political decisions, spreading extremist ideology. Read that again. A Muslim country is warning Europe about political Islam. And here is what matters most! Islamism is not only the man with a rifle or a suicide vest. That is the outermost, violent expression of it. Islamism can also work slowly. And politically. Through organisations, universities, religious institutions, activism, lobbying, political and institutional influence. That is exactly why it is so dangerous to look only for the man with the bomb belt. Because Islamism can arrive in a suit. It can hold a university degree. It can run an organisation. It can sit close to political decision makers. And it can learn to speak the West's own language about tolerance, rights and diversity, while working for values that collide with liberal democracy. And no. This is not just something the UAE claims. Britain's own government has investigated the Muslim Brotherhood. The British review found that Brotherhood-associated and Brotherhood-influenced groups in the UK had, at various points, held significant influence over the largest Muslim student organisation, national Muslim organisations in dialogue with the government, charities and some mosques. The same review concluded that parts of the Brotherhood's ideology and activities run counter to democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, equality, and mutual respect and tolerance between faiths. So this is not only about terror. It is about ideology. And now comes the part that should stop every European in their tracks. The UAE has become so concerned about Islamist radicalisation at British universities that British universities have been removed from the list of institutions where Emirati students can receive state scholarships. Young Emiratis are still free to study in Britain. With their own money. The UAE simply will not pay for it anymore. A person with direct knowledge of the discussions put it plainly to the Financial Times: "They don't want their kids to be radicalised on campus." Sit with that for a second. A Muslim, Arab country is worried about sending its Muslim young people to Britain, because it fears they will be radicalised there. If that does not trigger some soul-searching in Europe, I don't know what will. Because the UAE's point is precisely this. You make a fatal mistake if you only start caring about Islamism once someone picks up a weapon. The ideological process may have started years earlier. The UAE's foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has said: "Daesh, Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have fed off a wider current of extremist ideas." He pointed specifically at political Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, which in his view have spent decades spreading those narratives. He called them "backward-looking". And said they "reject open, pluralistic societies." This is a Muslim foreign minister saying it. And there is something else I want to make very clear! THE UAE IS NOT THE WEST. It is not Europe. It is not a Western liberal democracy. It is a Muslim, Arab country with a different culture, a different form of government and different traditions. And there are aspects of the UAE's political system and human rights record that we would never accept in a Western democracy. This is not to be romanticised. But the UAE has fought political Islamism for decades, an ideology its leadership believes has undermined and destabilised the Middle East. And which they now openly warn is seeking influence in Europe and the rest of the Western world. Their foreign minister has spoken about the need to show that you can be "modern, Arab and Muslim." That distinction is one Europe desperately needs to understand. You can be a Muslim and still reject political Islam, extremism, antisemitism and religious intolerance. And notice one more thing. THE VIEW OF WOMEN IS PART OF THAT FIGHT. Abdullah bin Zayed has directly criticised Islamist ideologies for their "denigration of women's role in society." The UAE has not just talked about it. The country has made women's education, economic participation and leadership official state policy. Women are to be educated. They are to work. They are to be able to start businesses. They are to take part economically and politically. And they are to sit at the table where decisions are made. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and the UAE's vice president and prime minister, established the UAE Gender Balance Council with the stated aim of reducing the gender gap and strengthening women's participation in leadership and decision making. And the UAE's president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, MBZ, leads a Muslim country that has made religious coexistence part of its national story. In Abu Dhabi, a mosque, a church and a synagogue stand side by side in the Abrahamic Family House. Think about that contrast. A Muslim country is saying: Keep Islam. Fight Islamism. Let women study, work and lead. Let Christians be Christians. Let Jews be Jews. And fight the political and religious movements that want to replace pluralism with their own ideology. And yes. That includes the people who support, legitimise and clear the path for those movements while believing they are defending tolerance and diversity. Including when they end up working against the very Western values, freedom, equality, democracy and religious liberty, that gave them the opportunity to do so in the first place. History has an old term for people who end up serving an ideology whose actual goals they do not share: "Useful idiots." They do not have to be Islamists themselves. That is the whole point. They only have to be useful to those who are. And this is what Europe has to learn to separate: Islam is a religion. Islamism is a political ideology. And Islamist extremism is not "diversity". You can defend Muslims' full right to believe and practise their faith, and at the same time say a resounding NO to movements that want to use religion for political power, parallel societies, extremism, or the gradual erosion of the society that gave them the freedom to be here. Tolerance does not mean tolerating intolerance until it has grown strong enough to turn on you. When a Muslim country pulls its state scholarships away from British universities out of fear of Islamist radicalisation, while parts of Europe are still afraid to even name the problem, the question is no longer whether there is a problem. The question is who understood the seriousness of it. And right now, it isn't us!

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• Sep 20, 202615x their median

  Some “Free Palestine” activists ask me: “Why don’t you stand with your Palestinian brothers and their aspirations?” I answer: “I do. I support their aspiration to live in dignity, prosperity, and peace side by side with Israel.” Then they say (in Arabic): “But we want to destroy Israel.” And my answer is: “Thank you for being clear. Then be equally clear when you speak on American campuses. Don’t present coexistence in English while advocating Israel’s destruction in Arabic. I have seen the darkness of religious extremism with my own eyes. I once swallowed some of its narratives myself, and I fought my way out of that darkness. So you expect someone like me, an Arab Muslim who has confronted radical Islamism to embrace a cause calling for another people’s destruction? No, thank you. I believe in God, and I have brains. I stand by Israel’s right to exist. The prophets, kings, and heroes I grew up revering including figures revered in the Quran are inseparable from the history of that land and its peoples. At the same time, I recognize Palestinian suffering and pain. It is real. Palestinians deserve dignity, security, prosperity, and a future for their children. But that future cannot be built around destroying Israel. It requires leadership capable of taking Palestinians toward coexistence and a better future rather than sacrificing generation after generation to an endless conflict. Two peoples can live. Two peoples can prosper. Neither needs to disappear for the other to have a future.” And then comes the silence. I have seen the darkness of hatred, and by the grace of God, I chose a different path. It’s my life mission now. Zero regrets. All praise is due to God. 🙏🏼♥️

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• Sep 16, 202614x their median

  The world mourns the loss of Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz survivor, author, educator, mother, grandmother, and tireless guardian of Holocaust memory, who passed away in London at the age of 96. Her life was marked by unimaginable suffering, profound loss, extraordinary resilience, and an unwavering commitment to ensuring that the lessons of the Holocaust would never be forgotten. Born Eva Geiringer in Vienna in 1929, Eva grew up in a loving Jewish family with her parents, Erich and Elfriede, and her older brother, Heinz. When Nazi persecution intensified following the annexation of Austria, her family was forced to flee. They eventually found refuge in Amsterdam, where Eva's life briefly continued with the ordinary joys of childhood. It was in Amsterdam that Eva knew Anne Frank. The two girls lived in the same neighborhood and shared the familiar experiences of childhood before the Holocaust transformed their lives. Neither could have known how profoundly history would later connect their families. As the persecution of Jews intensified throughout the Netherlands, Eva and her family were forced into hiding. For a time, they managed to escape detection, living under constant fear and uncertainty. But on 11 May 1944, Eva's 15th birthday, their hiding place was betrayed. Eva and her family were arrested by the Nazis and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. At just fifteen years old, Eva was thrust into a world of unimaginable cruelty. At Auschwitz, she endured starvation, fear, humiliation, separation, and the constant threat of death. She survived the concentration camp, but the people she loved most did not. Her father, Erich, and her brother, Heinz, were murdered during the Holocaust. Eva emerged from Auschwitz carrying not only the physical scars of persecution, but also the unbearable grief of losing members of her family. Yet despite everything that had been taken from her, she chose to rebuild her life rather than allow hatred to define it. After the war, Eva returned to the Netherlands with her mother. In the years that followed, her mother's marriage to Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, made Eva Anne's posthumous stepsister. Their connection created an extraordinary and deeply painful link between two families whose lives had been forever changed by the Holocaust. But Eva Schloss was never simply “Anne Frank’s stepsister.” She was a survivor with her own story, her own memories, and her own losses. For decades, she carried the burden of memories that were almost impossible to speak about—memories of persecution, hiding, deportation, Auschwitz, and the devastating loss of her father and beloved brother, Heinz. Yet, with extraordinary courage, she eventually chose to break the silence. Rather than allowing the horrors of her past to consume the rest of her life, Eva transformed her pain into purpose. She began sharing her testimony with generations of young people, educators, and audiences around the world, speaking with remarkable honesty about what she had endured and what the Holocaust had taken from her family. She understood that her survival came with a responsibility: to remember those who were murdered, to preserve their stories, and to warn future generations about the devastating consequences of hatred, antisemitism, prejudice, and indifference. Her testimony was not simply a story about what happened in the past. It was a message to the present, and a warning for the future. Eva often reminded young people that hatred does not appear overnight. It can begin with words, stereotypes, discrimination, and the gradual acceptance of another human being as somehow less worthy of dignity and compassion. That is why she continued to speak. She spoke for her father, Erich. She spoke for her brother, Heinz. She spoke for the millions who were murdered and could never tell their own stories. And she spoke for the generations who would come after her. Through her books, including Eva’s Story and After Auschwitz, and through decades of Holocaust education and public speaking, Eva turned memories of unimaginable suffering into a call. And now, it is our turn to remember. Her story will not end with her passing. As long as her story is told, her voice will continue to reach generations yet unborn. As long as her memory is preserved, the lives of those she carried with her will not be forgotten. And as long as we choose compassion over hatred, understanding over prejudice, and humanity over indifference, the legacy of Eva Schloss will continue to live.

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