The issue of migration has soared to one of the top concerns of citizens in European Union countries in recent months, as populist parties surge throughout the bloc to the chagrin of the legacy open borders establishment.
The annual Eurobarometer survey published by the European Commission on Monday found that immigration now ranks within the top three most concerning issues facing citizens of EU nations. While the inflation and cost of living crisis, and the war in Ukraine still remain the top two most important matters facing the public, immigration has risen from ranking sixth to the third most pressing issue over just the past six months, alone.
According to the survey, 27 per cent cited inflation as their chief concern, 25 per cent said the international situation (the war in Ukraine), and 24 per cent pointed to immigration, meaning that immigration only trails the top concern by three percentage points.
The increase in concern over migration comes as an estimated 8 million Ukrainians have sought refuge in Europe since the Russian invasion last year, putting increased pressure on asylum systems across the bloc, which were already stretched thing from waves of economic migrants and refugees from impoverished or war-torn regions in Africa and the Middle East that have continued since the European Migrant Crisis began in 2015.
In addition to the millions of Ukrainians and other genuine refugees, Europe has also seen over 92,000 illegal migrants cross the Mediterranean Sea on people smuggler-operated boats since the start of the year. This year also saw one of the deadliest migrant drowning incidents in recorded history, with an estimated 750 people plunging to their deaths off the coast of Greece last month after allegedly refusing assistance from the coast guard.
Rather than take firm measures to cut 0ff illegal migrants entering the European Union to save lives, Brussels’ major initiative in the face of the crisis is to attempt to redistribute migrants throughout the bloc in order to have the burden shared more equally. In order to enforce this edict, the EU has agreed to impose fines of €20,000 for each migrant a country refuses to take in. Countries such as Poland and Hungary have so far said that they will refuse to pay, laying the groundwork for a future showdown over the issue.
The increasing concern over migration among European citizens has coincided, as the leftist New York Timeslamented in a recent article, with an “increasing trend of hard-right parties surging in popularity and, in some cases, gaining power by entering governments as junior partners.”
Despite breathless clamouring and fearmongering over the rise of right-wing populist parties across Europe in the pages of legacy newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, the trend only seems to be continuing, with the globalist Dutch government of Mark Rutte falling just last week over the issue of migration, potentially setting the stage for a right-wing populist coalition to take the reigns of power in The Hague in the upcoming elections in November.
The Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified the association Islamic Centre Fürstenwalde as a confirmed extremist organisation. This was announced by Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) and the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Jörg Müller, in Potsdam on Wednesday. The “al-Salam” mosque run by the association was also classified as an extremist observation object.
Fürstenwalde/Spree – “The Islamic Centre Fürstenwalde is to be assigned to the Islamist-terrorist group Hamas as well as the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Stübgen. The association operates against the free democratic basic order, spreads anti-Semitic narratives and denies Israel’s right to exist. “We must not accept that.
According to the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz), Müller, there is a danger that Muslims of all age groups – including children and young people – are exposed to extremist attitudes and Islamist ideology through the association’s work. The activities of the association and the mosque also violate Germany’s foreign affairs and the idea of international understanding.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution wants to prevent the association from establishing an “outstanding structure” in the field of Islamism in Brandenburg. According to the agency, the Muslims come not only from Fürstenwalde (Oder-Spree district), but also partly from southern Brandenburg, Berlin and Potsdam. The association was founded in 2018 and offers leisure and educational activities for children, youths and other groups.
A 28-year-old Somali man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl on a German train in Bavaria. The girl was saved by a woman who saw the incident, but the horror story did not end even after the girl reached her destination, where her aunt was waiting for her.
The incident took place between Mühldorf and Dorfen, where according to police, the Somali man sat down on the seat next to the girl, who he did not know, and began touching the child between her knees.
The girl sat up to leave, but the man ran after her, which a woman sitting nearby noticed. The woman asked the child to sit next to her, and this was initially successful in getting the man to stop molesting the girl, but the man then began to run around the train compartment yelling loudly. Police stated that the man was drunk at the time.
The train stopped at Dorfen. The 28-year-old followed the child off as she approached her 22-year-old aunt who was waiting for her at the platform. According to the police, the little girl told her aunt what the man had done to her, which prompted both of them to quickly leave the station.
However, the Somali man was not done and began running after the woman and her young niece. The two ran into a fast food restaurant, at which point an employee and another man confronted the Somali attacker, asking him to leave. He then began insulting the men, who had to push the man away from the 10-year-old victim.
The Somali then returned to the train station and began exposing his genitalia to people at the train station and acting aggressively.
Police arrived on scene at that point and police say he also screamed at them and refused to be arrested. The officers brought him to the ground and put him in handcuffs. He was then brought to the Ostbanhof train station in Munich, where he spit on officers.
A breathalyzer showed that he had 2.8 units per thousand in his blood. A public prosecutor ordered a blood test, which was taken.
The suspect was then released by police.
The case is now being pointed out by the Alternative for Germany in its nationwide map of crimes by foreigners.
“A Somalian kills a passenger in Dresden. In Gießen, there are Eritrean street fights and injured policemen. There is also a mass brawl in Kaiserslautern. In Munich, a 10-year-old girl is harassed and followed by a Somalian. In Berlin and Görlitz, injuries are reported when migrants storm graduationparties. A trail of so-called ‘isolated cases’ runs across Germany, the ones described above are only those that were picked up by the media. And it never ends,” wrote the AfD.
Portuguese Bishop Américo Aguiar, tapped by Pope Francis to become a cardinal, has caused a stir by insisting that the Catholic Church is not trying to convert young people to Jesus Christ.
“We do not want to convert young people to Christ, or to the Catholic Church, or any of that,” said Bishop Aguiar, auxiliary bishop of Lisbon and coordinator of World Youth Day (WYD) Lisbon 2023, in a July 6 interview with Portuguese television.
The bishop made the controversial remark just three days before it was announced that he would be created a cardinal by Pope Francis next September, provoking consternation among many of the faithful.
World Youth Day, an event of great importance for young Catholics, is scheduled to take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 1st to the 6th of August.
In the interview, the bishop said that World Youth Day aims to help young people walk together, respecting their differences. According to him, the goal is to allow each young person to say: “I think differently, I feel differently, I organize my life differently, but we are brothers and we are going to build the future together.”
The bishop defended his statement by asserting that this is “the main message that the pope wants to offer young people.”
“What we want is for it to be normal for a young Catholic Christian to say and bear witness to who he is, for young Muslims, Jews or those of another religion also to have no problem saying who they are,” the bishop declared, or for “a young person who does not profess any religion to feel at ease and not feel strange because he it is like that.”
It is important “that we all understand that difference is richness and the world will be objectively better if we are able to put in the heart of all young people this certainty of the fraternity of all brothers and sisters,” he added.
In his interview, Bishop Aguiar also insisted on the importance that World Youth Day bear witness to “Integral Ecology,” noting that the event will not use printed paper and will employ other measures such as differentiated waste that “will oblige environmentally friendly behavior.”
While Pope Francis himself has encouraged ecological conversion, he has urged Catholics not to try to convince others of the truth of Christianity.
Last January, Francis said that trying to convince someone to become a Christian is a “pagan” activity unworthy of followers of Christ.
“To evangelize is not to proselytize,” the pope told crowds gathered in the Vatican. “To proselytize is something pagan, it is neither religious nor evangelical.”
“This is not about proselytism, as I said, so that others become ‘one of us’ – no, this is not Christian,” he reiterated. “It is about loving so that they might be happy children of God.”
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, proselytizing means “to try to persuade someone to change their religious or political beliefs or way of living to your own.”
Proselytism — or the attempt to convert others to one’s faith — is different from evangelization, the pope has proposed, which is the joyful witness of one’s experience of Christ.
In 2019, the pope told a group of Christian high school students that they should respect people of other faiths and not attempt to convert them to Christianity, insisting “we are not living in the times of the crusades.”
Asked by one of the students how a Christian should treat people of other faiths, the pope proposed that “we are all the same, all children of God” and that true disciples of Jesus do not proselytize.
A Christian should never try to convince others of the truth of Christianity but should simply give a testimony of consistency and wait for others to ask about the faith, he suggested.
“You must be consistent with your faith,” he said. “It never occurred to me (and nor should it) to say to a boy or a girl: ‘You are Jewish, you are Muslim: come, be converted!’ You be consistent with your faith and that consistency is what will make you mature. We are not living in the times of the crusades.”
“The last thing I should do is to try to convince an unbeliever. Never,” he said.
“But listen, the gospel is never, ever advanced through proselytism,” he continued. “If someone says he is a disciple of Jesus and comes to you with proselytism, he is not a disciple of Jesus. Proselytism is not the way; the Church does not grow by proselytism.”
A healthcare provider withdrew a job offer to a social worker after it discovered that he held Christian beliefs on marriage and human sexuality.
Felix Ngole was told by Touchstone Support Leeds that unless he could demonstrate how he would ‘embrace and promote homosexual rights’ at the organisation, the job offer would be withdrawn.
The role would have involved working at Wakefield Hospital to manage the discharge of patients with mental health conditions into the community. But after Touchstone’s chief executive, Kathryn Hart, discovered online articles about Felix’s previous legal case, the offer was withdrawn.
In 2019, Felix won a landmark free speech case at the Court of Appeal challenging his university’s decision to expel him for Facebook comments upholding marriage and Christian sexual ethics. The court ruled that “the mere expression of religious views about sin does not necessarily connote discrimination” and Felix subsequently completed his course.
Felix is now challenging the withdrawal of the job offer at the Leeds Employment Tribunal with the help of the Christian Legal Centre.
My ‘dream job’ Felix applied for what he described as his ‘dream job’ as Mental Health Support Worker, which Touchstone had been recruiting for on behalf of the NHS. He has experience supporting individuals with mental health issues from all walks of life, in hospital and homecare settings, and has the professional qualifications to do so.
Felix was offered the job as the best performing candidate in interview, gaining the highest marks of any candidate on an equality and diversity assessment.
After providing references, however, Touchstone’s chief executive, Kathryn Hart, discovered articles, including a piece by the BBC which revealed that Mr Ngole had won a landmark legal case in 2019.
There was nothing in the job description or job advert, which Mr Ngole was originally emailed by Indeed.co.uk, which presented such a prerequisite to work for the organisation that supports 10,000 people across Yorkshire each year.
Court of Appeal ruling In 2015, the University of Sheffield had removed Mr Ngole from studying for a social work degree after an anonymous complaint was made about how he expressed his biblical belief that marriage is between a man and woman and that homosexual practice is sinful during a debate on Facebook.
In the legal battle that followed, the Court of Appeal ruling found that Mr Ngole had not, and was unlikely to, discriminate against anyone because of his beliefs and that the university had unlawfully removed him from the course.
During the case, university lawyers went as far as to suggest that even Mother Theresa would be barred from working in the social work profession if she expressed the same Christian beliefs as Mr Ngole.
The ruling represented a major development of the law which should have resulted in Christians having the legal right to express Biblical views on social media or elsewhere without fear for their professional careers.
The judgment said:
‘The University wrongly confused the expression of religious views with the notion of discrimination. The mere expression of views on theological grounds (e.g. that ‘homosexuality is a sin’) does not necessarily connote that the person expressing such views [the Claimant] will discriminate on such grounds. In the present case, there was positive evidence to suggest that [Mr Ngole] had never discriminated on such grounds in the past and was not likely to do so in the future (because, as he explained, the Bible prohibited him from discriminating against anybody).’
In the BBC piece discovered by Touchstone, Mr Ngole was quoted in response to the ruling saying: “As Christians we are called to serve others and to care for everyone, yet publicly and privately we must also be free to express our beliefs and what the bible says without fear of losing our livelihoods.”
Following the ruling, Mr Ngole, who sought asylum in this country in 2003 after fleeing violent persecution in Cameroon, returned to the University of Sheffield to complete his social work degree and has since gained employment in the field.
‘Must actively promote LGBTQ+ rights’ Despite this, Mr Ngole was told by Touchstone’s chief executive that the reasons for withdrawing the employment offer was that he was now unsuitable for the position as they had: ‘unfortunately identified some significant areas for concern regarding your suitability for both the role and Touchstone as an organisation. In particular we have uncovered some information about [Mr Ngole] that does not align with Touchstone Leeds’ ethos and values; we are an organisation proud to work with the LGBTQ+ community and we pride ourselves for being an inclusive employer.’
Asking what had been found, Mr Ngole was told that articles had been found on Google. “In particular, we can see that you have very strong views against homosexuality and same sex marriage, which completely go against the views of Touchstone, an organisation committed to actively promoting and supporting LGBTQ+ rights.”
The email went on to say that: “In particular, we have serious concerns that your [Mr Ngole’s] ability to act in the best interests of Touchstone, its service users and its staff would be compromised by your strong views.”
Ms Hart’s email concluded by saying that Touchstone may reconsider its decision if Mr Ngole was “able to give us assurances that [his] role would not be compromised by [his] views.“
As part of these assurances, Mr Ngole was required to ‘embrace and promote’ Touchstone’s values, “including the promotion of homosexual rights”. If he would not give these assurances, the email made clear the decision to withdraw the offer would stand.
Mr Ngole gave personal assurances that he would not discriminate against anyone whilst making clear his stance on his Christian beliefs by saying: “What I cannot do, and you cannot reasonably expect me to do without yourselves being discriminatory, is make my participation in the ‘promotion of homosexual rights’ a condition of my employment”.
Invited into another meeting, Mr Ngole said compared to the warm welcome he received at his first interview, the atmosphere was hostile. In the two-hour interrogation that followed, he was cross examined at length about his beliefs, ultimately resulting in the decision to withdraw the offer of employment being sustained.
The minutes from the meeting detailed that Mr Ngole said he had “never been accused of discrimination” and did not “have any intention to discriminate against anyone’. However, without further explanation, the panel concluded that ‘this rather misses the point’.
Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Mr Ngole has now taken legal action, with a hearing set to take place from Monday 10-14 July at Leeds Employment Tribunal.
Mr Ngole will make claims under the Equality Act for direct discrimination, harassment, indirect discrimination, and compensation for injury to feelings.
He will also be seeking a recommendation that Touchstone amend its recruitment procedures to align with its stated objective of being an ‘inclusive employer’ so as not to preclude practising Christians from its workforce.
‘I had to pledge allegiance to LGBT or be unemployable’ Ahead of the hearing, Mr Ngole, said: “I was told I was the best candidate for the job, then they suddenly said I was unemployable because they discovered that I am a Christian.
“No one has ever told me that I have not treated them well in my professional experience. I have never been accused of forcing my beliefs on anyone. I have supported vulnerable individuals from all backgrounds, including LGBT.
“I was delighted to be invited to the interview so that I could showcase my skills. I saw it as a step closer to my dream job. It was a brilliant interview; I was greeted warmly, and they were really kind to me.
“I was offered the job and they were already talking to me about my first day and who my line manager would be. When I received the email telling me that the job had been withdrawn it was a shock. I was very confused and distraught, and I wanted to know why.
“The reasons they gave for withdrawing the job offer were an attack on me and my faith.
“They made it seem that 100% of the people I would be helping would be LGBT, and that I had to pledge allegiance to the LGBT flag and forget about my Christian beliefs.
“It is untenable for employers to be allowed to discriminate against Christian beliefs in this way and to force individuals to promote an ideology that goes against their conscience in the workplace.
“There was no mutual respect, and no tolerance and inclusion of me and my beliefs whatsoever.
“If we get to the point where if you don’t celebrate and support LGBT you can’t have a job, then every Christian out there doesn’t have a future. You can study as much as you like, but you will not have a chance.
“The UK is no longer the country I heard about all those years ago when fleeing Cameroon. The UK then was a bastion of free speech and expression.
“I have no choice but to pursue justice again because if this is happening to me it will be happening to Christians and individuals from all beliefs and backgrounds across the country.
“I was once an asylum seeker; I had no job, no home, but those in my community treated me with great kindness. I have to show that kindness, not just because I’m a Christian, but also because that is what I received.
“I cannot deny my faith to get a job. One day I will leave this world and I won’t leave with anything other than my faith. I will be happy to be a cleaner, if need be, as long as I keep my faith and am right before God.”
Viewpoint discrimination Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said: “Telling an employee that they must ‘embrace and promote’ homosexuality as a condition of employment sets a dark and troubling precedent. If left unchallenged it would see Christians who manifest their beliefs barred from working in the NHS and other institutions.
“Felix loves Jesus and the bible’s teaching, and you could not ask for a more compassionate mental health worker to support the most vulnerable in our communities.
“The NHS and its providers need more social workers like Felix Ngole, not fewer.
“What we see here is the confident totalitarianism of an organisation that has been captured by Stonewall and will do anything to keep their Stonewall ranking as high as possible.
“Viewpoint discrimination is escalating in the UK at an alarming rate. We have seen in the recent cases of high street banks denying Christians and free speech advocates the right to a bank account how far organisations captured by Stonewall are prepared to go. Anyone who does not comply and celebrate LGBT ideology must become a ‘non-person.’
“The Court of Appeal judgment in Felix’s case against the University of Sheffield was a major development of the law and must be upheld and respected in current and future Christian freedom cases.”
I just read a charming piece at Quillette about the sacred calling of Russia, featuring Ivan the Terrible, who ended 200 years of the lamentation of Russian women under the Mongol horde. The idea is that
after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Moscow was the last true seat of Christian orthodoxy. And there would be no other…
Therefore, the true salvation of humanity lay with holy Russia. And this idea, of Russia as a providential land chosen to save humanity, is at the very heart of both the Russian Empire, and, later, [Russian] communism. It’s deeply connected to the sacralization of power because it presents the Czar as the direct manifestation of God on earth — as Ivan the Terrible saw himself.
For, the fact is, it took a monster like Ivan the Terrible to send the Mongols back to Mongolia where they belonged.
You will recall that, back in 2021, Vladimir Putin added his bit to the conversation and published a profound article “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” showing unquestionably how Ukraine was part of the Ancient Rus and belonged in Russia, and how a whole bestiary of monsters had tried over the centuries to break up this sacred union. I had no idea that Our Vlad was such an intellectual; he must have inherited Stalin’s library of 20,000 books.
I like all this Narrative generation. It’s very human, it’s Who We Are. It reminds me of the words of the son of a glover from a provincial town in England: “All the world’s a stage / And all the men and women merely players,” he wrote. Each of us acts out our own “lived experience.” For instance, the year 1619 evokes the lived experience of Nikole Hannah-Jones, symbolizing the First Slave Ship to arrive in America. But for me, the year 1584 is more evocative, because that’s the year that the first shipload of White Trash arrived off our shores.
You see, back then, in England, the Big Issue pondered by superior minds was not Climate Change and the perfidy of Climate Deniers, or even Systemic Racism. Not at all. They were consumed by the planetary disaster of Surplus Population, 200 years before Malthus. And so, the best and the brightest decided, the answer was to ship the surplus population off to the Americas. The real founding of the United States was thus the first ragged scrapings of White Trash dumped on our shores.
But I have another Narrative, about the cruelest, most conceited, most hegemonic, most lethal ruling class in history, starting with the death of Louis XIV in 1715. I am talking about the educated class that presently rules humans all over the world.
Under the rule of the educated class, we have suffered gigantic world wars, the growth of government and taxes to unprecedented levels, and the most savage repressions, deliberate famines, Reigns of Terror, Great Purges, and Cultural Revolutions in history. And for what?
But at the same time that the educated class greedily pursued political power, the ordinary middle class was creating an era of unprecedented prosperity, beginning in northwest Europe, despite being hindered all along by the endless wars and pogroms and famines and regulations imposed upon the world by the administrative minds of the educated class.
For it was ordinary middle-class guys that created the textile revolution that brought cheap clothing to the masses, that invented steam transportation that allowed the lower class to travel around needlessly, that figured out how to make steel in industrial quantities, that substituted oil lamps for candles, and electric light for oil. It was ordinary guys that flew the first airplane, and invented the assembly line. And it was the adopted son of a Coast Guard mechanic that brought us smartphones for all.
The only question is, therefore, when and how the ordinary middle class will end the rule of the educated class that has done so much to ruin the world.
One narrative is that, after 200 hundred years of ruling class world wars and pogroms and famines, there will come a day when Trump the Terrible will descend an escalator in New York City, and send the rulers of the educated class scooting back to the college campi where they belong. But that, experts agree, is a fantasy.
Is that all there is? A man on a white horse — er, beige escalator? Over at American Greatness they are puzzling all this out in “Is Republican Populism a Person or a Movement?” especially as the GOP establishment still doesn’t have a clue.
To all those trying to divine the future, I propose the age-old maxim: “Cometh the hour, cometh the man.”
Because really, it doesn’t take too much divination to figure that with populist nationalism breaking out all over, from Poland to Hungary to Brexit to Sweden (!), from Dutch farmers to Canadian truckers to American MAGAs, something is up, and it ain’t Pride Month.
Around 150 students demonstrated on Monday morning against a local government decision to accommodate 100 refugees in the gymnasium at their high school.
The student body at Palmnicken High School led a march through the town center of Fürstenwalde, located in the Oder-Spree district of Brandenburg, Germany.
The district administration recently announced that up to 100 migrants would be accommodated temporarily on the school’s grounds in the absence of viable alternative accommodation sites, meaning that from the beginning of the new school year, the sports center will be unavailable for lessons, training or working groups.
The school has a current capacity of around 3,000 students, many of whom are demanding a say in the decision to house migrants on the grounds of the educational facility.
“We intend that our position will be represented and that what is important to us — namely our physical education — can be secured,” said student spokeswoman Skadi Jerominek.
The student body was reluctant to engage in a political discussion regarding the wider context of housing migrants, insisting they are not opposed in principle to welcoming new arrivals to the area, but believe accommodating them on school grounds is inappropriate and will hinder the ability of many students to learn and train.
“We don’t want to be brought into any political discussion,” Jerominek said, insisting there are more suitable alternative sites to house newcomers.
Axel Schmook, the principal of Palmnicken High School, told local media that he had only found out about the decision taken by the district administration to house migrants in his school via the press and that he agreed with the student body that other locations should be found.
“Planning for the next school year is now underway. That means we should actually know now if the hall is not available to us, to which other hall the students have to go or be driven, and what then affects the timetable,” he said, as cited by Radio Berlin-Brandenburg.
One possible alternative is an indoor tennis court located in the center of Fürstenwalde, which has previously been used as a migrant accommodation, and the local mayor, Matthias Rudolph, admits his administration is now looking into this as an option.
“We have already used this tennis center as an emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refugees,” he said on Monday. “It shows that there are opportunities that are very likely to be better than the gym,” he added.
Angelika Zarling, head of social affairs and education in the Oder-Spree district, hit back at claims the school’s leadership had not been informed of the decision, insisting the principal was told in advance that the school’s gym would be needed to house migrants until the end of December at the earliest.
She claimed the move was an “emergency solution” and lamented the fact that capacity limits have been stretched in recent times and the town’s social services are saturated.
“We would be happy to check and see whether the tennis hall is suitable for accommodating refugees. Now we have to look again at building law and fire protection to see whether the hall is suitable and large enough,” she added.
Amidst the ongoing debate over the legislation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the country, a survey conducted by News18 shows that 67% of Muslim women approve of common laws pertaining to inheritance, adoption, divorce and marriage.
A total of 8,035 Muslim women were interviewed by a team of 884 News18 reporters across 25 States and Union Territories (UTs) for the purpose of the survey. The participants included women aged above 18 years, ranging from illiterate to postgraduate.
The survey did not explicitly mention UCC but covered 7 key questions pertaining to the legislation. On being asked whether there should be ‘common laws for all’ in civil matters, 5403 women (67.2%) said ‘yes’.
A majority of Muslim women are in support of what experts say could be the major tenets of any #UniformCivilCode, according to the key findings of India’s biggest #UCC survey conducted by the News18 Network. Watch for more@Sriya_Kundu | #Indiapic.twitter.com/kLbkMEaNdh
“Do you think Muslim men should have the right to marry up to four women?” the survey participants were asked. A whopping 6146 Muslim women (76.5%) said that ‘no’ to the question. News18 reported that the negative answer was strong among graduates and women in the age range of 18-44 years.
About 6615 Muslim women (82.3%) agreed that men and women should have equal rights of succession and inheritance. 73.7% of the respondents also affirmed that divorced couples should have the right to remarry without any restrictions.
“Should adoption be allowed regardless of religion?” the Muslim women were also asked. Interestingly, the acceptance rate fell significantly to 64.9% (5219 participants).
#News18Exclusive | 73.7% of respondents feel that divorced couples should be allowed to remarry without any restriction, according to News18's #MegaUCCPoll
About 5572 women (69.3% participants) agreed that those who have reached the age of majority should have the freedom to ‘will away’ their properties.
The participants were also asked, “Do you support 21 years as the legal age of marriage for all men and women?” 6320 Muslim women or 78.7% women supported the idea.
While the respondents were given the freedom to stay anonymous, 90% of the women voluntarily told their names to the News18 reporters.
BJP bats for Uniform Civil Code
On June 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the subject of UCC during his address to party workers in Bhopal.
While stating that political parties are trying to mislead Muslims, he strongly batted for equal rights and Uniform Civil Code enshrined in the Constitution. He also dropped a hint that UCC might be on the cards in the upcoming Parliament session.
PM Modi said, “Today people are being instigated in the name of UCC. How can the country run on two laws? The Constitution also talks of equal rights. Supreme Court has also asked to implement UCC. These (Opposition) people are playing vote bank politics.”
Meanwhile, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami also said that the UCC would soon be implemented in the State.
