Opinion

When ordinary Swedes begin fantasising about taking the law into their own hands

A bullet presented as evidence during the trial of Tyler Robinson, who is accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk. The casing is engraved with the letters “LMAO” (“Laughing My Ass Off”). Photo: AP / Spenser Heaps, Pool.

All terrorist roads lead to Sweden – Ballout has jihadist relatives in Borås

He had been convicted of terrorism, was under police surveillance, and was participating in a deradicalization program. Yet Abdul Rahman Ballout was still able to carry out the terrorist attack at the Pride festival in Berlin. It has now been revealed that he belongs to one of Europe’s most notorious jihadist families – with close family branches in the Swedish city of Borås.

Minnesota launches Trans dolls with interchangeable genitals for four-year-olds

A transgender version of the classic Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head dolls. The project has received public funding under Governor Tim Walz. The transgender dolls have gender-neutral names and come with interchangeable internal and external genitalia, along with 100 different items of clothing, hairstyles and accessories.

Even death does not stop Norwegian media’s Trump-baiting

Norwegian media treat the funeral of Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran’s death cult, more respectfully than the funeral of the Republican senator Lindsey Graham. Even in death they do not take a break from the Trump-baiting. One may wonder whether this is driven by the hatred and the evil that Marco Rubio attributes to the radical left.

“Line them up against a wall and shoot them!”

It started as a rumor about justice in the Swedish countryside: Shoot, dig, shut up. Today, the same dark solution is heard formulated in ordinary people’s conversations. When completely ordinary, law-abiding Swedes begin to fantasize about firing squads, it is a warning signal that needs to be taken seriously.

Calls for less squeamishness in confronting Islamist terrorism

After the terrorist attack on a Pride march in Berlin on Saturday, the Second Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party (Høyre), Ola Svenneby, is calling on the public—particularly the political left—to show less squeamishness in confronting Islamist terrorism. With a presumed moral superiority, he wants politicians, a quarter of a century too late, to reclaim ownership of the issue from those he regards as unsavoury figures.

Democrats want to bring Infantino to heel

Gianni Infantino has enjoyed a good relationship with Trump. That is now proving costly. Democrat Jamie Raskin has summoned Infantino to testify before Congress and is demanding answers to a series of questions. He is requesting correspondence and visitor logs. The Democrats intend to subject Infantino to the same methods they have honed against Trump. They are preparing for a final reckoning with Trump—if they return to power.

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump is a counter-revolutionary

For 50 years, a revolution has been under way in which the Left has imported welfare-dependent voters, says Victor Davis Hanson. What Trump has set out to achieve is the counter-revolution, the American historian maintains. One wonders whether Europe will one day do the same.

British trans group that advocates political violence should be banned

Lord Walney, the British government’s former adviser on political violence, believes that the trans activist group Bash Back should be banned because it repeatedly incites violence against its political opponents.

Zohran Mamdani ‘globalises the intifada’ in New York City

Under the Islamist Zohran Mamdani’s clammy leadership, Jew-hatred is spreading across the USA’s largest city, New York. The mayor and his ideological followers are playing with the antisemitic fire, and they are fully aware of what they are doing.