Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, the rough start of 2025 did not actually start on January the 1st.

A New Year's day in the early morning hours, a U.S. Army veteran plowed a truck into a crowd in New Orleans

and a terrorist attack that was done in the name of

the Islamic State. Just a few hours later, pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked 6th Avenue in New York,

calling to globalize the Intifada. And across the Atlantic, a report released describing so-called

Muslim grooming gangs who preyed on lower-class white girls in Britain,

although grooming is far too mild of a descriptor for what the report actually claimed.

Apparently, since 2000, about 250,000 British girls have been groomed, drugged, and sexually assaulted.

Those who reported their assaults were often blamed or ignored.

Fathers, who attempted to rescue their daughters, were at times arrested. People who tried to expose the behavior were imprisoned. Apparently, officials were afraid of being labeled racist or being accused of inciting racial tension or racial violence. So they were more fearful of being insensitive than they were committed to protecting girls from sexual abuse and exploitation. Across Europe, during the

holidays, Christmas markets were attacked and disrupted by Muslim demonstrations. In many of

these European cities, Muslims regularly pray publicly in areas and acts that are designed to cause maximum

disturbance. This is something rare in Islamic nations and indicates the intent of Muslims there

to claim new territory as their own. And on New Year's Day, immigrants, mostly Muslim,

rioted in Brussels and in Berlin and in other cities as well. We should also mention that in what's

become a terrible tradition on holy days in that nation, Christians in Nigeria again suffered a

series of murders attack over Christmas at the hands of Islamic Fulani herdsmen and ISIS-related

groups. According to a report from open doors, at least 25 were killed, some while returning from

a Christmas Day church service. Also, 21 Christians were killed in Christmas-tied attacks in the

Democratic Republic of Congo. Now, of course, most Muslims around the world are peaceful and condemn

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