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Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Islam in Europe > Muslim planned terror attack in Italy; French Churches Under Attack; Migrants sailing in luxury yachts up UK rivers; Bonfire under the Eiffel Tower

 

Italy: Muslim migrant planned to stab people in the name of Islam, another offered to finance him


One might assume that other Muslims who found out about this man’s violent plans would have tried to dissuade him, and to impress upon him the idea that Islam is a religion of peace, and that only a “tiny minority of extremists” think otherwise. That’s terrific, but instead, he ran into an Islamic State recruiter, who offered to train and finance his jihad. Were did the Islamic State recruiter get the money he had hoped to lavish upon the kid?


A 22-year-old man was arrested for plotting an attack in the name of ISIS

L’Unione Sarda, May 25, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Police in Reggio Emilia and Bologna have arrested a 22-year-old Italian man of Moroccan origin, accused of recruiting for the purpose of international terrorism. Investigators learned that he had expressed a desire to go downtown armed with a knife to harm others. When taken to police headquarters, it emerged that he had been in contact with a suspected Daesh supporter, who had offered to train and finance him to carry out an attack, either in Italy or abroad. He allegedly agreed, declaring himself a supporter of the Islamic State…




French Churches Under Attack


Every week in France another church is vandalized. Altars and altarpieces are destroyed, walls smeared with excrement, crucifixes pulled off walls and broken into pieces, stained glass windows broken, statues of the Virgin Mary are decapitated, as are those of the baby Jesus, missals torn up, candelabras stolen, tabernacles to hold the host are smashed.

These acts are committed out of contempt and hatred for Christianity, and for Christians. For Christians, like other non-Muslims, for Muslims are “the most vile of created beings.” 

More on these attacks can be found here: 


Catholic churches regularly under attack in France: report

by Gaetano Masciullo, LifeSite News, May 28, 2026:

A church in southern France was vandalized as an “anti-fascist” group challenged the display of a Christian cross — signs of a growing normalization of attacks on places of worship and Catholic symbols across the country….

These “Antifa” troglodytes are far-left haters of the West, fascists claiming to be anti-fascists, and stout defenders of the West’s most dangerous enemy, Islam. There is no daylight between Muslims and those who call themselves “Antifa.” In fact, they frequently take part in the same protest marches against Israel, America, and what’s left, just, of Western civilization.

In the same time frame, Tribune Chrétienne referenced 
another incident in the Pyrenees involving a cross placed at the summit of the Aneto. The cross, installed by 18-year-ld French mountaineer Maël Le Lagadec, was removed and thrown from the summit shortly after its installation. According to the report, Spanish climbers later retrieved the cross and restored it to the summit. The episode was presented as part of a sequence of symbolic disputes involving Christian markers in public or natural spaces.

It also highlighted the frequency of such events, describing them as occurring on a near-weekly basis in various parts of the country. These incidents include the decapitation of statues of the Virgin Mary, destruction of crosses, and break-ins of church buildings.

Perhaps you are wondering who is responsible for all this destruction of Christian crucifixes, baptismal fonts, chalices, altars, statues of Mary and of Jesus, tabernacles holding the host, candles and candelabra, missals, stained-glass windows.

Nah, just kidding. You know perfectly well who is responsible. And what do you think the government of France is going to do about this? Here’s my guess: absolutely nothing. The state will provide no security guards inside or outside the churches. And will Pope Leo condemn this barbarism and those responsible?

Don’t be silly.




UK: Illegal boat migrants now using yachts to sail up waterways to invade rural villages


Britain has been the target of a mostly Muslim invasion of illegal migrants from mainly Africa and the Middle East. The determination to get inside Britain is escalating, as seen in the latest news of yachts being used to invade small villages, which are particularly vulnerable.

When the purveyors of lawlessness become more determined than those charged with protecting a country and upholding the law, a country is in trouble. Britain has long been in trouble with the British government losing control of its own borders and showing scant concern for its own national security.

The world knows that the Keir Starmer government is an easy pushover, and so, the UK has essentially issued an open invitation to illegal migrants to the grave detriment of its own population.



Migrant crisis: Rural villages miles from coastline under threat from illegal migrant boats sailing up waterways

by Peter Steven’s, GB News, May 29, 2026:

Rural villages many miles from the coast are under threat from illegal migrant boats which have sailed up Britain’s waterways. 


On Monday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Border Force officers arrested five men after a yacht carrying seven illegal Albanian migrants was intercepted nearly five nautical miles inland from the south coast in Chichester Marina, West Sussex.

Two crew members, one a British national aged 42 and another aged 25, were arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration to the UK.

Three more people, a British national aged 38, and two Albanians aged 24 and 32, were suspected of being a “shore party” to meet the yacht.

They were both arrested on suspicion of people smuggling offences, with the seven Albanians taken to immigration detention.

Home Office intelligence estimates there are up to 9,000 locations where boats could be landed by gangs seeking to bring migrants, drugs, and other contraband into the country.

Villages as far inland as 35 miles have been instructed to watch out for illegal migrant boats.

Airmyn, a Yorkshire village on the banks of the River Aire, has had signs posted which read: “Boats arriving at unusual times? Report it Let’s sort it.”

The notice, which features a backdrop of a yacht approaching a shoreline, gives details of how to contact UK Border Watch via Crimestoppers.

The 800-person village has been targeted as part of the Home Office-backed Operation Kraken to report “suspicious” and “strange” maritime behaviour….




Muslims screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ set huge fire at the foot of the Eiffel Tower


Do you think these young men will grow up to become loyal, stable, productive citizens of secular France? Does anyone think that? These young men have nothing but contempt and hatred for France, and when they are powerful enough to do so, they will destroy it and replace it with an Islamic state. The leftist politicians who enabled this in their pursuit of electoral power or some misguided fantasy about multiculturalism will go down in history as the greatest criminals in French history, surpassing even Pétain in the magnitude of their betrayal.



Tuesday, June 2, 2026

This Day in Islamic History > The fall of the great Hagia Sophia, the center of Orthodox Christianity for a millennium

 

Erdogan Celebrates the Triumph of Savagery



Sainte-Sophie by Anthony Baratier, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0


“Today,” said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, “is Friday, May 29, and we had the opportunity to pray at Hagia. Attendance at Hagia Sophia was also very beautiful, magnificent. Today there was a march from Fatih to Hagia Sophia.” Fatih, or “The Conqueror,” was Sultan Mehmed II, and on May 29, 1453, he did indeed march to Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which had stood at that time for nearly a thousand years as the grandest church in the Christian world.

His march, however, was not a serene victory march. It was a pitiless display of bloodlust and inhumanity, as the conquering Muslims laid waste to the great city and joyfully continued their orgy of rape and murder even inside the great cathedral itself. Once Mehmed entered, he had a muezzin pronounce the Islamic profession of faith and declared that the great cathedral was now a mosque. After over a thousand years, the Roman Empire was no more.

There is more. Read the rest here. It is behind a paywall.

You can also search this blog for "Hagia Sophia" for a few fascinating stories on the ancient church. You may also come across my piece, which suggests that Erdogan's preaching from the pulpit of the Hagia Sophia may well have been the incident referenced in Matt 24:14-16 - The Abomination of Desolation standing in the holy place.