India slams Germany for ‘interfering’ in India’s Internal affairs following its foreign Ministry’s remark on arrest of Arvind Kejriwal (Image Source – ANI and Hindustan Times)
On Saturday (23rd March), India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) summoned the senior diplomat of the German Embassy, Georg Enzweiler, after the German Foreign Ministry commented on the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
#WATCH | Georg Enzweiler, Deputy Head of Mission of the German Embassy, leaves from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in Delhi. pic.twitter.com/1insDAZ7zx
The MEA lodged a strong protest over the country’s remark describing it as “blatant interference” in India’s internal affairs. The ministry issued a statement saying, “The German Deputy Chief of Mission in New Delhi was summoned today and conveyed India’s strong protest on their Foreign Office Spokesperson’s comments on our internal affairs. We see such remarks as interfering in our judicial process and undermining the independence of our judiciary. India is a vibrant and robust democrary with rule of law. As in all legal cases in the country, and elsewhere in the democratic world, law will take its own course in the instant matter. Biased assumptions made on this account are most unwarranted.”
The German Deputy Chief of Mission in New Delhi was summoned today and conveyed India’s strong protest on their Foreign Office Spokesperson’s comments on our internal affairs. We see such remarks as interfering in our judicial process and undermining the independence of our… pic.twitter.com/GaBWmFdWoP
Notably, responding to a media query on Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest during a press conference, a spokesperson stated, “We have taken note, India is a democratic country. We assume and expect that the standards relating to independence of Judiciary and basic democratic principles will also be applied in this case. Like anyone facing accusations, Mr Kejriwal is entitled to a fair and impartial trial, this includes he can make use of all available legal avenues without restrictions. The presumption of innocence is a central element of the rule of law and must apply to him [sic].”
German Foreign Ministry was asked a question on Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest. Germany refuses to call it politically motivated. Germany says India is a democratic country with independent Judiciary. Same laws apply to Kejriwal as anyone else. Mature statement.pic.twitter.com/o14X41Y0Y5
Following the German Foreign Ministry’s remark, India summoned its senior envoy to register a protest against ‘blatant interference’ in India’s internal affairs.
ED arrest Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi Liquor policy scam case
On 21st March, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal after questioning him and conducting a search at his house in connection with the Delhi Liquor Policy scam case. He was arrested after he ignored nine summons by the financial probing agency and his request for ‘no-coercive’ action was turned down by the Delhi High Court.
A day later, the Rouse Avenue Court on 22nd March granted 6 days of custody of Delhi CM and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal to the Enforcement Directorate in this case.
While seeking his 10-day custody, the probing agency told the Rouse Avenue court that Kejriwal was the “kingpin” and “key conspirator” in the Delhi liquor policy scam.
According to the agency, Kejriwal was the middleman between the ‘south group’ and other accused, including ex-Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia (arrested last year) and AAP officer Vijay Nair. The total proceeds of the alleged scam exceeded Rs 600 crore, including Rs 100 crore allegedly paid by the ‘south group’, as per the ED.
The scam case pertains to the alleged corruption and money laundering in the formulation and execution of the Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22, which was later scrapped following intense criticism.
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A few years ago, the “trans flag” started to pop up everywhere. First created in 1999, the banner of alternating pink, blue, and white stripes flew from city halls; at protests; on government buildings; on public schools, Catholic schools, and even some churches. The creator of the flag described it this way: “The stripes at the top and bottom are light blue, the traditional masculine color. The stripes next to them are pink, the traditional feminine color. The stripe in the middle is white, for those who are transitioning or consider themselves having a neutral or undefined gender.”
In the mainstream press, the creator of the now-ubiquitous transgender flag is referred to as “American trans woman Monica Helms.” But as with so many of the architects of the Sexual Revolution, there is quite a bit more to the story. Helms was born Robert Hogge and identifies as female or “bigender,” claiming that his brain “floats between multiple roles…Sometimes I am a man and a woman at the same time, or I can change in a nanosecond, then change back just as fast.”
Who is Robert Hogge? By his own admission, he was a troubled teen who spent his time stealing his mother’s underwear, sexually experimenting, and cross-dressing. In the 1970s he joined the U.S. Navy and promptly began to steal the underwear of women who lived in his apartment building. According to his memoir, he became aroused by the sight of himself in women’s clothes, and by the end of the decade, he was a regular attendee at drag clubs—and decided that it was time “to rebuild myself in my own image…as a woman.”
He got married without telling his partner, Donna, about his proclivities. Unsurprisingly, she was upset when she found out about his cross-dressing. He continued to do so anyhow, investing large amounts of money into his transgender project and even attending classes on how to act feminine with other men. At age 46, Helms wrote, “I had entered my second puberty and acted the part.” His marriage broke down, and he and Donna divorced in 1997. Helms left his wife and children because he decided that his “shaved legs and breast growth” were more important and boasted that he promptly hit the sex clubs for “orgies.”
His next phase was identifying as a lesbian and short-story writer. Most of his stories were on themes better left unmentioned; one sexualized a child. In 1999, he designed the trans flag. According to Genevieve Gluck of Reduxx:
According to researcher Dr. Sarah Goode, CEO of StopSO (Specialist Treatment Organisation for the Prevention of Sexual Offending), pedophiles who organize online have developed their own culture, language, and symbols. One common symbol used in pedophile forums incorporates the colors baby blue, pink and white. In her lecture, ‘Hidden Knowledge: What We Ought to Know About Pedophiles,’ Dr. Goode shows a slide of the image and says, “The pink half represents ‘girl lovers’ and the blue half represents ‘boy lovers.’” The color code system appears to predate the initial design of the transgender flag and can be traced back to at least as early as 1997, according to online pro-pedophile forums. Areas in Europe that advertise child trafficking to pedophile sex tourists have used the color code: “blue curtains mean a boy child prostitute and pink curtains a girl.”
It is unclear whether Helms was aware of this correlation at the time, but when discussing the symbolism behind the trans flag, Helms has consistently stated that blue represents young boys and pink represents young girls: “The light blue is the traditional color for baby boys, and the pink is the traditional color for baby girls.” In the two decades since its creation, the transgender pride flag has been embraced by transactivists, medical institutions, and governments alike. It has been flown at academic institutions, from universities to preschools.
That flag now flies everywhere, not only during “Pride Month”—in Canada under Trudeau, “Pride Season”—but throughout the rest of the year. You can tell a lot about a culture by whom it decides to honor. These days, millions send their children to schools that fly the colonizing flag of a trans-identified man who created it after abandoning his wife and children to engage in cross-dressing orgies while claiming to be a woman. Those who advocate for these flags insist that those of us who do not support such behavior are bigots. We should treat such claims with contempt.
Incoming reports of Russian security services looking for a number of men from Ingushetia suspected of today’s deadly terror attack in Moscow pic.twitter.com/mRFoFAMOQl
A terrorist attack on the Crocus City concert hall and mall in Moscow, Russia, on Friday night that has reportedly not concluded at press time has left “over 100 casualties,” the Russian outlet RT reported.
Multiple reports in Russian media have reported the presence of at least three gunmen participating in the attack. The terrorists, reportedly dressed in camouflage, stormed the venue and opened fire at the audience inside the concert hall with what some reports indicate were automatic weapons. The terrorists also reportedly detonated a grenade, setting the Crocus City complex on fire.
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The fire is so large that the Russian government has deployed a water-discharging helicopter to end it and has prepared two more to fly in, according to RIA Novosti.
Videos on social media shared by Russian news outlets – such as RT, Ria Novosti, Sputnik, and others – show panicked concertgoers attempting to hide under seats and the sound of gunfire. Reports indicated that one of the assailants detonated a grenade, causing the ongoing fire.
“People in the hall laid down on the ground to avoid the fire, laying there for about 15-20 minutes, after which they began to crawl out. Many managed to get out,” the Russian outlet Sputnik reported. Sputnik said that at least 100 people had been evacuated, but quoted the Russian Health Ministry saying that it was responding to the incident with over 70 ambulances, suggesting a prodigious casualty count.
RT reported over 100 casualties and counting, but did not specify how many were dead or wounded.
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As of press time, the latest updates from RT indicated that the terrorists “have reportedly barricaded themselves inside of the burning building. The group has apparently not attempted to take hostages or make any statements, shooting people on sight instead.” The attackers are at large in the complex at press time.
Crocus City was hosting a concert by the progressive rock band Piknik on Friday. Piknik was banned from Ukraine after performing a concert in occupied Crimea, Ukraine, prompting Ukraine to ban them from the country. The band declared they “do not give a damn” about sanctions or politics in response to Ukraine’s condemnation, recalling that the Soviet Union had also blacklisted them.
The band had not started playing when the terrorists struck and are all safe, multiple outlets reported.
#BREAKING Suspected terror attack reported in Moscow.
There has been a shooting at Crocus City Hall in Moscow.
Hundreds of people were in the building at the time of the attack.
Russian authorities have not given any public statements blaming any individuals or groups for the incident. Some reports indicated that, less than a week ago, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow warned that it had information suggesting terrorists would target concert venues in the near future. It is not clear at press time whether that warning was prompted by threats to Crocus City or similar venues.
RIA Novosti also reported shortly before the terrorist attack occurred that Russian law enforcement authorities had arrested seven men accused of attempting to create an armed cell, allegedly to fight against the Russian military in Ukraine. No reports at that news agency or anywhere else at press time have linked the bust to the Crocus City attack.
This is another example of the internal threat posed by terrorism in France. According to BFMTV, a 14-year-old teenager will be brought before an anti-terrorism investigating judge to be charged with ” creating a criminal organisation to prepare attacks on persons”.
The boy, who lives in northern France, is suspected of having planned an attack on the Euralille shopping centre in Lille, whose blueprints he had obtained from the Internet.
According to our information, he also expressed his desire to carry out an attack at his school together with a friend in exchange with four strangers via the Telegram platform chat rooms in order to “avenge the prophet who was caricatured”.
He also watched Islamic State propaganda videos, as well as videos on how to make explosive devices. He also stated that he was “ready” to attack people with a “stabbing weapon”.
The teenager also expressed his support for the Islamic State to the same contacts on various encrypted platforms and motivated them to join him in order to “commit an attack”. (…)
In police custody, the young man said he had attended a mosque in the municipality of Waziers before admitting to having “watched videos containing jihadist propaganda”. He stated that he had suggested to a certain “Abu Abdallah” that he should attack the Euralille shopping centre with “long weapons”.
During his interrogation, he explained that the exchange and the planned act of violence were the result of “pure curiosity”. BFMTV
Defaced Catholic church building in Lieusaint, France. | AmauryBucco/Twitter
Villagers at a cemetery in Dordogne Department in southwest France were horrified that vandals painted Islamist slogans in French and Arabic on 58 graves, a church door, a World War I memorial and tomb art depicting the crucifixion.
The defacement happened overnight in Clermont d’Excideuil between March 10 and March 11.
A local church building near the cemetery had “Ramadan Mubarak” (“Blessed Ramadan”) daubed on its doors. Slogans within the cemetery included, “Submit yourselves to Allah,” “Happy Ramadan non-Muslims” and “Koufars,” meaning “unbelievers.” One of the grave slogans read, “France is already Allah’s,” according to British newspaper the Daily Mail.
Clermont d’Excideuil Mayor Claude Eymery discovered the vandalism on the morning of March 11 and contacted police. He told FranceInfo that he thought such incidents “only happened elsewhere.”
Préfet de la Dordogne, the French state’s regional representative, wrote on X, “The prefect strongly condemns the new act of vandalism committed at the Clermont-d’Excideuil cemetery. A gendarmerie investigation continues under the authority of the Périgueux public prosecutor’s office, which has opened an investigation into aggravated damage.”
Jeanne Cumet, a spokesperson for S.O.S Calvaires, an association that preserves, repairs and maintains French chapels, calvaries, oratories and fountains, said the vandalism was “very serious.”
“Christian cemeteries have been tagged with satanist or other messages, for example. But I’ve never heard of a Christian cemetery being tagged with Islamic references,” Cumet told Christian Daily International. “Jewish cemeteries, for example, are more frequently vandalized, but this kind of tagging in the Dordogne — as far as I’m concerned, it hasn’t happened for a long time, if ever.”
Volunteers from S.O.S. Calvaires, which often works in cemeteries, immediately came forward to help with clean-up following a request by police. Cumet said police officers took photos and samples and asked the association to clean off the markings quickly. They restored the site within a week.
“Vandalism of graves are very serious and show a total lack of respect for those who lie there,” Cumet said. “It’s the same disrespect shown to our heroes of the First World War and, of course, to the church. We cannot understand what happened in these people’s minds, to show such hatred towards Christians.”
The vandals mainly targeted the Catholicism, she said.
“The weirdo could have tagged the walls of the town hall, the post office or the school, but he or she chose Christian symbols,” she said.
Cumet added that local villagers, numbering about 240, were shocked.
“Just imagine waking up in your little and peaceful village to go out and discover all of this,” she said. “Sadness, astonishment and indignation were in all the people’s hearts that morning.”
Police launched an investigation into the vandalism, but Cumet said no culprits have been caught.
The vandalism was not an isolated case. In Marseille on June 28, churchgoers were upset to discover Islamists had wrecked Philadelphia Evangelical Protestant Church. They damaged a prayer room, broke doors and windows and painted slogans, including, “The last prophet is Muhammad” and “Jesus is not God.”
France has seen a rise in anti-Christian hate crimes with Islamist motives in recent years, according to Anja Hoffmann, executive director of the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDACE). She said similar graffiti was recently found in the Dordogne region, including, “Today this is the land of gwer [infidels]. Tomorrow this will be the land of Islam.”
“All these slogans express a claim of superiority of Islam and the targeting of Christians as ‘unbelievers’ or ‘infidels,’ which is common in Islamist extremism,” Hoffman told Christian Daily International. “It seems worrying that the country’s secularist elite, and especially left-wing intellectuals, do not want to acknowledge this dimension of the aggression.”
The reactions of local residents to the cemetery vandalism showed how traumatic such acts can be for a religious community, she said. French politicians need to take further measures to protect Christian communities in the country, she added.
“Although France has increased its budget for the protection of places of worship due to frequent attacks, politicians also need to take measures to address this inter-religious dimension of anti-Christian hate crimes,” Hoffmann said.
In March 2022, French MEP Jean-Paul Garraud challenged the European Commission to address a surge in anti-Christian hate crime in France and other parts of Europe. He asked why there was no coordinator or strategy planned to combat Christophobia. The commission had appointed a coordinator to combat antisemitism in 2015 and another to combat anti-Muslim hatred in 2018.
Věra Jourová, vice-president of the European Commission, confirmed no coordinator was planned for Christophobia.
“The commission is committed to protect Christians and members of other religious groups from persecution within the EU and does not make any distinction between religious groups,” Jourová reportedly said. “The commission has no plans as regards a specific strategy on Christophobia or to appoint a dedicated coordinator on this issue.”
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The French government is taking legal action against a Catholic priest for describing homosexuality as a sin. While this latest attack on traditional Catholic moral teaching has little chance of success, it does demonstrate the growing animosity towards and incomprehension of the catechism of the Catholic Church by a society that has made the promotion of homosexuality one of its main battlegrounds.
Abbé Matthieu Raffray, a priest who celebrates the traditional Latin Mass and who is well known to French Catholics on social media, posted a short video on temptations on his Instagram account as part of his Lenten teachings, in which he explains that homosexuality is a “weakness”: “We all have weaknesses: the greedy, the hot-tempered, the homosexual,” he explained to his audience. He considered homosexuality to be one of “all the sins, all the vices that can exist in humanity.” Aurore Bergé, the French minister responsible for combating discrimination, described his comments as “unacceptable.”
In a message posted on X, she said that she “asked the Interministerial Delegation for Combating Racism, Antisemitism and Anti-LGBT Hatred (DILCRAH) to report the matter to the public prosecutor on the basis of article 40” of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The DILCRAH took note of the minister’s message and confirmed that it had “notified the public prosecutor of the homophobic comments made by Mr. Raffray on his social networks.” In its message, the delegation added: “To speak of homosexuality as a weakness is shameful.”
Abbé Raffray is also under attack because the minister considers that his comments indirectly promote “conversion therapies,” which have been banned in France since 2022. In January, playing on words, the priest stated on his Twitter account that “every spiritual retreat is a conversion therapy,” but his comments unleashed a wave of hostile comments from LGBT associations.
The French government is taking legal action against a Catholic priest for describing homosexuality as a sin. While this latest attack on traditional Catholic moral teaching has little chance of success, it does demonstrate the growing animosity towards and incomprehension of the catechism of the Catholic Church by a society that has made the promotion of homosexuality one of its main battlegrounds.
Abbé Matthieu Raffray, a priest who celebrates the traditional Latin Mass and who is well known to French Catholics on social media, posted a short video on temptations on his Instagram account as part of his Lenten teachings, in which he explains that homosexuality is a “weakness”: “We all have weaknesses: the greedy, the hot-tempered, the homosexual,” he explained to his audience. He considered homosexuality to be one of “all the sins, all the vices that can exist in humanity.” Aurore Bergé, the French minister responsible for combating discrimination, described his comments as “unacceptable.”
In a message posted on X, she said that she “asked the Interministerial Delegation for Combating Racism, Antisemitism and Anti-LGBT Hatred (DILCRAH) to report the matter to the public prosecutor on the basis of article 40” of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The DILCRAH took note of the minister’s message and confirmed that it had “notified the public prosecutor of the homophobic comments made by Mr. Raffray on his social networks.” In its message, the delegation added: “To speak of homosexuality as a weakness is shameful.”
Abbé Raffray is also under attack because the minister considers that his comments indirectly promote “conversion therapies,” which have been banned in France since 2022. In January, playing on words, the priest stated on his Twitter account that “every spiritual retreat is a conversion therapy,” but his comments unleashed a wave of hostile comments from LGBT associations.
Toute retraite spirituelle est une thérapie de conversion.
Depuis les débuts du catholicisme, des chrétiens se retirent du monde pour se retrouver devant le Seigneur afin de devenir meilleur.
Méconnaissance crasse & procès d'intention : un condensé des procédés du lobby LGBT. https://t.co/aS9ODbrUip
Abbé Raffray has expressed his satisfaction on X with the publicity that the “grotesque controversies” have given to his account, which has now surpassed 20,000 followers in a short space of time.
Je viens de m'apercevoir que ce compte vient de dépasser les 20.000 followers !
Merci à tous pour votre soutien.
Merci aussi aux hystériques de tous bords qui tentent de me déstabiliser par des polémiques grotesques : publicité assurée 👍🏻
— Abbé Matthieu Raffray ⚔️🙏🏻 (@AbbeRaffray) March 20, 2024
But in an interview with the Catholic weekly Famille Chrétienne, the clergyman expressed his concern about this latest attempt to intimidate the Catholic Church’s traditional moral teaching: “It’s Christian morality that’s under attack,” he explained, adding that he was doing nothing more than quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and in particular §2357:
Homosexuality refers to relationships between men or women who experience exclusive or predominant sexual attraction to persons of the same sex. It has taken very different forms over the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological origins remain largely unexplained. Based on Sacred Scripture, which presents it as a serious depravity, Tradition has always declared that “acts of homosexuality are intrinsically disordered.”
This is not the first time that the Catholic Church’s position on homosexuality has been brought before the French courts. In 2022, a trial was held against the association Renaissance Catholique, for comments made in an article published in 2019, which described homosexual union as a “grave sin.” The complaint was lodged by three LGBT rights associations. The ruling, later upheld on appeal, found that the comments, which echoed the teaching of the Catholic Church, were in no way discriminatory. It is therefore unlikely that the government’s report will result in a conviction. Nevertheless, the violent and disproportionate reaction of Minister Aurore Bergé proves the degree of hostility of those in power in France to Christian morality.
A trans-identified male associated with the world’s leading transgender health lobby group is drawing attention for speculating about experimental “artistic and creative” genital surgeries. Laura A. Jacobs, a New York-based psychotherapist who influenced the development of transgender health guidelines regarding “gender dysphoria” in adolescents, previously contributed a chapter to an anthology in which he promotes BDSM practices, including “age play” and “genital torture.”
Video footage of a TedX talk given three years ago by Jacobs began circulating on social media this week, drawing criticism for Jacobs’ bizarre statements about “gender affirming” surgeries.
In the clip, which was shared by Gays Against Groomers and Helen Joyce, Jacobs states: “Medical interventions allow some of us to change our primary and secondary sex characteristics… but it’s clear that cisgender bodies are still the reference point. Will technology give us options that are artistic and creative? Do we have to stick to penis and vagina norms? Can we have genitalia that look like flowers or abstract sculpture? Can we have multiple? Can they be interchangeable?”
But while Jacobs was presented as being a certified member of WPATH, his influence in the organization goes far deeper, and he served as an influential member of the committee which established the most recent Standards of Care.
Jacobs, who counsels troubled pre-teens, has described himself as a “kinky, BDSM sexworker” and says he works with “adolescents to the elderly.” He also wrote an essay for the 2020 book Sex, Sexuality, and Trans Identities in which he connects BDSM fetish practices to those who claim a transgender status.
In “Hormones and Handcuffs: The Intersection of Transgender Identities, BDSM, and Polyamory,” Jacobs notes that those who identify as transgender “seem almost predisposed” to participate in sadomasochistic fetish subcultures. He explains this by placing blame on “sexual hostility” towards trans-identified individuals, stating that in his view, “our bodies are often devalued.”
Laura A. Jacobs. Source: Facebook
He explains: “Our unconventional bodies, which may limit us in mainstream settings, are often accepted and constructively fetishized in BDSM and non-monogamy communities.”
BDSM activities, he continues, allow participants to “turn oppression into joy” while resolving the issue of “lack of access” to sexual partners.
“The negotiation required in these subcultures improves our ability to express ourselves, to replace guardedness with autonomy, to attempt new acts, to perform new identities, to live our fantasies, and to engage with the many and varied loves and lovers previously inaccessible due to rejection, stigma, social awkwardness, or lack of access to partners… Where previously we had been isolated, we might now have a sense of community.”
Jacobs assures readers that “BDSM is a realm in which consenting adults perform socially transgressive acts in environments of risk awareness, trust, empowerment, and collective pleasure,” before going on to explain terminology related to sexualized strangulation, genital torture, and role-playing in a medical setting, or as a child, during sex.
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According to Jacobs, genital torture involves “allowing the Dominant” to “inflict whatever sadistic torment has been previously negotiated,” adding that “some trans and gender non-conforming people may seek such acts as expressions of revulsion toward their genitals or as a tool for cathartic relief through them, while others with less dysphoria might engage in these activities simply for pleasure.”
Another sexual activity endorsed by Jacobs, ‘medical play,’ entails participants role-playing in a doctor and patient relationship.
“While for some this type of play may be disturbing, others may replay this objectification… in medical suite simulations complete with examination tables, paper gowns, and surgical gloves forming a stage on which the trans person and a partner might reframe the encounter as one of mutual sexual fulfillment and empowerment,” Jacobs says.
“Breath play,” also known as erotic asphyxiation, Jacobs writes, carries a “risk of serious harm or even death, this may be performed through choking with the hands, a plastic bag over the head, or otherwise restricting oxygen to generate hypoxic euphoria.”
Age play, Jacobs explains, “involves fetishization of an age differential through ‘mommy/child,’ ‘daddy/son,’ or ‘teacher/student’ personae.” Suggested accessories for the sexual re-enactment of “traumatic experiences that occurred during one’s youth” are cribs for infants, diapers, and crayons.
The self-described “kink therapist” also describes forced feminization, a sadomasochistic fetish “for many trans women prior to coming out.” Depictions of this activity “are easily found on the internet,” Jacobs advises, and among them are men “remade through manipulation, cruelty, or devotion into compliant fetish objects” in an exaggerated semblance of a woman, “adorned in stockings and stilettos, with disproportionately large breasts, corseted waists, elegant hair, and sexually suggestive mannerisms.”
Other examples of forced feminization pornography, Jacobs notes, involve depictions of anal rape. This, he says, is “a fantasy removal of masculinity and diminishment of social status: the trans woman has now become a sexual object—receptive rather than assertive.”
“Emasculation is often incorporated. Chastity devices restrict access and pleasure while simultaneously inhibiting erection and the ability to sexually perform as male. They also act as an elimination of the trans woman’s masculinity, making forced feminization both a constriction of male sexuality and a liberation from the genitalia that have been a source of distress. The penis is both highlighted and symbolically eradicated.”
Jacobs is listed as a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Transgender Health, published by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). According to the WPATH website, Jacobs was involved in the process of revising the most recent Standards of Care (SOC8) in the category Assessment, Support, and Therapeutic Approaches of Adolescents with Gender Diversity / Dysphoria, having been appointed to the revision committee in 2018.
Of the nearly 10,000 graphic stories hosted on the Eunuch Archive’s fiction section, nearly 4,000 were tagged with the term ‘minor,’ and depicted children, most often boys, being forcibly castrated to become sexual ‘slaves’ for a dominant ‘master.’
Laura A. Jacobs. Source: FetLife
Jacobs maintains an account on the BDSM hookup site FetLife, where he has placed a personals ad under the heading “Queer Lesbian Slave” seeking a “female master.”
Among his listed fetishes are body modification, pet play, rubber, chastity, consensual nonconsent play, sadism, and sex in public.
“I’m equally comfortable at Sesame Street the Musical, a Dita von Teese burlesque, the Met Museum rooftop, or the Master/slave Conference. Accomplished and awarded in my helping-profession career; I’m also a multi-published author (recent book out September 2023!!) who lectures at medical, mental health, sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ conferences,” reads Jacobs’ FetLife profile. “Scheduled to attend the MTTA Slave Training Academy in March 2024.”
On his social media profiles, Jacobs promotes the medical transitioning of children. One image shared to his Facebook account in 2023 reads simply, “Love Trans Kids.”
Dr. Christina Richards, the Lead Psychologist and Head of Psychology at the London Gender Identity Clinic and Board-Member-at-Large of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), co-authored a professional guide on sexuality and gender wherein he introduces age play, which involves “an adult identifying as a baby or young child, and is also known as adult baby/diaper lover (ABDL) or infantilism. There may be a sexual aspect… associated with humiliation.”
Left: Drawing by Jacobs shared to FetLife. Right: Image shared to Jacobs’ Facebook profile.
Richards goes on to describe how adults who engage in ‘age play’ accumulate various objects and apparel associated with childhood, including children’s clothing. Often one adult will roleplay as being any age from infancy to teenage years, while another adult participates in a dominant sexual role.
“Terms which may be encountered here include daddy’s little girl (DLG) in which an older male top treats a younger female bottom as a nurtured child,” Richard elaborates.
“The term ‘sissification’ intersects with age play as it is where an adult male is consensually ‘forced’ to don the clothes of, and behave as, a young girl as part of a BDSM scene. The humiliation the adult male feels at being dressed as a young female is the source of the eroticization.”
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, image via video posted by alanews
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has filed a lawsuit and is seeking compensation to the tune of 100,000 Euros after deep fake videos of her were uploaded on a pornographic site in the USA and garnered millions of views for several months.
She is scheduled to appear personally and provide testimony on July 2 in a court in Sassari, in Italy’s Sardinia region, as reported by BBC.
Italian PM #GeorgiaMeloni seeks over $100,000 compensation over deepfake pornography videos
Meloni’s face was reportedly swapped with a porn actress and pornographic videos were uploaded on an adult site. A 40-year-old man, and his 73-year-old father are currently under investigation in the case. They are facing charges that include defamation.
Meloni’s lawyer Maria Giulia Marongiu has informed that the pornographic videos with Meloni’s face morphed into an adult film actress were uploaded before she became the PM of Italy in 2022. They have been circulated in the US-based porn site for months and have garnered millions of views.
Maria Giulia Marongiu has also stated that the compensation Meloni is seeking will be ‘symbolic’, and the amount will be donated to charities that help women victims of male violence. The lawsuit is intended to encourage other victims to not be afraid and seek justice.
“The compensation was meant to send a message to women who are victims of this kind of abuse of power not to be afraid to press charges,” Marongiu said.
As per reports, under Italian law, defamation suits can also result in criminal charges and result in imprisonment.
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In examples which suggest the strains of a county navigating the transition from being almost entirely Catholic to a more multi-ethnic and multi-religious society, one Italian school has announced a day off to allow Muslim students to celebrate the end of Ramadan, while another has refused permission for a Catholic priest to offer a traditional Easter blessing.
Inevitably, both incidents have generated national controversy and become the subject of intense political debate, especially among political and social conservatives. This is believed to be the first time an Italian school has closed in observance of an Islamic feast.
“While some want to remove Catholic symbols, such as crucifixes in classrooms, for fear of giving ‘offense,’ in the Province of Milan a principal has decided to close a school for the end of Ramadan,” Matteo Salvini, Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the right-wing Lega party, said on social media. “It’s an unacceptable choice against the values, identity and tradition of our county.”
The school that’s decided to close for the Eid al-Fitr feast marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is located in a community of roughly 40,000 people called Pioltello, located on the eastern edge of Milan.
Pioltello has one of the highest concentrations of immigrants in the country, and its Iqbhal Masih school (photo) , named for a 12-year-old Pakistani Catholic who was shot to death in 1995 after escaping forced labour, has a student population estimated to be roughly 40 per cent Muslim.
Taking advantage of a regulation which allows schools to add three additional days off to the holidays established by regional and national law, the governing council of the school, which included a kindergarten, grade school and middle school, decided to close on 10 April, the date set this year for Eid al-Fitr.
Principal Alessandro Fanfonisaid the choice was practical, since in years past at the end of Ramadan no more than three or four Muslim students would come to school, making it largely a lost day.
Italy’s Minister of Instruction, Giuseppe Valditara, also a member of the Lega party, announced that he’s asked for clarification from school officials, and insisted that only the regional and national governments have the authority to add holidays to the school calendar.
The decision to close for the Islamic holy day, however, has drawn support from the Archdiocese of Milan.
Deacon Roberto Pagani, who’s led the archdiocese’s office for ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue since 2013, told the Italian newsmagazine Famiglia Cristiana: “We’re in favour of this gesture.”
“Since Muslims in Italy share and celebrate Christmas and Easter with us Catholics, I find it beautiful that an initiative for interreligious dialogue is starting with a school that’s trying to build bridges between young people who live different faiths at home,” Pagani said.
“If we don’t follow the path of reciprocal awareness and respect, then we become integralists,” he said. “In the Diocese of Milan, we’re working to show respect to persons of other faiths who live in our territory, and who want to dialogue, interact and integrate.”
On 20 March, Archbishop Mario Delpini of Milan added his own voice of support, calling the decision to close for the end of Ramadan a “legitimate measure” given that “one of the most important things in life is religion”.
Such sentiments, however, haven’t been enough to deter figures such as the president of the Italian Senate, Ignazio La Russa, a member of the country’s governing conservative coalition, who wondered aloud if schools now also will have to close for Hindu festivals. Attilio Fontana, president of the Lombardy region in which Milan is located, said that if schools shut down out of respect for every tradition present in the area, they’d have to close 100 times a year.
On 18 March, a reportedly far-right group erected a banner at the school reading, “Italian schools, never Muslim: It’s forbidden to close.”
Meanwhile, roughly 200 miles to the south, in a neighbourhood of the town of Verghereto, another school made another choice related to the increasing diversity of Italian society – refusing to grant permission for a local priest to enter the school to deliver a traditional blessing in the run-up to Easter.
Father Adolph Wosa of Tanzania, who serves as pastor of the local parish of St. Andrew the Apostle, confirmed the decision after it had first been made public by a local conservative politician.
“I hadn’t yet gone to the school to offer the Easter blessing, but this afternoon I called a teacher to ask the director if I could give the blessing,” he told reporters on 18 March.
“She told me no, because it violates the secular nature of the state,” he said.
Wosa said he “won’t give up,” insisting: “I want to be able to bless the school, while respecting students of other religions.”
Daniela Corbi, director of the local school system, defended the refusal to grant permission for the blessing.
“The law is clear: The school is secular, and religious activity is not permitted inside. Easter blessings are a religious activity, so they’re not possible,” she said.
“This isn’t a law that I’m imposing,” Corbi said. “It’s imposed by the law, and I’m obliged to follow it regardless of my personal convictions.” She added, however, that it might be possible to allow a priest to offer blessings on school property after hours to whoever requested it.
The refusal has aroused the indignation of several local leaders, including a former member of the regional government, Luca Bartolini, who’s a member of the Brothers of Italy party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
“It’s an incomprehensible choice,” he said. “If there can’t be an Easter blessing in order to guarantee the secular character of the school then why doesn’t the director show up for work also on Christmas day?”
In the end, a compromise was reached: Wosa will be allowed to deliver the blessing after the end of the school day, outside the school, and attendance will be voluntary.
This isn’t the first time that the issue of Easter blessings in schools has generated controversy in Italy.
In 2023, the mayor of the small central Italian town of Pennabilli, who is a former member of the Lega party, signed a decree authorising such blessings after the local school director had refused permission.
Wosa said he was choosing to look on the bright side, that the blessing will be offered after all.
Bartolini said he would have preferred that the blessing be given in class “as it’s always been done, and as happens in so many other schools”.
