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Accused ISIS Propagandist Arrested In Australia, Helped Plan Mass-Casualty Attack
Authored by Will Nicholas and Jacob Shteyman via The Epoch Times (AAP),
An accused ISIS member has been arrested by counter-terrorism agents over allegations he instructed people how to plan and conduct mass-casualty attacks from his base in Australia.
A police car in front of Victoria Police headquarters in Melbourne, Australia on Sept. 13, 2026. Courtesy of Tien NguyenThe Melbourne man, who the Australian Federal Police alleges was a propagandist for the Islamic extremist group, is accused of sending about 10,000 documents, messages, images, videos and audio files relating to executions and torture.
The 65-year-old retiree allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS.
The man, a Somali-born Australian citizen, is alleged to have acted on the behalf of the terrorist group without traveling to the territory it controlled during conflict in the Middle East.
His role was significant, police said.
The scale of extremist material the man was accused of spreading put him among the top propagandists on the encrypted messaging platform he used, AFP acting Assistant Commissioner Paula Hudson said.
"The material allegedly shared by this man glorified acts of extreme violence and promoted a terrorist organization, spreading a hateful ideology that's designed to radicalize others," Hudson said.
The videos, photographs, audio files and documents he allegedly sent contained messages relating to "abhorrent content," including executions, mass murder and torture.
"Terrorist organizations like ISIS rely on online platforms to distribute propaganda and recruit supporters," Hudson said.
"Their content is specifically designed to radicalize individuals, encouraging them to adopt extremist beliefs and commit acts of violence."
The man was arrested at a home in Carlton, in Melbourne's inner north, on Sept. 23.
Counter-terror officers will also allege that the man shared information about avoiding detection from law enforcement, along with instructional guides on planning and conducting mass-casualty attacks.
He is expected to be charged with being a member of a terrorist organization, possessing violent extremist material, and using a carriage service to cause offense.
How the man, a Somali-born Australian citizen, came to be radicalized was expected to emerge in court, Hudson added.
The arrest followed an investigation that began with a referral from the Australian Border Force, which intercepted the man and searched his luggage at Melbourne Airport in November 2020 as he left for Egypt.
A search of his mobile phone allegedly turned up suspicious content.
Agents seized the device but allowed the man to continue on to Egypt, where he stayed for a sixth-month period.
Investigators believe the man had compassionate grounds to leave the country, as was required during COVID-19 travel restrictions in place at the time.
There is no evidence the man traveled to any declared no-go zones at the time.
An additional search warrant was executed in 2024.
Police do not allege the man continued to distribute extremist material after his initial interception in 2020.
Authorities believe that more than 200 Australians have joined ISIS since 2012, some of the more than 50,000 fighters the group was thought to have attracted from overseas.
The man is expected to appear before Melbourne Magistrates Court later on Sept. 23.
Police have not ruled out further arrests but said there was no threat to the community.
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She Thought Cotton Fields Vanished With Slavery...
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
In a now viral video, a woman pulled over, pointed her phone at a cotton field, and spoke as if she had stumbled onto a dark secret.
Overlay text on the clip asks "how do we still have cotton fields?" as the woman states "Okay, I didn't think they did cotton fields anymore. Y'all check this out. Y'all see that? There is literally a cotton field. Do y'all see that? Isn't that crazy?"
Watch:
A woman just filmed a cotton field like she discovered a forbidden relic and asked "how do we still have cotton fields."
Harvesting is done by machines that cost more than most houses. Nobody is out there with a sack.
Are people really this stupid?! pic.twitter.com/LhFv1yx3MD
Hard to believe this has to be done but let's examine why cotton still exists.
We still need it to make clothes and... well anything made of fabric.
There is no sack. There is no overseer. There is a crop. The field is doing what cotton fields have done for centuries: grow fiber that becomes clothes, sheets, towels, and the shirt on the person filming.
Harvesting in the United States is done by machines - spindle pickers and strippers that pull lint from open bolls and pack it into modules on the go. John Deere-class pickers cost more than most houses. One operator replaces the gangs of stooped labor that existed before mechanical harvest took over in the mid-20th century.
Cotton did not magically disappear when the 13th Amendment passed. Slavery ended. The plant stayed. The United States still plants on the order of nine million acres.
The stupidity is off the scale. The assumption that a living industry is a moral leftover. If cotton still exists, the thinking goes, the country never left 1859. History collapses into a single image: Black hands, white bolls, forever.
But to this individual, the field is "crazy" because it reminds her of a story she has been indoctrinated to treat as unfinished business.
This is the same reflex that turns a Converse campaign into a lynching.
Pareidolia plus a victim script. Faces in toast. Hoods in fabric. Slavery in a plant. Once you are taught that racism is the hidden operating system of every American scene, you will find it.
It's the same mindset that infests organisations such as the BBC which has stripped comedy sketches from its iPlayer because they "no longer work today."
Several of those sketches were addressing the mindset of racism.
So the rule is complete. A cotton field is now racist because cotton was once picked by slaves. A shoe ad is racist because a shadow can be cropped into a hood. A sketch that ridicules racists is racist because it depicts the thing it is ridiculing. Subject matter is guilt. Intent is irrelevant. Context is a hate crime.
Hell, even jogging is racist.
Ok, add Jogging to the list...??????? pic.twitter.com/c1eNQjI5Kn
— GnosisWolf (@GnosisWolf) September 22, 2026Anything and everything you can think of is racist and must be perpetually called racist.
The woman in the video is not a historian. She is a product. Decades of media, campus, and corporate training taught a simple algorithm: scan the environment for symbols, assign ancestral pain, film the discovery. Permanent victimhood for some. Permanent virtue signal for others.
That same industry has a diplomatic wing. Earlier this month the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination published "reparatory justice" guidance telling former slaving nations they have a moral and legal "obligation to repair."
Public spaces, the committee said, "should honour the contributions of people of African descent and clearly acknowledge the wrongs of those who supported or benefited from historical atrocities." That can mean artworks, statues, memorials and "dedications."
Britain is the target of choice. The country that banned the trade in 1807, passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, freed more than 800,000 people across the empire, spent the equivalent of 40 percent of annual government outlay to force the measure through, and then sent the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron to seize around 1,600 slaving ships and free some 150,000 Africans is told it has not grovelled enough.
A UN judge has already floated a bill of more than £18 trillion. The committee, guidance largely shaped by American lawyer Gay McDougall and Liberian legal expert Pela Boker-Wilson, treats the Atlantic trade as a live brief for classrooms, speech rules and migration policy. Modern descent-based slavery in the Sahel, and the Arab and East African trades that ran for centuries after Britain quit, barely register.
This movement has become an obsession for many, and does very little aside from revealing just how deeply they despise white people.
'We've all been indoctrinated, Patrick!'
Anti-racism campaigner Imarn Ayton and @PatrickChristys clash over whether Britain should pay Caribbean countries slavery reparations. pic.twitter.com/8cfRY5ONo5
'A cohort of Caribbean activists and leaders are lobbying for the cleansing of the curriculum to make it less "Western"'
'In particular they want the curriculum to reflect the history of slavery so as to foster resentment in a new generation that will continue lobbying Britain... pic.twitter.com/ukt7ukrGk6