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No, the Turks did not rebuild Germany.
They arrived in 1961, 16 years after the war.
By then, White German men and women had already rebuilt our country and revived our economy.
Vor 65 Jahren kamen Arbeiter aus der Türkei nach Deutschland. Sie haben dieses Land mit aufgebaut, geprägt und die Infrastruktur des Wohlstands geschaffen, in der wir heute leben. Aus Gastarbeitern wurden Mitbürger – Freunde, Familie, Kollegen und Nachbarn. Dafür danken wir.
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We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, but they are still lying.
BREAKING:
Macron says that foreign leaders who are running electoral campaigns on France’s expense by sharing false information about the riots in France.
Macron says that some are spreading the false image of France being overrun by immigrants and Islamists.
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In 1911 Belloc warned what happens when a people stop reading real books:
“It is an interesting speculation by what means the Book lost its old position in this country. This is not only an interesting speculation, but one which nearly concerns a vital matter. For if men fall into the habit of neglecting true books in an old and traditional civilization, the inaccuracy of their judgments and the illusions to which they will be subject must increase. … The excellence of a book and its value as a book depend upon two factors, which are usually, though not always, united in varied proportions: first, that it should put something of value to the reader, whether of value as a discovery and an enlargement of wisdom or of value as a new emphasis laid upon old and sound morals; secondly, that this thing added or renewed in human life should be presented in such a manner as to give permanent aesthetic pleasure.”
— Hilaire Belloc, First and Last (1911)
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The only proper response is this:
“Charles Martel deployed his troops against them and, warrior that he is, fell upon them. With Christ’s help, he pulled down their tents and rushed into battle to grind them to pieces.”
New video shows the moment the rioters broke into Limoges town hall and set it on fire.
A lot of unmasked faces in this video.
Long prison sentences are needed
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Elon fired a Muslim who worked at Tesla after he attacked a woman for accidentally stepping on his prayer rug.
A few months later, the guy shot three students at a bar in Texas.
Elon Musk in his new interview on immigration:
“What I’m saying is simply logically consistent, which is that if there’s a culture that has diametrically opposed views to our culture, and that’s, you could take Islam, it’s not that, of course, there are many people who’ve, you know, Muslims who are quite reasonable. But there are some who are not. And unless you’re filtering for jihadis, you’re going to get jihadis, and they’re going to do jihad and kill people.
Now, in Israel, they understand this quite well. Obviously, this lesson has been reinforced with a lot of attacks. And so in Israel, they realize if you let in the people that want to kill Israelis, they will do so. So they’re quite pragmatic about this, and they try to make sure that doesn’t happen. You know, you can’t put yourself in the mind of a serial killer unless you’re a serial killer. Like, unless you enjoy murdering people, you can’t imagine why someone would do such a thing.
And if someone is a religious extremist, where they view anyone who is not in their religion as the enemy, it’s difficult for you to understand that mindset because you don’t have that mindset. But you can obviously recognize there are people who do have that mindset, and that if you let them into the country, they will kill people.
Let me give you an example. There’s many. We had someone who was working at the Tesla factory in Austin until December of last year. He was fired because he assaulted a woman who stepped on his prayer rug in the factory. Okay, so she wasn’t expecting anyone to be praying in the factory, and he was praying in the factory. She accidentally stepped on his prayer rug and he assaulted her, violently assaulted her. So he was fired for that. And then a few months later, he went and killed three students in the bar in downtown Austin.”
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Watching old footage and then walking through your city is one of the most radicalizing experiences you can have.
A beautiful film of London in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Quiet streets, classic red buses, families feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, and wonderful views of the Thames and the parks.
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“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Colonization was the best thing that ever happened to the third world.
German colonial architecture:
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This is what reading actually does to you:
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realize it best when we talk with an unliterary friend. He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many, is not enough. I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. … Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like a night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
— C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
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Before the Germans arrived in German East Africa, there was nothing.
People lived in mud houses and huts made of clay, straw, and wood. There were no railways, no ports, no hospitals, no written bureaucracy.
Then Germany showed up and did what Germans do. They built.
We all know it's true, but can't admit it for some reason.
Colonization was the best thing that ever happened to the third world.
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Liberal women don't care about rape. If they did, they wouldn't be pro immigration.
A French woman says that the rioters and looters broke into her building and threatened her with rape while she was holding her child in her arms.
“That’s collateral damage” responds the feminist activist Bettina Zourli who holds a Master’s in gender studies and focuses her work on gender norms, motherhood, reproductive rights, and voluntary childlessness (“childfree”)
She describes herself as “feminist, childfree and Antifa”
Zourli also says that all the stores getting looted also constitute a case of collateral damage and that the revolution, which she supports, must be violent.
She has lectured in gender studies, including at the University of Lille and Université Rennes.
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Islam is not a religion as the Founding Fathers understood it. They would be stunned by anyone who suggested importing large numbers of Barbary pirates.
2) If immigration is to be restricted on the basis of religion, what would be the annual limit for Muslims? Or would you set that goal via “national origin” rather than religion, like the Emergency Quota Act in 1921, aimed at limiting Catholics from Eastern and Southern Europe?
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A single brick of the Duomo is worth more than all these bastards' lives combined.
🇮🇹 Rioters turn Piazza del Duomo into a battleground
In Milan, several hundred masked and hooded rioters focused on the iconic Piazza del Duomo, turning the commercial center into a battleground: smashing cars, kicking in shop windows, and clashing with police.
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Let me tell you something: just because you are secular and no longer possess the Crusader mentality of our ancestors does not mean that followers of other religions share your worldview or lack the same religious conviction.
We are at war, always have been.
I visited Milan with my girlfriend this weekend, where we witnessed the destruction of the city centre by Africans and Muslims first-hand.
This isn’t a student protest or youthful flares of violence. This is a war. We either fight back or see our people go extinct.
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We must do more than simply point out what is wrong with our world. We must also remember and cherish the richness of our Christian heritage.
Today, October 19, we celebrate the feast of St. Frideswide of Oxford, a remarkable figure in England’s Christian history.
To mark this special day, I have made my article freely available to everyone, without a paywall, so that all can discover her story and the legacy she left behind.
READ: thewesternspirit.blog/p/the-…
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I'm among the only accounts with a huge platform that haven't sold out and still speak the truth.
The "riots" in France - more like the invasion of France or the sack of Paris - have nothing to do with education or the cost of living and everything to do with Islam.
Not a single mosque has been set on fire, not a single Muslim shop owner has lost their belongings. Countless Christian-owned shops have been looted, livelihoods destroyed, lives ruined forever, and historic buildings burned down - all in the name of Allah.
Palestinian flags everywhere, people shouting "Allahu Akbar."
They have been attempting conquests like these ever since the armies of Islam conquered North Africa and Spain.
Just to name a few:
846: Rome
1009: The destruction of the Holy Sepulchre
1453: Constantinople
1521: Belgrade
1522: Rhodes
1529: Vienna
1565: Malta
1570: Cyprus
1571: Lepanto
1683: Vienna
And why?
JUST READ THEIR SCRIPTURE.
They are in an eternal war with everyone who isn't Muslim.
Let me tell you something: just because you are secular and no longer possess the Crusader mentality of our ancestors does not mean that followers of other religions share your worldview or lack the same religious conviction.
Many Muslims are deeply devout. They believe in the word of Allah as revealed in the Quran and strive to live their lives according to Sharia, which they regard as the "way of life."
And because their Scripture says things like this:
“I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."
They believe it to the core and act on it.
The destruction of Europe is their ultimate goal.
The Palestinian flag has basically become the socially acceptable version of the ISIS flag.
Muslims have realized that and are taking full advantage of it.
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