Fun fact.
The Switzerlands largest supermarket, Migros, doesn’t sell alcohol or tobacco in stores, pays no dividends, caps profits by lowering prices if earnings exceeds 5%, is a cooperative with 2M+ members, and donates 1% of revenue to social projects, purely out of the founders moral philosophy.
Hace 50 años, terroristas palestinos masacraron a 582 civiles cristianos en laciudad de Damour, en Libano.
Un sacerdote que sobrevivió a la masacre explicó: "Llegaban por miles gritando “¡Allahu Akbar! Mataron a todos: hombres, mujeres y niños".
Los hombres eran alineados contra las paredes de sus casas y fusilados. Las mujeres eran torturadas y violadas en grupo. Los bebés eran asesinados de un disparo en la nuca. A las mujeres embarazadas les extraían a sus bebés del vientre.
Así fue como los musulmanes pasaron a ser mayoría en el Líbano.
Over 85% of the world’s refugees are Muslims. But for some reason they do not even seek asylum in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, or in any of the other 50 Muslim-majority countries.
They only want to go to non-Muslim Western countries. Why do you think that is?
Is this alarming uniformity due to manipulation, indoctrination, or genuine faith? If it's genuine faith, why did they come to European countries?這種令人擔憂的一致性是出於操縱、灌輸還是真誠的信念?如果是真誠的信仰,他們為何要來到歐洲國家?
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Zelensky's defiant message to Putin:
"You wanted to take all of Ukraine, all of our land.
Instead, you lost your oil refineries, your fleet, your revenues, and an entire generation that you sent into the meat grinder.
You wanted us to disappear from the map.
Now you are disappearing from the international agenda of the future."
Writer: Mhedi
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!
Government has no money. We don't take anything called 'government money' in. We only take money from ordinary men and women in to be spent by government.
If we take in more to spend, it means they don't have it to spend, so the amount of demand is the same in the economy.
But let's just try to see for a moment where jobs come from: Jobs come from business. Business comes from pleasing the customer. This is why we have put so much emphasis on small business.
In the end, we rely on the wealth-creating sector, the private sector, to create the jobs and create the business from which we pay the tax to keep the public services going.
Turkey OCCUPIED #Gaza for 400 yrs. Never offered independence.
Turkey MASSACRED 1.5 million Armenian #Christians. To this day, never acknowledged the genocide.
Turkey was NEUTRAL & PROFITED from war against greatest evil in history—German Nazism.
Turkey has OCCUPIED 37% of EU member #Cyprus since 1974.
Turkey has SUPPRESSED aspirations of tens of millions of #Kurds.
Turkey JAILS political dissidents & journalists.
Turkey HOSTS #Hamas & other terrorists.
Turkey CONSPIRES w/ radical, anti-Western Muslim Brotherhood.
And we’re supposed to take morality lessons from @RTErdogan & company?
Give me a break!
🇺🇲 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sur Fox News :
« En 1948, il y avait environ 1 million de Juifs dans les pays arabes du Moyen-Orient. Aujourd’hui, il n’en reste qu’environ 15 000.
Les chrétiens représentaient 20 % de la population du Moyen-Orient. Aujourd’hui, ils ne représentent plus que 5 %.
En Israël, en revanche, il y avait environ 150 000 Palestiniens en 1948. Aujourd’hui, ils sont près de 2 millions, soit environ 20 % de la population.
Si Israël voulait commettre un génocide contre les Palestiniens, il pourrait le faire en une minute. Il fait l’inverse : la population palestinienne autour d’Israël augmente considérablement.
Il n’y a plus de Juifs en Jordanie.
Il n’y a plus de Juifs à Gaza.
Et le nombre de chrétiens à Gaza a chuté d’environ 80 % en dix ans.
Si vous voulez voir où se déroule un véritable génocide, ce n’est pas en Israël.
Ça se passe dans toutes les nations qui l’entourent. »
Une question simple : pourquoi ce sujet est-il si rarement évoqué ?
Former 28-year Samsung engineer Jeon was sentenced to seven years in prison after testifying that Chinese memory maker CXMT was founded in 2016 with an explicit plan to steal Samsung's $1.2 billion DRAM technology.
In sworn court testimony in Seoul, Jeon admitted that CXMT leadership had no interest in building proprietary research facilities from scratch. Instead, the firm lured South Korean engineers with massive pay raises to siphon out Samsung's confidential Process Recipe Plan, a master blueprint detailing roughly 600 precise semiconductor manufacturing steps.
Samsung spent five years and nearly 1.6 trillion KRW developing the advanced 18nm-class process. By converting handwritten notes stolen from Samsung into local factory settings, CXMT skipped years of costly trial and error, rapidly scaling production to become the world’s fourth-largest DRAM supplier.
South Korean prosecutors emphasized that the breach inflicted trillions of won in economic damage on the country's flagship industry. Under Beijing's aggressive drive for technological self-reliance, state-backed talent poaching and trade secret theft remain central tools to bypass foreign technological lead.