The president of one of Germany’s largest teachers’ organizations has called for the comprehensive teaching of Islam in public schools across the country.
Stefan Düll, the president of the German Teachers’ Association, told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on Monday that Germans must begin to see Muslims living in the country as a “normal part of society.”
He suggested that the teaching of Islam and its principles in schools across the country would help to control the education of young Muslims and counter any extremist ideology taught by “dubious teachers” in foreign-funded mosques.
“We have to set up Islam lessons under state supervision,” he told the newspaper, adding that the state should look to recruit “appropriately convinced democrats” as teachers of Islamic studies to ensure the religion is being taught in a responsible way.
He said it was the responsibility of the state to “protect all democratic Muslims” from “extremists,” and more focused education within state schools would go a long way in bringing the country together.
“(Parents) repeatedly express their wish that their children receive Islamic instruction under state supervision, preferably at school,” said Düll, a former teacher himself. They want their children to be taught “in the spirit of enlightened Islam with professional support, but not instruction that is controlled by other states such as Turkey or Iran,” he added.
According to Düll, many Germans have a “fear” when experiencing Islamic religious holidays and festivals, and called for a “way of getting to know each other” by celebrating religious festivals together at school.
“Our society has a blind spot here,” he claimed, insisting that greater inclusivity and multiculturalism were needed to harmonize society.
A 2020 study from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) revealed that 5.5 million Muslims currently live in Germany of which just over half (3 million) are now German citizens. Some 45 percent of all Muslims living in the country originated from Turkey.
Muslims comprise around 6.6 percent of the German population and Islam is now the second-largest religious community in the country after Christianity.
There are an estimated 1 million Muslim students studying in public schools across the country.
Irish populists have been “excluded” from televised debates before the upcoming European Parliament elections, candidates running in the country have claimed.
Despite polls suggesting that a number of anti-mass migration candidates — including those with new party Independent Ireland — are in the running to be elected, neither the private Virgin Media Television nor publicly funded RTÉ have been willing to let populists on the airwaves.
This has provoked outrage from several senior candidates from across the country, who have accused Ireland’s media of acting in an unfair manner.
“What’s happening in Ireland is the social contract has broken down between the mainstream media and politics, and the people,” Independent Ireland’s Niall Boylan, who is running in the Dublin constituency, told Brussels Signal.
Boylan added that the media’s refusal to invite him to televised debates is despite his campaign going well, with the candidate citing internal polling that shows he is “in third place in a four-horse race, and most definitely in contention for a seat”.
Such a claim appears to be backed up by public polling.
“The fact that we are excluded from the debates is fundamentally undemocratic and wrong,” he added.
“Voters are angry, nobody is listening to them, and the mainstream media are blocking us from talking to a wider audience about the issues that matter to them, the good thing is, like our recent referendums which were a catastrophic result for the government, once again the voters will have their say on June 7, and we fully believe that the government are in for a shock.”
"The reality is they want to shut down debate!"
Irish MEP candidate @MalachySteenson talked to Brussels about the controversial Irish hate speech legislation.
Another popular candidate in Dublin, independent Malachy Steenson, told Brussels Signal that he and his fellow populists had been refused invitations despite looking set to out-poll more mainstream politicians.
“Our taxpayer-funded broadcaster is refusing to invite myself and other candidates to the live election debate, even though some of those invited will certainly poll lower than us,” he said.
Steenson went on to describe the scandal as “another example of the brazen cronyism in Ireland”, calling the island “the most corrupt little country in the Western World”.
“If elected to Europe I’ll cut the cronyism connection between the corrupt establishments in Dublin and Brussels, making both more accountable to their voters Europe-wide.”
VIDEO: Ireland is seeing a huge upsurge in support for independent candidates such as Dublin-based @MalachySteenson. Ireland’s political class, he tells Brussels Signal, has been lying to its people. https://t.co/WZkkhqEvwy
So far, two major televised debates have taken place between Ireland’s European Parliament election hopefuls, both of which were plagued by gaffes.
During the first debate for candidates running in Dublin, incumbent Green Party MEP, Ciarán Cuffe, encountered ridicule while trying to defend EU support for Ukraine.
When pressured on the issue by war-sceptic MEP Clare Daly, who suggested that Europe should back calls for peace, Cuffe suggested that she would not be so keen on peace talks if Ireland was invaded.
“If three counties of Ireland were taken over by an occupying country would we say ‘that’s grand [okay]’?” he asked the panel.
His interlocutors responded with outrage, noting that six of the island’s 32 counties were surrendered to the United Kingdom in exchange for the country gaining independence, all of which remain outside the control of the Irish state to this day.
A debate between candidates within the Midlands North West constituency also descended into chaos, with the poor polling Saoirse McHugh calling her right-wing opponent, Peter Casey, a “clown” after he interrupted her.
He later left the stage over an alleged microphone issue.
Fine Gael’s Maria Walsh, a member of the European People’s Party, opted to voice support for the re-election of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, despite the senior Eurocrat’s position on the Israel-Palestine conflict causing outrage in Ireland.
A vicious assault on two supporters of the Italian right-wing Lega party over the weekend has been roundly condemned by conservative Italian MPs.
The father and son activists, aged 60 and 15 years respectively, had been handing out leaflets on behalf of Lega’s Andrea Tragaioli, mayor of Rivoli, a commune in the municipality of Turin, on Sunday morning. After being surrounded by a group of seven people, the Lega supporters were attacked and beaten with bats.
Both suffered injuries to their backs and faces, with the 15-year-old, who also suffered an eye injury, being sent for a CT scan at a nearby hospital due to head trauma. The identities of the assailants are so far unknown. Both Lega supporters were kept in hospital for further observation.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Lega leader Matteo Salvini sent an “affectionate hug” to his injured party supporters, while Lega MP Riccardo Molinari warned that the “number of these politically motivated hate episodes has been increasing in recent months.”
“An episode as disturbing as it is unacceptable: words of clear condemnation from the left would be in order for a case which once again highlights the dangerous effects of a scheme according to which the centre-right is made up of monsters to be fought,” Il Giornale wrote.
Since even before the ‘years of lead’ in the 1970s, Italy has been no stranger to left-wing violence. Numerous officials have warned of an upswing in radical left agitation in the aftermath of the populist takeover of the Italian government under Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing coalition.
Only last year, a diplomatic row erupted between the Italian and Hungarian governments over the treatment given to one left-wing extremist involved in a hammer attack in Budapest, with 39-year-old activist Ilaria Salis looking at achieving immunity from prosecution due to a decision by the Italian Democratic Party to run her as an election candidate.
Despite almost daily media denunciations of the growth of the so-called far right, Europe has seen a rising tide of violence against conservative and nationalist politicians including the attempted assassination of one conservative lawmaker in Spain in November and a senior AfD leader being stabbed with a syringe. Concerns over increasing violence were heightened last week by the assassination attempt of populist Slovakian PM Robert Fico by an anti-government poet and activist.
People arrive with flowers outside the F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital, where Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot and injured, is being treated, in Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia, Saturday, May 18, 2024. Screen grab youtube
Slovak police are investigating whether the suspected gunman who attempted to kill Prime Minister Robert Fico was not, as initially claimed, a “lone wolf” but had an accomplice.
Left wing terrorist or out-of-control lone wolf, little is officially acknowledged about the alleged gunman, who tried to kill Prime Minister Robert Fico last week. Yet despite the order by the government for police not to reveal his name, a series of leaks and briefings to the press, the identity of the accused Juraj Cintula, his political past, and even his taped confession have been widely disseminated in national and foreign media.
At first it was said Cintula was a “lone gunman”, but now Minister of the Interior Matúš Šutaj Eštok has announced the investigation team is investigating whether he had accomplices. One such line of inquiry is that hours after the attack — while Cintula was in police custody and had no means to do so himself — his Facebook chat history was wiped.
Police have discounted the possibility it was the work of the suspect’s wife, given she lacked the technical competency, reportsKonzervatívny denník Postoj (‘The Conservative Daily Post’). The team is also investigating whether Cintula was in chat groups where killing the Prime Minister may have been discussed, or joked about.
Meanwhile, Fico — who was by all accounts close to death after last week’s shooting and survived after a major five hour surgery — is still improving, but remains very unwell. A deputy director of the F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital in Banská Bystrica where Fico is being treated said the recovery “will take a long time” and he still needs rest to convalesce.
The hospital itself said in a separate statement that Fico’s condition is stable, “improving clinically”, inflammation is “slowly decreasing”, and he is communicating.
Nevertheless Fico is not able to be transported, suggesting he remains in delicate position and talk in Slovak media hoping for a possible statement from the Prime Minister himself may not be realistic yet.
As well as investigating the gunman, Slovak police are also chasing up incidents of what they call “hate speech” around the attack. A man who stood outside Fico’s hospital on the day of the shooting and shouted about how he approved of the attack was jailed for three months on Sunday, convicted of “approving of crime”.
Some 50 social media posts approving of the attempted assassination are being investigated by Slovak police also as potential criminal instances of “online hate speech”.
There were several acts of violence committed by Syrians against police officers on Thursday evening after an administrative action in the Elisabeth suburb of Salzburg. An Afghan (26) had called the police – several perpetrators had tried to rob him of his mobile phone. The police arrested seven Syrians (15 to 34) on the spot. During the investigation, they behaved extremely aggressively, resulting in the arrest of an 18-year-old Syrian, during which a policewoman was injured. Subsequently, a 23-year-old Syrian injured two police officers by kicking them. A total of four arrests were made. The foursome were taken to the police detention centre. Violence broke out again there – a third 35-year-old Syrian injured a further three officers. Further investigations are ongoing. Attacks on or acts of violence against Salzburg police officers are anything but rare. In 2022, for example, a total of 212 suspects were reported for (alleged) violent assaults on police officers in the province of Salzburg alone.
These assaults often have very painful consequences for the police: In 2022, for example, no fewer than 69 Salzburg police officers were injured in the course of their duties as a result of ‘interference by external violence’.
Three Green Party parliamentary candidates have shared incendiary material online including a video in which a woman claims “Zionists will drink the blood of Palestinians”, the JC can reveal.
The disclosures, which follow a recent JC exposé of inflammatory posts by newly elected Green councillors, have heightened fears that the party has become a safe haven for extremists.
Other posts by the candidates feature an October 7 conspiracy theory, support for the Palestinian “resistance” and material comparing Israel’s war against Hamas to the Holocaust.
The party is now facing calls to take action against the three MP hopefuls, whose social media activity was described as “shocking” and a “wake-up call” by Dame Louise Ellman, who fought antisemitism as a Labour MP when the party was led by Jeremy Corbyn.
Elizabeth Waight, who is standing in Bethnal Green and Stepney, posted a video on Instagram on March 27 in which a woman said: “What’s left for the Zionists [is] to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Palestinians… I think this will happen soon.”
Chingford and Wood Green candidate Chris Brody uploaded links to an article that suggested that the 9/11 and October 7 terror attacks were “false flag operations executed to open the path toward more slaughter and mayhem”.
Bristol East candidate Naseem Talukdar circulated comparisons between the Holocaust and the war in Gaza and liked a video clip in which anti-Israel activist David Miller says “we have to destroy Zionism”.
Dame Louise said that the cases unearthed by the JC were deeply disturbing. “The mounting evidence of antisemitism in the Green Party is a wake-up call,” she said.
“It is shocking to see the Green Party become a safe home for antisemitic and anti-Israel extremists. They must take immediate action.”
She pointed out that Labour had forced out those who held extremist views and instituted rigorous processes to vet its candidates.
A post by Elizabeth Waight
The revelations are set to intensify the furore triggered during the local elections earlier this month, when the JC revealed that several Green council candidates had circulated extremist views.
Those elected included two Greens in Bristol. One, Abdul Malik, posted a link to a Hamas propaganda video justifying the October 7 massacre, and another, Mohamed Makawi, shared false claims that most of the terrorists’ victims were killed by the IDF.
Mothin Ali, who posted a video on October 7 implying the atrocities were justified and celebrated his victory with a speech that closed with the cry “Allahu Akbar”, was elected in Leeds.
Standing for the Greens in the Tory-held north-east London constituency Chingford and Wood Green is IT manager and musician Chris Brody.
On October 21, two weeks after the Hamas massacre, he posted links on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) to an article suggesting that both the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 people in 2001 and the October 7 massacre were “false flag operations executed to open the path toward more slaughter and mayhem”, the first perpetrated by the Bush administration, the second by Israel.
The article claimed “there is growing evidence that the Hamas attack on Israel October 7, 2023, may also have been a false flag engineered to open the way to the genocide of the Palestinian people of Gaza”.
After Azhar Ali, the Labour candidate in the Rochdale by-election in February, was recorded making similar claims at a party meeting, he was suspended by his party, which opened the way to George Galloway’s victory.
The article shared by Brody also claimed Israel has “a Nazi attitude” and has no right to exist.
In Bristol East, the Green candidate will be Naseem Talukdar. In January he reposted several pairs of photographs of the Holocaust and of Israel with captions claiming, “it’s becoming REALLY hard to spot the difference” and that the “past becomes the present”.
A pair of portraits of Adolf Hitler and Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu, and a photo showing Jewish prisoners being taken on a pickup truck to a Nazi death camp were also included.
A post by Bristol East candidate Naseem Talukdar
He also liked a post claiming that “Israel became a country by killing Palestinians and stealing their land”, and another suggesting that Palestinians were “the real owners of Palestine”.
In February, Talukdar liked a video clip of the former Bristol University professor David Miller making a speech in which he said, “we have to destroy and dismantle Zionism… it’s fundamentally a racist ideology”, and another post showing a cartoon of an IDF soldier pointing a submachine gun at a baby in an incubator. The soldier was drawn with a speech bubble reading: “But do you condemn Hamas?”
Even more extreme was an Instagram post on March 27 by Elizabeth Waight, the Greens’ candidate in the East End constituency of Bethnal Green and Stepney.
The video to which she linked featured a woman who claimed that a Palestinian patient had been raped and killed in front of her family by Israeli soldiers in the Al-Shifa hospital.
The woman went on: “What’s left for the Zionists [is] to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Palestinians… I think this will happen soon, you will see them eating the flesh and drinking the blood.”
Waight also posted a statement justifying Palestinian “resistance”.
She also liked a post that claimed “we are paying for a genocide so that the racial supremacy of Europeans can be maintained in Palestine”, and another that stated: “We can talk about 7 October all you like as long as we’re allowed to (a) contextualise the illegal decades’ long siege of Gaza and (b) spend at least 20 times more airtime expressing sorrow at Palestine casualties compared to Israelis so that the attention paid is proportionate.”
Two further controversial candidates are standing to be Green MPs.
Becca Horn, the Green candidate in Hastings, is an activist in the local branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), and photos of her taking part feature on its social media pages. She also signed a letter from the branch to the local council on October 23 expressing dismay that it had not called for a ceasefire.
Posts by the Hastings PSC include a photo of the Gaza border fence destroyed on October 7 accompanied by a caption reading: “Enough is enough! What does Israel expect? After 16 years of siege and 75 years of oppression.”
It has also pictured members holding placards advocating “resistance by any means necessary” and asking: “Wouldn’t you resist? We are all Palestinian.” Last June, it held a meeting addressed by Miller, in which he attacked “the Israel lobby”, and in September, hosted a gathering addressed by the anti-Zionist journalist Asa Winstanley, who spoke about his book Weaponising Anti-Semitism, explaining “how Labour’s antisemitism crisis was manufactured”.
Also standing for the Greens is Jo Bird, the candidate in the Wirral, who was expelled from Labour in 2021 for supporting the proscribed group Labour Against the Witchhunt.
Bird is Jewish, but has previously stated that she believes there is “privileging of racism against Jews as more worthy of resources than other forms of racism” and that the way Labour dealt with complaints of antisemitism should be labelled “Jew process”, rather than “due process”.
Appalled by the mounting evidence of Green extremism, Jewish Labour Movement chair Mike Katz wrote last week to the party’s co-leaders, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, saying they “must understand the importance of taking firm action against members, candidates and elected representatives who spread racism – even when it is against Jews”.
He pointed out that he had raised similar concerns last year, but had not received a reply, and asked: “For the sake of fighting racism and promoting equality and tolerance for all minority communities in our country, please don’t ignore our letter this time.”
A national spokesman for the Greens, replying on behalf of each of the individuals named above, said: “The allegations raised are serious and are being treated as such. At this stage it would be inappropriate for us to comment further on the examples raised.”
The JC approached candidates and some local Green branches. None of the branches contacted responded.
People post in front of Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” presented by Perrotin Gallery and on view at Art Basel Miami 2019. Two of the three editions of the piece, which feature a banana duct-taped to a wall, have reportedly sold for $120,000.-Screen grab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPoODlSIEuM
In the intellectual and cultural arenas of the Western world, a counter-revolution to the burgeoning woke ideology is underway. Yet, the bastions of academic arts have entrenched themselves deep within the doctrines of intersectionality, pushing their agendas with a zeal that borders on the religious. This persistence is partially reshaping the cultural landscape, transforming the zeitgeist into a mere tool for career advancement rather than a beacon of diverse thought. Today’s cultural dialogue is one that is commodified, delivered by way of push notifications on smartphones that signal not groundbreaking ideas but adherence to the latest politically correct trends.
This new norm has cultivated a generation of global philistines—individuals who, though draped in the prestige of academic achievement, are contributing to the degradation of our culture. Since the cultural revolutions of the 1960s, a progressive agenda has been simmering beneath the surface of mainstream acceptance, boldly emerging in times of societal upheaval. At the turn of the century, socialism was thought to be dead, but the financial crisis of 2008, the subsequent Occupy movements, and the continued growth of right-wing politics have only accelerated the resurgence of an intense form of socialism. Despite the general populace’s preference for smaller government and traditional values, these fringe ideologies are now back at the forefront, perverting the essence of public and private life.
The woke assault on cultural institutions
These shifts have particularly marked effects on national and regional identities, leaving societies grappling with the task of navigating a revolution that seeks to remake the very fabric of culture under the pretense of promoting equality and progressive liberalism. Within the halls of Western academia, there is now a significant discord concerning the purpose of museums—a discord that mirrors a broader societal schism. Woke ideology has not just seeped into these institutions; it has seized them, leading to a definitive estrangement from hundreds of years of art history scholarship.
This ideological stranglehold demands a reevaluation and dismantling of historical narratives. What is promoted as an effort to foster a more inclusive and equitable understanding of art history is clearly discrimination against European artists. The tenets of aesthetic appreciation and scholarship have been sidelined, replaced by an agenda that promotes a sanitised, revisionist version of history. The activists behind these movements, under the cover of equity and inclusion, are curiously intolerant of being judged by the rigorous standards of merit that they decry as relics of an oppressive past. They aim not just to supplement but to replace the traditional narratives with those that align with their politically motivated agendas.
When a banana duct-taped to a wall is juxtaposed against a Monet, the underlying absurdity of this cultural revolution becomes starkly apparent. Proponents argue that the presence of art by white artists fails to foster sufficient dialogue. They overlook the fact that museums dedicated to contemporary, indigenous, and ‘LGBT’ art already exist. They disregard the nuanced interplay of historical and contemporary narratives that these institutions typically curate. Cultural relativism has morphed into a tool of hostility and violence, and the old guard is now expected to be admonished as we descend into the regressive Left’s hellscape of ideas. This isn’t inclusivity; it is an ideological purge masquerading as progress, aiming to dismantle the foundations of our most revered cultural institutions and the very essence of humanity.
The public’s negative reaction to these changes has been well noted, but the voices of discontent are drowned out by the louder, more persistent calls of a vocal minority. The elites in charge do not care about feedback; they only care about virtue signalling. Observers like Michael Deacon of The Telegraph have pointed out that today’s modern art exhibitions often come laden with moral lecturing that bears little relevance to the art on display. This highlights the shift in cultural institutions from celebrating art to serving as platforms for political activism.
The Western world needs better culture critics
The “Campaign against Renoir,” which began in 2015, is symptomatic of a broader narrative that seeks to dismantle the respect traditionally afforded to European male artists. This campaign, driven both by a narrative of disenfranchisement and by a narcissistic manifestation of hipster uprising, has been mistakenly elevated to legitimate discourse, illustrating the sway that professionally disgruntled activists now hold over cultural discussions.
Furthermore, lost in the thicket is the obvious case that ‘queer histories’ are often entirely fabricated. There is no concrete evidence to suggest that Britain’s Queen Anne was romantically involved with her close friend Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. Yet, modern narratives frequently portray their relationship as such. This reinterpretation may supercharge a Hollywood storyline, but it overlooks the historically common practice of monarchs having ’favourites’—relationships that, while occasionally romantic, were predominantly platonic and based on political alliance. In Queen Anne’s era, it was typical for rulers to have politically influential favourites like Sarah Churchill, making such relationships far from extraordinary.
These depictions are a form of revisionist history catering to a minority disconnected from broader societal norms. While it is valid to assert one’s right to identify as gay, altering historical narratives to retrofit modern sexual identities where they may not historically belong distorts the past and can be viewed as a tactic of queer subculture propaganda.
Critical gender theory and queer theory argue that the distinctions between male and female, masculine and feminine, as well as heterosexual and homosexual, are social constructs designed to uphold the dominance of traditional gender roles and heteronormativity. This perspective raises profoundly stupefying questions: in representing the human form in art, should we now reinterpret classical sculptures of the female body to include transgender individuals? Should we reinterpret classical sculptures of the male body so as not to upset those with smaller or larger anatomy? Should we revise ancient nude depictions to reflect the fleeting modern ideals of beauty, such as the Hollywood-inspired attributes of the 1990s with bleached blond hair and exaggerated breast implants, or the fluctuating body types popularised by online pornography?
Clearly, allowing pop culture and in-vogue politics to dictate the interpretation of multi-generational aesthetics is ludicrous. No rational approach to art history would endorse redefining historical and cultural works to align with transient contemporary ideologies. Yet, this is occurring within our museums and cultural institutions, affecting the legacies of the greatest artists in history.
These actions not only challenge the integrity of art historical interpretation but also risk undermining the educational role of museums as custodians of cultural heritage. By imposing modern values and political correctness on historical figures and artworks, we risk losing a true understanding of our past and, with it, the lessons that history can teach us about the complexities of human relationships and societal norms.
The ideological encroachment into our cultural institutions represents a profound threat to the integrity of our artistic heritage—a threat arguably greater than many historical challenges faced by Western societies. Facilitated by a vocal minority within the arts and academia, this movement undermines the very purpose of cultural preservation, replacing it with a narrative that prioritises political correctness over artistic merit. The fundamental question remains: will we allow the ideological manipulation of art to redefine our cultural legacy, or will we preserve the integrity and richness of art history against those who seek to politicise and diminish it for their own ends?
The battle for art history is not merely academic; it is a fight for the soul of our cultural identity, demanding that we defend the depth and diversity of artistic expression against those who would flatten it into a monochrome palette of political ideology. This war is about more than preserving past masterpieces—it is about ensuring that future generations can appreciate and understand the true breadth and complexity of human cultural achievement without the temporary concern of contemporary bias.
As we continue to navigate the chaos, it is imperative that those who value the richness of our artistic heritage stand firm and advocate for art that transcends political and ideological boundaries. Exhibitions can clearly exhibit different styles of art, but to tear down masterpieces and uproot permanent collections to appease the protesting, unwashed masses risks destroying the very essence of human life. In this war against art history, it is not just the legacy of the past that we are fighting for but the very future of our cultural identity.
Forget Biden debating Trump. He should debate Pope Francis. Both are elderly men with the habit of saying completely insane things that undermine whatever point they’re trying to make.
The Catholic leader said in a “60 Minutes” interview with Norah O’Donnell that American leaders should instead embrace forgiveness toward migrants entering the country.
“That is madness. Sheer madness,” Francis said. “To close the border and leave them there, that is madness.”
“The migrant has to be received,” he continued, advocating against GOP efforts to close the southern border. “Thereafter, you see how you are going to deal with him. Maybe you have to send him back, I don’t know, but each case ought to be considered humanely.”
“Migration is something that makes a country grow,” he said. “They say that you Irish migrated and brought the whiskey, and that the Italians migrated and brought the mafia. Migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot.”
I’m just as happy he didn’t get around to whatever stereotypical image he had of Jewish and Polish immigrants even while painting the Irish as drunks and Italians as the mob. Two groups that formed the base of the American Catholic community. And the groups he would want to win over with his argument.
Pope Francis doesn’t seem to understand the difference between legal immigration and mass illegal invasion, but to be fair he’s been living in Europe where the difference hasn’t existed for a decade. It’s like trying to explain to a California socialist why shoplifting is wrong. The concept doesn’t even exist anymore. Having a million Muslims just show up in your country is how immigration in Europe now works. Wir schaffen das!
There are all sorts of arguments to be made in favor of immigration or even migration, but I have to say that even after hearing a decade’s worth of bad arguments, this one takes the case. “Migration is something that makes a country grow. They say that you Irish migrated and brought the whiskey, and that the Italians migrated and brought the mafia. Migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot.”
This is Borat-level stuff. It’s almost like the entire Pope Francis routine is one big troll by a secret right-winger who’s parodying the mindless condescension of the leftist clergy.
Mumbai, India’s financial centre and the capital of Maharashtra, is a bustling city known for its cosmopolitan nature and bustling activities. But a new report by journalist Pankaj Prasoon paints a sinister development underway in its neighbourhood, Padgha, a backwater town 50 kilometres northeast of Mumbai.
Padgha experienced a dramatic and menacing transformation, earning the reputation of becoming India’s ISIS hub. This shift was masterminded by the notorious terrorist Saqib Nachan. Under his direction, Padgha was renamed Al Sham and began functioning almost like an independent enclave, governed by the repressive Sharia rule.
Padgha, a village just 50 km away from bustling Mumbai, became India’s #ISIS hub. Nurtured by terrorist Saqib Nachan and renamed Al Sham, Padgha became like a tiny, independent nation. Till NIA stormed it in 2023 and found 44 drones ready to attack Mumbai, Israeli flags, and a… pic.twitter.com/gR1RUa4GNH
— Abhijit Majumder (@abhijitmajumder) May 19, 2024
Saqib Nachan, a notorious terrorist, turned Padgha into a hub for extremism. Once a serene village, Padgha experienced a dramatic shift with the influx of unfamiliar and suspicious individuals, accompanied by a rise in Islamic radicalisation. This transformation accelerated Padgha’s descent into a centre for terror planning and radicalism, significantly altering its character and raising substantial security concerns.
In 2023, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) executed a major raid in Padgha, uncovering 44 drones primed for an attack on Mumbai. This significant cache suggested that the terrorists had sophisticated plans and likely external support. However, the drones were not the only alarming discovery. The NIA also found a substantial stash of weapons and extremist literature. Surprisingly, Israeli flags were among the items seized, hinting at broader and more complex motives behind the activities in Padgha, possibly aiming to incite greater tension and violence.
The revelation of such a well-equipped terror hub so close to Mumbai raised serious national security concerns. The once peaceful village had become a significant threat, capable of launching major attacks, prompting critical questions about local security and community vigilance.
Padgha’s transformation from a quiet village to an ISIS hub known as Al Sham starkly illustrates the severe dangers posed by modern terrorism. It underscores the urgent need for robust intelligence, swift action, and a unified effort to ensure national safety.
Who is Saquib Nachan? The SIMI-linked terrorist who is the brains behind establishing ISIS hub Al Sham in India
Terrorist Saquib Nachan is the mastermind behind the village of Al-Sham. Nachan gained infamy after being involved in multiple terror blasts in Mumbai in just four months. He was accused of a blast at Mumbai Central railway station that injured 25 people in December 2002. A month later, he was accused of another bomb blast, this time in Vile Parle which killed 1 and injured 25 others. In March 2003, Nachan was named in a bomb blast at Mulund station that killed 11 and injured 82.
He was arrested shortly after that by Mumbai Police in April 2003 and held in prison for over 7 years. In 2011, he managed to secure bail but was arrested months later in connection with an attempted murder of VHP activist and lawyer Manoj Raicha.
The former secretary of SIMI was finally convicted in March 2016 for possessing weapons under the anti-terror law and sentenced to 10 years in jail. He served one year and 8 months in jail as a convict, while the remainder of the term as undertrial to come out free in November 2017.
In Padgha, Nachan strategically settled recruits in the pursuit to create a separate state. Intelligence sources reveal that Nachan played a pivotal role in radicalizing youth, organizing various training programs, and managing foreign operations, funding, and psychological warfare against India. His plans included orchestrating bombings across India, surpassing the severity of the 26/11 attacks. Additionally, Nachan administered the Bayʿah (oath of allegiance) to recruits, strengthening their commitment to the jihadist cause.
Under the guidance of foreign handlers, the accused actively participated in terrorist activities, including manufacturing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) for planned attacks. They encouraged vulnerable Muslim youths to move to Al-Sham (Padgha) to bolster their presence.
However, the details of the nefarious designs of waging armed jihad and terror attacks in India with Padgha or Al-Sham as the ISIS India base came to the fore when the NIA arrested 15 terrorists, including Nachan in December 2023. Nachan’s arrest had come months after the security agencies got hold of his son, Shamil Nachan, who is accused of similar terror activities as his father, underscoring the enormity of rampant Islamic radicalism and terrorism prevalent in India.
We are back in an era of a hundred years ago. In Europe, political violence is taking place in the streets, with left-wing parties and their loyalists forming stormtroopers. Ilaria Salis, the primary accused in the anti-fascist case of brutally violent street crimes in our country, is being excused by the entire left at the EU level.
Now, shots have been fired following an extraordinary meeting of the Slovak cabinet. Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot by a left-wing assailant with a clear political motive. He fired only because he disagreed with government policy. He had already decided to attack Robert Fico after the presidential election.
It is astonishing that Slovak left-wing political behavior could become hateful at this level. The unfortunate direct consequence of this was that an oppositional, extreme liberal poet may have felt he had to solve a situation he did not like by political assassination. This shows that there is very serious confusion in the minds of left-wing thinkers and leaders, not only in Slovakia, but also here and throughout Europe.
There can be no doubt that the responsibility for what has happened in Slovakia lies with the left-wing opposition and the liberal press, which has been constantly inciting against Fico. For Sky News in the U.K., it is not surprising that this event could have happened, because Robert Fico is strongly pro-Russian, and this could have been a direct cause of what happened. It also recalls that Slovakia, like Hungary, has been reluctant to support Ukraine on a number of occasions under Fico’s leadership, and that this is not to the liking of many.
But where does the problem-solving thinking of the left come from, what are its roots? Leftist ideology is rooted in violence, in the violation of rights, in a lack of respect for human dignity. Institutionalized political violence is a red thread running through the history of the left. Take Lenin, for example, who, as we understand him today, was nothing more than an unscrupulous political adventurer financed by the West, who, after coming to power, elevated permanent political violence in his country.
It is typical of left-wing public thinking these days that after the assassination attempt on the Slovak prime minister, social media sites were flooded with posts expressing enthusiastic agreement with the assassin and hopes that Viktor Orbán would be treated in the same way.
So, to resolve the various political tensions and disagreements, the left-wing formula looks like this: If you don’t act at once, you get a bullet in the head. It is urgent for everyone (in Hungary) to decide for themselves whether they want to live in a world dreamed up by liberals, where political violence and hate-mongering are a permissible means to an end, or whether they want to stick to the national Christian values that have provided a safe point of reference and ensured the survival of their country and nation for a thousand years. In order to choose and live by the latter, we must banish from domestic political life forever the globalist, nation-destroying quacks, the liberal cataract-makers, the prophets of hate-mongering. On June 9, with our votes, let us give normality, peace, and non-violent public life a chance.
