This year’s Catholic Convention in Erfurt offers its visitors intimate moments with representatives of Islamic organisations, among other things. ‘Speed dating’ with the Ahmadiyya community or the Muslim Education Centre for Democracy are on the programme. How far has the subjugation of the church already progressed?
The Catholic Convention takes place in Germany every two years. The five-day event, financed by public and church funds, aims to present and communicate the various facets of the Catholic faith. To this end, stands, seminars and courses are offered – this time including ‘speed dating’ between Catholics and Muslims and Islamic organisations. Interreligious dialogue in the form of a romantic date?
The event entitled ‘Muslim life in Erfurt – speed dating with members of Muslim communities’ is being organised by the Muslim Education Centre for Democracy and the Round Table of Religions. The head of the educational organisation, Thaer Issa, revealed in the past that he has his own idea of democracy when he invited the parliamentary groups of all parties except the AfD to an event in Erfurt city council. Are AfD members not welcome at speed dating either? Perhaps Issa is afraid of being given the brush-off.
In any case, it seems as if the Catholic Convention wants to make the Islamisation of Germany palatable to young visitors in particular. The emphatically youthful ‘speed dating’ with members of the Ahmadiyya community, for example, which is considered to be controversial despite its highly customised propaganda, should certainly be a warning signal for parents. The Catholic Church must also ask itself how far its subjugation has already progressed when it sponsors such events with millions in funding.
According to reports from Europe 1, a man armed with a knife was arrested on the RER D regional train on Tuesday morning for glorifying terrorism. He was taken into police custody.
A man armed with a knife was arrested early Tuesday morning on the RER D near Maisons-Alfort in the Val-de-Marne department. According to information from Europe 1, the 35-year-old offender, who is known to the police, threatened the passengers with statements about ‘Allah’. He was eventually arrested and taken into police custody.
That’s from The Telegraph, and let me translate: Women identifying as men are becoming postmenopausal in their 20s due to side effects from “transition,” which is far more dangerous than trans activists have led the public to believe.
Anyone who has been paying attention over the past few years will recognize a distinct pattern: a new study comes out revealing that sex change surgeries and accompanying hormone “treatments” are having both short-term and long-term devastating effects on their recipients; trans activists insist the study is flawed in some way and that “the science” says that transition prevents suicides; lather, rinse, repeat.
But it is important to note each of these studies because the cumulative weight of the emerging evidence is, I believe, going to eventually crush the transgender movement’s hold on public policy (and indeed, is already beginning to do so). In this latest study published in International Urogynecology Journal, experts analyzed 68 trans-identifying women who were taking testosterone “to change their identity from female to male and found that 95 percent had developed pelvic floor dysfunction.”
Read that number again: 95 percent.
According to the study, the participants, “who were as young as 18 and had an average age of 28, had bladder and bowel symptoms that medics would expect to see in a woman after the menopause,” with experts warning, once again, that “the impact of the sex-changing drugs on bodily functions are under-researched and under-reported” and that many people are not being told the actual risks when they go to gender clinics. Indeed, many people are being actively misled by LGBT curriculum in schools and LGBT propaganda being disseminated by most of our major institutions.
The side effects aren’t minor, either. 87% of the study participants had “urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting”; 74% “had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in”; unsurprisingly, 53% suffered from sexual dysfunction. Incontinence is defined as when urine unintentionally leaks. Other issues included “burning sensations” as well as both “urgency and difficulty in going,” with nearly half of the study participants suffering from an “orgasm disorder” and a quarter experiencing pain during sexual intercourse.
A third of the study’s participants were still students.
Elaine Miller, a pelvic health physiotherapist, told The Telegraph: “A lot of women are absolutely fine until the menopause and then they start to get leaky. That appears to be exactly the same trajectory for female people who take cross-sex hormones, but there hasn’t been much in the way of research.” She has already worked with many detransitioners suffering from side effects they were not told of. Incontinence, in particular, has proven extremely embarrassing and debilitating for many.
The study was led by Lyvia Maria Bezerra da Silva at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Da Silva stated that the study’s findings indicated “a high frequency of at least one of the pelvic floor dysfunction symptoms” and urged more research into testosterone because the “long-term effects are still unknown.” What we do know is increasingly concerning, and the evidence is steadily piling up that we are doing largely irreparable, irreversible damage to thousands upon thousands of young people, most of whom are not told that the dangers of the path they are embarking on and many of whom are told that what they are doing is reversible.
When these practices are finally banned, we are going to be faced with legions of young men and women who have been physically devastated by this quackery.
Apparently, the state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron and his older wife Brigitte to Germany is going as ‘well’ as you would expect.
During a visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin – no less – German press highlighted ‘moving words from French President Emmanuel Macron – and an irritating gesture from his wife’.
On their part, Russians are always ready and willing to exploit these unforced errors by their adversaries in the west.
“Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blasted Brigitte Macron and Elke Büdenbender’s inexplicable levity at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin.
The spokeswoman recalled that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also was amused when commenting on the [alleged by Russia] genocide of people in the Donbass by Ukraine.”
Traditionally the Europeans have been more willing to give Iran’s nuke program a pass than America. Now the Biden administration has gone so far into a black hole of appeasement that it’s telling the Euros to back off its buddies in Tehran.
The U.S. is arguing against an effort by Britain and France to censure Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s member state board in early June, the diplomats said. The U.S. has pressed a number of other countries to abstain in a censure vote, saying that is what Washington will do, they said.
European diplomats have warned that failure to take action would undermine the authority of the IAEA, which polices nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. They say it also weakens the credibility of Western pressure on Iran. And they are frustrated over what they see as U.S. efforts to undermine their approach.
Iran has attacked and killed American soldiers. Its terror proxies are battling the US Navy near Yemen. (Never mind Hamas and Israel for a moment which is holding American hostages.) And Biden is telling other countries not to be so tough on Iran.
What’s the high-minded excuse for it this time?
The Biden administration is pressing European allies to back off plans to rebuke Iran for advances in its nuclear program as it seeks to keep tensions with Tehran from escalating before the autumn’s U.S. presidential election, according to diplomats involved in discussions.
Alright then. It’s just another impeachable offense rather than full-scale treason.
Finnish parliamentarian Päivi RäsänenADF International
Former government minister and sitting Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen has submitted her defence to the Finnish Supreme Court ahead standing trial a third time for her Bible-verse tweet.
The State prosecutor appealed the case despite the Christian grandmother of 12 being acquitted unanimously of “hate speech” charges before both the Helsinki District Court, and the Court of Appeal. The charges are found under the “war crimes and crimes against humanity” section of the Finnish Criminal Code.
Commenting on the submission of her defence, Räsänen said:
The heart of the trial is the question of whether teachings linked to the Bible can be displayed and agreed with. I consider it a privilege and an honour to defend freedom of expression, which is a core right in a democratic state.
An acquittal by the Supreme Court would serve as a stronger precedent than lower court rulings for subsequent similar charges. It would provide a clearer and stronger safeguard for the freedom of Christians to present the teachings of the Bible – and it would strengthen the principle of freedom of expression in general.
The Bible on trial
Police investigations against Räsänen started in June 2019. As an active member of the Finnish Lutheran church, she had addressed the leadership of her church on Twitter/X and questioned its official sponsorship of the LGBT event “Pride 2019,” accompanied by an image of Bible verses from the New Testament book of Romans.
Following this tweet, further investigations against Räsänen were launched, going back to a church pamphlet Räsänen wrote 20 years ago, based on the text “male and female he created them.”
Over several months, Räsänen endured a total of thirteen hours of police interrogations about her Christian beliefs – including being frequently asked by the police to explain her understanding of the Bible.
A ‘chilling effect’ on religious freedom
Her legal team, backed by ADF International, have submitted to the court that the case should be dismissed and costs to be awarded to Räsänen.
The defence argue that Räsänen has the right to freedom of expression in international law, and that so-called hate speech laws do not extinguish that right.
The defence have further highlighted the fact that Räsänen has consistently underlined that all people have dignity and should not be discriminated against – inconsistent with the behaviour of somebody guilty of spreading “hate”.
The submission from the defence reads:
Vague or far-reaching laws against advocacy of hatred, or blasphemy, offence to religious feelings and similar offences are not only arbitrary; they can also lead to the direct and structural marginalization of religious or belief communities.
The parliamentarian’s case will again be heard alongside Bishop Juhana Pohjola, who faces charges for publishing Räsänen’s pamphlet two decades ago.
Their cases have garnered global media attention, as human rights experts voiced concern over the threat posed to free speech in Finland.
Lorcan Price, Irish Barrister and Legal Counsel for ADF International, supporting Räsänen’s legal defence said:
This is a watershed case in the story of Europe’s creeping censorship. In a democratic Western nation in 2024, nobody should be on trial for their faith – yet throughout the prosecution of Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Pohjola, we have seen something akin to a ‘heresy’ trial, where Christians are dragged through court for holding beliefs that differ from the approved orthodoxy of the day.
The state’s insistence on continuing this prosecution after almost five long years, despite such clear and unanimous rulings from the lower courts is alarming. The process is the punishment in such instances, resulting in a chill on free speech for all citizens observing. ADF International will continue to stand alongside Räsänen and Pohjola every step of the way as they face their next day in court. Their right to speak freely is everyone’s right to speak freely.
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A trans-identified male who was found guilty of repeatedly sexually abusing his 7 year-old stepdaughter in their Tulsa, Oklahoma home is appealing his conviction, arguing the prosecution had made “improper remarks” against him when they labeled him an “abuser” in court. Robert William Perry II, 32, changed his pronouns to “she/her” just after he was sentenced.
As previously reported by Reduxx, Perry was sentenced to life in federal prison following a conviction for the aggravated sexual abuse of a minor. The victim was Perry’s 7-year-old stepdaughter, but she referred to him as “dad” and “daddy” and viewed him as a biological parent.
Robert William Perry II.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Perry would coerce the girl into performing sex acts in exchange for candy, toys, and the opportunity to play video games in what Perry termed as a “man cave,” a closet where he regularly played video games and watched pornography. The abuses took place from 2017 to 2018 on the Muscogee Nation reserve in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The child divulged some of the details of her ordeal to a school friend, and the conversation was overheard by another student who immediately went to a teacher and reported what she had heard. The teacher informed the school’s principal who, distressingly, did not take any action and instead dismissed the child’s revelations as “gossip.”
But the teacher was persistent in her support for the girl, and interviewed her the next school day in private. During the conversation, the girl was hesitant to speak about what had happened because Perry had told her to “keep secrets,” but she would go on to draw pictures of what had happened to her.
The note the victim had given to her teacher [L] and a copy of a drawing she later made for a counselor with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services [R].
The teacher gave the drawings to the school’s counselor, who then contacted the Oklahoma Department of Human Services. A Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner further interviewed the child and began to liaise with police.
Perry was initially arrested and charged in 2018 and he was convicted in an Oklahoma state court in 2020, but the conviction was later dismissed because it was determined that the state lacked the jurisdiction to prosecute the case. In the United States, only the federal government or tribal councils have jurisdiction to prosecute cases that occur in Indian Country that involve Native American defendants. Because Perry is Indigenous and the crime had been committed on Muscogee land, the case was turned over to the federal government.
After a lengthy repeat trial during which the young girl gave extensive testimony on the sexual abuse she endured, Perry was sentenced to life in federal prison for his crimes in February of 2023.
Disturbingly, shortly after his sentencing, the U.S. Department of Justice amended their press release on Perry’s crimes, adding a bold note at the end revealing that he now went by “she/her” pronouns. Previous releases had described Perry as a “man.”
A screenshot of the amended release on the Department of Justice website.
Court documents reveal that Perry’s change in gender identity appears to have been declared around the same time he was being sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. A sentencing outcome signed by the judge in the case requested Perry be sent to a medium security facility in the Tulsa area with explicit provisions for “gender-care treatment programs.”
Other than the sentencing document, Perry’s gender identity was never mentioned during the trial.
Perry was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal before being transferred into a federal prison. Initially, he was placed at USP Florence, a medium-security men’s facility, but he has since been transferred to USP Terre Haute, a high-security men’s prison.
Immediately after his sentencing, Perry made his intentions to appeal the conviction clear. In court documents filed after his conviction, Perry was referred to by “she/her” pronouns, with some filings making special note that he identified as “female.”
On March 15, the Government submitted a response to the stated appeal, standing firm behind the conviction and outlining the extensive testimony that had been given by the child and other witnesses that led the jury to find Perry guilty.
On May 3, Perry’s lawyers submitted their case of appeal to the United States District Court For the Northern District of Oklahoma, dismissing the evidence that had been provided by the Government prosecutors.
“The government’s Answer Brief argues there was overwhelming evidence to convict. There was not. Instead, the case rose or fell based on L.A.’s credibility versus Perry’s credibility. If the jury believed L.A., it could convict. If it believed Perry, it could not,” Perry’s attorney wrote.
In the appeal, Perry’s lawyer argues that the prosecution made improper statements that lended too much credibility to the child victim.
“The government used the phrase ‘kids don’t make this up’ no less than three times in its initial argument,” the appeal states, continuing: “… any vouching for the credibility of [the victim] or any other improper argument to unfairly bolster her credibility or diminish Perry’s would have an outsized impact on the jury here.”
The attorney goes on to write that Perry’s right to a fair trial had been violated by the prosecution’s insistence of the victim’s credibility, and that the court “should reverse Perry’s conviction and order a new trial.”
Perry is currently incarcerated under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Prisons, and, under current Bureau of Prisons guidelines, he will be able to request housing on the basis of his self-declared gender identity.
On January 13 of 2022, the Bureau of Prisons revised its Transgender Offender Manual, which included guidelines previously scrubbed by the Trump administration with respect to gender self-identification for federal inmates. Under Trump, inmates were housed based on biological sex as a sole consideration, but the Biden administration re-invoked Obama-era guidelines requiring gender identity be considered when making housing assignments.
French PM Gabriel Attal openly admits that migrants will be flooded into Central and Eastern Europe thanks to the new EU migration pact. https://resistancerepublicaine.com/
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s claim that the EU migration pact will mean illegal migrants will be transferred to Central Europe and will not go to France, has caused uproar on the Polish right.
“The migration pact introduces solidarity. We managed to force eastern countries to sign a document according to which they either accept migrants or pay,” said Attal during a television debate.
The leader of the Polish conservative Law and Justice (PiS), Jarosław Kaczyński, told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) over the weekend that his party would be calling for an emergency meeting of the Polish parliament to consider the remarks made by France’s Attal during a television debate.
Attal claimed that the French provinces are safe from being allocated migrants covered by the EU migration pact, as the migrants will in the first instance be sent to Central and Eastern Europe. Kaczyński contrasted Attal’s statement with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s claim that the migration pact will not affect Poland because it has taken in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees.
“It seems that Tusk once again is saying one thing in the EU and another in Poland,” said Kaczyński.
The Polish government did vote against the EU migration pact at a session of the Council of the European Union, the body in which decisions are made by qualified majority. Kaczyński and PiS have consistently argued that the decision on the pact should be made by the European Council, at which all decisions must be unanimous. In the Council of the European Union, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia voted against the migration pact, which will introduce migrant quotas, but the new law carried the day as most EU states backed it.
The most controversial aspect of the EU migration pact is the provision that should member states refuse to take their share of the reallocated migrants, they will have to pay up to €23,000 for every migrant refused.
The so-called pro-Brexit “myth” of a European Union ban on smoky-bacon flavour potato crisps is now set to become reality after Member States gave the go-ahead for the prohibition late in April.
Pro-EU publications repeatedly claimed that EU attempts to ban certain flavours of crisps were false, linking the alleged lies to a broader smear campaign targeted at Brussels.
The ban has now been given the final green light by Member States, with Europe set to prohibit all eight methods of adding artificial smoke flavourings to food, including crisps.
According to a press release by the European Commission, the ban is justified by the fact that each method – developed as a purportedly healthier way of adding the flavouring to meats and other items that usually cannot be smoked – could in fact be carcinogenic.
“The relevant decisions are based on scientific assessments by the European Food Safety Authority [EFSA], which concluded that for all eight smoke flavourings assessed, genotoxicity concerns are either confirmed or can’t be ruled out,” the body said, adding that many products using the methods will now need to be phased out within the next two years.
That has sparked serious concern within Ireland’s agricultural sector in particular, which warned that the new prohibition could negatively affect its €30 billion EU goods market.
Ireland’s former enterprise minister Simon Coveney is said to have aired such fears in a letter to European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides, warning that the move could result in the “discontinuation of a wide range of products currently on the market”.
“It is estimated that up to 300 products will be affected, with one individual company advising that 27 of their products would be affected,” he is reported as having said, asking for an extended stay of execution on the flavouring methods to allow industry players to drum up alternatives.
Coveney’s request – in which he also appealed to EU ‘green’ values by saying artificial smoking methods are better for the environment – appears to have fallen on deaf ears, with the EU issuing no such delays to the ban’s implementation.
