Ireland in Turmoil as New Anti-Immigration Group Emerges After Belfast Attack
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Ireland in Turmoil as New Anti-Immigration Group Emerges After Muslim Immigration Anger
Dr. Eddy Cohen, 4 hours ago
Following a brutal attempted beheading and amid growing anger over Muslim immigration to Ireland, the ICA organization has formed with the aim of fighting immigration policy and what it calls the government’s “failure.” Many citizens report a loss of their sense of security and say, “We were abandoned to a reality of violence and fear.”
In June 2025, the creation of a new organization called the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), or “ICA Rebirth,” was announced on social media. It is a small group of men who post videos wearing masks and speaking with distorted voices, presenting themselves as taking the law into their own hands because “the government does not protect citizens.”
A shocking incident occurred in the past 24 hours, a Sudanese Muslim migrant attempted to behead a citizen. The attempted beheading in Belfast took place the day before yesterday, in Northern Ireland. A 30-year-old Sudanese migrant, who was granted refugee status in Britain in 2023, arrived in Belfast by bus and brutally attacked a local man on the street. He jumped on him, straddled him, and used a kitchen knife to slash repeatedly at his head, neck, eyes and back, exactly like an attempted beheading. The attacker brandished the knife and tried to “cut off the head.” The victim was very seriously injured and is hospitalized in critical condition. The ICA “rose up” because of these events, above all due to the government’s open immigration policy. Ireland, a small country, has absorbed tens of thousands of asylum seekers in recent years, many of them young Muslim men from Africa and the Middle East, using hotels and public buildings to house them, while Irish citizens suffer from a severe housing crisis.
Ireland has changed its face in recent years. Anyone who visited there recently might think they were in the Middle East or Africa. There are repeated reports of crimes, violence, rape, drugs and other offenses, a sense of insecurity in neighborhoods, and an increase in unrest against citizens, women and children. The organization claims the government is “betraying” the Irish and allowing a “demographic takeover.” This comes against the backdrop of similar events across Europe. The organization cites street insecurity caused by Muslim and African migrants, uncontrolled mass immigration, especially of “men of military age,” the establishment of reception centers for refugees and asylum seekers (IPAS centres) inside Irish neighborhoods, the lack of safety for children and women on city streets, especially after dark, and frustration over the housing crisis and the strain on public services, while the government funds the migrants.
Ireland and Europe are experiencing a significant rise in migration from Muslim countries, including Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria, North Africa and others. According to official data, thousands of asylum applications are filed in Ireland each year, and many are “unchecked,” without full background checks. There are repeated reports of sexual assaults, street violence and trafficking. Anti-immigration protests, including in Dublin, focus on “young men of military age” arriving and receiving priority in housing. The organization is trying to fight them. In videos, they say things like, “We refuse to watch the suffering and killing of innocent Irish citizens. We, the ICA, will fight for Ireland and take the necessary steps.”
The organization emerged, as noted, against the backdrop of protests and clashes around reception centers, deliberate arson attacks on facilities and growing social tensions in recent years. According to reports in the Irish press, the organization’s goal is to harm people from the Muslim and African communities and to burn mosques and migrant reception centers. The organization calls on citizens to “stand with us” and take action, not just talk. At the same time, some say the ICA is a marginal and very small organization, and most of the Irish public rejects threats against politicians, violence and organizations operating outside the law. The Garda and the government view it seriously as a security risk. There is, however, deep frustration over immigration, polls show that about two-thirds of the Irish support stricter immigration policy, and about 49% think the government is handling the refugee crisis poorly. When the government fails, citizens take the law into their own hands.
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In recent years, Ireland, like the rest of Europe, has become a playground for open immigration policy that invites thousands of young men from Muslim countries, including Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others. They do not come to “build,” they come with a culture of tribal violence, oppression of women and hatred of “infidels,” and values that clash completely with European-Christian society. The data speak for themselves, Muslim-origin migrants appear at disproportionate rates in rape crimes, violent assaults and stabbing attacks. Public anger in Ireland, Northern Ireland and across Europe is already at a peak after the Belfast incident, with riots, arson and massive demonstrations. Existing groups are already organizing across borders with Britain, including Tommy Robinson and Patriotic Alternative. There are reports of “armed citizen groups” and of the “New Republican Movement” threatening politicians who “invite the invasion.” Europe is about to change very soon. It is good that they taste what we have been suffering for decades. Ireland, Muslim migrants
