Jihad and the World

Hello. This is Mark Silinsky, president of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Today we will look at Spain. Specifically, the flood of North African migrants into Spain in late July and early August 2026. How did this happen? Why did this happen? What are the consequences? I will conclude with a tragic account of a young woman who literally could not live with her d...

Hello. This is Mark Silinsky from Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Welcome to the Kensington Weekly, a program that explores Islam's relationship with the world, week by week. This is the third week in August 2026. Let’s take a look at Jihad Watch and see what stories are posted.

First, let’s go to Germany to examine the migrant situation. This is a recurring theme in my pod...

Hello from Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. This episode is called Ramming – Muslims, Cars, Pedestrians, and Europe. Last week, I discussed the rampant and random stabbing attacks. I offered you the term “getting stabby,” a play on words. In England, it means getting irritable and getting skewered on the street generally by a knife-wielding Muslim in the name of Allah....

Hello. This is Mark Silinsky from Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Welcome to the Kensington Weekly, a program that explores Islam's relationship with the world, week by week. This is the second week in August 2026.   Let's begin with an article by Hugh Fitzgerald at Jihad Watch that tells a compelling and tragic German story. What happened? Marius Dick, a young German, was ki...

October 7, 2023 changed the Middle East and the world. It was a slaughter unlike anything the Jewish world had experienced since the Nazis. You know that. Well, let me offer you a take on the attack and its aftereffects that I discuss in the book. But I want to emphasize two elements that I think are of great interest to this audience. First, I will discuss the counterterrorism strategy and how effectively it was applied to Hamas. ...

This episode is called Getting Stabby – Muslims, Knives, and the West. An interesting title? Brace yourself for an unconventional talk. Muslim stabbing frenzies are much in the news these days. Britain has long been a stabbing center in Europe. It was there that the term “getting stabby” was coined. Well, this has two meanings: becoming irritable, and unwanted knife activity. And there is plenty of unwanted slashi...

Hello and welcome to Jihad and the World. This episode traces the early Muslim migration to Britain. It is entitled, “Islam Comes to Britain.”

"Already London is the biggest center for Islamic finance outside the Islamic world. But I want London . . . to be one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world. John Cameron, 2013

“A cesspit for Islamists" Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate for Literature,...

Hello and welcome to Jihad and the West. This episode is one of many that examines the integration of Islamic culture into European society, particularly in the wake of the surge in immigration from Muslim countries into Europe, especially Western Europe. It looks at relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe, particularly in Britain. It is called “Not all rainbows and unicorns – Four le...

Hello and welcome to Jihad and the World, a product of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Today's episode is entitled "Whip Hands and Bloody Rivers - Immigration Comes to Britain."

Whip Hands and Bloody Rivers

Mercurial, brilliant, eccentric, and legendarily controversial, Enoch Powell was a prominent figure in Brita...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, and today’s episode will look at the changing face of Britain. The look, feel, and substance of Britain changed significantly from 1968 to 2018. In that 50-year span, Muslim populations mushroomed throughout the country. This epi...

Hello from Jihad and the World, a product of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. This episode is part of a series of podcasts that examine Islamic and non-Islamic in Europe. This episode offers analytic snapshots of the press and police in Europe. Future podcasts will expand on the general themes presented in the podcast, titled The Press and Police – Lover Boys and Easy Meat. The au...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, which provides education on national security. Today’s episode is longer than most. It begins a series called Jihad and the West, titled – Europe Has Fallen: Islam, Britain, and the Continent. Episode One offers an overview of Europe from several ...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, which provides education on national security. It is part of a series titled "Europe Has Fallen: Islam, Britain, and the Continent." The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, and today’s episode focuses on Br...

Hizballah - When the Beepers Went Boom!

On September 17 2024, explosions rocked Lebanon and Syria. These were not rockets launched from aircraft or shells from naval ships or ground-based artillery. Instead, they seemed to come from hand-held pagers, but witnesses and observers were not sure. Most of the explosions took place in Beirut, a stronghold for Hizbollah. Soon, the connection between the pager and Hizbollah was clear. But ...

Hello from Jihad and the World. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, which provides education on national security. Today’s episode is called “Roger Waters and Medea Benjamin – Pretty in Pink.” It examines two colorful characters.

Roger Waters

“We, the ordinary people of the world, hugely outnumber the Isr...

Hi, Mark here from Kensington Security Consulting videocasts. This is our second videocast, titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center – Islamophobia? Really?” Today, we turn to the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, which is much in the news these days. First, let’s recap our first videocast, “Of Pigs and Men . . . and Women, too.” In that video, we briefly examined two s...

Hello from Jihad and the World, a product of Kensington Security Consulting. We will look at the Hamas-Israel war, the subject of our upcoming book, Cauldron of Terror – Hamas, Israel, and the World. Let’s begin by examining and updating the profile of Vlada Patapov, known to the world as the “Lady in Red.” Who is she? You may have seen her on television or social media, running for h...

Hello from Jihad and the World, presented by Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Today, we will discuss the general friction between Italy’s Muslim and non-Muslim communities and Rome’s policy towards Hamas.

Until the American-Israeli war on Iran, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had positioned Italy as one of the more pro-A...

Hello from Jihad and the World. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, which provides education on national security. Today’s episode is called “Who is Joe Kent and Why is He so Angry at President Trump? It examines the controversy surrounding the resignation of a leading intelligence official.

Joe Kent, former director of the National Counter-Terro...