Month: November 2025

In the Gries district of Graz, a secret mosque in an apartment building is causing a stir and triggering a great deal of media attention. However, this is only the tip of the iceberg: as reported by exxpress, Jews were openly insulted there and calls were made for violence against Zionists. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has already launched an investigation.
The discovery of the ‘Masjid al İhsan’ mosque in a basement

But what began as an unexpected discovery is now turning out to be an explosive scandal, as exxpress has revealed.

The neighbours were initially irritated when more and more men with long beards started entering the building. The real surprise came when they learned that there was a mosque in the basement, open daily from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. It had previously been located in Schönaugasse under the name ‘Arabischer Kulturverein Graz’ (Arab Cultural Association Graz).
The mosque is apparently very popular among visitors, especially asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq, as online comments show. One comment states: ‘A mosque that follows the Koran and Sunnah with the understanding of its righteous predecessors.’ It is described as an ‘active and educational mosque.’

But insiders warn that the mosque follows a Salafist orientation, an ultra-conservative movement within Islam.
The sermons in the mosque – both in German and Arabic – are available on the internet. While the German-language sermons are largely harmless, the Arabic speeches openly incite hatred against Jews and Zionists. Statements such as ‘Jews are God’s filthiest creatures’ and ‘May Allah kill the Zionists’ were made.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has now filed charges against two leading figures in the association for incitement to hatred. The Graz public prosecutor’s office confirmed to exxpress that investigations are ongoing.

In addition, the building and facilities authority intervened and determined that the space did not have a permit for use as a mosque, as reported by the Kleine Zeitung newspaper. The owner of the storage room was also surprised, as he had rented the space exclusively for storage purposes.

But now it is about more than ‘just’ questions of approving rooms as places of worship. Neighbours are pushing for a quick solution and for the mosque to be removed from their building.

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The Jesuit university in Munich, Germany, has canceled the talk of a Catholic philosopher after leftist students expressed their outrage.

The Munich School of Philosophy (HFPH), run by the Jesuits, informed Dr. Sebastian Ostritsch two days before his scheduled talk that it was canceling the event. The HFPH told Catholic Newspaper Die Tagespost: “In view of the circumstances both inside and outside the university, open academic dialogue no longer seemed possible.”

Ostritsch is a philosopher, author, and editor for the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost, who teaches as a private lecturer at Heidelberg University. He was supposed to give a talk on the five proofs of the existence of God by St. Thomas Aquinas, titled “Is God’s existence a matter of rational knowledge? Thomas Aquinas vs. Immanuel Kant.” The occasion was the publication of his latest book on the topic called “Serpentines: Thomas Aquinas’ Proofs of God after the Age of Enlightenment.”

According to Christian magazine Corrigenda, far-left students had applied pressure to the university’s leadership, threatening to disrupt the lecture if it was not cancelled.

First, the university administration removed the official announcement and advertising for the lecture from its website and inside the building. “In order to preserve academic freedom, however, the invitation to the lecture remains valid!” the administration said in an internal message.

A far-left student group accused Ostritsch of being a “right-wing extremist fundamentalist” on social media and announced they would hold a protest and disrupt the lecture if it were to take place.

Corrigenda cites a report of a participant of an internal meeting between professors, administrators, and students, in which leftist students accused Ostritsch of being a “misanthrope,” a “right-wing extremist,” a “Nazi,” who worked for “right-wing newspapers.”

One student compared Ostritsch to the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk: “Mr. Ostritsch wants to be like Charlie Kirk, but we can reassure you: we won’t shoot him.”

However, another student announced that if the event were not canceled, it would not go ahead “undisturbed.”

“I think it’s a great pity that I was disinvited; it shows the deplorable state of German universities,” Ostritsch told LifeSiteNews. “This state of affairs is characterized by hostility toward intellectualism and limited by left-wing ideology. This is, of course, sad for the German academic world.”

Large media echo in support of the canceled philosopher

Numerous journalists, publicists, university professors, and Christians in a wide variety of positions have publicly expressed their support for Ostritsch after the university scrubbed his lecture. Catholic journalist Marco Gallina wrote in Tichys Einblick that Ostritsch was not canceled because of the content, but because of the person giving the lecture. According to Gallina, Ostritsch’s “thought crime” is “merely his adherence to Catholic doctrine.”

The story was picked up by the German mainstream press, which predominantly criticized the Jesuit university for cancelling the lecture.

Matthias Heine, arts and culture editor at WELT, wrote:

The Jesuit order has long been considered the left wing of the Catholic Church. That is why what happened in Munich is only logical: members of a university that still sees itself as a philosophical training ground are acting like shallow thinkers who have earned their bachelor’s degrees in cultural studies, gender studies, or postcolonial studies somewhere with more left-wing piety than intellectual brilliance…. Humanities scholars without spirit, linguists without language, theologians who are not interested in God, and – as has now become apparent in Munich – philosophers without wisdom and without any desire to philosophize.

Alexander Cammann from the newspaper ZEIT noted how alarming it was that a Catholic philosopher was canceled not by a secular organization, but by a Catholic university.

“The irony that a Catholic thinker with widely held Catholic views is not being canceled by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, but by a Catholic institution, is what makes this story so interesting,” Cammann wrote.

“Because even if one rejects or criticizes Ostritsch’s positions, whether religious, political, or intellectual, their banishment is disastrous for intellectual debate in this country. Moreover, Thursday should have been about Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant, central figures in our thinking, and not about migration and Islam.”

Ostritsch: The scandal will hopefully bring ‘greater glory to God’

The cancelation of the Catholic philosopher’s lecture may have backfired for his detractors, as his book and the proves for the existence of God were more widely discussed than they would have likely ever been without the scandal.

“We know that God can bring something good out of even the worst situations that He allows to happen,” Ostritsch told LifeSiteNews. “In my case, it’s not just that everyone is talking about the book, but also about the proofs of God’s existence, and hopefully that will bring greater glory to God.”

“I also prayed beforehand and called on St. Thomas to intercede so that the book would be a success and serve the faith, and he seems to have actually done so.”

On short notice, the philosopher was able to give his talk at a new venue in Munich on Thursday, the Carlsbad Institute for Social Thought.

Ostritsch told LifeSiteNews that he will travel to the United States soon, where he will give his lecture on “Thomas Aquinas vs. Immanuel Kant” in English at the University of Notre Dame on December 5.

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A female university student in Brazil was arrested after telling a male who identifies as “non-binary” to leave the women’s restroom. According to a press release from the Military Police, the incident occurred at Darcy Ribeiro Campus of the University of Brasília (UnB) on November 11.

Reduxx has reviewed a police report confirming the shocking details of the incident. According to the report, the 19-year-old female student, who Reduxx will not identify due to concerns for her safety, was using the women’s restroom when she saw an older man enter. Uncomfortable with his presence, she confronted him and asked him to leave, telling him that he could not use the women’s facilities because he was “biologically a man.”

The confrontation escalated, and the female student said she left the bathroom to head towards security with the man in pursuit. The two continued to argue and exchange barbs throughout the courtyard, with the woman calling the man a “faggot” and a “jack,” a Brazilian slang term that effectively means “rapist.”

The “non-binary” student then called the police, claiming to be a victim of transphobic and homophobic discrimination. After police arrived, both students were taken to a nearby police station to testify. There, the man reported that he typically uses both the men’s and women’s bathrooms.

The female student was ultimately charged with “racial injury,” an offense created by Brazil’s Supreme Court in 2019 when it found that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity was covered under pre-existing anti-discrimination laws relating to race or national origin. She was held overnight without bail.

In a statement, the University of Brasília confirmed that it was following the case and offering support to both parties, but reaffirmed its commitment to “human rights, diversity and respect for coexistence within the institution.”

While the name of the male has not been made public, Reduxx can confirm his identity as Luís Inácio Pereira Barros, an undergraduate student studying Sociology and Anthropology.

After being made aware of the female student’s situation, MATRIA Brazil, a women’s rights organization, stepped in to offer her assistance.

“MATRIA is in contact with the woman who reacted to feeling intimidated by the presence of a man in the female bathroom,” a representative told Reduxx. “She is the true victim here and it’s simply unfathomable that she spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges over a situation she should have been protected from. We will keep fighting against this insanity and for the restoration of single-sex spaces for women.”

Since the news of the arrest, non-binary and transgender students at the University of Brasília have launched protests demanding that all bathrooms on campus be made gender neutral.

One campus activist group, calling itself Movimento Correnteza, boasted of “reclaiming” two restrooms in the Sociology Department by vandalizing them.

“Yesterday at UnB, we marked trans territory. At the ICC Center — above the Academic Center of Sociology, we de-binarized a bathroom by decorating the space, affirming our presence in a place from which they always tried to expel us,” the group wrote.

“Debinarizing is turning a bathroom divided between ‘male’ and ‘feminine’ into a bathroom for all students, breaking the binary logic that produces exclusion, violence and embarrassment. It’s affirming that our bodies have a right to exist and circulate fully in the university.”

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This is not the first incident to occur at the University of Brasília in which a female student has been penalized for attempting to remove a male from the restroom.

As previously reported by Reduxx, footage showing a massive, bearded male chasing down a female student who had asked him to leave the women’s restroom went viral in December of 2022.

“I am not a dude! Nothing is keeping me from bringing my hand to your face. Girl, respect me! Respect me!” The man was heard yelling, using a colloquial expression for ‘slapping.’ As the confrontation escalated in the University’s cafeteria, different cameras captured the man screaming at the female student. In some extended clips, the trans-identified male student was also heard claiming it was a “crime” to call him a man, threatening the female student with a police report.

While local media anonymized the man, he was later identified as Brigitte Lúcia, a male who identifies as “non-binary” and frequently used the women’s facilities at the University of Brasília.

Disturbing footage out of the University of Brasília shows a bearded trans-identified male screaming at a female student who questioned his presence in the women's washroom.

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— REDUXX (@reduxx) December 16, 2022

Due to the 2019 Supreme Court ruling that grouped “transphobia” in with “racism” as a criminal offense, Brazil has some of the most far-reaching gender ideology-based identity protections in the world.

Several women are currently facing criminal investigations for “misgendering” trans-identified males, and one feminist advocate was even able to obtain refugee status in the European Union as a result of an ongoing criminal case in which she was facing up to 25 years in prison for referring to a trans-identified male as a “man.”

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A Brazilian woman facing 25 years in prison for “misgendering” a politician has just been granted refugee status in Europe.

Isabella Cêpa is the first person to be recognized as a victim of state persecution for criticizing gender ideology.https://t.co/wlJTgmZvRe

— REDUXX (@reduxx) August 6, 2025

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Peter Whittle, founder & director of the New Culture Forum died on 27 November 2025. A few days earlier, NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo delivere this thank-you tribute to his friend.

A journalist from Italian broadcaster Rete 4 has filed a complaint after being detained against her will and physically threatened by a shopkeeper and his son in a halal butcher’s shop in Roubaix. The owner accuses her of filming in the shop without his permission for a report on Islam in France.

While interviewing shopkeepers in halal butcher shops on hidden camera, journalist Costanza Tosi says she was detained against her will and threatened by a butcher and his son in a shop on Rue de Lannoy.

The choice of this street was no coincidence: Rue de Lannoy was already the subject of an episode of the programme ‘Zone interdite’ on the M6 channel in 2022, when it was described as an area of influence for Islamist ‘separatism’.

The journalist says she was forcibly and involuntarily detained in the shop. ‘They kidnapped me,’ she says. According to her statement, she had to hand over her mobile phone in order to be allowed to leave the shop: “I told them they could call the police if they wanted, that I just wanted to leave. After a while, they promised me that I could leave if I gave them my mobile phone with the code, which I did, but then the butcher said he wasn’t going to keep his word and kept preventing me from leaving. They held me for more than an hour. I screamed, I told them it was illegal and they had to let me go. His son showed me his fist and threatened to hit me if I kept talking or left.”

This version is apparently supported by other images recorded in the store. In fact, in the videos from the camera hidden in his bag, one of the two men can clearly be heard making threats: ‘Wallah, I’ll beat you up!’

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Europe is watching Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez as he navigates the corruption investigation into the people considered to be the makers of his political career. 

Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) Secretary-General Sánchez’s situation in Spain is an indicator, not only of the peculiarities of Spanish politics but also the politicisation of morality, according to Javier Martínez-Fresneda, director general of the NEOS Foundation, dedicated to moral-cultural renewal in Spanish society. 

“It’s sad for Spanish democracy,” he told Brussels Signal yesterday. 

 Yesterday afternoon, Spain’s Supreme Court committed to provisional prison without bail one of Sánchez’s closest collaborators, his former transport minister and current MP, Jose Luis Ábalos.

The politician has been under investigation for alleged graft and kickback schemes involving public contracts. 

Koldo Garcia, a long-time adviser to the ex-minister, was also incarcerated. Both men were deemed a flight risk by the court.

In Ábalos’ case, the judge considered that, given his international connections and evidence he has both cash and property in Columbia and Peru, there was reason to fear he would flee the country.  

In 2023, Spanish police arrested 24 people as part of a probe into corruption involving face-mask purchases worth some €30 million made during the Covid pandemic. 

That sting included Garcia. Since then, the investigation has expanded beyond face-mask contracts and touched another high-level PSOE politician, Santos Cerdán. He had been head of the party since 2021.

Also key in the case is Victor de Aldama, a business man arrested in October 2024 on suspicion of being the mediator of alleged kickbacks. He quickly decided to co-operate voluntarily with the investigation, testifying before the judge overseeing it that he paid commissions to various public officials, including Ábalos and Cerdán.

In addition, an investigation been opened into alleged irregular payments and financing involving the PSOE. 

According to Martínez-Fresneda, without these three men – Ábalos, Garcia and Cerdán – Sánchez would not have made it to the top of Spain’s political tree. 

“Tonight the three people without whom Sánchez wouldn’t be in power have been put in jail,” he said. “Tonight his entire political project is sleeping in jail.”

Cerdán was provisionally jailed in July but was granted provisional liberty on November 19. 

Ábalos, Garcia, and Cerdán were Sánchez’s main supporters in his successful bid for his political comeback, winning his party’s primary in 2017.

This put him in position to gain the premiership in 2018, following a vote of no confidence against then-PM, Mariano Rajoy of the centre-right Partido Popular (PP).

Rajoy’s downfall came when 29 officials from the PP were convicted of graft and kick schemes involving public contracts, a web of corruption very similar to the charges and investigations now facing Sánchez’s closest associates. 

To many observers, it begs the question: How imminent might Sanchez’s fall from power be?. 

His hold on the legislature and governance has been razor-thin, particularly  since 2023, when his party lost election but manoeuvred into government with the support of a cadre of small separatist and left-wing parties.

Sánchez’s majority is only a single seat. Martínez-Fresneda notes he has faced parliamentary defeat after defeat and not been able to pass a budget.

The only legislation passed under this Government are measures favoured by the small parties supporting Sánchez. Those included special financing for the Cataluna region, regional control over the prison system for Basque Country and raising the minimum wage. 

Now, without Ábalos in the congress of deputies, he has one seat less. 

But in realpolitik terms, Sánchez’s position is the same, according to Martínez-Fresneda. “They’re living the dream,” he said of those small parties. 

Under no other government or political conditions would they have gained so many concessions, he claimed. Their support for the Prime Minister, he said, will not change anytime soon despite the intensification of the air of alleged corruption around him.

Martínez-Fresneda said he fears a worse problem may allow Sánchez to escape the political reprimand suffered by the centre-right Rajoy if and when he is hit with a similar scenario. 

“We’ve lost an amoral layer,” he said. “It used to be that what I thought was wrong was wrong for everyone. Now it’s turned into ‘for my side it’s right and for your side it’s wrong’.”

He said that attitude caused people to defend or excuse the unethical or immoral actions of their political side. 

The news of Ábalos’ and Koldo’s imprisonment made international headlines, too. Martínez-Fresneda says that if those outside Spain wonder how Sánchez should stay in power, they should consider the role of another international body, the European Union. 

“Many Spaniards are disappointed with Brussels,” he said. 

According to him, many in Spain thought the EU would serve as a counterweight to prevent what they considered some of Sánchez’s worst policies, such as an amnesty for the leaders of the 2017 unilateral referendum on Catalonia independence. 

Instead, he said, Carles Puigdemont, leader of the 2017 unilateral referendum on Catalan independence, remains in Belgium as a fugitive from Spanish law.

From afar, he directs his party Junts, which holds seven seats in the Spanish parliament and is key to Sánchez remaining in power, according to Martínez-Fresneda. 

He claims, too, that the European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen continues to show Sánchez her favour, boosting his standing. 

On the bright side, he said the continuation of the investigation shows key institutions of democracy – the press, the police and the judiciary – are functioning well. 

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New Culture Forum founder and former UKIP deputy leader Peter Whittle has died, his organisation said in a statement on Friday.

Peter Whittle has died aged 64, just weeks after he announced that he had been diagnosed with stage four oesophageal cancer. It was said in a statement that he had died on Thursday evening surrounded by his loved ones.

Well known in the Westminster right-wing political scene for both his generosity and impish sense of humour, Whittle had started out in television, working on cultural programmes and writing newspaper and magazine columns on arts and culture issues. Later in life he turned to politics and was elected to the London Assembly for Nigel Farage’s then-party, UKIP.

Whittle served as the leader of the UKIP faction in London and later was briefly deputy party leader, but stepped away from the party as it slipped from prominence in the post-Farage era.

It is with deepest sorrow that we announce the passing of Peter Whittle, founder and director of the New Culture Forum.

Peter passed away yesterday evening surrounded by his loved ones.

It is hard to overstate the impact Peter and the NCF have had on Britain’s cultural and… pic.twitter.com/Dp6zURcPsq

— The New Culture Forum (@NewCultureForum) November 28, 2025

During his time on the London Assembly, Whittle frequently hit the headlines as he locked horns with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. He was one of a group of London MLAs who were early in raising the prospect of “a Rotherham Style Sexual Grooming Gang Situation” existing in London, which was long denied but now are treated more seriously by the authorities.

Whittle was a stalwart supporter of Brexit and told Breitbart News in the final days leading up to the 2016 referendum that the British people had lost trust in the “groupthink” political and media establishment and would vote to leave the European Union to give the elites a bloody nose. He called for a “great renewal” of the country to get past a period of stasis.

In 2006 Whittle founded the New Culture Forum, which he led until his death. Whittle had been due to host on Wednesday NCF’s flagship annual lecture, this year on whether “Britain can be saved” given the rapidly approaching moment where the country is due to becoming minority white British, but was unable to attend due to ill health.

Speaking in a statement in October, Whittle revealed his cancer diagnosis. He said: “Early this year in May, I was diagnosed with stage four oesophageal cancer. As we all know, there is no stage five. My cancer is apparently a very rare one and highly aggressive. Since that time I have undergone chemotherapy treatments which unfortunately have not worked”.

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The installation raised next to the Christmas tree that adorns Brussels’ Grand-Place this year, titled “Fabrics of the Nativity,” has drawn criticism. While it includes the traditional figures of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus, it replaces classic sacred imagery with life-size dolls dressed in recycled textiles. The figures have no faces, only patchwork patterns in beige and brown. According to organizers, this was meant to create “an inclusive mix of skin tones.” Critics argue it strips the nativity of its spiritual meaning and turns it into a political statement.

City officials say the old nativity scene was too damaged to keep. Mayor Philippe Close (PS) insisted Brussels would not follow other cities that removed their nativity displays, but admitted jokingly that as a secular mayor he didn’t want to handle the issue alone. The project was reviewed and approved by St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral—a decision that has raised eyebrows among those who expected a more traditional design.

After a call for proposals, artist Victoria-Maria was chosen to redesign the nativity. She then commissioned Atelier By Souveraine from Forest to produce the figures. On Wednesday, November 26th, Pascale Leblanc and her daughter Alayin set up the dolls on the Grand-Place.

For them, it was an “exceptional project,” though many locals question whether such an experimental artistic approach is appropriate for a religious symbol at the heart of the city’s Christmas celebrations.

The transparent canopy housing the display is inspired by the Laeken greenhouses, and its curtains will be drawn during bad weather and at night. Final adjustments to the floor and lighting are still pending.

The city has committed to keeping this new nativity scene for five years, meaning the controversial installation will remain in place until at least 2029. “The goal is for this nativity scene to last,” Brussels Major Events confirmed—a decision that is likely to fuel further debate.

For many, the controversy touches something deeper than aesthetics.

“I grew up with warm, familiar nativity scenes and all the Christian traditions that shaped this country. What’s happening now is absurd: a small, self-appointed progressive elite is dismantling our own culture in the name of a hollow idea of ‘inclusion.’ No minority demanded this. No one is offended by a nativity scene. It’s always the same secular cultural engineers trying to impose their ideological emptiness on everyone else. This isn’t progress—it’s a cultural breakdown nobody ever voted for,” wrote Belgian columnist Fouad Gandoul on X.

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A French elderly woman was dragged through the court system for 18 months, all because she expressed outrage in a social media post over the murder of Thomas Perotto in Crépol, which has been reported as an anti-White hate crime. The 70-year-old Sylvie has finally been acquitted on Nov. 20 of “hate speech” in the Paris Court of Appeal, which overturned her conviction in a lower court.

“I still find it hard to believe it, this story changed my life so much. But you shouldn’t be afraid to say what you think,” the relieved retiree told the press after her conviction was overturned.

“At no time did I call for harm. It was simply a reaction of the heart, spontaneous. I have grandchildren the age of this young man who was stabbed,” said the former nurse, whose public comments about the murder were posted on her personal profile.

The case is not only being seen as a victory for free speech, but also an example of how far zealous authorities will go to terrify Europeans complaining online about foreigner crime or mass immigration.

Sylvie was living in Cuers when she suddenly had her house raided and was arrested for alleged “hate speech” for a Facebook post she made shortly after the death of Thomas in Crépol in 2023. The youth was stabbed to death by a group of youths with a migration background, and their trials are still ongoing.

So far, nobody has been convicted of the crime, but numerous witnesses at the event reported hearing the youths scream they “wanted to kill White people” before Thomas was killed with numerous stab wounds. Another two French youths were seriously injured during the attacks.

In response to Thomas’ death, Sylvie posted “the names of the alleged perpetrators involved in Thomas’ death” and mentioned “the soldiers of Islam” in her post, according to French news outlet France Bleu.

The French authorities later targeted the woman, launching a police action on May 28, 2024. She says she was shocked to find police officers standing at her door at 6 a.m.

She was convicted in the Paris Criminal Court, where she was forced to pay a fine for €1,000 for a post “inciting hatred.” However, her conviction has now been overturned on the basis that her comment was covered under freedom of expression.

Sylvie said she is still processing the court decision, according to ICI. She expressed great emotion and a profound sense of injustice after her hellish 18-month legal ordeal.

She also spoke about the emotional toll of having the police show up at her door in an early morning raid and being treated like a criminal.

“At my age, 70 years old and sick, I must have been a danger for them to come get me and take me into custody. My life has been disrupted. I was photographed as a delinquent and they took my fingerprints. I was told I was a first-time offender. It’s been a year and a half of trauma, and I feel a deep sense of injustice. I wasn’t talking about expressing hatred at all. But freedom of expression must be protected. Because the day we lose our freedom of expression, we simply lose our freedom. And it’s very dangerous,” Sylvie stated.

The Paris Criminal Court had initially convicted the retiree for “provocation to hatred,” imposing a fine and compensation for the alleged perpetrators whose names she had shared. However, her lawyer, Maître Maxime Barnier, advised her to appeal, arguing that her freedom of expression had been infringed upon.

“My client was being prosecuted for provoking hatred and violence, an offense with an extremely vague legal outline. The Court of Appeal took up the position of the Court of Cassation, considering that the provocation should be taken as an exhortation, not a simple invitation, but an injunction to do so. Now, in this case, there was no exhortation to hate people because of their real or supposed belonging to a clearly defined community, nor was calling on citizens to protect or defend themselves an exhortation to commit violence. The Court of Appeal considered that this was part of a debate of public interest,” said the retiree’s lawyer.

“The right to express oneself is also the right to be caricatured and outrageous. I am not defending this opinion. I defend the right to be able to express this opinion within the limits provided by law. We do not beg for freedom or the right to express ourselves. We impose it, we claim it and we protect it. And as an exception, it is sanctioned if the limits set by law are crossed,” Barnier explained to ICI Provence.

The Paris Court of Appeal therefore ruled that “Sylvie had not exceeded the limits” fixed by law in this instance.

Notably, the murder of Thomas is still hotly debated and discussed in France, including earlier this month when French politician Éric Zemmour mentioned what he said were the anti-White racist motives behind the murder.

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by Giulio Meotti

Manga is a Christian in Nigeria, the most dangerous place in the world for Christians, the country where a Christian is killed every two hours. Manga was supposed to be one of them. He was returning home as usual after university. His mother was preparing dinner. Terrorists burst into his house. They dragged Manga, his father, and his brother outside, while his mother and younger siblings hid in a room.

“Then they asked my father and the two of us if we were ready to renounce Jesus and embrace Islam,” Manga testified to the NGO “Open Doors.” Manga’s father refused. “So they told us: ‘We will kill you.’ I answered: ‘If you kill us, what do you gain?’” Manga was struck with a rifle butt, and his father was brutally murdered. “They beheaded him and placed his head on his stomach in front of my eyes,” says Manga. “Then they tried to decapitate my brother.” Manga watched helplessly as his family was massacred. Then came his turn. “They took a knife, serrated by their teeth, and tried to cut my neck.” Manga managed to find the strength to pray. The young man was left on the ground, with the bodies of his father and brother before his eyes.

I don’t know what to call all this: “genocide,” “extermination,” “religious cleansing,” but Manga certainly did not suffer because of “the economy.”

“I think that in Nigeria, in certain areas, there is danger for Christians, but [also] for everyone-Christians and Muslims have been massacred,” Pope Leo said recently, responding to a question about Manga’s country.

“There is a terrorism issue,” Leo said. “It is an issue that has much to do with the economy, if you will, with control over the lands they own. Unfortunately, many Christians have died, and I think it is very important for the government, together with all peoples, to promote genuine religious freedom.”

So something is happening: Christians and Muslims are being killed equally, and causing it is the economy-and, by the way, it is also a matter of terrorism.

Enough with the fairy tale of the murderous economy: Christians die at the hands of human killers. The economy has no knife blades-the blades belong to those whom the West never names.

I don’t know where the Vatican gets its numbers and words, but here they are:

Since the beginning of the year, 7,087 have been killed and 7,800 kidnapped by jihadist militias. Sixty lives destroyed every day on average, in the heart of a nation that today accounts for 90 percent of all Christians murdered for their faith in the world. Twenty thousand churches have already been razed to the ground and 10,000 Christian schools closed for security reasons.

And yet the BBC wonders whether “Christians are really persecuted in Nigeria as Trump says.” It even unleashes its Global Disinformation Unit.

1,200 churches are attacked every year in Nigeria: what does the BBC say-this is disinformation?

Emmanuel Isa Saliu, a Nigerian priest, tells Journal du dimanche:

“I come from a village in northwestern Nigeria, a predominantly Muslim region. At that time, sharia was not yet in force. We lived near a church where an Irish priest, the region’s first missionary, offered to care for the children and teach them reading and writing. We were all happy to spend time with ‘the white man.’ I was baptized and added a Christian name, Emmanuel, meaning ‘God with us,’ to my birth name, Isa. I continued my path, becoming a Brother of the Christian Schools before going to Rome to be ordained a priest and trained in interreligious dialogue.

“Now I have returned home and teach at the seminary in Kaduna. None of this would have been possible without that first contact with the Christian faith. Today, Islamic law reigns supreme. During Ramadan, for example, a Christian eating in front of a Muslim is considered sinful, because it is a ‘temptation.’ Girls are kidnapped, Islamicized, and forced into marriage to become sexual objects. Priests are kidnapped for ransom or murdered.

“Some Boko Haram terrorists are invited by Nigerian politicians themselves to Islamize the country. They talk about a ‘program to Islamize Nigeria.’ When I see, in videos, my companions lying on the ground, slaughtered like animals by men shouting ‘Allahu Akbar,’ I call it genocide.”

And yet Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, had just said the violence in Nigeria “is not a religious conflict, but a social one.”

The same line was adopted by the late Pope Francis, who always avoided or bypassed the issue of the mass murder of Christians. On 14 February 2025, Muslim terrorists kidnapped 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, brought them into a church, tied them up, and beheaded them. Their bodies were left to rot by the Muslim killers, who did this to demonstrate the supremacy of Islam over Christianity.

Pope Francis made no reference to this massacre of Christians in a church; instead, in a meeting with the Slovak Prime Minister, he spoke of the “grave humanitarian emergency in Gaza.” Pope Francis accused Israel of genocide but said: “Let me say clearly that I do not like it when people speak of a ‘genocide of Christians’”.

Benedict XVI in 2012 used simpler and more courageous words, describing what Christians were facing as “systematic religious cleansing.”

This week, another Christian school was attacked, 300 children kidnapped. The reaction of the media and the world is indifference-only Donald Trump stands out.

“How can climate change or economic inequality kill people like this?” said Nigerian Catholic Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe and Protestant Reverend Remigius Ihyula in New York. “Butchering people and destroying everything. How do they explain someone shooting unarmed villagers in the back with an AK-47 as they try to flee a terrorist raid? This is Islamic jihad.”

Simple, but apparently impossible for Church leaders to react to and report.

France 24 reports: “Mado was praying in an evangelical church. Armed men burst in, shot her two-month-old daughter point-blank, told her to leave the body on the ground and follow them outside with the other faithful.” Then they told her: “Now you will no longer be burdened.”

We can ignore the tragic truth, hide it behind strange euphemisms, and mask it with all our good intentions. But it is not the economy-it is the ideology, the one that shouts “Allahu Akbar” while slashing the throats of Jews and Christians.

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