Month: April 2024

A trans-identified male in Germany has become the first to be approved by the Bavarian Football Association (BFA) to play in a women’s football league. Laura Hannah Holstein, 25, was the subject of a glowing profile in the Main-Post after joining the Effeltrich/Hetzles Football Syndicate.

According to the article, Holstein, who is a Master’s Student at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, was given the ability to participate after Grit Labahn, the head of policy at the Munich BFA headquarters, personally vouched for him.

“I can’t tell people who have a different, non-binary gender identity and want to play football: You were unlucky,” Labahn said. Though there are only male and female categories in German football, the BFA has a “case-by-case” inclusion policy, so Labahn explains she had to argue for Holstein’s right to participate in the women’s league.

Labahn said that an opening had emerged in the club after a trans-identified female had decided to opt out due to the fact that testosterone was making her too strong to participate with the other women. Labahn then “turned the tables,” arguing that estrogen had caused Holstein to “lose” muscle mass and would have stripped him of a competitive advantage.

Labahn then compiled additional information, using the cases of South African runner Caster Semenya and New Zealand powerlifter Laurel Hubbard to bolster her case.

“It was clear to me that we can justify a case-by-case decision by means of the hormone levels,” Labahn said, excitedly noting that allowing Holstein to compete with the women has created a type of “blueprint” they can use for future cases.

“We will certainly not revise our decision even if hostilities come. On the contrary: I can only encourage trans people to dare to go public and play football,” Labahn explained.

Holstein reportedly began identifying as a woman after watching The Danish Girl in 2015. The film is based on the life story of Lili Elbe, a trans-identified male who died of complications after his body rejected a uterus implanted into him in 1931. Following the movie, Holstein says he was “touched extremely internally. I questioned what I really feel deep inside.” He then says he “discovered the woman” within himself.

In 2020, Holstein began hormone replacement therapy and laser hair removal. He is set to legally change his sex to “female” in September of this year.

In his profile by Main-Post, Holstein is described as “discreetly masculine at first glance,” something the author attributes to his “high forehead.” The author also describes Holstein’s “breast gently emerging under [his] jersey.”

Holstein is apparently unconcerned about his appearance, questioning “what is so hard to understand about it: I’m just a woman who looks different. Why should I flaunt excessive femininity?”

While Holstein won’t officially begin playing against opposing women’s teams until the August season, he has begun participating in training sessions, and is sharing the female locker room with the women and girls on the Effeltrich/Hetzles Football Syndicate.

As some players are underage, concerns were raised about Holstein exposing his penis during shower times — an issue the coach attempted to address by providing Holstein a shower schedule.

The coach, Christian Wagner, is also preempting “transphobic” remarks from other players or spectators, and says that anyone who is discriminatory towards Holstein will be immediately banned from the arena.

Wagner has also admitted that there are certain “anatomical advantages” Holstein has that he expects him to use to the team’s advantage as a goalkeeper, and boasted: “If I were a woman, I wouldn’t want to play against Laura!”

Concerns surrounding trans-identified males participating in women’s football have been raised by women’s rights advocates over the past two years, with multiple instances of women being injured while competing against men emerging.

As previously reported by Reduxx, 24 women recently dropped out of a football league in Australia after a team with five trans-identified males began dominating the women’s league. Some female athletes had also been left severely injured by competing against the men, including one woman who had her leg broken in two places after being tackled by a male player.

In 2022, an “LGBTQ+ Inclusive” football team in Ireland similarly came under fire after beating out the female competition in the Junior J Shield Final, claiming a significant margin of victory that many attributed to the participation of an adult male. Giulia Valentino, 39, later went on to win an LGBTQ+ Sports Award.

https://reduxx.info/germany-balding-trans-identified-male-becomes-first-to-join-womens-district-football-league

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will not like this at all: Muslim students in Italy are now calling for the suspension of lectures during the festival of breaking the fast (Eid al-Fitr) on April 10 as a “gesture of respect and integration that recognises and values cultural and religious diversity”.The association of Muslim students at Milan Polytechnic justified its move in a letter by stating that the Muslim proportion at universities “is now very large” and that lecture halls would therefore remain “empty” anyway.

“The demand for the suspension of lectures on religious occasions not only promotes social cohesion, but also mutual respect and intercultural understanding, the cornerstones of a democratic and pluralistic society,” the letter states.

In Italy, the role of religion in the state school system is the subject of fierce debate. Despite pressure from the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the head of a school in Pioltello near Milan is insisting on the decision to give his pupils a day off school at the end of the Muslim month of fasting.

The headmaster of the school in the city to the east of the financial metropolis argues that in previous years, most Muslim pupils did not come to school on the day after the end of Ramadan and that it was therefore a lost school day. 40 per cent of the pupils at the educational institution, which consists of a kindergarten, primary and secondary school, are Muslim. The headmaster used a school holiday for the Muslim festival. Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara ordered an inspection of the school to investigate possible irregularities in the school management’s decision. The latter did not back down and confirmed the closure that day on the 10th of April.

Neuer Eklat vorprogrammiert: Muslimische Studenten fordern freien Tag zu Ramadan-Ende | Exxpress

A close ally of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico beat a pro-Western career diplomat to become Slovakia’s new president, and succeed Zuzana Caputová, the country’s first female head of state.

Parliamentary speaker Peter Pellegrini received 53.26% of the vote with the ballots from almost all polling stations counted by the Statistics Office in Saturday´s runoff election, topping former Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok who had 46.73%.

“I can promise I will be a president of all Slovak citizens,” Pellegrini said. “I can promise I’ll be always by the side of Slovakia.”

Pellegrini becomes Slovakia’s sixth president since the country gained independence after the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993.

Caputová, a staunch backer of neighboring Ukraine in its fight against Russia´s invasion, didn’t seek a second term in the largely ceremonial post.

Pellegrini’s victory cemented Fico’s grip on power by giving him and his allies control of major strategic posts.

The president of the nation of 5.4 million people picks the prime minister after parliamentary elections, swears in the new government and appoints Constitutional Court judges. The president can also veto laws, though Parliament can override the veto with a simple majority, and challenge them at the Constitutional Court. The head of state also has the right to pardon convicts.

The government, led by the prime minister, possesses most executive powers.

Fico’s leftist Smer (Direction) party won Sept. 30 parliamentary elections on a pro-Russian and anti-American platform.

Pellegrini, 48, who favors a strong role for the state, heads the left-wing Hlas (Voice) party that finished third in the vote and joined a governing coalition with Fico and the ultranationalist Slovak National Party.

Critics worry Slovakia under Fico will abandon its pro-Western course and follow the direction of Hungary under populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

The new government immediately halted any arms deliveries to Ukraine. Thousands have repeatedly taken to the streets across Slovakia recently to rally against Fico´s pro-Russian and other policies, including plans to amend the penal code and take control of the public media.

“A majority of people in Slovakia said that they prefer this way of ruling,” Fico said in his comments.

Korcok was critical of the government’s moves that the protesters fear could undermine the rule of law while Pellegrini backed the new government and didn´t question its policies.

Korcok is the former ambassador to the United States and Germany, who also served as the country´s envoy to NATO and the European Union. He firmly supports Slovakia’s EU and NATO memberships.

He conceded the defeat and congratulated the winner.

“I’m disappointed,” he said about the result.

Pellegrini, who was Fico´s former deputy in Smer, became prime minister in 2018, after Fico was forced to resign following major anti-government street protests over the killing of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee.

Pellegrini had temporarily parted ways with Fico after the scandal-tainted Smer lost the previous election in 2020.

With Pellegrini’s win, Fico rebounded from two straight presidential election losses. Fico was defeated at the presidential vote by Andrej Kiska 10 years ago while Caputová claimed victory over a candidate he supported in the 2019 ballot.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/07/ukraine-war-sceptic-peter-pellegrini-elected-president-of-slovakia-cementing-populist-hold-on-power

By J.B. Shurk

It is important to understand that censorship does not occur in a vacuum.  It is a symptom of a worsening disease.  It is an early indicator of the political repression to come.  Like a canary in a coal mine, the criminalization of speech forewarns that State-sponsored terror and murder are not far away.  First, certain words and thoughts are banned.  Next, certain people are rounded up and imprisoned.  Finally, certain “enemies of the State” are executed quite publicly.  The imposition of fear supersedes the rule of law.  Terrorism undergirds social order.  Oppression replaces popular support.

What is happening in the West today is a concentrated push for global communism.  We could bicker about precise definitions — whether we are under attack from Marxists, socialists, Leninists, Trotskyites, Maoists, or other “revolutionaries” — but the end goal is clear.  A small group of global “elites” seek to use ideological and economic leverage to centralize political power and direct all human activity.  They seek the abolition of private property.  They seek absolute control over individual lives and local communities.  They are rebuilding twentieth-century totalitarianism with the privacy-destroying surveillance technologies of the twenty-first century.  

Most Western nations are working together to promote a public vision that achieves their private totalitarian goals.  Governments do not care about “hate speech”; they are dedicated to seizing control of the press, punishing dissent, censoring political opposition, and regulating public debate.  Governments do not care about “climate change”; they are dedicated to seizing control over all economic activity by first establishing a monopoly on available energy.  Governments do not care about “systemic racism,” “social justice,” or “income inequality”; they are dedicated to maximizing social divisions and distorting the meaning of fundamental rights, so that they may undermine long-cherished personal liberties.  Governments do not care about “gun violence”; they are dedicated to disarming their populations and making it impossible for them to fight back against tyranny.  Governments do not care about minimizing vicious and costly wars; they are dedicated to distracting their citizens with false threats to their personal security.  Governments do not care about maintaining the integrity and value of their monetary currencies; they are dedicated to printing and spending money that inflates household costs, taxes middle class savings, maximizes Wall Street profits, and increases welfare dependency.  Governments do not need to create central bank digital currencies to stave off economic disaster; they are dedicated to creating economic disasters, so that they can justify a future communist system that runs on privacy-destroying CBDCs.  

We are right now in the middle of a war.  It is as threatening to human civilization as the Cold War.  However, it is rarely discussed except on the pages of alternative news media.  By ignoring it, our compromised corporate press work to keep the war secret and the public confused.  The most consequential war today is not flaring in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, or the Asia-Pacific.  It is a quiet, chilling war raging between States that seek absolute control over society and citizens who insist on defending their constitutional rights and personal liberties.  Everything Western governments do must be seen through the lens of this broader conflict.

For two centuries, Marxists have debated and fought each other over a salient point: should they patiently wait for the supposed contradictions of free market capitalism to naturally usher in their communist Utopia?  Or should they actively promote societal conditions that speed the “revolution” and their beloved “fundamental transformation” along?  So sure of Marx’s conception of historical materialism and its determinative impact on humanity’s future, plenty of nineteenth and twentieth-century intellectuals urged steady restraint.  They used democratic elections to elevate Marxist socialists into political offices, but they cautioned against the use of violence to accelerate a process that they understood as foreordained.

Communist Utopia, however, is not foreordained, and the longer that Marx’s disciples had to wait for their “revolution,” the more anxious they became.  Patience evaporated because Marx has always been a false prophet.  In order to create a Marxist future that is wholly unnatural, his followers eventually realized that coercion and violence are instrumental to their vision.  Just like the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana, Marxism requires everyone to “drink the Kool-Aid.”  And just as with Jim Jones’s astonishing cult, Marxism always leads to “revolutionary suicide.”  

Marxists cannot square their practical failures with Marx’s theoretical promises yet stubbornly refuse to learn from the contradiction.  Failed ideologues who push false visions of the future inevitably become more coercive and violent as failures pile up.  This is Marxism’s lasting mark upon history — bloody stains and mass graves wherever it has been imposed. 

Some of Marxism’s most staunch defenders reluctantly acknowledged this truth last century.  Karl Kautsky — a devout Marxist, colleague of Friedrich Engels, and influential theorist for Germany’s Social Democratic Party — excoriated Vladimir Lenin’s socialist revolution in Russia: “Among the phenomena for which Bolshevism has been responsible, Terrorism, which begins with the abolition of every form of freedom of the Press, and ends in a system of wholesale execution, is certainly the most striking and the most repellent of all.”  Unable to accept that violence is inextricably linked to Marxism, Kautsky echoed the naïve complaint that history cannot be “hurried.”  History’s “speed,” however, has never been the source of Marxism’s violence.  Marxism’s internal fallacies, disregard for personal freedom, and imposition of unnatural human relationships create the necessary conditions for terror, bloodshed, poverty, agony, and angst. 

What is important to understand is that the various Western projects active today all reflect this long conflict among Marxists about the best way to achieve their “revolution.”  Sure, there still remain a few residual peaceniks in the faculty lounge who believe — as Kautsky did — that human societies will naturally evolve into Marxist Utopias and “equitable” communes from the sheer deterministic forces of historical materialism.  There are far more, however, who believe political repression, terror, and violence are essential for success.  Standing somewhere in the middle — for the time being, at least — are the great majority of governmental and non-governmental forces pushing demonstrable forms of Marxist socialism under the guise of public policies ostensibly meant to advance environmentalism, mass migration, pandemic preparedness, minority rights, or “sustainable” economic development in impoverished communities.  

We are familiar with their many names: the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset,” the United Nations’ “2030 Agenda,” the “Green New Deal,” the “Build Back Better” initiatives, George Soros’s “Open Society Foundations,” and the World Health Organization’s “Pandemic Treaty.”  There are many others, of course.  Every perceived global problem provides Marxist socialists with an opportunity to “solve” that problem by constructing financial and governmental institutions that advance their “revolution.”  They believe that they can “speed up” the “progression” of human history by creating painful conditions that justify communism’s architecture.  The vast majority of globalists who run central banks, newsrooms, intelligence agencies, administrative departments, legislative assemblies, religious nonprofits, and too many corporate boardrooms are all “true believers.”

Make no mistake, when these Marxist globalists conclude that an increasingly popular resistance force within Western society threatens their “long march” toward domination, they will not throw up their hands in defeat, shrug, and concede, “Well, that’s democracy.”  In their twisted totalitarian minds, only ideological allies merit “democratic” respect or civil rights protections; ideological foes deserve dictatorial force and bloody despotism.  

Just as Lenin justified “violent revolution” and defended “unrestricted power, based on force and not on law,” today’s globalists showed us who they are during the “Reign of COVID Tyranny.”  Within a matter of weeks, they threw free speech, bodily integrity, religious freedom, due process, and economic liberty right out the window.  In his short book, The Defense of Terrorism, Leon Trotsky argues that organized violence against opponents of the “revolution” is morally right.  Today’s J6 political hostages serve as a tragic testament that D.C. ignominiously agrees.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/marxist_globalists_will_resort_to_terror_and_violence.html

In the aftermath of the atrocities of October 7, the resulting war between Israel and Hamas, and the volatile fallout across Western countries with supposedly enriching immigrant populations, there has been a nervous re-evaluation of ‘multiculturalism’ as a state-sponsored article of faith.

Is this the best we can do? Angela Merkel and David Cameron, hardly darlings of the dissident Right, were admitting the failures of multiculturalism as long ago as the early to mid-2010s. Are we supposed to be impressed that politicians like Suella Braverman have managed to twig that this still holds true? There is plenty of room, as well as every warrant, for Braverman to go further, particularly given the widespread contempt in which she is already held by race communists and other loons who will jeer if the woman so much as brushes her teeth in the morning.

A very confused piece on this topic, recommended by Braverman on X, was recently published in the Telegraph by a commentator named Isabella Wallersteiner. Typical of someone with just enough in the way of acuity to notice a problem, but too weighed down by normie dogmas to draw any worthwhile conclusions, she argues that the attacks of October 7 and the outbreaks of ethnoreligious zealotry on the streets of London as a result have blown a lid, at long last, on the folly of multiculturalism.

Before this, of course, all was going swimmingly. The occasional terrorist incident, an uptick in rape gangs, and de facto blasphemy laws aside, at least there was consolation to be found elsewhere: a seamlessly integrated Muslim mayor of London who just happens to plaster the tube with vengeful anti-white poetry, not to mention a self-described “son of the soil of Pakistan” running Scotland with a track record of talking about native Scots in ways which, if said of Jews, would belong in the pages of Der Stürmer. Still, if we are feeling charitable, perhaps a ‘better late than never’ is in order.

Except that it gets worse. “We have not created a harmonious melting pot,” Wallersteiner goes on, “but a society where prejudices and tensions can fester.” This implies that it would have been a good thing for the British people as a whole, as well as the United Kingdom’s four founding ethnic groups in particular, to have their cultural identity dissolved in a bland, cosmopolitan soup if only the experiment—for which we never volunteered as guinea pigs—had occurred without divisive hiccups. No other distinctive people, whether Ukrainians or Israelis, is expected to suffer such liquidation. Why should Anglo-Celtic Brits be any different?

More to the point, how come so many of multiculturalism’s critics never bother to ask why it is unworkable? They tend to stop short at noticing the failures and then leaving it there. Yet is it any wonder that not just native Brits, but also newly imported immigrant diasporas, are resistant to having their particularities gradually watered down?

As the social chaos in European cities over a conflict thousands of miles away has made all too plain, the fact is that immigrants, however charming as individuals, are disposed to identify more fervently with their ancestral background—whether ethnic, religious, or both—than with the culture of the nations in which they have opted to live. Multiculturalism is not so much the cause as the product of these tribal loyalties. To resist them at the level of policy is to fight a Sisyphean crusade against human nature itself.

When people like Braverman denounce multiculturalism as the failure, they are correct in spirit but hopelessly wide of the mark in terms of detail. “For too long,” continues the opinion piece praised by Braverman, “we believed that embracing ‘diversity’ without considering how different cultures, beliefs and rights might collide, would deliver harmonious integration and social cohesion.” What “we” is supposed to denote in this sentence, if not complacent liberals with a habit of calling their vindicated critics racists, is not immediately obvious. The author then adds: “It didn’t, and it won’t, until we fix the underlying factors which lead some to be radicalised.” In truth, the “underlying factors” which prevent diversity from working in practice are the all-too-human dynamics of diversity itself. Whatever the fault line at any given moment or in any particular place, tribalism will always be a vital feature of individual and collective human psychology.

This kind of complacency goes hand in hand with a radically impoverished account of what it means to be a nation. Multiculturalism is thus indicted by Wallersteiner for failing “to uphold shared values such as democracy, human rights, tolerance and peaceful coexistence.” This anodyne set of liberal principles might as easily describe Finland as Britain. Are we supposed to believe that a country is nothing more than the sum total of its most bougie members’ best-loved slogans? As I recently argued on The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, Lord Bolingbroke did not believe in many of the things that pass for ‘British values’ today. Does this make him less British than, say, a Yoruba Nigerian who does?

To define a nation with a list of fashionable bullet points is to denude a rich heritage of meaning. It also nominates the descendants of the people who built it for erasure. After all, the whole gamble of civic nationalism is to assume that, so long as there is a continuity of ‘shared values,’ it is not only possible but a cakewalk to replace a founding, long-established population and be left with exactly the same country.

As well as being an organism that is itself subject to shifts in collective values, a nation cannot be expected to assimilate any immigrants—let alone hundreds of thousands—unless prospective new members are tasked with integrating into something actual: the living heritage of an existent people. They can hardly be expected to assimilate into something on its way out. Even in theory, it would be absurd to think it within anyone’s power to assimilate into Japan if the Japanese people were swapped out by French colonisers. At best, they should find themselves integrating into an outpost of France in East Asia.

Gimmicky civics tests will not save us. No number of attacks on multiculturalism will make it any less dangerous to indulge the anti-human corporate-speak which holds that a people, rooted in shared history and instinctive ancestral attachments, can live on synthetic values alone.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/diversity-not-multiculturalism-is-the-problem

University researchers have been awarded £800,000 to “decolonise” Robert Louis Stevenson’s class work “Treasure Island”. To discuss this and the wider issue of tax-payer funded, anti-British lobby groups, we are joined by Elliot Keck, Campaign Manager for The Tax Payers’ Alliance: https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/ #NCFWhittle

A council leader in the East Midlands has caused a stir in his community after suggesting the local museum should rename after Margaret Thatcher.

Cllr Ashley Baxter of South Kesteven District Council claimed the former Prime Minister’s name would serve as a greater attraction for tourists visiting Grantham where Mrs Thatcher was born.

Grantham Museum has disagreed with the Independent councillor arguing “there’s so much more to Grantham than Margaret Thatcher.”

Sir Isaac Newton, the physicist that developed the laws of gravity, was born in the Lincolnshire town and, in more recent history, the Dambuster raids were planned there.

Cllr Baxter said: “Far more people have heard of Margaret Thatcher than Grantham. If it is a way to get more people to visit Grantham Museum then the name would help.”

“I’m not even a fan of Margaret Thatcher, I’m not a Conservative, but I recognise she still divides opinion.

“Because of that reaction I think people are more likely to wonder about what’s in the museum.”

Mrs Thatcher, who died in 2013, was the Conservative Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990 after winning three successive elections. Her premiership oversaw the Falklands War and Cold War, plus the miners’ strike.

A statue of Mrs Thatcher in Grantham, erected in May 2022, has been vandalised numerous times. It had previously been rejected for a position in Westminster due to concerns about protest and damage.

Grantham Museum is run by volunteers without an entry fee but accepts donations.

It features a gallery sharing the story of Mrs Thatcher from her birth in the town to life in politics.

Vivienne Reichelt, Manager at Grantham Museum, said “It should not be called the Margaret Thatcher Museum because it’s about Grantham town.”

“People in Grantham are split. Some people love her and others can’t stand her. She is complete Marmite.”

Conservative councillors in South Kesteven have found the Independent Leader’s position puzzling.

Cllr Ben Green said “Truth is, we had no idea that Councillor Baxter, a creature of the hard left that opposed the Thatcher statue, was a sudden devotee.”

He continued “While Margaret Thatcher is a political titan, we feel locally that she shouldn’t crowd out the rest of our history.”

https://www.gbnews.com/news/grantham-margaret-thatcher-statue-outrage

The candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat, Madhavi Latha, revealed a shocking incident related to the “sale of a bride” that she encountered in the area. She further asserted that females are being sold to fund the family’s sustenance. According to her, some families force their daughters into several marriages in order to receive money that is then utilized to raise the family’s other children. She was in Rajat Sharma’s popular talk show “Aap Ki Adalat” which was broadcast on 6th April.

Rajat Sharma asked her, “When you visit Muslim women regularly, they (Islamsist) accuse you of encouraging them to become independent and not have children,” to which she responded, “We host medical camps, give out food and medicine and provide them with blankets and food during iftar on Roza at the madrasas. We give them commodities like refrigerators, almirahs and clothes. You’ll be shocked to learn, though, that they have asked me not to tell anyone about their institutions or themselves since their neighbours have threatened them not to take assistance from outside sources.”

She unveiled, “The maulana (Muslim cleric) threatened to break the legs of my team members. Helping them requires us to keep quiet. I don’t encourage women not to procreate. All we ask them to do is bear offspring like Pandavas and not Kauravas. We remind them that you deliver children, but you are unable to meet their basic needs, which include clothing, food and education. What are you doing, then? The pain of a mother can only be felt by another mother. When you have children, make sure they become the nation’s pride. A kid who is unaware of the purpose of his birth reaches a point in life from which he is unable to return. I only share these things with them.”

Rahat Sharma then questioned, “When you talk like this the people claim that you are disparaging Hyderabad and Old City. You say that girls are put on sale there.” The BJP leader answered, “I have been working hard among poor Muslim families of Old Hyderabad to provide them with education and assistance. Fifteen days ago, a 16-year-old Muslim girl spoke from a Middle East country to her family in Hyderabad. The minor stated, ‘Mummy, arrange a big feast because I have been married off 18 times.’ She was married to a 70-year-old Arab man. This is the bitter truth. Can anybody do this to his own daughter? Where does religion come into this?”

The BJP leader added, “I have two girls. Can anyone even dare to hurt them? I tell the same thing to the women. I won’t get my girls married till they are 21 years old. I provide them with the best education possible. Where does religion come in between two mothers? Daughters belong to all of us. I only pray for a girl’s nice life, good in-laws, better husband from God. We are astounded to view the houses of Pasmanada (Muslims) on winding alleyways where sounds are confined between four walls. They marry their daughters multiple times due to their low socio-economic standing and need for money to feed their eight or nine children. Some girls are sold to put food on the table.”

Madhavi Latha is contesting the election from a BJP ticket against Asaduddin Owaisi, president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM). General elections will be held in India from 19 April 2024 to 1 June 2024 to elect the 543 members of the 18th Lok Sabha. The elections will be held in seven phases and the results will be announced on 4 June 2024.

Minor Muslim girls sold to old Arab men: Hyderabad BJP leader Madhavi Latha (opindia.com)

By D. Parker

Dennis Prager brought up an important topic: “What has ever replaced Judeo-Christian values and been morally superior?”  As he phrased it, “if you get rid of X, you would assume that Y is better.  Otherwise, why get rid of X?  So what has worked out better?”  It’s becoming obvious now that the fascist far left is following the Martin Niemoller poem.  First, they came for the Jews, and now they’re coming for Christians.

So what wondrous Utopia — from the title of a book written 500 years ago about a socialist society — would the ruling-class left like to impose on us proles in place of our value system?  You don’t hear many details on what they have planned — just as you don’t hear leftists boast about being socialists these days.

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

—John Adams

That quotation should tell you all you need to know about the compatibility of the left’s socialist national agenda with our Jewish and Christian value system, and why leftists are out to destroy it and replace it with something far worse, but fantastic for their dreams of pure power.

The lie from the far left is that religion is “backward,” from a time before the understanding of science and reason.  They want to “grow” beyond it — much like what they did during the French Revolution, except that, as Dennis Prager explained, that became a real bloodbath. 

This is because every society is going to be based on some sort of spirituality, so something is going to fill the void.  As author John Daniel Davidson outlined in an interview with Glenn Beck, “the idea that the future will be this secular, woke utopia is totally wrong.”  If we lose our Jewish and Christian value system, the only alternative is to become pagan instead of secular, as is being sold by the socialists.

In the video, the author explains the pagan ethos:

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. A radical subjectivity about man, about God. About our natures. About what we can become and what we can do. And so what determines what public policy should be, or what determines what is right, isn’t based on any universal claims about human nature.

Or the image of God. Man being created in the image of God. It’s based on force and coercion.

And that’s how pagan societies have always been. That’s why they’re slave societies.

The pagan societies of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in the 20th century were characterized by force and coercion, along with a rejection of human nature and the idea of human rights.

It’s important to emphasize that there are only two basic ways that human beings interact with one another: moral reason and force.  If you want something from someone, you either must use reason and exchange something for his cooperation or force him to do your bidding. 

Force or freedom based on moral law — that’s it.  When you don’t have any basis in moral law, everything redounds to force and coercion.

As the author explained in a piece in The Federalist:

The principles Americans have always asserted against this kind of moral and political tyranny — freedom of speech, equal protection under the law, government by consent of the governed — depend for their sustenance on the Christian faith, alive and active among the people, shaping their private and family lives as much as the social and political life of the nation.

If we don’t have the moral reasoning of our Jewish and Christian value system to undergird our system of limited government, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, everything will devolve down to the lowest common denominator of force.  We’re already seeing some of the worst effects of this loss of values, from the devaluation of property rights to the verbal coercion of lies.  Rather than seeing a wonderous woke Utopia and secular society, we’ll have the worst of a pagan cult without basic human rights.

This new society — call it pagan America — will be marked above all by oppression and violence, primarily against the weak and powerless, perpetrated by the wealthy and powerful. In pagan America, such violence will be officially sanctioned and carry the force of law. We will have a public or state morality, just as Rome had, which will be quite separate from whatever religion one happens to profess. It was, after all, Christianity that united morality and religion, and without it, they will be separated once more. What you believe won’t really matter to the state; what will matter is whether you adhere to the public morality — whether you offer the mandatory sacrifice to Caesar, so to speak. And if you don’t, there will be consequences.

If you’ve been keeping track, this is yet another similarity between the Nazis and the national socialist Democrat party.  As we’ve stated before, we’ve figured out why they always admonish the pro-freedom side about looking too closely at how leftists and Nazis are so similar.  You’re not supposed to examine all of the commonalities that are piling up, because Trump is “Hitler” or something — never mind that it doesn’t make logical sense. 

Leftists want people to think that getting rid of our value system will be “progress” in moving to a new age of enlightenment.  But logic shows that it will have the opposite effect, sending society backward to a time when the man with the biggest stick ruled the kingdom.  The experience of the last century of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany should be enough of a warning not to follow the leftist playbook once again.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/first_they_came_for_the_jews.html

The 23-year-old Algerian-born defendant is assisted by a translator at the court in Bayonne on April 4. He is on trial for repeatedly beating a police officer in the Hendaye deportation prison on March 1, for setting fire to the mattress in his cell the next day and burning the arm of the guard who was trying to protect him… And finally, because three days later he wilfully damaged the sanitary facilities in Bayonne prison.

(…) This was followed by a severe slap in the face, which the 20-year-old does not deny… Nor does he deny starting the fire: “I was still angry. The insult to my father had stuck in my head”. So be it. But what about the damage to the sanitary facilities? “I was put in a cell for suicidal people,” the accused responded.

(…) According to the psychiatric report, “he can’t stand authority, even if he knows the rules”. The young man also refuses to take medication that could calm his outbursts of rage, “because of Ramadan”. He has a long criminal record and is sentenced to 15 months in prison without parole and a five-year entry ban in France. (…) Sud Ouest

https://www.fdesouche.com/2024/04/06/il-refuse-les-medicaments-en-raison-du-ramadan-prison-ferme-pour-un-migrant-algerien-multi-condamne-du-cra-dhendaye-64-ayant-brule-son-matelas-et-agresse-en-recidive-un-po