Rauda Altenaiji

🚨 UPDATE: 8 Port Sudan Authority members sentenced to life in prison. Remember when SAF members tried to smuggle weapons through the UAE? Today the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal sentenced Salah Gosh, Yasser Al Atta, Othman Al Zubair and five others to life. The court found that they flew ammunition to Port Sudan labeled as medical supplies. Yes, medical supplies. Apparently bullets are what passes for healthcare in their war. Not surprising given SAF is poisoning and killing its own people with chemical weapons. Anyhow, they laundered the payments through front companies and probably expected the UAE to take the blame once the rounds landed in Sudan, while the same people who never stop accusing it walked away clean. Bad plan. The UAE exposed them in its own court, and now they have the rest of their lives to work out where it went wrong.

No number of arrests will drain the sea while the rivers feeding it stay open. Every raid, every ban and every trial deals with the gunman, while the preacher who built his mind keeps his pulpit, his school and his salary. Terrorism is only the graduation day, and extremism is the classroom where takfiri thinking, religious exclusivism and the dehumanization of everyone outside the circle are taught as virtue. Too many governments paid dearly to fight the symptom, then protected the cause in the name of freedom and tolerance. Whoever refuses to confront the ideology has already chosen to meet its next attack. Be like the UAE. It got to the roots.

About 76 percent of the people who crossed the Channel in small boats in 2025 were adult men, while every lawful route Britain runs is built around women, children and families. The proper door was designed for the vulnerable, so single men have the weakest claim to it, and smugglers sell them a seat on a rubber boat instead. People who come through lawful channels are screened before they travel. Boat arrivals are checked after they land, against records that cannot say much about a man with no papers, so the state cannot tell a victim from a threat until the damage is already possible. That is moral hazard written into policy, because every government that rewards the crossing guarantees the next one. A country that will not decide who enters has surrendered sovereignty, broken the social contract with its own citizens and handed the rule of law to criminal networks. Citizens carry the collective responsibility while the politicians who caused it carry none.

My heart is with every family in Karak and with all of Jordan as the funerals for nine victims end. Three days after gunmen opened fire on mourners, security forces had all three suspects in custody after a dawn shootout, with no officer hurt. That is a state keeping its promise to its citizens, and Jordan deserves real credit for moving this fast and this firmly. Police say all three follow takfiri ideology, and no group has claimed the attack. Takfiri thinking hands a few men the power to decide who counts as a believer and who is disposable. Religious exclusivism turns neighbors into targets, dehumanization makes murder feel like duty and moral nihilism removes the last brake. A state protects the social contract and the rule of law by arresting shooters and also by going after the preachers, the recruiters, the front charities and the money that build such minds. Jordan has shown the speed. The world should match it and dig to the roots.