Author: fredalanmedforth

2025 in Mayence: Holy water font contaminated with faeces. Confessionals destroyed. Easter candles were smeared in Kraichgau. Unknown persons smashed the high altar in Öhringen. A Bible was set on fire in Groß-Gerau. Crosses were desecrated in Eslohe. In Neuss-Erfttal, the police are investigating arson. In Salzgitter-Bad, perpetrators destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary. Several churches were vandalised in the Odenwald.
Churches have an ‘open day’ every day. Anyone can enter the room of silence. No one checks. This Christian tradition is an expression of trust. Even those who despise Christianity take advantage of it. Figures of saints were stolen from churches as long as 50 years ago. They were later found in second-hand bookshops. But today it is no longer about theft. It is about destruction and deliberate desecration.
Crosses are smashed, statues are knocked off their pedestals and smashed on the floor. Baptismal fonts are damaged. Altars are desecrated. The misguided perpetrators believe that they are serving their religion when they desecrate the Christian house of God. Magdeburg Cathedral was locked when the author tried to enter it in 2019.
A member of the congregation reported that someone had been defecating behind the altar.

According to the OIDAC report, over 2,000 anti-church acts were recorded across Europe in 2023, ranging from vandalism and desecration to threats. In Bavaria alone, the number of church desecrations rose from 219 (2019) to 294 (2022). In Baden-Württemberg, 896 offences against church facilities were reported in 2023. This corresponds to an increase of six per cent. The number of violent offences rose by 56 per cent. In North Rhine-Westphalia: 354 cases in 2019, 440 in 2023. In Berlin, attacks on Christian places of worship have totalled over 1,400 since 2006.

And these are just the official figures. The official statistics only list politically motivated offences. However, many desecrations are classed as ‘vandalism’ and fall under the heading of general crime. Observers speak of unreported offences. On X, users reported over 90 targeted attacks in spring 2025 alone. However, the Ministry of the Interior is playing down.

In some cases, perpetrators shout ‘Allahu Akbar’. The slogans are clear. Islamist groups such as the so-called IS have been calling for the destruction of Christian sites for years. Young men, ideologically incited, act on this appeal. They despise the Christian cross and make it their target. It is a sad country where churches remain open and unprotected.

The parishes are not asking for much, just that their places of worship are safe and that perpetrators are punished. That people take a close look and protect what generations have built up. But there is a lack of cameras. There is a lack of police patrols and a lack of honesty. Instead: Trivialisation. Silence.

Germany must protect its churches before it is too late. A cross is not a piece of wood. An altar is not a piece of furniture. A church is not a public space like any other. It is a sanctuary, a place of refuge and a place of prayer. Anyone who attacks it is attacking us all.

A country that no longer defends its churches has ceased to love itself. The perpetrators feel they are right and continue to destroy.

https://pi-news.net/2025/04/kirchenschaendungen-erschuettern-deutschland/

By Silvio Canto, Jr.

Over in Austria, a country that I’ve always associated with the waltz and beautiful women dancing in elegant gowns, people are a bit shocked to read the news today.  Here it goes:

41% of children in Vienna’s elementary and middle schools are Muslim. Within living memory, Vienna will become a Muslim city.

Yes, it turns out that way.  As someone told me, the last guy standing usually wins the battle.  It’s hard for Austrians to compete if they are old or dead and the last guy standing is young and has lots of kids. It’s a brutal truth, but it is that way.

Austria’s problem didn’t start today. As a good friend from Austria told me years ago when he came to Texas, their birth rates have been below replacement for a while. The latest one is 1.5 per woman and it takes 2.1 per woman to keep future Austrians dancing the waltz.

The problems gets more complicated when mass immigration meets the generous welfare state. Can you say California?

How much longer will Austria survive? I don’t know, but reality does have the last word and I see a big clash coming. It’s also one of those “ghosts of the future” moments. As the ghost told Scrooge, these are images of things that may happen but you can change your ways. I think that the ghost is telling Austrians to start having babies if they want girls in pretty gowns dancing the waltz in the future.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/the_last_austrian_standing.html

Historian and broadcaster Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, Senior Fellow at the New Culture Forum, delivers the closing speech at our NCF Locals Conference in Salisbury: “A Celebration of England: Magna Carta and the Making of the English”. He explains the 10 key ways that England made the modern world. Watch other conference speeches here:    • David Starkey: Magna Carta – A Conser…  

By Anthony J. Sadar

The 55th Earth Day has arrived, and with it the usual fervor over “saving the planet.”

In addition to mostly peaceful protests, traditional constructive activities are undertaken such as tree plantings, river cleanups, and wetland preservation.

This year, though, a new planet-saving opportunity has presented itself: Saving a Tesla.

Before Elon Musk became Public Enemy #2 to leftist activists (right behind President Trump as Public Enemy #1), Mr. Musk was an earth savior with his “non-polluting” electric vehicles. He immediately fell out of favor when he became President Trump’s friend. Then, he dared to drift out of his lane to sideswipe the enormous national debt by trimming the fat from bloated bureaucratic programs.

Many of those programs contained huge financial lifelines for leftist projects, thus the extreme angst.

But are reputed environmentalists missing the revered forest because of the one knotty tree?

The forest, other plant life, and people survive best in a healthy environment. Air, water, and land quality are essential to a thriving ecosystem. Yet, by burning Teslas and charging stations, the Musk haters are producing some of the most toxic air emissions, water effluents, and solid refuse.

The production of electric vehicles and associated chargers requires a large variety of raw materials that, when incinerated, discharge harmful fumes such as hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and a variety of metals related to battery chemistry like lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese. Nasty stuff.

The dispersion of the toxic gases leads to unhealthy chemical concentrations in the ambient air. The potential for increased heart and respiratory ailments surely is a result.

Other biosphere impacts can occur from runoff of fire retardants and dissolved charred material that end up in surface water and groundwater. Removing not just the electric carnage but also the disposable equipment connected with firefighting presents more problems with respect to solid waste.

Assaults continue. Besides the usual professional hazards of firefighting, arson endangers unintended property and personnel.

Keying cars is also not nice. People and the planet suffer under the burdens associated with vehicle repair. Bodywork requires paint jobs. Painting fumes and shop waste are not typically friendly to the environment.

Whatever happened to praising one of the most perceptive, productive people on the planet, Elon Musk, for his efforts to reduce greenhouse gases (besides all his accomplishments in rocketry, satellites, robotics, neurotechnology, and software)? Some on the eco-conscious left crave Mr. Musk’s deportation, as if he were a dangerous transplant or invasive species from South Africa.

Since when is it a negative when a successful, patriotic intellectual, acting for free, focuses on streamlining government and tackling the waste, fraud, and abuse of public funds? Rather, positives abound from such a service, even for the environment. More monies earmarked for ecological improvements can actually go toward those improvements and not so much toward more raucous, ineffective remonstrating.

As usual, unrighteous anger accomplishes unreasonable destruction and is counterproductive.

So, here’s beneficent advice, at least on Earth Day, the holiest day of the environmentalist year: Save the planet by saving a Tesla.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/celebrate_earth_day_by_not_burning_a_tesla.html

The Swedish Government has said it planned to criminalise virginity checks, virginity certificates and virginity interventions.

The Conservative administration has also proposed that failure to disclose forced and child marriages be criminalised.

The planned moves aimed to strengthen the protection of girls and women who lived in a so-called “honour context”, it said.

“Honour norms limit the freedom and life chances of girls and women, but also boys and men. It is often about power and control. And for those who try to defy control, the consequences can be devastating – in the worst case, fatal,” Minister for Justice Gunnar Strömmer said.

“By criminalising these serious abuses, we are strengthening the protection of the personal integrity of girls and women who live in an honour context in a very concrete way.

“A woman’s right to decide over her own body and sexuality is a fundamental human right. Violating it is unacceptable and it is therefore extremely important that the protection of these rights is now strengthened,” he said.

Minister for Gender Equality and Working Life, Nina Larsson, added: “Virginity checks and virginity procedures must stop.”

In recent years, the number of virginity checks in Sweden has reportedly increased, particularly within certain immigrant communities where honour-related cultural norms — often linked to Islamic traditions from the Middle East and North Africa — have remained influential.

These tests have been frequently requested by strongly religious families, despite being medically unfounded and illegal in Sweden since 2022.

Examinations of a woman’s virginity may take place ahead of marriage and conducted by accommodating healthcare professionals, relatives, religious leaders, or other individuals with authority or influence within their communities.

They occurred both within healthcare settings and in private spheres. In some cases, girls and women residing in Sweden have been subjected to virginity checks or procedures while abroad.

Mainstream medical professionals have long maintained that it was impossible to determine, through physical examination, whether a girl or woman had engaged in sexual intercourse.

Nevertheless, the possible results of such “investigations” can be severe, ranging from social ostracism to physical punishment and honour-based violence.

Under the proposed legislation, performing a virginity check or procedure could carry a penalty of up to one year’s imprisonment. Issuing a certificate of sexual “innocence” would be punishable by either a fine or up to six months in jail.

The government also proposed to tighten child-marriage legislation by criminalising a failure to report knowledge of an impending forced or underage marriage — potentially implicating wedding guests or other bystanders who remained silent.

The ruling coalition parties argued that a conviction should be possible even where the girl or woman appeared to have given consent. They cited the high likelihood that such consent may be given under pressure or fear of the consequences of refusal to do so.

Authorities noted that such honour-based crimes were often veiled in silence, making them particularly difficult to detect and address.

Sweden’s Government said it aimed for the legislative amendments to come into force on 1 December 2025.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/04/swedish-government-wants-to-criminalise-virginity-checks

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has hit a historic watermark, and is now the most popular party in Germany for the first time ever, reaching 26 percent. The poll, from Forsa, shows the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in second place with 25 percent.

If the vote were held today, the two parties set to enter government, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the CDU, would not have enough votes to enter government. The SPD is at 15 percent, giving the two parties a combined total of 40 percent. The poll showed that support for the Greens dropped a point to 11 percent and the Left Party also dropped a point to 9 percent.

BREAKING: 🇩🇪The AfD party is now the most popular party in Germany for the first time ever, soaring to 26%.

The main German parties are working to ban the AfD, and a vote on a ban is expected in the coming months in the new Bundestag.

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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) April 22, 2025

The news comes at a time when the left is racing to vote on a ban on the AfD in the German parliament, the Bundestag, a topic covered in detail by Remix News. However, despite inital reports that the CDU would back such a ban, the picture is becoming muddier.

For one, there are more and more voices in the CDU and its sister party, the CSU, who are calling for “more calm” towards the AfD, including from the influential vice-chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Jens Spahn. Spahn even said that the AfD should be able to lead some of the committee in the Bundestag, which would give the party more say and power. Given that it received the second-most votes during the German election, it should, like all other parties, have access to these committees, but many want to shut it out completely, especially from intelligence committees.

The issue could lead to a major split in the coalition between the CDU and SPD. SPD Bundestag member Ralf Stegner told Welt his party has “absolutely no sense of humor” on any attempt to go easy on the AfD.

He said any kind of rapprochement would represent a “maximum stress test” for the new coalition govenrment.

“Anyone who wants to form a coalition with the SPD cannot join forces with right-wing radicals. And joining forces also means voting for enemies of democracy,” he said. The MP, known for his left-wing views, instead is calling for a ban on the AfD if the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) classifies the party as “confirmed right-wing extremist.”

“If the Office for the Protection of the Constitution upgrades its classification, then we also have a duty to work towards initiating a ban on the party,” Stegner said.

However, Welt reports that CDU is rejecting an “automoatic” approach to banning the AfD.

The CDU/CSU, in turn, rejects this automatic approach: “To derive an obligation to initiate ban proceedings from an upgrade by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution clearly ignores the legal situation,” said Günter Krings, legal policy spokesman for the CDU-CSU parliamentary group. He instead wants to “fight the AfD politically by exposing its extremism…The best recipe against the AfD is concrete successes by the new federal government, especially in migration, security, and the economy.”

He also claims that initiating proceedings “would only make the AfD rub its hands together and use it as free support for its victim myth.”

Meanwhile, the AfD is slamming calls for a ban. “The renewed call for an AfD ban is completely unfounded and would be completely hopeless,” said Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the AfD. “Instead of engaging in absurd and anti-democratic ban fantasies, Mr. Stegner should be thinking about why his party has been losing voters in droves for years.”

Sahra Wagenknecht, who is the leader of the left-wing BSW, told Welt: “First gigantic electoral fraud, then the ban debate: could it get any more stupid? The fact that such proposals are now coming from the self-proclaimed ‘democratic center,’ of all places, is disgraceful and will further strengthen the AfD.”

She went so far as to say it was a purely autocratic move.

“No question, in an autocracy, the ‘problem’ would be solved in exactly the same way.”

Even in the SPD, there is debate about a ban.

SPD Minister President of Saxony Stephan Weil (SPD) warned a ban could also fail, which would be “a feast for the AfD.”

https://rmx.news/trending/the-afd-is-now-the-most-popular-party-in-germany-for-the-first-time-ever-all-while-debate-rages-over-an-the-party/

Following the German parliamentary elections in February, which pushed the Greens out of government, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has started embracing environmental issues in a way that would have seemed unlikely not so long ago..Rather than dismantling the green agenda, the CDU has chosen to adopt it, giving it a patriotic twist: climate protection is no longer presented as a global moral duty but as a national obligation.

However, the broader green agenda, now being embraced across Europe’s center-right, still comes with real economic costs: weakening European industry and deepening reliance on components made in China. 

But  the CDU is following a clear agenda: to weaken the Greens and attract their voters without breaking with Brussels’ climate mandates.

While during the campaign the CDU heavily criticized measures such as heating mandates or the gradual elimination of combustion engines, they are now merely softening—not repealing—those policies. The KlimaUnion, an internal party faction, has already claimed that repealing climate laws without equally effective alternatives would be unconstitutional.

The climate lobby has also taken the reins within the centre-right camp. An example of this new approach is the group Heimatwurzeln (“homeland roots”), whose leader, Florian Wagner, openly states that protecting the environment is “an expression of patriotism.” In his narrative, which especially resonates with nostalgic conservatives, the rural middle class, and precarious sectors, the energy transition must distance itself from the progressive language of global justice and instead embrace traditional, Christian, and community values.

The narrative is no longer one of a “climate emergency” demanding personal sacrifice, but rather an opportunity to regain industrial sovereignty, energy security, and national pride. It is also a way to appeal to voters tempted by the AfD, without abandoning Brussels’ green rhetoric.

This shift toward “green patriotism” is not exclusive to Germany. At the plenary session of the European Parliament held in Strasbourg on March 11, a similar change in rhetoric could be observed. During the debate on the Clean Industrial Deal, the Commission’s new ecological plan, multiple groups—including the European People’s Party (EPP)—adopted the language of sovereignty and self-sufficiency to justify green policies that, until now, were considered utopian or leftist.

Those opposing decarbonization were accused of serving foreign powers like “Putin’s Russia” or “Trump’s America,” and the abandonment of fossil fuels was presented as a patriotic obligation. European Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné even defended the opening of new “ecological” mines in Europe and the imposition of tariffs as ways to protect the continent’s economic sovereignty.

The CDU, like other EPP forces across Europe, wants to take environmentalism out of the hands of the Left. But rather than confronting it head-on, they have chosen to reinterpret it through a national lens. 

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/germany-climate-protection-patriotic-obligation-cdu-merz/

Muslim anti-Israel demonstrators attempted to force their way into a synagogue in Switzerland, the latest in a string of attacks on synagogues in Europe.

The protest took place on Saturday, during the Jewish Sabbath, in front of the Beth Yaakov, or Grande, Synagogue in Geneva, according to JTA.

The Intercommunity Coordination Against Anti-Semitism and Defamation watchdog organization (CICAD) reported that a Muslim woman wearing a niqab (veil) first attempted to enter the place of worship while waving a PLO flag and holding a placard saying “Every synagogue is an Israeli embassy” on Saturday morning but was prevented from doing so.

The woman then returned that night accompanied by three men, and a second Muslim woman also then attempted to enter the synagogue.

The group told police they were simply exercising their right to protest and promised to return the following Saturday.

CICAD said the incident was the first of its kind since the the start of Operation Protective Edge, and said it set a dangerous precedent.

“With this first public demonstration of hostility towards the Jewish community in Geneva since the beginning of the conflict in Gaza, an unacceptable step was taken,” the anti-hate group said.

“Synagogues should not become the new places of expression of hatred against Israel,” it added, calling on politicians and supporters of the “Palestinian cause” to condemn such anti-Semitic attacks.

Europe has seen a shocking rise in anti-Semitism since the start of the escalation between Israel and Gazan terrorist groups, with anti-Semitic incidents being reported on a daily basis.

Most attacks have been carried out by Muslims, and a significant number have targeted synagogues specifically.

Several high-profile attacks occurred in France, including an attempt by a Muslim mob to storm a Paris synagogue (the first in a string of similar attacks), and an incident in which two Muslim youths threatened worshippers with an assault rifle.

In Germany, a man was arrested late last month for firebombing a synagogue.

In several other countries, synagogues have been targeted by anti-Semitic vandals who have shattered windows and daubed anti-Israel and anti-Semitic graffiti.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/184232

Euromoonbats have been importing them by the millions while using the welfare state to further increase their numbers exponentially. The end game is already in sight.

Via Allah’s Willing Executioners:

In the Netherlands, Islamic paramilitary groups are openly training — preaching physical, mental, and ideological supremacy. They call themselves “Full Force”—a brotherhood fueled by calisthenics, wrestling, and jihadist vision.

Islamists have promised “a million October 7ths.” They won’t all happen in Israel.

BEÄNGSTIGEND❗️

In den Niederlanden trainieren islamische paramilitärische Einheiten.

„Alhamdulillah, die Armee wächst durch Allahs Willen. Wir werden bald die Welt erobern, Inshallah.“

Wieviele ähnliche Gruppen es wohl schon in Deutschland gibt❓pic.twitter.com/MepMIPH2O1

— Georg Pazderski (@Georg_Pazderski) April 18, 2025

Moonbattery Islamic Paramilitary Units Already in Place – Moonbattery