When it comes to progressivism, Europe is just a few steps ahead of the United States. While there are many insidious policies contributing to its decline, such as the criminalization of hate speech, its immigration policies are the most outwardly destructive. Several European countries have opened their borders and allowed in millions of immigrants, many of whom hate Western values and the Westerners who live by them.
France specifically is going downhill at such a rate that in many ways, it’s beginning to look like a conquered nation.
Glenn Beck lists some terrifying statistics.
Given that there are roughly 6.7 million Muslims in France, which is “about 10% of the French population,” something must be done about these alarming figures.
Luckily, President Macron has a plan. Unfortunately, it’s a terrible one.
“The centerpiece of Macron’s proposal is to certify and train imams in France. The proposed measure also included offering Arabic instruction in public schools, tightening control on private religious education, limiting homeschooling, and cracking down on speech or activities that contradict so-called Republican values such as gender-segregated hours at municipal swimming pools,” Glenn reads from Foreign Policy.
“The Muslims are going to line up for the government teaching … and everything’s going to change,” he says sarcastically.
Unfortunately, it’s not just France that’s spiraling toward disaster. It’s Europe as a whole.
From a Qatar charity that funds mosque-building in Europe and the conversion of churches into restaurants, gyms, and nightclubs to the catch-and-release policies that are putting illegal immigrant criminals back on the streets, Europe is looking more like a conquered continent with each day that passes.
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President-elect Donald Trump will attend the grand reopening ceremony at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, France, this weekend, marking his first international trip since winning re-election.
In 2019, during Trump's first term, the 800-year-old cathedral, one of the most awe-inspiring sites in all of Christendom, tragically caught fire, and much of the interior and exterior grandeur was damaged or destroyed.
Now, after more than five years of careful restoration efforts, the magnificent church is once again ready to return to its regular schedule and to welcome visitors from around the world to join in the worship and to admire the beauty and wonder of the structure.
The service will include the rite of reopening the doors and a rite to 'awaken the grand organ,' the cathedral website said. The archbishop will also lead the faithful in the chanting of the office.
To mark the occasion, clergy and French officials have arranged a series of events this week. On Saturday, Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich will preside over a reopening service attended by French President Emmanuel Macron, donors, members of parishes across the archdiocese, and about 50 statesmen and other dignitaries from around the world — including President-elect Trump.
"It is an honor to announce that I will be traveling to Paris, France, on Saturday to attend the re-opening of the Magnificent and Historic Notre Dame Cathedral, which has been fully restored after a devastating fire five years ago," Trump posted to Truth Social on Monday evening.
"President Emmanuel Macron has done a wonderful job ensuring that Notre Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so. It will be a very special day for all!"
The service will include the rite of reopening the doors and a rite to "awaken the grand organ," the cathedral website said. The archbishop will also lead the faithful in the chanting of the office, which consists of "a hymn, a psalm, the Magnificat, prayers for the world, and the Lord’s Prayer."
The service will be followed by musical performances from several high-profile artists, including French opera singer Julie Fuchs and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who was born in Paris.
The first official Mass will be held on Sunday. That first Mass will also initiate the "octave of reopening" — eight days of celebrations at the cathedral.
Trump's trip to Notre Dame — French for "Our Lady" — follows multiple public statements he has made about the Virgin Mary and other Catholic figures. On September 8, the feast day of the birth of the Virgin Mary, Trump shared the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the message "Happy Birthday Mary!" Three weeks later, he tweeted out the prayer to St. Michael.
Melania Trump is Catholic, as is Vice President-elect JD Vance. Trump was baptized a Presbyterian, but he later described himself as a "nondenominational Christian."
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UFC lightweight Renato Moicano continued his winning streak while continuing to pump out crowd-pleasing political rants.
Moicano fought in the main event at Accor Arena in Paris, defeating French national Benoit Saint Denis by TKO in two rounds. The fight was halted via doctor stoppage after Saint Denis was unable to see out of his right eye due to brutal elbows from Moicano.
After the win, UFC announcer Michael Bisping congratulated Moicano on an "epic performance," but it wasn't long before the fighter started parrying questions in order to talk about politics.
"First of all, French, I came here and I wanted to talk a lot of s**t about France. But, I went to the Louvre ... I went to all the beautiful places in Paris, and I just have one thing to say," Moicano said, with his palm gripping Bisping's hand and mic.
"The people from France don't suck, but the government of France is f***ing horrendous! French revolution 1789 tried to erase God from the map, but guess what? Jesus Christ is alive more today," Moicano exclaimed.
'Globalists ... are trying to push a politically corrupt agenda ... democracy is a fallacy.'
After Bisping asked the Brazilian who he wants to fight next, Moicano completely ignored the question and proceeded with his political message, trashing French President Emmanuel Macron.
"F*** Macron! F*** all globalists!" he said as the crowd cheered. "F*** all these motherf***ing globalists that are trying to push a politically corrupt agenda ... democracy is a fallacy, democracy is not a real government."
A confused translator held in laughter as he relayed the majority of Moicano's message before the fighter eventually called out other UFC stars for a fight.
The 35-year-old has become a source for patriotism every time he gets on the mic following a win. In April, he told Joe Rogan in the Octagon about his love for America and the Constitution.
"I'm a huge advocate of the First Amendment, and of course, I want the $300k bonus, but they [are] not going to give [it to] me because somebody says this is f***ing Disney, you cannot curse ... so I'm not going to do my speech."
The broadcast was on UFC partner ESPN, which is of course owned by Walt Disney Studios.
"I love America. I love the Constitution. I love the First Amendment," Moicano told the Las Vegas crowd. "I want to carry and own f***ing guns. I love private property," he continued.
He went on, "And let me tell you something, if you care about your own f***ing country, Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school, motherf***ers."
Fans can continue to look forward to book suggestions from Moicano in his speeches. During his speech in Paris, he recommended "Democracy: The God That Failed," by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
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In the wake of the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony mocking the Last Supper, members of a conservative advocacy group headed to Paris to protest such routinized attacks on Christianity. They were promptly arrested and left to conclude that the underlying problem is perhaps worse than first imagined.
The watchdog group Open Doors revealed in its latest annual report that one in seven Christians worldwide — over 365 million Christians — faces "high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith."
Blaze News previously reported that the 10 worst countries for Christians are North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, and Afghanistan. Christians stand a good chance of being tortured, imprisoned, raped, and murdered for their faith in these third-world nations as well as in countries far higher up the list, such as China.
Attacks on Christians and on their churches are not limited, however, to Africa, the Middle East, or the Orient.
Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the FRC, revealed in a report earlier this year that between 2018 and 2023, there were at least 915 acts of hostility against American churches. Canada, too, has seen hundreds of churches razed by radicals since 2021.
Against this backdrop of anti-Christian persecution and hatred, the French — who have seen their fair share of anti-Christian attacks — kicked off the 2024 Olympics with a ceremony mocking Christianity.
The opening ceremony contained a scene intended to resemble Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper." However, instead of depicting Christ and his disciples, the ceremony's designer, Thomas Jolly, instead had several transvestites strike poses on either sides of a morbidly obese lesbian named Barbara Butch.
Jolly then had a virtually naked man painted blue — intended to represent Dionysus, Greek god of wine-making — set upon the table as a substitute meal.
The ceremony generated significant controversy and elicited denunciations from various Christian institutions around the world, including the Vatican.
The Madrid-based conservative advocacy group CitizenGo started a petition demanding an apology and an explanation from all members of the International Olympic Committee.
"Enough is enough! This grotesque spectacle was an affront to everything we hold sacred, and it cannot go unchallenged," said the petition, which had over 392,500 signatures at the time of publication.
"All too often, we stand by and do nothing while they step on us and mock our Christian faith. But after today, I’ve seriously had enough! What happens if we stay silent? Our faith, our Christian symbols, will become a permanent parody promoted by queer, LGBTI, and trans lobbies, backed by our globalist leaders and the international left."
CitizenGo sent a bus into the heart of Paris Monday with "Stop attacks on Christians!" written on the side.
The bus was also emblazoned on one side with images of both Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" as well as a photograph of the Olympic ceremony mocking the religious imagery, striking a damning contrast.
Catholic activist Caroline Farrow alleged that despite having no issues early in the day, the bus was ultimately stopped "at gunpoint" by French police who surrounded the vehicle and claimed they were "conducting a 'public demonstration without the government's permission.'"
'They are tyrannical, anti-Christian bullies.'
A lawyer for the group claimed, "It appears impossible to constitute the crime of failing to communicate a protest because there is no protest in the presence of one unique vehicle. The prosecutor pushed the law to its limits to stop the bus and limit their free speech."
According to Farrow, six members of her team — including two from the U.K. — were arrested, then taken to the police station "where they were put in handcuffs and transferred to a second secure facility."
"They are tyrannical, anti-Christian bullies. It's absurd," the group said on X.
"Fearing the campaign's impact and the stain on France's image to the world, the political elites viciously censored CitizenGO in a manner akin to an authoritarian regime," continued Farrow. "The French police, under political orders from high-level political authorities, arrested six campaigners and the bus driver. All of their belongings were confiscated, they were stripped and searched, and they were illegally denied to call their personal lawyers. [S]ome were even not allowed to call their family members and were held on non-existent charges."
Farrow suggested further that the effort to shut up the protesters backfired, granted their bus, which was "clearly offensive to the French police and authorities, [was] still parked at the Police Station in District 16th, 3 blocks from the Arc de Triumph in front of everyone in the middle of downtown Paris."
The conservative group indicated that French police escorted their bus out of the city the next day.
Ignacio Arsuaga, president of CitizenGo, tweeted, "Our lawyer tells us there is no case, and that the prosecutor ordered the gendarmerie to arrest the campaigners even though there was no case."
"We are now going to file a lawsuit against Macron, the Attorney General, and the gendarmerie. Woke governments are becoming increasingly totalitarian," added Arsuaga.
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The Olympics Games are no longer just a place for the greatest athletes in the world to prove that they are the greatest athletes in the world.
As of 2024, it’s apparently now a place to openly mock Christianity and feature satanic symbolism.
To kick off the turn from tradition, Snoop Dogg was featured in the Olympic parade — but his presence isn’t the only issue. The rapper wore a Baphomet necklace around his neck. Baphomet is a pagan god more recently adopted as a symbol for the Satanic Temple.
“It is really disturbing to see this display, to see this made into some kind of golden image, golden idol that Snoop Dogg is wearing around his neck,” says Allie Beth Stuckey, BlazeTV host of “Relatable."
Snoop Dogg also released a video a few years ago in which he depicted himself murdering Donald Trump.
“He depicted himself murdering Donald Trump, murdering a sitting president, and we’ve decided that this person needs to be a mascot for the United States, he needs to carry the torch for America,” Stuckey adds.
Snoop Dogg was joined in the parade by three French drag queens, and it only got worse from there.
The opening ceremony featured a “drag queen Last Supper,” where the performers were seated in a configuration reminiscent of Jesus and his apostles. An overweight woman took Jesus’ place in the middle.
Later, a nearly naked man, painted blue, appeared as a portrayal of Dionysus, the god of winemaking, vegetation, fertility, and ecstasy.
Christians are understandably offended, despite critics claiming they simply have a “persecution complex.”
“Even if that were the case, this is still a celebration of paganism. This is still a celebration of the subversion of the natural and the good and the beautiful,” Stuckey says. “They admit that this was supposed to be a celebration of promiscuity and indulgence.”
“You are promoting ugliness. You are promoting disorder. You are promoting sin. You are promoting a kind of decadence and immorality that has led to the downfall of many societies before us and is currently leading to the decay and the destruction of the West today,” she adds.
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