The incident took place on a tram on Linzer Landstraße. Screengrab youtube
‘I’ll chop you off, I’ll slice you to pieces’, a Chechen man ( aged 25) threatened to kill a woman of the same age, whom he didn’t personally know, on a tram in the centre of Linz at around 7.45 a.m. on Friday. The mentally ill man was taken into custody. The Linz woman had already noticed the man because he had been muttering something . Then the threats started: ‘I’ll chop you all off. The moment will come’, the suspect is alleged to have said. When schoolchildren got on the bus at Taubenmarkt, the Chechen is said to have threatened them too and said: ‘I don’t care if you’re children.’ He is also said to have threatened: ‘All non-Muslims will be stabbed to death.’
The threatened woman from Linz had nerves of steel and alerted the police. Thanks to her good personal description, the suspect was arrested in Raimundstraße – near the Unionkreuzung intersection. He was unarmed. The suspect was also recognised by the victim. The unemployed Chechen, who has a criminal record for numerous violent offences, was remanded in custody at the request of the Linz public prosecutor’s office. Due to his mental state, he was placed in the forensic department of the Neuromed Campus in Linz. He is currently being investigated on suspicion of making dangerous threats. According to the police, he had recently attracted attention by talking to himself in public, according to Ulrike Breiteneder from the Linz public prosecutor’s office.
In “Apocalypto”, Mel Gibson’s film about the Mayans that was hit by a wave of controversy for the horrifying scenes of violence depicted by the director, there is a civilization in which barbarism dominates, man is worth nothing and human sacrifice is practiced.
As the German Jewish philosopher Leo Strauss said, lashing out at relativism, “if everything is the same, then cannibalism is just a matter of taste”.
I have seen a vide of a Syrian terrorist who cuts the chest of a man who is still alive while others hold him down, extracts his heart and eats it for the cameras.
The BBC had already interviewed a Syrian terrorist who tears out a heart and eats it.
An appeal by French intellectuals and scholars was published in Le Point: “Several thousand Alawite civilians have been massacred in recent days in Syria by the forces of the Islamist regime. Newborns, children, elderly people, women, men: hundreds of videos, authenticated by various press outlets and NGOs, testify to systematic summary executions with the clear will to annihilate a people considered heretical”.
The Spectator called it “the massacre of the innocents” in the only European cover dedicated to this barbarity.
American scholar Joshua Landis published the list of the dead in just one village, Snawbar: 196 people. Entire Alawite families wiped out.
CNN also reviewed the footage and found 80 bodies in just one village.
Officially, the death toll is 1,300. According to many humanitarian organizations, the real figure is between 3,000 and 8,000. Summary executions, beatings with iron bars, machine guns, throats slit with knives, houses set on fire: not even women and children are spared. The Alawites are called khanazir (pigs) and kilab (dogs) before being slaughtered.
Even Alawites who were prisoners of the Assad regime and passed through Sidnaya prison are murdered simply because they are not Sunni.
In the West, only Marco Rubio and Tulsi Gabbart in the United States have openly denounced the massacres, while European capitals have dismissed Assad supporters and “isolated” jihadists.
The influx of “volunteers” has come from all over the country after calls for the eradication of “Nosayris” (another name for Alawites) and “Khanazir” were spread in mosques. The Islamic factions affiliated with the terrorist Al-Julani have set fires in the countryside of the Syrian coast, where thousands of displaced people have taken refuge, hiding among the trees and bushes.
A handwritten note was discovered on the body of a Hamas terrorist that encouraged the beheading and dismemberment of victims. The note, revealed by the American television network CBS, contained instructions from the Hamas leadership declaring the religious importance of killing Jews and draws inspiration from historical Muslim leaders who massacred men, sold women and children into slavery and sacked cities:
“Sharpen the blades of your swords and be pure before Allah. Know that the enemy is a disease that has no cure except beheading and the removal of hearts and livers. Attack them!”.
Yahiya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, like an Aztec high priest, had asked his men to bring him the hearts of Israelis, literally.
From human shields to human sacrifices, is always a small step.
Anyone who knows anything about history, about the pogroms of Hebron and Baghdad, about the massacres of Armenians, about the human pyres of the caliphs, is not surprised by the images coming from Damascus, once a magnificent crossroads of the world and of worlds. What is surprising is that there is a part of the West that has chosen the new human sacrifices, from the strangled and mutilated Jewish Bibas children to the videos of the extermination in Syria.
The great anthropologist René Girard has an explanation: “Western rationalism works like a myth: we work harder and harder to avoid seeing the catastrophe. We cannot and do not want to see violence as it is”.
Pierre Assouline, Simenon’s biographer, has just written a book in which he says: “Israel resists because, unlike other peoples, the Israelis know that if they lose a war once they will all be thrown into the sea. So they resist, until the next war”. Now we know that they would end up like the Alawites.
Now the Islamic dictator of Damascus has arrived in Brussels. Ursula von der Leyen promises 2.5 billion euros to Syria.
It seems that we Western dhimmis have to pay for that torn heart.
Britain’s Labour Party has introduced the “Employment Rights Bill,” which, of course, is actually about limiting the rights of the vast majority in order to protect the ‘rights’ of a relative few.
Clause 18 of the ERB would amend the Equality Act to force employers to “take all reasonable steps” to cocoon their staff from “harassment” by “third parties.”
This will mean that people who own or work in English pubs won’t be allowed to tell their customers off-color jokes or express certain opinions lest they be overheard by someone who could possibly take offense, since, according to the employment tribunal, “harassment” includes remarks that a person with one or more “protected characteristics” could find upsetting.
The banter ban may even mean that ‘banter bouncers’ could be employed to patrol the pub and listen for talk that could be offensive to a non-binary, bisexual Wiccan having a bad day. Lists of banned words or phrases could adorn the walls. Customers could have to show proof that they have taken and passed a sensitivity training course. The age-old charm of the English pub would likely be gone forever.
Which may be a moot point, anyway, as English pubs may soon be gone forever. The Guardian reported that fifty pubs a month closed across England and Wales in the first half of 2024.
Increasing costs, tax hikes, rising National Insurance rates, and the outlawing of zero-hours contracts are a few of the factors said to contribute to the precipitous decline in taverns. Scheduled tax hikes in 2025 will make it harder still for many to keep their doors open. This all after — and on top of — The Plandemic.
Yet there is another reason for the demise of pubs that isn’t being talked about in the mainstream media: the ever-increasing Muslim population. Drinking alcohol in any form is forbidden under Sharia Law (and can result in 80 lashes from a local judge).
The fertility rate for Muslims in England is at least 3.0, meaning 3 children per woman, dramatically higher than the 1.8 for native born English women.
Given the very large number of Muslims already living in the U.K., the math is easy — the result inevitable.
The English pub was iconic and thrived when England had a soul … and a heart. When it fought for freedom and against tyranny. Pubs were every town’s meeting space, fostering togetherness and cohesion. Once Jolly Olde England is becoming less cohesive, less jolly — and more dangerous — by the day.
Britain is moving on to the next phase, a phase with fewer British and fewer pubs. (The two may well be intertwined.) Leftist Prime Minister Keir Starmer is the new Neville Chamberlain.
But there is no Winston Churchill waiting in the wilderness to save Britannia.
Someone once said, “Don’t cry for me, Argentina.” Towards the end, Churchill might have said, “Don’t cry for me, Britain.”
Many of my conservative friends tell me not to shed a tear over the coming death of England, but I may cry in my beer, anyway. Just not in an English pub. Churchill would, too.
Two of the current regime’s ministers are pro-Russian and were sanctioned by the Biden regime. President Aleksandar Vučić refused to join Western sanctions against Russia while allowing Moscow’s propaganda outlets, such as RT and Sputnik, to spread their narrative in the Balkans.
The current Serbian government is not a member of the EU, but has formally applied to join the Union.
Of course, the tyrants and globalists who run the EU will not tolerate such irreverent treatment from a future member state.
So what do the EU and Washington do when a smaller , weaker, and more independent country spirals out of control? They stage a coup and remove the current regime, of course.
The United States has extensive experience in overthrowing and replacing regimes with more compliant leaders.
This Saturday – just hours from now – protests against the democratically elected government are planned in Serbia. The protesters disapprove of the current leadership’s positions, especially its stance on the Ukraine-Russia war.
B92.net broke an explosive report about protests planned for tomorrow in Belgrade, Serbia .
B92.net reports that opposition politicians and students are plotting a secret coup that could erupt into civil war.
A group of opposition politicians and students on the barricade plan to impose the idea of a transitional government at the protest announced for Saturday in Belgrade, but also to have a certain group of their people withdraw others to provoke violence, which would lead to a civil war, can be heard in the audio recording that was provided to the media and released to the public by Pink, Informer, Prva, Studio B and Happy.
The videos clearly show the destabilization plan and the preparations for the coup d’état.
The video, according to the five media outlets that claim to have established its authenticity, was created at a meeting on March 12 at the headquarters of the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) in Novi Sad and was attended by Mila Pajić, Dejan Bagarić, Mladen Cvijetić, Branislav Đorđević, Marija Vasić, Srđan Đurić, Doroteja Antić, Jovan Dražić, Lazar Dinić, Anja Pitulić, Davor Stefanović and Lado Jovović.
“I think we can carry out several sets of guerrilla actions. It’s certain that there will be a large number of people; we can’t manage that crowd, except in some guerrilla groups. Let’s try to taint part of that protest with political manipulation, have the transitional government banner, and some masses begin to scan the transitional government. We’ll get the best possible scenario. What we can’t control is an intrusion into some institution, and we’ll see whether that will happen or not,” Mila Pajić said at the beginning of the video.
And, according to BLIC.rs , the audio tapes were released to several Serbian media outlets on Friday.
This damage to property would not be the first time. Photo: X account of Damien Rieu
On March 15, the Identitarian activist Damien Rieu published a video and some photos on X of a fresco located on the Route de Vienne, between the eighth arrondissement of Lyon and Vénissieux, on the perimeter wall of the Saint Jean de Dieu hospital. In his article, he points out that ‘all the representations of living beings in the fresco of the half-millennium’, i.e. the drawn figures, men and women, but also the animals, were painted over with blue and black colour. The ‘Islamists’ had therefore painted over them ‘in accordance with the Koran’s demands’, he explains. According to LyonMag, this is not the first time the wall has been vandalised. The figures on the painted wall had already been removed under a new layer of paint, according to reports based on Google Street View. ‘We expect a firm and clear condemnation of this provocation from Grégory Doucet,’ reacted Agnès Marion, the national delegate of Identité Libertés, Marion Maréchal’s movement, on X. ‘No Lyonnais can accept this highly symbolic damage, which attacks the artistic and civilising values of the West in order to replace them with those of Sharia law,’ added the former RN candidate for the local elections in Lyon.
In contrast, Idir Boumertit, deputy for the 14th Rhône district of the La France insoumise party, considered that Damien Rieu’s remarks were ‘a scandalous misappropriation of an act of senseless vandalism for his anti-French ideology’. Although the MEP ‘condemns these criminal acts in the strongest terms’, he regretted that ‘enemies of the Republic instrumentalise every little event to gain easy fame against Muslims and Vénissieux’. ‘He concluded by saying: ‘This stupid act can in no way be justified in the Muslim religion.
🔴⚠️ À Vénissieux (69), les islamistes ont recouverts toutes les représentations vivantes de la fresque du demi-millénaire, conformément à l’exigence coranique.
Mesurant 600m de long sur 300m2, elle fait partie de la tradition des murs peints et trompe l’œil lyonnais. Elle… pic.twitter.com/73ohIPPn6W
Le cri d'alarme de Conor McGregor à la Maison Blanche : « L'immigration illégale est hors de contrôle. Certaines villes ont été complètement submergées, au point que les Irlandais deviennent une minorité. Il n'y aura plus de patrie ! » pic.twitter.com/TTMKcJ7oCX
— Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse (@F_Desouche) March 17, 2025
McGregor in the White House briefing room during his visit on St Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2025.
AUR leader George Simion George Simion on Facebook, 14 March 2025
Romania’s Constitutional Court has approved George Simion, leader of the nationalist opposition AUR party, as a candidate for May’s repeated presidential elections. The court dismissed all three appeals against his candidature on the evening of Sunday, March 16th, although the final confirmation is not expected to be published until Tuesday.
Simion submitted his candidacy last week, just days before the final deadline, after the Court banned the party’s original candidate and the winner of the annulled December election, Călin Georgescu, from participating in the race.
In addition, the leader of a smaller nationalist party (POT), Anamaria Gavrilă, also submitted her file to maximize the chance that the nationalist opposition will have a candidate on the ballots. While her approval is still pending, an agreement between AUR and POT stipulates that if both candidates qualify, then Gavrilă will stand down to unite the nationalist vote under one name.
Underlining the momentum behind the banned frontrunner, Simion and Gavrilă collectively gathered over one million signatures in just a matter of days last week. Accompanied by former Polish PM and ECR president Mateusz Morawicki in Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau, Simion submitted over 600,000 signatures—three times as many as the required amount for a candidacy—while Gavrilă put down another 400,000 a day later.
Thank you to my good friend, @MorawieckiM, President of @ECRparty, for his strong support and for being today in #Bucharest.
“Romania is Poland’ main partner in Central-Eastern Europe. 🇷🇴🤝🇵🇱, as friends! George Simion will play a very important role in #EU future.” pic.twitter.com/oev5gdSEyo
On Sunday, the Court also cleared the candidacy of former socialist PM Victor Ponta, who will run as an independent, while at the same time reaffirming the earlier ban on the SOS Romania leader Diana Șoșoacă, who is considered too “extreme” even by the other nationalist parties.
According to the latest poll, published on Monday, March 17th, Simion will likely win the first round on May 4th but would lose the runoff two weeks later.
The AUR leader (and ECR Vice President) is favored by 30.4%, followed by Nicușor Dan, the independent liberal mayor of Bucharest running on an anti-corruption platform, with 26%. Crin Antonescu, the joint candidate of the ruling establishment parties, PSD (S&D) and PNL (EPP), is in third place with less than 18%.
In turn, the ex-socialist PM Victor Ponta, who has tried to copy Trump by launching a “Romania First” campaign, complete with red baseball caps, is in fourth place with 9%, while the liberal USR (Renew) leader Elena Lasconi—who advanced into the second round with Georgescu back in December with a good chance of winning the presidency—now stands at only 4%.
Therefore, unless there’s a significant shake-up in the coming weeks, the May 18th runoff will be between the two main anti-establishment candidates, Simion and Dan, with no government candidate in the final round—an identical situation to that which may have prompted the annulment of the December election in the first place.
The polls also show that Simion will have a tough time beating Dan for the presidency if it comes down to a two-way race between the two, as all ‘pro-European’ parties would unite behind the mayor against the nationalists. Dan is favored by 54% over Simion’s 46%, which is still possible to flip but will not be easy.
An Afghan asylum seeker has been jailed for two years and ten months for forcing a six-year-old boy to perform oral sex on him at a refugee reception center in Germany.
The crime, which occurred in May 2024, came to light when the child’s father noticed an unusual jingling of euro coins in his son’s pocket. Upon questioning, the boy revealed that “something bad” had happened that Sunday afternoon in Schönwald. His account led to an investigation and subsequent arrest of the suspect, who had fled Afghanistan in 2022 and entered Germany illegally.
The Villingen District Court heard how the defendant lured the child into his room with chocolate and then locked the door.
“After that, I had to do something… By force,” the victim said.
In a video-recorded interview conducted by a child psychologist and Judge Bernhard Lipp, the boy recounted how the man forced him to first touch his genitals before coercing him into performing oral sex.
The assailant then gave the boy €5 in coins and warned him not to tell anyone about the assault.
As reported by Schwarzwälder Bote, the courtroom watched the interrogation footage, in which the boy, despite his young age, provided a clear and consistent account of the crime. The court-appointed expert confirmed the child’s reliability as a witness, stating that his testimony showed “good consistency and no logical breaks.”
Initially, the accused denied the allegations, but as the trial progressed, he admitted through his lawyer that oral sex had taken place, confirming his guilt. However, a dispute arose over his age. The defendant had initially claimed he was born on Jan. 1, 2004, which, if true, would have placed him under juvenile criminal law.
However, forensic examinations, including X-ray procedures, indicated that he was likely born between April and July 2000, making him at least 21 at the time of the crime and thus subject to adult criminal law.
The prosecution sought a three-year prison sentence, arguing that while violence was used, the assault was “a rather short process” and the act had not had “too serious consequences for the child.” The defense, citing the defendant’s partial confession and remorse, requested a two-year suspended sentence.
However, the court, presided over by Judge Lipp, insisted an immediate custodial sentence was necessary and handed down a jail term of two years and ten months for the serious sexual abuse of a child combined with rape.
The court maintained the arrest warrant, and the defendant was immediately returned to custody.
The mastermind of the group: Abdur Rahman Shadid.NIUS/NIUS
The channel info on YouTube reads more innocuously than the self-description of a scout group: hate and violence against individuals or groups are not advocated or supported. ‘We want to promote dialogue, contribute to education and better coexistence in society,’ it says. But if you take a closer look, you quickly realise that the content of the channel is by no means harmless and peaceful. In fact, the group ‘Nūr al “Ilm | Light of Knowledge” is a particularly radical Islamist group that has remained invisible up to now – and is courting young people.
With more than 100 videos, the channel gives an impression of what they are taught in the youth camps, Quran reading sessions or Islamic lessons. The clip ‘Lessons from the Battle of Uhud’, for example, states that the Prophet was of the opinion ‘that we, the believers, should wait for the kuffar in Medina, that the kuffar will come in and that the kuffar will then be slaughtered in Medina – from the sides and from the houses’. ‘Streetfight in Medina.’ The kuffar stands for unbelievers, an expression that Islamists repeatedly use to devalue non-Muslims. In the video about the Prophet Lut, on the other hand, the following relationship to homosexuality is conveyed: ‘Homosexuality, of course, is not a minor sin, but a major sin. […] And you know it is killed in Islam. If you see someone doing the deed, then you should kill both: the one who does it and the one with whom it is done. Both must be killed.’ Some scholars would have deduced that the sinner should be thrown from a high building or burned to death. ‘Sin is very bad in Islam.’
And: The chastisement of women is also described as a permissible act of violence. ‘If she still persists in [wrong behaviour], he hits her – but not hard, not in the face and without leaving any marks. He may also beat her if she neglects the duties of Allah,’ says another video.
The same video also indirectly legitimises the murder of critics of Islam. It is about the Dutchman Theo van Gogh, who was killed by the radical Islamist Mohammed Bouyeri in 2004. Van Gogh had previously repeatedly mocked Allah and the prophet Mohammed. ‘He insulted the prophet – and then he was stabbed to death in the street. Was the murder a good thing? It brings greater harm, to be honest. You weigh up the harm against the benefit.’ From an Islamic point of view, however, ‘it wouldn’t be wrong to kill someone like that’.
Dozens of such videos have been uploaded to Nūr al ‘Ilm’s YouTube channel, which is adorned with an open Koran from which rays of light are streaming and has just around 500 followers. They oscillate between question time and life advice, in which young people are told how to lead a life in accordance with the religion, and Quran recitations, in which the contents of the holy Islamic scripture are interpreted in an almost orthodox, literal manner – in the sense of the Sahaba and Salafiya, i.e. the ‘companions’ and ‘ancestors’. Salafists, including Nūr al ‘Ilm, refer to these scholars, who lived in the first generations of Muhammad, when they promote an Islamist lifestyle in the modern age. Here, too, reference is made to Islamic historical events such as battles and Qur’anic surahs.
Youth camps, so-called brotherhood meetings, are held in numerous videos. At the centre of the group is a stocky man with a shaved short haircut and a full beard who calls himself Abdur Rahman Shadid. He and his group are mainly active in northern Germany: events organised by Nūr al ‘Ilm take place in Bremen, Lübeck and the Assalam Mosque there, Delmenhorst, but also in North Rhine-Westphalia and Mannheim. Last year, a short pilgrimage with Shadid was available from the provider ‘Taibah Tours’ for the bargain price of 1400 euros.
The low-cost pilgrimage to Mecca – with the mastermind of the group, Abdur Rahman Shadid NIUS/NIUS
NIUS wanted to know how the statements in the videos are to be interpreted and whether they are in line with the free and democratic basic order. The group left one enquiry unanswered until Sunday evening. It is unclear whether the catalogue of questions sent by NIUS was read at all.
This in turn is due to the conspiratorial nature of the group. Nūr al ‘Ilm resembles a black box, operating without an imprint and without a loadable address for justiciable content. Apart from the YouTube channel, there is no website, no email address and no telephone number that would allow contact to be made with the Islamists. Sermon content and share tiles are uploaded to Instagram. There is also an internal WhatsApp group to which hand-picked believers can be added. The conspiracy of the creators is also evident from the fact that a whole catalogue of questions must be answered – in addition to personal details, Arabic level and knowledge of the Koran are also requested – in order to be included in the select WhatsApp chat.
Virtually nothing can be found on the internet about the man at the centre of the group, Abdur Rahman Shadid. Information on Nūr al ‘Ilm is also scarce. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has just as little knowledge of the group’s structures as the state offices in Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein, according to an enquiry from NIUS. The latter point out that they only take action if they have ‘factual indications’ that suggest an anti-constitutional mindset – although Nūr al ‘Ilm was demonstrably active in both states.
Islamism expert Sigrid Herrmann warns against the structures of Nūr al ‘Ilm vis-à-vis NIUS: “The group is remarkable in its radicalism and its self-image,” says the 61-year-old. It is based on an ‘elite concept’ that only allows a small circle of young men to become part of a community. Herrmann sees the lack of information and the lack of transparency as a danger. ‘In the past, the danger of Islamist groups was measured by their size and prominence, but such closed systems are sometimes more dangerous for the radicalisation of individuals – and often go unnoticed because they operate decentrally and digitally.
There is one indication of the networking of Shadid’s group: in the Telegram group, one of the three administrators is identified with the username @ikzbremen. The abbreviation IKZ stands for the Islamic Cultural Centre. The religious centre in the centre of Bremen is considered a meeting place for radical Salafists by constitutional watchdogs. The sermons held at the IKZ are often ‘directed against central constitutional principles and call for the deliberate exclusion and marginalisation of non-Muslims or supposed non-believers’, according to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in response to an enquiry from NIUS. ‘In addition to a rejection of the Western legal system and values, the spread of anti-Semitic content and the propagation of the inequality of religions are evidence of the Islamist orientation of the IKZ.’ The sermons reveal ‘typical values and enemy images of Salafist ideology’ and aim to evoke a ‘feeling of superiority’ among listeners.
It is precisely these ideological components that can also be found in Nūr al ‘Ilm. For example, one video invokes the omnipotence of Allah in the fight against major powers such as the USA, Israel or Russia. ‘Allah is the King and Allah has power over everything. And Allah can destroy all these powerful countries in a second: Israel, the USA, the Soviet Union, Russia: all these big countries that you think: okay, they’re badass countries and they have big, badass weapons. It’s very easy [for Allah] to destroy them.’ In the manner of the TikTok preacher Abul Baraa, Abdur Rahman Shadid praised the question of how the fight against kuffar, i.e. unbelievers, could be waged in this day and age if one did not know whether women and children could be hit by bombs as a ‘very good question’. There is a general judgement in Islam ‘that we do not kill women and children and people who do not fight and people who are poor.’ But it goes on to say: ‘But what if we want to fight the kuffar, for example’ – and it is not possible to distinguish them from women, children and the poor? ‘Then it is possible’, the speaker concludes.
In the video ‘Al Jihad. Hanbali Fiqh’ not only advertises jihad as a duty of Muslims, but also makes it clear: ’Allah has commanded that his religion prevail over all religions and that his religion be practised everywhere and that he be called to everywhere, to his religion. And that the rules of his religion prevail everywhere.’
The group has made this a priority. In addition to the production of daily online content, dawah is also on the agenda. The term stands for Islamic proselytising in public spaces. Here, too, there are videos in which young people in caftans and with trimmed moustaches try to convert passers-by to Islam in pedestrian zones, for example in Bremen. The campaign is accompanied by religious music in Arabic and some of the young people hold Qurans up to the camera.
The campaign is inevitably reminiscent of the Koran distribution campaign ‘Lies’, in which Salafists campaigned for converts to Islam in numerous German cities from 2010 onwards. Well-known Islamists such as Ibrahim Abou-Nagie and his group ‘The True Religion’, which was later banned, were involved in the campaign. Attackers such as the Essen Sikh temple bomber had previously travelled through city centres distributing Korans. For Islamism expert Sigrid Herrmann, this is a cause for concern: ‘Especially when Koran reading circles also carry out proselytising campaigns, security authorities should take notice.’ The connection to the IKZ Bremen, which is considered one of the centres for Salafist structures in northern Germany, is also a ‘red flag’ for her. ‘Dozens of Muslims from the ‘Lies’ environment had travelled to Syria and Iraq as fighters for the ‘Islamic State’.’
Meanwhile, Nūr al ‘Ilm continues to meet. Last weekend, the ‘third meeting of the Brothers’ took place in Gütersloh. In the centre of the flyer advertising the event is a sign that is very reminiscent of the ‘Seal of the Prophet’ – the symbol that the ‘Islamic State’ also prints on its flag. ‘Seal of the Prophets’ was also a spin-off of the Koran distribution campaign “Read” – and was listed in several constitutional protection reports.
For some, this may initially be pure Islamic trivia and pure coincidence. For others, it is evidence of Islamist continuities that will persist in 2025.
A middle school in Illinois reportedly forced a class of 13-year-old girls to change in front of a trans-identified male student in the school locker rooms after a Physical Education class, according to the mother of one of the girls involved.
Speaking during a meeting of the Deerfield School District 109 School Board on Thursday, Nicole Georgas revealed that on February 5, her daughter came home “frightened” and “upset” after finding a male student in the girls’ bathroom at school. Concerned, Georgas contacted the administration, and was told that under direction from their legal counsel, that if the student identifies as female, they are free to use any of the sex-segregated facilities as they so choose.
Only a few days later, “the situation went from bad to worse,” as according to Georgas, the male student was then present in the girls’ locker rooms for their Physical Education (PE) class. The girls, unwilling to have their privacy violated even further, collectively refused to undress in front of him. The following day, Assistant Principal Cathy Van Treese hauled the girls into her office and questioned them, before escorting them to their locker room and forcing them to change into their uniforms with the boy present. Van Treese was accompanied by Assistant Superintendent Joanna Ford and Director for Student Services Ginger Logemann. The monitoring to ensure compliance allegedly happened “all week,” Georgas explained to the district.
“My daughter refused to take part in having her privacy violated. How dare they. She ran out and called me for help,” she added. The solution presented by the school was for Georgas’s daughter to simply swap into a new PE class, which was flatly refused.
Under Illinois state law, the “rights” of trans-identified individuals, especially students, to go into whatever facilities they please, are firmly protected. According to the state’s Department of Human Rights, “the discomfort or privacy concerns of other students, teachers, or parents are not valid reasons to deny or limit the full and equal use of facilities based on a student’s gender-related identity. Instead, any student, teacher or other individual seeking more privacy should be accommodated by providing that individual a more private option upon their request, if possible.”
However, since President Trump’s return to office, the federal government has been empowered to “take all appropriate action to affirmatively protect all-female athletic opportunities and all-female locker rooms and thereby provide the equal opportunity guaranteed by Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972,” with the President declaring as he signed the executive order coincidentally also on February 5t, that “if you let men… invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding.”
As such, Georgas revealed that she had filed a civil rights complaint with the Department of Justice that has now been referred to the Department of Education, along with a federal complaint directly to the district in order to protect her daughter and other students. At the time of the executive order, the school district declared that they were “committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and high-quality education for all students.”
“The girls just want their privacy and they want their locker room back. There are gender neutral options,” Georgas continued. “This is my daughter’s story and the story of many other young girls who have been forced at a difficult age to do something they know and most adults know is wrong… Allowing biological males to access girl’s locker rooms sets a dangerous precedent that erodes the very foundation of female privacy and safety. By making this decision, the school board is not only disregarding the concerns of young female students, but also establishing a legal and policy framework that will make it increasingly difficult to protect the integrity of female-only spaces in the future.”
Following her speech, Georgas was booed by a number of trans activists, who accused her of being “obsessed with children’s genitals.” No other speaker at the meeting was in support of Georgas, and instead was filled with various loud accusations of bigotry, in some cases directly pointed at her.
One speaker Charlie Friedman, who serves as a director for the Trans Upfront organization, accused Georgas of “bullying” trans-identified children just for being concerned about her daughter. Another argued it was a “deliberate misrepresentation” to claim that girls were forced to change in front of a boy, because “who they’re talking about is a girl, a transgender girl,” comparing their concerns to racism, while a third suggested the school would have to perform “genital checks” on students, because “a lot of transgender people pass.”
The final speaker, Tina Nelson, who wore a shirt reading “Protect Trans Kids” alongside a knife, directly confronted Georgas, staring her down and accusing her of using a “white supremacist religion to push the agenda of their cis white husbands… targeting a middle school student because of your white God.”
