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Islam in Europe > March for the soul of Britain; France's new antiIslamic law; Creeping Islam in France; Political Islam working in Italy - Meloni's referendum fails

 

 Thomas A. Whitaker

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The UK just deployed a political weapon it's only used once before in modern history. And nobody is talking about what it just backfired into. KEIR STARMER BANNED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS FROM ENGLAND TO STOP A RALLY → IT PRODUCED THE LARGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT MARCH IN YEARS The Home Office issued entry bans on 11 foreign nationals ahead of the 16 May 'Unite the Kingdom' rally in central London. Rebel News founder Ezra Levant. Multiple journalists. Commentators. Banned from the country. To stop a march. Metropolitan Police deployed 4,000+ officers. Live facial recognition. Drones. Dogs. Horses. The result: tens of thousands — some estimates reaching hundreds of thousands — flooding the streets of London anyway. THE WEAPON: → UK Home Office entry bans — 11 foreign nationals barred from the country → Prime Minister publicly labeled the rally "extremist" and "hatred and division" → Starmer framed it as "a battle for the soul of our nation" in direct pre-rally statements → Police mobilized at a scale typically reserved for state visits or terror threats → Live facial recognition deployed across central London → Rival pro-Palestine march simultaneously permitted on the same day → Metropolitan Police prepared for 50,000 — the actual crowd exceeded preparation → Government rhetoric amplified international media attention across the US and Europe THE TARGET: → A march organized around "national unity, free speech, and Christian values" → Organized weeks after Reform UK seized 1,350+ council seats and control of 13 councils in the 8 May local elections → Reform's gains came primarily at Labour's direct expense — Essex, Sunderland, council after council THE MATH: → Reform UK: 1,350+ seats gained in a single election cycle → 13 councils flipped — including Essex with 42 seats → Starmer's response: ban journalists, deploy 4,000 officers, call the march extremist → Outcome: the bans became the story, the march became a symbol, and the streets filled anyway Read that again. Every ban Starmer issued handed organizers a government-censorship narrative Every officer deployed turned a political rally into a national confrontation The suppression didn't shrink the movement — it advertised it Reform just proved it can win elections. The march proved it can also fill streets. Starmer called it "a battle for the soul of our nation" — and then lost the visual battle on live television This isn't a fringe moment. This is what a political realignment looks like in the streets. They're showing you the arrests and the police lines. They're NOT showing you what this sequence actually means — a government that just lost 1,350 council seats in one night responded to the aftermath by banning journalists and calling a march extremist, and the streets answered with the largest visible opposition mobilization in years. You don't ban foreign journalists to stop a fringe event. You ban foreign journalists when you're afraid of what the footage will show. And you only deploy 4,000 officers with drones and facial recognition when you already know the crowd is going to be too large to ignore. Process that. Most people won't see this. RT to change that. I'll keep you updated as this unfolds, turn on notifications this is EXTREMELY important.

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French Senate adopts a law aimed at combating ‘Islamist infiltration’

May 9, 2026 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

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Too little, too late? Probably. Nevertheless, it is refreshing to see a Western Europe government even come close to acknowledging that there is a problem of Islamic jihad.

French senate adopts proposed law aimed at combating Islamist infiltration

by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, May 6, 2026:

The French Senate has adopted a proposed law aimed at combating Islamist infiltration (208-124). The bill, brought by former interior minister Bruno Retailleau, aims to create a criminal offense for undermining the principles of the Republic.

It penalizes coordinated actions aimed at leading a public or private body to adopt decisions or practices contrary to the law, with the established aim of seriously undermining constitutionally defined principles of the Republic.

These principles include the indivisible, secular, democratic, and social nature of the Republic; equality before the law; respect for all beliefs; and equality between women and men in access to positions of responsibility.

The bill also introduces new grounds for the dissolution of associations or informal groups that disregard common legal rules and requires prefectural approval for the construction of places of worship.

It further extends the statute of limitations for press offenses to three years and strengthens oversight of institutions working with minors.

French authorities have spoken of “Islamist infiltration,” as a process whereby ideological networks, linked to political Islamism rather than the religion of Islam itself, seek to gradually influence public institutions, associations, and local governance from within.

This could mean, for example, radicalizing members of a mosque to have values that do not align with the French state.

The bill was actually inspired by a report Retailleau received in 2025 called “The Muslim Brotherhood and political Islamism in France,” which lists 139 Muslim places of worship linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, 68 considered “close to the federation,” and 21 identified as part of the Brotherhood’s network….

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Signs of Creeping Islamization in France

May 14, 2026 4:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald13 Comments

Every few weeks, the Italian journalist Giulio Meotti provides a kind of tour d’horizon of creeping Islamization in Europe, using an accumulation of small but telling details to tell his alarming story. His latest dispatch from the front can be found here: 

French capitulation to Islam: Liberté, égalité, soumission

by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, May 12, 2026:

The French République is submitting itself, neighborhood after neighborhood, bistro after bistro, with the same elegance with which it once guillotined its kings.

The Enlightenment has been digested in a single Ramadan and the nation that invented the rights of man and secularism is turning itself halal without even the modesty of an explicit conversion. It is a creeping surrender, bureaucratic, commercial, smelling of fear and terminal goodism.

Even fast-food chains are adapting to sharia: locals in Lyon with rooms to pray to Allah.

All that was missing was the République en djellaba turning itself into a catering service for Islamization.

In Submission, Michel Houellebecq has a character say: “Old Bat Ye’or is not wrong with her phantom of the Eurabia conspiracy.”

“Eurabia is not a conspiracy!” Bat Ye’or boldly replied this week in the Journal du dimanche:

“Eurabia is not a conspiracy. The Euro-Arab fusion policy became official with the Barcelona Pact (1995). The denial of public and established facts does not prove a conspiracy, but an equally established concealment. At the time, I perceived in Europe social behaviors that evoked those of dhimmitude, but I did not yet see the pathways or networks that were implanting in the heart of twentieth-century European societies social schemes dating back to the Muslim Middle Ages and conforming to sharia.  - Middle Ages or Dark Ages? 

“Still active today in most Muslim countries, these dynamics derive from jihad, a set of theological and legal directives dictating relations between Muslims and non-Muslims. We are living through a transitional period: that of the passage from a European country of Judeo-Christian culture to an Islamo-Christian state, a stage toward its Islamization.”

In Vienna, Islam is now the majority religion in public schools. They tried twice to conquer Vienna (and Europe) militarily; now they are entering step by step.

Anyone entering certain suburbs and town centers today has the impression of having landed in another civilization, except that nobody had the courage to declare the change of sovereignty.

In Lyon, now 30 percent Islamic, Alexandre Dallery announced that his bakery no longer sells pork-based products. No more salami, ham, lard, or bacon. On Facebook, Dallery spoke of “various pressures over several months to make everything halal. To calm things down, we no longer sell ham. Otherwise they burn everything down.”…

Muslim in Montmartre by Francisco Osorio, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

Dallery, with Muslims threatening arson terrorizing him, in order to prevent such an outcome has “voluntarily” stopped selling all pork products in his boulangerie.

In Ardèche, cinemas refuse to screen the film “Persepolis” so as not to upset Muslim students….

The movie is about a young girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution. The regime of the mullahs are shown, properly, as fanatic Islamofascists. This was an important movie, but the move theatre in Ardèche would not screen it, as the owners feared violence from local Muslims. Had they been made of sterner stuff, they would have called for police security at the theatre, declared publicly that, after all, those Muslim students who object to the film could simply avoid seeing the movie themselves, and that they had no right to deprive others of seeing such an important film.

In the historic center of Bordeaux, an Afghan stabbed two people, killing one and seriously wounding the other. He had reproached them for “boire un coup,” drinking alcohol, on the day of Eid al-Fitr, the celebration marking the end of Ramadan….

It’s unclear if the people stabbed were Muslims, and he was enforcing in homicidal fashion Islamic rules for Believers, which in Western societies is impermissible, or whether those he stabbed were non-Muslims, which would be an even greater infraction, using deadly force (and killing one person) to enforce a rule that applies only to Muslims.

A principal is threatened with death for asking a student to remove her veil in class….

French law prohibits “conspicuous” religious clothing, including hijabs, in public schools. But after enraged Muslims murdered teachers Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, what teachers or principals would not find Muslim threats terrifying and modify their behavior accordingly — including enforcing that anti-hijab rule?

Giulio Meotti claims that “the presidential elections of 2027 will be the last opportunity to stop French suicide (and perhaps it may already be too late).”

Such defeatism is premature. The National Rally, with the articulate and charismatic Jordan Bardella as its new head (now that Marine Le Pen has been prevented from running for office for five years), now leads all the other parties, and if Bardella wins in 2027 and becomes prime minister, among his first acts will be to call a total halt to Muslim migrants, and to start enforcing deportation orders that a lax government has failed to enforce. Bardella will also greatly increase the numbers of deportations, applying it to all migrants who are convicted of crimes, and also to those migrants who refuse to work for their benefits, in menial jobs offered by the government.

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Italy: Head of Islamic Community of Rome makes mosque speech that sparks fear of ‘political Islam’

May 14, 2026 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams11 Comments

The greatest threat to the West is the mobilizing of Muslim activist leaders who support the Sharia. They mobilize Muslim voters, and are adept at finding cracks and loopholes in the West’s laws, culture, and tradition, in any way they can. They are good at it. They use these loopholes to attack Western values and freedoms as they slowly advance the Sharia.

In the words of the Muslim Brotherhood in its Explanatory Memorandum for North America, keeping in mind that the Muslim Brotherhood has now infiltrated virtually every Western country:

The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Proecess” with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal.

Photo: Georgia Meloni, Creative Commons.

Rome Mosque Speech Sparks Fears Over “Political Islam” in Italy

by Michael Curzon, European Conservative, May 13, 2026:

Giorgia Meloni’s recent referendum defeat—celebrated by the Left despite failing to inflict the damage many hoped for—may have been aided by a coordinated mobilisation of Muslim voters.

The referendum proposed reforms aimed at curbing the power of Italy’s judiciary, including changes to the role of magistrates and limits on what supporters of Meloni’s government viewed as politically motivated judicial activism.

Footage has emerged of Ahmed Vall, president of the Islamic Community of Rome, urging Muslims to vote against the prime minister’s justice reforms. Vall was filmed telling believers to “go vote for all Muslims and for all free citizens.”

If the judiciary does not remain independent, we Muslims will be one of the first victims. How many times have they tried to close our mosques? How many times have they tried to unjustly repatriate our fellow citizens? How many times have they tried to point the finger at us without concrete evidence?

The footage has reignited debate in Italy over the political role of Islamic organisations and the growing use of religious events as platforms for wider political mobilisation.

One widely shared post reacting to the footage described the speech as being “in defiance of the secular state.”

Il Giornale argued the footage proves “political Islam is among us” and that the efforts of those like Vall are supported by figures on the Italian Left, which “we’ve been denouncing … for years.”

These words are nothing more than confirmation of the Islamist world’s approach. Its goal is none other than the conquest of the West, first by penetrating its institutions and then leading to an ever-increasing number of conversions. They do so during events that are supposed to be purely religious in nature, but which then become the nucleus of actual propaganda….

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 Meloni's referendum defeat (Grok)

On March 22-23, 2026, Italian voters rejected a constitutional referendum on judicial reforms backed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, dealing her government its first major domestic defeat. Key Results

• No (opposition to the reforms): ~54%
• Yes (support for Meloni's proposals): ~46%
• Turnout was higher than expected, around 58-59%, turning the vote into a de facto plebiscite on her leadership.

Meloni quickly conceded in a video and social media post, saying Italians had "voted with clarity," that she respected the outcome, but called it a "lost chance to modernise Italy." She affirmed she would not resign and planned to continue governing. What the Referendum Was AboutThe reform aimed to overhaul Italy's judiciary, including:

• Separating the roles of judges and prosecutors more clearly.
• Splitting or reforming the High Council of the Judiciary (CSM).
• Creating a new disciplinary body (with greater parliamentary influence).

Proponents (Meloni's right-wing coalition) argued it would reduce inefficiency, politicization, and "left-leaning" judicial activism. Opponents warned it threatened judicial independence and concentrated power. The changes required a constitutional referendum after parliamentary approval. Political Impact

• For Meloni: This dented her image of invincibility after years of electoral wins and relative governmental stability (one of Italy's more enduring postwar coalitions). It has fueled coalition tensions and speculation about 2027 elections, though she remains in power with no immediate threat of collapse.
• For the opposition: A boost, allowing fragmented left/center forces to regroup and portray the result as a rejection of overreach.
• Italian media and analysts described it as ending (at least temporarily) the "aura of the winner" around her.

The vote highlighted deep divisions over the judiciary's role in Italian politics—a long-standing issue. Meloni's coalition has continued governing since, but the loss has shifted dynamics ahead of the next national elections.