Migrants cross the border into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on 30 July 2026. Photo: Antonio Sempere / AP / NTB.
I wonder where Mojtaba Khamenei has got to? Some say they have seen him hidden behind a veil at his father’s funeral. Others are certain that he was among the LGBT activists with the Hamas flags in Amsterdam. Still others believe that he has infiltrated the barbaric invasions of Ceuta. It is plausible, given that the IS terrorists who wrought bloodbaths in Paris and Brussels made use of the migration routes in the Balkans.
Had they asked me, I could have told them where Khamenei is. Mojtaba Khamenei, who after all has a rather fine property portfolio in London, is hiding under the niqab as Khadija Patel, the 17-year-old “English” girl from Bolton who was recently in the House of Lords in London, where she received the “British Citizenship Award” for “empowering young women”. A prize for the liberation of women to the Taliban?
We're delighted to announce that one of our incredible volunteers at KRIMMZ Youth Club in Bolton, Khadija Patel, was this week awarded with the British Citizen Award!
She received the award at the Palace of Westminster in recognition of her work empowering young women. 👏🎉 pic.twitter.com/0M0wQNVMnX
— Lancashire FA (@LancashireFA) July 24, 2026
Yes, Khamenei behind the niqab is a joke, even if anyone at all could have hidden behind it – even Pedro Sánchez on a visit to Ceuta before he returned to his luxury villa on Lanzarote to update the summer’s playlist on Instagram.
But the photograph is frighteningly serious and contains the future of the West.
The hands that present the prize to Khadija belong to middle-aged Britons, the last heirs of an Anglo-Celtic tradition that still sits at the seats of power in Westminster, and they smile openly. The prize-winner is presumed to be smiling behind the niqab. And it is precisely in that asymmetrical smile that one may read the entire allegory of the West.
The photograph captures the exact moment at which power hands over the keys to the future to someone who shares neither the vision of it nor the memory of the past.
For a while yet there will still be English types who smile in Westminster while they hand out prizes to those who demographically are in the process of replacing them. But then the old people who hand out the prizes will also quite soon be non-British.
In Nicaragua Daniel Ortega has recently decided that elections are no longer to be held in the country. It is of course a disgrace. But what is the point of elections if we grant access to them to people who wish to replace democracy with sharia?
More than 570 candidates with ties to a sectarian Islamic agenda supported by an Islamist pressure group, The Muslim Vote, won important victories in 58 local councils in the United Kingdom as well as two mayoral posts in the English local elections of 7 May.
“To give an idea of the matter, it means that more than one in ten candidates elected to the English local councils is a representative of a Muslim sect,” said Emma Schubart, researcher at the Henry Jackson Society, which was the first to publish the figures. In total 5,066 local councillors were elected.
So why does one continue to babble about “integration”? When you yourself are in a minority, why on earth should anyone wish to integrate with you and your “values”?
Integration presupposes a centre of gravity. Those who arrive do not adapt when this centre of gravity disappears; they impose themselves. And they are right to do so. No dominant culture “integrates” with its predecessors once it has taken their place.
Some of our virtue-signalling revisionists now claim that Ceuta does not belong to Spain because it was conquered in 1415. Should we then ask the Turks to give Constantinople back to the Christians? For they conquered it in 1453, after all.
Wir erleben eine islamische Invasion. Ihre Soldaten kommen ohne Waffen, weil sie wissen, dass das Abendland sich nicht mehr verteidigt; sie brauchen keine Waffen. Keine Waffe zu tragen (und sie sich bei Bedarf in Europa zu beschaffen), ist ihr trojanischer Schlüssel zu den… pic.twitter.com/KN0fo9G3Pk
— Julian Reichelt (@jreichelt) July 31, 2026
The German journalist Julian Reichelt (ex-Bild) sums it up clearly: “Their soldiers come without weapons, for they know that the West no longer defends itself. They do not need weapons. In this way they complete their goal of conquest and subjugation through demographic takeover. If we continue to believe that it is adventurers with individual motives who are coming, we make a suicidal mistake. An army from Muhammad is coming that feels an inner and sacred calling to wipe out our weak culture.”
Meanwhile the Spanish journalist from Ceuta informs us: “Here we can see thousands of women and children who are emigrating in search of a better life.” Besides masochism, progressivism must also be afflicted by visual disturbances.
Gad Saad is right: “For the first time in history a civilisation has decided that the most enlightened virtue is to surrender without offering any resistance whatsoever to the loss of its own culture, its own heritage, its own women and its own children. Suicidal empathy will be the downfall of the West.”
For the first time in recorded history, a civilization has decided that the most enlightened virtue is to surrender its culture, heritage, women, and children without putting up any defence. Suicidal empathy shall prove to be the demise of the West.
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) July 31, 2026
The teacher at the English school who showed a cartoon from Charlie Hebdo in the classroom during a social-studies lesson is still living in hiding. Not hidden like Khadija behind the niqab, but hidden in the sense of a new home and a new identity for himself and his entire family.
Meanwhile a massive demographic replacement is under way in England, reveal new official figures.
Bolton, the town of the Taliban girl who was honoured in Westminster, lies in Greater Manchester – yes, the same area from which the new British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, comes, with the “Manchesterism” that the Italian left-wing newspaper La Repubblica has praised.
In 2021, 47.0 per cent of the inhabitants of Bolton reported being “Christian” (a decline from 62.7 per cent), while 19.9 per cent reported being Muslim (an increase from 11.7 per cent in the previous decade).
These figures are the future of the West.
In Bolton children’s books are being written about how wonderful it is to wear the niqab.
In Bolton churches are being converted into mosques.
Meanwhile three women in Paris have been stabbed by a man who claimed to have been “sent by Allah”.
But just as during the Pride parade in Berlin, the problem is not the Polish girl who bleeds to death on the pavement, but those who try to “politicise” the event, and in any case the Islamist terrorist is also counted among the “conservatives”.
When the Dutch government banned the niqab, a group of (male) social-democratic politicians protested by wearing coloured niqabs during the Pride parade in Amsterdam.
I feel sorry for the eager Dutch. Nihilism can be amusing, but it does not hold.
Hegel’s night is approaching, in which “all cows are black” – black niqabs.
Meanwhile the “Zug der Liebe” (Love Train), the parade in Berlin dedicated to “tolerance, diversity and solidarity” that was planned for 29 August, has been cancelled. Perhaps they will hold a parade in niqab instead.
Abdul Ballout used a van to kill LGBT people during the Pride parade in Berlin. Many demonstrators were dressed in the usual Gaza kit, completely unaware of their forthcoming meeting with the Islamic crane operators from Iran.
But the biggest news is another. Abdul left Germany in 2025 to join IS in Syria. He was arrested in Lebanon and imprisoned for three months before he took a detour back to Germany, where he was arrested again. He was not, however, imprisoned; he was handed over to an organisation called Violence Prevention Network to undergo a course in “deradicalisation”.
The four women depicted were supposed to get him back on the straight and narrow: Judy Korn, Ella Goldschmied, Ariana Wolfe and Cornelia Lotthammer. Their biographies are full of the usual – “social justice, right-wing extremism, gender identity, misogyny, equality” – but nothing about Islam.
Violence Prevention Network receives large amounts of federal funds in Germany and is among the founders of the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN).
Sending a terrorist on a course held by activists who specialise in right-wing extremism and gender equality is like treating a bacterial infection with an extract of Bach flowers. Not only does it not work, but it reinforces the perception that the West is weak, confused and ready to destroy itself.
It is a little like the barrier in Ceuta: it cost billions, but proves to be useless. We continue to pretend that an ideology of conquest can be tamed with a course certificate, an inclusive smile and a fence full of holes and without police and military.
For it is as if for large parts of the power elite it is too late to save the old Spain – or the old France, the old Netherlands, the old Germany, the old Italy or the old England, even if they should wish to.
Migrants cross the border into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on 30 July 2026. Photo: Antonio Sempere / AP / NTB.
The pictures and videos from the invasion of Ceuta show a “Fortress Europe” that is so weak, and with guards who are so powerless, that they simply allow themselves to be overwhelmed. They show an EU that, despite its governments, its armed forces and police authorities, its tens of thousands of professional politicians, all its laws and regulations, all the think-tanks, expert panels, summits about who-knows-what and all the ideological nonsense, capitulates before men who swim a few hundred metres from Morocco.
Healthy Europe has understood this, and 22 of 27 EU member states demand secure external borders (the time of Merkel’s Wir schaffen das is very far away, writes Douglas Murray at The Free Press).
The real question is therefore not how many men are crossing the European borders.
But here too the important story is another: Why are so many citizens still surprised at the governments’ powerlessness, when this powerlessness now seems to be a form of government? What many perceive as administrative incompetence looks rather like a civilisational choice. We continue to talk about “sovereignty”, while we gradually replace popular rule with the management of migration flows.
We are, as it says in a chapter of my book “Titanic Europa”, “sleepwalkers in the Schengen countries”.
Or to put it with Elon Musk about Ceuta: “Wake up before it is too late”.
Wake up, before it is too late https://t.co/QOkksRa07y
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 30, 2026
Otherwise the best we can do is to resort to human sacrifice in order to accelerate the transition to whatever may come afterwards.
Once one has understood that this is the only plan that exists at the moment, all the governments’ statements that urge us “to stand against those who wish to divide us” make complete sense.
To protest against Islamisation, the courageous feminist collective Némésis has organised a demonstration. They gathered at the Trocadéro in Paris. They wore the niqab, the one that was honoured in Westminster.
“The French in 50 years?”, it says on their banner.
Much, much earlier.
Western Jews have understood this and have already packed their suitcases.
When the picture of Khadija from Bolton circulates in twenty years, it will not be remembered as an example of “women’s liberation”, but as the moment when we recognised our successor with a smile and a piece of paper.
It is therefore above all this strange weariness that one may read behind the fences in Ceuta today: rather than the victory for those who knock on Europe’s doors, it is the deep doubt of those who no longer know why these doors still exist …
The Western power elite thus no longer defends an order, but prepares its cessation.