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February 16th, 2026

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Mark Steyn

By Mark Steyn

Published Feb. 16, 2026

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JUST IN: Two Alabama women and their children were attacked on a train in Brussels, Belgium for being American

The attacker reportedly approached them with a knife and asked if they were American, when they confirmed, he threatened to kiII them. pic.twitter.com/cD7Ybhxtsk

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 13, 2026

The train is filled with both Flemings and Walloons, but, in a rare display of comity, both seem, objectively, to be on the side of the knifeperson. Perhaps the State Department could arrange for any American tourist in Europe to be issued with his own Vance-sized Milano motorcade. On current debt levels, the difference would be entirely marginal.

~Rupert Lowe is doing a magnificent job with his "rape gang inquiry" - and, as I said a few days ago, it does my heart good to see our friend Sammy Woodhouse up there seated alongside him - as opposed to the last "inquiry" where the Government's plan was to have Sammy seated next to Rotherham bi-guy rapist Lord Ahmed. That's right: pre-Rupert Lowe, they were putting the rapists on the investigatory panels. I was going to call Lord Ahmed "Labour's paedo peer", but I realised that that doesn't narrow it down much: see Sir Keir's furious face at PMQs after Mrs Badenoch accused him of leading a ministry of "paedophile-apologists". Bottom line:

It is much worse. One aspect of the inquiry whose scale I was not previously aware of is that, while the gangs are local (to Rotherham, Rochdale, Oldham, Telford, Banbury, Oxford, etc), the network of cooperative Pakistani rape clans is national, like fraternal relations between geographically delineated underworld mobs in Chicago. So a girl who's gotten used to being raped in, say, Birmingham wakes up and realises she's been loaned to another gang in Blackpool.

There are other consequences to enabling family-rape gangs in England: if you are accustomed to enjoying group rape with the participation of your father, brothers and sons, eventually you think of your cousins back in Mirpur and reckon they'd enjoy a piece of the white slag, too. So, while some girls disappear because they've been burned alive or fed into kebab mincers, others are merely enjoying enforced overseas vacations.

A century and a half ago, that was what we called the "white slave trade". Now, to the likes of Emily Maitlis, you say "white slave trade" like it's a bad thing...

~Another aspect that has emerged in recent days is the complicity of Islamic women in the activities of their menfolk. As I gradually realised a decade ago, they are almost all aware that every chap in their household is participating in the gang-rape of certain white working-class girls - and they're cool with that. After all, if you have to live among the hideous painted strumpets of the infidel, the girls might as well be put to use. So from The Daily Mail:

Labour mayor is found guilty of helping hide her son's phone after he raped a 15-year-old girl

I had initially assumed, following the mayor's tearful plea in court that a "mother's love" had clouded her judgment, that the rapist was seventeen, nineteen or some such. In fact, as you can see from the photograph above, the kid was forty-one. At the time, he was serving, officially, as "Consort" to the Mayor. That's some bollocks-type title equivalent to the use of "First Lady" in America, which is likewise bollocks and which I have never liked. But apparently "Consort" is its British and non-binary equivalent and, as our illustration makes plain, comes with its own impressive chain of "office".

And in Berkshire, Diwan Khan, Consort to the Mayor of Bracknell Forest, while between municipal functions, enjoyed slipping drugs into the drinks of minors and then raping them. His fifteen-year-old victim woke up naked on the back seat of his car and wondered what had happened. So the Consort to the Mayor used one hand to choke her and the other to hold up his telephone and show her the video he'd taken of their romantic interlude. This is also a very Paki thing: most rapists are a little sheepish about evidence of their brutality. But, in the vibrant diversity of England, the thugs who violate your daughters like to make souvenir movies they can show to their friends, brothers, fathers, grandfathers, etc.

Do they also show them to Mum? When the police knocked on the door of Mayor Naheed Ejaz, she waited a minute-and-a-half before responding. She used that time to order her son - in Urdu, so the coppers could not understand - to hide his mobile.

Because she knew what Muslim men keep on their telephones.

She knew what the police would see if they found it - and apparently she could not be as sure of the indifference of Thames Valley Police as Mancunians, Yorkshiremen and Shropshire lads are of the indifference of the Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Mercia constabularies. When the coppers had been admitted, both mother and son continued to speak in Urdu, avoiding the word "phone", which is the same in both languages. So on bodycam video Diwan can be heard referring only to "the big bell", to which the Mayor replies, "Keep quiet. I know." The mobile has never been found.

Tellingly, Naheed Ejaz owned, and Diwan Khan drove for, a family taxi firm - because cabs are also central to control of the municipal rape-gang business. The Mayor has now been convicted of perverting the course of justice. But the family are old hands at perverting in a more general sense.

It's all like this in the New England - members of the House of Lords, mayors of upscale boroughs adjacent to Windsor, the welfare department in Oldham, senior police officers in every English constabulary... But, according to Emily Maitlis, if you're obsessed about it it's only because you're racist:

Thanks to his bumbling performance in the Commons, most people seem to think Sir Keir is merely incompetent: All these paedos? Could happen to anyone. But he is, of course, the former Director of Public Prosecutions who declined to prosecute Jimmy Savile - and Miss Maitlis was employed by the same corporation that lavishly endowed Savile and more recently Huw Edwards. As I said, it's paedos all the way down. For over a decade, what's going on has been an open secret to every prime minister and home secretary since Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith. Starmer and Maitlis are not merely incompetent but, in their indifference and complicity, evil.

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