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The leaders of France and Britain are calling for censorship regimes because enforcing multiculturalism requires suppressing freedom.The leaders of France and Britain are calling for censorship regimes because enforcing multiculturalism requires suppressing freedom.‘France doesn’t exist anymore’: Glenn Beck on the ‘two Frances’ battling for the soul of the nation
Two massive gatherings took place recently in France: an 800,000-strong Mass on September 26 hosted by Pope Leo XIV at Place de la Concorde and a nationwide student protest on October 6 over school funding that drew roughly 256,000 people across France and 56,000 in Paris.
The latter gathering escalated to violence in some areas.
“Schools set on fire. Teachers, principals attacked. Around 2,000 arrests in Marseille. Reports say the flags were in the streets. They were Algeria, Hamas’, Palestinian,” Glenn Beck says.
“One crowd, almost a million people come out to kneel. The other crowd comes to burn the buildings where children learn to read. France is not having a bad week. France doesn’t exist anymore,” he declares.
“I think there’s two Frances, and they’ve been fighting over the same house for more than 200 years,” Glenn continues.
He recounts the way the nation split after King Louis XVI was executed in 1793 during the French Revolution.
“Across the front of Notre Dame stands a row of 28 stone kings with crowns on their head. The revolution orders them down. ... So the workmen haul them off the cathedral with ropes and then smash their heads off in the square. ... But those kings were not kings of France. They were kings of Judah, the ancestors of Christ,” Glenn says.
Meanwhile, the revolutionaries turned Notre Dame into a “Temple of Reason”; an opera singer was put on a constructed altar as the Goddess of Reason, standing in for the Christian worship they had just banned.
“They’re having sex on the altar. It’s horrific what is happening there. ... After that falls apart, the cathedral is used as a storehouse. That’s one France,” Glenn says.
The other France, he says, was “watching.”
“Somebody gathered up those broken stone heads, the faces smashed, the noses gone, and they buried them under a courtyard across town. No speech, no protest. We don’t even know who did it,” Glenn recounts.
Eight years after the Festival of Reason, Napoleon cut a deal with Pope Pius VII that allowed priests back into the churches and restored public Catholic worship.
“The most powerful man in Europe looked at his country and conceded, ‘We need God.’ You can smash the statues, but you can’t smash what people bury to keep,” Glenn summarizes.
“That’s what showed up last week [in France]. ... Every expert had declared Christianity and Catholicism in France dead. I’m not sure. I think it was buried underground, waiting.”
But the statue-smashers are back with their guillotines, too, he warns.
“Many of the kids in the street have no idea what they’re tearing down any more than the mob did in 1793,” he says. “They didn’t know whose faces they were breaking, but whoever is organizing them knows exactly whose faces those are.”
For too long, France has kept its Christian roots quiet, he says. It’s why “Islam is so active over there.”
“You cannot just leave a vacuum. ... It doesn’t stay empty. Whatever you refuse to pass down, somebody else will gladly pick it up. In Marseille last week, somebody did. And he was waving a different flag,” Glenn warns.
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800,000 show up for the pope in France — and the left is losing it
About 800,000 people turning out to see the pope in France should hardly be cause for alarm, unless you were hoping that Catholicism was already dead in Europe.
BlazeTV host Pat Gray believes the massive turnout has exposed a very different reality — and has been a harsh awakening for France’s leftists.
“They’re pissed off right now because the pope, he was in country this week, and like 800,000 people showed up. They were psyched for him to be there, and I think that because it’s Europe, everybody just figured that Catholicism was virtually done in France,” Gray explains.
“The Muslims are upset. The leftists are upset because this is showing that soft Catholic power is back in France,” he adds.
Gray jokes that unlike a different religion, Catholics don’t inflict harm on nonbelievers.
“Remember when the pope said that he was going to force everyone in France to become members of the Catholic Church?” he asks.
“He said, ‘No, you actually do have a choice. You don’t actually have to convert to Catholicism. You can be killed instead. We’ll just cut your head off.' Remember when he said — oh, wait, no, you don’t remember that, because that didn’t happen,” he laughs.
He poses another satirical question, “But what about when the Catholic nation was causing terror all around the world? Remember that Catholic nation?”
And another, “Financing proxies to commit murder in their name and in the name of Jesus and swearing to destroy Israel by driving them into the sea?”
“Oh, wait. No, you don’t remember that, either, because first of all, there’s not a Catholic nation, and secondly, that didn’t happen,” he says.
“I don’t think you need to fear the Catholics in France, because they’re not the ones doing anything,” he adds.
France has been ‘brought to its knees by thugs’ — and it’s time to talk about why
What began as student demonstrations over overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating schools has erupted into riots, fires, arrests, and what French officials describe as "urban violence."
The chaos unfolding in France reflects a deeper crisis that extends far beyond education policy. Rather, it shines a light on immigration, assimilation, and public safety.
“How did we ever get to this point?” one French woman asked in a video posted to social media. “France, like this jewel of European civilization, a country of extraordinary cultural wealth, brought to its knees by thugs with an IQ of 80? They only understand force, and we are too weak. We need to get rid of all empathy.”
“These people hate us and would like to see us dead, so we will never co-exist peacefully,” she continued.
“I love this statement. The peaceful solution,” BlazeTV host Nick Freitas comments.
“The peaceful solution is to say, ‘Hey, look, we let you into our country for whatever reason. We let you into our country. You obviously don’t like our country. We can tell by all the fires and riots and murders and rapes ... so you’re going to go back,’” he says.
“That is a perfectly reasonable position to take,” he continues. “And yet, I promise you, if France actually tried to deport, because French deportation numbers are pathetic. It’s something like less than one in 10 of immigrants in France that actually have a deportation order.”
“If you don’t do that one, if you allow them to stay, and you allow it to grow, well then, eventually, what’s going to happen?” he asks, noting that France will become unrecognizable.
“French people that don’t want to have their country turn into the places that these immigrants fled from are going to have to fight,” he says. “The question is how do they do it? Because this is one thing I will remind all of my European friends as you regularly mock the United States for our gun deaths.”
Freitas points out that while almost all of America’s "gun deaths take place in 2% of the counties,” the American people “actually have the means to push back against a government that would completely ignore the voting public.”
“We actually have a federalist system that allows for state authority to provide some sort of pushback against federal authority,” he says, before asking, “Where do you have that in Europe?”
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Glenn Beck warns France's debt crisis is a 'dress rehearsal' for what's coming here
The tea leaves are spelling doom for France. Roughly €3.6 trillion in public debt, rapidly approaching budget decisions, and political unrest in the streets indicate collapse is on the horizon.
To calm the riots, politicians are pitching debt cancellations, but Glenn Beck sees the writing on the wall — the same writing that preceded Greece’s catastrophic crash in 2009.
Roughly a year after the killing of a 15-year-old boy by a police officer that sparked mass riots, “The new government opens up the books and admits the old government lied: The deficit was not what they said; it was more than double that,” says Glenn.
“All markets stopped lending to Greece. And on May 5, 2010, the day before Parliament voted on its first bailout, a general strike filled the streets. It was chaos,” he continues.
Amid the unrest, a “neo-Nazi party called the Golden Dawn” and “a coalition of Marxists and Maoists and Trotskyists” rose to political prominence. From the latter emerged Alexis Tsipras, who became prime minister after promising to tear up the bailout. He called a referendum, and 61% voted no, but he signed a third bailout — one “with harsher terms than the ones the people had just rejected” — anyway.
“That's how the story ends with Marxists every time,” says Glenn.
“Three bailouts, 289 billion euros, the largest rescue of any country in history — and the Greek economy shrank by 25%; unemployment hit 27%; and for the young, it was over 40%. A whole generation got on planes and left,” he continues.
The only reason Greece is even still standing today, he explains, is because “[Germany] could afford to save it.”
But France, Glenn says, is in a predicament far worse than the one that nearly destroyed Greece. “Greece's whole debt was 300 billion euros. France is 3.6 trillion euros. That's more than 10 Greeces combined.”
And even worse, this time, there’s no lifeguard to pull the drowning country out of the deep end of the swimming pool.
America certainly can’t do it, Glenn argues. “We're $40 trillion in debt. For 80 years when the world got in trouble, it always looked at us ... but a lifeguard who can't swim is just another body in the water.”
The truth, he says, is that all the lifeguards are gone.
“What happens when the world can't bail everyone out — when it isn't one small country that lied about the books but three or four of the biggest ones that told the truth but kept spending anyway because they had absolutely no discipline?” he asks.
“Here's what happens. The same thing that happened in Athens, except nobody comes to rescue.”
France, Glenn argues, is a “dress rehearsal” for what could come to America. Between our own debt and the planted “seeds” of the Marxist-Islam coalition, he fears destruction is knocking on our door.
“The good news is the seed is not a harvest,” he says. “Greece came back. 2019, the Greeks voted out the Marxists.”
“The thing you have to remember is Greece had time and had somebody else's money to buy it. We only have ours.”
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Trump blames violent rioting in France on Islam, ‘out of control mass migration’ — and a French official has responded
A French official has responded to President Donald Trump blaming Islam and mass migration for the violent riots in France.
Nearly 500 people were arrested in just one day in connection with massive riots that French officials claim are about the conditions in schools. Education Minister Édouard Geffray reported that at least 24 schools were ransacked or set on fire.
The Ministry of Justice said more than 5,000 people had been arrested in the rioting and that 87% of the arrestees were minors.
While many news reports characterize the rioting as a result of French citizens expressing their outrage against education conditions, Trump tied it to Islam and mass immigration.
"What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!" he wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.
The post captured a lot of attention and led to a tepid response from Jean-Noel Barrot, the French foreign minister.
"If we do not write our own story, others will write it for us," said Barrot.
He went on to accuse France's "rivals, adversaries, and partners" of attempting to interpret the rioting in a self-serving manner.
Organizers claim as many as 450,000 people are participating in the massive protest and rioting, reportedly to oppose the educational system offered in France. The French Ministry of the Interior said 488 people were just arrested on Tuesday and 43 law enforcement officers had been injured, AA reported.
In one startling case, a 15-year-old had his hand reportedly blown off by a police stun grenade that detonated.
Another individual lost teeth, and others reportedly suffered eye injuries, according to The Hill.
Some have tied the rioting to increased immigration enforcement ordered by the European Union in June. The new policies included increasing deportations and constructing detention centers abroad.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz also blamed immigration for the rioting in a statement to Fox News Digital. "I think we would always condemn lawlessness, condemn the violence that we're seeing in Paris," Waltz responded.
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"But I think we also have to recognize that when you have open borders, when you [have] this pro-migration, unchecked immigration kind of policy, coupled with policies over the years that deny people basic energy, that overspend on all kinds of other government programs, that you see a level of frustration boiling to the surface," he added.
In a letter dated Monday, the Ministry of Justice said more than 5,000 people had been arrested in the rioting and that 87% of the arrestees were minors. Only about a third of them are being prosecuted.
At least 900 high schools were expected to be blockaded or closed on Tuesday.
"The French are notorious for strikes, labor stoppages, and street demonstrations. It’s a core part of the Fifth Republic’s civic culture," said Theo Wold, a former Trump official, to Fox News Digital. "What’s new is the violence, lawlessness, and rioting. This is a consequence of mass immigration."
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The Red-Green alliance of leftists and Muslims is staging a show of force, rioting in the streets of France. Pay attention, we’re next.Leftists and Muslims fret over France's Catholic revival: 'My reflex is to recoil'
During his Wednesday address in St. Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV reflected on his recent four-day apostolic visit to France, noting that there is an unmistakable "renewal" underway in the formerly majority-Catholic nation.
While some Catholics are excited over the prospect that the same country that waded into the modern age through the blood of Catholic clerics and lay people might now be returning to the faith, radical leftists and a Muslim activist group are alternatively panicking.
'The American Catholics will now flood the world with their soft power.'
'Rebirth'
The Roman pontiff claimed in his address on Wednesday that the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris "can symbolically shed light on this entire Apostolic Journey, offering a perspective that I would summarize in one word: rebirth."
The cathedral, which was gutted centuries ago by French revolutionaries and again in April 2019 by a devastating fire, "has been rebuilt and is more splendid than ever," said the pope. "That disaster sparked a positive reaction at every level, some more visible and practical, others more hidden and of a spiritual nature."
The pope noted that the cathedral is but the "image of the Church made up of living stones, of the holy people of God."
Having observed the French come out to Mass en masse, the pope proclaimed, "This is the true reconstruction, the restoration of the Church that only God can bring about, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary."
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Over 80,000 young people packed the Stade de France stadium north of Paris for a prayer vigil with the pope on Friday; an estimated 700,000 people joined Pope Leo for Mass on Saturday in the center of Paris where Louis XVI was guillotined; and over 150,000 people joined the pope for Mass in Lourdes on Sunday.
Corentin Dugast, the French author who goes by "Un Homme Catholique" online, told the National Catholic Register that the pope's visit helped "put a lasting end to the timidity surrounding the faith, particularly among bishops, who sometimes seem afraid of their own shadow and reluctant to proclaim the gospel when it challenges the world."
While there was clearly widespread enthusiasm over his visit, Pope Leo — who on Monday emphasized that "one cannot speak of Europe without mentioning Christianity" — noted that signs of Catholic renewal in France predated his visit and have been "evident for some years now, namely the remarkable and growing number of young people and adults seeking baptism."
Whereas 4,278 adults were baptized in 2022, 13,234 adults and 8,152 teenagers were baptized at Easter this year, according to the French Bishops' Conference.
Opposition
The usual suspects have begun fretting about France's potential return to its ancient faith.
Someone from Miséricorde pour l’Humanité France, an Islamic propaganda outfit that targets traditional Catholics, for one described feeling "sad," "helpless," and apparently resigned that "France will become Catholic again."
According to an X translation, Miséricorde pour l’Humanité France complained on the first day of the pope's visit to France, "I feel sad when I see all this fervor surrounding Catholicism; I've been predicting this for years, and I feel like a CIA agent helplessly witnessing the return of the Soviet Union. In 45 years, France will become Catholic again, and we'll be left with nothing but our tears."
"I’m a good sport, nevertheless the Catholics are much better organized, as well as more determined, than us Muslims and even than the Zionists; you have to know how to recognize the strength of the Catholic international," the Muslim group member continued. "The American Catholics will now flood the world with their soft power, to the detriment of both Muslim spiritual hegemony in Western Europe and the Zionist lobby."
Charlie Hebdo, the satirical publication whose Paris office was targeted in a 2015 Muslim terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 17 people, also lamented some of the images out of the pope's visit.
Deputy editor Jean-Loup Adenor concern-mongered during a recent TV panel discussion about the sight of Catholics engaged in the sacrament of confession on the streets of Paris during the pope's visit. According to a Google translation of his remarks, Adenor said, "When I see confessors hearing people's confessions — my reflex is to recoil."
Adenor — whose publication routinely mocks Christ, Christianity, and the Catholic Church without consequence — noted further that he feels the need to strip away "the mystique" of the pope and "bring him down to earth," in part because Pope Leo "is someone capable of mobilizing Catholics in a country like France — a country where religious engagement is often a battleground, and where politics and faith intersect."
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The so-called National Federation of Freethought advanced the suggestions that the pope's visit was a "violation of international law" and that "only lackeys and compulsive kneelers refuse to see that this is clearly a religious and pastoral visit intended to glorify and exalt the Catholic faith."
The radical organization also complained about the predominantly Catholic private education system's receipt of public education funds; the pope's condemnation of euthanasia; and supposed violations of the codified separation of church and state.
French news outlet Le Monde decided the pope's visit was an opportune time to frame the Catholic faith's resurgence in France as a potential problem, primarily because of its rightist support.
After noting that "bishops and priests are now witnessing a distinct resurgence of interest across their dioceses and parishes" and pointing out that "churches in working-class neighborhoods [are] filling up again on Sundays," Le Monde's Sarah Belouezzane pushed an anonymous priest's claim that "a more political form of Catholicism exists today — and is increasingly prevalent, particularly on the right."
Le Monde warned that while there are progressive forces within the Church, there are also "highly conservative — or even reactionary — forces aligned with the ideas of certain politicians seeking to promote the concept of an 'eternal France' (inherently white and Catholic)."
While the Catholic Church appears to be enjoying a comeback in France, it has a long way to go given only 29% of the urban population identifies as Catholic, according to National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies data from 2020.
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