Allah's Willing Executioners

A 40-year-old man was arrested in Amiens on Tuesday morning after a series of violent assaults against women, during which he reportedly said to one of his victims, “I’ve wanted to fuck a white woman for a long time.”

The suspect, who has a history of rape and sexual assault convictions, is now under investigation for attempted rape with a weapon, attempted murder, aggravated sexual assault, and aggravated violence.

As reported by France Bleu, the attacks took place between 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Tuesday in the Saint-Honoré district of the French city. According to Amiens deputy prosecutor Véronique Parent, the man first confronted a woman around 8:30 a.m., pressing a kitchen knife into her back and threatening her by saying, “Follow me or I’ll kill you.” He then led her to a more secluded area where he made the sexually charged comment about White women. The assault was interrupted when a witness intervened, prompting the man to flee.

Minutes later, he targeted another woman, stabbing her between four and six times, according to investigators, before escaping again. That victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries and remains hospitalized.

Police arrested the suspect shortly after the second assault, finding him heavily intoxicated and fleeing on a scooter.

During the investigation, authorities identified two additional victims attacked earlier that morning. In one case, the man threatened a woman with a knife and ordered her to follow him, but she managed to escape. In another, he groped a woman as she was placing her child into a car seat.

Prosecutors revealed that the suspect has an extensive criminal record, including prior convictions for drug trafficking in 2005 and 2007, followed by three separate convictions for rape and sexual assault in Fort-de-France, Caen, and Evry.

After his most recent conviction in 2020, he had been under court supervision in Amiens, living in a treatment facility for alcoholism while reportedly seeking employment.

As of Wednesday evening, the man remained in custody, with the Amiens prosecutor’s office confirming that an initial court appearance is scheduled for Friday.

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There was a time when Europe stood as a beacon of liberty — the birthplace of Enlightenment ideals, the defender of individual rights, the champion of human dignity.

Today, that same Europe hosts classes to teach adult men — not boys — that women are not public property, sexual objects, or spoils of war.

Not because these men are mentally unstable. Not because they come from war zones. But because they come from Islamic countries, where modesty is law, where female autonomy is rebellion, and where sexual violence is normalized — by culture, by clerics, and sometimes by the law itself.

These aren’t fringe cases. They are embedded practices. This is not satire. This is policy.

In Norway, asylum seekers — overwhelmingly from Islamic-majority nations like Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan — are now enrolled in government-sponsored “rape prevention classes.” These men are shown images of Western women in dresses, walking alone, drinking wine, or dancing — and are told: “This is not an invitation.”

They are taught that a woman’s smile doesn’t mean she consents. That women are equal. That sex without permission is rape.

Here’s the chilling part: to many of these men, this is news. This isn’t remedial education — this is reprogramming.

Because the worldview they bring isn’t just incompatible with Western norms. It’s antagonistic to them.

Islamic law — Sharia — does not merely fail to protect women. It codifies their subjugation.

A woman, in traditional Islamic law, is not seen as an equal partner — but as a field to be cultivated, a sexual object owned, not honored.

“Your wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish.”
— Quran 2:223

This is not metaphor. This is ownership language — one that frames the woman not as a subject, but as an object.

If a wife disobeys her husband, Quran 4:34 prescribes a sequence: admonish her, banish her from the bed, and if she remains defiant, strike her.

The 14th-century Islamic legal manual Reliance of the Traveller, certified by Al-Azhar University, expands on this:

• m10.12 states a wife may not refuse sex to her husband, and that doing so justifies disciplinary action.
• o17.4 explains that a woman’s silence or physical availability implies consent.

In other words, marital rape is impossible under Sharia — because a wife has no legal standing to deny her body once married.

Rape victims are not protected. They are prosecuted. If a woman accuses a man of sexual assault but cannot produce four male witnesses, she can be charged with zina (fornication) — a crime punishable by stoning, lashing, or even death.

These rulings aren’t extremist fatwas. They are mainstream Sunni jurisprudence, taught in madrasas and Islamic legal academies across the world.

In Iran, a 26-year-old woman named Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged in 2014 after stabbing a man she said tried to rape her. The Islamic Republic did not see a terrified woman fighting for her life. They saw a woman who dared to spill male blood — and they killed her for it. This wasn’t vigilante justice. This was Sharia.

In Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Saudi Arabia, Sharia-based penal codes routinely criminalize female victims while shielding male aggressors. Honor killings, forced marriages, and court-sanctioned floggings are not anomalies — they are features of a system built on the devaluation of women.

Now that we’ve exposed how Sharia views women in general, let’s understand why so many Muslim men — especially those raised under Sharia — view Western women as fair game. You must understand what they’ve been taught.

From childhood, they are raised in systems where the honor of the family rests on a woman’s silence, modesty, and obedience. Where a woman who is unveiled, outspoken, or sexually independent is seen not as free — but as filthy, corrupt, or worthy of punishment.

So when these men encounter Western women — walking alone, speaking boldly, dancing, drinking, wearing what they choose — they do not see humans deserving of respect.
They see prey.

And in their eyes, war is already underway — not with tanks, but with demographic conquest, ideological supremacy, and the belief that Allah has promised them dominion over unbelievers and their women.

“And He caused you to inherit their land and their homes and their wealth…”
— Quran 33:27

In Islamic theology, jihad is not just spiritual struggle — it is civilizational conquest. And part of that conquest includes the right to take female captives as slaves and concubines.

“[Forbidden to you are] married women except those whom your right hands possess.”
— Quran 4:24

“They guard their private parts, except from their wives or those their right hands possess.”
— Quran 23:5–6

Consent is irrelevant.

According to Sahih Muslim 3432, Muhammad’s companions were hesitant to rape captive women in front of their husbands. Muhammad permitted it: “It is permissible to have sexual intercourse with captive women.”

Reliance of the Traveller, section o9.13, affirms: “When a child or woman is taken captive, they become the property of the captor, who may have sexual intercourse with the female captive.”

This isn’t ancient history.

In Nigeria, Boko Haram abducted thousands of Christian girls — including 276 from Chibok in 2014. Many were brutalized, converted, and sold. Their justification? The Quran. The Prophet’s precedent.

One girl reported being told: “You are a Christian, and now you belong to us. Allah has given you to us as booty.” Girls were tied to trees and raped. Others were forcibly married or impregnated.

ISIS escalated it further. In Iraq, Yazidi villages were invaded. Men were executed. Women and girls as young as nine were enslaved and raped.

ISIS distributed pamphlets explaining the Sharia rules of rape — including allowances for prepubescent girls. One escapee recalled being told:

“This is allowed. Allah has permitted it.”

This is the mindset many of these men bring to the West.

Not all — but enough to matter.

Enough to overwhelm communities. Enough to justify assault as divine entitlement. Enough to see Western women as unclaimed property in a civilization too weak to defend them.

In Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve 2015, over 1,200 women were groped, assaulted, or raped by mobs of men described as “Arab or North African.” The government tried to cover it up — until citizen reports forced them to confront reality.

In Sweden, now dubbed the “rape capital of Europe,” sexual assaults have skyrocketed — especially in migrant-heavy areas. Sweden’s own National Council for Crime Prevention reported in 2017 that 58% of convicted rapists were foreign-born, mostly from Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia.

Then came the UK’s grooming gang scandal — one of the greatest failures of law enforcement in modern Western history.

Thousands of underage British girls were raped, branded, drugged, and trafficked by predominantly Pakistani Muslim men. In cities like Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, and Oxford, the abuse was systematic — and authorities looked the other way.

Why? Because they were afraid of being called racist.
So they sacrificed girls to ideology.

Tolerance became treason the moment it protected predators over children.

Women are not thought experiments.

They are human beings — equal, free, and sovereign.

If a government must teach men not to rape, then the immigration system has failed.
If a woman must worry that her lipstick, her laughter, or her legs might “invite” violence, then the culture has surrendered.

And if we’re too cowardly to name where the threat comes from — Islamic countries, Islamic doctrine, and Sharia-based mindsets — then we are complicit.

These men aren’t coming from Buddhist monasteries or shaped by Confucian ethics.
They are shaped by Sharia, by family codes, and by theology that devalues women.

You cannot teach a man who believes Allah gave him dominion over women that she is his equal.
You cannot reform a worldview that considers modesty a measure of morality, labels rape victims adulterers, and declares that women are worth half a man.

You cannot integrate Sharia with freedom.

You can only choose one.

And if we don’t choose ours — boldly, unapologetically, immediately —
we will lose it.

History doesn’t forgive cowardice.

And neither will our daughters.

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American men’s interest magazine Esquire has been honored with its first-ever Pulitzer Prize for the publication of an article mourning the death of a “transgender” mayor who had been posting photos of local women to porn sites. The now-deceased Smiths station Mayor, F.L. “Bubba” Copeland committed suicide in late 2023 after a damning expose was released by 1819 News which published the sick details of his secret online “transgender” double-life — one that included penning erotic fantasies of murdering a local woman.

Announcing the reception of the prestigious award on May 5, Esquire described their article, written by Mark Warren, as an “extraordinary, deeply moving account” of the “beloved” cross-dressing Alabama mayor Copeland, who “took his own life after a right-wing news website exposed private online activities he’d engaged in that involved transgender role play.”

“With great sensitivity, Warren, an author and a former longtime editor at Esquire, interviewed scores of Copeland’s friends, family, townspeople, and fellow congregants in order to render a heartbreaking account of the man’s final days, and to portray the full scope of the visceral, grief-stricken, perhaps counterintuitive response of a small southern town in all its rich complexity,” said the Esquire editorial team in their statement.

“In so doing, he illuminates how very much was lost when Copeland was driven to despair. The story explores themes of immediate, even urgent relevance: our evolving norms of gender and sexual difference, the brutal culture wars that have us tearing at one another often without thought or regard, the profound effect of social media on our lives, and the astonishing power of the Internet.”

It's an incredible honor to take home the @PulitzerPrizes award in Feature Writing for Mark Warren's portrait of Bubba Copeland in our April/May 2024 issue.

Revisit the vital story: https://t.co/DynPmi6W6d pic.twitter.com/GDBAq2RC3r

— Esquire (@esquire) May 5, 2025

The article, titled “Right-Wing Media and the Death of an Alabama Pastor: An American Tragedy,” lauds Copeland as “the heart and soul of his community.” It opens by depicting Copeland in his role as a pastor at the First Baptist Church of Phenix City, Alabama, on the last Sunday of October 2023 — just days before he would commit suicide.

“Bubba would often talk about how his life had been suffused with a grace that was beyond his comprehension. He believed that was the essence of God, and today he was telling his congregation that if God could love him—of all people—it was a sure sign that God loved everyone created in His image,” Esquire editor Warren wrote.

However, the bulk of the 11,000-word essay focuses on Copeland’s friends and family, with very brief mention of the disturbing behavior demonstrated by the former mayor revealed by women who came forward to disclose how he had stolen their identities or used them as props in fetish content.

Among the revelations were that Copeland operated multiple secret social media accounts where he had been posting transgender fetish content and graphic sexual narratives across platforms. Copeland shared photos of himself dressed to resemble a blonde woman, and in one of many disturbing short stories he published online, Copeland, who owned a local grocery store, wrote about watching women on in-store security cameras, then saving the videos for his “private collection.”

When engaging in erotic cross-dressing, Copeland used the name “Brittini Blaire Summerlin.” At least a portion of his cross-dressing alter-ego was stolen from the identities and likenesses of other women. Ansley Summerlin, who alleged Copeland appropriated her identity, told local news WTVM after his death that she had discovered her name and likeness posted to multiple porn sites.

“I had some people start sending me photos that were posted of me on multiple porn sites, that also had pictures of ‘Brittini’ as well. He proceeded to use my first and middle name on these sites. There are about nine sites now that have five or six photos of my face and my name across the internet,” Summerlin said.

The recent suicide of an Alabama mayor was mourned by trans activists after it was revealed that he had been leading a double-life as a "trans woman."

Now, local women are learning that "Bubba" Copeland shared their names and photos on pornography sites.https://t.co/lIGuT8NRxV

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) November 10, 2023

Another woman who declined to identify herself stated that she had also been victimized by Copeland.

“It said my first and last name, and it was basically describing the way that I look — and intensified, I guess, as a porn star,” the unidentified woman told WTVM. “And it went into very graphic detail. I didn’t get past the first page because I honestly couldn’t stomach it.”

As previously reported by Reduxx, Copeland posted transgender fetish content on his Tumblr account, while promoting the use of feminizing hormones for men who wish to “become [a] whore.” The theme of “bimbofication” extended throughout his online persona, with Copeland expressing arousal and enjoyment at the thought of being reduced to a feminine sexual object for male use.

During his final public address to his church, Copeland responded to some of the revelations by saying his online fetish behavior was a hobby to relieve stress, and portrayed the article as “an internet attack.” “Congregation, church, Facebook, I have been an object of an internet attack.” Copeland said. “The article is not who or what I am. Yes, I have taken pictures with my wife in the privacy of our home in an attempt of humor because I know I’m not a handsome man, nor a beautiful woman either. I apologize for any embarrassment caused by my private personal life that has gone publicly,” he said.

However, at that time, the full extent of his twisted fantasies had not yet come to light. Nor had the several women who were personally impacted yet spoken out about being used in Copeland’s “private” and “personal” fetish content.

Shortly after his suicide, anonymous sources shed light on erotic stories authored by Copeland and posted to Fictionmania, a self-publication platform for erotic stories. Copeland authored at least four tales centered around becoming a woman. While his first story, titled Becoming Christine, was rated “G” for a lack of graphic content, all of Copeland’s subsequent stories were rated “XXX.”

In the two-part story “The Recruit,” Copeland weaves a first-person account about a young man who becomes a “she-male” in order “make it” in the porn business. The story opens with Copeland writing: “That feels so good! Deeper, deeper! Hit it, daddy, harder, ohhh yes! Yes! To you, it may seem a bit odd! Being fucked from behind like a dog, But it’s my job. Like you show up to work every day, I do too; however, my job is to be a sexy, hot receptacle for men.”

Trans activists are mourning the suicide of an Alabama politician who they say was "involuntarily outed" as a "trans woman."

Smiths Station Mayor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland had written erotic fantasies about killing a local woman and assuming her identity.https://t.co/lO9g8r4jgo

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) November 4, 2023

In many of Copeland’s writings, he presents feminization as being a “sexual punishment” or a “bimbo transformation.” The motivation for transition is described as being for sexual gratification, or in order to increase sexual access for the men he fantasizes about satisfying.

But Copeland’s fictional erotica took a dark turn in 2021, when he published a story titled “Dangerous Obsession.” In the story, Copeland describes becoming obsessed with a local business owner, who he ultimately murders to assume her identity. The woman murdered in the story is a real individual who was living in Copeland’s community at the time.

“In my cubicle I scanned her page. She posted a new picture! Excited I screenshot it to add to my ever-growing collection,” Copeland wrote. “To say I was a stalker would be a bit of an understatement. Every post she made I studied it, analyzing and taking notes of her daily routine. What she ate, what she drank, from her favorite coffee to her favorite alcoholic drink. Her life had become my obsession.” 

“I wanted her life! Staring at her on the latest social media application, all I could think about was how amazing it must be to be her,” he continued. “At 29 years old, married, and due to gastric bypass surgery had lost a lot of weight, she looked on top of the world.”

Copeland’s narration describes undergoing dramatic plastic surgery to “become” a woman. He then pursues the victim on a cruise ship. After a violent struggle in which the woman screams and cries, Copeland pushes her over the rail of the ship.

Before murdering her, Copeland’s character steals the victim’s wedding ring.

Some of the photos and shared images featured on Copeland’s Tumblr blog had a theme of younger boys being transitioned into girls. While the images, which sometimes included photos of actual minors, were non-sexual in appearance, they were shared through “erotica” communities.

One meme featured a photo of a local brother and sister, at least one of which was a minor. Copeland had saved their images from social media accounts. “Take the shots, get implants, become the whore,” he captioned the meme, intending to imply that the young boy had been medically transitioned into a young girl.

The style of memes created by Copeland is referred to within online transgender erotica groups as “sissy captions.” They are designed to be sexually suggestive while not explicitly pornographic so that they may easily be shared online while avoiding censorship. Frequently, sissy captions feature young women or underage girls, though they may sometimes include young boys, as well. In some cases, boys are depicted wearing lingerie or dresses. In more graphic content, young women and underage girls are posed suggestively and text alongside the stolen images express an ostensible desire to be forcibly “transitioned,” sexually abused, or even raped and sex trafficked.

Copeland, while using photographs of minors to produce fetish content, was also active in Reddit forums where he encouraged several other participants to begin taking hormones. Following his death, Copeland was memorialized in a transgender Reddit community which focuses on those who begin to declare a transgender status later on in life.

“It’s easy to see that Bubba was wrong and crossed an ethical line in using the names and images of people he knew in his fiction and other posts,” Warren writes for Esquire. “But in this Alabama skirmish in a hellish culture war—over gender and speech and objective reality itself—with its dehumanized politics and competing conceptions of heaven, suffused with rage and loss and bereft of much clarity, two things are clear: First, 1819 News wanted the whole world to see Bubba’s posts, without fully understanding what they contained.”

Here, Warren neglects to highlight that Copeland’s posts contained personal information belonging to local residents, and further that the “gender erotica” content was published publicly for “the whole world to see.”

Warren continues: “Before posting its stories, the editorial team there also didn’t seem to know much beyond the few facts they had discovered, things they saw as sensational and repugnant. And second, Bubba Copeland was desperate for his hidden life to remain hidden and never intended for anyone other than perhaps his wife and the other pseudonymous members of his online community to see his posts. He was shattered at the sudden collision of his private and public identities and killed himself.”

Pulitzer prize-winners for an article in a magazine are handed a $15,000 payout along with a certificate verifying their status as a recipient. The Pulitzer Prize is funded via an investment income which was the endowment of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. The awards and funds are distributed through Columbia University.

As Reduxx has exclusively revealed, a prominent professor at Columbia University was influential in pressuring the World Health Organization (WHO) to depathologize certain sexual pathologies associated with what is today referred to as transgenderism. Dr. Richard B. Krueger, a sexologist and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, urged the WHO to remove transvestic fetishism and sadomasochism from the the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

Krueger, who has served as Medical Director of the Sexual Behavior Clinic at New York State Psychiatric Institute, was a member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Paraphilias Subworkgroup, and responsible for the APA’s fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) entry for pedophilia.

During the DSM revision process, Krueger consulted with pro-pedophile activist group B4U-Act, which campaigns to have pedophilia recognized as a sexual orientation.

A trans-identified male academic has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, prompting backlash due to his long history of making disparaging comments about women.

Andrea Long Chu once wrote: "Getting fucked makes you female because fucked is what a female is."https://t.co/GMW6pMx5py

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) May 10, 2023

In 2023, Columbia University awarded a Pulitzer prize to a trans-identified male academic who claimed that his pornography addiction motivated his decision to “transition.” Andrea Long Chu, born Andrew, wrote a book titled Females, published in 2019, which argued that being penetrated during sex transforms one into a woman.

“Almost every night, for at least a year before I transitioned, I would wait till my girlfriend had fallen asleep and slip out of bed for the bathroom with my phone. I was going on Tumblr to look at something called sissy porn,” Chu writes. “Getting fucked makes you female because fucked is what a female is… Pornography is what it feels like when you think you have an object, but really the object has you. It is therefore a quintessential expression of femaleness.”

Long Chu penned an essay for New York Magazine last year which argues for “the right of anybody, at any age, to change their sex.”

https://reduxx.info/us-mens-magazine-awarded-pulitzer-for-article-memorializing-transgender-mayor-who-posted-photos-of-local-women-to-porn-sites/

On this week’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson are joined by Rob Bates of the Centre for Migration Control.

Everyone knows that multiculturalism and mass immigration are changing the face of European cities and certainly not for the better. But if you say so, you are labeled a “reactionary”, or worse.

In Germany, it seems that the main problem now is to designate the AfD as a threat to democracy (there are already some states that would like to directly ban it and with them one in five German voters is an enemy of the state), in England a famous writer critical of immigration Renaud Camus is prevented from entering the country and in France the judges do not want to let Marine Le Pen run in the next presidential elections.

But preventing people from forming an opinion and being able to express it at the ballot box, especially when their way of life is at stake, does not seem like a very wise choice.

Want to see the end of Europe? Go to Birmingham.

What happened to the second largest English city and the largest local authority in Europe with 101 city councilors, that it ends up bankrupt and in newspapers and TVs all over the world, like CNN?

Matt Goodwin explains what Birmingham is:

“A city where less than half the residents are now white, one in three is Muslim, the vast majority of social housing has gone to people who were not born in the United Kingdom, one in seven openly rejects a British or English identity and more than one in five lives in families where the adults do not speak English as their primary language.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali has just spoken about Birmingham in America comparing it to Lahore.

The city of Birmingham has spent £50 million on civil servants who were supposed to promote “diversity, equity, inclusion”. The Labour-led city has thrown away several million in a project to rename streets to reflect its progressive beliefs, such as “Diversity Grove” or “Equality Road”.

And since street cleaners are striking in support of Hamas and against Israel, the government must now send in the army to collect waste.

There is a lot of waste, but very little “diversity” in the city.

The city was driven into bankruptcy by the lawsuit filed by female employees demanding equal pay. Having declared bankruptcy, the city of Birmingham now provides only essential services and has relied on central government intervention to fill the budget gap. In the name of “fighting sexism”, the women of the city now find themselves without services for women and maternity care. It’s called woke.

In the streets of Birmingham, in front of commercial brands to purchase, conversion to Islam is advertised.

In the city, the muezzin calls to prayer. Everywhere.

And you have to be truly blind not to see what is happening. Or to quote British journalist Melanie Phillips, “British elites are in complete denial about the Islamization of the West.”

We still remember the surprise with which the city of Birmingham greeted the words of a Fox News commentator who spoke of the first Islamic city in the United Kingdom. Since then, just ten years ago, a lot has happened.

Muslim children in Birmingham have outnumbered Christians.

Churches in Birmingham are becoming mosques (the British have closed 3,500 churches in ten years, so there will be a lot of real estate supply).

In mosques, imams explain how to stone women.

And at university, Jews are no longer welcome: “Death to Zionists,” as in Iran.

If it is not yet defined a failed city, despite the rats and the stench, it surely looks a lot like one.

And in Birmingham, in 2005, there were the first immigration riots in all of Europe.

“In the working-class neighborhood of Small Heath, in the eastern part of the city, 95 percent of the population is Muslim,” Le Figaro reports. “Some shops have different closing times corresponding to daily prayers…Bookstores are religious. Travel agencies guarantee ‘Muslim friendly’ holidays. ‘ with destinations where customers – particularly female customers – are offered access to facilities with non-mixed spaces and pools where women can swim and ‘maintain modesty’”.

Another area is Sparkhill, the Telegraph reports: “In the last remaining pub in Sparkhill, if the Guinness signs weren’t enough, the gold lettering above the door should be: ‘Licensed to sell all kinds of alcohol’. Clearly. ‘There were 23 pubs in Sparkhill and this is the last one left,’ says owner Mark McDwyer. The Salah Al-Shahrazuri Mosque is one of five in Sparkhill.”

So if you go to Britain’s second largest city, you have to remember that you are not in Kabul or Karachi.

Streets lined with shops with signs in Urdu or Arabic. Hijabs, burqas, the call to prayer echoing through neighborhoods once known for their pubs. This is cultural destruction masquerading as progress.

I imagine the elderly working-class English couple whose Birmingham street has become unrecognisable, their local shops replaced by halal butchers, their culture deemed “obsolete” and replaced, their old Anglican church turned into a madrassa.

The end of Europe is there.

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Cardinal Robert Francis Provest was elected the 267th pope on Thursday.

Cardinal Provest from Chicago is the FIRST AMERICAN POPE!

Pope Leo XIV (formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost) is an American-born Catholic prelate who was elected Pope on May 8, 2025, taking the name Leo XIV. He is the first pontiff from the United States and the first from North America in the history of the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV is generally regarded as a centrist within the Catholic Church, blending progressive social outreach with doctrinal conservatism, according to College of Cardinals Report.

Pope Leo XIV has consistently emphasized inclusivity and compassion toward marginalized groups, including the poor and migrants. He is also a strong advocate for synodality, promoting a more inclusive and participatory Church structure.

While progressive in social matters, Pope Leo XIV maintains traditional stances on key doctrinal issues. He opposes the ordination of women as deacons, expressing concerns that such changes might not address underlying challenges within the Church.

Regarding the Vatican’s 2023 document Fiducia Supplicans, which permits non-liturgical blessings for couples in irregular situations (including same-sex couples), he has emphasized the need for national bishops’ conferences to have doctrinal authority to interpret and apply such directives in their local contexts, given cultural differences.

Pope Leo XIV is seen as a continuation of Pope Francis’s vision, particularly in areas like environmental stewardship, outreach to the poor, and promoting a synodal Church.

Early Life and Education

Born on September 14, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois, Prevost comes from a family of French, Italian, and Spanish descent. He entered the Augustinian novitiate in 1977 and made his solemn vows in 1981. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Villanova University in 1977, a Master of Divinity from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, and both a licentiate and doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

Missionary Work and Leadership Roles

Prevost’s missionary work began in Peru in 1985, where he served in various capacities, including chancellor of the Territorial Prelature of Chulucanas, director of formation, seminary teacher, and judicial vicar in Trujillo. In 1999, he was elected provincial prior of the Augustinian Province of Chicago, and in 2001, he was elected Prior General of the Order of Saint Augustine, a position he held for two six-year terms.

Episcopal Service and Curial Positions

In 2014, Pope Francis appointed Prevost as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, and he was consecrated as its bishop later that year. He served as bishop of Chiclayo until 2023. In January 2023, he was appointed Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, positions that significantly raised his profile within the Church hierarchy.

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An Afghan has been arrested in Germany after fatally stabbing his 41-year-old female boss during the evening cash count at the ‘New Yorker’ clothing store in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia (photo).

According to local police and reporting by Bild, the attack occurred around 7:20 p.m. on Wednesday evening in the store’s recreation room, where the victim and the 25-year-old suspect were counting the day’s earnings.

“The woman was seriously injured with a knife, so that she succumbed to her injuries at the scene,” the Krefeld police stated.

Shortly after the stabbing, the suspect allegedly fled the scene with the day’s takings. However, his escape was short-lived. As he exited the store on Hochstraße, he ran directly into a group of officers and was immediately arrested.

The Krefeld Public Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed the homicide investigation is underway and that the suspect was taken into custody on Wednesday evening. “The perpetrator was arrested in the evening. He will be brought before a magistrate today,” a spokesperson told German media.

Police have since established a homicide squad to lead the investigation. While the motive behind the attack remains unclear, the suspect is expected to be formally charged with manslaughter and held in pre-trial detention. It is unclear why he will not be charged with murder.

Outside the store, colleagues left white flowers and a farewell card in memory of the victim which read, “The fact that you have left us has shaken us deeply. We want you to know that you were a wonderful person. You don’t often find someone like that. Now you’re in a better place.”

Authorities are expected to release more details following a scheduled press briefing at noon on Thursday.

https://rmx.news/article/afghan-arrested-after-german-store-manager-fatally-stabbed-during-shift/

Frasier star Kelsey Grammer opened up about his profound regret over his ex-girlfriend’s abortion in his newly released memoir, according to People.

This tragedy closely preceded another in the actor’s life: the 1975 rape and murder of his younger sister, which is the main subject of his memoir Karen: A Brother Remembers. 

“I know that many people do not have a problem with abortion, and though I have supported it in the past, the abortion of my son eats away at my soul,” Grammer wrote in his book. 

He related that just months before his sister’s death, his then-girlfriend became pregnant and decided to abort the baby. While he said he was “willing” to keep the baby, he “did not plead with her to save his life.”

Grammer admits he “volunteered to have my son’s body vacuumed out of his mother’s.” Before the authorization of medication abortion in the U.S., vacuum aspiration/suction was the most common method of abortion. As Live Action’s Lila Rose has explained, in this method, abortionists use “vacuums 10-20 times more powerful than a household vacuum cleaner to tear (babies) apart alive.” 

“I regret it. That’s all I meant to say,” Grammer added.

Despite his harrowing regret over his own son’s abortion, he says he still believes abortion should be legal.

“I supported the idea that a woman has the right to do what she wants with her own body. I still do. But it’s hard for me. Still is,” he wrote.

However, Grammer personally regards abortion as morally abhorrent, likening abortionists to executioners.

“The doctor, or so-called doctors, who have executed generations of children in this manner — I have no idea how they call themselves doctors. Something about the ‘first, do no harm’ thing. But I offer no controversy,” he said.

The sitcom star revealed that he lost his faith for years after his sister’s death and pushed God out of his life.

“When the deaths occurred, starting with my grandfather, and then my dad — and I didn’t really know my dad — and then when Karen was killed, hanging on to what I’d always seen as a kind of gift of faith, became … hollow faith,” Grammer told Fox News.

“It wasn’t working. I thought, ‘Why did I lose this? What happened?’ I felt betrayed by it. And, so, I sort of cursed God at one point and said, ‘You know, hey, I’d rather you didn’t bother to help at this point because, honestly, this was colossal. I’m not interested.’”

Grammer’s life was marked by extraordinary family tragedy. After the murder of his father and the murder of his sister, his two half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident in the Virgin Islands.

He says that writing his memoir about his sister and her death, as well as his family, has helped with his faith.

“By virtue of writing this book, (my faith) has gained a little ground. By virtue of meeting Kayte, by virtue of living through what we’ve lived through as well, has fortified my faith,” Grammer said, referring to wife Kayte Walsh.

While Grammer doesn’t have supernatural faith — that is, faith in the fullness of God’s revelation — he says he has had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ.

“I have come to terms with (tragedy) and have found great peace in my faith and in Jesus. It’s not cavalier – Jesus made a difference in my life. That’s not anything I’ll apologize for,” he told USA Today.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/frasier-star-kelsey-grammer-regrets-ex-girlfriends-abortion-eats-away-at-my-soul/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa

Yesterday lunchtime, a SUV car crashed into a group of people at a tram stop in Munich city centre. According to the police, seven people were injured, three of them seriously. The driver is a 52-year-old man. The authorities have so far assumed that the accident happened ‘while the tram was travelling’. There is currently no indication of a political or ideological cause, they added. Around 25 police officers, around 30 firefighters and a large number of volunteers from the emergency services were deployed at the scene. However, pictures and videos of the ‘accident’ vehicle were circulating on the internet, showing the clearly recognisable name of an Ottoman sultan on the rear window (see the following enlarged detail of the picture above). According to eyewitnesses, the driver is also said to be a man of Turkish and/or Arabic appearance.

Remarkably, this is the second incident of this kind in just a few days. It was only on Friday that a car crashed into a crowd of people in Stuttgart. Eight people were injured, one woman died of her serious injuries. ‘According to the current state of the investigation and based on the information available so far, our colleagues at the Olgaeck operation are assuming that this was a tragic road accident. There are currently no indications of an attack or a deliberate act,’ said the police. It was a 42-year-old driver who had lost control of his car when turning.

Despite all official announcements to the contrary, speculation is spreading in both cases, which make one wonder about the overly hasty classification as an accident, as there are great similarities to the terrorist attacks of recent years. In view of the state’s information policy in such cases, this is not surprising. When terrorists with a migration background were involved, everything was done to conceal this fact for as long as possible until the incidents disappeared from the headlines, which happened quickly thanks to the left-wing ideological bias of many media outlets. The next step was to hastily declare the perpetrators ‘mentally ill’, then suddenly the Russian secret service had to be used as the sinister perpetrator of the migrant terror.
Many now fear that terrorist attacks are being hastily categorised as accidents in order to cover up the extent of the danger. Even if many of these allegations ultimately turn out to be unfounded, the obvious and justified concerns of citizens nevertheless show the extent to which this state has lost the trust of large sections of the population.

https://journalistenwatch.com/2025/05/08/naechster-suv-unfall-in-muenchen-spekulationen-ueber-islamischen-anschlag/

In the early hours of Monday evening, May 5, 2025, a 25-year-old Syrian who lives in Bitterfeld-Wolfen spray-painted a symbol and lettering on an advertising pillar on the corner of Große Münzstraße and Otto-von-Guericke Straße in Magdeburg.

A young man was observed by an attentive Magdeburg woman using black spray paint to spray a swastika and lettering on an advertising pillar located there.

Thanks to the courageous behaviour of the witness, the 25-year-old man was kept in sight at all times so that police officers from the state police were able to identify and check the man shortly afterwards in Brandenburger Straße.

The police officers consequently found and seized the alleged weapon – a spray can of black paint – in the rucksack he was carrying.

No details can yet be given about the damage caused.

The Magdeburg police have opened a corresponding investigation.

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