Month: January 2026

by Giulio Meotti

To know that “Europe is decadent,” the American administration did not need to go to Schorndorf, the Swabian town of 40,000 inhabitants twenty minutes from Stuttgart, the city of Gottlieb Daimler, one of the pioneers of the automobile industry.

The Gothic bell tower still dominates the market square, its spire piercing the sky like a stone lance. For five centuries that bell marked baptisms, weddings, and funerals of generations of Lutherans. On Sunday, November 16, inside the nave and at the altar where Martin Luther himself could have preached, a muezzin cried: “Allahu Akbar.”

This is not an isolated episode. It is twilight. And the fact that we have been convinced to call it dawn is the greatest cultural fraud of our time.

The Islamization of Europe has a new image: Utrecht, the Netherlands. A Muslim crowd besieges St. Martin’s Cathedral, shouting “Allahu Akbar.” After all, didn’t the Primate Archbishop of the Netherlands, Willem Eijk, whose seat is in Utrecht, say that if the trend continues at the current pace, by 2028 the entire Archdiocese of Utrecht – the largest in the country and the only one where a Christian presence still exists – could “disappear”?

But this is only the trailer. What do we think will happen when they become the majority in Europe? The real movie will soon arrive in theaters.

The British Telegraph looks at Germany as a country at risk of disappearing under the enormous pressure of culturally alien immigration. The analysis by former British officer James Jeffrey is the account of a man who has seen war zones and now observes our cities, strangely familiar.

Hanau, the hometown of the Brothers Grimm, is his starting point. Two worlds visibly collide. The urban landscape has not gradually changed – it has been completely replaced. Not modernized, but substituted.

Meanwhile, in Bremen, the Christmas market this year needs an extra budget of three million euros to avoid being flattened by terrorists. Needless to say, Mohammed is the most popular name in Bremen. Remember the Grimm fairy tale about the Bremen Musicians?

“The uncomfortable truth about the Islamisation of Germany,” headlines the Telegraph, with that British butler-like elegance of serving tea while the house is burning.

Jeffrey asks the question almost no one dares to ask out loud: what should a society do when its cities turn into outposts of another world?

Accelerated demographic changes, political taboos, evasion by parties and newspapers: all of this leads to a reality everyone sees, but few dare to talk about. In less than a generation, Islam will triple in Europe.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has just explained that “Islam wants to conquer Europe.”

Or as Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau declared after leaving Brussels: “Either the great European nations are our partners in protecting the Western civilization we inherited from them, or they are not.”

This is the Christmas market in Brussels.

To understand it, one does not need to go to megacities like Paris or London, but to the cradle cities of European history, art, and culture.

Go to Mechelen, Belgium. Today it counts 120 nationalities; one child in two is of foreign origin, and it is already 20 percent Islamic. In the cathedral of the Catholic primate, the muezzin has resounded in front of Van Dyck’s magnificent Crucifixion.

Go to Orléans, the city of Joan of Arc, the girl who saved France from English conquest during the Hundred Years’ War: 37 percent of Orléans’ youth is non-European, compared to 2 percent in 1968 – a fateful year.

Go to Avignon, the ancient city on the Rhône enclosed by medieval walls where centuries linger in the air. The 14th-century walls, perfectly preserved, 4.3 kilometers of stone encircling the center like a crown. Seven popes and two antipopes lived here; Petrarch wept for Laura here; Europe’s most famous festival was born here.

But today parts of Avignon, in a chilling Paris Match investigation, are known as “the city of the Salafists.” “Most passersby look alike: black veils for women, loose Afghan-style trousers for men,” reports Paris Match. “Most wear the believer’s beard, long and sometimes dyed with henna, as in the time of the Prophet. It feels like going back fourteen centuries. Gender segregation is respected: hairdressers for women, inaccessible to men; bars full of men, inaccessible to women. They serve coffee, tea, lemonade… everything except alcohol. It is a mini Islamic republic.”

Go to Regensburg, one of the main Roman outposts on the Danube frontier, seat of the Perpetual Diet of the Holy Roman Empire, home to St. Peter’s Cathedral, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture, where a new cultural center with a 21-meter-high minaret is being built.

Go to Strasbourg – or rather, Strasburgistan.

Go to Graz, residence of the Habsburgs, UNESCO-listed historic center, medieval clock, hilltop castle, where 34 percent of students are of Islamic faith.

Go to Utrecht, famous for its cathedral tower and ancient university, where Mohammed is the most common name among newborns and mosques call to prayer over loudspeakers every day, and where the Den Hommel swimming pool offers lessons every Monday evening for “Muslim men only.”

Go to Charleroi, where 20 percent of the population is Muslim.

Go to Aachen, the city of Charlemagne and his magnificent cathedral, where he was crowned emperor on Christmas Day in the year 800 in the Palatine Chapel – a Carolingian jewel and UNESCO heritage site – and which today has twelve mosques.

The old Europe, still beautiful, is onewhich we will soon no longer recognize.

Go to Mainz. The city of Gutenberg, its thousand-year-old Romanesque cathedral, the Rhine, the carnivals.

Go to Marburg. University founded in 1527 by Philip of Hesse, city of the Brothers Grimm and of St. Elizabeth’s Church with the saint’s relics. Today, 22 percent of the population is Muslim.

Welcome to the new Europe: less Bach, more Allah.

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With the scarecrow of an ‘industrial power price’ and a staged debate about ‘technology neutrality’ in climate policy, the German government is engaging in media camouflage. In reality, the course of climate socialism continues unabated. Faced with dramatic deindustrialization, even state institutions such as the Federal Audit Office are now getting cold feet.

Germany is entering the eighth year of industrial contraction. Nearly a decade of declining value creation, falling productivity, and rising unemployment—thinly masked by public employment schemes and an avalanche of government credit—document a collapse without precedent in postwar history.

Climate socialism has failed

The grand project of erecting a climate socialist regime is shattering against the limits of economic reality. Amid a rolling wave of insolvencies, this drama can no longer be concealed, not even by compliant media.

By the end of 2025, more than 24,000 companies will have exited the market. Hundreds of thousands of industrial jobs have been destroyed. Firms such as Meyer Burger, toolmaker Leichingen, auto supplier Meteor in Lower Saxony, and machine builder Afermann in Osnabrück rank among the latest victims of an ideological crusade against Germany’s productive core.

Submission to Brussels’ climate diktat was the original sin—marking the abandonment of market principles and initiating a deep incursion of the state into the private sector.

Energy policy was identified as a lever of power. The nuclear exit, the abandonment of cheap Russian gas, and decades of subsidizing inefficient renewables warped the energy system into a structure that can survive only through permanent subsidies.

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The theory of intervention spirals is now playing out almost textbook-perfectly: one intervention begets another. Growing subsidy dependence has produced grotesque offshoots such as the government’s so-called hydrogen strategy.

Green hydrogen is produced via electrolysis using renewable electricity. It is meant to replace coal, gas, and oil in steel and chemicals, serve as synthetic fuel, and store surplus wind and solar power.

What has emerged is a political monster—a multibillion-euro sinkhole added to the trillion-euro subsidy graveyard of the green transformation. Seven billion euros have already been poured into this pit, capital withdrawn from the market and booked to taxpayers via public debt.

This ‘market’ is nothing but a fantasy of green central planners. Even the Federal Audit Office concluded in October that Germany is further than ever from achieving its hydrogen targets.

Hydrogen is expensive, unused, and lacks a real market—an unusually blunt verdict from one of the first state institutions to break the silence.

Bought silence, celebrated madness

The economy remains mute. Small firms are unheard; large corporations have merged with the subsidy regime. Bought silence—the silence of the lambs before the slaughter. No one dares admit publicly that political primacy has stripped them of real influence.

The most disturbing symbol of ideological delirium was the spectacle of cheering activists dancing before the crumbling cooling towers of deliberately shut-down nuclear plants. This had nothing to do with environmentalism. It was pure resentment toward bourgeois society, revealed in crystalline form.

A Walpurgis Night of madness—celebrated by people cocooned in taxpayer-funded NGOs or state employment, detached from real life and from the performance-based society whose core is the free market.

Germany’s ideological blockade may be unique. Historians will struggle to find another nation so thoroughly deceived by a small clique of climate socialists. Beneath the North Sea lie some 32 billion cubic meters of recoverable natural gas—yet only around four billion are extracted annually. NGOs have captured policy, blocking production at all costs.

Germany also sits atop roughly 2.3 trillion cubic meters of shale gas and another 450 billion in coal seam gas. Given the country’s dire energy situation, exploiting these reserves should be imperative.

Yet aside from the AfD, no political force is willing to confront climate-socialist dogma or even reopen the debate.

Industry on the brink—no Plan B

The collapse of German industry triggers cascading downstream effects across the economy. Prosperity rises and falls with industrial output—there is no dispute. A return to Russian gas should therefore be a top priority; cooperation with Gazprom and Rosneft once ensured global competitiveness.

Germany’s entanglement in the Ukraine conflict and the push to expropriate Russian assets at Euroclear revealed how far rational policymaking has already been abandoned.

The same applies to nuclear power. The world has moved on. Small modular reactors promise shorter construction times, lower capital costs, and no meltdown risk. A nuclear comeback would restore Germany’s strategic footing—but only if started now.

Shedding ideology

Costly follies such as the stalled hydrogen rollout must be consigned to the archives of failed experiments—a warning to future generations that infantile, ideologically driven politics always ends in catastrophe.

The apocalyptic CO2 narrative must be discarded once and for all. Since Barack Obama’s 2009 decision to weaponize CO2 for climate policy, independent science has failed to dismantle this moralistic storyline endlessly amplified by state-aligned media.

Germany should follow the American example and exit the Paris Climate Agreement to rein in Brussels’ power machine. That is impossible with the current political class—Berlin’s praetorian guard of this supranational project—whose goal is now unmistakable: the dismantling of German industry in favor of a green artificial economy.

Ideology has a price. Germans have long been living on credit—at the expense of the future. That system is now collapsing. And with it, public willingness to swallow apocalyptic madness served up by politics and media.

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A once-prominent gay rights activist who ran a youth LGBT charity in Scotland has been released from prison after serving 16 years for sexually abusing a baby. James Rennie, 54, was imprisoned for his role in one of Scotland’s largest pedophile rings.

News of Rennie’s release was reported by The Scottish Sun, which said he was spotted in Edinburgh after being freed from HMP Castle Huntly, a prison near Dundee. Prior to his full release, Rennie had been granted prolonged periods of extended release as part of what appeared to be a community reintegration program.

Since being turned loose, Rennie has frequently been seen in the company of one of his convicted accomplices, Neil Strachan, who has also been released from prison after serving 16 years. The pair were reportedly staying at the same offenders’ hostel.

Rennie and Strachan were convicted in 2009 after being exposed as the ringleaders of what was described as Scotland’s “largest pedophile network.” The network, which involved at least eight other men, collectively possessed over 125,000 pieces of child sexual abuse media. The ring was broken up in 2007 after a lengthy operation by Lothian and Borders police. 

Other men arrested include John Murphy, a former journalist with The Gay Times; Neil Campbell, an after-school program instructor who was married with children but led a double life with a male lover; and Craig Boath, who had just applied to become a special constable with police.

Strachan’s much younger boyfriend, Colin Slaven, was also amongst those arrested. Slaven had been a minor when Strachan began a “relationship” with him.

As well as distributing horrific child sexual abuse material, Rennie was also found to have been sexually abusing his godson over a four-year period starting when the child was just 3 months old.

Strachan had also sexually abused an infant boy, attempting to sodomize him while being HIV positive.

During court proceedings it was also uncovered that Rennie had used the e-mail handle “kplover,” standing for “kiddie porn lover,” to communicate with a sick predator in the Netherlands who described how he would like to rape, torture, and murder a child. The trial was labeled the “worst ever” abuse case in Scotland by media.

While soliciting child sexual abuse materials from other perverts, Rennie once sent an email specifically requesting media featuring “young Down’s syndrome or learning difficulty kids.”

Rennie and Strachan, both of Edinburgh, were jailed for a minimum of 13 and 16 years respectively, but judges reduced Strachan’s term to 9 years and Rennie’s to 8.5 years upon appeal. The two spent a total of 16 years in the prison estate from their arrest to their reported release.

Among the many shocking aspects of the case was that Rennie had been a respected gay rights activist in Scotland prior to his arrest.

While secretly operating the pedophile network, Rennie managed to become the CEO of LGBT Youth Scotland, a charity which gave him access to children as young as 13. Rennie had been a strong proponent for gay adoption, and, under his leadership, LGBT Youth Scotland lobbied the Government to allow same-sex couples to adopt children.

In 2005, LGBT Youth Scotland received a Phillip Lawrence Award for community safety, and Rennie was welcomed in parliament.

While LGBT Youth Scotland as an organization insisted it had no knowledge of Rennie’s activities, Scotland’s charity regulator never publicly investigated the organization to see if Rennie abused his power to access vulnerable children. At the time of the arrest, LGBT Youth Scotland claimed there was “no evidence” that the young people assisted by their agency were assaulted by Rennie.

In 2022, two survivors came forward to allege they were groomed and sexually abused after joining the charity as youth members. The two young men spoke with Reduxx and claimed there had been a culture of exploitation present during their time as members.

One of the young men, Sam Cowie, revealed that he had been “plied with alcohol free of charge, encouraged to sleep with older men and given money to perform sexual acts” by older male members of the charity when he was just 15.

EXCLUSIVE: Two survivors have come forward to allege they were "groomed" and sexually exploited as minors while using the services of LGBT Youth Scotland.

The charity was formerly run by a gay rights campaigner convicted of raping an infant.https://t.co/fLESmMs5vi

— REDUXX (@reduxx) December 22, 2022

But the controversies surrounding the charity have continued over the years.

In 2024, a Scottish drag queen who helped co-author an LGBT Youth Scotland guidebook was convicted of distributing child pornography that depicted infants being sexually abused.

Andrew Easton pleaded guilty in court in August of 2024 to communicating online with someone he believed to be a child, downloading indecent images of children, and distributing indecent images of children. The sexual abuse materials, which included images and videos, featured newborn babies, toddlers, and prepubescent children. Easton was caught by one of Scotland’s National Online Child Abuse Prevention (NOCAP) units in a September 2023 sting that identified his IP address. Police then obtained a search warrant and raided Easton’s home. 

In a Telegram chat labeled “Extra Excitement,” Easton hoarded 132 images and 1,119 videos with newborn infants and children up to age 10. Police found that Easton also had a chat log with a user claiming to be 13 years old; Easton referred to this user as “baby boy,” and sent him photos of his genitals. He also requested the user call him “daddy.”  

Following news of his arrest, journalist Marion Scott revealed that Easton had previously worked with LGBT Youth Scotland.

According to Scott, Easton co-authored the charity’s “coming out guide” for “trans young people” which was distributed to public schools across the country and is still available on the East Ayrshire Council website. The guide, which heavily promotes LGBT Youth Scotland services, “looks at the various stages of the coming out process” in a youth-accessible tone, presenting different scenarios and considerations for minors interested in changing their gender identity.

Following the disturbing revelations, the BBC’s Children in Need charity pulled its funding from LGBT Youth Scotland, citing concerns about the organization’s ongoing controversies.

According to a recent Freedom of Information request, the Scottish Government has admitted to continuing to provide LGBT Youth Scotland with funding through various programs.

This has included £290,871 through the Equality and Human Rights Fund, £55,773 through the Delivering Equally Safe Fund, and £78,750 through the Children, Young People, Families Early Intervention & Adult Learning and Empowering Communities (CYPFEI & ALEC) Fund.

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Sadly, the beautiful country of Australia has become a bastion of progressivism. The country’s government is led by a far-left wacko, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who is utterly disconnected from reality.

Last week, Australia was the scene of a horrific jihadist attack at a Hanukkah festival at world-famous Bondi Beach. The event attracted a large crowd of Jewish revelers enjoying the beach and celebrating the holiday.

Unfortunately, the event also attracted two well-armed Muslim terrorists, a father and son, who decided to kill as many Jewish people as possible.

The results were horrific, as 15 peoplewere killed, and 42 innocent people were injured. The event did produce a bona fide hero, Ahmed al-Ahmed, a fruit shop owner, and a Syrian immigrant. He charged one of the terrorists and wrestled the firearm away from him. The hero was unarmed but decided to act to save lives.

His quick action stands in contrast to the four police officers at Bondi Beach. According to some witnesses, the police did not respond to the terrorists as they were killing victims. One survivor, who protected his children during the attack, said, “Twenty minutes with four policemen there…they…froze.” He continued, “Four policemen there didn’t…fire back. I don’t understand why.” Eventually, the police officers did engage the terrorists, and one was killed and another was wounded.

After the attack, questions are swirling about how this could have happened to a country with strict gun control laws. However, as documented in researchconducted by Dr. John Lott, Founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, mass shootings often happen in places with strict gun control laws or in “gun free zones.”

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In the United States, mass shootings often occur on school campuses, such as colleges, high schools, or elementary schools, where guns are banned. Deranged mass murderers know enough to target their victims in a location where no one will be able to return fire.

While the answer to mass shootings at public schools is to arm teachers and to provide heightened security at entrances, left-wing politicians always advocate for more gun control. In their view, the answer is to take action to eliminate “gun violence.”

In the leftist utopia, no one has firearms and there are no incidents of mass shootings. In the real world, killers will still be able to obtain firearms, but with enhanced gun control, no one will be able to stop the attack. Until police arrive on the scene and engage, determined mass murderers can kill countless victims.

This type of idiocy is on full display in Australia as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has advocated stronger gun control laws in the aftermath of the Islamic terrorism at Bondi Beach.

Instead of supporting stricter immigration policies for individuals from Islamic countries and the deportation of illegal immigrants, Albanese twice called for a crackdown on “right-wing extremism,” which had zero influence on the Bondi Beach terrorism.

The day after the terrorist attack, Albanese said 5022 words in “press conferences, interviews and statements.” Among the words that Albanese refused to utter were “Muslim,” “Islam,” or “Islamic extremism.”

The people of Australia are rightly embarrassed and disgusted by the actions of their Prime Minister. It is no surprise that he was booed at a memorial service for the victims of the Bondi Beach attack.

As he was escorted through the crowd of 10,000 mourners, chants of “Shame” could clearly be heard. Others yelled “You are not welcome,” and “You don’t represent Australia.”

Albanese and the governing Australian Labor Party (ALP) did nothing to protect their Jewish citizens after the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. Despite rising antisemitic attacks and rhetoric, Albanese failed to address the concerns of Jewish Australians and took no action. Instead of protecting his Jewish citizens, Albanese formally recognized the state of Palestine.

This led to sharp criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said, “The message that was heard by this action was ‘Kill Jews, you’ll get rewarded.’”

After the increased antisemitic activity culminated in terrorism at Bondi Beach, Netanyahu told the Australian government, “Damn it, wake up! You don’t need any more warnings; you’ve already received enough.”

Despite the criticism, the Prime Minister refuses to change his progressive thinking. Instead of labeling the Bondi Beach terrorism as a jihadist attack, Albanese stated that guns were the real enemy. He proposed a gun buyback plan to confiscate and destroy “hundreds of thousands of firearms” throughout Australia.

Albanese’s proposal is modeled after the actions taken in Australia after a horrific shooting in Port Arthur, in which 35 people were killed. It led to a gun confiscation and buyback program that resulted in one millionfirearms being turned in to the government.

The government created a “National Firearms Agreement,” in which “Rapid-fire rifles and shotguns were banned, gun owner licensing was tightened, and remaining firearms were registered to uniform national standards.”

Despite what some experts believe is the tightest gun control measures in the world, two Islamic terrorists were able to obtain firearms and inflict incredible carnage.

If gun control is expanded, does anyone believe that it will impede Islamic terrorists? Will they follow Australian law or their fanatic beliefs?

While Albanese blames the right wing and refuses to apologize to the Jewish community, Islamic terrorists are undoubtedly plotting their next attack.

The Prime Minister’s radical views on Islam have been in place for many years. Early in his political career, he attended a pro-Palestinian rally. In 1998, Albanese visited with Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat. Even worse, the trip was financed by Arafat’s organization, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which was previously labeled a terrorist organization by the United States government.

Albanese typifies the type of left-wing leaders in charge of many countries today. Similar leadership is in place in Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Thankfully, American voters went in another direction in 2024 and elected Donald Trump as President, who is showing citizens in these other countries what real leadership looks like.

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