Klobuchar told the Somalian community she would vote for their interests.
A resurfaced video showing a Democrat U.S. Senator waving an upside-down American flag at a 2017 rally with the Somalian community is going viral online.
The video on social media is taken from a speech Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) gave at a Somalian celebration for a presidential election in the African country.
'We have more to do, but we will continue to fight for you!'
In the video she promises to remove restrictions on cash remittances to Somalia and uses a traditional Somalian phrase to show her support for the interests of the Somalian community in Minnesota.
"As you know, we are home to the largest Somali population in the United States, and we are so proud of that fact in Minnesota!" she yells to loud applause.
OCTOBER 05, 2026 The restaurant had rented a space to a group accused of being racist.
A high-end restaurant in Portland, Oregon, had to shut down after it served a group accused by left-wing protesters of being white supremacist.
Clarklewis was vandalized on Sunday after leftist activists allegedly confronted the group. A window was broken, and employees at the restaurant were traumatized.
'I totally support the protest. ... I support what they're doing, but they totally misplaced it on this restaurant.'
Joe Rogers, one of the owners of the restaurant, said the establishment doesn't support white supremacy and did not know anything about the group because it had a nondescript name.
"We knew people were coming for brunch, and we knew they were called the Oregon Group," he said, according to the Oregonian. "We knew that they had some Christian affiliation, which, of course, we allow Christians into our business."
He told KOIN: "Sure, if they walk in and they’re awful, and they’re obviously somebody that’s not going to be kind to our staff or to other guests, we’re going to ask them to leave."
The left-wing activists reportedly planned a protest against the group in part because of flyers they saw online.
The confrontation between the allegedly racist group and the left-wing protesters led to one worker quitting on the spot and others going home for the day, according to Rogers. Some also hid upstairs, he added, according to the Oregonian.
He said the group paid about $2,000 to rent a space but that he would be donating the money to a charity in order to show goodwill to the community.
Even more ironic is that the restaurant is LGBTQ+-owned and has displayed a Pride flag for many years.
A spokesperson for the Portland Police Bureau said that police initially responded to the restaurant at about 2 p.m. that day but that there was no property damage, so they left. They were called once again, and when they returned, they found a window broken.
Rogers said one person in the group wore a shirt with a white nationalist slogan.
"Nobody was paying attention to what their T-shirt said," he added. "And I think at the end, when they were handing out pamphlets, I think the reason if they're handing out pamphlets at the end, it's because they knew they had started doing it before they would have been kicked out."
Police said they tried to determine who broke the window but were unsuccessful, and no arrests were made.
"I totally support the protest," Rogers said to the Oregonian. "I support what they're doing, but they totally misplaced it on this restaurant."
It is unclear whether the restaurant has reopened.
Gonville and Caius College, one of Cambridge's oldest foundations, is compelling its undergraduates to attend mandatory "inclusivity training" from the start of term.
The 90-minute sessions are being delivered by Stop Hate UK, a 'charity' activist organisation whose own materials tell students their free speech rights may be restricted, that "Islamophobia is a crime", and that a facial expression can count as harm.
The order lands in the same university that spent the better part of two years investigating a philosopher for lawful speech, and in the same education system that has spent 2026 drilling children in white privilege, "racism requires power", and compulsory hijabs.
Students in at least one college of Cambridge University will be forced to take mandatory 'inclusivity training' from the start of the new term next week, The Spectator has learned.
The 90-minute sessions are being delivered by Stop Hate UK. This group has published a video... pic.twitter.com/0zBC85IMFX
According to an email from the college's education and tutorial office, seen by The Spectator, "attendance by undergraduate students is mandatory. It is important for the community as a whole to ensure a collective and unified response." The course, due to run from the week commencing 5 October, will cover "demonstrating inclusive behaviours" and "recognition of a hate incident and its impact."
A Caius spokesman told The Spectator the college had, "in consultation with student representatives," committed to "hosting facilitated discussions around inclusivity to support the whole community at Caius."
That is a softer description than the email students actually received. Mandatory attendance and a demand for a "collective and unified response" is not a discussion. It is an instruction.
BREAKING: Gonville & Caius, Cambridge has sent all undergraduates a notice, making 90-minute inclusivity sessions by 'Stop Hate UK' mandatory. The charity's materials are woke, defective and misstate the law on protected characteristics and Islamophobia. https://t.co/3ihJt4HxOGhttps://t.co/brE8VGChs4pic.twitter.com/FruP9TpvBm
Stop Hate UK has published a video telling university students they must always display "positive attitudes" and "use respectful and kind language that will not cause harm or offence."
Its syllabus for educational settings tells students that free speech should be "restricted by other duties, responsibilities, and legislative and contractual obligations," and teaches them how "opinions, attitudes and prejudice are influenced and shaped by unconscious bias, media bias, fake news, etc."
Andrew Gilligan, writing in The Spectator, put the obvious question: "How will students be required to 'demonstrate' that their behaviour is 'inclusive?'" The charity's own glossary supplies an answer of sorts. It speaks of "microaggressions" and "micro-inequities," including "unintentional comments" and "unconscious messages" that "devalue and discourage people... conveyed through facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice, choice of words."
Hate incidents, it says, can include "abusive gestures" or "malicious complaints about parking."
The Free Speech Union called the scheme another mark of Cambridge's intellectual decline, and of the way activist groups have been emboldened by the government's non-statutory "anti-Muslim hostility" definition.
Cambridge students are being forced to undergo "inclusivity training".
At least one Cambridge college is requiring students to attend training delivered by Stop Hate UK. The group has posted a video on social media saying students should always display "positive attitudes" and... pic.twitter.com/Mq6ZVgwrMm
The use of "hate incident" rather than "hate crime" is the tell. Behaviour well below the legal threshold is being placed inside a disciplinary frame. That sits awkwardly beside the Home Office's own retreat. In March, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced that non-crime hate incidents would be scrapped, saying: "Under these reforms, forces will no longer be policing perfectly legal tweets."
Caius is importing the logic the Home Secretary has just disowned, and making attendance compulsory.
If the syllabus is followed, one of the first things Cambridge students will be taught is "unconscious bias," a concept a UK government report has already found wanting. That review concluded that "evidence that [unconscious bias] training content and techniques 'works' is lacking," that such sessions "do not seem to be effective at improving diversity outcomes within workplaces," and that there was "potential for back-firing effects."
Most of the studies used to justify the training "did not use valid measures of behaviour change."
The Committee for Academic Freedom has gone further, and found legal errors in the provider's published materials. Age, a protected characteristic under section 4 of the Equality Act 2010, disappears from Stop Hate UK's list. The statutory category of "gender reassignment" is replaced with "gender identity," which, as CAF noted, "is not one of the nine protected characteristics named in the Act."
The Supreme Court held in 2025, in For Women Scotland, that "man," "woman" and "sex" in the Act carry biological meanings. Gender-critical belief is capable of protection under the Act, as Forstater established. Presenting a contested theory as settled law, then requiring students to attend, is not neutral instruction.
The Office for Students' Regulatory Advice 24 allows universities to require training that advances positions a person may disagree with. It does not allow them to "require training or induction that imposes a requirement on the person completing the training actively to endorse any viewpoint or value-judgement."
CAF has asked the obvious follow-up: whether Caius students will be expected to produce the promised "collective and unified response" by accepting the premises, for instance by labelling prescribed scenarios as microaggressions. The committee has invited students who are required to assent to anything to get in touch.
Stop Hate UK has claimed that "Islamophobia is a crime." It is not. Britain has no blasphemy law. The same organisation has treated truthful reporting on the Muslim grooming gangs scandal as a source of hatred, writing that "this leads to the formation of Anti-Muslim attitudes, subconscious biases and hate."
Its work on the subject cites the Centre for Media Monitoring, then part of the Muslim Council of Britain, an organisation successive governments have refused to engage with since 2009.
That is the same territory covered by Labour's non-statutory definition of "anti-Muslim hostility," which Communities Secretary Steve Reed sold as a tool "so we can take action to stop it," and which the Free Speech Union's Richard Holmes warned "risks hindering free speech under the law and legitimate criticism of Islamism." Schools were urged to monitor and report it.
Cambridge has form on this. Philosopher Nathan Cofnas was hired under Cambridge's 2020 free speech statement, then investigated for the better part of two years after publishing on hereditarianism and affirmative action.
The university eventually concluded that his views, "while seen by many as offensive, did not breach the law and did not contravene University regulations designed to uphold free speech." By then the contract had run out.
Cofnas's account of it was blunt: "I was betrayed the moment the administration determined that free speech was inconvenient for it."
Caius has form of its own. In 2022 the master and a senior tutor wrote to students about a Helen Joyce event on gender-identity ideology, saying they did not "condone or endorse" views they considered "offensive, insulting and hateful," and that the college would "continue to strive to make Caius an inclusive, diverse and welcoming home." The new sessions are that email turned into a timetable.
The pattern below the university line is the same. In Sheffield, school materials have told children that "black people can be racially prejudiced towards a white person which is wrong and totally unacceptable. However, this is not racism. Racism is racial prejudice plus power. In the UK, white people hold the cultural power."
In Barnet, a Labour council approved taxpayer funding for an Islamic primary that requires girls as young as seven to wear a hijab from Year 3. Stephen Evans of the National Secular Society called it "appalling that taxpayers are being asked to fund a school that forces girls as young as seven to wear the hijab."
Back at the University level, in Northampton, freshers were pointed at an Advance HE module on "Whiteness, Privilege and Belonging." The university said "inclusivity is one of our core values, and we make no apologies for that." Philip Kiszely, on TalkTV, answered that "there is NO WHITE PRIVILEGE in higher education. The anti-racism system is the problem, which is overtly racist."
A university that cannot tell the difference between a crime and a parking complaint, or between the Equality Act and a leftist activist group's preferred version of it, is not protecting its students. It is training them to treat argument as harm and dissent as a hate incident.
The Office for Students now has a complaints scheme under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act. Caius has just given its undergraduates a reason to use it.
A French police commander in his sixties was chased, knocked down and kicked in the head until he blacked out outside a Belfort high school on Friday morning. Prosecutors have opened an investigation for attempted murder of a public official.
The officer is the local chief of territorial intelligence. He was in plain clothes, trying to arrest a youth suspected of starting a fire.
This is not a scuffle on the edge of a school complaint. It is the second mob hunt of a lone officer in two days, filmed, shared, and dressed up by parts of the press as a student protest about classrooms.
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The attack happened at about 9:15 a.m. on Friday, October 2, on the grass near Lycée Gustave-Courbet. Belfort prosecutor Paul-Édouard Lallois said the commander "was set upon by a wild horde of young people who knocked him to the ground and beat him with punches and kicks, particularly to the head." Most of the attackers had hoods up or faces covered. Reinforcements scattered them. The officer had already lost consciousness.
Lallois called it "a scene of unheard-of violence" and said "we came within two fingers of a tragedy." Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez wrote that the images were of "a rare violence" and "unbearable," that the officer had been "deliberately targeted," and that "everything will be done to identify the authors of this abject act."
Nuñez added that the commander was hospitalized after losing consciousness, and that his condition "fortunately no longer inspires major concern." On Saturday, police sources told France Télévisions the first exams were reassuring and the injuries were superficial trauma.
He was treated at Trévenans hospital with bruises and open wounds to the face, and Lallois said he was "particularly shocked, marked by the savagery of the assault," with "very visible marks of blows on his face."
The Alliance police union posted the footage with a blunt line: a cop "hunted like prey, caught, thrown to the ground and struck in the face several times, several against one." The union's verdict: "This is no longer anti-cop hatred. IT IS A HUNT FOR COPS."
The commander heads the departmental territorial intelligence service for the Territoire de Belfort. He was not standing in a cordon. He had just tried to arrest a youth suspected of starting a fire on the grass around the school and of throwing a projectile at officers. The prefecture said that youth was carrying a bag containing hydrochloric acid and protective equipment. The youth got away when the pack closed in.
A separate clip of the arrest, shot in a stream beside the school, was then waved around as proof the officer had tried to drown a teenager. Lallois shut that down on Saturday. "It is the individual who deliberately goes into the water" while trying to escape, he said. Both of them fell. "The youth cannot be immersed in the water, there is not enough water to be immersed." The commander was on his knees in the stream. The suspect was then cuffed on the bank.
That same suspect is now one of the people investigators want. Lallois said several people have been identified as likely principal authors, and that he was "fairly optimistic" they could be arrested within 24 hours. The youth the commander had handcuffed is "clearly identified as coming to deliver two violent kicks to the head of the police officer," recognizable on the video by the cuff still on his wrist.
Friday's beating landed on top of Thursday's hunt in Paris. A trainee lieutenant with the Paris police prefecture was chased on foot near Avenue Gambetta, in the 20th arrondissement, during a lycée gathering. Voices on the recording call her a "bitch" and scream "Kill her."
Someone trips her. Others kick her on the ground, including to the head. She filed a complaint. Nuñez called the attack intolerable and said a young trainee lieutenant "was pursued, thrown to the ground and assaulted by several individuals."
Marine Le Pen wrote: "The image of this young policewoman, pursued by a pack howling its hatred, thrown to the ground and assaulted, is unbearable. These acts deserve exemplary sentences. Let her know that tonight, millions of French people offer her warm support."
The official story is still that this is a pupil movement about absent teachers, overcrowded rooms and late buses. Education Minister Édouard Geffray said the movement had been "taken hostage by ultra-violent small groups."
On Thursday alone the Interior Ministry counted 1,949 arrests and 305 injured officers. Geffray said 235 people in the education sector had been hurt, including 65 school staff. About 400 schools were closed on Friday. Nuñez sent the BRAV-M motorcycle units into Paris and said that when police use force on his orders, "they are not facing demonstrators but rioters."
Footage shows burning classrooms, buses and fire engines set alight, shops looted, and packs going after female officers. The media is adamant that this is not about race or demographics, while those on the receiving end in virtually every single instance are white native French people.
French politician Éric Zemmour urged "This has nothing to do with bad school conditions. Plain and simple. These are ethnic riots and demographics is destiny. Without remigration, this is the fate of all Western European nations."
"The French Left has waged war on schools while building an alliance with Islamist leaders who hope to radically transform them. For both, the fight starts with the schools. 'Clearly, religious and politico-religious organizations "work on" these pupils, sometimes from primary school, as well as their family, their social milieu and their neighborhood, and some try to set them against the school,' the Education Ministry inspectorate's June 2004 report on religion in schools said." — Michael Shellenberger, October 2, 2026.
"What brings Islamists and the revolutionary left together is their intention to tear down Western civilization. The French Interior Ministry's May 2025 report on the Muslim Brotherhood described the movement's project in France as 'a long process of political conquest' with 'systematically priority investment at the local level.'" — Michael Shellenberger, October 2, 2026.
[W]hen thousands of French citizens said they could no longer afford both the fuel to travel to work and the food to feed their families, [French President Emmanuel] Macron replied that while some people might struggle with money, he must take care of something more important: "the risk of facing the end of the world".
Deindustrialization continues full-on. Punitive regulations have caused factories to close. They are replaced not by other businesses but by an increasingly costly welfare system, which now accounts for more than 40% of total public spending.
[S]uccessive French governments have pumped up spending without restraint.... This enormous difference means that the French government continues to spend far more than it raises in revenue.... Interest payments on the debt have been devouring an increasingly large share of the country's annual budget and, as in the United States, now exceed the national defense budget. The difference is that the US may still be able to grow its way out of such a hole -- $40 trillion, with interest at $7.1 billion a day -- whereas France, crushed by overregulation, cannot.
On another front, while Macron, in 2020, denounced "Islamist separatism," he has done nothing to prevent, or even slow down, the Islamist conquest of France. For a decade, the full-powered Islamization of the country has stormed on. Millions of people from the Muslim world have settled in France, both legally and illegally.
Most Muslims in France do not assimilate, and a growing proportion -- roughly 38% -- place Islamic sharia law above the laws of the Republic....
No-go zones, where radical imams and Muslim gangs hold sway, have grown since 2016. They now featured in the suburbs of the major cities of France. Muslim gang members raid and go looting several times a year,
In recent years, Macron has also been increasingly targeting freedom of expression, making use of Arcom — an institution he created in 2022 to regulate and control French audiovisual media — to do so.... CNews was fined twice in 2026: once because a guest stated that anthropogenic global warming does not exist; another time because a guest stated that "history shows that Islam is still a religion of conquest."
Macron might want a successor who would continue his programs, such as they are, but that does not seem about to happen. Marine Le Pen, for the first time in her political career, leads in polls, which indicate that in 2027 she could win.... All of her legal troubles, however, appear to have had no effect on her voters, who appear to understand that justice in France has now been politicized.
If Le Pen is elected president in the spring, the shockwaves will be heard across Europe. A Le Pen presidency would mean a victory for a political party that champions Western civilizational values — a party that every incumbent leader in Western Europe -- except Italy's Giorgia Meloni — seeks to keep out of power by any means necessary.
The situation in France differs little from the general situation in Western Europe.
Many other Europeans are just as dissatisfied with their leaders as are the French. They all see the economic destruction, the ongoing Islamization of their countries, the threat from China to undercut their automobile industries, and the growing impossibility of discussing certain subjects without being demonized or put on trial.
Many Europeans see Islamization gaining ground in their countries and enjoying support from Marxists: each thinks the other will bring it to power. They see their leaders doing nothing to remedy a situation that has become increasingly alarming. They appear to prefer having their Western civilization protected and saved.
The French government was reportedly "taken by surprise" when students began rioting roughly two weeks ago. Many Europeans see Islamization gaining ground in their countries and enjoying support from Marxists: each thinks the other will bring it to power. They see their leaders doing nothing to remedy a situation that has become increasingly alarming. Pictured: Municipal workers clean up around Marcel Sembat Secondary School in Rouen, France on October 1, 2026, after it was torched by rioters. (Photo by Guillaume Saligot/AFP via Getty Images)
"Who didn't see that coming? Oh yeah ....the politicians," noted "The Great Gats" on X.
The French government was reportedly "taken by surprise" when students began rioting roughly two weeks ago to protest conditions — overcrowded classes, dilapidated buildings, vermin and rats, lack of heating and air-conditioning, shortage of teachers — in their schools.
"But," American journalist Michael Shellenberger writes, " French schools have more money per pupil today than at any earlier time.... The French government spends 4.5% of gross domestic product on educational institutions, and Germany spends 3.7%.
The violent riots, which started on Paris's Ile de France and spread throughout the country, appear, according to investigations, to have been instigated by the French political party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) headed by Jean Luc Melenchon, a far-left candidate in the French presidential elections scheduled for the spring of 2027. La France Insoumise denies the charges; however, according to Shellenberger, "the evidence clearly shows that La France insoumise (LFI)... instigated and led the protests."
"The protest had 'the involvement from the start of elected officials of La France insoumise and ultra-left collectives,' an anonymous security official told Le Point. A readout of the prime minister's October 1 crisis meeting, given to Reuters by a person close to him, described the movement as 'an operation organised by LFI (France Unbowed) and its proxies on the far left' in the 'shared assessment' of the intelligence services....
"'Parents, Insoumis [party] activists, mobilize to interpose yourselves against police savagery,' said Mélenchon, blaming the police, not the students, for the violence....
"In Marseille, hundreds of young people forced firefighters to flee their truck outside a lycée and then set it alight. In Paris, about ten protesters chased a trainee police lieutenant, threw her to the ground and kicked her amid cries of 'Kill her!....'
"'We're not entirely sure that they are even high-school students themselves,' said the French Justice Minister of the people arrested...."
"The French Left has waged war on schools while building an alliance with Islamist leaders who hope to radically transform them. For both, the fight starts with the schools. 'Clearly, religious and politico-religious organizations "work on" these pupils, sometimes from primary school, as well as their family, their social milieu and their neighborhood, and some try to set them against the school,' the Education Ministry inspectorate's June 2004 report on religion in schools said.
"What brings Islamists and the revolutionary left together is their intention to tear down Western civilization. The French Interior Ministry's May 2025 report on the Muslim Brotherhood described the movement's project in France as 'a long process of political conquest' with 'systematically priority investment at the local level.'
"The children of Muslim immigrants are often more radical than their parents. 'There is first of all a generational revolt,' wrote Olivier Roy, a French scholar of Islam, in 2015 of French jihadists...."
"LFI openly courts Muslim voters, and a parliamentary inquiry said that made it a target for Islamist networks....
"'LFI's commitment to a clientelist strategy toward the Muslim electorate may have made this movement a privileged target,' saidMatthieu Bloch, rapporteur of a National Assembly inquiry into parties and Islamist networks, in December 2025....
"Polls 'all show [Mélenchon] losing massively in a run-off against Le Pen,' noted the BBC."
So far, around 2,000 students have been arrested and more than 1,000 schoolsaffected. The violence has included "schools set on fire and teachers beaten and doused in petrol."
French President Emmanuel Macron, who is serving his second term of office and cannot run again, is ending his presidency facing widespread rejection from the public. According to a recent poll, only 21% support his policies, although up from 19% a few months ago.
Macron's numbers are not surprising. He has repeatedly shown contempt for the poorest members of French society.
A few weeks into his first term, which began in May 2017, he spoke of "those who made it" and "those who are nothing." Less than a year and a half later, in November 2018, while citing anthropogenic climate change, he raised France's already exorbitant gasoline taxes, a move that immediately triggered the "Yellow Vests" movement, when thousands of French citizens said they could no longer afford both the fuel to travel to work and the food to feed their families. Macron replied that while some people might struggle with money, he must take care of something more important: "the risk of facing the end of the world".
The Yellow Vests movement lasted more than a year — subsiding only in January 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout, Macron remained contemptuous, responding to the grievances of nonviolent protestors with police crackdowns inflicting deaths and mutilations. Meanwhile, he permitted left-wing agitators who had infiltrated the movement to riot and commit arson without asking the police to intervene. Many in France saw that Macron could be pitiless toward people expressing their distress, but lenient toward criminals so long as they were of his preferred political bent.
During the pandemic, Macron initiated some of the most authoritarian measuresin Europe. The French were ordered to stay indoors and leave their homes for only one hour a day — within a half-mile radius — provided they filled out a form stating their name, address, and time of departure. The police, omnipresent, arrested thousands and fined them heavily simply for venturing slightly beyond the permitted distance or lingering a bit longer than one hour. All conversations outdoors were strictly prohibited.
The Macron years were additionally marked by a profound economic decline in France and a severe drop in the standard of living. For the past decade, France's per capita wealth has fallen below the EU average and now trails behind that of Cyprus. Ten years ago, in 2016, France's GDP per capita was globally ranked at 23; today, it ranks at 33. The unemployment rate, now at 8.3% , is increasing. For people between the ages of 15 and 24, it is an extremely high 21.1%.
Deindustrialization continues full-on. Punitive regulations have caused factories to close. They are replaced not by other businesses but by an increasingly costly welfare system, which now accounts for more than 40% of total public spending. In 2025, the poverty rate in France climbed to 15.4%, representing 9.8 million people living below 60% of the national median income and struggling every month just to meet their basic needs.
At the same time, successive French governments have pumped up spending without restraint. While the GDP growth in France from 2016 through 2026 was 13.17% in total, the increase in public spending in the same period was 35.6%. This enormous difference means that the government continues to spend far more than it raises in revenue. The national debt, which has grown continuously, reached 117.5% of GDP in January 2026, and will reach 119.3% by the end of the year. Interest payments on the debt have been devouring an increasingly large share of the country's annual budget and, as in the United States, now exceed the national defense budget. The difference is that the US may still be able to grow its way outof such a hole -- $40 trillion, with interest at $7.1 billion a day -- whereas France, crushed by overregulation, cannot.
On another front, while Macron, in 2020, denounced "Islamist separatism," he has done nothing to prevent, or even slow down, the Islamist conquest of France. For a decade, the full-powered Islamization of the country has stormed on. Millions of people from the Muslim world have settled in France, both legally and illegally. Around 2016, the approximate number of Muslim citizens and foreign Muslims living in France was 5.7 million (8.8%); now, officially, it is estimated at possibly 7 million out of a population of roughly 67 million, but the real figures are undoubtedly higher. Most Muslims in France do not assimilate, and a growing proportion -- roughly 38% -- place Islamic sharia law above the laws of the Republic (the figure is higher among Muslims aged 15 to 24: 57%).
Laws against illegal immigration are not enforced. Every year, only 7% of illegal aliens in France who were notified by the police to leave -- by the OQTF(Obligation to Leave French Territory) -- are expelled. This laxity means that more than 93% remain in the country. Many are criminals. Some of the most sickening murders in France during the Macron years have been committed by illegal aliens who had ignored their OQTF. Lola Daviet, age 12, for instance, was raped, tortured, and murdered in a Paris apartment by an Algerian thief and occasional prostitute, Dahbia Benkired. On August 21, 2022, Benkired had been arrested, issued an OQTF, and then released. Two months later, on October 14, she murdered the child.
No-go zones, where radical imams and Muslim gangs hold sway, have grownsince 2016. They now featured in the suburbs of the major cities of France. Muslim gang members raid and go looting several times a year, especially when there is sports match with a French soccer team, and recently during the 2025 World Cup. The police have orders to intervene only minimally. If they hurt or kill a Muslim criminal, they have seen that their careers and lives can be destroyed. On June 27, 2023, Nahel Merzouk, a young Muslim criminal, refused to obey to a police officer, who then shot him by accident. Riots, which erupted all over the country, only began to calm when the police officer, Florian M., was placed in pre-trial custody and charged with first-degree murder. He now faces up to 20 years in prison.
After Hamas's October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, Islamic and leftist protests in support of Hamas and "Palestinian resistance" were organized within days. La France Insoumisedescribed the October 7 massacre as an "armed offensive by Palestinian forces" without ever mentioning that Hamas is a terrorist movement. One of the leaders of LFI, Rima Hassan, a French citizen, defines herself as "French-Palestinian", not French. She constantly falsely accuses Israel of "genocide" and claims that that "Hamas's actions are legitimate."
The massive surge of antisemitic assaults, threats, and insults has lasted until today.
In recent years, Macron has also been increasingly targeting freedom of expression, making use of Arcom — an institution he created in 2022 to regulate and control French audiovisual media — to do so. In 2025, Arcom shut down the television channel C8: the stated reason was a "lack of pluralism," and that too many conservatives had been invited to speak. On June 15, 2026, another television channel, CNews, received a formal notice from Arcom, also accusing it of a "lack of pluralism". CNews could soon shut down as well. It is the last major television channel in France that still invites right-of-center commentators whom other channels no longer invite. CNews was fined twice in 2026: once because a guest stated that anthropogenic global warming does not exist; another time because a guest stated that "history shows that Islam is still a religion of conquest."
In December 2025, France requested that two commentators — Jacques Baud and Xavier Moreau — be sanctioned by the European Union for their "pro-Russian remarks." Their bank accounts and assets within the EU were frozen, and their credit cards cancelled. They are no longer permitted to travel within the EU. Any financial assistance provided to them by anyone would be subject to sanctions. These measures are extrajudicial, but there is no avenue of appeal or recourse.
In May 2024, Macron's political party, Renaissance, lost the European Parliament elections. While France's main right-wing party, Rassemblement National (National Rally), received 31.37% of the vote, Macron's received only 14.6%. He spoke angrily about the result, dissolved the National Assembly and called for snap legislative elections. In the first round, the National Rally received more than 33% of the votes and was about to win a majority of the seats in the second round. Macron quickly created an alliance of all other political parties aimed at defeating the National Rally. He spoke of a "republican front," and implied that the National Rally is a danger to the republic. Voters supporting centrist or moderate-right candidates were encouraged to vote for a left-wing candidate if that candidate was best positioned to win. Voters supporting left-wing candidates were encouraged to vote for a centrist or moderate-right for the same reason. The result was that the National Rally secured the largest share of votes, but the "republican front" parties received the largest number of seats in the National Assembly, which was fragmented into multiple parties, none of which could form a coherent majority. Since then, the country has had several powerless governments, and no important decisions could be made. Macron made the country ungovernable.
Macron might want a successor who would continue his programs, such as they are, but that does not seem about to happen. Marine Le Pen, for the first time in her political career, leads in polls, which indicate that in 2027 she could win. Other candidates belong to parties that are now associated with the disaster into which France has plunged.
Le Pen was even prosecuted for allegedly allowing parliamentary assistants of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from her party to work in Paris for the MEPs who employed them. When centrist candidate François Bayrou and left-leaning Jean-Luc Mélenchon were accused of the same offense, the charges against both were dropped. Not for Le Pen. On March 31, 2025, she was sentenced to four years in prison and a five-year ban from holding public office, presumably to prevent her from becoming a candidate.
After she appealed the verdict, on July 7, 2026, her sentence was reduced to three years in prison -- one year of which was to be served under house arrest, wearing an electronic monitoring tag -- and a 45-month ban from holding public office, 30 months of which were suspended. The new ruling enables her to run for office. She has lodged an appeal with France's highest court and execution of the judgment has been suspended. She will not have to wear the monitoring tag during the election campaign. The court is scheduled to issue its ruling on her appeal before the election and could reverse its decision. Le Pen would then be required to wear a monitoring tag during the final days of her campaign and, should she be elected, at the Élysée Palace upon taking office.
All of her legal troubles, however, appear to have had no effect on her voters, who appear to understand that justice in France has now been politicized.
If Le Pen is elected president in the spring, the shockwaves will be heard across Europe. A Le Pen presidency would mean a victory for a political party that champions Western civilizational values — a party that every incumbent leader in Western Europe -- except Italy's Giorgia Meloni — seeks to keep out of power by any means necessary.
The economic, financial and social situation Le Pen would face in the event of her victory would be harsh. All available data indicate that France is almost bankruptat almost every level. A recovery will be highly complex and difficult.
Most leaders of LFI have already declared that they would refuse to accept a Le Pen victory: if she wins, they would call for an insurrection. Several political analysts think that in such an event, widespread riots involving leftist groups and Islamist gangs might break out across the country.
Several other French politicians attempting to stoke panic will do so with increasing intensity right up until the election. It is not at all certain that these obstructions would be enough to defeat Le Pen.
A recent poll commissioned by the center-right Foundation for Political Innovation shows that 78% of voters believe that "the French way of life, its traditions, and its lifestyle habits are under threat." Available data indicate that, unfortunately, this is true. Another recent poll shows that 85% of voters think France is in decline. They are quite right. France is in sharp decline and large majority of the French see it.
The situation in France differs little from the general situation elsewhere in Western Europe. The policies pursued in most other Western European countries do not fundamentally differ from those adopted by Macron -- and lead to the same results.
Many other Europeans are just as dissatisfied with their leaders as are the French. They all see the economic destruction, the ongoing Islamization of their countries, the threat from China to undercut their automobile industries, and the growing impossibility of discussing certain subjects without being demonized or put on trial.
Many Europeans see Islamization gaining ground in their countries and enjoying support from Marxists: each thinks the other will bring it to power. They see their leaders doing nothing to remedy a situation that has become increasingly alarming. They appear to prefer having their Western civilization protected and saved.
Political parties in Western Europe with platforms close to that of Le Pen's National Rally, such as Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), are gaining momentum despite attempts by leaders in power and the media to demonize them.
On September 6, 2026, in a state-level election in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD won 43.8% of the vote -- twice as much as five years earlier. In May 2025, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz came to power at the head of a grand coalitionunited solely by the desire to halt the rise of the AfD. His coalition did nothing to combat Germany's deep industrial slowdown and the growing non-integration of Muslims living in the country. The situation is now worse. Merz is currently more unpopular in Germany than Macron is in France (only 14% of Germans consider him worthy of holding the office of Chancellor). The AfD is now the most popular party nationwide in Germany. A recent poll puts its support at a record 30%.
In the UK, in May 2026, the Reform Party won many local and municipal elections, inflicting heavy defeats on both the ruling Labour Party and the Conservative Party. Recent polls indicate that if an election for Parliament were held today, it would secure the highest number of seats.
A political groundswell in Western Europe is taking shape. Most mainstream media commentators dismissively label it "populist."
"What they call populism," wrote Éric Zemmour, former columnist and president of the right-wing Reconquest party, "is the cry of people who do not want to die."
Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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