Does the Vatican consider Islam an acceptable successor?

Robert Spencer points to how the Italian Catholic management appears to be promoting Islam as acceptable, right down to how they're claiming the Koran is the "word of God":

Vatican News, which describes itself as “the news portal of the Holy See,” ran the story in Italian: “Countering the walls of prejudice: CEI and PISAI present ‘Fact Sheets for Understanding Islam.’” CEI is the Italian Bishops’ Conference, and PISAI is the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies. So what we have here is the spectacle of the Vatican and the Italian bishops taking it upon themselves to teach the world about Islam. Don’t hold your breath waiting for al-Azhar to issue fact sheets for understanding Christianity, and that’s likely just as well. The Holy See’s Islam material looks to be as biased, misleading, and inaccurate as anything one can imagine coming out of al-Azhar about any non-Islamic Faith. [...]

Secure in his righteousness, Zuppi continued: “Ignorance should have no place in our schools, yet, unfortunately, it often ends up setting the agenda. As a result, people feel entitled to pass judgment on others without truly knowing them. These fact sheets on Islam, created jointly by Catholics and Muslims, therefore serve as a powerful antidote to both violence and ignorance.”

Violence? Who is committing the violence here? Only Muslims, not Catholics. Yet the fact sheets don’t seem to spend any time telling Muslims not to be violent. Instead, “the eleven fact sheets go beyond common stereotypes.” That’s a relief! “The material begins with ‘What is Islam?’ and ‘A Brief History of Islam,’ covering faith and theology, the Quran as the revealed word of God, the emulation of the prophetic model, and acts of worship (‘ibāda’).”

Wait a minute. The Qur’an as “the revealed word of God”? Surely they’re teaching young Catholics that Muslims believe the Qur’an to be the revealed word of God, not that the book itself is actually the revealed word of God? That seems likely, but nowadays the spirit of ecumenical openness has become so all-pervasive that one cannot be sure without further clarification from the Vatican or the Italian bishops, and that was not forthcoming. Would anyone really be surprised if far-left, pro-mass migration bishops and other high Catholic Church officials endorsed the Qur’an as the “revealed word of God”?

After all, there is one notable precedent. Back in September 2014, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who at that time was Archbishop Emeritus of Washington and had not yet been disgraced, appeared to have converted to Islam, beginning an address with the Qur’anic salutation “In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate,” and asserting that “Catholic social teaching is based on the dignity of the human person… [and] as you study the holy Koran, as you study Islam, basically, this is what Muhammad the prophet, peace be upon him, has been teaching.”

If anything, this reminds me of when another writer at Front Page said the Catholic bishops council today would be opposed to developing a movie based on Betty Mahmoody's terrifying experiences in Iran, and if the information obtained this time says anything, one can only wonder if the Vatican considers the Religion of Peace a worthy successor/replacement for what they practice now?.Also note how no verses from the Koran/Hadith are quoted here, and that should make clear something's horrifyingly wrong with the picture.

It's clear the Vatican lost their way, and aren't qualified to comment on serious issues at all.

Communist terror training camp lurks near Limoges

After a culprit in the destruction of the Limoges city hall was arrested, it's said there's a terrorist training camp for communists near the township, proving Islamofascists aren't the only ones proving dangerous for Europe:

A known far-left extremist on the French government’s terror watchlist has been arrested after the destruction of Limoges City Hall, as claims mount of a communist “terror training camp” operating in the countryside near the besieged city.

Far from an accidental conflagration caused by a rogue spark, French authorities now say the burning of Limoges City Hall was a planned operation by political extremists and is now being investigated by specialist counter-terrorism prosecutors. A new main suspect was arrested in a dawn raid Tuesday morning by specialist counter-terrorism police in Val-d’Issoire, a village north-west of Limoges, with the suspect allegedly being a known left-wing extremist, reports Le Parisien.

Identified by local newspaper Le Populaire du Centre as 34-year-old Hodei Docampo Ciarra, the Paris-born suspect is said to have smashed windows in Limoges town hall to allow access to the building’s cellars for the alleged arson team. The report states Hodei is “a committed environmental activist” with a criminal record.

According to Le Parisien, he is a known “ultra-left activist” with an ‘S-file’, a flag against his name on the national police computer identifying individuals from all extremist and terrorist backgrounds whore are subject to surveillance as a serious threat to national security. [...]

Others have linked the attack to a known core of ultra-left activists living in the region. French newspaper of record Le Figaro cites remarks by the Mayor of Cannes, free-market liberal French Presidential candidate David Lisnard, who spoke of the existence of “terrorist training camps” on the Plateau de Millevaches, a rural wooded area southeast of Limoges. Described as a “communist stronghold”, it is said that a whole network of radical activists, including foreign activists linked to ‘black bloc’ Antifa, inhabits a series of villages in the area.

These people are “training in urban guerrilla warfare” and acquiring “heavy equipment and weapons for attacks against the police” to wage war in cities, Lisnard said, calling on the government to “dismantle and ban all these small groups”.

If Jean Luc Melenchon ascends to power after this horror connected with his dark movement, it'll be an utter tragedy.

Update: both France and Italy have deployed military forces to contain and prevent more disaster.

Far-left riots in France lead to destruction of ancient Limoges city hall, and Italy's Milan also sees similar incidents

Jean-Luc Melenchon's repulsive communist party's machinations have resulted in the destruction of the Limoges city hall:

Local prosecutors said that at least 15 people have been arrested in connection with the riots that broke out in Limoges and the arson which destroyed the city’s historic City Hall.

The supposed demonstration against the cost of living and education spending on Saturday evening saw the destruction of Limoges City Hall, an 1883 Neo-Renaissance building designed to pay homage to Paris’s Hôtel de Ville.

Designated as a historic monument in 1975, the 143-year-old building was largely destroyed in a fire allegedly set by rioters who entered the building. Dramatic images shared on social media show the building’s tower collapsing amid the conflagration.

According to Limoges prosecutor Emilie Abrantes, police have made “more than 15 arrests” in connection with the fire and the riots, which also saw six police cars burned and multiple businesses in the city centre looted.

The Limoges-based Le Populaire du Centre newspaper reported that, according to a City Hall source, “the rioters entered through a cellar door beneath the council chamber. They reportedly threatened to kill those inside.

When the rioters threaten murder, that speaks volumes. It makes no difference what their ethnic/religious/ideological background is, they cannot remain in the country, period, and exiling violence monsters is going to have to become a serious issue to be brought forth.

And now, of all times, Macron's government actually has what it takes to blame the far-left for this terrible incident:

The French government has accused the far-left of stoking the riots that engulfed the nation on Saturday, resulting in widespread clashes with police, looting of shops, as well as vandalism and arson of government buildings.

What began last month as a small protest over teacher shortages at a school in the Créteil suburb of Paris has become a full-on national revolt, with various leftist unions and other organisations also taking to the streets in cities across the country on Saturday, with an estimated 550,000 demonstrators.

At a press conference in Paris, Minister of the Interior Laurent Nuñez said that unlike other protests, where rioters wait until the end of the event to turn violent, the violence on Saturday “started right from the beginning”, Le Figaro reported.

Nuñez specifically blamed the “radical left” for stoking the riots, saying that “groups of several hundred or thousands of rioters, clearly instigated by the far left, attacked the police,” leaving at least 60 officers injured. He said that around 400 people, mostly adults, have been arrested. However, the minister noted that “the day isn’t over yet.”

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu also pointed to “ultra-left groups” being behind the demonstrations and having “organised violence in several French cities”.

“Peaceful demonstrations have their rightful place in our Republic. Arson, looting, and attacks have no place whatsoever,” he said. “To those who clearly want to use these acts of violence as a ‘warm-up’ before the presidential election, I say this plainly: we will not be intimidated. No one will impose their political agenda through violence.”

Well this sure is audacious of them, after Macron went and made a faustian pact with them just to keep the RN from getting a real majority in parliament a few years ago. Did he actually think this was going to literally change their ideological beliefs and make them take up civilized lifestyles? Sorry, but this is coming awfully late, and now the country's paying a heavy price for Macron's irresponsibilities.

Making matters worse, the riots have now spread even to Italy:

The European anarchy has set the stage for a particularly disturbing scene in Milan, Italy, as one of Christianity's most recognizable landmarks became the backdrop for violent unrest.

Flames rose from makeshift barricades, fireworks exploded, and thick smoke filled the square outside Milan Cathedral, the magnificent Gothic church that has stood at the heart of the city for centuries. [...]

The violence erupted during a left-wing demonstration that drew more than 5,000 people to Milan. What began as a protest over high prices, low wages, and deteriorating public services descended into clashes between police and groups of masked rioters, some of them clearly North African immigrants.

According to Italian news reports, rioters hurled stones, firecrackers, and makeshift explosives at officers while setting fire to rubbish, street furniture, and barricades. Police responded with tear gas, water cannons, and charges.

Windows were smashed, shops closed their shutters, and tourists fled the city center as police fought to regain control of the square. ANSA reported that police officers were injured and approximately 20 people received medical attention in the area.

The cathedral itself was not reported damaged. But the spectacle unfolding beneath its spires was extraordinary. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the violence.

"Demonstrating is a right. Setting our cities on fire is not," Meloni said in a statement reported by ANSA.

The location makes the images particularly jarring. Milan Cathedral, known as the Duomo di Milano, is one of Europe's great Christian monuments. Construction began in 1386, and its elaborate marble facade and towering spires have become inseparable from the city's identity.

So now it's clear Europe is being plunged into a war that was bound to happen sooner or later, and who knows if anybody in the USA's willing to help them now, after all the horrific university and school indoctrination that went unchecked and uncurbed for many years? I don't believe even the shoddy Federalist editor John Daniel Davidson's willing to go to war if that's what it takes to put an end to what the Religion of Peace is resulting in (and Sean Davis is no better). I mean, where were people like these when Betty Mahmoody was trying to save her daughter from being turned into a hostage of Islam in Iran 4 decades ago? Some people may not realize it, but some of the worst enablers of Islamofascism came from within the conservative movement and put the keys in the ignition for the left to spread further. Those "conservatives" who aren't willing to fight for freedom have no business even commenting on the issues, period.

Update: sadly but predictably, a synagogue was also the subject of looting.

The first pope from the USA proves to be a very bad one

Pope Leo announced he'd be visiting the Italian island of Lampedusa, site of many Muslim illegal immigration arrivals (H/T: Front Page):

Pope Leo XIV will spend July 4 visiting a Mediterranean island known for migrant crossings into Europe.

The Vatican announced this week that the first American leader of the Catholic Church will visit Lampedusa, a small Italian island that has for years served as a gateway for migrants and refugees traveling to Europe from Africa and the Middle East.

Pope Leo expressed a desire to visit Lampedusa in a video message sent to volunteers there last year, in which he said they “have shown … the smile and the attention of a human face to people who have survived in a desperate journey of hope.”

His predecessor, Pope Francis, celebrated Mass on the island in 2013 on an altar made of shipwrecked migrant boats, throwing a wreath into the ocean in honor of migrants who lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

The Vatican announced earlier this month that Pope Leo would not be visiting the U.S. this year, after Vice President J.D. Vance personally delivered an invitation from President Donald Trump during a visit to the Vatican in May last year.

Pope Leo also pandered to Ramadan adherents, so there's something else quite telling about his MO. He may be the first Catholic representative from the USA who was elected pope for the Vatican, but he's definitely proven to be the worst, and he's embarrassed the USA as a result. Note how he won't even visit his homeland or travel to the White House to meet with the POTUS and the Veep, and that's very telling as well. Leo's one of the worst sellouts of his sort.

An Israeli actress/model who doesn't have issues with topless photography

Michal Harodi is an Israeli model and musician who's not bothered about being filmed topless for fashion advertising:

The fashion house Versace unveiled Saturday the first two shots from the debut campaign by its new artistic director, Dario Vitale, whose first collection for the label was revealed in September. Under the title “Michal Harodi, Milan, September 2025,” the campaign features the Israeli actress, model and classical pianist Michal Harodi – a once‑virtually‑unknown face who shot to prominence overnight. In one image, Harodi lies relaxed on her forearms, topless, wearing only a sequin‑emblazoned bottom.

Harodi secured the campaign following earlier photos taken by Israeli‑born London‑based photographer Dafy Hagai, ynet has reported. Hagai’s image caught the eye of casting director Julia Lang, who was immediately impressed and quickly invited her to a photo shoot – and the rest is history. Prior to this, Harodi had appeared for a number of local photographers and labels, including Fez and the fashion site Belle & Sue of designer Inbal Boussiba. [...]

When asked if posing topless bothered her, she said: “It’s so not a 'big deal’ for me—certainly not in the international fashion industry. Only in Israel do people get worked up about it. The photographer was so respectful and sensitive, and I view it as a crazy love for female beauty.” [...]

In a 2020 interview with Shelly Gross for the “Fashion School” section in LaIsha magazine, early in her career, Harodi described her style: “I dress comfortably—pants and wide jeans, loosely buttoned shirts. A lot of white. I only started loving skirts in the past year or two. It’s really beautiful, sexy and feminine in my eyes. Sometimes I lack the courage and it feels like I’m forcing it, but I like seeing women wearing skirts in the street. A skirt‑combo makes me want to dance. Ultimately I like wearing items from my mother’s wardrobe. She has amazing pieces.” [...]

Choosing a fresh, previously unseen model signals the new agenda Vitale is bringing to Versace: not another campaign with Gigi Hadid or Bella Hadid so strongly identified with the label, but new faces. He laid the foundations in his first collection for the brand, with aesthetics that diverge 180 degrees from those of Donatella Versace, who has designed for the house since her brother’s murder in 1997. There is no doubt that this campaign will elevate Harodi’s work—both internationally and within Israel.

Interesting they note the case of the Hadids, who are some of the worst antisemites working as propagandists in the industry today, undoubtably to make it look like Islam isn't sex-negative. Well that's exactly why Judaists need to counter by making clear Judaism isn't sex-negative. Yes, seriously. And one of the ways to do that is to make clear that ultra-Orthodox zealots need to cut out their sex-negativity that goes well beyond what Christianity could follow. No doubt, that's what Ms. Harodi is alluding to, and if so, there is a valid point that, even if you think topless photography's in questionable taste, people shouldn't get overly hysterical about it. So hey, good luck on the photo project, and even with her piano career, which is also a great idea.

It's time for Italy to leave the EU

The ruling of a court for the European Union is blocking Italy from making proper deportations of Islamic illegal immigrants:

Rome has accused the European Union’s top court of interfering with national sovereignty after a ruling on Friday threw the future of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s plans to combat illegal immigration in doubt.

A case brought forward by two Bangladeshi illegal migrants before the Strasbourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ) against Italy after being removed from the country and sent to an asylum processing centre in Albania undermined a key plank of the scheme, broadcaster RAI reports.

The ruling found that EU member states can only determine safe countries for the return of migrants if they provide evidence and allow for judicial review, meaning that one judge could block the deportation to countries they deem unsafe.

The ECJ said that the designation may not include countries that “do not offer sufficient protection to their entire population”. This could potentially mean that countries like the United States could be deemed unsafe for return, given that some states allow the death penalty, a justification that Italian judges have used to block the deportation of illegals to Egypt.

The decision comes despite the European Commission listing both Egypt and Bangladesh as “safe countries” in April to speed up returns. However, the court said that this designation will only be binding after the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum comes into effect in July of next year.

This is abominable, and exactly why countries who're part of the EU are going to have to make serious decisions now about leaving the EU, much like Britain did a number of years ago. If bureaucrats are going to make it impossible, that's why even Italy cannot stay in the EU. Today's major European courts really are that corrupt.

Geert Wilders is right that danger continues to grow

Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who's long been in danger of Islamofascism, has written about why he hopes European voters will make the right choice in coming elections:

Last week, upon arrival in Scotland, Donald Trump warned the Europeans that if they do not stop mass immigration, it will be the end of them.

“This immigration is killing Europe,” he said. When I met the American President in The Hague five weeks ago, he had told me the same. The President personally encouraged me to continue my fight for the safety and survival of the Dutch people. Donald Trump is putting America first and many Europeans do not like that, but at least he cares about ordinary Europeans, realizing how uncontrolled mass immigration is putting them in danger.

Europe needs to act if it wants to avoid becoming a Northern appendage of Africa or the Western edge of the Islamic Ummah. And it needs to act NOW! I am the leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), by far the largest party in the Netherlands. The PVV was also the leading party in the Dutch government coalition until we brought that coalition down in June. We brought it down because our three centrist coalition partners refused to accept our plans to put an immediate stop to the influx of so-called refugees and asylum seekers.

The Dutch are by nature a welcoming people. However, fake refugees who want to enter the Netherlands from our neighbouring countries Germany and Belgium – both countries where they could have asked asylum – should not be allowed to enter and send away immediately. They are not asylum seekers but illegal migrants.

We joined the government because we wanted the Dutch borders closed: the Netherlands need an asylum stop right now. Unfortunately, the constant obstruction by centrist and leftish-liberal politicians, unelected civil servants and activist judges made it impossible for us to make much progress, while time is rapidly running out.

Hence, I felt it was my duty to force elections on the topic of immigration. This October’s Dutch general election will truly be a “Flight 93 election” for the Netherlands. The metaphor, borrowed from Trump advisor Michael Anton, refers to the plane that was headed for the U.S. Capitol on 9/11 when brave passengers seized control and crashed it into a field rather than on the American capital. The passengers were faced with the choice: either to do nothing and die, or charge the cockpit.

This also applies to other European countries, including Britain, in their next general elections. Voters must choose: Either give patriotic parties the mandate to effectively close the borders or squander their future and that of their children.

This is correct, though either way, the day is sadly coming when even USA conservatives will have to make a challenging decision about whether to join the battle in WW3, since, if nobody's willing to defend civilized people from barbarism, how can we expect to defend the USA and Israel convincingly? Thankfully, Trump's demonstrated that he does care about innocent European citizens, and he's demanded the Canadian premier, Mark Carney, stop his plans to recognize a "palestinian state". It can also be said Trump's now making similar demands from France and Britain. And, he's even imposed special sanctions on the PLO, for the right reasons. We must hope his current efforts will bear fruit, and that Wilders will be able to succeed with his own missions too.

Jewish father in Italy assaulted by anti-Israelists

More antisemitic violence took place in Italy, proving how even they've become dangerous:

A furious row has erupted in Italy after a Jewish man claimed he and his six-year-old son were attacked at a motorway service area by an enraged pro-Palestinian crowd.

The man, who has not been named, and his son had stopped to use the facilities at the rest area while driving from Milan to their home in Paris after a holiday.

They were both wearing traditional Jewish kippahs and attracted the attention of people at the services near Lainate on the main Milan-Lagi motorway.

The father, who managed to capture the incident on video as he and his son were insulted, said they were both left 'terrified'.

In the clip which was later uploaded to social media, a group of people can be heard shouting in Italian 'Palestina Libera '(Free Palestine)' and 'Go back home'.

Others also shout in Italian 'Assassini' (murderers) while another adds: 'This isn't Gaza, here is Italy' and another can be heard shouting: 'You will go to hell sooner or later'.

The man's son can clearly be seen in the clip, and he looks on with a scared look on his face as the crowd increased their hostility

At one point, the video appears to shake. In interviews with Italian media he claims to have been pushed to the floor and then kicked with the crowd demanding he delete the video.

Well this certainly speaks volumes. No matter the background of the assaulters, they're clearly not fit to live in sane society, should not have jobs, and should be ostracized, based on their desensitization to violence. Why, what if it turned out they're perfectly okay with Italian women being sexually assaulted by Islamofascists as well? The monsters at the gas station should be exiled to the very Muslim countries they're siding with. And that goes without saying.

Muslim migrants have made Italy more dangerous

In the past decade, as a result of illegal immigration from Islamic countries, Italy has now become much more dangerous:

Crime rates have grown in Italy to such an extent that around seven in ten women in the country now report that they are afraid to walk outside alone at night.

A survey of 1,000 Italian adults from Univ-Censis has found that 67.3 per cent of women feel afraid while walking home at night, broadcaster RAI reports.

There is a general sense among Italians that their country has become more dangerous over the past five years, with 75.8 per cent overall agreeing with the statement, rising to 81.8 per cent among women. Nearly four in ten people reported that they have given up on going out at night at all for fear of being victimised by criminals.

[...] Commenting last year on the connection between mass migration and sex crimes, anti-mass migration Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said: “Now I will be defined racist, but there is one higher incidence, unfortunately in cases of sexual violence, by people immigrate, especially illegally, because when you have nothing there is a degeneration that can lead to everywhere.”

RAI reported that Milan had the highest crime rate in 2024, with 69.7 crimes committed per 1,000 inhabitants, followed by Florence at 65.3 and Rome at 64.1.

In January, police arrested dozens of men of “North African” extraction in Milan after a group of young female tourists were subjected to gang sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve. According to authorities, the attacks were believed to be part of an “Islamic ritual” known as taharrush gamea, or the “collective sexual harassment in crowds” that generally target “insolent women, guilty of showing up in public”.

This was sadly bound to happen, and now, Italy's become as dangerous as France and Britain. Unless serious efforts are made to banish these Islamofascist interlopers, this will reach horrifying levels. It can't be allowed to continue in Europe.

Trump losing patience with Hamas after observing how freed hostages look similar to Holocaust survivors

Here's what Donald Trump had to say following the release of a few more hostages this week:

President Donald Trump on Saturday expressed dismay over the appearance of three Israeli hostages who emerged from Hamas captivity looking “like Holocaust survivors.”

“I watched the hostages come back today, and they looked like Holocaust survivors,” Trump said upon the release of Or Levy, Ohad Ben Ami, and Eli Sharabi.

“They were in horrible condition, they were emaciated. It looked like many years ago, the Holocaust survivors. I don’t know how much longer we can take that.”

Trump expressed concern and frustration with Hamas over the men’s condition, noting that, under the current ceasefire’s first phase, hostages are slowly being released.

Making matters worse is that the Hamas has now halted their releases:

Hamas has announced that it is suspending the release of hostages planned for Saturday until further notice due to "Israeli violations".

Israel has rejected the accusations, stating, "The one who committed the violations is the terrorist organization. Members of the delegation who returned this morning from Qatar claimed that Hamas' conduct endangers the continuation of the deal."

The Prime Minister has convened a situational assessment to review the implications of the announcement, with the participation of Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and incoming Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir. Egyptian sources commented to Reuters that they believe the deal is in danger of collapse.

Defense Minister Israel Katz responded to Hamas' announcement of the cessation of the release of the hostages and said that it was a complete violation of the ceasefire agreement and the deal for their release.

If the Israeli army doesn't respond to this, it will not be good.

Something else we should be losing patience with is far-left municipalities in Europe naming streets after terrorist leaders:

Barghouti is an honorary citizen of the city of Palermo. The city of mafia massacres honored a murderer who sent young tanzim to kill Jews (and priests). Obviously in the name of "peace" and "two states for two peoples", right?

In France, many cities have named streets and squares after Barghouti, such as Valenton. A square in his name was inaugurated in Coulounieix-Chamiers. The socialist municipality voted by a large majority for the proposal to name the square of the Castle of Izards in honor of the Palestinian Arab terrorist. A photo of Barghouti was displayed at the Stains town hall. The arch-terrorist was granted honorary citizenship by twenty French cities, including Ivry-sur-Seine. And then Gennevilliers, La Courneuve, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, La Verrière, Vitry-sur-Seine.

Left-wing French MPs also went to pay homage to Barghouti in prison. Members of the Belgian Parliament have launched a campaign to nominate Barghouti for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In the French town of Bezons, among the honorary citizens there is also Majdi al Rimawi, leader of the terrorist cell that killed the Israeli Minister of Tourism, Rehavam Ze’evi.

In cities that name streets after Barghouti, mega mosques financed by Qatar are being built. In Aubervilliers, a city with a Muslim majority, where Barghouti became an honorary citizen just 48 hours after the slaughter of Father Jacques Hamel, they throw Molotov cocktails at Jewish schools.

These are cities from which Jews have fled in recent years. In Stains, Jewish families have gone from 250 to 50, in La Courneuve from 300 to 80…

Like in Gaza: since 2005 there have been no more Jews and the only ones are those in the Hamas tunnels.

This is very bad too, and cannot be taken lightly by anybody in France who's worried about this leftist dhimmitude.

Muslim gang rapists in Italy carried PLO flags

Sexual violence by Muslims in Europe continues, including by those supporting the PLO/Hamas:

The Ansa public news agency reports that prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into multiple gang sexual assaults allegedly and molestations carried out by “second-generation North African men” in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo on New Year’s Eve.

So far, at least six tourists in their early 20s from Belgium, two Italian women, a woman from South America, and a woman from England have been identified as potential victims of the attacks. Police expect that further victims may come forward in the coming days.

The probe was launched after testimony from Laura Barbier, a 20-year-old woman from Belgium, who claims that she and her friends, four women and two men, were surrounded and sexually groped by around 40 men.

“We were trapped, helpless in the face of such violence! It was a waking nightmare,” told Belgian media. “We were surrounded, and we couldn’t move! We held hands while they touched us all over the clothes and under the clothes! Despite our jackets and scarves. And it lasted 10 minutes, which is a very long time in this kind of situation.”

She added in comments reported by Italy’s RAI broadcaster that there were around 40 men between the ages of 20 and 40. After finally breaking free, the group approached police officers, relaying the horrific incident in English, to which the female police officer allegedly replied: “I can’t do anything, sorry”.

According to a report from the Italian newspaper Il Giornale, the prosecutor’s office in Milan suspects that the alleged sexual assaults were a manifestation of the “Islamic ritual” known as taharrush gamea, or the “collective sexual harassment in crowds”. The paper said the attacks generally target “insolent women, guilty of showing up in public”.

The dozens of alleged assailants are reported by The Telegraph to have been carrying Palestinian and other flags during the attacks.

That the rapists carried PLO/Hamas flags speaks volumes about their mindsets. But any police officials who refused to help the victims in any way must also be held accountable, and should resign from their undeserved jobs. Let's hope responsible authorities capture the monsters as soon as possible.

Catholic diocese in Italy demonstrates how dhimmitude to Islam remains a serious problem

Robert Spencer describes the sad case of a Catholic representative who's kowtowing to Islam:

Another Ramadan is upon us, and as is always the case, the eager-to-be-fooled infidels are out in force. A Catholic diocese in Italy has just called upon priests and laypeople to seek out opportunities to participate in Ramadan observances, as a gesture of goodwill toward Muslims. When will Muslim leaders tell Muslims to participate in Christian worship to show friendship with Christians? Don’t hold your breath.

The Catholic Herald reported Friday that the Italian diocese of Bergamo is “instructing its priests to participate in Islamic rituals, citing Pope Francis’ directives on interreligious dialogue.” Diocesan officials issued a directive “urging priests to seek out opportunities for interreligious dialogue during the ‘holy month’ of Ramadan by inviting the faithful to join in praying with Muslims and joining in the Iftar ritual meal.”

This directive was the handiwork of Fr. Massimo Rizzi, who is the director of the diocese’s Office for Interreligious Dialogue. Fr. Rizzi is such a hip, up-to-date, Church-of-what’s-happening-now type of priest that he even went so far as to give this letter the date 23 Sha’ban 1445. He wasn’t trying to fool anyone into thinking that the directive had been written nearly six hundred years ago; the date he gave was that of last Monday according to the Islamic calendar.

Even if one doesn't agree with everything in the Hindu/Buddhist/Shinto religions, it's bewildering how "interreligious" conversations don't seem to extend to any of them. Why don't those 3 aforementioned faiths count for such dialogues? Or, why aren't they considered better partners in the same? All that aside, this is definitely awful what's going on, and it will eventually bring down the western world. This is also why one can't be shocked if formerly faithful Christians have become disillusioned. The question then is, why don't even advocates of Judaism try to persuade the disillusioned to try out that instead, along with religions like the 3 aforementioned? Seriously, I think it's about time somebody in Judaism considered whether it might give Europeans new hope, and a better way of being able to manage their lives.

EU must prove they can get Muslim countries to take back their nationals

So far though, this hasn't been the case:

EU interior ministers met in Stockholm last Thursday [Jan. 26] discuss ways to increase the number of returns of irregular migrants to their countries of origin, including by further restricting the issuance of visas to nationals of “non-cooperative” countries.

"It is clear that in an area without internal borders, we need a Europe-wide policy to deal with asylum and migration issues,” said Belgium’s State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor (CD&V) before the meeting.

The relevant ministers from national governments met for the first day of informal ministerial talks under the new Swedish EU presidency, which focused on asylum, migration, and home affairs.

For de Moor, it is a question of having “stronger borders, more solidarity between the member states, and a better European return policy, because the subject of return is crucial.

“We need to speak with one voice when addressing nationals of third countries who do not cooperate sufficiently with our return policy,” she insisted.

“We have a very low return rate”

“We see irregular arrivals increasing (…) Returning those who are denied asylum in Europe is a very important issue,” added Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.

Of the approximately 340,500 “return” decisions issued across Europe in 2021, just 21 percent were actually implemented, according to Eurostat [...]

Hugh Fitzgerald addressed the issue:

These are not asylum seekers, but economic migrants. Their “movements within the Union” are prompted by the desire to move to the richer countries where welfare benefits are the most generous. Thus, for example, migrants who first land in Italy or Spain or the Balkans will try to move to such rich countries as Germany and Sweden, where a cornucopia of benefits are offered. One way to end this moving about Europe by economic migrants, in order to maximize their benefits, is to pass an EU law requiring migrants to remain in whatever country they first land in for a certain period – say, ten years – no matter how slim the benefits may be.

At least the EU has become sufficiently alarmed about the problem to hold a special meeting to discuss how best to persuade countries of origin to take back those of their citizens whom the countries of the EU wish to expel. That is one sign of sanity breaking out in Europe, after nearly two decades of immigration madness, in which tens of millions of Muslim migrants have either been allowed to enter the EU, or been born to Muslims who had previously been allowed in. Now the civilizational threat posed by so many Muslims, that such intrepid souls as Geert Wilders, Eric Zemmour, and Laurent Obertone, have written about, is beginning to be more widely understood. It is no longer forbidden to discuss this threat. And what has become obvious to many people who for too long had been simply silenced by fear of being tarred as “Islamophobic” needs to be endlessly repeated. It’s one sentence that everyone in the West should fully grasp and memorize: “The large-scale presence of Muslims in Europe has created a situation that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous for the indigenous Europeans and for other, non-Muslim, migrants, than would be the case without that large-scale Muslim presence.” Don’t leave home without it.

If you ask me, it should be a badge of honor to be called "Islamophobic" (and also "transphobic", if it matters). The election of figures like Giorgia Meloni in Italy is also a hopeful sign, and they, in example, will hopefully ensure that sanity is eventually restored, and especially safety.

Secularism will not survive under Islam in France, or anywhere else

Giulio Meotti's addressed the continued danger of Islam conquering France and much of Europe:

Macron's adviser on Islam at the Montaigne Institute, Hakim El Karoui, also reveals that Islam is the first religion practiced in France. "There are more practicing Muslims, between 2.5 and 3 million, than practicing Catholics, 1.65 million".

Cuchet portrays a France at the end of its history and culture, the twilight of a Christianity that becomes a prelude to the European one.

Over the centuries, Islam has made several attempts to conquer Europe, managing to conquer the western flank (Spain), all of the southern Mediterranean, the eastern flank (from Constantinople to the Balkans) to be stopped in the north. Here Islam failed because it faced Christians strong in faith and ready to resist. But this time things could be different.

Islam has numerous advantages which it lacked in the past. For one thing, the Islamic threat is less obvious today. The process of Islamization is hidden and operates with the power of demography and propaganda rather than force of arms. Furthermore, Islam, which sees its confrontation with the West as a spiritual struggle, is now facing a culture in which the influence of religion has been violently eradicated.

The other problem is the so-called "secular people". They demolish Christian symbols from the public space, which is increasingly submerged by those of Islam.

In the city of Bourbon-Lancy, the statue of King Louis IX and the cross that adorns the school will be removed. The building was purchased by the socialist-led municipality from the diocese to be transformed into a center for social and cultural activities. “On condition that the statue of St. Louis and the cross be removed”.

Who did the statue of the king and the cross annoy? The same people who vandalized a Paris church four times since the beginning of the year?

He also notes that the Brittany province is seeing more Muslims now, and that's additionally dangerous. I would recommend for anybody in France who needs a worthy system of faith to consider the following: 1)Orthodox Christianity, like in eastern Europe, 2)Orthodox Judaism, though not the Haredi approach to the faith, and 3)faiths of the far east, like Shintoism, Hinduism and Buddhism, if they too provide anything that can encourage and inspire for the better. And I hope French worried about the future will consider this information, because sooner or later, the horrors of Islam are really going to be unleashed, and we need to be prepared properly.

It's also vital to consider that the "palestinians" - the same fabricated society the EU's so hell-bent on supporting at Israel's expense - is in favor of conquering Europe:

Europe will be conquered by Islam, according to a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad official who claims the continent’s subjugation is part of the fulfillment of an ancient Islamic prophecy.

Speaking on Al-Quds Al-Youm TV on Islamic Jihad’s Gaza television station earlier this month, Samir Zaqout, who heads the political bureau of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza, warned that the European continent would yet fall to Islamic domination. [...]

[...] The message comes as Europe faces a sudden surge of mass migration, with many Western nations seeing near-record numbers of boat migrants arriving on their shores in recent months.

There's a vital lesson to learn here - no matter how much Europe kowtows to Islam, even those calling themselves "palestinians" today will not be grateful, and will turn against Europeans after the balance of power tips in their favor. Exactly why realists in Europe should do their best to avoid associating with them.

Iranian and Pakistani terrorists formed alliance in Europe

Oshrit Birvadker's pointed to the growing alliance between Iranian and Pakistani terrorists trying to commit violent terrorism in Europe:

The foiled terror plot in Greece is yet another example of the thriving collaboration between Tehran and Islamabad and how the ayatollah regime has been using Pakistani terror cells across Europe.

As part of the intense struggle against Israel, the Iranians are hell-bent on orchestrating attacks at all costs. In recent years, we have seen a growing number of Iranian plots against Israeli and Jewish targets, on multiple continents. This time it was closer to home, a country that is popular among vacationing Israelis.

Iran's actions in recent years on the world stage have showcased its expansive use of cells beyond its borders that get help from home-grown elements. Such a modus operandi helps it maintain plausible deniability. Iranians have found new-old agents to perpetrate terrorist attacks against Israel: The Pakistanis.

Pakistan is not just a safe haven for terrorist groups, it also manages to outsource its most selling product: terrorism. The Pakistanis have a wide network of people across Europe, including labor migrants and organizations helping fund their activity.

In February 2022, Spain arrested five Pakistanis who were affiliated with the radical right-wing party TLP in Pakistan for allegedly helping the 2015 attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris. That party has many supporters in Spain, France, Italy, and Greece. Europe, in effect, had become a Pakistani terrorist paradise.

It's mainly because only so many European governments allowed this to happen, and all they cared about was a "two-state solution" for Israel and the so-called "palestinians". And it's a mentality they took right back to their continent and applied to local areas. As a result, it's no wonder such tragedies ended up occurring.

Interesting though, how TLP is described as "right wing" here. Even if it is a movement in Pakistan proper, it's honestly peculiar how that kind of description keeps getting used, even though it can be unintentionally hurtful to conservative movements in the west.

Politicized pilots

Some airline pilots for El Al put politics ahead of their job, out of contempt for Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reforms:

Israel's national airline El Al pilots left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, high and dry after no one volunteered to fly Israel's first couple out to Rome for a state visit to Italy scheduled later this week, El Al Airlines said on Sunday.

The deadline of a tender issued by Israel's national airline, as is required when the prime minister is set to depart on a commercial airline, expired at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday and was met with indifference by El Al pilots and flight attendants, who refused to take up the opportunity.

Later on Sunday evening, El Al announced that it had finally found a crew to fly the Netanyahu couple out to Italy.

[...] The refusal by the pilots to man the prime minister's flight joins an earlier statement by 37 out of the 40 reserve pilots in the Israeli Air Force's 69th fighter squadron, who announced they will not attend a pre-scheduled training session this coming Wednesday in protest of the government's judicial reform.

The reserve pilots announced their decision Sunday to the heads of the airforce and their squadron commander. Instead of training, they have said they will hold a dialogue regarding the issue under debate outside of government offices.

Although some of these pilots may have been acting upon the orders of a union they were part of, it's still no excuse, and unless they resign from what's clearly a corrupt union, they should have their licenses revoked. This was one of the most blatant examples to date of leftists in business putting politics ahead of duties, and was throughly reprehensible. This is exactly why the judicial reforms have to be made.

Linor Abargil, Sella Sharlin and Sivan Klein would do well to consider the views of Pamela Anderson

I recently spoke about the cancellation of the Miss Israel pageant, and the dismay I felt when I saw some apparent feminists bought into the whole sex-negative narrative being fed by SJWs in the USA, using that to justify terminating it on those grounds. Well that's why I think they should take a look at what veteran actress/model Pamela Anderson had to say in her new biography, which provides a very valid belief that perfectly counters theirs:

There's a strand of feminism that detests the "objectification" of women in entertainment through the "male gaze." They say this patriarchal lens employs masculine desire (think: sex symbol) to diminish the importance of a female character. Pamela Anderson's legendary career as a model, television star, and political activist sends a message to those who see the world that way: Kiss my empowered rack.

Anderson likes to joke that her "breasts had a career of their own and I was just tagging along." So, it might surprise you to learn that the blonde bombshell was a childish tomboy who loved playing with "anything that creeped and crawled." She was a "complete contrast" with her mother, who was cut from a cosmetic cloth. She would tell young Pamela that there was "no excuse not to look good" and "no such thing as natural beauty." Being a looker required hard work and mirror time. This maternal glamour rationale went beyond vanity: "You are more powerful if you're pretty."

It should also be noted that Anderson, much like Abargil, was victim of a terrible experience:

Anderson grew up in a small Canadian town. Her father was loving but flawed by anger and abuse. At one point she watches in horror as he tosses her kittens in a bag and drowns them. She is molested by a babysitter and raped at 12 years old by a man nearly twice her age. After high school, she gets out of Dodge and moves to Vancouver.

On this note, Abargil was victim of an Israeli travel agent working in Italy circa 1998, Uri Shlomo Nur, who raped her in his car at knifepoint. An absolutely repulsive act that he almost got away with, because Italian police decided there wasn't enough evidence. Thankfully, Abargil was able to receive aid from Israeli police, who managed to arrest Nur when he came on a flight to Israel himself, and he received a 16 year prison sentence.

Like Abargil years before, Anderson didn't let the assault she experienced destroy her life and view of sexuality going forward. And that's exactly why it's decidedly very sad if Abargil is succumbing to modern PC and implying beauty pageants were ever a mistake to start with. The same goes for Sharlin and Klein, if they believe wearing a bikini and being intelligent are throughly incompatible. And on that note, at the end of the Free Beacon book review, it says:

Pamela rejects the idea that "being sexy" should "conflict with intelligence." Her own mother impressed on her that being pretty can make you more powerful. She found great success in life leveraging that ethos to further causes she believes in: "If a cartoon image of me was what got me through the door, so be it."

On that, she's right. Why, if you think about it a bit, it's possible to structure "cartoony" as a compliment, by making it synonymous with "sexy". In any event, I think Abargil, Sharlin and Klein owe an apology to all the pretty ladies out there who're going to be stung by their poor statements. And while it's definitely abominable what Abargil went through, I noticed this old 2009 report, which says:

Despite the agony she has gone through, Abargil refuses to believe that rapists are evil people.

“They are human beings that have a big, big problem,” she says. “But they are not villains at all. They can be anyone.”

What?!? Seriously, this is a very ill-advised viewpoint to take, especially in a day and age where both Islamofascism and leftism have enabled sexual violence. What Abargil went through was utterly obscene, and she was lucky to survive. But that's exactly why it's regrettable she made that statement, and doubly so if she still retains it 14 years later. Just recently, Scotland was rocked by the transsexual scandal where the now ex-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon approved of putting a biological male rapist in a woman's prison. In a manner of speaking, rapists can be "anyone", but that's exactly why they can't be awarded privileges that enable them to continue committing crimes. On which note, I hope Abargil, who's now religiously observant, knows how bad it'd look if she came within even miles of taking a lenient view of LGBT ideology. At the same time, if she doesn't have the courage to speak out on these specific issues, that too is a serious weakness and quite telling for somebody who says she's concerned for women's rights and dignity.

As far as I'm concerned, Anderson is the one I'm siding with here, and the 3 former Miss Israel contestants decidedly owe an apology for taking positions that insult intellects. What they said only furthers the considerable damage being done to women's dignity these days, by saying exactly what SJWs want to hear, and they'd do well to come off it.

Update: as is noted in this film festival review about her documentary Brave Miss World, Abargil later became ultra-Orthodox, so her previous declaration that beauty pageants are mistakes should be no surprise. Seriously, I'm also disappointed, because such positions don't solve these problems, and practically end up doing what predators wouldn't mind happening one bit. Did that ever occur to any of these folks?

Giorgia Meloni wins Italian elections for premier

Reports are in that conservative Italian politician Giorgia Meloni has won the country's election:

Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader and conservative firebrand Giorgia Meloni has said that the establishment left is afraid of her right-populist coalition winning the Italian national election this weekend, promising a new era of freedom for Italians.

Meloni made her comments this week during a rally in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, saying: “Italy is better than the left-wing governments it has had in recent years. The left is there to blather that everyone is afraid, but the only ones who are afraid are them because they have understood that their system of power is about to end.” “We are ready, until the last vote, to restore freedom and pride to this nation. They say the markets, Europe, TikTok singers, actors, and influencers are worried about a centre-right victory. We don’t care what they say. We care what the Italians think,” Meloni continued, in comments reported by the newspaper Il Giornale.

“We are scary. But to whom? We only scare those who fear losing power, certainly not the Italians. We have shown that we are not as naïve as the mainstream hoped we were. Thank you for showing that in our part of Italy politics is love and not hate, it is not a crusade against one’s opponents but is made up of concrete proposals,” she said.

What's regrettable is when leftists are only so greedy for power, and it's all they care about. They could do a lot better by proving political power isn't the most important thing in the world to them. Meloni may be Italy's first female premier, and if she develops some good policies, including how to boost more child-birth, that'll be a good start.

Illegal immigrant from Egypt dead after smugglers try to ram French police

Illegal alien smugglers in Italy/France led to the death of one of their subjects while trying to ram a police group:

An Egyptian illegal migrant was killed this week by police in southern France after officers opened fire on a people smuggler’s vehicle that rammed a checkpoint near the Italian border.

The 35-year-old Egyptian national died on Wednesday evening after French border police were alerted by Italian authorities to a van, likely carrying illegal immigrants from Italy, that was travelling near the town of Sospel.

When the driver of the van refused to pull over for police, officers gave chase and a second police team later caught up to the van, which then drove toward the police, forcing officers to open fire on the vehicle, the newspaper Le Figaro reports.

Prosecutor of the Republic of Nice Xavier Bonhomme released a statement on the incident saying, “the van accelerated in the direction of (this) police vehicle,” and added that one of the officers “used his weapon four times,” to stop the van.

The van ended up in the Les Moulins neighbourhood in the city of Nice after escaping officers and was abandoned by the driver and two others sitting in the front of the vehicle.

When police discovered the vehicle, there were five migrants inside, including the 35-year-old Egyptian who had been shot in the head. the Egyptian was immediately taken to a local hospital but later died of his injuries.

It's clear these smugglers don't care about their subjects, any more than those smuggling illegal aliens into the USA from Latin America. Let's hope the criminals who drove the van are caught.

Europeans speaking out against censorship

There's representatives in Europe who're speaking out not only against censorship, but also failure to condemn leftist violence:

Jerome Riviere, president of the Identity and Democracy group, the bloc of national populist and national conservative parties in the European Parliament, condemned big tech censorship in a speech at the EU legislature this week.

The Identity and Democracy groups includes Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from a number of mainstream national populist parties in European countries.

The parties include Matteo Salvini’s Lega party in Italy, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France, Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, and Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Germany.

National conservative parties from Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Belgium, Austria, and the Czech Republic are also represented.

In his speech, Riviere, a French MEP representing the National Rally party, condemned the recently inaugurated President Biden for his lackluster response to political violence and insurrection from the far left during summer, and said the rise of tech censorship against President Trump and his movement represented a concern for all democracies.

“The other overwhelming spectacle that should worry us is the exclusion by almost all social networks of a democratically elected and still serving president.”

“This represents an unprecedented historical aggression against this essential democratic principle: respect for freedom of expression.”

“Social networks have disconnected Donald Trump, arrogating to themselves the exorbitant right to create new rules. They believe conditions of use of their service take precedence over the constitution of sovereign states.

Riviere is the latest major political voice to join a worldwide backlash against the political power of big tech companies; a backlash that begun after Donald Trump – then still the president – was permanently suspended from most major social media platforms.

Seeing that Poland is beginning a major anti-censorship drive of their own, this'll hopefully be the wakeup call needed at a time when Biden is making a major disaster of US policy, beginning - but not limited to - stateside alone.