Month: December 2025

A church in Vienna is extensively defaced with Arabic characters and nationalist codes – but the public takes no notice. Even the diocese remains undisturbed during Christmas.
‘I cried for the first few days,’ says Pastor Matthias Felber, ‘but my colleagues reassured me.’ He is a pastor and there for people, not for church buildings. What made the priest of St. John the Evangelist Church on Keplerplatz, popularly known as Keplerkirche, cry happened before Christmas. During the night of December 19-20, unknown perpetrators had smeared Arabic characters and slogans over large areas of the white church walls. The following night, the same perpetrators – or others? – struck again using spray paint cans.

The incidents have been reported and the police are investigating. For the time being, we can only guess at the background to these incidents. However, the writing provides some clues as to possible links to Arab groups. In addition to a slogan reading ‘Oh, Allah protect us’, two names can be read: ‘Free Askan’ (or Askar) and ‘Free Sisi’. Above this is ‘Daraa’, the name of a Syrian city. The number codes 505 and 515 also point to Syria. These combinations of numbers have been known to the authorities for some time. In the summer of 2024, brutal street fights between Chechens, Turks and Syrians, who had gathered under the code names 505 or 505/515, caused havoc in Vienna.

The name 505 stands for the Al-Aqidat family clan in Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, which, however, emphasised at the time that it was not involved in the conflicts. German constitutional protection authorities associate the number 515 with an offshoot of the originally Saudi tribe Banu Hashim. So-called 505s also appeared in German cities in street battles with the ‘Ches’ (‘Chechens’) or as drug dealers and smugglers. It is unclear whether the codes, which are based on Syrian postcodes, represent specific structures or whether they were adopted independently by young people and became self-perpetuating. However, there is an interesting coincidence with the graffiti at the church in Vienna: starting January 8, 24 young men will have to answer charges of intentional grievous bodily harm and serious collective violence in a mass brawl near the Meidling train station in the summer of 2024 at the Vienna Regional Criminal Court. The opponents: Syrians from the 505 and 515 neighbourhoods against Chechens.

Father Felber, who comes from Oberndorf near Salzburg, the town where the song Silent Night originated, also suspects that the perpetrators have Syrian roots. Unofficially, such information has been given by the district administration. Felber told exxpress: ‘We have shown photos of the graffiti to Syrian friends, who find it all extremely embarrassing.’

Whatever the motives for defacing Kepler Church may have been, the case will not be made public. Even though the acts initially made him cry, the pastor is now calm: ‘This isn’t the only church that has been defaced; there is a certain callousness about it now.’ He has not yet reported the incident to the diocese because all offices are closed for the holidays.

Imagine if a mosque had been vandalised during Islamic holidays. It is inconceivable that even a week later there would still be no outcry of indignation from the Muslim community and that local politicians would not immediately be shocked. The offices of Islamic associations would certainly have been open, issuing warnings about ‘Islamophobic racism’. Such an incident would also have had a good chance of being reported on the ZiB news programme.

But the Christmas peace remained undisturbed. Not a single journalist had contacted Pastor Felber before the news portal exxpress reported on the spray-paint attack on his church, which had taken place more than a week earlier. No one in the district noticed the conspicuous attack enough for the information to reach the media or politicians. The police also remained silent. However, one media outlet reported on the incident before exxpress. Remarkably, a Viennese man of Turkish origin was the first to take up the issue: journalist Adem Hüyük published the first photos of the graffiti on his news portal Der Virgül.

What concerns the pastor now is the expensive repair of the damage. A special paint is needed to renovate the church façade, which only an expert can mix correctly. Felber believes this problem can be solved. He does not yet have a solution for the smeared stone slabs at the base. Sandblasting would quickly remove the paint, but the stone would not tolerate it. The cold ice method, in which nitrogen is applied at minus 20 degrees to gently remove the paint, is not cheap. As there is no insurance for such cases, the church has to cover the costs itself. However, Felber has already heard that a Syrian association, which is very unhappy about the situation, is working behind the scenes on a kind of compensation. What this might look like is still unclear.

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Britain’s Labour government has ordered an internal review into what it has admitted were serious failures of vetting and information handling in the case of Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a British-Egyptian man whose return to the UK has sparked a fierce political backlash.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said that senior ministers, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, were unaware of a series of historic social media posts in which Abd El-Fattah praised violence, called for the killing of “Zionists,” and expressed hostility towards police and white people. The posts resurfaced shortly after Starmer publicly welcomed his arrival in Britain, saying he was “delighted” Abd El-Fattah had been reunited with his family after more than a decade behind bars in Egypt.

The revelations triggered immediate criticism from Reform UK and the Conservatives, who argued that the government should never have publicly celebrated Abd El-Fattah’s return without proper background checks. MPs accused Labour of recklessness and renewed calls for his British citizenship to be revoked, warning that Britain risks appearing indifferent to extremist rhetoric under the banner of human rights campaigning.

Abd El-Fattah, 44, apologised on Monday, describing the posts as “shocking and hurtful” and blaming them on anger during a turbulent period more than a decade ago. Yet just hours later, claims circulated on social media—liked by an account linked to him—that the controversy was driven by a “Zionist campaign,” undercutting the apology and deepening concern within the Jewish community.

In a letter to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Cooper acknowledged that longstanding due-diligence procedures had been “completely inadequate” in this case. She said neither current nor former ministers, nor the civil servants managing the file, had been briefed on the tweets before making public statements supporting Abd El-Fattah’s release and return. A senior civil servant has now been tasked with reviewing how high-profile consular and human-rights cases are vetted across the Foreign Office.

Abd El-Fattah was granted British citizenship in 2021 while imprisoned in Egypt, through his London-born mother. He had been serving a five-year sentence for “spreading false news” after criticising prison conditions—charges widely condemned by international human-rights NGOs. His release earlier this year followed a presidential pardon after sustained lobbying by both Conservative and Labour governments.

Despite mounting political pressure, ministers insist there is little they can do to block his entry or revoke his citizenship. Such action generally requires proof of fraud or a serious national security threat—thresholds officials believe are unlikely to be met. 

However, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has vowed to change the law, accusing both main parties of “opening our doors to evil people” and promising new powers to strip citizenship from dual nationals who express extremist views.

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The United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has introduced a new policy requiring its officers and staff members to declare whether they are Freemasons.

The MPS wrote in a statement on X, “There have been calls going back a number of years for the role of Freemasonry in policing to be properly addressed, including as a recommendation in the report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel.”

“We strongly believe that failing to act on these calls would further damage trust not only among the public but also other officers and staff,” added the MPS.

In response to the new policy, the United Grand Lodge of England has sued the MPS.

The United Grand Lodge of England in a press release wrote, “In the light of the legal position, the failure of the Met consultation process, and in order to prevent damage to members, UGLE intends to seek a judicial review of the decision in the High Court and has sent a “letter before claim” to the Met outlining the action it intends to take.”

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We will robustly defend our decision to require officers and staff to declare if they are Freemasons.

Our response to the decision by the Grand Lodge of England to seek an injunction blocking the implementation of the policy is below. pic.twitter.com/TaajGFpbW2

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) December 29, 2025

Per The Guardian:

Freemasons have demanded an emergency injunction from the high court to halt the Metropolitan police’s new policy that orders officers to tell their bosses if they are members of the organisation.

The Freemasons filed papers in London on Christmas Eve and claim the Met’s policy amounts to “religious discrimination” against Freemasons who are also police officers.

They say the Met commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, “is making up the law on the hoof” and accused his force of “whipping up conspiracy theories” about the influence of Freemasons. The Met has vowed to fight back as it sees the policy as part of its fight to restore trust and credibility, and a case currently under investigation involves claims of masonic influence and alleged wrongdoing.

In December, the Met said anyone who was part or had been a member of a “hierarchical organisation that requires members to support and protect each other”, must declare it.

The MPS has faced pressure from the public for over three decades to require officers to disclose Freemasonry membership.

The pressure increased after the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel investigated the still unsolved 1987 murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan.

The Panel concluded that corruption within the Metropolitan Police Service, including hidden ties to organizations such as Freemasonry, could create conflicts of interest and compromise internal police investigations.

It further noted that “one detective involved was a Freemason who later went to work with a prime suspect, and that 10 police officers who were prominent in the Daniel Morgan murder investigations were Freemasons”.

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A 30-year-old ‘lone wolf’ storms a church in Rottenburg (photo), in the district of Tübingen, with a knife, threatens people attending the service and damages church property. No one is injured this time. The man is declared to be “known to the police”. When the police arrive, he throws the knife at their feet, resists arrest and insults the officers before being routinely taken to a specialist clinic.
German magazine Focus, among others, reports on this ‘one-man’ incident in a highly cryptic manner. As usual, everything remains shrouded in mystery: no origin, no motives, no life story, no social context, instead the familiar pattern of this journalistic “one-man action” narrative, in which an individual appears out of nowhere, wields a knife, creates fear and then disappears without a trace into the obligatory vagueness of the “known to the police” blur.

Oh yes: Rottenburg is extremely proud to have joined the radical left-wing ‘safe harbour’ alliance, which critics refer to as a migrant trafficking network. Rottenburg is thus a place where moralising prevails, while real problems and threats, such as knife attacks in churches, are hidden away under the guise of do-gooders’ self-satisfaction.

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President Trump revealed on a radio show late last week that the US had “knocked out” a drug facility in Venezuela as the campaign against foreign drug cartels and the Maduro regime intensifies. 

The strike on Wednesday comes days after Trump told reporters, “Soon we’ll be starting the same program on land. The land is much easier.”

Trump confirmed the strike on a “dock area where they load the boats up with drugs” while speaking to reporters on Monday.

WATCH:

Trump: There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs, so we hit all the boats, and now we hit the area. It’s the implementation area. That’s where they implement, and that is no longer around.

While discussing Venezuelan drug boat strikes on WABC Radio’s “Cats & Crosby” show on Friday, Trump first told co-host John Catsimatidis that the facility was hit two days prior:

Trump: Well, they’re only objecting because I’m the one doing it. If it were anybody else, even another Republican— let’s say you take a weak Republican, they would say “that’s all right.” But because they have Trump derangement syndrome, they’re sick people. There’s something wrong with them. But every time I knock out a boat, we save 25,000 American lives. It’s very simple.

And what’s happening is they’re having a hard time employment wise. They can’t get anybody. And we just knocked out— I don’t know if you read or you saw they have a big plant or a big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. So, we hit them very hard, but drugs are down over 97%. Can you believe it?

US officials reportedly confirmed that the successful strike was launched against a drug facility inside Venezuela.

Per the New York Times:

American officials said that Mr. Trump was referring to a drug facility in Venezuela and that it was eliminated, but provided no details. Military officials said they had no information to share, and the Central Intelligence Agency declined to comment. The White House declined to comment.

If Mr. Trump’s suggestion that the United States had struck a site in the region proves accurate, it would be the first known attack on land since he began his military campaign against Venezuela. U.S. officials declined to specify anything about the site the president said was hit, where it was located, how the attack was carried out or what role the facility played in drug trafficking. There has been no public report of an attack from the Venezuelan government or any other authorities in the region.

While some officials called the facility struck a drug production site, it is not clear what role in narcotics trafficking the facility would have played. Venezuela is well known for its role in trafficking drugs, especially cocaine produced in Colombia, but has not been a major producer of narcotics.

Earlier this month, US forces began seizing Venezuelan oil tankers after Trump ordered a full blockade on all sanctioned oil tankers going to and from Venezuela.

The US has also executed at least 29 strikes against drug-trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since September 2.

Last week, US forces took out a “low-profile” vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing one male narco-terrorist. At least 105 narco-terrorists have been killed in these operations.

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Over Christmas, a group of conservative intellectuals have opened a controversy by saying Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her government have failed to translate political power into genuine cultural and ideological change.

Instead, they say, she has opted for institutional moderation and a growing closeness to Europe’s political and bureaucratic elites.

Critics say Meloni’s government is staffed by an ambitious yet largely mediocre political class. They are unable or unwilling to challenge the Left’s long-standing cultural dominance and are increasingly comfortable within the European establishment.

The discussion raises a central question: Is Meloni’s government truly confronting left-wing cultural hegemony, or has it settled for European respectability at the cost of ideological substance?

The controversy began on December 23 2025, when veteran conservative intellectual Marcello Veneziani, published a sharply critical editorial in the daily La Verità.

Veneziani, often regarded as an eminence grise of Italy’s intellectual Right, openly questioned Meloni’s ability to deliver meaningful change, portraying her government as politically stagnant and culturally timid instead.

He argued Meloni’s government had failed to produce substantive change: “Nothing has changed in our lives as Italians… everything has remained as before, in both good and bad, in general and particular mediocrity.”

He accused Meloni’s administration of prioritising “vague announcements, a lot of fluff, small symbolic gestures” while avoiding structural reforms and deeper cultural confrontation.

While acknowledging Meloni’s personal political skills — “There is her, only her, the rest is background and extras” — Veneziani suggested her leadership was constrained by the limits of members of the political class who surround her.

For Veneziani, the government governs competently but prudently, leaving the cultural influence of the Left and its ideological frameworks largely untouched.

Veneziani’s editorial prompted a swift and unusually harsh response from within the government.

On December 24 2025, Alessandro Giuli, Italy’s Minister of Culture, accused Veneziani of attacking his own political side out of personal resentment.

He claimed that critics like Veneziani had “decided to enlist in the front of anti-loyalty” and that their anger stemmed from “black bile” and “blind regret.”

Giuli’s reaction revealed not only irritation at internal dissent but also a broader effort by the government to close ranks around a strategy that prioritises institutional stability, European credibility, and incremental cultural action over open ideological confrontation.

Criticism from within the Right, however, predates the Veneziani–Giuli clash.

As early as September 2025, Mario Giordano — one of Italy’s most recognisable right-wing television hosts — publicly criticized Meloni’s trajectory. Giordano framed his attack explicitly around Meloni’s relationship with the European establishment.

Referring above all to what he saw as her accommodation with EU institutions, financial centres, and transnational elites, he remarked: “Giorgia has become what she promised to fight: The Establishment… her government provides stability without meaningful change.”

The renewed controversy following Giuli’s intervention widened the debate beyond conservative circles.

Among others who weighed in was Franco Cardini, one of Italy’s most respected historians, widely regarded as intellectually independent and often identified as a man of the Right due to his early involvement with the Italian Social Movement (MSI) — the party that preceded Meloni’s own.

In a December 24 interview with La Repubblica, Cardini delivered a blunt assessment of the current conservative cultural landscape: “The culture of this Right has a flatline electroencephalogram.”

He criticised what he described as superficial initiatives and symbolic events, arguing that they substitute genuine intellectual production with gestures designed more to reassure institutions — including European ones — than to reshape Italy’s cultural horizon.

As the debate continued past Christmas, it spread across Italy’s media, from Conservative to mainstream and Left-leaning outlets.

Its intensity reflects deeper anxieties within the Italian Right about trade-offs between leadership, ideological coherence, and the cost of international normalisation.

While Meloni’s supporters highlight her success in stabilising Italy’s position in Europe and maintaining EU credibility, critics argue this has come at the expense of cultural ambition and political identity.

As Italy approaches 2026, the tension between European conformity and Conservative transformation remains central to the simmering debate over assessing Meloni’s leadership.

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Germany’s new government promised a “migration turnaround,” but it turns out, this was mostly a pack of lies, half-truths, and misinformation, all designed to disguise the ongoing wave of unceasing immigration.

In response to a parliamentary inquiry from the Green Party in the German Bundestag, the Interior Ministry has indicated that only 993 asylum seekers were stopped at Germany’s borders between May and October and turned back.

However, as Bild columnist Gunnar Schupelius notes, this is a mere drop in the bucket, and immigration is still going full throttle.

“The much-vaunted turnaround in asylum policy is still nowhere in sight,” he writes.

He points out that 157,436 asylum applications were already submitted in Germany from January to November 2026, according to the BAMF. In addition, the Federal Foreign Office indicates that 102,000 visas for family reunification were issued for children and spouses of recognized asylum seekers during the same period.

In total, that is 259,436 new migrants for Germany.

However, that is not all, with an additional 37,000 Afghans flown into the country due to an admissions program that has come under fire, especially due to the poor integration record of Afghans in Germany.

That brings the total to 296,436, nearly 300,000.

Despite this disastrous track record, the ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), who claim to be conservatives, are trying to put lipstick on their track record.

German Interior Minister noted that asylum applications fell by 50 percent compared to the previous year. He said this is a “migration turnaround” that was promised.

“We have succeeded – especially at the beginning of my term in office – in reducing the pull factors for refugees by strengthening border controls, refoulement, but also by suspending family reunification and abolishing turbo-naturalization,” he said.

Notably, much of the reduction in asylum seekers has been achieved on the Europe-wide level, including the tightening of land borders and sea routes. However, hundreds of thousands are still entering Europe, and much of the migration now besetting Germany has to do with family reunification and legal migration.

Overall, data from late 2024 and early 2025 indicate that approximately 545,000 first residence permits were issued in 2024. In that number are also family reunifications and other legal migrants, but Germans also want those numbers sharply restricted.

Notably, the majority of Germans are also opposed to legal migration and want significantly fewer migrants overall, as polling has shown. The poll from YouGov even showed that a majority of Germans would support an immigration moratorium, a far cry from what the current government is offering.

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By Monica Showalter

A few days ago, U.K., Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer triumphantly announced that he had ‘rescued’ an Islamist ‘democracy activist’ and ‘political prisoner‘ with a gargantuan hatred for Jews and the West from an Egyptian prison where he was serving time for inciting violence on social media.

I’m delighted that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK and has been reunited with his loved ones, who must be feeling profound relief.

I want to pay tribute to Alaa’s family, and to all those that have worked and campaigned for this moment.

Alaa’s case has been a top priority…— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) December 26, 2025

When news of just what was in Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s social media posts got out — about killing Jews, raping white women, calling for more terror attacks on the West, calling for burning down No. 10 Downing Street, declaring white people ‘not human,’ and other horrible stuff, Starmer claimed he had no idea about the posts and primly called them ‘abhorrent.’

Now Egypt says he was lying:

🚨🚨Important update: Cairo has outright rejected Starmer’s reported assertion that he was unaware of Alaa’s record of incitement to violence, maintaining that British officials were explicitly briefed on the matter.

Late tonight, I received a message from a well-connected… https://t.co/KP7L4NEhPF— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) December 29, 2025

It seems credible that Egypt would have told them all about it as the Brits made their pleas to let this extremist out. They did, after all, put him in jail for a reason. And they undoubtedly resented the backstory here, that Britain would be holding up Egypt as a bad guy on the human rights front over this innocent guy who only wanted to rape white women and kill every Jew.

This tweet, done by an Egyptian Muslim convert to Judaism whose bio says he’s a ‘researcher,’ tells us a lot about the thinking in Egypt:

🚨🚨Important update: Cairo has outright rejected Starmer’s reported assertion that he was unaware of Alaa’s record of incitement to violence, maintaining that British officials were explicitly briefed on the matter.

Late tonight, I received a message from a well-connected… https://t.co/KP7L4NEhPF— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) December 29, 2025

Not only would the Egyptians be appalled at Starmer’s lies after they know they told him about them, they are now considering yanking Abd El-Fattah’s Egyptian citizenship, leaving Britain stuck with him as U.K. law prohibits the deportation of stateless persons, even if they are stateless for a good reason. That sounds like an appropriate response for a regime that doesn’t take terrorism as seriously as Egypt does.

They knew that after the outcry about Abd El-Fattah’s tweets, Starmer emphasized that Abd El-Fattah was a British citizen, even though he’s never lived in Britain, nor sworn allegiance to the crown, (which is a requirement), nor even asked for it — the citizenship was handed to him in 2021 by parliament based on his mother’s British citizenship in a bid to get him out of the Egyptian jail. 

🚨🚨I have had enough of the despicable, sickening lies.

Sky News is suggesting Starmer was celebrating Alaa Abd El Fattah’s “return” from Egypt. What return, for the love of Gd?????!!!!!!!!

The terrorism-loving extremist never called Britain home. He never lived here. He was… https://t.co/XIpdmDG6AY— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) December 28, 2025

It doesn’t look like Starmer can talk this away, and Abd El-Fattah’s wan, half-hearted apologies are solely because he got caught. The calls for Starmer to resign have now gotten louder from his Tory opponents, who knew he was already in political trouble even before this fiasco.

One can only hope that it’s enough to finish Starmer off politically. Britain deserves better.

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An African-heritage lawmaker in France has sparked outrage by seemingly hailing the so-called ‘Great Replacement’ of the native people of the country by foreigners.

Carlos Martens Bilongo, a member of the National Assembly for the far-left La France Insoumise (France in Rebellion/LFI), in an appearance on the “African Bookstore” podcast, appeared to boast that minorities are outbreeding the native French people, Le Journal du Dimanche reported.

Without explicitly stating the groups he was discussing, the Val-d’Oise MP, who was born in France to Congolese (DRC) and Angolan parents, urged people to “show them that we are more numerous and that we are more intelligent.”

“If we’ve had more children than them, too bad for them. If they wanted to have children, they should have just loved each other, made love, and had children. We managed to have them. Our mothers managed to raise us properly,” Bilongo continued.

While the LFI lawmaker was seemingly attempting to keep his comments sufficiently vague, one of the interviewers even noted that his comments appeared to vindicate the concept of the “Great Replacement” coined by French  philosopher Renaud Camus, which stipulates that global elites see their populations as fungible economic units rather than human beings with a right to preserve their cultures in their homelands.

Although Western legacy media outlets and establishment politicians have sought to cast the view as a “far-right conspiracy theory”, a recent national survey has found that half of the French public believe that the Great Replacement is real and that elites are actively attempting to replace them in their own country.

While the mass migration experienced by France in recent decades has come with significant destabilisation to social cohesion, with the country frequently experiencing terror attacks and race riots, far-left LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has previously sought to blame native French people who object to the transformation for the turmoil.

“When I was born, one in ten French people had a foreign grandparent, now it’s one in four. Consequently, those who call themselves native French pose a serious problem to the cohesion of society,” the former presidential candidate said last year.

With many working class voters — particularly in rural areas — stubbornly rejecting his brand of multicultural socialism, Mélenchon has actively sought to ingratiate his leftist party with ethnic minority voting blocs, in large part with Islamic backgrounds. This has led to accusations of the LFI being in bed with radical Islamist groups, notably the Muslim Brotherhood.

In response to the LFI MP Bilongo’s comments, Senator Stéphane Ravier said that he plans on filing a complaint to the public prosecutor’s office. The Reconquest politician said: “The only racism still allowed in France concerns white people; the justice system must crack down to protect them.”

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In its second season, the German broadcaster ARD’s series ‘Asbest’ cast 31-year-old Lebanese actor Maradona Akkouch to play the role of Abdul Kaval. Akkouch has attracted attention in the past for sharing Islamist posts.
The television series ‘Asbest’ is a drama series produced on behalf of ARD Degeto for the ARD media library. One of the series’ prominent actors is Kida Khodr Ramadan, who is particularly well known from the TV series ‘4 Blocks’. The second season was released at the beginning of December. It was directed by Olivia Retzer and Juri Sternburg. The two also decided to hire a highly questionable actor.

The role of Abdul Kaval is played by 31-year-old Lebanese Maradona Akkouch. Akkouch has attracted attention in the past for sharing Islamist posts, as reported by the ÖRR Blog via X. According to the report, he shared a video by Salafist preacher Abul Baraa and a video by the Islamist Furkan community. The Furkan community is an Islamist movement founded in 1994 in Adana (Turkey) by preacher Alparslan Kuytul with branches in Europe and Germany, including Dortmund, Hamburg and Berlin.
Security authorities classify it as an anti-democratic group oriented towards Sharia law and a caliphate, which rejects the secular constitutional state and Western democracy as a ‘man-made’ order. Recently, Akkouch has been presenting himself as somewhat pious. On his Instagram profile, for example, he shared a speech by Ferat Koçak, the directly elected member of the Bundestag for Neukölln, in which Koçak described the AfD as ‘right-wing extremist, inhumane and anti-democratic’.

In this same speech, Koçak also briefly outlines the life of 31-year-old dancer Maradona Akkouch. According to Koçak, Akkouch still does not have a permanent residence permit. Maradona, as Koçak explains, is a paramedic and ‘saves lives every day.’ Nevertheless, he must constantly fear deportation. However, the Left Party politician does not elaborate on Akkouch’s Islamist tendencies.

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