“Conquering other tribes is the primary purpose of tribes…”
In Part I of this two-part series, I noted the disturbing trend of remorseless sexual assaults against Canadian women by migrants, the surreal tendency of Canada’s criminal courts to role-reverse victim and perpetrator, my own terrifying brush with sexual assault by a clearly foreign-born man, and the calamitous slide into social disintegration and lawlessness throughout Europe – scene of at least 2.5 million sexual assaults over the past decade – caused by similar immigration and criminal justice policies imposed decades earlier. Where, I wondered in closing Part I, might all this lead, and what does it mean for Canada?
Why Some Migrant Males Would Rape
To grapple with those questions, we first need to ask: why would migrants behave this way at all? Aren’t nearly all of them just desperate and destitute but peaceable refugees in need of humanitarian assistance, simply looking for a job and a better life, hoping to eventually bring their immediate and perhaps extended families into the country? No different, at bottom, from the rest of us.
It should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, that we should not repudiate all immigration. Neither should we reject Canada’s previous and often effective points-based immigration system and, before that, its “tap on/tap off” approach that restricted immigration when jobs were not available, such as during the Great Depression. These policies brought in carefully vetted people who were likely to make a positive contribution to the country’s development and who wanted to fit into Canadian society – including respecting its social mores and criminal laws. Nor should we prohibit all immigration from any particular country per se, except perhaps in extreme circumstances. Millions of immigrants are fine, upstanding, law-abiding Canadian citizens who are as horrified by crime as the native-born – and probably more so than their adopted country’s deteriorating institutions.
Still, when a disturbing number of newcomers almost immediately begin committing sex crimes, then show no remorse or intention of reforming, and our legal system all but facilitates their transgressions – as the case of Medhani Yohans with which we opened Part I of this series illustrates – then something has gone seriously wrong.
In general, rape has been established as rogue opportunism and/or a power play against women by sick, out-of-control or plain evil men. Instances of sexual assault by immigrants or refugees ought to fit the same pattern. Yet there are distinct and worrying peculiarities behind many of the rapes/sexual assaults committed by migrants to Western countries. One revelatory source is the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which in 2024 released the first-ever estimates on rape and sexual assault of girls and young women below age 18.
The numbers are shocking and heart-rending. The practice is widespread in many regions worldwide, UNICEF concludes, the worst of them being sub-Saharan Africa. There, the organization estimates, 79 million girls and young women had been sexually assaulted – 22 percent of the region’s population. “Children in fragile settings are especially vulnerable to sexual violence,” said Catherine Russell, UNICEF’s executive director, in an accompanying statement. “We are witnessing horrific sexual violence in conflict zones.”
This Amnesty International report on the ongoing civil war in Sudan is equally difficult reading and further underscores Russell’s point. One of the combatant organizations, known as the Rapid Support Forces, the report says, “has inflicted widespread sexual violence on Sudan’s women and girls throughout Sudan’s two-year civil war to humiliate, assert control and displace communities across the country.” The assaults, it notes, “include rape, gang rape and sexual slavery.”
While these organizations imply that the triggers of such sickening and depraved behaviour are largely circumstantial, i.e., actually caused by war and strife, others consider the underlying causes to be culturally endemic, and merely brought to the fore by conflict. In actual wartime, such a mindset finds its full expression in unspeakable violence and atrocities, including sexual violence.
“Across Africa’s conflict zones…the bodies of women and girls are not only collateral in war, they are its battleground,” writes Lakshita Kanhiya of Global Campus of Human Rights. [Emphasis added] Evocative of the Hamas atrocities in Israel on October 7, 2023, Kanhiya writes, “Rape in these contexts is not incidental. It is strategic, systemic and deliberate. Far from rogue crimes of opportunity, sexual violence has become a weapon of war wielded to humiliate, displace, dominate and destroy.”
The Lebanon-born Saad recounted how an Arab acquaintance brutally crystallized this tribal view: ‘The West…is a woman to be mounted.’
The American online commentator known as El Gato Malo is even more blunt. In a recent Substack post, he argues that in many cultures worldwide, broader social bonds remain stunted and mutual trust among strangers is absent. This makes unwavering allegiance to family, clan and tribe paramount. These are the individual’s and group’s only sources of safety – and power. So when not just individuals but extended families and entire clans from such cultures manage to transplant themselves to Western countries, it becomes like a clash of alien worlds. “These groups do not want to be like you and adopt your ways,” El Gato Malo warns. “They see [you] as weak and cowardly and as an invitation to take what they want.”
It’s a view echoed by former Concordia University professor Gad Saad on a recent Joe Rogan podcast, who said all too many products of such cultures interpret any sign of generosity from Westerners as weakness – and act accordingly when they immigrate. The Lebanon-born Saad recounted how an Arab acquaintance brutally crystallized this view: “The West…is a woman to be mounted.” Most who act upon this view do so figuratively, perhaps gaming the welfare system, engaging in scams or committing ordinary crimes. But for some – as crime statistics in country after country prove – the objective is literal.
Further loosening restraints on such behaviour has been the seismic shift over the last 50+ years in the way the West was traditionally viewed throughout the Third World. To oversimplify – and always co-existing uneasily with the growing Marxist/decolonization mindset among intellectuals and in independence movements – as recently as the 1980s the Western way of life was widely and openly admired and largely viewed as superior by nearly every important measure. Ordinary people wanted to be more like us and, when they came here, to learn from us and adapt. Perhaps immigrants who thought that way were largely self-selecting but, in any case, Canada benefited as a result.
That viewpoint has been largely abandoned. Though the shift probably took decades, perhaps 9-11 is a convenient demarcation. Either way, it is unmistakable that more and more immigrants now want to bring their way of life here, want merely to use or exploit what the West can give them, and have no intention of adjusting let alone abandoning their worldview. Increasingly, they not only don’t admire the West as it is today, they hold it in contempt. If anything, they want us to change – or at least bend to their will.
The case of a 42-year-old Somali immigrant is instructive. In July 2024, Qalinle Ibrahim Dirie was charged with raping a 12-year-old Minneapolis girl he had abducted from her backyard. Despite the outrageous nature of his crime, and having had 18 years to acculturate himself to Western mores, he showed no remorse at any point following his crime. (The official state filings can be accessed here.) No one from his family or larger community even seemed to care. To the contrary, they were concerned entirely about protecting him rather than the innocent girl – even issuing death threats against her parents. A local Islamic “center” even issued a letter of support for the criminal.
![Rape culture: Writing in The Spectator, Kunwar Khuldune Shahid warns the West against allowing immigrants to import “a gory mix…of Islamic supremacism, primitive tribalism and violent misogyny…[that] encourages some men to prey on girls.” Shown, headlines from Britain and the United States describing horrific sexual assaults and murder perpetrated by recent immigrants.](https://c2cjournal.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Inset4.svg)
Rape culture: Writing in The Spectator, Kunwar Khuldune Shahid warns the West against allowing immigrants to import “a gory mix…of Islamic supremacism, primitive tribalism and violent misogyny…[that] encourages some men to prey on girls.” Shown, headlines from Britain and the United States describing horrific sexual assaults and murder perpetrated by recent immigrants.
El Gato Malo concludes that raping a child is an expression of tribal dominance. “Such an outrage, precisely because it is such an outrage, winds up being ‘a good thing’ because it shows strength,” he asserts. The message is “quite literally ‘we are strong so we can do this. Respect and fear us.’”
Increasingly, it appears the sexual tactics of tribal warfare are being applied in Western countries that consider themselves at “peace”. The battlespace is being expanded to encompass women and girls in any Western nation that has admitted large numbers of unvetted males. A battlespace increasingly defined by a culture that Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, writing for The Spectator, describes as “a gory mix…of Islamic supremacism, primitive tribalism and violent misogyny, which encourages some men to prey on girls. That many of these girls are underage has little sway on these men, since both their religious beliefs and customs see all females who have reached puberty as being fully grown women.”
These beliefs and customs have migrated as effectively to the West as the people who hold them. Concludes Shahid: “This translates into a rape culture that in recent decades has seen young British girls being mercilessly violated.”
But Why Is This Happening in Our Countries?
The short answer is that migrants seek a better life and will go to any length to get it, an ambition that can hardly be faulted and is widely endorsed by regular and irregular international organisations as well as national governments. Whether seeking asylum or other designations, they are aided in their efforts by well-organized human smuggling rings and generous Western laws and social benefits that often provide enough income to fund remittances to family abroad, as well as extortion payments to their smugglers.
The moralistic motivation behind mass immigration is often shrouded by elaborate discussions over practical matters. In 2000, the UN published ‘Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?’ It sought to persuade aging Western countries that mass immigration was the answer to their looming demographic crunches.
They are also aided by well-organized UN agencies such as the International Organization for Migration and like-minded church charities, the Red Cross and other well-funded NGOs that are explicitly committed to facilitating uncontrolled mass immigration for whatever reason and that work in tandem with the smugglers to break down border controls. With some caveats, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provide automatic admission to asylum-seekers.
No matter that most do not qualify; lengthy processing of their claims and built-in protections such as those exploited by Medhani Yohans provide an often-unshakeable foothold in the country. Indeed, the push to proclaim migration a human right has been underway for some time. Many governments and much of the global elite are also largely on board, citing past economic and social successes in admitting and integrating immigrants to justify current numbers.
The moralistic motivation is often shrouded by elaborate discussions over practical matters. In 2000, the UN published Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations? It sought to persuade aging Western countries that mass immigration was the answer to their looming demographic crunches, sagging economies and anticipated shortfall of workers to care for their aging native-born citizens. Never mind that immigrants age as well, frequently bring in unproductive, state-dependent (and aging) family members, and then often adopt Western fertility patterns to boot. Western industry, however, didn’t mind the constant flow of cheaper labour, which provided relief from the need to innovate, but arguably became the biggest factor behind flatlining productivity in receiving countries like Canada.
That governments seem not to care about these irregularities or the strains imposed on social services and government budgets is in part testament to the generosity and compassionate nature of Western democracies. A 2025 paper by cognitive scientists Scott Barry Kaufman and Craig Newman concluded that people brought up in autocracies were more likely to be narcissistic, Machiavellian and psychopathic.
By contrast, “citizens in democratic countries have more benevolent traits, fewer malevolent traits, and greater well-being.” And, to be sure, the West’s humanitarian impulse is a strong factor. But if not kept within bounds, it can spiral into a self-destructive, almost suicidal mindset. In a recent Daily Telegraph column about jihadism, author Jake Wallace Simons concluded that, “While they wish the most gruesome deaths on us, we continue to think the best of them.”
We wish them the best, they wish us a gruesome death: Britain’s Daily Telegraph warns that the West’s humanitarian impulse risks becoming a self-destructive habit, given the prevailing attitudes of many migrants towards their new neighbours. At right, Spain’s National Police hold at bay hundreds of illegal migrants in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, September 2026. (Sources: (cartoon) Gwydion M. Williams, licensed under CC BY 2.0; (photo) Jose HERNANDEZ Camera 51/Shutterstock)
Hard electoral calculations are also clearly at play. This was revealed a surprisingly long time ago by a Canadian politician named Barbara McDougall, then Minister for Employment and Immigration in the government of Brian Mulroney, a Progressive Conservative who nonetheless argued for increasing immigration numbers. The particular cabinet discussion was immortalized in an October 1990 Globe and Mail column by journalist Hugh Winsor, who announced the government’s plan to increase immigration to 250,000 per year, up substantially from the then-current 175,000 and even more from the 1984 low of 84,000. Why? Because, McDougall argued, “They will vote for us.”
The need to keep the voter base fully reflated has been the unspoken policy of many a party in many a country since. It is a fatal conceit when employed by a conservative party, however. Because “they” mostly chose to vote for “them”, i.e., left-leaning parties that promise ever-higher social benefits and ever-looser immigration rules. Either way, the increases driven by Mulroney now seem like a long-lost Golden Age, with total intake (including students and temporary foreign workers) at times topping 1 million per year under Justin Trudeau.
While fine instincts motivate some governments and many citizens, and rank vote-counting drives others, it would be naïve to think still other agendas aren’t in play as well. Unhappily, these include the Cloward-Piven Strategy, concocted in 1966 by American sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, who called for instigating political crises that would overload a country’s system of social supports, in order to build support for a guaranteed minimum income and a de facto socialist system. And though it may be touted as contributing to economic growth, mass immigration has indeed proved nothing if not costly. We have discussed a similar strategy elsewhere in C2C as a probable tool, combined with digital currencies, to squeeze the middle classes and obtain a kind of soft-totalitarian control.
Then there’s progressivism’s cultural Marxist underpinnings. The left’s “long march through the institutions” – that is, subversion and reorientation of bureaucracies, academe, school systems, entertainment/pop culture and even corporations towards progressivism – has exploited identity politics, political correctness and secularism to attack traditional values and delegitimize the host country’s history and culture. Solicitous attitudes towards mass migration are part and parcel.
Last but hardly least is the “Trojan Horse” theory, the concern that others wish to conquer us not through the blunt instrument of military aggression, which they would surely lose, or even a series of 9-11-style mass terrorist strikes, which, like 9-11 itself, would trigger a heavy response, but through immigration policies shaped to enable the growth of ethnic blocs. Once sufficiently large, these could be redirected to game our democratic system and exploit our institutions to fatally undermine the laws, conventions and customs that make Western societies Western, making way for something darker and distinctly undemocratic.
This is not an idle claim. Western countries’ generous family reunification programs – which most citizens probably assume apply only to immediate family members – typically apply to any manner of extended family, who in turn are able to sponsor even more family members in a phenomenon dubbed “chain migration”. But even though the UN itself appears to have coined the term “replacement migration”, the left to this day seeks to delegitimize discussion of the topic by branding it a “hateful, conspiratorial phrase” used by far-right extremists – even though France’s left-leaning prime minister has fretted openly about “migratory submersion”.
Whatever the full set of reasons behind the migration crisis overtaking Western nations, the problems it has created and could soon fulminate in Canada are more than disruptive or disturbing; they are outright dangerous. David Betz, a Canadian scholar of war studies at King’s College London, argues that Western countries today are not only courting instability and decay, they are flirting with civil war. As Betz put it in a recent podcast, “Things like social trust have collapsed, institutional legitimacy is in freefall, and societies have become factionalised and also more anocratic which is to say neither fully democratic nor fully authoritarian which is the sweet spot in terms of the potentiality for internal conflict.”
Europeans Push Back
Across Europe and the UK, furious political tugs-of-war are raging. On one side are increasingly outraged and emboldened citizens – often represented by fast-growing formerly-fringe political movements, inevitably denounced as “far right” or “extreme right”. They are demanding a return to secure borders, carefully controlled immigration, reduced public spending on “migrants” and asylum-seekers, and meaningful enforcement against migrant criminals including imprisonment and/or deportation.
On the other side are the European Commission, establishment parties at the national level and the vast array of institutions that support open borders and everything that goes with them. “The feckless post-nationalist elites leading our countries,” Betz says, “no longer prioritize our physical safety, equal application of the law, national borders nor even our cultural continuity.”
Last year Friedrich Merz, Germany’s hapless Christian Democratic Party Chancellor, ruefully admitted that Germany’s ‘Stadtbild’ – the overall state and feel of the country’s public places – had been greatly damaged by the behaviour of migrants. Polls indicate that 75 percent of Germans feel the same way.
There’s no question the pushback – years or even decades in the making – is more determined and influential than before. Most countries seem to have experienced one or more events or trends that, even if not a definitive turning point, became emblematic of a national mood shift.
For Germany it was New Year’s Eve, 2016. The typically boisterous celebrations in downtown pedestrian zones were savaged in multiple major cities by roving gangs of Arab and North African men who surrounded and preyed upon women, most notoriously in lovely Medieval Cologne. A stunning 1,200 sexual assaults were reported from that night alone – with the true number surely much higher. That event pushed the nascent Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, founded in 2013 mainly to promote fiscal responsibility, to reorient on mass migration, triggering its controversial and so-far unchecked rise.
It took a decade, but last year Friedrich Merz, Germany’s hapless Christian Democratic Party Chancellor, ruefully admitted that Germany’s Stadtbild – the overall state and feel of the country’s public places – had been greatly damaged by the behaviour of migrants. Merz was vilified by all the usual suspects, but polls indicate that 75 percent of Germans feel the same way. Merz failed to act upon that clear signal, however, and the AfD’s rise continued; today it is by far Germany’s most popular national party, and last month won two of three provincial elections in the country’s formerly Communist eastern area. Accordingly, Germany could be on the cusp of major change.
The same is true in France, where the populist and anti-illegal-immigrant Rassemblement National (RN) is polling in the number-one spot at around 35 percent ahead of national elections next year. The explosion of rioting at high schools across France over the past two weeks – in which mobs of students and “youths”, egged on by leftist politicians, have torched school entrances and buses, doused teachers in gasoline, beaten female police officers and even set a first responder alight and stood by videoing the man’s suffering – is likely to further accelerate the RN’s momentum.
Italy, by contrast, has escaped recent unrest; already four years ago, it elected parties favouring secure borders, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni achieving a historic reduction in illegal migration, combined with vigorous deportations of lawbreakers and increased legal immigration targeted to Italy’s economic needs.
Countries such as Spain, however, continue moving in the opposite direction. Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez recently moved to legalize almost half a million migrants, providing credentials for them to infiltrate throughout the EU, and in July stood by as 70,000 Moroccans gate-crashed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
Still, popular anger is growing in Spain as well. “Hostility towards those helping migrants has now become so intense that some aid organizations have removed their logos from vehicles and staff conceal their identification when they are not working,” observes Jim Lawley in a recent Spectator column. Again, horrific sexual violence by an uninvited foreigner is at the centre of it: “On Saturday, police arrested two Moroccan men following the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl at the Trampolín beach settlement. Officers found the girl semi-conscious and injured; she subsequently lost consciousness and had to be resuscitated before being taken to hospital.”
The record is similarly mixed across Europe, with Sweden launching a program that pays migrants to return to their country of origin, while formerly conservative Switzerland, which for centuries admitted almost no immigrants at all, recently voted against capping the tiny country’s population at 10 million.
The Rape Gang Report: Great Britain’s Moment of Clarity?
Despite experiencing what should have been a veritable series of tipping points, the UK remains in the grip of a Labour government whose sole reflex is to double-down. The country has suffered a spate of deadly terrorist strikes going back two decades, including the 2017 Manchester Arena attack which killed 22 people – seven of them under 18 – as well as knife and vehicle attacks in public places. In June came the sentencing of the murderer of 27-year-old mother Rhiannon Whyte, a Sudanese migrant living in a hotel at public expense, who stabbed Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver, then went dancing afterwards and showed no remorse at trial.
But instead of finally clamping down on the continuing cross-Channel traffic of migrant-packed inflatable boats, the Labour government pressured Whyte’s family to tone down its victim impact statement. It continues to fight tooth and claw against releasing crime statistics revealing race and immigration status. Recently, the Labour government felt moved to issue pamphlets explaining to migrants that rape is against the law and not allowed in the UK. But why would any country admit a person needing such an explanation to begin with?
Above all, the government has focused on policing the speech of its fed-up but law-abiding citizens. Protesters against migrant criminals stand to receive tougher sentences than the rapists they are protesting. In late August, the country’s largest municipal government went before a court seeking punishments of up to two years in prison, unlimited fines and asset seizures for anyone flying England’s two national flags from public property.
Merely getting at the truth in the UK has become its own kind of protest – but also a potential turning point. Nowhere is this more evident than in the extended, sordid saga concerning the notorious “Asian grooming gangs” of northern England – more accurately described as Pakistani Muslim rapists. Since the early 2000s, Great Britain has been vexed by increasingly credible and soon definitively proven reports that young and preponderantly white British girls were being systematically groomed, raped and brutalized by Muslim men operating as organized gangs, at times with the collusion of local taxi companies. The accusations were most often heard in cities marked by a high proportion of Pakistani immigrants. For years they were brushed aside by officials as baseless cases of deplorable racism.
Despite recurring efforts to lay bare the full truth, in 2020 a government-commissioned report preposterously – and outrageously – claimed the offenders were “most commonly White.” While successive Labour and Conservative governments used that as cover to continue dithering, in early 2025 the new right-wing party Restore Britain (an offshoot of the recently formed and fast-rising Reform UK led by Nigel Farage) launched its own independent inquiry. Hearings held by Restore’s MP (and former Reform member) Rupert Lowe, bluntly entitled the Rape Gang Inquiry, allowed victims to tell their stories unfiltered by media or government commentary. Lowe raised the required Cdn$1.1 million by crowd-funding – suggesting the public had a greater interest in getting to the bottom of the issue than the government did.
Viewing the Rape Gang Inquiry report’s interactive map with its dozens of coloured dots indicating rape and torture is itself a gut-punch. But far from changing their views on mass immigration, critics have merely seized on the report’s 250,000 figure, claiming it is a gross exaggeration.
Lowe’s 219-page Rape Gang Inquiry Final Report, released in June, is shockingly blunt in its conclusions. “The demographics and cultural drivers are clear. Perpetrators from Pakistani Muslim and other Muslim backgrounds,” it states, “treated non-Muslim girls, especially white working-class girls, as property available for sexual use.”
As for the scale of the problem, the report delivered another shocker: “At the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma.” [Emphasis added] The cumulative number of crimes thus easily totals in the millions, and the assaults go back at least as far as 1955, extending across 149 cities, towns and local districts. Eighty-seven percent of the known perpetrators had Muslim names, and their victims were as young as 11.
![The crowd-funded 2026 Rape Gang Inquiry Final Report, launched by Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe (at right, standing), calculated that “250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking [and] torture” since 1955. At left, a heat map of sexual assaults committed across the UK.](https://c2cjournal.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Inset13.svg)
The crowd-funded 2026 Rape Gang Inquiry Final Report, launched by Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe (at right, standing), calculated that “250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking [and] torture” since 1955. At left, a heat map of sexual assaults committed across the UK. (Source of photo: UK Parliament, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)Viewing the report’s interactive map with its dozens of coloured dots indicating fully documented instances of rape and torture – some of them individually numbering in the hundreds or even thousands of crimes – is itself a gut-punch. But far from changing their views on mass immigration, critics have merely seized on the report’s 250,000 figure, claiming it is a gross exaggeration, even though the number was adopted from a separate and credible 2019 debate in the UK’s House of Lords. “The true number is probably higher,” Lowe believes.
Last December, partly as a result of the pressure Lowe’s hearings had created, the Labour government finally announced an official independent inquiry into the grooming gang phenomenon. Its final report has not yet been delivered. Whenever it comes, however, it will be decades late. As Lowe’s report states, “Political failure lies at the heart of the scandal.”
Why did not only the UK’s government itself but essentially all institutions – “police forces, local authorities, social services [and] health bodies,” as Lowe stated in a recent motion in the House of Commons – fail comprehensively to protect Britain’s vulnerable children, despite the hundreds of reports and pleas from victims and parents? The banal – yet frighteningly powerful – reasons include political correctness, fear of being called racist, fear by politicians of losing their ethnic voting base, a naïve propensity to think overly well of anyone from a multi-cultural community, coupled with a nastier propensity to think ill of working-class whites. When the law was invoked, and for similar reasons, migrant offenders were typically treated lightly – a development many are calling two-tier policing and another sign of institutional collapse.
Could the Rape Gang Inquiry begin truly turning the tide in the UK? Increasingly, ordinary citizens, whether it’s a grandmother in a kayak, bands of masked and black-clad (though peaceful) young men lining the shore chanting “send them back”, or simply a quickly organized crowd of concerned locals, are showing up at English ports almost daily to block the debarkation of more migrants, defying or bypassing the often hundreds of police, “Border Force” officers and even warships all assigned to protect the migrants.
“Last year, people organised protests in response to migrant hotels opening,” noted Jack Hadfield in a recent Spectator article. “Today, people are starting to intervene before a landing even takes place.” [Emphasis added] Farage’s Reform Party, now leading in the polls, promises to remove the rich incentives that attract migrants in the first place, while vowing if elected to have the Royal Navy turn back the migrant boats. Lowe’s rival Restore Britain is promising millions of outright deportations. Both politicians have undertaken to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights that protects asylum-claiming migrants against deportation. Time will tell.
Time to “Flatten the Curve” in Canada
Canada thankfully is not yet as far along the overall arc of the migrant crime phenomenon as these other countries. Having suffered far fewer terrorist attacks, less illegal immigration and far less migrant crime to date, we are still in an extended – and still largely blissfully unaware – phase of “creating the problem,” bringing in vast numbers of newcomers and, more recently, coddling those who commit crimes. The political hurricanes that have pummelled other countries remain distant storm clouds.
Saad says such ‘misguided empathy’ can only be eradicated ‘when people’s cognitive and emotional systems are free of the dreadful ideological parasites that have hijacked their capacity to reason.’
That is little comfort to Canada’s vulnerable women and girls, as well as the country’s Jews, who remain guinea pigs in a grandiose social experiment. When will our own efforts at being diverse backfire, and how badly? And why in the world would we now want to hitch Canada’s wagon to the European Union, whose migration policies have proven calamitous? At the same time, it means there is still time and opportunity to “flatten the curve” of rising migrant crime and, with enough political will, to bend it right back down. But where do we start to prevent catastrophes similar to those that befell Europe and the UK?
An attempt at the first real step in the right direction is coming in – not surprisingly – Alberta. On October 19, voters there will cast ballots on 10 referendum questions, five of which concern favouring immigrants who can make a genuine contribution and tightening conditions for non-permanent residents, including removing welfare eligibility and charging health-care user fees. Polling suggests all the proposed measures have strong public support.
In his recent best-selling book Suicidal Empathy, the aforementioned Saad argues that the monster about to bite our backsides is our failure to recognize evil and instead to feel empathy for its perpetrators. Citing the Spanish painter Francisco Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Saad says such “misguided empathy” can only be eradicated “when people’s cognitive and emotional systems are free of the dreadful ideological parasites that have hijacked their capacity to reason.”
Today the monsters include not only the actual perpetrators of crimes, but those who in the name of international humanitarianism and under the mesmerizing spell of wokist ideology pursue their program of uncontrolled mass immigration regardless of the cost – including denying, excusing or minimizing the growing epidemic of sex crimes by migrants. This was true following the atrocities of October 7, 2023, and it is no less true today as a horrible and ever-escalating price is paid for their shameful and deadly politics.
The monster factory: Francisco Goya’s famous etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Saad argues in his 2026 book Suicidal Empathy, crystallizes how Western society’s “misguided empathy” has displaced its capacity for reason and – without correction – will bring about its self-destruction.Margret Kopala, a longtime journalist and author, was president of the former Centre for Immigration Policy Reform.
Source of main image: Ion Mes/Shutterstock.
