A Time to Hate

Reckoning With The Henry Nowak Case And Western Decline

This article was written by Aaron D. Schneider, who is a regular contributor to Here Are The Headlines. You can find Aaron’s work here, and for all of his contributions to this platform, search “Aaron Schneider.”

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“A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.” - Ecclesiastes 3:8

I am a distinctly America First sort of fella (America for the Americans, Japan for the Japanese, that sort of thing), which I believe is only fitting, but being so ordered in my loves doesn’t mean that I need to be blind about what is happening around the world.

Indeed, because I love my country, I should remain vigilant of events around the world, not just for their effect on my nation but also for the lessons they can teach us. As I am keen to constantly remind my children, a stupid man doesn’t learn from his mistakes, while a smart man will learn from his mistakes, but a wise man will learn from the mistakes of others.

And there are lessons a’plenty to be learned from what is happening in the UK right now. The irony of speaking about discord and chaos in the United Kingdom over these last few days would verge on the hilarious if the reality were not so grim.

As you’ve probably seen some of the different scenes of protests regarding the case of Henry Nowak and the subsequent, and I would say inappropriate police response, of police. I’m not going to try to give a blow-by-blow of events happening thousands of miles away. Instead, I’m going to draw our gaze wider to try to make sense of what is happening, and then see what warnings we can derive from this mess.

So let’s get into the guts of the thing.

On the 3rd of December in the year of our Lord 2025, Henry Nowak (18), a first-year Accounting and Finance student at the University of Southampton, left student housing at around 8:30 pm to spend the night hanging out with his friends. A few short hours later, between 11:00 and 11:30 pm, young Master Nowak had a fatal encounter with Vickram Digwa (23), a Sikh man born in Britain but of Indian extraction.

Nowak had left the Hobbit Pub and was walking alone down the street when he encountered Digwa. Noting the knife Digwa wore openly, a special exemption in the UK for Sikhs, Nowak made note, being somewhat playful, saying that Digwa was a “bad man” (what for Americans might translate as “tough guy” or “gangster”). Digwa declared, “I am a bad man,” and proceeded to attack Nowak, first grabbing his clothing and phone before drawing his kirpan (the ceremonial dagger of the Sikh faith).

From there, Digwa stabbed and slashed Henry Nowak a total of five times, inflicting wounds to the upper legs, groin, face, and, most fatally, to the chest.

The blow, which ultimately was responsible for Henry Nowak’s death, was a stab that cut a vein in the lungs, which proceeded to fill the young man’s lungs with blood. Before his death was pronounced in the very early morning hours of December 4th, more than 2 pints of blood had accumulated in the chest cavity.

It is worth noting that the attack came on with such ferocity and suddenness that Henry Nowak, who, despite having left a pub, was well below the driving limit for alcohol consumption (i.e., not drunk), did not have any defensive wounds on his hands typical of a deadly struggle involving knives. Digwa came on him with such lethal viciousness that Nowak didn’t realize what was happening until after the mortal wound had been dealt, and then more besides.

If that were the sum of the story, things would have been tragic enough: a young man cut down by an unstable and dangerous madman.

But the horror wasn’t over.

You see, contrary to what many people who are not familiar with actual violence realize, many fatal injuries are not immediate. So Henry Nowak didn’t just collapse to the ground and expire like something you might see in a movie or video game, but rather he had many painful and terrified minutes before he lost consciousness and subsequently died. And those moments are harrowing and heart-wrenching to say the least.

Nowak, bleeding from multiple wounds and with his lungs already beginning to fill with blood, tries to flee Digwa, following him. He doesn’t make it very far, just managing to climb over a fence, but subsequently is unable to continue his flight due to his injuries. Digwa, who has begun recording himself by this point, is mocking and taunting the dying young man while denying that he is the one who inflicted the mortal wounds.

It seems that Digwa wasn’t satisfied with brutalizing his victim; he wanted him humiliated.

But the slander didn’t stop there, as Digwa’s family quickly became involved with Digwa’s mother, Kiran Kaur, hiding the weapon in question, while Digwa’s brother, Gurpreet, called emergency services claiming that he and his brother had suffered a “racial” attack by a white man.

It seems the ritual humiliation of this young, white British man was a family affair.

When the police arrived, it could be hoped that something like sanity could be restored to this horrid situation, but alas, this is post-progressive Britain, and the agents of the state are not here for justice and order, but to enforce the obsessive and demonic ideology of the systemically “antiracist” political structure. So when they arrive, hearing that a white man has “racially” attacked a brown man, they already know the marching orders.

Despite stating multiple times that he’d been stabbed (x4) and that he couldn’t breathe (x6), Nowak’s condition was initially dismissed by the officers, spawning the darkly iconic “I don’t think you have, mate” line. Nowak was placed facedown in the gravel and then handcuffed behind the back, both of which only exacerbated his lethal injuries.

Within a minute of being placed in this posture, Henry Nowak became unresponsive, prompting police to at least give the pretense of emergency measures. Henry never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:37 a.m. on 4 December 2025.

Digwa was eventually taken into custody by the police, though it must be noted that He was not immediately arrested and, even once taken into custody, he wasn’t handcuffed. In short, Vikrum Digwa, the murderer of an innocent young man, was treated with more dignity and care than his victim by the police.

That is worth considering and sitting with for a moment.

Henry Nowak, by all accounts a warm and friendly young man with a bright future ahead of him, was forced to gasp out his last, blood-choked breaths, being manhandled, ground into the gravel, to be handcuffed and dismissed by the very people who should have been trying to save his life.

And as he lay there, the last things he heard were the disinterested murmurs of police and the repeated lies of those degenerates responsible for his murder.

I know I’m hardly shy about things I am passionate about, and some people might even call me incendiary, but as a father, brother, and man, this fills me with a deep and abiding rage. This is a callous and cruel injustice at so blatant a level that it beggars belief, and in truth, I’ve had to read and watch over all the reporting multiple times to make sure I wasn’t missing something, anything to make it more sensible, less appalling.

All this did in the end was harden my disgust and sharpen my hatred.

Yes, hatred because no matter what malakoi-flavored bastardization of Christianity is popular today, every Christian should hate this. We should hate the injustice, hate the system that perpetuates it, and let that hatred fire us toward action. Hatred must animate us to change, to punish the wicked, to protect what is good. Indeed, you cannot truly love anything without hating that which would do it harm.

Scripture makes this clear when we turn to passages like Psalm 139, where the psalmist connects the adoration of God, who is “precious” to him, with hatred of those who “speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.”

“Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?”

A state, a system, a political class that functions like this has an innate objection to true, actual justice, directly violating the rules for such groups laid out in Scripture (Romans 13) and, as such, has placed itself directly against that which God ordains. As Christians, we must love what God loves and hate what he hates (Psalm 97, Romans 12), and injustice is something which he abhors exceptionally (Psalm 94, Proverbs 6/11/17, Isaiah 10, to name just a few).

We can hope that such a hatred of injustice and desire to make crooked things straight animates those currently protesting and striving to hold the British government accountable. As Christians, we absolutely should pray for them that they would see the edifices of two-tier policing and the broader rot of multiculturalism will be torn down and purged.

I’ll go even further to say that as Americans, we have a unique responsibility to pray and press for justice in the United Kingdom.

While we are about to celebrate 250 years of Independence from British rule, that does not erase the fact that Britain is our political and spiritual forebear. American culture, faith, and politics unquestionably emerged from the Anglo-Protestant tradition, making Britain the motherland for Americans, no matter our ethnic mix.

In a very real way, Britain is the motherland, and whatever our differences, it is a reprehensible child that does not actively wish its parents well.

But in seeking to bless our mother and seeking her good, we cannot be dishonest about what brought about her fall, and we are particularly accursed if we aren’t instructed by what has happened.

On the subject of curses and honesty, it is time to see what can be learned from this horrible case.

To frame this properly, we need to go to Deuteronomy 28.

In the previous chapter, Moses gathered the people of Israel for what was part rededication and part farewell address. He reminds the children of Israel of the law given to them by God, and now, in this chapter, he reviews first the consequences of obedience (summarily: blessing) and then the consequences of disobedience (summarily: curses).

Now I’m sure some jumped-up Disney will get a bunch in his skinny jeans about me talking about promises to Israel as though they could have any relevance to non-jews today, but they are, in a word, stupid, and we’ve no need to entertain fools. If God is the Creator of all reality, then his instructions can broadly be understood to be applicable in PRINCIPLE at least, and so they are instructive for reckoning what is happening in our particular situation.

Now the chapter is extensive and graphic even and I recommend you read it if you haven’t recently, but I’ve pulled out a few segments relevant to the situation we are tackling..

But if you disobey the Lord your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you. Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return…Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours…

All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep all the laws that he gave you. They will be the evidence of God’s judgment on you and your descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 28: 15, 32, 43, 45-46

You see, if Israel did not choose to live as a nation dedicated to God and His Law, He would not allow them to continue to make a mockery of him and His Word. God is loving and patient, but he is also just and will not allow wickedness to prosper for long, especially those claiming to be his. Given that God is the source of all that is good and right, it makes sense that he will not long tolerate his own being besmirched.

So what does this have to do with the United Kingdom and, by extension, the United States?

Well, let’s look at some of the founding documents of both nations

First, from the Magna Carta, considered by many to be the most foundational document for English Common Law, the foundation of law in Britain:

John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou... Know that, having regard to God and for the salvation of our soul, and those of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honor of God and the advancement of his holy Church and for the rectifying of our realm, we have granted as underwritten by advice of our venerable fathers…

Now, from the Declaration of Independence of the United States:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…

…And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

In both documents, it is clear that both nations understand that their foundations lie, at least in part, if not in the majority, within their faith and in seeking to be faithful to God. The United Kingdom and the United States of America are unquestionably Christian nations, foundationally within the Anglo-Protestant tradition, and with that comes both blessings but also duties.

God is merciful, but he cannot bless that which stands in opposition to him, if nothing else, because to do so is to actually harm the opposer. Enabling someone to press further into sin, no matter how “lovingly” done, only contributes to their destruction, and this applies to nations as well as people. Blessing a godless nation only accelerates their destruction as it will give them more of what they want, and apart from divinely directed desires, all wants become self-destructive.

The cultural rot in the US and the advanced decay in the UK are God’s judgment upon us for abandoning the faith of our fathers, filling our nations with foreigners who do not know our God, and allowing ourselves to forget His Law.

So am I saying that godlessness killed Henry Nowak? Directly, yes, and effectively, also yes.

Follow me here.

In a Christian nation, the purpose of the state is understood because it is cognizant of Romans 13 and similar passages, which define the rights and responsibilities of governments. As such, the state is not going to behave as the United Kingdom has acted over the last several decades.

Its police officers would not be trained and indoctrinated into an “antiracist” mindset that assumes accusations about a “racial” attack are to be believed uncritically. Nor would they behave so callously and carelessly to a young man clearly in need of serious medical intervention. A Christian nation would insist upon officers who were professional, wise, well-trained, and most of all, not biased against their own native people.

But on the subject of native people, we can go even further to say that a Christian Britain would not have imported millions of foreigners. This would, of course, circumvent the added injury that the vast majority of these immigrants would come from cultures and places where the Christian faith is either alien or actively opposed. This lack of wage-suppressing, housing-scarcity-causing encroachment by foreigners would have promised British youths like Henry Nowak a better future, but, more importantly, in Henry’s case, it would have meant he would never have encountered a blade-wielding demon-worshipper after a night with friends.

So, which way, Western Man?

Will you hate what God hates because you love what God loves, and save your sons from being another victim of man’s wickedness and God’s judgment? Best decide soon, because as Henry’s parents discovered, the day could steal upon any of us sooner than we imagine.

Take care, saints.