Tucker Carlson has famously written off his distrust of Islam to western propaganda. “I was hysterical,” he said. “I believed [the threat was real]. No, that's not true. Nothing about that is true, but I believed it.”

Going a step further, Carlson now claims, “Sharia Law has made Islamic societies more advanced than the West.”

If Carlson wishes to remain secure in his sanctimony, I would advise him not to speak to a former imam whose book, The Apostate, I had the honor of editing.

If, however, Carlson is as open to the the truth as he claims to be, I will happily send him a signed copy and pick up the postage to boot.

As a boy, Muhammad Abdullah was groomed to become the Franklin Graham of Egyptian Islam, his father being that nation’s preeminent political imam.

As an adolescent, Abdullah was already leading hajjes to Mecca.

Having been educated in English schools, he had a language advantage over his father. His goal was to exploit that advantage and win over the West.

To that end, Abdullah took a year off after college to master the faith so completely no westerner could ever challenge him.

“I had begun my studies from a place of total and complete submission to Allah,” writes Abdullah. “I believed that Islam was superior to all other faiths and that those faiths had borrowed from Islam. I believed that Islam’s every prayer, every ritual, every law had no other purpose than to serve Allah.”

In the UK:

“Only the Conservatives and Reform can be relied upon to uphold women’s rights.”

There is a danger that we draw the wrong conclusions from the Liberal Democrats’ decision to champion trans demands over women’s rights on the very first full day of their conference.

On the face of it, it feels like an own goal, made even worse by a clear misunderstanding on the part of delegates about the guidelines issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in the wake of the ruling by the Supreme Court on how the Equality Act should be interpreted.

Those gathering in Brighton have stated that the EHRC code is “discriminatory and unworkable” and should be overwritten with more “inclusive” rules. But the EHRC is bound by law to issue guidance entirely in line with the Equality Act.

It would be absurd – not to mention illegal – for the EHRC to issue guidance that didn’t reflect their lordships’ ruling on what the Equality Act meant by “women.”

This detail seems to have escaped the trans activists among the Lib Dem delegates, who are also calling for the actual law to be changed but haven’t made their minds up as to what change is needed.

Ultimately, their aim, as is the aim of trans rights activists across the political spectrum, is to deny women the right to exclude from their spaces – changing rooms, toilets and even prisons – men who identify as women. Such men, after all, are women if they say so.

This motion will dominate today’s debate at the conference, and it is understandable that thoughtful observers predict difficult times ahead for a party that places the demands of trans-identified men above the hard-fought-for sex-based rights of women.

But they miss a key factor in all of this.

The “AI Apocalypse” scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate hoax.

How convenient that it’s come to a head right as the midterm election season kicks off this week.

The campaign launch was when Jacob Coxon, a low-level 27-year-old AI researcher, trumpeted his resignation from AI company Anthropic in a Wall Street Journal exclusive last week followed by a viral X thread warning AI will “kill us all.”

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade . . . They are gambling with our lives,” he claimed.

His boss, the Democrat-aligned Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei, amplified Coxon’s apocalyptic message with a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, followed by a giddy interview CBS aired Sunday in which he essentially called for a one-world government to regulate AI.

He wants “the right combination of governments” to provide “some kind of joint governance [to] control the technology.

“I’m uncomfortable government didn’t build this technology.”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement — he is the global one.

Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Donald Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to hurt the U.S. economy to such a degree that Trump will never again bully other nations.

How he believes he has such awesome power is altogether unclear.

So, at the eleventh hour, Carney stormed out of an apparently completed tariff deal with the United States that would have privileged Canada over almost all of America’s other trading partners.

Canada, we recall, has enjoyed a $50 billion goods trade surplus with the United States for years in a supposedly free and equitable North American trade zone.

Carney claimed that American proposals stripped away Canadian sovereignty and quashed Canadian culture, particularly French-Canadian culture. Yet he has not released the documents detailing the bilateral offers he rejected.

Nor has he allowed his representatives to explain to the media why Canada blew up the negotiations at the last minute. Carney’s ever-changing excuses, explanations, and invectives about what happened are incoherent and contradictory.