An “act of faith” worth 5.8 billion euros to the “new Syria”: The Donors Conference organized by the European Union certifies the change of pace in the West’s relations with Damascus after the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime and the arrival to power of Ahmad al Sharaa, known as “al Julani”. The conference raised 5.8 billion euros in loans and grants, 80 percent of which from the EU. From the Commission alone, Ursula von der Leyen announced, 2.5 billion euros are arriving in Damascus.
Six billion a week after the worst religious pogrom in recent history?
A new regime ruled by a former jihadist who until December had a $10 million bounty on his head, who is building an Islamic dictatorship and who has just organized a religious pogrom of Alawites?
It is eye-opening. Mouth-dropping.
Once the massacres were over, the dictator welcomed in Brussels formed his new government: 21 ministers, all Sunni Muslims and of 154 government appointments, 150 are Sunni. Not bad for “diversity”.
Meanwhile, the European embassies in Damascus are reopening: today the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock flew to Syria. Two months ago the dictator had refused to shake her hand. But evidently there is no “Sofagate” that can stop her.
Amine Ayoub of the Middle East Forum warns: “You cannot go from being an al-Qaeda affiliate to a human rights defender overnight.” He emphasized the concept of taqiyya, used to describe the deception sanctioned by the Islamic religion to consolidate power.
Are Europeans stupid? Or a mixture of cynicism and naivety? Or is it corruption? We have seen Qatargate.
Is the EU aware that it is funding a Taliban emirate in the Mediterranean?
A bloodthirsty Islamist coalition, responsible for the massacre of thousands of innocents – Christians, Alawites, Druze and other minorities – has just taken power in Damascus. The European Commission, always ready to lecture Hungary on “rule of law” and “protection of minorities” to the point of cutting off its funding, remains strangely silent in the face of jihadist massacres. And when it comes out of its silence it is to announce 2.5 billion for the Syrian Caliphate.
I see it as an absolute scandal.
A group of Christians gathered on the border between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights to ask the European Union, Israel and the United States to protect Christians in Syria. Shadi Khalloul, who helped organize the gathering, said: “We have stories of Christians in Syria killed by jihadists or captured by jihadists who tried to convert them to Islam by force. A man preferred to die rather than submit to Islam.” Khalloul is part of Israel’s Aramaic Maronite Christian community. “Some of these jihadists are saying it loud and clear to Christians: that your turn will come after the Alawites,” said Khalloul, president and founder of the Israeli Aramaic Christian Association.
Everyone knows that the UN agency for the Palestinians, UNRWA, is an arm of the terrorists in Gaza. Yet, the European Union continues to shower them with money.
The Islamic University of Gaza lists four projects on its website that the European Union has funded.
The German government has spent 8 million euros of taxpayers’ money “to improve the energy efficiency of mosques in Morocco”.
The European Commission has allocated 80 million euros to Muslim Brotherhood NGOs. Not to mention that the Commission has allocated another 24.3 million euros per year to Erdogan to help Turkish women take care of their children so that they can return to work.
Europe appears to be subservient to these regimes.
Those six billion make me think that the blindness is even deeper than I suspected. As for the consequences of this inexorable rise of radical Islam in Muslim countries and in Europe, it is safe to say that we have not yet seen anything of what awaits us.
US ‘enemy goods’ turned upside down (Screenshot:X)
Apparently the Germans have learnt nothing from their history. The fact that products are labelled because they either come from socially marginalised people, ‘Volksschädlinge’ or ‘ enemy states’ is reminiscent of the darkest chapters of the past – but in the posturing mania against Trump and Musk, when anti-Americanism is celebrated, nothing is spared. For example, an unusual practice has been noticeable in German supermarkets for some time now: Products from the USA are placed upside down on the shelves. This method is used to clearly label them and distinguish them from domestic goods. Obviously, the aim is to give a negative recommendation to buy.
The retail chains themselves claim a different reason: this is due to the different labelling regulations. In the USA, nutritional information, ingredient lists and packaging standards are often less strict or formatted differently than in the EU. In Europe, for example, allergens must be highlighted and nutritional values per 100 grams must be stated, whereas in the USA the focus is often on the size of portions. These discrepancies can be confusing for consumers. Inverted products would therefore immediately signal to employees and customers: ‘This is an imported product that requires special attention.’
This may all be factually correct – but the different labelling regulations have always existed and the distinction has never been made in this visible form. This has only been the case since Trump, his rigorous trade policy with threats of punitive tariffs and, at the same time, the ubiquitous demonisation of his policies. The discounters’ explanations therefore appear to be a pretence. This also applies to another argument put forward by some of the retail chains: Alleged pitfalls of logistics. For example, imported products often undercut ‘longer supply chains’ and are ‘stored separately’. Turning products round therefore makes stocktaking easier and prevents confusion with local items. Supermarkets such as Aldi and Lidl, which prioritise efficient processes, use this method particularly frequently.
SA members put stickers in the windows of Jewish shops in Berlin or Oldenburg: Don’t buy from Jews. Wikimedia Commons, German Federal Archives , CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE
In fact, these two discounters had already used this practice occasionally in the past – but it was abandoned following customer complaints in many shops about the untidy appearance and lack of legibility. The impression was also created that the goods were damaged or incorrectly sorted. The fact that the phenomenon has nevertheless increased everywhere since Trump took office shows that it must be about something else.
A new proposal brought before the National Council could shift part of Switzerland’s prison costs from taxpayers to the inmates themselves — at least for those who can afford it.
Daniel Sormanni, a deputy from the right-wing Mouvement Citoyens Genevois (MCG), submitted a motion on Thursday suggesting that prisoners with significant financial means should bear the costs of their own incarceration, including medical expenses.
The move, he said, would relieve the burden on public finances and promote personal accountability.
“A prisoner costs the state an average of between 300 and 400 francs (€315 and €418) per day, or more than 10,000 francs per month at the expense of taxpayers,” Sormanni stated, as cited by Swiss daily 20 Minuten.
“It is not justifiable that people with a large fortune or income should be fully supported by the state, while honest citizens must provide for themselves,” he added.
While the proposal does not specify precise financial thresholds in the legal text, Sormanni envisions the measure applying to individuals earning more than 150,000 francs (€157,000) annually. The idea is that inmates who meet this income level should be required to contribute toward or fully cover the costs associated with their detention.
The motion reportedly outlines two payment mechanisms: a mandatory deduction during incarceration or a staggered repayment plan upon release for those lacking immediate liquidity. It also proposes that prisoners should fund their own health insurance, treatments, and medications while inside.
Sormanni emphasized that the current proposal is not yet a legal change but a request for the Federal Council to conduct a study.
“I have chosen to submit a postulate because it means that the Federal Council will carry out a study and provide data on the issue,” he explained. “It’s interesting to have indications, which will allow us to propose a legal basis later.”
The Federal Council’s response is expected during the next parliamentary session in June.
Reduxx has learned that a prominent Chilean trans activist recently revealed as having raped a boy had been promoted and supported by one of the nation’s leading LGBT groups – and that it’s founder had previously defended the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
Rolando Jiménez, founder of MOVILH (El Movimiento de Integración y Liberación Homosexual), which has received government funding, provided financial support to pedophile María López Barrera, formerly known as Rodrigo Alejandro López Barrera, for his trans activism.
MOVILH is one of Chile’s leading LGBT activist organizations and has received over 279 million pesos from the government since 2001. The activist group has also received funding from the European Union and countries such as Norway, the Netherlands, and Spain.
According to its website, MOVILH was created in June 1991, and the following year was adopted into the International Lesbian, Gay, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), which has worked with the United Nations (UN) to campaign for changes to laws and policy since 1993.
The Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Gaspar Rivas, presented an award to Féminas Diversas de Aconcagua, a group led by convicted child rapist Rodrigo Alejandro López Barrera.
“MOVILH emerged at a time when homophobia and transphobia were rampant in all spheres of society, when homosexuality was classified as a crime by the State, and when only a handful of people supported the cause, and even fewer acknowledged being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender,” reads the site’s history page.
The MOVILH site vaguely states that during the 90’s, “MOVILH suffered from external divisions,” and broadly states: “While Jiménez and his followers maintained Movilh’s acronym, principles, objectives, and structure and added the word ‘integration’ to the organization’s name, other activists gave rise to new and distinct LGBTI groups.”
What MOVILH’s website does not explain is that the source of the “external divisions” involved founding member Jiménez vocalizing support for pedophilic relationships between adults and children.
In September 1994, ILGA’s consultative status within the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNECOSOC) was revoked over its ties to multiple multinational pro-pedophile lobby groups, including the US-based North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and the Dutch group Vereniging MARTIJN, as well as a Berlin-based group Bundesverband Homosexualität (BVH) which condoned the sexual abuse of minors.
Additionally, a 1985 ILGA resolution proposed the eradication of age of consent laws, reiterated again in 1988 when ILGA declared that “age of consent laws often operate to oppress and not to protect young people.” In 1990, ILGA designated pedophiles as a “sexual minority” worthy of legal protection. As the controversy began to draw widespread attention, some journalists remarked that NAMBLA was not only the first group to join ILGA, but at one point was the only member.
In an effort to restore credibility to their movement within the UN, ILGA member groups opted to expel the pedophile activist networks in a vote that was passed with an 88% majority.
Yet MOVILH founder Jiménez disagreed with the proposal, and voted against ejecting them from ILGA. According to Brazilian academic Leandro Colling, in his essay “Panthers and Dissident Locals: Queer Activism in Portugal and Chile and Its Tensions with the LGBT Movement,” Jiménez was expelled from MOVILH in 1994 after voting in favor of the inclusion of the pro-pedophile political groups.
“However, Jiménez appropriated the MOVILH brand, changing the meaning of the acronym, maintaining the group and taking with him the brand of the pioneering collective. For this reason, some activists say that there are two MOVILHs: the on belonging to Jiménez, who has always held the presidency of the group, the MUMS (Unified Movement of Sexual Minorities), which was created on June 28, 1998, to unify the people of the first MOVILH, and another group called Centro Lambda Chile,” Colling states.
Diego Ríos, a spokesperson for MOVILH, has been quoted as saying: “There’s no difference between the two because there has never been a historical MOVILH; it has always been the same. Its members may have changed, but it has always had the same vision, mission, and political perspective. And the leader has always been Rolando Jiménez.”
Now Reduxx has learned that MOVILH worked with convicted pedophile and trans activist López Barrera, who hid his criminal record by identifying as transgender and changing his name.
As previously reported by Reduxx, López Barrera has been active in Chile’s LGBT scene for decades, and began campaigning for “transvestite rights” under his birth name in the early 2000s after he was made the president of the Aconcagua chapter of TravesChile.
In January of 2004, LópezBarrera was the subject of an Amnesty International notice condemning the authorities in Chile for not doing more to protect the rights of trans activists. The notice revealed that he had been threatened and shot at in December of 2003, and suggested it was in retaliation to complaints López Barrera had filed complaining about discrimination against transvestites in the region.
Using masculine pronouns for López Barrera, Amnesty went on to demand that “authorities to take immediate steps to ensure his safety, so that he can continue his legitimate work with TravesChile without fear of harassment.”
But just one month after the Amnesty notice was published, López Barrera would be arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a young boy and infecting him with HIV. At the time, López Barrera worked at a brothel called Tower 10, and met the 14-year-old boy when he came to find his mother, who was being prostituted in the building.
According to Fuerza Informativa Aconcagua (Radio Aconcagua), López Barrera pulled the child into a room and locked the door. The boy screamed for his mother and fought against López Barrera, but was overpowered and brutally anally raped by him. The child would later be diagnosed with HIV as a result of the assault. López Barrera was ultimately sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Last year, López Barrera filed for an order of protection demanding that press be prohibited from revealing his prior name and details regarding the rape of the boy for which he was convicted. While the request was initially granted by the Court of Valparaíso, the decision was challenged by Fuerza Informativa Aconcagua (FIA), a small news outlet and radio station operating out of López Barrera’s region of San Felipe.
On January 1, 2025, the Supreme Court accepted FIA’s appeal, ruling that Barrera did not have a right to prohibit media from reporting on his criminal past. The ruling led to several outlets reporting on how López Barrera had apparently attempted to cover up his previous sexual predation by claiming a transgender status and adopting a feminine name.
La Ultraderecha encabezada por el @PRChile cual jauría rabiosa se ha ensañado con una valiosa dirigente Trans del Aconcagua María Alejandra López les aterra un Liderazgo que es un ejemplo de reinserción social un abrazo
However, despite the revelation, Jiménez has continued to defend López Barrera on social media and accused his critics of being “far-right” and “rabid.” According to Jiménez, the child rapist is “a valuable trans leader.”
The scandal caught the attention of Democratic Senator Ximena Cecilia Rincón. In January, just days after López Barrera’s horrific past was revealed, Rincón called for a formal inquiry into the amount of public funds the pedophile had received for his trans activism.
“We demand an investigation into when and under what conditions state aid has been provided to this despicable child rapist, and we will demand that equivalent resources be allocated to guarantee decent and adequate health care for child victims of sexual assault,” Rincón said, and condemned the process which allowed activists to be granted taxpayer funds without rigorous background checks.
In a follow-up message posted to X, Rincón added: “We have requested from the Human Rights Commission that the Executive Branch be notified of the funding provided to this organization, and we have also announced a bill to prohibit organizations comprised of those convicted in these types of cases from receiving public funding.”
Last September, The Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Gaspar Rivas, presented an award to Féminas Diversas de Aconcagua, a group led by convicted child rapist López Barrera, for its work promoting a pioneering Housing Committee for LGBTIQ+ People. López Barrera received the award from Congressman Rivas at a meeting attended by the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Karol Cariola.
The two awards presented to López Barrera were inscribed, “to the Aconcagua LGBT Housing Committee for their three years of struggle” and “to María Alejandra López Barrera for her tremendous contribution to the community.”
A protest against the planned construction of an asylum seekers’ center in a Dutch town escalated on Thursday evening when demonstrators threw dozens of eggs at the town hall, set off fireworks, and later hung pigs’ feet on the fence of the proposed center’s location.
The protest, organized by the local action group “Nee tegen azc” (No to Asylum Seekers’ Center), drew hundreds of residents angry about the recently announced plans to house 240 to 270 refugees in Berlicum, southeast of the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
Though the topic was not on the agenda of the council meeting taking place inside, protesters gathered outside to voice their discontent.
Signs and banners were draped over the building while fireworks were launched by local residents. One man, a 32-year-old from Sint-Michielsgestel, was arrested while attempting to detonate heavy fireworks, according to police, who also confirmed the majority of demonstrators appeared to be from the local community.
Later that night, a fire broke out on the grounds designated for the asylum center. By morning, pigs’ feet had been hung along the fence.
Chantal Verhagen, spokesperson for the protest group, distanced the organization from that specific act, saying, “An individual will have done that. We should not judge each other — we need each other badly in this protest.” She maintained that the protest remained mostly peaceful. “You can also look at it this way: 299 people have not been arrested.”
Deputy Mayor Peter Raaijmakers condemned the confrontational nature of the protests. “It is a good right to demonstrate and also to say what you think, but it can never be the case that you use those two fundamental rights to cause destruction, hang pigs’ feet on a fence, verbally attack fellow villagers with a different opinion, and threaten people. That’s where we draw the line.”
Similar protests have been carried out across the Netherlands against municipal plans to import significant numbers of largely adult male refugees to Dutch towns and villages.
Last month, the village of Doezum, Groningen, found itself at the center of a national debate over asylum accommodation after the municipality of Westerkwartier announced plans to construct dozens of chalets on an estate at the village’s edge to accommodate 100 status holders. The village is home to just 700 residents.
Locals, who only found out about the plan through a letter, said they were blindsided by the decision.
“My 25-year-old son has been trying to find a place to live for years, but there’s nothing available,” village resident Sonja told De Telegraaf newspaper. “Yet housing for people from far away appears overnight. How is that fair?”
Residents often cite cultural differences and security concerns as major points of contention. One local woman walking her dog near the proposed site in Berlicum told local media, “I’m proud of our village. But I’m afraid. I’m going to install cameras at my house.”
Their concerns are valid. Dutch railway operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) revealed in January that it was considering removing the Maarheeze station in Brabant from its service routes due to the mounting costs of security measures required to address ongoing incidents involving residents of the nearby Budel asylum center.
“Asylum seekers sitting on the benches drinking and harassing other passengers and NS staff. And you have asylum seekers who dodge the fare,” said a spokesperson for the rail operator at the time.
In addition to anti-social behavior and petty crime, incidents of serious sexual assault and violent crime have plagued the reputations of asylum centers in the Netherlands and wider Western Europe, leading to residents displaying extra caution.
The protest group has vowed to continue its campaign with a public residents’ evening scheduled for April 2 where organizers hope local voices will be heard by the city council.
On today’s #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellows Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Dr. Philip Kiszely and Amy Gallagher of Stand up to Woke discuss:
Shakespeare’s birthplace is being “decolonized” following accusations of “white supremacy”
The Lake District will soon be home to its first mosque
1 Million foreigners receive benefits with a potential extra million in the years ahead
Two young men aged 19 and 24 were arrested on Tuesday in the Ain department near Lyon by investigators from the Directorate-General for Internal Security (DGSI). They are suspected of attempting to join a jihadist group in Syria. Following their interrogation, one of the two was remanded in custody, while the other was placed under judicial supervision.
The two suspects are said to have plotted to join the brigade of Omar Diaby, a francophone jihadist figure who has firmly established himself in north-west Syria. According to Le Parisien, they exchanged information with his son via encrypted messenger and planned a route via Turkey or Jordan. One of the two suspects, a Turkish national, forwarded pro-jihadist content in particular via Telegram. According to the counter-terrorism services, Omar Diaby’s brigade, also known as ‘Firqatul Guraba’, continues to attract French recruits.
The two young men were taken into police custody as part of a preliminary investigation launched by the national counter-terrorism prosecutor’s office for ‘criminal terrorist gang formation’ and brought before a counter-terrorism judge in Paris on Friday.
Three teenagers planned a terrorist attack – potential targets were a church or synagogue or a police station. They apparently also wanted to kill as many people as possible. Fortunately, the teenagers were caught in time. On Friday, the district court in Düsseldorf sentenced two girls ( aged 16 and 17) and a boy ( aged 16) to three years in youth prison each for conspiracy to commit murder and arson resulting in death! The girls from Düsseldorf and Iserlohn and the boy from Lippstadt had ‘radicalised themselves with the ideology of this terrorist organisation by consuming propaganda material from the so-called Islamic State (IS) on the internet and via social media’, the court announced at the end of the non-public hearing.
During Ramadan 2024 (March, April), the trio and a young man from Ostfildern in Swabia, who had already been sentenced to two years’ probation, had decided to commit a terrorist attack within two months.
Police stations, railway stations and courtrooms in Hamburg, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Iserlohn and Stuttgart were initially targeted. Court spokeswoman Dr Vera Drees: ‘Ultimately, they were determined to attack police stations or places of worship (churches, synagogues) while many people were present, set them on fire with Molotov cocktails and use firearms and stabbing weapons to kill as many people as possible. One of the teenagers obtained bomb-making instructions on the internet and made them available to her accomplice. However, the police were already on the trail of the terrorist teenagers and eventually arrested them. The trio have been in custody since Easter 2024.
A defence lawyer has announced an appeal and a prison appeal.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has conceded that U.S. Vice President JD Vance ‘had a point on migration’, although she stuck to the Euro-orthodoxy that Russia is the greatest threat to the continent of all.
“Security is also about what is going on in your local community”, says Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen in an interview that illustrates how she has bucked the trend for European centre-left Social Democrats losing power in recent years, apparently by bowing to public demand for border control and deportations.
The comments came in an interview with Politico which reported that while she “unfortunately” found herself disagreeing with VP Vance during his famous Munich speech when he said the greatest threat to Europe was mass migration, nevertheless “Still, he had a point… she conceded”.
In comments that would be remarkable from a mainstream left-wing leader in practically any European country except Denmark, Frederiksen told the publication: “I consider this mass migration into Europe as a threat to the daily life in Europe”. Her objection to mass migration is precisely because of her left-wing views and consequent concern for the working class, she explained, going on to say: “No matter if you look at statistics on crimes or if you look at problems on the labour market, insecurity in local communities, it is the most vulnerable who experience the consequences”.
There is no contradiction here, Frederiksen said, even if most European left-wing leaders would strongly disagree. She continued, Politico reported: “I totally believe in equal opportunities and a Scandinavian welfare model with a tax-paid education, social benefits and health care. But for me that’s only one traditional pillar of being a social democrat… Being in control of migration is the second pillar.”
Politico notes, rightly, that Mette Frederiksen stands out in Europe as a rare social democrat still in office, and says this is precisely because she quickly learnt to act on migration, not ignore it. She said:
The message that our populations in almost all European countries have tried to send to politicians through the years: Please get in control [of] our borders and be decisive on migration… If I ask people about security and their security concerns, many of them will reply that Russia and defending Europe is top of mind right now.
But security is also about what is going on in your local community… If I ask people about security and their security concerns, many of them will reply that Russia and defending Europe is top of mind right now. But security is also about what is going on in your local community.
Mette Frederiksen appears to get a free pass from the international media on her border policy, precisely because she is the left-wing establishment in her country. In other European nations where the legacy left has stuck to its guns on unlimited migration and open borders, upstart left-wingers offering an alternative have been smeared as dangerous left-wing ‘populists’. In Germany, for instance, the anti-mass-migration but pro-generous welfare BSW party missed out on parliamentary seats by a fraction of a per cent in last months’ election, and almost certainly would have crossed the threshold without the saturation of German media with attack pieces in the days leading up to the vote, its party leader believes.
Indeed, the BSW was banned from even attending the Munich Security Conference where Vance made his comments on the threat of mass migration to Europe hollowing out the continent from within while its leaders gazes are focussed resolutely eastwards to Moscow.
Of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration. Today, almost one in five people living in [Germany] moved here from abroad…. No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants.
Denmark cracking down on mass migration to preserve the national way of life did not start with Frederiksen and predates her leadership, but she has undeniably carried it forward during her years in power. As long reported at Breitbart News, Denmark has moved to crack down on ‘non-Western young men harassing native Danes’, has pursued a ‘zero asylum seeker‘ policy, and has moved to counter parallel societies by banning migrant ghettoization.
Denmark has been paying migrants to go home and not come back, offering Syrians 200,000 kronor (€27,000, $28,300, £22,400) to leave with its repatriation law and has collaborated with other European nations on organising deportation flights.
