Dutch politician Geert Wilders has demanded the deportation of an asylum seeker currently standing trial for sexually assaulting four 11-year-old girls at a swimming pool resort in the Netherlands.
A total of 10 young girls and women filed complaints against the 29-year-old Syrian asylum seeker last year after he allegedly targeted and groped female visitors of the Center Parcs resort in Zandvoort.
Hart van Nederland reported how some of the girls had their buttocks groped by the man, while others claimed the migrant had clamped his legs around their waists and pressed his genitals against their hips.
Police attended the facility at the time of the alleged offenses and a full investigation was conducted with CCTV footage showing the man directly heading toward young girls in the swimming pool several times.
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The public prosecutor told the court that footage of the man choosing to walk against the flow of a whitewater rapid course at the complex in order to reach particular young women was evidence of his predatory nature and intentions.
âSeveral times, children suddenly look around and get a fright,â the prosecutor told the court.
On Tuesday, a Dutch court heard testimony from the mother of one of the victims who revealed how her young daughter had called her to complain about the âdirty manâ who had rubbed his genitals against her and groped her.
The 11-year-old girl has suffered considerable pain and suffering as a result of the incident, and according to her mother, now experiences anxiety attacks and refuses to leave the house on her own. She reportedly still visualizes the attack on a daily basis and remains traumatized by the incident.
The Syrian national, who is still awaiting an asylum decision and fears the court proceedings will impact his application, told the court through an interpreter that he denies the allegations and claims to be homosexual and thus not attracted to women.
His defense counsel has argued there is insufficient evidence for a conviction, and claimed his client had no intention of touching children in an inappropriate manner and any interaction with the minors was not sexually motivated.
He reminded the court that a criminal conviction would likely result in a refusal by the Dutch authorities to grant his client asylum which would have far-reaching consequences for both the defendant and his wife and daughter who are currently residing in Turkey and awaiting the green light to travel to the Netherlands under family reunification laws.
The defendant, who is currently living in an asylum seeker center in Delft, clarified the nature of his marriage to the court by claiming that his wife had âaccepted me for who I am,â given the fact he is now claiming to be homosexual.
The public prosecutor has requested a custodial sentence of four months, and the court is expected to deliver its verdict on March 5.
Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom (PVV) won the Dutch general election last year and is in talks to lead a new coalition government, commented on the court case on social media, demanding the immediate deportation of the defendant.
âIf that is not a reason to immediately throw an asylum seeker out of the country, then our country is lost. Get rid of these kinds of people,â he wrote on X.
Als dat geen reden is om een asielzoeker linea recta het land uit te gooien dan is ons land verloren. Wegwezen met dit soort lieden. https://t.co/A7SLaGbzSx
The popularity of Wildersâ anti-immigration party has soared in the months following the Dutch general election and the stalemate over forming a coalition is only seeing his stock rise further.
The latest polling sees the PVV sitting top with 31 percent of the vote, up four percentage points on Decemberâs survey.
If âDr.â Jill and the rest of Bidenâs handlers would euthanize unborn babies for having Edwards syndrome, who is to say government-run healthcare wouldnât euthanize you because Covid?
Explosive leaked documents have emerged that show medical staff were ordered to euthanize patients who had been admitted to hospital and tested positive for COVID-19.
The official documents were leaked from the UKâs state-funded National Health Service (NHS).
That would be the NHS that wants newborns to be âchestfedâ with milk from chemically transmogrified men.
The docs further confirm the previous reporting from Slay News that revealed patients were euthanized in order to boost the numbers for âCovid deaths.â
It is alleged that elderly people were offed with fatal doses of midazolam, then added to the Covid stats. This helped whip up hysteria in support of lockdowns and vaccines. Killing older people also makes socialized medicine more affordable.
Something to keep in mind when they hit us with Disease X.
The girlsâ team from the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell ended up forfeiting the game against KIPP Academy after the biological male injured three female students.
The teamâs coach made the decision to forfeit the game during halftime, according to a report from The Blaze.
âThe bench was already depleted going into the game with the 12-player roster having four players unable to play,â the school said in a press release. âWhen the coach saw three more girls go down in the first half, leaving him with five players, he made the call to end the game early.â
The team was worried that additional injuries would impact their ability to compete in the playoffs.
âOnce the third was injured, the remaining five expressed concern to him about continuing to play,â the press release continued. âThe players feared getting injured and not being able to compete in the playoffs.â
Despite pulling the plug early, the school said it values âinclusivity and safety for all students.â
âWe take the standards set by the [Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association] and our Board of Trustees seriously and strive to uphold them on and off the court,â the school continued. âWe also follow the guidance from the MIAA and state laws regarding equity and access for all student-athletes.â
Swimmer and political commentator Riley Gaines posted a video of the game on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and wrote, âA man hitting a woman used to be called domestic abuse. Now itâs called brave.â
Trans-identified male player for Kipp Academy in MA injured 3 girls before half time causing Lowell Collegiate Charter School to forfeit.
A man hitting a woman used to be called domestic abuse. Now it's called brave.
Sadiq Khan has blocked a statue of The Queen on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth until at least 2030, preferring instead to have rotating art sculptures. Our Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo debates on GB News.
âIslamists have understood the psychology of woke crowds, a collective version of Stockholm syndrome. Weak unbelievers who have all their contempt and give in to their fury like lambs. Horrifying.”
Thus the anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler on the images arriving from the Bataclan which provoked a torrent of reactions. The musical duo Shkoon performed on the stage of the Paris theater where ISIS killed 90 people on November 13, 2015. The band, led by a Syrian, mixes Arabic sounds and electronic music. During the concert at the Bataclan, the band performed the song âYamma mwel el hawaâ, which evokes the Israeli-Arab Palestinian conflict. The audience thus began to shout “Free Palestine” during the concert, amidst thunderous applause.
âAt the Bataclan, hordes of Islamo-goschists sing ‘Free Palestine’,â criticized Jean Messiha. “They would have done better to observe a minute’s silence in memory of the 90 victims of Islamic terrorism killed, disembowelled and emasculated by their executioners.” “In this terrible place of pain where 90 martyrs of Islamic terrorism died, this demonstration is a desecration”, denounced the MEP Gilbert Collard.
“The terrorists of October 7th and those who killed my daughter at the Bataclan have the same beliefs and the same way of proceeding” said Patrick Jardin, Nathalie’s father, who was one of the Bataclan technicians. On the evening of Friday November 13th she was there to spend an evening with friends and she could have been killed there together with the Italian Valeria Solesin.
“But it’s a matter of context, as former Harvard president Claudine Gay would say. In this case, ‘Free Palestine’, in the current context, does not mean liberating the ‘West Bank’ and Gaza (which is no longer ‘occupied’), but liberating Palestine from the Sea to the Jordan, in other words: destroying Israel. This slogan is chanted in demonstrations, it is written with spray cans in our universities, it is all the rage in American universities.
“Since October 7, ‘Free Palestine’ has been a pro-Hamas slogan. Maybe the young people of the Bataclan don’t know it. But ignorance is no excuse. What is permitted by law may be prohibited by decency. We remember that 90 compatriots died at the Bataclan, 130 in total on 13 November 2015, victims of Islamic terrorism. The same terrorism that, on October 7, killed, mutilated and tortured 1,200 Israelis because they were Jews. The Bataclan is a place of memory. It is a highly symbolic place that reminds us that the battle against jihadism is far from won.
“However, Islamo-Goschism is having a field day. The October 7 casualties have been written off. The Hamas pogrom is put on the same level as the Israeli response. Brazilian President Lula Compares Israel’s Response to Gaza to the Holocaust! We have the right to talk nonsense. We have the right to say that Hamas is a resistance movement. But can we still say it anywhere other than at the Bataclan, the place of funeral memory?â.
Last October, a few meters from the Bataclan, a pro-Hamas demonstration was authorized shouting “Allahu Akbar”. And earlier Medine, the rapper who sings about Jihad, had organized a concert at the Bataclan.
This is truly the stupidest era in history.
Antoine Leiris, husband of one of the victims of the November 13 attacks, in âYou Will Not Have My Hatredâ describes what happened at the Bataclan as a twist of fate and says he feels “compassion” for whoever killed his wife.
The Bataclan hosted a concert by Sting who sang Inshallah â Allah willing. From “Allah Akbar” chanted by the ISIS commando to “Inshallah, what a magnificent word”, said the singer.
But this, we were saying, is truly the stupidest era in history.
In Kreuzberg, the multicultural district of Berlin, the Haus Bethanien on Mariannenplatz hosted an artistic installation featuring personalities from history who went to their deaths in the name of their beliefs and ideals. Alexei Navalny could have been fine with it.
But alongside Socrates, Apollonia of Alexandria and Martin Luther King, there is also IsmaĂ«l Omar MostefaĂŻ, who killed 90 people at the Bataclan. And it doesn’t matter that Socrates died to defend conscience or that Martin Luther King fought against racism and was shot for it. What is the Paris mass murderer doing next to them?
The two artists who created the Berlin opera, Ida Grarup Nielsen and Henrik Grimbeck, performed in Copenhagen, where they staged the exploits of Foued Mohamed Aggad and the brothers Ibrahim and Khaled el Bakraoui: the first is the attacker Islamist who blew himself up at the Bataclan, the other two detonated their explosive belt at check-in at Brussels airport.
But I remember everything and I forget nothing.
I remember that the very famous Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris, which served as a warehouse for works of art stolen by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, hosted an exhibition that called Arab Palestinian suicide bombers “martyrs”. Photographer Ahlam Shibli’s âDeathâ exhibition featured dozens of Arab Palestinian suicide bombers with captions glorifying their deaths.
After all, wasn’t it the great German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen who defined September 11th as “the greatest work of art ever created”?
Our postmodern daffodils, from entertainers to their crowds of trained fools, are the biggest fans of Allah’s killers. Soon they will be their victims.
But this, we were saying, is truly the stupidest era in history.
January 30, 2024. The French weekly, Le Journal du Dimanche, publishes the most comprehensive and detailed survey on what French Muslims think. Not surprisingly, the results are disturbing.
The first question in the survey was about Jews. 17% of French Muslims admit that they hate Jews. 39% say they have a bad, or very bad, opinion of Judaism.
France is the only country in 21st-century Europe where Jews regularly have been murdered simply because they are Jews. Since the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi in January 2006, all Jews murdered in France have been killed by Muslims. Sammy Ghozlan, the president of the National Office for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA), which lists anti-Semitic acts and helps their victims, has emphasized year after year, for more than twenty years, that almost all violent anti-Semitic acts committed in France are committed by Muslims.
When it comes to Israel, the results are even more disturbing. Feelings go beyond hatred. 45% of French Muslims say they want the total destruction of Israel. An equivalent number of French Muslims define the massacre rape, torture, beheadings and burning alive of Jews by Hamas terrorists in Israel on October 7, 2023, as an “act of resistance“.
So, almost half of a religious community in a Western democracy openly wants the destruction of a group of people who were just massacred in another country, and in the greatest number since the end of the Holocaust.
19% of French Muslims say they have sympathy for Hamas. That so many French Muslims have sympathy for an organization whose leaders say that they will repeat the October 7 attack time and again until Israel is annihilated, and unabashedly state that they want the genocidal destruction of the only Jewish state, should sound an alarm that French Jews, and French non-Jews, are in an extremely perilous situation.
Other figures showed that 42% of French Muslims place respect for Islamic Sharia law above respect for the laws of the French republic (the percentage rises to 57% among young Muslims aged 18 to 25).
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2003 that Sharia law is incompatible with the values of democracy. Sharia law stipulates that Allah has dictated all the rules that human beings must obey, and that all rules contrary to Sharia law must be rejected. 37% of French Muslims say they support the Muslim Brotherhood — also not surprising: the main French Muslim organization, Musulmans de France (“Muslims of France”) is the French branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Every year, Muslims of France organizes a conference that attracts hundreds of thousands of Muslims from all over Europe. The group also invites radical imams who speak to the crowd.
The survey further showed that 49% of French Muslims want Catholics to convert to Islam, and that 36% percent want churches to be transformed into mosques. Some churches already have been transformed. The survey also discloses that 25% of French Muslims said that the word “France” is a word they reject.
These figures are best seen and understood in conjunction with other facts.
France is one of the only countries in the Western world where men have been beheaded by radicalized Muslims. (The other is the United Kingdom, where two Muslims tried to behead British Soldier Lee Rigby in 2013.) Samuel Paty, a schoolteacher, was beheaded on October 16, 2020. Herve Cornara, a small business entrepreneur, was beheaded on June 26, 2015 in Romans-sur-IsĂšre, a small town in the southeast of France. And Father Jacques Hamel had his throat slit and was beheaded on July 26, 2016 in Saint-Ătienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, while saying mass in an almost empty church.
France also happens to be the country in Europe with the largest number of “no-go zones”. There are at least 751 designated Zones Urbaines Sensibles (“sensitive urban zones”), where Muslim gangs and radical imams are in charge. Non-Muslims can still live there, on the condition that they accept the status of dhimmi (tolerated second-class citizen), bow their heads, and admit that they live in a territory ruled by Islam. Members of Muslim gangs no longer respect the police. If an incident between a police officer and a member of a gang breaks out, riots follow, and the police receive orders that if the situation risks escalation, they are not to arrest anyone.
France is a country where more than 70% of prison inmates are Muslim. According to reports, the crime rate among the Muslim population is high.
Three decades ago, Seine-Saint-Denis, a French district in the Paris suburbs, had a large Jewish community. Almost the entire Jewish population of the district, after being subjected to incessant threats, moved away to live elsewhere. The few Jews who remain hide that they are Jews.
Throughout France, Jewish men conceal their skullcaps under a hat. Jewish women tuck their Star of David necklaces inside their clothing. Many Jewish families no longer place mezuzahs at the entrance to their homes.
For more than 20 years, it has been impossible to talk about the Holocaust in French schools. When Georges Bensoussan, in 2004, published The Lost Territories of the Republic, a book denouncing the Muslim anti-Semitism widespread in educational establishments, Jewish students were already experiencing harassment and discrimination. Today, most Jewish families in France, out of caution, have abandoned the public education system and have enrolled their children in private schools. For years, when a Jewish student is bullied in a public school, the authorities take no disciplinary action against the bullies; instead, they might ask the Jewish child’s parents to place him in another school.
French Christians visibly wearing a cross on the street receive insults. Every year, dozens of French churches are desecrated and ransacked.
More than 120 knife attacks take place in France every day and can happen anytime, anywhere. Most of these attacks are committed are by Muslim men who then tell the police that they did it because they hate infidels and hate France. Only the knife attacks that result in death appear in the newspapers; the others are passed over in silence. In the main French cities, muggings and beatings have become commonplace. There are also more than two hundred rapes every day in France, most perpetrated by Muslim men who entered France illegally. Only 7% of illegal immigrants ordered to leave France are ever actually deported.
The poll in Le Journal du Dimanche received little comment.
Only one French political leader, former journalist Ăric Zemmour, has dared to say that the situation is increasingly alarming and that a growing Islamic danger is threatening France. His comments have led to his being sentenced to pay heavy fines several times for “provoking discrimination and hatred towards the Muslim community”. In the May 2022 presidential elections, he received only 7% of the vote; his message was apparently either not widely heard or not widely accepted.
The president of the National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, has limited herself to denouncing the presence in France of an “Islamist ideology totally distinct from Islam”, and insists on saying that only a tiny minority of Muslims adhere to this ideology. She adds, perhaps wishfully, that Islam is “fully compatible” with the French institutions.
French President Emmanuel Macron said, in October 2020, that he wanted to fight what he called “Islamic separatism“, but seemed not to want to see that Muslims tempted by Islamism do not want to “separate” themselves from the rest of the population, but to conquer others and have them submit. “Islam,” Macron added is “in crisis“. His statement provoked vehement protests from all of the French Muslim organizations, and demonstrations in several countries of the Muslim world. Since then, he has avoided talking about Islam altogether.
No Islamic organization appears to have called anyone to come to the demonstration against anti-Semitism that took place in Paris on November 12, 2023. The only reaction from the imam of the Great Mosque of Paris, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, to Hamas’s massacre on October 7 was, “With all these bombs, these deaths, and this frustration generated over the years there, what are we creating? Hate of the other” â which was not exactly a ringing condemnation of the massacre. He then accused Israel of attacking the civilian population of Gaza: “Islam totally condemns the attack on civilians in an armed conflict.”
French Muslim online magazines were more virulent. Evidently basing what they publish on Hamas propaganda, they accuse Israel of committing “genocide” in the Gaza Strip. They never say that Hamas uses Palestinian Arabs as human shields or that the Israel Defense Forces do their best to avoid killing civilians while often putting their own lives at great risk.
“The question of the Muslim presence in France must be posed without artifice…. the rise of strict Islam in France would imply emergency decisions. If decisions are not taken very quickly, and if the almost generalized voluntary blindness of the country’s leaders does not cease, the future of France will be tragic and violent.”
France is the country in Europe with the largest number of Muslims: around 10% of a population of 67.75 million. By 2050, the figure is expected to increase to 17%, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.
A similar situation to that of France can be found in other Western European countries, where the Muslim population may be smaller but is quickly growing.
In Londonistan, a book by the British journalist Melanie Phillips published in 2006, she noted the existence of Sharia-controlled zones in London, and that “sixty percent of British Muslims would like sharia law to be established in Great Britain”. In 2019, she wrote in the UK’s Jewish Chronicle: “A frighteningly high number of British Muslims subscribe to extremist or anti-Semitic views”.
In Germany, Sharia-controlled zones have begun to appear. They have also been emerging in Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands. The recent victory of Geert Wilders in the Dutch elections could be the sign of a turning point and an awakening in Europe. It is too early to draw conclusions, and almost three months after his victory, Wilders has still not succeeded in forming a government.
In 2015, the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, in the novel 2084: The End of the World, described a totalitarian future in which Muslim extremists establish an oppressive caliphate where freedom of thought and action is abolished. When a television journalist asked him what, in his opinion, France will be in 2084, his immediate response was: “France will be Islamist”. “Europe too,” he added.
The former head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg MaaĂen, said in a recent interview that “Europeans will succumb to Islam”.
If Europeans wish to avoid such a future and keep their culture, they need to start making that outcome unmistakably clear to everyone, not just by words but by actions. If not, what we are seeing could well mean the end of the European civilization as we know it.
Tom Vandendriessche, an MEP with the ID Group, has been reprimanded by the European Parliament for referring to the European Unionâs proposed Migration Pact as a form of organised âpopulation replacementâ.
In a letter seen by Brussels Signal, Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, said talking about organised âpopulation replacementâ, or âomvolkingâ, as Vandendriessche said, was âunacceptableâ.
Omvolking is a Dutch calque of the German âumvolkungâ, a term relating to radical change in the demographic composition of a population, through immigration and influencing reproductive behaviour.
Metsola added that the term was connected âto the darkest times of European historyâ.
âThe connotations of certain expressions are particularly delicate,â Metsola said, adding that MEPS should âalways consider the impressions their speeches leave on citizens, and the emotions it can provoke in themâ.
She requested that Vandendriessche refrain from using such expressions in the future.
Metsola did not impose a financial penalty or a temporary Parliamentary suspension, as some on the Left had called for.
His use of the term became an issue after Dutch MEP Sophie inât Veldt accused Vandendriessche of âemploying Nazi terminologyâ.
Reacting to the reprimand, Vandendriessche told Brussels Signal: âAs the globalist elite is facing disaster in the upcoming elections, they cannot restrain themselves anymore from showing their true totalitarian nature.
âThey want to silence elected representatives of the people for disagreeing with their replacement migration policy. Telling the truth, guilty as charged,â he said.
In his official reply to Metsola, also seen by Brussels Signal, the MEP claimed what he actually meant in using such terminology was âdiametrically opposed to the interpretation she and MEP Sophie inât Veld have suggestedâ.
ââOmvolkingâ is used to describe the process where the original population is replaced by migration,â Vandendriessche said.
âMy rejection of this policy is unequivocal and if any connotation exists, it is in opposition to the policy associated with it.â
He further said that he believed inât Veld was trying to âintimidate himâ to stop him airing his political views.
âBy manipulating my usage of the word âomvolkingâ, into something it has no associations with, she attempts to silence legitimate discourse,â Vandendriessche said,
He said he considered that to be harassment and added that his speech âhas been affirmed as protected as a fundamental rightâ.
âIn a democracy, it is ultimately the citizens who will judge the appropriateness of my choice of words,â Vandendriessche concluded.
The Vlaams Belang politician had referred to the European Commissionâs migration policy plans, saying the proposed Migration Pact has no âreturn mechanismâ, which meant the European Union wanted to âencourageâ the arrival of millions more.
The Catholic Church in Germany has been facing a series of crises in recent years, including a shortage of priests and an ongoing sexual abuse scandal, but the German Church is choosing to focus on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, especially if members of the AfD happen to be participating in Catholic life.
The chairman of the German Bishopsâ Conference (DBK), Georg BĂ€tzing, who also serves as bishop of Limburg, said that membership in the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is not compatible with volunteer work or holding office in the Catholic Church.
He said that the Church should focus on supporting freedom, and democracy, and on maintaining an openness to foreigners.
BĂ€tzing also said he backed the protests against the AfD and called on German bishops to send a âunanimous signal against extremismâ at the upcoming DBK conference in Augsburg, where the future of democracy and the Catholic Church will be discussed among bishops.
âUnfortunately, the danger of ethnic-nationalist and right-wing extremist thinking also exists among Catholics,â he said.
Germanyâs Catholic Church is increasingly getting political, with bishops from Berlin, Erfurt, Hamburg, Magdeburg, Dresden, and Görlitz penning a letter warning against the AfD coming to power, and comparing the party to neo-Nazi party Die Heimat.
Schism in the Church? Besides the loss of members and sexual abuse accusations, the Catholic Church in Germany is increasingly facing pressure from the Vatican over proposed liberalization changes, which would allow priests to marry, allow women to be priests, and permit LGBT marriage ceremonies.
The DBK had prepared a vote on the Synodal Council, which would have seen bishops vote on progressive proposals, which could have seen a schism in the Catholic Church. However, this vote has since been stricken from the agenda after the Vatican rejected the plan in an official letter.
âSuch an organ is not provided for by the applicable canon law and therefore a decision by the DBK in this respect would be invalid â with the corresponding legal consequences,â wrote Cardinals Fernandez, Prevost and Parolin on Saturday in their letter.
âThe approval of the statutes of the Synodal Committee would therefore be contrary to the instruction of the Holy See, which was given on a special mandate by the Holy Father, and would once again present him with a fait accompli,â warned the cardinals.
However, the matter is not closed, and the rebellious German bishops are expected to hold the vote at a potential future date, setting the stage for monumental changes in the Catholic Church and forcing Pope Francis to take action against the Germans.
The German Catholic Church is receiving stark warnings not only from the Vatican but also bishops and higher-ranking cardinals elsewhere in Europe.
Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn warned the Germans that their efforts could lead to a split in the Catholic Church.
âThe German bishops must seriously ask themselves whether they really want to leave the community with and under the pope or whether they rather want to accept it loyally,â he said to Catholic magazine Communio.
Christianity is failing in Germany The Catholic Church in Germany is not the only Christian branch that has gone âwoke.â Nearly all Christian organizations now feature a variety of pro-migration and anti-conservative stances, and nearly all are hemorrhaging members. Undoubtedly, there are some Christians who are turned off by the extreme pro-migration and increasingly progressive views held by these institutions, especially when Christianity has been traditionally seen as a refuge for conservatives.
It is also important to note that there is an entire area of the country where Christianity holds little sway already. The east of Germany, which was once ruled by communists, is remarkably less Christian than the former West Germany. This may in part account for the eastâs willingness to back the AfD party, as the people there are not beholden to the anti-AfD sentiment being vigorously promoted in various churches across the west of the country.
As this map from 2011 shows, the east has by and large abandoned religion, with the vast majority listing their religion as ânoneâ or âother,â which includes the non-religious.
Religious affiliation in the 11000+ German municipalities, 2011 data. Amazing how sharp the east/west border still is, especially in the "other" category, which includes the non-religious. #datavizpic.twitter.com/rSkPN5NpGs
As Pew notes in a study comparing both East and West Germans, there are extreme differences between the two parts of the country: âSix-in-ten adults in former West Germany say religion is very or somewhat important in their lives, whereas an identical share of those in former East Germany say religion is not too or not at all important. This includes 45 percent of those in the former East who say religion is not at all important in their lives.â
East Germans also have stronger anti-immigration stances, and with Christian organizers pushing for radical open borders and an easier path to citizenship, many easterners see this messaging as failing to resonate or openly against their interests.
A mother in Manitoba, Canada, has revealed that teenage students at her sonâs school were being provided with wooden phalluses, condoms, and a cartoon flip book featuring gay sex art as part of their âsex education.â
On February 19, Janine Stephanie Penner took to Facebook to express outrage that her teenage son had been provided a number of inappropriate âsex educationâ aides. In the post, Penner claimed that her son, who is currently in grade 10, had been provided with a âgay porn graphic flip book at school as a method of learning how to use condoms and in addition, received 15 condoms and a wooden pecker for practice.â Pennerâs son attends the Virden Collegiate Institute.
A photo of the phallic aide, book, and condoms reportedly given to the teen student. Source: Janine Stephanie / FACEBOOK
The flip-book Pennerâs son was given is titled âWhoâs Got The Condom?â and a digital copy of the book reveals it is 53-pages long and was created in collaboration with CATIE â Canadaâs leading HIV and Hepatitis C information charity â as well as Youth2O and â2-Spirited People of the First Nations.â
On the front of the book, a young, slim man can be seen perched over the hips of an older, larger man in what appears to be an Indigenous-style tent. On both the front cover and a page photographed by Penner, the older man is wearing a condom, with the younger man in the process of engaging in sexual activity with him.
The cover page of âWhoâs Got the Condom?â
While the book is purported to be an educational resource for condoms, there is no text, instructions, or any other information from pages 2 to 51 of the book. The illustrations simply show a series of progressive actions featuring the younger man masturbating the older man before a bright-pink condom is introduced.
The younger man then climbs on top of the older man and the two engage in intercourse. The final pages of the book, when flipped rapidly, animate the two men thrusting against each other.
The final page of âWhoâs Got the Condomâ features an advertisement for the BC Centre for Disease Control.
On CATIEâs website, the book is described as âgraphically [modeling] condom use between two men.â While the book is just over 50 pages on the CATIE website, Penner stated her son was given a version of it that was approximately â120 pages of this graphic stuff.â
The condoms, wooden phallus, and flip-book were reportedly provided to every boy in grades 9 and 10 at the Virden Collegiate Institute, with Penner reporting her older son, who also attends the school, informing her that only condoms had been given out the year prior.
âYâall, they donât even hide this anymore,â Penner wrote. âRobbing our children and seducing their minds. We need to push back⊠This is what needs to be protested.â
Penner confirmed that she is set to meet with the principal of the school on February 19.
The post, which has gone viral on Facebook and X, attracted many comments from incensed parents.
One father said his daughter attends the same school, and that she had confirmed that the condoms, wooden phallus, and flip-books were also available outside of the schoolâs office and had been brought in by a public health nurse.
âThe teacher, the principal, and the school trustee would be getting an earful from me,â said one concerned parent. âI got my kids out in time, I couldnât handle my kids being stuck in that system. I was fighting with them all the time about age appropriateness and now itâs just evil contentâ
Another parent claimed that their 14-year-old child at a school in Ontario had received the same set of items as part of their education.
Tate & Lyle has been forced to come out fighting after it was accused of buckling to âwoke rebrandingâ by dropping its Christian-inspired Lion logo.
The British food supplier changed its image from a dead lion being swarmed by bees to a friendly-looking lion and a single bee.
The original faith-inspired logo has been unchanged since 1883.
Lyleâs website confirmed its original logo had strong religious connotations due to the brandâs religious views.
The original faith-inspired logo was unchanged since 1883 TATE & LYLE
The image was originally depicting the story of Samson from the Old Testament.
Samson said: âOut of the eater come forth meat and out of the strong came forth honey.â
Tate & Lyle used the second half of the phrase on the original branding for the golden syrup.
The decision sparked outrage on social media, with one user saying: âHave you ever read such nonsensical rubbish in your whole life?â
Another wrote: âWoke brigade forces Lyle’s Golden Syrup to change logo.â
A third added: âApparently anti-Christian bigotry can just go unchallenged.â
Responding to criticism, the company confirmed it’s looking to accommodate to changing times.
James Whiteley, Brand Director for Lyle’s Golden Syrup, said: âWhile we’ll continue to honour our original branding with the heritage tin, consumers need to see brands moving with the times and meeting their current needs.
âOur fresh, contemporary design brings Lyle’s into the modern day, appealing to the everyday British household while still feeling nostalgic and authentically Lyle’s.
yle’s Golden Syrup rebrand has raised some eyebrows TATE & LYLE
âWe’re confident that the fresh new design will make it easier for consumers to discover Lyle’s as an affordable, everyday treat, while reestablishing the brand as the go-to syrup brand for the modern UK family, featuring the same delicious taste that makes you feel Absolutely Golden.â
The rebranded packaging will take place on products in the coming weeks, excluding the classic Lyleâs Golden Syrup tin.
It will feature on full-sized bottles, breakfast bottles, dessert toppings and golden syrup portions.
Tate & Lyle Sugars was sold to US firm American Sugar Refining in 2010.
