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The Ceuta effect: how far will Europe's anti-migrant backlash go?

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As the United States threatens Europe with more tariffs and eyes Greenland, Russia tests the continent’s resolve over Ukraine and the planet overheats, where do citizens feel the biggest threat is coming from? In her Wednesday state of the Union speech, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen went big on manning the borders, suggesting new tools to better deal with migration. This comes against in a context of Ceuta where over two days in July, tens of thousands of mostly Moroccans overran Spain’s North African enclave.

A blame game ensued as well as a diplomatic row between Madrid’s Socialist-led government and Italian far-right leader Georgia Meloni. Then there was the return of border checks in places like Germany where the far-right’s again eyeing inroads in regional elections this coming weekend. Our panel will comment on some of Real Madrid’s top stars refusing a show of solidarity with Ceuta which they say could be misinterpreted as an anti-migrant message. What do Europeans want? And what does an aging population need?

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Ceuta migrant clearance spirals into violence 

Police reportedly fired rubber bullets and used batons as thousands were moved from beaches to temporary housing

Published 18 Sep, 2026 15:03 | Updated 19 Sep, 2026 02:50

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Spanish police have begun moving thousands of migrants from makeshift beach camps in the North African exclave of Ceuta in an operation that has quickly descended into chaos, according to media reports.

Crowds surged toward temporary shelters as officers struggled to maintain control, firing rubber bullets into the air and using batons.

The operation began early on Friday, with riot police and the Spanish military deployed to clear the makeshift camps and escort migrants to a new port camp. The facility is the fifth temporary reception center opened in Ceuta and can accommodate around 1,800 people, while an estimated 4,000 migrants have been living on the beaches.

Footage from local media shows hundreds crowding the designated route, with some breaking into a run as officers struggled to control the group. Police fired rubber bullets into the air and struck several people with batons before the situation calmed and migrants continued towards the port under escort.

The port facility is intended for adult men, while minors are being housed separately. Three NGO representatives told Reuters that authorities had been too slow to provide the minimum shelter required under European migration rules and that existing reception centers remained insufficient.

Opposition leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo accused the government of failing to maintain public order, while officials said additional locations would be needed to house migrants who cannot be accommodated at the port.

The crisis erupted after more than 72,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta from Morocco on July 30 and 31, with the mass influx overwhelming Spanish border authorities. Most were subsequently returned, but thousands, including unaccompanied minors, have remained in the enclave.

READ MORE: Morocco hits back at Spain over Ceuta migrant accusations

The mass crossing has since fueled scrutiny of Madrid’s handling of the crisis. Declassified documents released by the Spanish government show that the National Intelligence Center (CNI) warned officials in Ceuta and Moroccan intelligence on July 29 about online calls for migrants to breach the border by land and sea the following day.

A separate Spanish military intelligence report issued once the influx was underway described Moroccan forces as “negligent and passive,” while Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has maintained that the earlier warnings did not indicate the scale or likelihood of what followed.

READ MORE: Spanish spies warned Madrid day before Ceuta migrant invasion

Morocco has denied facilitating the influx. In a statement on Thursday, its Foreign Ministry accused Spanish political groups and media of exploiting the crisis ahead of elections expected in 2027, saying: “Morocco refuses to be used as a pre-election pawn. Nor does it accept being the scapegoat for political score-settling.” Rabat has also questioned why Spain has not returned more irregular migrants despite its offer to readmit them.

More Islam in Europe > The Muslim Invasion of Britain; Massacre plotter played both sides; Gay German student told to accept the beatings for 'diversity'

 

The Muslim Invasion of Britain

Sep 12, 2026 4:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald4 Comments

The signs are everywhere: Islam is on the march in Britain. There are now more than four million Muslims in the country. The mayor of London is Sadiq Khan. Councillor Shaukat Ali is the Lord Mayor of Manchester, having assumed the role in May 2026 as the city’s 128th Lord Mayor and its fifth Muslim Lord Mayor. Councillor Zaker Choudhry (also referred to as Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry) is the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, taking office in May 2026 as the city’s first Muslim Lord Mayor. Humza Yusuf was until recently the first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP). There are thirty Muslim peers in the House of Lords. There are twenty-five Muslims in the House of Commons. The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is a Muslim.

Over the past decade, more than 3,500 churches have closed across the UK, with another 2,000 at risk of closure within the next five years. Some of them have been turned into mosques. There are now 1,895 registered mosques in the UK.

Al Muhajiroun, Europe October 2009 by Gareth Davies, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

More on these signs of the Islamic invasion of Britain can be found here: 

The Invasion of Britain: The UK No Longer Belongs to Its Own People

by Robert Williams, Gatestone Institute, September 11, 2026:

…The invasion of Britain is happening at multiple levels. Birmingham’s city council is seeking a court injunction to ban activists from the “Raise the Colours” campaign – a patriotic movement of British pride – and others from flying British and English flags from lampposts in the city citing “public safety.” They want people who defy such a potential order to go to prison. As outlandish as this sounds, they are likely to be successful: Oxfordshire sought an injunction against the flying of St George’s Crosses and Union Flags in June. At the time, a council spokesman said:

“Residents across Oxfordshire, from Adderbury to Wallingford, have complained to the council about safety risks, intimidation and distress linked to this activity. The ongoing scale and persistence of the behaviour by Raise the Colours has created safety risks, caused distress within communities, and led to abuse and intimidation directed at council teams and residents.”

A judge granted the injunction banning the flags and anyone breaching it will face fines or imprisonment.

Fly your own flag in your own country and you will be fined and sent to prison. The UK no longer belongs to its own people.

Who are these people who would feel “distress” at the sight of the Union Jack and the flag of St. George’s Cross? Surely not the British themselves. It’s the Muslims who don’t feel any loyalty to the nation-state that lavishes so many welfare benefits on them, the Muslims who are disturbed at the very sight of that red cross on the St. George’s flag that to them signifies Christianity, a faith they detest. To accommodate them, in many communities those flags can no longer be flown.

Is England still a “green and pleasant land”? Or is it now a country that is, thanks to those invaders from Muslim lands who were so innocently allowed in, slowly coming apart?

Plotter of Hamas Jihad Massacres in Germany and Austria Had an Unusual Day Job

Sep 13, 2026 3:00 am By Robert Spencer1 Comment

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Parade of Palestinian Mujahideen, Hadi Mohammad, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Prosecutors in Germany have just revealed that on Oct. 7, 2025, the second anniversary of its murder of 1,200 people in a series of jihad attacks in Israel, the jihad terror group Hamas planned a new round of jihad attacks against Jewish targets in Berlin and Vienna. If these plots had come to fruition, this would have been one of the few times that Palestinian jihadis struck in Europe since the 1972 jihad massacre at the Munich Olympic Games. One of the most noteworthy aspects of the foiled European plots, however, was that one of the jihadis turned out to be a confidential informant for Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.

Could it be that not all of the “moderate” Muslims in which so many non-Muslim Westerners place so much hope and trust are not actually as “moderate” as they appear? Why, yes, of course it could.

Politico reported on September 11 that “the attacks were to take place simultaneously or in close succession around Oct. 7, 2025, targeting Israeli and Jewish interests in the two European capitals.” This was a sophisticated and elaborate plot that was clearly the product of careful planning: “The plot was supported by an international weapons-procurement network that moved pistols, an automatic rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition through Denmark, Germany and Austria.”

The attacks in Berlin and Vienna “were to be coordinated,” and “the principal targets included Israeli diplomats, Jewish community centers and pro-Israel demonstrations.” There were seven men involved in this plot, and the most interesting fact of all is that “one of the accused was working as a confidential informant for Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. The files show that the informant continued reporting to his intelligence handler while allegedly failing to disclose the full extent of his own involvement in obtaining ammunition for the group.”

His colleagues at the domestic intelligence agency likely assumed that he was “moderate.” Nobody would have dared to question him too closely, however. That would have been “Islamophobic.” And they all probably hated Israel also, as good leftists, and so he fit right in. Nevertheless, the fact that one of these jihad plotters was a man whom German intelligence agents evidently trusted demonstrates anew the hazards of assuming that all Muslims are “moderate” until they strap on a bomb and scream “Allahu akbar.”

The whole idea of “moderate Muslims” is based on an interlocking series of false assumptions. Non-Muslims see some Muslims committing jihad terror attacks, while other Muslims in the West hold down jobs and are respected members of the community. They assume from those experiences that those peaceful Muslims reject and abhor jihad violence, and find jihad terror attacks as horrifying as non-Muslims do.

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Germany: Muslims beat homosexual student, guidance counselor says ‘you just have to endure it’ for ‘diversity’

• Sep 13, 2026 9:00 am By Robert Spencer3 Comments

Do the Muslim students have to “endure” anything for “diversity”? No. They get their way in all circumstances. So who will be running Germany in another generation, or sooner? The answer is obvious. The supremacy of Islam and Muslims is already being taught in German schools. Non-Muslim leftist teachers are the ones who are teaching it.

Wuppertal ansicht, JensD, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

‘They hated me because I am German’ – Muslim classmates beat and insulted him because he was German and gay

Remix News, September 11, 2026:

Muslim classmates beat and ostracized David Brough throughout secondary school because he was gay and German, and then a counselor told him to accept the abuse as part of the school’s commitment to diversity.

“They hated me because I am German, because I was already a homosexual boy back then, and because I did not submit to Sharia, to Islamic laws on German soil,” said Brough, who founded the media outlet Der Volksmut.

“During my school days, I was mistreated, beaten, ostracized, and insulted every day by Muslim classmates,” said Brough.

Brough, who says he attended school in Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia, described years of daily mistreatment that he said began after elementary school. He said he started first grade in 2000.

He said classmates beat, insulted, and isolated him and that he was targeted in physical education class. Brough called the school a “Sharia school,” a term he uses for campuses with a large Muslim student population and, in his account, little protection for students who do not follow conservative Islamic norms.

The claims have not been independently verified. Remix News did not publish records from the school or court, and there was no immediate comment from Wuppertal school officials.

Brough said he sought help from a guidance counselor and reported homophobic assaults and bullying.

According to Brough, the guidance counselor, who was a card-carrying member of the far-left Social Democrats (SPD), replied: “David, we are a school of diversity. You just have to endure it. You have to tolerate other cultural conditions. And in Islam, being gay is haram, a sin.”…

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