Month: November 2023

by Giulio Meotti

Nemo propheta in patria (no man is a prophet in his own land)…But on August 21, 2021, I wrote:

“‘The Taliban have defeated the West,’ says Lord Dannatt, former head of the British military mission in Afghanistan. London today sends its military to evacuate British citizens in Kabul. Tomorrow what will you do with the English cities that have fallen into the hands of the same Islamic fundamentalists?”.

November 11 was Remembrance Day in Great Britain, the day on which the English solemnly remember all those who have fallen in the nation’s wars. A huge event emotionally, no doubt due to the country’s heavy losses in the First World War.

The largest demonstration in English history marched through the streets of London shouting. “Allahu Akbar”.

The capital of Great Britain now has a huge minority with abominable values. Some in Parliament appease them because they want their votes. Others fear confrontation. And the Islamic marches in London are an indication that society is about to collapse.

“We will honor our martyrs,” they chanted outside King’s College in London.

It is not contempt for Britain by Muslims. They are telling the country: “We are the future”.

This London is upside down. Officials of the mayor, Sadiq Khan, contacted the theaters that were to host Eric Zemmour to dissuade them. The journalist candidate for the 2022 French presidential elections (who lives under police protection and is threatened with beheading) could not find a room in London for his conference.

But those who threaten to behead Westerners can march in London. Now, half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of the same Islamic movement from which the Taliban emerged. Deobandis run 738 of Britain’s 1,600 mosques, according to a police report revealed by The Times.

The mayor of London also lit up the capital with festive lights for Ramadan.

Kettlethorpe High School in West Yorkshire suspended four children for accidentally scratching a Koran. An imam showed up at the meeting at the school, calling for zero tolerance for “disrespect for the holy Quran… to which we will sacrifice our lives.”

This is why the head of MI6 (the British secret service), Sir John Sawers, recommended self-censorship, warning the British not to offend Islam if they want to prevent terrorists from launching attacks in the country: “If there is a lack of respect for the fundamental values of others, then you are about to provoke an angry reaction. We in the West must be moderate.”

This is the truth: the UK and European governments are realizing that the domestic fifth column is now too big to be governed by the threat of force.

In London, meanwhile, Her Majesty’s Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, and his Labor colleagues were busy celebrating “Islamophobia Awareness Month”.

That great English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton would have been proud of it, he who in 1914 wrote “The Flying Tavern”, a dystopian novel that tells the story of England’s Islamic conversion. Women from London to Birmingham veil themselves, no alcohol, no pork, no paintings (carpets that “do no harm to anyone are enough: they just decorate”), prayers five times a day, Ramadan… Orders are given to destroy the vineyards.

“Why should we be so vain as to believe that the only remedy for the East is the West,” declares Lord Ivywood, the loyal crescent MP. “If we have to give a representative government to English Muslims we must not make the mistake of asking them to mark a cross on the electoral list: it seems silly but it may offend them. So I introduced a small reform by allowing an optional symbol, between the ancient cross and a curved sign, which could be the crescent and which, since it is simpler to make, will be generally accepted.”

This is the greatness of visionary writers. One wonders how Chesterton could have imagined such a thing in 1904, when there was not a single Muslim or a visiting imam in London.

You can still find alcohol in London, but much less criticism of Islam.

At the famous Saatchi Gallery in London, two nude works with Arabic writing were removed after complaints from Muslims. The Whitechapel Art Gallery has removed an exhibition featuring naked dolls that could have upset the Muslim population. The Mall Gallery censored the paintings with a family of puppets, “ISIS threatens Sylvania”. The Tate Gallery withdrew the work “God Is Great” because it showed a copy of the Quran. The Victoria and Albert Museum has withdrawn a portrait of Muhammad. And when “The Jewel of Medina”, Sherry Jones’ novel about Muhammad’s third wife, was bought by the Gibson Square publishing house, the publisher’s house was burned down in London.

Meanwhile, London Bridge has collapsed…

Meanwhile, English Jews were becoming “moderate”. “I am more afraid for my daughter with the Star of David on the London Underground than for my son in the Israeli army in Gaza” said the MP Lord Wolfson in the House of Lords.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Lieberman, an English rabbi who lives in Netanya, Israel, launched an appeal to his friends who remained in England: “Friends and family in the UK, it’s time to leave: the door is closing behind you.”

But what happens in Europe’s streets does not only concern Jews, who have somewhere to go; it’s about Europeans. And the door is closing for them too.

Londonstan celebrates the fall of London (israelnationalnews.com)

The National Trust has come under widespread criticism after excluding Christmas and Easter from their 2024 calendar.

Members of the trust have complained after discovering their annual charity calendar failed to mark the Christian holidays, but did include Hinduism’s Diwali, and Islam’s Eid and Ramadan.

The conservation charity have been accused of being “too woke” after their “inclusivity and wellbeing” calendar failed to include any Christian holidays.

The calendar, which is offered to members, has sparked fresh concern amid reports that the Trust is “increasingly focusing on gay history and on the slavery links of its historic properties”.

Speaking to GB News about the exclusion by the National Trust, Director of Affinity at Gospel Churches Graham Nicholls said the decision “wasn’t right”.

Nicholls agreed with host Eamonn Holmes that the calendar is “wrong” to not include Christian celebrations.

Discussing Christianity in Britain today, Nicholls said: “The fact that we’re not a Christian country in a way makes it even more compelling that we should be included on a calendar like this, because across the world Christians are persecuted and in this country we’re not the majority.

“It’s quite good to remind people of our Christian heritage and lots of people want to celebrate that.”

In criticism of the National Trust, Nicholls said the charity are moving in a direction of “peddling an ideology”, rather than “being a repository for lots of buildings and lots of land that has historical significance”.

He added: “Can we really remember all these minority groups? It gets a bit confusing and I think it flattens it all out. So they will become meaningless where there’s a day for this and a month for this, another day for this. And no one can really keep up with it all.

“But particularly for religious festivals why wouldn’t you include Christmas?

“There’s lots of people who from other religions who’d be at least be interested, they’d be staggered that the Christian festivals are not on there.”

Host Isabel Webster also shared her thoughts on the calendar, highlighting: “It’s a heritage organisation, and it’s like they’re just ignoring traditionally the heritage of British people, it may not be the majority anymore, but go back 100 years in time and it would have been most of the historic buildings that they represent would have been inhabited by Christians.

“So just to elbow them out doesn’t seem to make any sense.”

A National Trust spokesman said in a statement: “This internal guidance is specifically designed to supplement the National Trust’s year-round programming that includes Christmas and Easter, which are national public holidays and which are celebrated at all properties.

“It enables our teams to mark more religious and cultural festivals, to serve local communities and allow everyone to learn about and enjoy different cultures.

“We’re proud to host some wonderful celebrations for Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah, and other occasions. The National Trust is for everyone.”

https://www.gbnews.com/news/national-trust-sparks-fury-after-excluding-christian-holidays-from-calendar

By Olivia Murray

Today, baby Indi Gregory, the little eight-month-old girl at the center of a British legal battle was taken from her home under a police presence, dragged to a hospice center, and killed by “health professionals” when they forcibly removed her life support—after all, they were just following (court) orders.

In 1996 Dr. Leo Alexander, a Boston-based physician who was a “medical investigator” for Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, as well as a “key medical advisor” at the Nuremberg Trials, penned a research paper titled, “Medical Science Under Dictatorship” and I’m sure you’ve either read this paper or you can probably guess what Alexander covered, but naturally, he analyzed and detailed Nazi-era “medicine.” From his paper:

Science under dictatorship becomes subordinated to the guiding philosophy of the dictatorship.

Irrespective of other ideologic trappings, the guiding philosophic principle of recent dictatorships, including that of the Nazis, has been Hegelian in that what has been considered ‘rational utility’ and corresponding doctrine and planning has replaced moral, ethical and religious values.

…

In the medical profession this expressed itself in a rapid decline in standards of professional ethics. Medical science in Nazi Germany collaborated with this Hegelian trend particularly in the following enterprises: the mass extermination of the chronically sick in the interest of saving ‘useless’ expenses to the community as a whole[.]

“Science” has fallen to the whims of a regime’s “guiding philosophy” time and again, but for some reason, it’s a lesson few can learn. Inevitably, socialized medicine always means an allotment of resources, and just like it did in the 1930s, the same holds true today around a hundred years later—when a society and a government don’t believe in the sanctity of human life, and a medical system is run by said government, “useless expenses” are mitigated, meaning, innocent people are murdered. Rationing always necessitates death.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/baby_indis_death_is_more_evidence_the_uk_health_system_is_reviving_the_naziera_medicine.html

A number of overladen migrant boats got into trouble in the English Channel at the weekend, but some refused to be rescued, turning the Coast Guard away and insisting on carrying on to Britain, despite the risk.

615 boat migrants arrived on England’s southern coast the last day of Suella Braverman being Home Secretary — rubbishing any hope she may have had of claiming a legacy on “stopping the boats” — and some of these arrived after getting into trouble at sea but refusing to be taken back to France. The ongoing saga of French authorities being in a position to turn back people trafficker boats intending to flout laws and norms on international travel but refusing to do so is a further blow to Braverman’s tough talk-only legacy as the United Kingdom has given millions of pounds to France to stop migrant crossings but got close to nothing in return for it.

As revealed in a statement by the French Maritime Prefect of the English Channel, the office of a French Rear Admiral with policing authority over France’s northern territorial waters, French coastguard boats had a busy weekend but were unwilling to bring back migrants to France who refused to be helped when in distress. Their communication stated: “during this rescue operation, some migrants managed to restart their engine and refused to be rescued.”

Addressing the idea that the authority could have simply discharged the responsibility delegated to it by British taxpayers, who give the French government tens of millions of pounds to police its own borders, the Prefecture insisted it was dangerous to even try. They continued: “Given the risks faced by migrants in the event of restrictive actions to force them to embark on State rescue vehicles (fall at sea, thermal shock, various trauma) it was decided to let them continue their journey.” The migrant dinghy was monitored for the rest of its journey, they said.

Not that being on the English Channel in a small, overloaded, unseaworthy rubber boat isn’t without risks of its own. In its boilerplate warning appended to the end of the statement, France warned those who might be listening that: “The prefect… warns anyone who plans to cross the Channel about the risks involved. This sea area is one of the busiest in the world, with more than 400 commercial ships passing through it every day, and the weather conditions are often difficult… so it is a particularly dangerous sector.”

The risk to the migrant boat which got into trouble but refused aid is not merely theoretical. There have been several fatalities involving unseaworthy migrant boats in the Channel, and last week the British government ordered an independent inquiry into the deaths of 27 people in one sinking in 2021.

The revelation that once again migrants had refused to be given help after suffering an engine failure mid-Channel, and that a considerable number of migrants had made it to England’s southern shores to join the ever-growing number of ‘irregular’ migrants — the term ‘illegal’ now having fallen out of favour — who arrive every year came on the last day in power for erstwhile Home Secretary Suella Braverman. The post brought with it responsibility for migration to the United Kingdom, but despite time in office characterised by tough rhetoric — and the political cost of weathering pushback from the left for talking tough — no real progress was actually made, and migration both legal and illegal continues to run at record-high levels.

One totem of the Conservative Party’s failed attempts to control boat migrants is the money it has paid to France to patrol its own borders. As reported by Politico the UK is due to send France £470 million to stop Channel boats until 2026 and while some of that money has been spent on useful equipment like “helicopters, cars, motorbikes, e-scooters and quad bike”, there are questions over how some of  the rest was deployed.

Per the claims, British money was also spent buying French police “microwaves, vacuum cleaners for cars, and car adapters for charging devices”, and even buying vehicles and drones for a French police unit on the Italian border, 400 miles away from the English Channel.

Despite the hefty spend on equipment, the actual effectiveness of France’s efforts to stop migrants crossing the Channel — underlined by Coastguards simply waving on even migrant boats in obvious distress, but refusing help — was demonstrated by the report, which said: “French police have stopped fewer than half of all migrants attempting to cross the English Channel since the deal was signed in 2018”.

This year, over 27,000 boat migrants are known to have landed on England’s southern shores — others may have made the crossing undetected. While the running total this year is less than the all-time record year of 2022, crucially all of these figures are dwarfed by the arrivals the government has changed the migration system to permit to arrive “legally” every year. Net migration is forecast to remain in the hundreds of thousands for the foreseeable future, the government’s own statistical body predicts, and even hit half a million in 2022, the highest level of net arrivals to the UK in recorded history.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/11/14/channel-migrants-refused-to-be-rescued-by-french-authorities-carried-on-to-england/

The Netherlands’ green energy transition is leading to electricity and gas prices almost doubling.

Consumers and industry will soon pay 92 per cent more for electricity and gas, according to a PwC study commissioned by newspaper de Volkskrant.

The Netherlands’ total spending on gas and electricity will reach €43 billion in 2030, up from just €22 billion in 2020.

By 2040, it is predicted to reach €56 billion.

The costs for the green transition “are high and it will take decades. Politicians could be a bit clearer about that”, says Paul Nillesen, energy specialist at PwC.

Politicians too often paint a rosy picture about the costs, he says.

The energy transition “is necessary and offers opportunities, but we didn’t just do this overnight”, he adds.

Electricity costs are mainly responsible for the spike in costs.

Even with solar and wind electricity production, large amounts of electricity are produced using gas, which is growing in cost.

Green hydrogen, which some power plants are planning to begin using, is particularly scarce and expensive.

With wind and solar limited by nature, gas power plants need to continue operating as a permanent backup.

Transmission prices are rising also, as the Netherlands upgrades its power infrastructure to respond to rising demand.

Grid operators are investing billions of euros in new infrastructure, while also building offshore wind farms.

If higher energy bills will fund these increased costs, it will significantly impact the poor, says Nillesen.

That would also likely lead to a drop in support for the green transition.

There are suggestions already it could be time to slow down the transition, he says because “the really challenging part is yet to come. We’re only facing a wind force of three now as we cycle against it”.

Fixed costs of the energy transition, such as construction and maintenance of the power grid, should come from the national budget and the Dutch climate ministry, suggests Nillesen.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate says it is unaware of the underlying assumptions behind PwC’s predictions.

Electrification will lead to more efficient energy consumption, through technologies such as heat pumps and electric cars, it says.

“Additionally, much depends on future choices, such as the structure of energy taxation”, the ministry adds.

For its part, the Dutch government claims its National Energy System Plan takes into account the energy transition’s affordability and feasibility of the energy transition.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2023/11/dutch-energy-prices-double-amid-green-transition/

Records detailing how French authorities have been spending funds provided by the United Kingdom to stem illegal migration flows have revealed that the money, in addition to being used to purchase equipment to better police borders, was utilized to buy everyday items including but not limited to microwave ovens and vacuum cleaners. 

Budget documents, obtained by Politico Europe, show for the first time how the €46.5 million provided by the United Kingdom under the Sandhurst Treaty have been allocated by France since the border security pact was signed in 2018 by President Emmanuel Macron and then-UK Prime Minister Theresa May.

This year, British funding accounted for 10% of France’s total budget for border protection, the budget documents indicate.

According to the report, France used some of the funds to more effectively monitor and control its border with Italy, which sits nearly 1,000 kilometers away from the English Channel. 

When asked why the money, instead of being utilized to police France’s coastline along the Channel, is being used to beef up security on the Franco-Italian border, a French official who spoke on condition of anonymity insisted there was “some logic” in doing so since some of the migrants who end up in the Calais region arrive to France by way of Italy.

Much of the cash has been used to purchase transport vehicles, including helicopters, cars, motorbikes, electric scooters, and four-wheel All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), as well as surveillance gear like aerial drones, binoculars, hunting cameras, endoscopes, software, and dashcams.

Additionally, €150,000 went toward the establishment of a horse brigade in the Baie de Somme, situated along the English Channel coast. The money bought riding boots and helmets, and will also be used to attend to the needs of the horses, which incurs an expense of some €30,000 a year.

Funds, however, were also put towards equipping French police with microwave ovens, printers, vacuum cleaners for cars, and car adapters for charging various electronic devices.

Since the UK and French premiers inked the agreement five years ago, French law enforcement has intercepted less than half of the migrants trying to cross the English Channel. Furthermore, despite having struck another agreement with the UK for the same purpose in March, which saw Britain pledge to provide France with over half a billion euros (€540.3 million) over the next three years, figures have shown France is intercepting fewer boat migrants seeking to make their way across the Channel.

In August, official figures revealed that French border agents, since the beginning of this year, have only managed to intercept 13,700 (45.2%) illegal migrants trying to cross the Channel, down slightly from 17,000 (45.8%) intercepted in the same period last year, prompting frustration from high-ranking UK government officials. 

Tim Loughton, a former minister and member of the Home Affairs committee, called the figures “disappointing given the huge investment of resources funded by the British taxpayer, which we have been assured has led to enhanced patrols and therefore much better interception rates.”

“Clearly we are paying more money for the French police to continue failing to stop even more migrants on the beaches before they get into the water,” he continued, adding: “We need an immediate value for money assessment of exactly what the British taxpayer is getting for their money.”

Since the signing of the Sandhurst Treaty, some 3,500 small boats, transporting 111,000 illegal migrants across the Channel, have successfully made landfall on UK territory. 

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/france-spent-british-anti-migration-funds-on-vacuum-cleaners/

In one of those pro-Hamas demonstrations held recently in London, one girl’s message on a raised placard stood out. The sign showed a stick-figure human dropping a Star of David, representing the Jewish people, in a garbage can — in other words, on the ash-heap of history. And no one seems to think she can be punished for this “hate crime.” More on this unmistakable expression of an annihilationist antisemitism can be found here: “London student calls for world clean of Jews in pro-Palestinian protest,” by Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post, November 6, 2023:

A pro-Palestinian protester is under fire for holding a sign in a London demonstration on Saturday calling for cleaning the world of Jews.

Meet Mehak Qureshi, internship designer in K2X Tech and Part-time Barista in Costa Coffee in London whose goal is to clean the world of Jews,” a pro-Israel activist shared on X, relating to the young British demonstrator who held a sign with the wording: Keep the world clean [of Jews], while instead of writing Jews, she drew blue a Star of David.

Shai Glick, CEO of Btsalmo, a conservative Israeli lobby organization, sent an email to Goldsmiths College at the University of London, where Qureshi studies. He wrote, “A student of yours, Mehak Qureshi has been protesting in the streets with a shocking antisemitic sign that reads: Keep the world clean [of Jews]. This is a sign that simply permits and authorizes the murder of Jews. A sign that supports genocide.”

He asked, “How is it possible for such a person to study at your school?”

An additional X user tagged the London’s Metropolitan Police Service and tweeted “This charming woman was at the pro-Palestine demo last week carrying this sign. The sign calls for the genocide of Jews. Her name is Mehak Qureshi, a student at Goldsmiths. She should be arrested for incitement of racial hatred.”

Earlier this week, The Jerusalem Post reported that the UK Metropolitan Police made 11 arrests in London concerning the pro-Palestine demonstration as of Saturday evening. Although they have since announced details of arrests that may or may not have been included in the initial count.

It appears that Mahek Qureshi was not among those arrested.

Here’s what I would like to know. There is a category of offenses known as “hate crimes.” When you hold high a sign that conveys clearly the following message — that we should work to ensure the annihilation not only of Israelis, but of all Jews in the world — that surely constitutes a hate crime. And it is also an act of psychological terrorism, for this is a real threat, intended to menace the world’s Jews, by someone who is not a lonely crank, whose threats can be laughed off, but a participant in a vast demonstration filled with supporters of the terror group Hamas. Many will assume that Mehak Qureshi’s sign expresses not just her desires, but those as well of her fellow demonstrators, to rid the world of Jews. It certainly was meant to fill Jews with anxiety, that is, to terrorize them.

Would the Metropolitan Police have waited to arrest anyone holding up signs calling on the government to “deport black criminals back to Africa” or “keep Muslims out of Manchester”? Of course not. These would be understood at once to be “hate crimes.” But the police have so far not arrested Mahek Qureshi, who calls not only for the destruction of Israel and its replacement by a twenty-third Arab state by chanting “from the river to the sea/Palestine will soon be free,” but makes clear she believes Jews should be removed not just from what is now Israel, but from everywhere in the world. And there is only way to do that, she and her sympathizers understand — that is, by killing them.

Will the police do anything about Mahek Qureshi? Will she receive a stiff fine? Or a prison sentence? Let’s see if the Metropolitan Police are willing to bring “hate crime” charges against someone who publicly calls for the genocide of the Jews.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/muslim-girl-at-london-protest-calls-for-killing-all-jews/

“Churches must remain open to everyone, but a minimum level of respect is required. If you behaved like that in a mosque, they would throw you out, and rightly so,” Olivier* grumbles. This Christian is used to praying in the Montriond place of worship. Last week, he found three Maghrebi homeless people eating or sleeping under blankets and “breaking the peace with their snoring”.

The situation has worsened since the caretaker went on sick leave three months ago. He told us that one day he even detected urine in the church (…).

“You’re allowed to do that in mosques,” says the 53-year-old Moroccan, who has already been reminded that you’re not allowed to do that here. Jean-Daniel Courvoisier, one of the pastors concerned, confirms the problem without going into further detail. The issue will be discussed by the Church Council on Monday evening.

Faced with this situation, the president of the council had the place of worship evacuated and closed last Thursday “until a solution is found that is in keeping with Christian charity and respect for this place of worship, which cannot be turned into a squat…”, according to Marlyse Dormont.

According to our interlocutors, this matter has nothing to do with the occupation of the Saint-Laurent church in Lausanne in 2014 by around 50 activists who wanted to “support migrants”.

First name altered

20 minutes / Suisse : des migrants occupent une église de Lausanne, cette dernière ferme temporairement par crainte de devenir un squat. Le concierge affirme avoir, un jour, découvert de l’urine… – Fdesouche

The priest of the Saint-Joseph church in Valence (Drôme) was threatened with death on Sunday November 12 by a person on the Discord social network, a police source told CNEWS.

The life of a man of faith threatened again. A person announced that he wanted to kill the priest of the Saint-Joseph church in Valence (Drôme) on Sunday.

The suspect used the social network to threaten to slit the priest’s throat and warned him that the church would soon be destroyed, a police source told CNEWS.

Since the attack in Arras, which took place exactly one month ago to the day, counter-terrorism services have remained on red alert.
In recent weeks, numerous secondary schools in France, including several this Monday, have also been the target of bomb threats, which ultimately proved to be unfounded. CNEWS

The German Bundestag has accepted a petition outlining children’s rights which was drafted by men involved in a pro-pedophilia activist organization. Krumme-13, a lobby group which advocates for lowering the age of consent and legalizing child pornography, announced on its website that a resolution developed by the group’s founder, Dieter Gieseking, had achieved enough votes to be added to the constitution, or Basic Law.

Gieseking’s petition amends Article 6 of the Basic Law to add statements regarding children’s rights, and states that “children should be viewed as legal subjects with their own rights.” It was first submitted to the Bundestag on May 22, 2019, and has been the subject of lengthy review process.

Among the rights listed within the petition’s text is the assertion that children have “the right to have a say in all matters that affect their emotional, mental and physical well-being,” and “the right to the free development of their personality.”

“Sexual self-determination” is included in Article 2 of the Basic Law under the phrase “free development of personality,” a fact that Gieseking made certain to point out to his followers on his website.

As a reference, the petition as well as the German Bundestag both cite the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Typically, a petition to amend the national constitution must gather the support of more than 50,000 citizens. However, Gieseking was informed by the Petitions Committee that a decision had been reached on February 14, 2021, to bring the pro-pedophile group’s petition to a vote alongside similar petitions on children’s rights that were being considered.

This grouping of multiple petitions was formally finalized on October 11. Due to the petitions being considered as a bundle, when representatives voted during the October 19 session, neither Gieseking’s name nor the title of his organization, Krumme-13 (K13), appears on the Bundestag website for that day.

Instead, the pro-pedophile group’s demands to add “children’s rights” to the constitution is listed under the numeric code 20/8782, petition 4-19-07-10000-043821.

In order to be approved, at least two-thirds of the vote was needed. It was supported by representatives of the Socialist Democrats, Free Democratic Party, and Green Party.

The amendment on “children’s rights” is one of several petitions that Gieseking has submitted to the government, but the first to have been voted on and accepted. Initially the proposal was included alongside statements calling for the recognition of pedophilia as a sexual identity.

“In addition to all of the proposed children’s rights, sexual self-determination must also be protected and included in the Basic Law,” reads a K13 blog post about the petition dated July 2022.

“Pedophilia must also be included in sexual identity. Pedophiles in particular must be fundamentally protected from discrimination in the Basic Law. And this is completely independent of sexual criminal law. The vast majority of the estimated 250,000 pedophiles do not commit any of these types of crimes. Pedophilia is a separate sexual identity.”

The activists have been demanding that the “pedophile [sexual] identity” be “protected from discrimination, criminalization, exclusion and persecution” under Germany’s equality laws.

The German language does not distinguish between biological sex and the concept of socially constructed gender. The word Geschlecht is used interchangeably for both, and Geschlechtsidentität is the equivalent of the term “gender identity” and “sexual identity.” Therefore, the demands of trans activists to include “gender identity” as a protected characteristic share a linguistic overlap with the stated political aims of the pro-pedophile activists.

Through K13, Gieseking and his supporters lobby for lowering the age of consent and legalizing child pornography. K13 also campaigns for decriminalizing sexual relations between adults and children.

“Legalizing clearly self-determined sexuality between older people and those under 14 is the best protection against actual sexual violence against children,” Gieseking wrote in another petition to the government, while calling for the abolition of Sections 176 [Sexual Abuse of Children] and 188 [Dissemination, Acquisition and Possession of Child Pornographic Content] of the legal code. Gieseking advocates for a distinction to be made between “sexual consent” and “sexual violence” when it comes to sexual acts between adults and children. As it is his belief that children can consent to sex with adults, he promotes the view that only the latter should be criminalized.

Gieseking, a 68-year-old former Federal Border Guard official, founded K13 in Trier in 1993 and promoted the group as a “self-help” organization for “pedosexuals.” He has been repeatedly charged with the possession of child pornography.

In 1996, Gieseking was sentenced to eighteen months, for which he served one year in prison, on charges related to operating a mail order child pornography service from a van. In 2003, Gieseking again appeared in court accused of possession of child sexual abuse materials obtained between July 1999 and January 2001. The pornography was found on Gieseking’s computer after a search of his residence in August 2001. His devices contained a total of 216 image files of naked children, and he was sentenced to eight months in prison.

At the time, Gieseking was also accused of linking to a child pornography page on his website. This link was discovered by jugendschutz.net, an organization set up by the federal government to protect minors online.

In a 2014 interview with Taz Online, Gieseking called for lowering the age of consent to 12 years of age, and said that adult sexual interactions with toddlers would have to be “discussed separately.”

“The taboo of pedophilia must finally be broken at all levels of society. If a pedophile can come out without fear of exclusion or even demonization, then this is the best prevention against child abuse,” Gieseking told the outlet.

“For babies and toddlers and elementary school students, the sexual component in such a ‘relationship’ is problematic. This would have to be discussed separately. From a sexual policy perspective, an age of consent (age of consent) of 12 is appropriate and long overdue in today’s enlightened society. There are boys and girls who take the initiative in a friendly and sexual relationship with a pedosexual. Therefore, there is a need for sexual criminal law reform that does justice to everyone involved.”

Women’s rights campaigner Rona Duwe, who has been repeatedly targeted for questioning what she sees as possible connections between pro-pedophilia activism and transgender activism, told Reduxx that the situation was “worrying.”

“Despite the exposure of organized child abuse in Germany only a few years ago and the research on the Kentler network – political interests and goals of pedo activists continue to find their way into legislative processes,” Duwe said, referencing sexologist Helmut Kentler’s infamous experiment, approved by the Berlin senate, which saw foster children placed in the homes of pedophiles.

“Some of the same actors are involved here as in the 1980s, and they also use the same strategies to silence opponents. Queer politics, with its demands, opens up new possibilities for these circles of perpetrators to make their interests heard and to give them a serious veneer. Demands such as ‘sexual identity in the Basic Law’ already existed in 2010, but at that time this demand was rightly rejected,” Duwe explained.

“In 2023, a petition by a criminal pedo activist, who makes no secret of his interests, makes it to the committees of the Bundestag. Pedo activists have always abused children’s rights to achieve their own goals. Through the contributions on K13 it is also possible to understand why a self-determination law is welcomed by people like Dieter Gieseking and why these are by no means fantasies of feminists: A self-determination law that leaves children to decide their gender identity opens the door for further demands of alleged ‘sexual self-determination’ of children, but which in reality benefit perpetrators.”

Last July, K13 boasted that members of their group displayed a “MAP flag” during one of Europe’s largest Pride celebrations in Cologne. “MAP” is an acronym used in some pro-pedophile circles which stands for “minor-attracted person.”

At the Pride event in Cologne, pro-pedophile activists also carried signs opposing their “censorship” by the organization Queer.de and advocated for a “diversity of opinions” within the LGBT community.

Last month, K13 endorsed Germany’s new gender self-identification law, stating that “trans kids” are “politically important” for advancing pedophile rights. Gieseking directed K13 members to watch a movie about an 8-year-old boy who is transitioned to live as a “girl.”

“Why is gender identity also politically important for pedophiles/pedosophists?” K13 asked. “Gender and sexual identity does not only begin on the 14th birthday, when the so-called protection age limit ends. Children can and want to experience their childhood sexuality self-determined beforehand.”

Notably, Gieseking has mocked lesbians and feminists on the K13 website, stating: “The ethos of feminism and lesbians becomes clear… they ignorantly claim there are no consensual sexual relationships between adults and children.”

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