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Houthis Unleash Large Missile, Drone Barrage On Saudi Arabia, Target Riyadh Airport & Aramco Facility Summary

• Saudi-backed forces launch major counteroffensive with roughly 100 Saudi fighter jets supporting attacks along the Red Sea coast.

• Mocha's status remains disputed: Government forces claim to have retaken the strategic port, while Houthis deny the loss.

• Houthis announce major missile & drone attack on Saudi territory, including against international airport in Riyadh.

• Houthi fighters reportedly seize homes of senior government figures, including Parliament Speaker Sultan al-Barakani's mansion.

• Bab el-Mandeb is increasingly at risk, raising concerns for Red Sea shipping and the wider Suez trade route.

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View full market & trade on Polymarket Houthis Launch Missiles/Drones On Saudi Territory

The Houthis have announced in the late evening (local) their forces have launched a large missile and drone attack on Saudi Arabia's territory. The group has announced it again targeted King Khalid Airport in Riyadh as well as the Aramco refinery in Rabigh.

Air traffic halted at Riyadh airport due to a Houthi attack, via Sabereen

An official statement also listed that Abha Airport, Khamis Mushait Airbase and sites in Najran and Jazan provinces in Saudi Arabia were targeted in the missile and drone wave.

On the other side, the Saudi coalition says it is engaged in operations across Yemen's Hodeidah ⁠governorate. It has some 100 warplanes for the operation, prior Monday statements indicated.

Monday witnessed Saudi coalition air strikes on Kamaran Island and al-Salif District in Hodeidah governorate, according to Al Jazeera.

Saudi Coalition Fighting to Retake Mocha, Bab al-Mandab Strait Region

Yemeni Saudi-backed forces have announced the takeover Mocha city, west of Taiz province, according to government-affiliated Saba news. While as yet unconfirmed, this would be a significant reversal as the Saudi-coalition seeks to regain the Red Sea coast, with air support from some 100 Saudi coalition warplanes operating overhead.

Coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki said 324 “high-value targets” had been destroyed since the operation began. “100 fighter jets participated at dawn today in Operation Dawn of Yemen,” Al-Maliki said in posts on X, adding that the coalition was providing round-the-clock air support to Yemeni armed forces on the ground.

"Saba quoted a responsible military source as saying that the joint forces engaged in clashes in a number of locations surrounding Mocha, during which various types of weapons were used, and which, according to the source, resulted in deaths and injuries among the Houthis, the capture of a number of their members and the escape of others," a regional source writes.

On Monday reports are emerging that the Houthis may have lost Mocha, in what would be a hugely symbolic setback if accurate:

Houthis just lost Mocha

— Zineb Riboua (@zriboua) October 5, 2026

However, some prominent regional watchers are disputing this:

The reports circulating on Saudi-affiliated channels about their forces controlling Mocha and Bab al-Mandab are false and baseless. This video is currently live from the city of Mocha. https://t.co/6C0POZWjQM

— ابراهيم ناجي Ibrahim Naji (@Ibrahym22Nagi) October 5, 2026

Meanwhile a US Embassy alert for Americans in Saudi Arabia...

“Due to the ongoing security situation in Saudi Arabia and the potential for aerial drone or missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, the US Mission strongly encourages all US citizens to remain vigilant and follow the guidance of national alerts released by Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense,” it posted on X.

Mansion Seized: Saudi-backed speaker of the Yemeni House of Representatives

Iran-aligned Houthi forces have seized the home of Yemen's parliament speaker, Sultan al-Barakani, during a lightning advance south of Taiz that has also cut one of the government's most important remaining supply routes, according to reports. 

Multiple Yemeni and regional outlets reported Sunday that Houthi fighters entered al-Barakani's residence in Wadi al-Barakani, south of Taiz, and established positions inside. Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported the seizure citing field sources, while Al-Ain placed the property in the Al-Ma'afer district and said the Houthis occupied it following heavy fighting with Yemeni forces and local residents. China's Xinhua subsequently quoted a Yemeni government official confirming that Houthi forces had captured the al-Barakani area containing the parliament speaker's house.

Aden Al-Ghad later published video which it said showed Houthi fighters entering the property. Footage circulated by the open-source researcher @war_noir shows armed men moving through a large reception hall lined with seating, then cuts to the white compound on the hillside.

#Yemen 🇾🇪: Ansar Allah (#Houthis) captured mansion of the Sultan Al-Barakani; Saudi-backed speaker of the Yemeni House of Representatives.

The Ansar Allah members who raided Al-Barakani's house appear to be armed with rather common Chinese Type 56-1 assault rifles.

— War Noir (@war_noir) October 4, 2026

Al-Barakani has served as speaker of the internationally recognized Yemeni parliament since 2019 and remains one of the most prominent political figures aligned with the anti-Houthi camp - so images of Houthi fighters inside his residence therefore make for obvious propaganda.

Taiz's Lifeline Is Cut

The Houthis' advance through southern Taiz governorate has severed the critical road network connecting Taiz with Aden, the temporary capital of Yemen's internationally recognized government.

The Critical Threats Project and Institute for the Study of War assessed Sunday that Houthi forces advanced through al-Safiyah and al-Mansora before capturing the strategically vital town of al-Turbah, citing geolocated imagery as well as Yemeni sources.

Al-Turbah sits at the junction of the two main roads connecting government front-line positions around Taiz with Aden.

CTP/ISW warned that Houthi control there will likely "severely constrain" the government's ability to reinforce and resupply forces across Taiz governorate.

Looks like the Houthis are now using fiber optic drones https://t.co/ZAjqwFnC4b

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 5, 2026

Control of the roads south of Taiz could also deny government troops an obvious escape route if the Houthis continue closing the ring around the city.

The Houthis had already demonstrated that they did not need to physically occupy every junction to cripple the route. Earlier attacks damaged sections of the Taiz-Aden ground line of communication, forcing government forces onto increasingly limited alternatives. Fighting on the Taiz axis was already underway in the days before the house seizure: government troops firing on Houthi positions, and Houthi fighters claiming Jabal al-Habashi.

#Yemen 🇾🇪: A member of the PLC Forces opening fire against Ansar Allah fighters during the recent clashes on #Taiz Axis.

The PLC member is notably using a Belgian FN Minimi TR light machine gun — it was very likely obtained from UAE / Saudi-led Coalition stocks.

— War Noir (@war_noir) October 3, 2026

#Yemen 🇾🇪: Ansar Allah (#Houthis) reportedly captured Jabal Al-Habashi from PLC Forces on #Taiz Axis.

Ansar Allah members is operating at least one technical that appears to be armed with a possible KPV / ZPU 14.5x114mm heavy machine gun.

— War Noir (@war_noir) October 3, 2026 The Front Has Been Moving For Weeks

On September 10, we reported that the Houthis had seized the strategic port of Mocha as government forces abandoned positions along Yemen's western coast, dramatically increasing Houthi leverage over the Bab el-Mandeb shipping chokepoint.

The following days brought additional Houthi gains around the Red Sea coast and Bab el-Mandeb, while Saudi-backed formations struggled to stabilize the front. As we also noted, the group was accumulating actual coastal territory overlooking one of the most important maritime passages on the planet. By late September, the crisis had become serious enough that Yemen's Saudi-backed leadership was publicly calling for broader mobilization.

On Monday reports are emerging that the Houthis may have lost Mocha, in what would be a hugely symbolic setback if accurate:

Houthis just lost Mocha

— Zineb Riboua (@zriboua) October 5, 2026

As we reported Saturday, Saudi Arabia and Yemeni government forces were preparing a force potentially exceeding 100,000 troops for a major counteroffensive aimed at retaking the Red Sea coast and securing Bab el-Mandeb.

Saudi officials had again sought direct American military involvement, according to reporting cited at the time, but Washington declined to provide the airstrikes Riyadh requested as cover for the ground campaign, while leaving open intelligence and other support.

On Sunday, Presidential Leadership Council chairman Rashad al-Alimi declared that the government was moving from preparation to action. We covered his announcement Sunday as he ordered military operations intended to retake Houthi-held territory across Yemen.

The Counterattack Has Begun

Reuters reported that Saudi-backed Yemeni forces, supported by Saudi air power, had attacked Houthi positions around the Dhubab district overlooking Bab el-Mandeb and claimed to have seized several key positions, including the Dhubab airstrip.

The Houthis disputed the government's claims, and fighting remained underway. Later Monday, Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani claimed government forces had secured "effective control" of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which the Houthis called false, even as a government source said fighting continued at a military base near the strait. Video from the coast showed an Al Arabiya correspondent with government forces coming under what the outlet described as a Houthi ballistic-missile attack near the strait.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 | Un correspondant d’Al-Arabiya s’apprêtait à passer à l’antenne lorsque les Houthis ont lancé des missiles balistiques contre les forces du PLC avec lesquelles le journaliste est présent, près de Bab el-Mandeb.

— Arab Intelligence (@Arab_Intel) October 5, 2026

Reuters described Taiz as increasingly encircled as Houthi forces pushed toward al-Mawasit even while government troops launched their coastal counterattack.

The Associated Press likewise reported Monday that the Saudi-led coalition had intensified its air campaign as government forces began a major offensive along the Red Sea coast following the Houthis' latest territorial gains. The coalition said 100 fighter jets were backing the government's forces.

And Now The President's Residence?

On Monday, Xinhua cited Yemeni sources saying Houthi forces had entered the al-Aloum area of al-Mawasit district, where the family home of Presidential Leadership Council chairman Rashad al-Alimi is located.

Houthi-aligned media went further, claiming the residence itself had fallen. Video posted Monday shows fighters posing, praying, and celebrating outside a large multi-story building, with a Yemeni flag raised on the roof. @war_noir and Yemeni accounts identified the site as al-Alimi's family house.

#Yemen / #SaudiArabia 🇾🇪🇸🇦: Ansar Allah (#Houthis) captured the house of the Saudi-backed “Rashad Al-Alimi” — President of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) !

Ansar Allah fighters appear to be armed with AK-103 pattern assault rifles and common Chinese Type 56-1 rifles.

— War Noir (@war_noir) October 5, 2026

الحوثيين من أمام منزل الرئيس رشاد العليمي ومسقط رأسه في تعز.

— د.بن سعيد | Bin Saeed (@Bin_S_aeed) October 5, 2026

Reuters has not verified the reported seizure of al-Alimi's home, though UAE-based Erem News, citing local sources, reported Monday that Houthi fighters took the house, where his relatives live, without resistance.

Beyond Yemen

Yemen's war - comparatively frozen since the UN-brokered truce of 2022 - has suddenly erupted across multiple fronts.

Bab el-Mandeb connects the Red Sea and Suez route with the Indian Ocean. The Houthis have already demonstrated the ability to threaten commercial shipping using missiles, drones and unmanned vessels; territorial control around the chokepoint adds an entirely different dimension to that threat.

As we have has been documenting for months now, the Red Sea has also become increasingly important to Saudi energy exports as turmoil elsewhere in the region places pressure on alternative routes.

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Why Might Putin Finally Decide To Bring Ukraine To Its Knees After Nearly Five Years

Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

Regardless of why Putin might have held off on this for so long, he's now arguably motivated at least in part by the tantalizing possibility of reaching big-ticket resource deals with the US after the conflict ends, the details of which his and Trump's envoys have been negotiating for over a year already.

The New York Times cited allegedly intercepted Russian communications to report that Russia plans to obliterate Ukraine's power, heating, and water systems this winter. While their claim can't be confirmed, it aligns with Putin mildly "escalating to de-escalate" over the summer in response to Zelensky's strike campaign, which has taken the form of ramping up attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure. If the report is true, then Russia doesn't just aim to sever Ukraine's military logistics, but to bring Ukraine to its knees.

Putin has thus far eschewed this arguably due to his belief that Russians and Ukrainians are kindred people. Some have suggested that Russia might not have had the drone and/or missile capacity to do so earlier, however, whether due to low production till now and/or to hedge against the scenario of a hot war with NATO. In any case, Putin now seems to have made peace with the humanitarian consequences of ending the war on Russia's terms sooner rather than later, or at least on as many of them as possible.

He might be motivated by more than just Ukraine's "war of attrition" against Russia that began over the summer with American backing and interestingly enough France's as well. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly told his Russian counterpart over the summer that no business deals are possible so long as the conflict continues. Since then, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Putin to discuss such deals among other topics, after which Kirill Dmitriev traveled to the US to follow up on that.

For background, Putin boasted in late February 2025 that American companies "will make a decent profit" from investments in Russia's resource industry, and Trump's Special Envoy to Belarus John Coale recently confirmed that he received approval to pitch a Belarusian-like deal to Putin. It would involve sanctions relief in exchange for the release of "political prisoners". Putin's ally Alexander Lukashenko already agreed to several such deals and is now negotiating a massive potash one with Trump.

Just last week, Lukashenko also proposed a trilateral Belarusian, Russian, and US fertilizer plant deal, but that requires the US lifting its sanctions on Gazprom. Russian officials from Putin on down have called for the West to lift its sanctions on Russia, and while the US might lift some if Putin agrees to a Belarusian-like quid pro quo, the Ukrainian Conflict will first have to end for this to happen at scale. Their resultant resource-centric strategic partnership could then revolutionize the global economic architecture.

The Russian economy has survived the West's unprecedented sanctions onslaught, largely due to the combination of its natural resources and national payment system, but its Economic Development Ministry expects only 0.6% GDP growth this year. United Russia's landslide victory during last month's Duma elections, the first since the large-scale phase of the Ukrainian Conflict began, gives Putin the mandate to do whatever is needed to win the war and deliver more prosperity to his people afterwards.

It's therefore within the realm of possibility, consistent with Russia's policy of demanding the lifting of Western sanctions, that Putin is motivated at least in part to end the conflict on as many of Russia's terms as possible sooner rather than later so as to then reach big-ticket resource deals with the US. This imperative, which could revolutionize the global economic architecture and deliver more prosperity to his people, contextualizes the New York Times' report about him planning to bring Ukraine to its knees.

Tyler Durden Tue, 10/06/2026 - 03:30

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European Utopia Burns: Far-left Riots Spread Like Cancer From France To Belgium

Alternative media reports say social unrest in France has spread to Belgium.

Those X accounts say that far-left groups are mobilizing young people and migrants, while corporate media coverage emphasizes the narrative that overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages, long school days and deteriorating facilities are to blame for the chaos. 

Whether the unrest reflects the coordinated weaponization of young people or simply parallel local grievances remains unclear at this moment. 

European political news website Remix News published footage earlier on Monday, stating, "Student protests have now spread to Liège in Belgium."

🇧🇪🔴 BREAKING: Student protests have now spread to Liège in Belgium. Rioters were filmed looting and setting fires in the city center. https://t.co/vd2Uc8LuoI

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 5, 2026

FIRST FRANCE NOW BELGIUM: RIOTS SPREADING IN EUROPE? 1/ Liège burned a bus shelter on Monday. The timeline people are selling is “France, then Belgium, then the continent.” The timeline that actually happened is duller and more dangerous: French teenagers have been blockading lycées since late September. Walloon pupils walked out over their own decree. On October 5 the Liège march broke. Sixteen administrative arrests by early afternoon. A bus shelter on fire at Place de la République française. Water cannon. Tear gas. A hard core of about thirty throwing paving stones while 300 to 400 watched. That is a riot edge. It is not a regime falling.

— AirVector (@airpower33) October 5, 2026

🔴 🇧🇪 BELGIQUE URGENT Affrontements avec la police au centre de Liège (place Saint-Lambert). Tirs de mortiers et pétards, feux allumés, pompiers repoussés. Situation hors de contrôle. Plusieurs arrestations. À suivre. #Liège #SaintLambert #Blocus #Belgique https://t.co/PP0hosayIv

— Geocrises FR (@geocrises) October 5, 2026

🇧🇪 French high school riots have now reached Belgium’s Liège province Police have cracked down. Dozens of administrative arrests were made over consecutive days after officers found materials in some rioters’ bags that could be used to make Molotov cocktails. https://t.co/BdR3wDlMhy

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 5, 2026

🚨ALERTE - Le blocus des lycéens s’intensifie en Liége ( Belgique ). #BlocusLycées https://t.co/oNGZJ9OvDM

— Trmulli🇲🇨 (@Trmullii) October 5, 2026

🔴 FLASH Liège 🇧🇪 — La tension monte en Belgique où les lycéens demanderaient également plus de moyens pour étudier. #BlocusLycées (INFO sudinfolameuseliege) https://t.co/5CqP69VY5O

— FranceUnie 🇫🇷 (@FranceSouvUnie) October 5, 2026

Liège is located in eastern Belgium, about 56 miles east of Brussels, near the borders with the Netherlands and Germany.

French intelligence agencies told a government crisis meeting at the end of last week that radical politicians from the far-left France Unbowed party, known as LFI, had sparked the riots that left hundreds injured and more than 100 high schools severely damaged.

The collision of far-left riots and the European election cycle has bolstered right-wing presidential contender Marine Le Pen, whose Polymarket odds of winning next year's election have surged over the last week.

The right-wing AfD in Germany is gaining political ground as the globalists and their socialist dream of Europe crumbles, and Nomura analysts see the continent "lurching right" over the next 18 months or so of elections. Folks are furious with deindustrialization and unfettered mass migration, which have transformed parts of Europe into third-worldism.

Europe's shift to the right could follow a very similar path to what's happening in South America, with Brazil's latest first-round election giving right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro a clear win against socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The two are now headed to a runoff election later this month.

Europe's major problem is the far-left radicalization of young people. Europeans finally acknowledged this in behind-the-scenes discussions with high-level Trump administration officials this summer. Brussels now faces the question of how to tackle this crisis as far-left radicalization targets younger and younger people.

Tyler Durden Tue, 10/06/2026 - 02:45

UK Council's "Anti-Islamophobia" Training Tells Staff The Virgin Mary Wore A Hijab

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

North Yorkshire staff who handle anti-terror work were shown a slide stating that "Mother Mary wore a hijab." The line was used to argue that Islam's attitude to women does not conflict with Western values. The same presentation told them "Jesus grew a beard," as Muslim men are instructed to, and that "the hijab was prevalent in the UK only 100 years ago," illustrated with pictures of British shawls that have nothing to do with Islam.

Mary was a Jewish woman in first-century Judea. She lived about six centuries before Islam, and centuries before the hijab as it is understood today. No image of her, or of Jesus, was made for centuries after their lifetimes. Early Christian art first showed Jesus as a beardless youth.

None of that stopped a publicly funded programme from feeding the claim to council staff, and from putting related material in front of police officers, students and civil servants who run the Prevent counter terror program.

?"I am sick to the back teeth of this two tier approach to faith in this country!"

Bishop @BishopDewar rages after a council in North Yorkshire has been told that Mary wore a Hijab@petercardwell pic.twitter.com/iwyvm95JMZ

— Talk (@TalkTV) September 30, 2026

The session was delivered by Abbas Najib, a former police officer and chief executive of Better Communities Bradford, the charity behind Project Unity. The Telegraph reported that the charity has received £490,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund since 2019, including a £35,000 grant to roll the programme out. Najib has said Project Unity has been delivered to more than 2,500 people across West and North Yorkshire.

Najib confirmed the slide to LBC and said the programme stands by it. "Hijab is an Arabic word meaning a covering, and in everyday use it simply means a woman's head covering," he claimed.

He further suggested "Mary is depicted wearing one in Christian art across the centuries, and headscarves were common among women in Britain within living memory. The point of the slide is that covering the head is a shared tradition across faiths and cultures, not something foreign or unique to Islam."

That is a semantic trick dressed up as history. A veil in later Christian art is not a hijab. A headscarf worn by a British woman in 1920 is not Islamic dress. Calling either one a hijab writes a seventh-century religion backwards onto a first-century Jewish woman, then presents the rewrite as proof that criticism of modern Islamic practice is a myth.

The Mary slide was not an isolated flourish. Project Unity material, which has also reportedly been presented to students, police officers and civil servants responsible for Prevent, includes a defence of Sharia.

One slide states: "Sharia is not a foreign threat. It is a moral tradition - like any other - shaped by faith, reason and a commitment to human dignity."

Another says one element of Islamic jurisprudence requires that "children cannot be struck on the face, cannot be marked, and must freely consent to marriage." Pro-Palestinian marches are described in the talks as "protesting genocide."

Written material accompanying the sessions claims women are not oppressed by the stipulations of Islam, and that "Muslims, the immigrant, the brown person" were scapegoated for a flatlining economy, with the blame laid on "the rich."

North Yorkshire Council has tried to put distance between itself and the content. Odette Robson, the council's head of community safety and CCTV, said the session was a guest presentation at the York and North Yorkshire Hate Crime Conference in 2025, a joint event with City of York Council and North Yorkshire Police, and that Najib was not paid.

"Attendees were free to question evidence, test assertions and explore alternative viewpoints," she said, adding "The purpose was to encourage discussion and reflection rather than to promote any particular standpoint."

The councillors who have seen the material are not buying the distinction. Reform group leader Tom Seston said: "A Reform council would scrap all DEI initiatives such as this and put council staff back to work delivering for residents, instead of receiving political lectures from anti-British activists. North Yorkshire Council should ban this activist and his charity from all work with the council."

Independent councillor Michelle Donohue-Moncrieff, a Roman Catholic, said she was "deeply disturbed that taxpayers' money was used to fund political propaganda being fed to council staff members. In particular, the reference to Mary, the Mother of God, wearing a hijab is both inaccurate and unacceptable."

She added: "Mary is not just some random historical figure to be used to justify Islam. These types of references are not intended to explain Islam. They are a Trojan horse designed to diminish Roman Catholicism and Christianity as a whole. North Yorkshire Council should apologise and ensure that training of this nature never happens again."

The same Project Unity material was used at that 2025 hate crime conference in front of North Yorkshire Police officers. Najib played a 2024 clip of Nigel Farage warning that "we have a growing number of young people in this country who do not subscribe to British values, in fact loathe much of what we stand for," and clarifying that he meant Muslims, citing marches over Israel's actions in Palestine. Officers were then shown footage of a man racially abusing a Muslim bus driver and asked to weigh the two.

Najib's question to the room: "Ask yourself, who is going to get into trouble between those two gentlemen? And who did the most harm?" He added the comparison he wanted them to sit with: "Sitting in a national news studio and saying 'Jews hate Britain', he'd be locked up before he left the studio, and too right, too."

The police force has said the talk was not part of its training programme and was not delivered by a police employee. That does not change who was in the room, or what they were asked to conclude: that a politician's words about integration may have done more harm than a racial assault.

Najib's defence of that exercise is the same line he uses for the Mary slide. "Project Unity exists to reduce anti-Muslim hostility and strengthen trust between communities," he said. Participants, he argued, were being asked to apply one standard, and to consider how the same words would land if said about Jewish people or black people.

The standard on offer is not equal treatment under the law. It is a demand that doubts about integration, grooming, Sharia, or the compatibility of political Islam with British institutions be treated as a species of hate.

This is not a rogue workshop in Yorkshire. In March 2026 the government published a non-statutory definition of "anti-Muslim hostility," the rebrand it adopted after dropping "Islamophobia" under free-speech pressure, and promised a special representative to push it into schools, universities and public services.

The working group that shaped the definition was chaired by former attorney general Dominic Grieve. Every member of that panel has links to organisations successive governments have kept at arm's length, including the Muslim Council of Britain and Muslim Engagement and Development.

The definition is not a criminal offence. Ministers have been careful to say so. What it is, in practice, is a script. Project Unity is what that script looks like when it reaches a conference room: Christian history renamed, Sharia redescribed as a moral tradition "like any other," and an elected politician measured against a hate crime. The audience included people whose job is counter-terror work.

The other half of the machine is record-keeping. Officials at the Standards and Compliance Unit, the body set up to handle complaints about Prevent, have been logging social media posts that criticise the programme, including posts that accuse it of fixating on the "far Right" while soft-pedalling Islamist extremism. The database was withheld for more than a year and released only after an appeal to the Information Commissioner. Between March 2024 and February 2025 the unit made 77 such observations, mostly from X.

Jacob Smith of Rights & Security International, whose team forced the release, said: "It is shocking that the government has been trawling X and Reddit to find out who has been critiquing Prevent - and then storing that information. You should be allowed to criticise government policy without being put on a list."

Put the pieces together. A lottery-funded charity tells anti-terror staff that the mother of Christ wore a hijab and that Sharia is not a foreign threat. The same charity asks police to decide whether Nigel Farage's words did more harm than a man abusing a bus driver. A government panel with Islamist-linked members writes the definition those sessions are built to serve. A Home Office-linked unit keeps a list of people who say the counter-extremism programme has its priorities backwards.

None of this required a new blasphemy statute. All it required was grants, a conference slot, a working definition, and a database. The people supposedly paid to protect the public were the ones sat in the room being indoctrinated.

Tyler Durden Tue, 10/06/2026 - 02:00

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