Law enforcement officials in Italy arrested three Palestinians this week at the start of Ramadan for allegedly planning to conduct terror attacks on foreign soil.
Italian police did not disclose the names of the three Islamic terrorist suspects but said that they were connected to the Palestinian terror group Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades.
&#8220;The suspects engaged in proselytism and propaganda (&#8230;) and planned attacks, including suicide attacks, against civilian and military targets on foreign territory,&#8221; police <a href="https://www.poliziadistato.it/articolo/199665eee7d0e77c1487527864">said</a>.
The arrests happened in the Italian city of L’Aquila where the suspects made contact with an existing terror cell.
“It is rare for terrorist organizations such as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades to orchestrate schemes to target civilians on foreign soil,” said Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst at FDD’s Long War Journal. “However, this heinous plot serves as a stark reminder that this group and its affiliates in the West Bank and Gaza are not ‘resistance fighters,’ as they claim to be, but cold-blooded terrorists with the sole purpose of inflicting death and destruction.”
David May, FDD Research Manager and Senior Research Analyst, added: “The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades are linked to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s supposedly moderate Fatah party. Italy’s arrest of the three terrorists planning attacks underscores the folly of treating Abbas and the PA as peace partners.”
Numerous Islamic terror suspects have been arrested throughout Europe for plotting attacks in the months following Hamas’ October 7 massacre in Israel.
During the massacre, 1,200 people were murdered, 5,300+ were injured, and hundreds more were taken hostage.
Israel launched a military offensive inside Gaza following the attacks and has so far eliminated at least 13,000 terrorists, Israel said this week.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-blasts-biden-for-criticizing-israels-military-strategy-hes-wrong-on-both-counts">Netanyahu Blasts Biden For Criticizing Israel’s Military Strategy: ‘He’s Wrong On Both Counts’</a>

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Italian lawmakers are introducing legislation which would discipline teachers who ban Christian Nativity scenes from classrooms in the name of cultural sensitivity. 
The bill was introduced by senators from the Brothers of Italy party, of which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is a member. The lawmakers said that it was necessary to preserve Italy’s cultural roots and to protect Christians from being discriminated against. 
“For some years there have been embarrassing and unacceptable decisions by some schools to ban nativity scenes, or to turn Christmas into an improbable winter festival to avoid giving offence to practitioners of other religions,” said Senator Lavinia Mennuni, who introduced the legislation.
Mennuni added that she didn’t want recognition of the Nativity to just become part of a generic holiday celebration, but to allow its celebration to remain distinct.
“Allowing the transformation of sacred Christian festivities into another anonymous type of celebration would constitute discrimination against the students and their respective families practicing the majority religion,” she said. 
The Brothers of Italy <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/21/italys-ruling-party-drafts-law-to-safeguard-school-nativity-scenes">said</a> that the legislation “is absolutely essential to safeguard and protect [Italy’s] cultural roots, which are exemplified by the nativity scene.&#8221; Nativity scenes celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and frequently depict him lying in a manger surrounded by Mary and Joseph. 
The bill would discipline teachers who ban Nativity displays, saying that those measures are “an attack on the deepest values and traditions of our people.” 
The legislation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/21/italys-ruling-party-drafts-law-to-safeguard-school-nativity-scenes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticizes</a> the decision of some schools to make Christmas celebrations more generic, saying that, “a festival devoid of any historical and cultural commemorative context pertaining to our nation and which, lacking any ethical content, is destined to assume a purely hedonistic-consumeristic connotation.&#8221;
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Meloni, elected prime minister in 2022, frequently speaks openly about her Christian faith. “I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian. No one will take that away from me,” she said in 2019.
The legislation was criticized by Left-wing Italian parties and Italian teachers’ associations. 
“Anything related to the culture of a country and its religion cannot be imposed by law,” <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/39883d0f-29c7-41be-b48f-a041619d0a0c?shareToken=3313143ea005faae31d87967d56ce608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Antonello Giannelli, of the Italian association of head teachers.
“This is the same right wing, led by Giorgia Meloni, for whom today, the holy family fleeing from persecution would probably end up in a detention center,” said Riccardo Magi, head of the Left-wing Piu Europa party.

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The African migrant who raped and murdered the British girl for which authorities falsely blamed Amanda Knox in 2007 was released from prison in 2021, remained in the country, and was rearrested this month for allegedly beating another woman.
Rudy Guede, a migrant from the Ivory Coast, was given a 30-year sentence for murder in 2008, but Italian authorities quickly reduced the sentence to 16 years, then let him out even earlier than that in November 2021.
Now, he&#8217;s been rearrested over allegations of beating up another woman, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/06/news/meredith-kercher-killer-rudy-guede-re-arrested-on-assault-allegations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>, citing Italian media.
The Italian prime minister’s office did not return a request for comment asking Guede&#8217;s immigration status and whether he could have been deported after his assorted run-ins with the law.
But the “trial of the century” that gripped the media for years beginning in 2007 looks very different since it has become clear that European governments have let in hordes of migrants and then covered up their crime sprees — and punished Westerners who called attention to the problem.
In retrospect, the Knox case reads like Italian authorities concealing a brutal rape by a migrant by inventing an absurd tale about a seductress from Seattle — even if they had to imprison an innocent American for four years to do it. It worked: Everyone remembers the case, but most don’t even remember that an African migrant was the true culprit.
The reality is that Guede broke into a house, sadistically raped British college student Meredith Kercher, defecated in her bathroom, and darted out into the night to go dancing at a nightclub.
Police had his fingerprints and were well familiar with him; he had broken into a law office not long before using methods identical to the home break-in. Days before the murder, a kindergarten teacher found him breaking into the school and in possession of a knife like that used to stab Kercher, but the police inexplicably dropped the case. If they hadn’t, the murder likely wouldn’t have occurred.
But they did, and it did. And that soft approach was different from the tact reserved for Westerners. They arrested Knox, beat her, and wrote up a false confession in a language she did not understand, she wrote in her memoir, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Be-Heard-Amanda-Knox-ebook/dp/B00AHCPXKS/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Waiting To Be Heard</a>.
The crime scene was covered in Guede’s fingerprints and DNA, from the semen staining the room to the feces smeared in the bathroom and the unflushed toilet. Eventually, Italian police could not avoid arresting him — tracking him down in Germany, where he fled. He admitted to German police that he was at the scene but claimed he didn&#8217;t kill Kercher, and that he had fled because he was black and thought police would frame him.
To any logical person, that would have solved the case. But that’s not what happened, and it wasn’t the black person who was being framed.
Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini worked with the migrant to turn the story into one in which Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, inexplicably worked with the migrant to rape their friend. The prosecutor called Guede &#8220;this poor Rudy&#8221; and said Knox and Raffael had accused him of &#8220;being the only one&#8221; to attack Kercher.
Fueled by leaks from prosecutors, the media saturated the world with a case that they covered as a sexualized &#8220;Foxy Knoxy,&#8221; an American sociopath, who ruthlessly stabbed to death and raped her roommate. She had two accomplices, they acknowledged, but those less colorful figures were secondary and essentially anonymous in the narrative.
Knox and Sollecito did not even know Guede, but prosecutors used another migrant, Hekuran Kokomani, to provide false testimony that they did. His testimony was absurd, including claiming he knew Knox through her uncle (who was never in Italy), that she brandished a knife at him which he fought off by throwing olives at her, and that he recognized her because of the gap in her front teeth (which, when he saw her teeth in court he remarked, &#8220;oh, she doesn&#8217;t have it anymore.&#8221;)
A homeless heroin addict named Antonio Curatolo came forward at the last minute to become what the media called the &#8220;super witness.&#8221; He offered testimony that was just what the prosecution needed — and it turned out the same prosecutor had used the same criminal vagrant for the same role in two prior unrelated trials.
Prosecutors selected a knife from a drawer in Sollecito&#8217;s home and declared it the murder weapon through “intuition,” without ever checking Guede&#8217;s apartment. The knife was the wrong size to have stabbed Kercher, but they claimed it did anyway, and that it contained her DNA. The DNA test was flawed but they withheld that evidence from Knox. (After her conviction, it was revealed that the test was wrong. Knox wrote, &#8220;Now I know that these mistakes weren&#8217;t missteps. [They were] giant, intentionally misleading leaps, to come up with results designed to confirm our guilt.”)
Knox’s DNA was not found anywhere at the crime scene itself, but prosecutors turned that lack of evidence into the accusation that she tampered with it — an absurd claim since Guede’s DNA was everywhere, and it would have been impossible for Knox to clean up her own DNA but selectively leave his.
Based entirely on his imagination, prosecutor Giliano Mignini told the jury that Knox had personally stabbed Kercher to death, and that she was not just a participant in, but the ringleader of, the rape. &#8220;For Amanda, the moment had come to take revenge on that simpering girl&#8230; it was an unstoppable game of violence and sex,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s try to imagine&#8211;she insulted her. Perhaps she said, you were a little saint. Now we&#8217;ll show you. Now you have no choice but to have sex.&#8221;
Due to the overwhelming evidence, Guede was quickly convicted of murder and sentenced to 30 years, but his sentence was reduced to 16 years. Prosecutors sought life in prison for the Westerners, and Knox was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to 25 years. She was acquitted on appeal in 2011, but prosecutors would not relent — not only retrying her for murder, but also charging her with slander for exposing the police’s scheme. In 2014, she was found guilty and given 28.5 years, significantly more than Guede. The Supreme Court finally found that she did not kill Kercher. The appeal of the slander charge is still ongoing.
Guede has never formally taken responsibility for the rape, though he allegedly told three fellow inmates that he and a friend showed up at Kercher’s apartment uninvited and gang-raped her before going to a nightclub and dancing.
Scientific experts testified at trial for the defense that the police’s purported DNA evidence on the knife was egregiously flawed, but prosecutors convinced a jury that while the defense’s witnesses had a motive to lie, the government had no such motive.
In the 15 years since, one motive has become clear.
The affair seems like an early exercise by the government and media to conceal the effect of mass immigration from third-world countries. As Europeans have noticed those effects, their countries have tried to hide it, even if it means imprisoning Westerners who speak out.
In 2016, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3397826/American-murdered-Florence-took-kinky-sex-game-strangled-autopsy-finds-police-arrest-drug-dealer-seen-outside-apartment.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an illegal African migrant</a> in Italy, Cheik Tidiane Diaw, strangled to death an American woman named Ashley Olsen. Authorities initially falsely tried to blame a consensual &#8220;kinky sex game.&#8221;
In 2022, the situation in Italy got so bad that the nation elected conservative Giorgia Meloni as prime minister, with Meloni supporting a naval blockade to stop African migrants from flooding Italy&#8217;s shores.
In Ireland, a migrant stabbed children last month, and when the citizenry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-break-out-in-ireland-after-children-stabbed-outside-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rebelled</a>, Ireland authorities blamed the &#8220;far right&#8221; for the safety crisis. Legislators there have proposed a law that would make it illegal to possess any material that could &#8220;incite hatred,&#8221; such as memes questioning the effects of mass migration.
But Knox may stand as one of history’s earliest, and most tragic, victims of the migrant rape coverup — not dissimilar to the prosecution of the father of Loudoun County’s rape victim simply because his family&#8217;s personal tragedy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posed a narrative inconvenience</a> to the leftist agenda.
Contrary to the contemporaneous portrayal by the media and prosecutors, what happened in Italy in 2008 was never a co-ed sex scandal, and it was never a close case. It was obvious, from its earliest days, that it was a depraved rape and murder by a criminal African migrant.
The idea that it was more plausible that a 20-year-old from Seattle orchestrated the scheme was always absurd — a defamation by Italian authorities that served a purpose.
&#8220;It was just the start of the many invented stories and giant leaps the prosecution would make to &#8216;prove&#8217; I was involved in the murder,&#8221; Knox wrote in her <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Waiting-Be-Heard-Amanda-Knox-ebook/dp/B00AHCPXKS/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memoir</a>.

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A panel of judges in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Kingdom</a> denied an appeal from parents to take their daughter, who suffers from a rare disease, to Italy for treatment.
The judges <a href="https://christianconcern.com/news/judges-rule-italian-intervention-to-save-indi-wholly-misconceived/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Italy’s desire to take 8-month-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-orders-u-k-baby-to-be-taken-off-life-support-as-parents-fight-to-take-her-to-italy-for-treatment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indi Gregory</a> in for treatment under Hague Convention rules was “wholly misconceived” and “not in the spirit of the convention.” Italy has granted the infant citizenship and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has reached out to the U.K.’s Lord Chancellor to coordinate travel to bring the young child to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/italy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Italy</a>.
The parents of Indi, <a href="https://christianconcern.com/cccases/indi-gregory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> by the Christian Legal Centre, have sought to leave the U.K. to find treatment for a rare mitochondrial disease their daughter has. Judges with the Court of Appeal denied their requests, upholding a previous ruling from Justice Robert Peel that Indi must be taken off life support.
“Claire and I are again disgusted by another one-sided decision from the judges and the Trust. The whole world is watching and is shocked at how we have been treated,” Dean Gregory, Indi’s father, said.
“Claire and I have always wanted what is in Indi’s best interests. She has human rights and we wanted her to have the best treatment possible. If the UK did not want to fund it, why can she not go to Italy and receive the treatment and care which the amazing Italian Prime Minister and government has offered,” he added.
Lord Justice Peter Jackson, Lady Justice Eleanor King, and Lord Justice Andrew Moylan also ruled against the parent’s request to bring Indi home if she had to have life support removed.
In an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1369-old-lawyer-shoots-two-climate-activists-blocking-the-road-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles</a> on Friday before the court’s decision was announced, Dean said that he was “embarrassed to be British” and that all he wanted to do was get treatment for his daughter.
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“As a parent in the U.K., when you go to the courts, you’ve got no rights, you’re set up to fail. Everyone is against you. My daughter is not brain dead, she’s moving, she’s breathing, she’s alert,” he said. “It’s all down to money. It’s all down to cost and resources in the U.K.”
He said the doctors and courts in the U.K. didn’t think his daughter’s life was “worth the cost,” saying that Italy was doing everything it could to help while the U.K. refused. “Why can’t my country help,” he asked.
Italy’s government has said that it would pay for treatment at Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome.
“There is a hospital prepared to care for Indi in Rome. Indi’s parents desire to give her every chance they can. Why would anyone try to stop this happening for them and for her?” Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said. “To continue to deny them this opportunity is unimaginable.”

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Judges Deny Parents’ Appeal To Take Infant Daughter To Italy For Treatment, Order Life-Support Be Removed

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A judge in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Kingdom</a> has ruled that an 8-month-old baby girl must be taken off life support despite her parents saying she is still responsive and wishing to bring her to Italy for additional care. 
The parents of Indi Gregory, <a href="https://christianconcern.com/cccases/indi-gregory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> by the Christian Legal Centre, have <a href="https://christianconcern.com/ccpressreleases/indi-gregory-judge-rules-life-support-will-be-removed-tomorrow-as-hospital-bosses-threaten-to-remove-treatment-without-family-present/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> an appeal to the order of Justice Robert Peel that Indi must be taken off life support at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham or a hospice on Thursday. 
Doctors from Britain’s National Health Service have argued that treatment for Indi, who has a mitochondrial disease, should not continue, and Peel agreed, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/indi-gregory-uk-italy-ruling-0caecf4c18336004d4e3b99cfff9c327" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> that efforts to bring Indi to Italy for treatment would not be in her best interests. With mitochondrial disease, the body has trouble turning sugar into energy meaning that the body&#8217;s cells do not work as they should. 
Peel said that Indi had “extremely limited quality of life” and was skeptical that treatments would improve her condition. Her parents say that she has responded positively to their touch and hope to try alternative treatments to help her fight the disease. 
Indi has been given Italian citizenship and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said she would do all in her power to help Indi and her family. 
&#8220;They say there isn&#8217;t much hope for little Indi, but until the very end, I&#8217;ll do what I can to defend her life. And to defend the right of her mamma and papa to do all that they can for her,” Meloni <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/indi-gregory-parents-make-last-ditch-effort-to-save-daughter.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
“For the hospital and the UK Courts to simply ignore the offer from the Italian government is disgraceful,” father Dean Gregory said. “I appeal to the British government to allow Indi to come to Italy before it is too late. As a father I have never asked or begged for anything in my life, but I am now begging the British government to please help prevent our daughter’s life from being taken away.”
According to Christian Concern, the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Rome has said that it would take Indi in for treatment and attempt a right ventricular outflow tract stent procedure, a surgery that has been proposed that may help the young child. Italy’s government also said it would pay for the treatments. 
Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, called out British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a member of the Conservative Party, for not speaking out in Indi’s defense. 
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“What good reason can there be to detain Indi here against the wishes of her parents when treatment is being offered in Rome,” Williams said. “The developments lay bare the difference in approach between two nations when the Italian Prime Minister has been public in her support of Indi Gregory and the right of her parents to access treatment in Rome and the British Prime Minister has remained silent.”
If Indi can&#8217;t be brought to Italy, her parents hope to bring her home for her final days, but Peel claimed that would be “dangerous” because of “the clinical complications.” 
Parents in the U.K. have previously found themselves in battles for control over medical decisions for their children. In 2018, the parents of infant Alfie Evans also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-mandated-death-baby-aflies-dad-giving-him-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struggled to bring</a> him to Italy only to have their efforts rebuffed by judges.

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The American woman falsely accused and wrongly convicted of killing her roommate while studying in Italy is finally getting the chance to completely clear her name.
Amanda Knox, who, along with her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, was exonerated by Italy’s highest court in the murder of Meredith Kercher, but the records still showed she was convicted of slander, Barron’s <a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/italy-court-quashes-amanda-knox-slander-case-orders-retrial-5b54adf7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The slander conviction came after an interrogation – during which Knox says police yelled at, slapped, and threatened her – in which Knox spoke about a Congolese bar owner named Patrick Lumumba.
Kercher’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meredith-kerchers-killer-released-still-blaming-others-for-his-crime-despite-forensic-evidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">real killer</a> was Rudy Geude, who was released from prison in 2021.
On Friday, Italy’s highest court overturned Knox’s slander conviction and demanded a new trial. In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Knox was not provided with adequate legal representation or a professional interpreter during the interrogation and that this treatment “compromised the fairness of the proceedings as a whole.”
Lumumba spent a week in jail after Knox’s unfair interrogation.
On X, Knox said that she did not “point[] the finger” at Lumumba but that the “police implicated someone else through” her.
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I was bullied into signing statements they wrote based on their speculations. False confessions and false admissions, like mine, are not authored by the people under the coercive police pressure. They are authored by the police themselves. <a href="https://t.co/nePriUDjIO">https://t.co/nePriUDjIO</a>
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“I was bullied into signing statements they wrote based on their speculations. False confessions and false admissions, like mine, are not authored by the people under the coercive police pressure. They are authored by the police themselves,” Knox wrote.
Back in 2021, Knox <a href="https://twitter.com/amandaknox/status/1355331239134208011" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> this interrogation was the actual “worst moment” of her life. She explained that she was 20 years old, 3,000 miles away from home, and her friend had just been killed. A killer was on the loose when she was brought in for the interrogation and questioned by “seasoned adults” for 53 hours over five days without an attorney. She said she spoke Italian about as well as a 10-year-old and that police kept lying to her.
“They told me I was a witness, that I was helping them. A lie,” Knox wrote in 2021. “They told me that Raffaele had contradicted my alibi. A lie. They said they had evidence that placed me at the crime scene that night. A lie.”
She said the final interrogation wasn’t recorded like the others, and that they kept her awake all night, told her she had amnesia, and that she had repressed what happened the night of Kercher’s murder because she was traumatized by what she saw. She said police shouted at her and slapped her.
Her mom, who had just arrived in Italy to help her daughter, started calling Knox, but she was not allowed to answer, she said, as police just kept telling her that “everything will be fine” if she just told them that she was in the apartment and knew what happened to Kercher.
As to how Lumumba became entangled in the saga, Knox said that police found a text on her phone to Lumumba, who was her boss at the time. She had tried to write “See you later. Good night,” but police interpreted it as a literal meeting appointment.
&#8220;You must have met him at the house. Remember! Remember the truth!&#8221; she said police told her.
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On X, Knox wrote that the new trial “is a good thing” and said that Lumumba was her friend at the time this happened.
“We are both victims of the violation of my human rights during my interrogation, without which I was helpless against the coercive pressure of the police,” she wrote.
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I&#8217;m on trial in Italy again&#8230;and this is a good thing.
As everyone knows, on March 27th, 2015, the Court of Cassation definitively acquitted me and Raffaele Sollecito of the murder of Meredith Kercher, per non aver commesso il fatto—for not having committed the act.
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— Amanda Knox (@amandaknox) <a href="https://twitter.com/amandaknox/status/1712816515136032901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Adapted from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1332-bud-light-must-be-destroyed-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Michael Knowles Show,”</a> September 18, 2023.
Did you know most men think of the Roman Empire every single day? This fact has gone viral over the last week because a woman <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@ifitwerentfunny/video/7278041817470356779" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on TikTok</a> asked her husband if he thinks of the Roman Empire daily, and he said, yes, he does.
When I saw this story begin circulating, I realized I was not conscious of the fact that I think of the Roman Empire every day — but I do. The minute I saw the video, I thought, Oh, I guess I do. Do women not think of the Roman Empire every day? Then, when I got home, my wife, Alissa, turned to me after having seen the TikTok and asked, “Do you really think of the Roman Empire every day?” I laughed and said, “You live with me. I basically talk about the Roman Empire every day.”
Why is that so? Why do men think of the Roman Empire every day? The answer seems rather obvious to me: the Roman Empire was the last time we had a unity of all of Western civilization. A perfect unity of it. There was a total political unity of all the lands and the peoples. There was a theological unity after the Edict of Milan when Catholicism became the official religion of the Roman Empire. There was a unity of religion, a unity of politics, and a unity of land. There was a unity of everything.
The fall of Rome is the main historical event that people compare anything to. With it came a break up that we have always been trying to reconcile and put back together. There was a bit of a resurgence with the Holy Roman Empire, though I consider that to be a sort of extension of the Roman Empire (so I think that counts). Thinking about the Habsburg monarchy, an almost continuous reign as Holy Roman Emperors, qualifies as thinking about the Roman Empire every day.
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During the Middle Ages, there was a yearning in the Western mind to return to the Roman Empire. Dante wrote about this unity that they were — and now we are — all seeking. We are all so fragile and now we are so extraordinarily fragmented. That is why people make these comparisons to the fall of Rome — because they know that was a travesty.
I spoke with my friend Spencer Klavan about this “thinking of Rome every day” realization, and he pointed out that part of what is so delightful about it is, it’s the first time in quite some time that we have seen one sex stumble upon a fact about the opposite sex and get a kick out of it. So often today when one sex finds out something or makes an observation about the other sex, it is an observation made in disgust or revulsion. This is obviously true of feminists. When they discover anything masculine, they label it “toxic.” It is also true of the red pill bro-men who do not like women.
The Roman Empire question/answer is a good example of women discovering something they previously did not know about men and thinking, That’s kind of cute. That is sort of delightful. That is, of course, how it is supposed to be because men and women are different, no matter what our cultural elites tell us today. Differences between men and women are actually a cause of delight and one of the great aspects of life as a human being.
Vive la différence. 
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The 2023 Venice International Film Festival kicked off this week with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/priscilla-presley-contests-amendment-to-late-daughters-will-lisa-marie-reportedly-cut-her-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Priscilla Presley</a> and Leonard Bernstein biographical films along with new movies from 87-year-old director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/woody-allen">Woody Allen</a>, admitted child rapist Roman Polanski, and more.
Presley biopic &#8220;Priscilla,&#8221; being directed by Sofia Coppola, and Bernstein&#8217;s bio &#8220;Maestro,&#8221; coming from director Bradley Cooper, are just two of the highly-anticipated movies to be premiered at the 80th annual gathering that began August 30 and includes 23 feature films in competition, WWD <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/venice-film-festival-2023-what-know-about-schedule-premieres-jury-and-red-carpet/ar-AA1fzuXZ">reported</a>.
Coppola&#8217;s &#8220;Priscilla&#8221; tells the story of Presley&#8217;s romance with the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, from her point of view based on Priscilla&#8217;s 1985 book &#8220;Elvis and Me.&#8221;
The filmmaker said she was drawn to adapt the memoir into a film as the daughter of famed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/priscilla-film-priscilla-presley-sofia-coppola-movie-elvis-1235572034/">The Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
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Adam Driver, Mads Mikkelsen, Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Caleb Landry Jones &amp; Patrick Dempsey are all set to attend Venice Film Festival.
They are allowed to promote since their respective films are being released by studios who have agreed to SAG’s proposal. <a href="https://t.co/mfxc1iOcDk">pic.twitter.com/mfxc1iOcDk</a>
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&#8220;Oh, it would be a juicy, glamorous story,&#8221; Coppola said. &#8220;But then I was struck by how much I connected with it emotionally. I thought it was just going to be a fun adventure, and I was surprised by how relatable her story was.&#8221;
&#8220;I know from my family what it’s like to be inside a show business family,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I know that growing up, people are looking at you in a different way. And also living in a house with my dad, this big personality, a great artist and a lot of our life revolving around that. And seeing my mom&#8217;s life, how she was trying to find her way within his, I could relate to that.&#8221;
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Priscilla Presley and Director Sofia Coppola sit down with THR and discuss creating the A24 film <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Priscilla?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Priscilla</a>, where audiences will get a rare look at her and Elvis Presley&#39;s story from Priscilla&#39;s point of view <a href="https://t.co/CDJ3Vaw1Fc">pic.twitter.com/CDJ3Vaw1Fc</a>
&mdash; The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1694333679320121389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Next up is &#8220;Maestro,&#8221; starring Bradley Cooper as famed composer Leonard Bernstein alongside Carey Mulligan as his wife. “Maestro” is &#8220;The Hangover&#8221; star’s second directorial entry following &#8220;Star is Born&#8221;
Michael Mann&#8217;s &#8220;Ferrari,&#8221; with Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari alongside Penélope Cruz as his wife Laura, is based on <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2023/07/25/venice-international-film-festival-2023-lineup/70461432007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brock Yates&#8217; biography</a> and it will premiere along with director Ava DuVernay&#8217;s &#8220;Origin,&#8221; her first feature film in five years, Collider <a href="https://collider.com/venice-film-festival-2023-lineup/">noted</a>. &#8220;Origin&#8221; is based on the book &#8220;Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,&#8221; Vulture <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/venice-film-festival-2023-lineup.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
The <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/07/2023-venice-debate-roman-polansk-woody-allen-1235447302/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annual festival</a> will likely also make headlines when it includes several films in the &#8220;Out of Competition&#8221; category, one from director Allen and one from disgraced filmmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/admitted-child-rapist-roman-polanski-suing-academy-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Polanski.</a>
<a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/venice-film-festival-2023-lineup.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allen&#8217;s</a> first French film &#8220;Coup de Chance&#8221; will premiere this year following his last film to open at an <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/07/2023-venice-debate-roman-polansk-woody-allen-1235447302/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A-list festival</a> in 2016. His filmmaker status in recent years has changed following repeated sexual assault allegations by adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow, <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/07/2023-venice-debate-roman-polansk-woody-allen-1235447302/">Deadline</a> noted. Allen has emphatically denied the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woody-allen-defends-himself-against-sex-abuse-paul-bois">accusations.</a> The filmmaker is expected to <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/07/2023-venice-debate-roman-polansk-woody-allen-1235447302/">attend</a> the event in person.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/child-rapist-roman-polanski-wins-venice-film-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Polanski&#8217;s</a> &#8220;The Palace&#8221; premieres this year and it will be the first time one of his movies has been shown at the festival since 2019, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2023/07/25/venice-international-film-festival-2023-lineup/70461432007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Today</a> noted. The 90-year-old disgraced filmmaker will reportedly <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/07/2023-venice-debate-roman-polansk-woody-allen-1235447302/">not make the trip</a>. Polanski previously admitted to sexually abusing 13-year-old Samantha Geimer before fleeing to Europe in the late ’70s. He drugged and sodomized her during a photoshoot at Jack Nicholson&#8217;s house in 1977,&#8221; per <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kate-winslet-what-the-fk-was-i-doing-working-with-woody-allen-and-roman-polanski">The Daily Wire</a>. At the height of the #MeToo movement, numerous women accused Polanski of sexual assault when they were teenagers, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/admitted-child-rapist-roman-polanski-suing-academy-paul-bois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
French film director Luc Besson will attend the festival where he will premiere his film, &#8220;Dogman&#8221; starring Caleb Landry Jones. Besson was recently cleared of charges in a rape case after Belgian-Dutch<a href="https://deadline.com/2023/07/2023-venice-debate-roman-polansk-woody-allen-1235447302/"> actress</a> Sand Van Roy accused him of assault in 2018. He <a href="https://people.com/director-luc-besson-cleared-of-rape-charges-in-france-7550964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> the accusation at the time, calling it a &#8220;complete and utter lie,&#8221; and said &#8220;I have never raped a woman in my life,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49973547" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a> News noted. It will be the first film he&#8217;s directed since his 2019 movie &#8220;Anna.&#8221;
Due to the ongoing Hollywood strike of the Screen Actors Guild and America&#8217;s Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) an absence of many stars on the red carpet and at the premieres will be noticeable, <a href="https://collider.com/venice-film-festival-2023-lineup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Collider</a> noted, since the strike prevents the stars from promoting movies.
In order for Presley to promote her film, &#8220;Priscilla&#8221; secured a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement which allows cast members, which includes Jacob Elordi playing Elvis and Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, to do press and appear at the annual festival, <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/priscilla-gets-sag-aftra-interim-agreement-ahead-of-venice-film-festival-world-premiere/ar-AA1fDbMV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deadline</a> noted. The main reason for the agreement was that the movie was shot in Canada under the production company TCB Productions Canada, the outlet noted.
&#8220;There&#8217;s multiple national laws that apply to exactly how we address striking that production … That&#8217;s one of the things we consider in the process of determining whether we grant an interim agreement,&#8221; SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland told the outlet.
&#8220;Priscilla&#8221; wasn&#8217;t the only film to secure an agreement with SAG-AFTRA amid the strike, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/global/venice-oscar-hopefuls-stars-italian-politics-1235706057/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> has confirmed that Adam Driver of &#8220;Ferrari&#8221; will be at the premiere, however it is unclear, at the time of this publication, if his co-stars Cruz and Shailene Woodley are part of the agreement.
The casts for Cooper&#8217;s &#8220;Maestro,&#8221; Yorgos Lanthimos&#8217;s &#8220;Poor Things&#8221; with Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo, and David Fincher’s psychological thriller &#8220;The Killers&#8221; aren&#8217;t expected to be in attendance, including celebrities like Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton, the outlet noted.
&#8220;DogMan&#8221; also got an interim agreement allowing the cast to promote the film because it was independently financed, <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/08/luc-bessons-dogman-interim-agreement-venice-film-festival-1235453391/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deadline</a> noted. 
Many of the directors for those movies such as Fincher, Coppola, Mann, and Lanthimos are expected to attend. Cooper is not expected to be at the festival, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/global/venice-oscar-hopefuls-stars-italian-politics-1235706057/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> noted. It kicks off August 30 and runs through September 9.
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Venice Film Festival Includes Presley And Bernstein Biopics Plus New Woody Allen, Roman Polanski Films

Venice Film Festival Includes Priscilla Presley And Leonard Bernstein Biopics Plus New Woody Allen, Roman Polanski Films

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Everybody knows what fascism means, right? After all, our politicians and media members use the word constantly. Everybody you don&#8217;t like is a fascist. Everybody you do like is fighting fascism. But what exactly is fascism?
The one thing everybody seems to know is that fascism is like Hitler and this means the chief characteristic of fascism is the Holocaust. Therefore, by the transitive property: Everyone you don&#8217;t like is fascist; every fascist is Hitler; the most Hitler thing is the Holocaust. So, Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or whomever the media say that day is probably going to commit a holocaust.
Invariably, the people in the media who use the word fascism use it to refer to a politician of the Right. But it turns out that fascism is Right-wing only when compared with outright communism. Fascism in Europe was a reactionary force. By American standards, fascism — which calls for unity of central authority and governmental control over private industry, among other agenda items — was far more Left-wing than Right-wing, which is why so many members of the American Left were originally quite warm toward Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
To understand this, let&#8217;s look briefly at the history of fascism. Fascism is a very messy concept in that it crosses streams with a wide variety of other ideologies ranging from Marxism to religious integralism. So what are the common features of fascism? 
First, fascism is characterized by a belief in the moral imperative of the centralized state. We can sense the roots of fascism going all the way back to Plato who called for a Philosopher King in a utopian state, although there are those who read Plato as esoteric in this call. We can sense fascist themes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 &#8211; 1778), who called for the dictatorship of the general will, a sort of miasmatic power emanating from the people but vested in a centralized authority, in which all people would feel themselves members. This is why Robespierre, the author of &#8220;The Reign of Terror,” cited Rousseau as divine. Georg Friedrich Hegel, (1770 &#8211; 1831), saw the power of the state as the apotheosis of mankind: 
<blockquote>“The state consists in the march of God in the world.”</blockquote>
This means that fascism sees both economic and individual freedoms as antithetical to the good when they challenge the power of the state.
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Second, fascism is characterized by a belief in nationalism or in its most virulent form racial hierarchy. We can see the roots of fascism in ancient Sparta, a militaristic dictatorship rooted in racial purity. With the death of biblical adherence to the notion of a universal humanity during the enlightenment, racial division became a deep part of Western thought.
Immanuel Kant (1724 &#8211; 1804) spoke about a hierarchy of races in his earlier work. He attempted to walk some of that back later in life. This sort of thought was exacerbated by Charles Darwin&#8217;s theory, which was misread to embrace scientific racism. Such scientific racism became a dominant philosophy throughout much of the progressive world, which is why both Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were advocates of eugenics.
Third, fascism is militaristic. It sees organization around military lines as a model for human existence and recommends action in the world as a response to existential nihilism.
There&#8217;s a reason Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 &#8211; 1900) was beloved to fascists. He spoke of the &#8220;Ubermensch&#8221; who would be able to conquer through power of sheer will. Fascism suggests a sort of mystical spirit residing in the nation that must be fed through expansionism and militarization of life.
Historically, the most important fascist was actually not Hitler but Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was the first politician to truly channel the roiling forces of fascism into one movement. The word fascism comes from the word “fasces,” a bundle of rods grouped together to form a roman weapon. Fascism comes from Italy.
Mussolini was originally attracted to the work of Marx, which was not anti-fascist in any real way. Many of the predicates of fascism also worked quite well for Lenin and Stalin. But Mussolini eventually came to realize rejecting Marx could serve his own ends.
In the aftermath of World War I, Mussolini gained power by marching on Rome, with the acquiescence of the king, in order to supposedly save the state from Bolshevism. Mussolini&#8217;s philosophy was somewhat vague but it carried all the central tenets of fascism. In 1927, Mussolini laid out the “Doctrine” of Fascism.” He wrote:
<blockquote>“Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State…”</blockquote>
Mussolini wrote that fascism was a “spiritual attitude.” That spiritual attitude required outward expansion:
<blockquote>“The state is not only authority which governs and confers a legal form and spiritual value on individual wills, it is also Power which makes its will felt and respected beyond its own frontiers thus affording practical proof of the universal character of the decisions necessary to ensure its development. This implies organization and expansion potential if not actual.”</blockquote>
That expansion meant not just militarization, but gargantuan public works, massive expansion of the welfare state, corporatization of the private sector with the government leaving private industry intact, but essentially working hand-in-glove with it to control it and channel its resources in the direction sought by the fascists.
Private companies remaining in private hands, that&#8217;s the reason that we&#8217;re able to create innovative products right here in America that are recognized and used the world over. We know how incompetent the government is, imagine them actually controlling all private business. Things would look pretty bleak.
Glorification of the State and the great leader lay at the root of the Mussolini regime. Mussolini quickly gained worldwide credence and approval. Fascism spread throughout Europe. Hitler greatly admired Mussolini, of course, and Hitler&#8217;s original Beer Hall Putsch was supposed to mimic the success of Mussolini&#8217;s march on Rome.
Hitlerian fascism was significantly more totalitarian than Mussolini&#8217;s brand. The cult of the great leader reached its fruition in the Führer. Philosopher Martin Heidegger embodied the feelings of millions in 1933:
<blockquote>“The Führer himself and he alone is the German reality, present and future, and its law. Heil Hitler!” </blockquote>
Nazism, of course, took on racial eugenics in a far more significant way culminating in the Holocaust. And Nazism&#8217;s militarism ended in the catastrophe of World War II. Hitler was not the only fascist to follow Mussolini&#8217;s lead.
Fascist regimes took over in a variety of countries ranging from Hungary and Romania to Paraguay and eventually Iraq. Other states, ranging from Spain to Argentina, mimic many aspects of fascism, leading many to label them quasi-fascist.
Certain aspects of fascism, particularly in the economic realm could even be seen under FDR in the United States. FDR&#8217;s New Deal, complete with government resources directed at forcing economic conformity, controlled huge swaths of American life, with FDR aide Harry Hopkins openly suggesting,
<blockquote>“We are not afraid of exploring anything within the law and we have a lawyer who will declare anything you want to do to be legal.”</blockquote>
And this is why the term fascism is so attractive in political discourse. Everybody thinks of Brownshirts and small mustaches when they invoke fascism, but there are a lot of aspects of fascism that survive in a variety of forms.
Corporatism — government working hand-in-glove with industry — is a form of economic fascism. Racial hierarchies can be indicative of fascist thinking, particularly when combined with differential treatment under law. Militarism can be termed fascist, particularly when its resources are directed at domestic populations.
Few people will admit to being fascist today. It would be far more useful for everybody to simply critique policies with reference to history but without reference to the buzzword that poisons everyday discourse. We can have good and interesting conversations about the value of corporatism, for example, without invoking Hitler, we can talk about opposing the shortcomings of atomic individualism without invoking the Holocaust.
The truth is that nowadays the term fascism tends to be a slur rather than a predicate to a useful conversation. As it turns out, everybody you don&#8217;t like probably isn&#8217;t Hitler.
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Not Everyone You HATE Is A Fascist

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The Miss Italy beauty pageant announced that biological males are not allowed in its annual competition, requiring all contestants to &#8220;be a woman from birth.&#8221;
Miss Italy Official Patron Patrizia Mirigliani told Radio Cusano that the competition will &#8220;not jump on the glittery bandwagon of trans activism,&#8221; The Blaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/miss-italy-transgender-canidates-ban?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by also using strategies that I think are a bit absurd,&#8221; a Google Translate version of her comments read, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/miss-netherlands-speaks-out-after-miss-italy-bans-transgender-contestants-1814782" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Newsweek.
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Miss Italy bans transgender contestants, must be a woman from birth: &#39;Will not jump on the glittery bandwagon of trans activism&#39;<a href="https://t.co/IWHAkR4XXW">https://t.co/IWHAkR4XXW</a>
&mdash; YAF (@yaf) <a href="https://twitter.com/yaf/status/1682519660263096320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Since it was born, my competition has foreseen in its regulation the clarification according to which one must be a woman from birth,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/miss-italy-pageant-bans-transgender-competitors-bit-absurd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mirigliani added</a>. &#8220;Probably because, even then, it was foreseen that beauty could undergo modifications, or that women could undergo modifications, or that men could become women.&#8221;
The announcement comes after the Miss Netherlands contest crowned trans-identifying male <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/post-truth-world-man-wins-miss-netherlands-sparking-outrage-on-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rikki Valerie Kolle</a> the winner of the 2023 contest, beating out 9 women to get the title.
&#8220;A man just won &#8216;Miss Netherlands&#8217; 2023,&#8221; Dutch commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek tweeted. &#8220;Considering the fact that we live in a post-Truth world, I wasn&#8217;t even expecting anything else. It&#8217;s all so predictable and unoriginal at this point.&#8221;
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A man just won “Miss Netherlands” 2023. 
Considering the fact that we live in a post-Truth world, I wasn’t even expecting anything else. It’s all so predictable and unoriginal at this point. <a href="https://t.co/j6NKo2cCvu">pic.twitter.com/j6NKo2cCvu</a>
&mdash; Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1677976646148554753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Netherlands is home to some of the most beautiful women on earth,&#8221; another account posted. &#8220;Of all these beautiful women, they just nominated a transgender man to be Miss Netherlands 2023. A man with a penis should be disqualified from any female beauty pageant and the fact that statement will gain me haters is just insane.&#8221;
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The Netherlands is home to some of the most beautiful women on earth.
I mean that with all sincerity. They are gorgeous.
Of all these beautiful women, they just nominated a transgender man to be Miss Netherlands 2023.
A man with a penis should be disqualified from any female…
&mdash; Ada Lluch 🇪🇸 (@ada_lluch) <a href="https://twitter.com/ada_lluch/status/1678031091410653187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Kolle will now go on to represent the country in the 2023 Miss Universe competition. The competition is owned by a trans-identifying male.
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Kolle called the Miss Italy decision &#8220;so sad,&#8221; Newsweek noted.
In the United States, the Miss USA pageant invited its first trans-identifying male entrant in from Nevada in 2021, The National Desk <a href="https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/miss-italy-pageant-will-bar-trans-entrants-wont-join-glittery-bandwagon-of-trans-activism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. Not to be confused with the Miss United States of America beauty contest, which won a <a href="https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/11/02/21-35228.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">case</a> in a U.S. appeals court in 2022 that ruled it could not be forced to admit trans-identifying males as contestants.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/post-truth-world-man-wins-miss-netherlands-sparking-outrage-on-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Post-Truth World&#8217;: Man Wins Miss Netherlands, Sparking Outrage On Twitter</a>

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Miss Italy Announces Men Are Not Allowed, Won’t Jump On Trans Activism ‘Bandwagon’

Miss Italy Announces Men Are Not Allowed, Won't Jump On Trans Activism 'Bandwagon'

Beauty Pageant

Celebrities

Entertainment

LGBTQ

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It was a scorching 98 degrees in Rome, Italy, on the afternoon of June 22, 1983. Emanuela Orlandi, 15, the fourth of five children who lived with their parents in Vatican City, asked her older brother Pietro for a ride to her afternoon flute lesson, complaining of the heat.
Pietro, being a 20-year-old at the time, refused to drive her, so she walked alone to her music school, situated outside of the Vatican City walls in the heart of Rome.
That decision, he would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/20/emanuela-orlandi-brother-anguish-vatican-missing-teenager-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tell</a> the Guardian decades later, has haunted him his entire life.
“It’s a very painful memory – she insisted I take her, and we rowed over it,” he said. “Then she left, slamming the door. I never thought it would be the last time I saw her. I’ve gone over it so many times, telling myself if only I had accompanied her, maybe it wouldn’t have happened.”
Before she arrived at the school, Emanuela called her older sister Federica to say that a man from Avon Products had approached her and offered her a job handing out flyers for a fashion show. Emanuela told her sister that she would meet with the man again after her music lesson and let him know whether she would take the job.
Federica warned her sister not to take the job, believing it was a scam since the pay was way too high for just a couple of hours of work. She suggested they discuss the proposal with their parents first.
After her music lesson, Emanuela told two of her classmates about the job offer and then waited at a bus stop with another girl, who has never been identified.
When Emanuela didn’t return home for hours, her family began to worry and started looking for her along the route from the Vatican to her music school. They called the director of the music school and asked if anyone knew anything about Emanuela, but received no information. Her father went to the police to report her missing, but police officers were initially dismissive, believing she was simply with friends or had run away.
Emanuela’s family pleaded with police to believe them that Emanuela would never pull such a stunt, and the next day, she was officially reported missing. Newspapers published small notices of her disappearance within the next few days.
Several people told police that they saw a girl fitting Emanuela’s description speaking to a man holding an Avon cosmetic bag on the day she disappeared, but two police officers who witnessed the girl couldn’t agree on when they saw her. One said it happened after the music lesson, while the other said it happened before. Both said the man was driving a dark green BMW. The car reportedly belonged to a woman, but the lead was never followed.
<div id="attachment_591469" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-591469" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-591469" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1259051993-864x576.jpg" alt="ROME, ITALY - JUNE 25: Pietro Orlandi (C), Emanuela Orlandi's brother, attends the march to St. Peter's Square on June 25, 2023 in Rome, Italy. Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the family of Emanuela Orlandi, on the 40th anniversary of her disappearance. Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican citizen, disappeared mysteriously while returning home from a flute lesson on June 22, 1983, at the age of 15. Her story gave rise to speculation over the years, which assumed the involvement of international terrorism, Italian intelligence, organized crime and a plot inside the Vatican. (Photo by Stefano Montesi - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1259051993-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1259051993-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1259051993-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1259051993.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Pietro Orlandi (C), Emanuela Orlandi&#8217;s brother, attends the march to St. Peter&#8217;s Square on June 25, 2023 in Rome, Italy. Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the family of Emanuela Orlandi, on the 40th anniversary of her disappearance. (Photo by Stefano Montesi &#8211; Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)</div>
<h4>And Then The Phone Calls Began</h4>
The Orlandi family would receive dozens of phone calls about Emanuela’s disappearance after they posted their phone number in the paper. Among these calls were three highly disturbing claims. The first came from a man who identified himself as Pierluigi, who said he and his fiancée spoke to Emanuela on the day of her disappearance. He described her appearance, claiming she introduced herself as “Barbarella,” had run away from home, and was selling Avon cosmetics.
Authorities told the family to begin recording these phone calls, and on June 28, 1983, they recorded a man claiming to be Mario. Mario told the family that a girl about Emanuela’s age came into his bar and identified herself as Barbara and said she had run away from home. He said the girl claimed she would return home for her sister’s wedding.
On July 3, Pope John Paul II mentioned Emanuela in his weekly remarks at the Vatican, imploring Emanuela’s kidnappers to return her safely. It was seen by many as an official claim that Emanuela was kidnapped and led some to believe the Vatican knew what happened. Though many suspect the pope was merely assuming the girl had been kidnapped.
Two days after the pope’s remarks, a man with an American accent began calling the Orlandi family. He claimed to be part of a terrorist organization that was holding Emanuela in exchange for the release of Mehmet Ali Ağca, who attempted to assassinate the pope two years earlier. 
This caller, who would be referred to as “the American,” claimed Pierluigi and Mario were part of the organization.
To this day, investigators do not know the identities of these men.
<h4>Theories</h4>
For the next four decades, numerous people would come forward and claim to have knowledge of Emanuela’s kidnapping.
On July 6, the American repeated his demand to release Ağca in the newspaper and asked that the prisoner be released within 20 days. He said that a wastebasket near the Italian Parliament contained proof that Emanuela had been kidnapped. Authorities found photocopies of Emanuela’s music school ID card, a receipt for her tuition, and a note allegedly written by Emanuela, though its authenticity has always been in question.
The news agency ANSA was contacted by a Turkish organization calling itself the Anti-Christian Turkesh Liberation Front, or “Turkesh” for short, which claimed responsibility for Emanuela’s abduction, though it didn’t provide physical proof that Emanuela was in their hands. The group also claimed to be responsible for the disappearance of Mirella Gregori, who had disappeared in Rome 40 days before Emanuela. Italian authorities could never verify the existence of Turkesh.
Ağca himself claimed that he had been trained by the KGB to kill the pope and that Emanuela had been kidnapped by Bulgarians referring to themselves as the Grey Wolves.
In 2005, more than 20 years after Emanuela disappeared, an anonymous caller told the Italian television program “Chi l&#8217;ha visto?” that the disappearance would be solved by discovering who was buried in the Basilica di Sant&#8217;Apollinare crypt. The body there turned out to be that of notorious crime boss Enrico De Pedis, and thus a theory developed that Emanuela, a girl from the Vatican, was abducted by the mafia in order to force the Vatican to pay back the money the gang had given it.
De Pedis’ ex-girlfriend, Sabrina Minardi, came forward a year later to say she had personally witnessed Emanuela’s treatment while she was allegedly being held by De Pedis’ gang, Banda della Magliana. Her story, however, has often been contradictory, in which she regularly has changed the location where Emanuela was being held.
Another theory involved claims that Emanuela had been involved in regular meetings within the Vatican and had accidentally died on the day she disappeared, with the Vatican covering it up. One of Emanuela’s old friends had suggested that Emanuela had told her that a high-ranking Vatican official had been “bothering” her – while implying sexual advances – and that Emanuela disappeared to cover up a sex scandal. Other theories also include pedophilia within the church or a member of the Vatican police recruiting young girls for sex parties. These theories contend that De Pedis, the mob boss, was asked by the Vatican to kidnap or kill Emanuela as part of the cover-up.
In 2017, Italian journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi was given documents stolen during the 2014 Vatican leaks. This document, which has never been authenticated, claimed that the Vatican spent 483 million lire (about $277,000 dollars) supporting Emanuela up until 1997. The document listed expenses for her education and medical care and suggested she had been living in London until she died.
Investigators doubt many of these fanciful claims, suggesting it is more likely that Emanuela simply ran away (her family does not agree) or left with someone she knew. Among the rationale is that Emanuela would have to have been kidnapped on a busy street in Rome during the daytime without anyone noticing or hearing her scream.
<div id="attachment_591453" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-591453" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-591453 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1259053091-864x576.jpg" alt="ROME, ITALY - JUNE 25: Pietro Orlandi, Emanuela Orlandi's brother, speaks participants before the march to St. Peter's Square on June 25, 2023 in Rome, Italy. Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the family of Emanuela Orlandi, on the 40th anniversary of her disappearance. Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican citizen, disappeared mysteriously while returning home from a flute lesson on June 22, 1983, at the age of 15. Her story gave rise to speculation over the years, which assumed the involvement of international terrorism, Italian intelligence, organized crime and a plot inside the Vatican. (Photo by Stefano Montesi - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1259053091-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1259053091-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1259053091-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1259053091.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Pietro Orlandi, Emanuela Orlandi&#8217;s brother, speaks participants before the march to St. Peter&#8217;s Square on June 25, 2023 in Rome, Italy.(Photo by Stefano Montesi &#8211; Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)</div>
The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/europe/italy-vatican-girl-case-intl-cmd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most recent theory</a>, which has been vehemently denied by the Orlandi family, is that a now-deceased uncle of Emanuela’s was responsible. Documents provided by the Vatican to Rome authorities stated that Mario Meneguzzi, Emanuela’s uncle, had sexually harassed her older sister Natalina around the time Emanuela disappeared and that he may have been responsible for the teen’s disappearance.
“By the way, my uncle was 200 kilometers (124 miles) away on holiday with his family that evening when my father phoned him and he came straight away to Rome – things the Prosecutor’s Office knew very well because everything has been in the documents for 40 years. A shameful action that happened this evening,” Pietro Orlandi, Emanuela’s brother, posted on Facebook after learning the latest theory.
It has been 40 years since Emanuela disappeared on a hot summer day in Rome. Her body has never been found, and no one has been held responsible for her disappearance.

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A tourist traveling from the United Kingdom has been forced to apologize after he was caught carving his name — and his fiancée&#8217;s — into the wall of the Colosseum in Rome.
The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/world/europe/tourist-colosseum-rome-apology.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tourist</a>, identified by authorities as a 27-year-old Bulgarian-born fitness trainer named Ivan Dimitrov, has <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/05/ivan-dimitrov-offers-head-scratching-explanation-for-colosseum-vandalism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">written a letter of apology</a> to the Mayor of Rome — in which he claimed that he did not know the historical significance of the landmark. The letter, dated July 4, was also sent to the Rome prosecutor&#8217;s office and &#8220;the municipality of Rome.&#8221;
Dimitrov, who currently resides in Bristol, England, could face up to five years in prison in addition to hefty fines — around $16,000 or more — after he reportedly used a key to scratch &#8220;Ivan + Hayley 23&#8221; into the 2,000-year-old edifice. Video of Dimitrov&#8217;s crime went viral, eventually leading to his apprehension.
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In his letter to Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri — which was published in an Italian newspaper on Wednesday — Dimitrov simultaneously pleaded ignorance and begged for forgiveness.
&#8220;It is with deep embarrassment that only after what regrettably happened did I learn of the antiquity of the monument,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Through these lines I would like to address my heartfelt and honest apologies to the Italians and to the whole world for the damage caused to an asset which, in fact, is the heritage of all humanity.&#8221;
Dimitrov&#8217;s attorney argued that the fitness instructor was just an ignorant tourist, telling local news outlet <a href="https://www.ilmessaggero.it/roma/centro_storico/turista_vandalo_colosseo_lettera_scuse_sfregio_non_sapeva_antico_cosa_ha_detto-7501120.html">Il Messaggero</a>, &#8220;The boy is the prototype of the foreigner who frivolously believes that anything is allowed in Italy, even the type of act which in their own countries would be severely punished.&#8221;
An American tourist — who had just finished a tour of the ancient landmark himself — was the one who filmed Dimitrov&#8217;s escapade and brought it to the attention of Italian police.
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&#8220;And as you see in the video, I kind of approach him and ask him, dumbfounded at this point, ‘Are you serious? Are you really serious?'&#8221; Lutz said later. &#8220;And all he could do is like smile at me.&#8221;
Lutz said that at first, Italian authorities did not appear to be acting on the tip — but a day later, they had identified Dimitrov.
&#8220;This act was offensive to everyone around the world who appreciates the value of archaeology, monuments and history,&#8221; Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano said of the incident.
Thus far, Italian media outlets <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/world/europe/tourist-colosseum-rome-apology.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">do not appear to be buying</a> Dimitrov&#8217;s excuse. Il Messaggero said the tourist&#8217;s groveling letter &#8220;defaced common sense,&#8221; and one television commentator said it was &#8220;really a somewhat unbelievable excuse.&#8221;

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