Hello and welcome to podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1317 on this the 15th of December the year of our Lord 2025.

I'm joined by Faraz and guest James S's, former barrister and now founder of Just Therapy.

And you're also a campaigner. What are you campaigning for?

Sense. Safeguarding, but mostly against this radical... therapy. And you're also a campaigner. What are you campaigning for?

Sense. And safeguarding. But mostly against this radical trans ideology that's infected our world, unfortunately. Well, that seems very sensible. So I'm glad to have you on the show.

Good to be here. Good. Also, thank you to Jamie, who sent us a deck of cards where every single card is a pitch of Tony Blair.

That is wonderful. Thank you very much. We will treasure those. And also poignantly, from Vern sent us this Christmas card of an Australian beach from Australia. Now, obviously, coming air mail, that would have been sent long before the weekend.

So rather poignant, given the things that we're going to be discussing today are the Bondi Beach attack.

I don't think we can cover this by any means exhaustively because it's so soon after the event and the picture is so muddled but we can we can we can start to frame it

and then i think we need to pivot to basically the perhaps the state of morality in the west

and particularly on the things that you've been so strong on so i think that's where we're going to focus

today so let's start with the bondy Beach bit. Yes, let's do that.

Before I get into it, I just want to do some frame setting

as to what it is that we're dealing with on a regular basis now.

On a civilizational scale.

On a civilizational scale.

And I want to start with Germany because an incident that was heavily overshadowed by the Bondi massacre

was that five people were arrested in Germany because they were planning to attack a Christmas market in Bavaria, I believe.

And it was three Moroccans, an Egyptian and Assyrian, with the Egyptian being the cleric and providing the religious justification for this attack.

And just as a quick note, Egypt provides a huge number of clerics that go into mosques in Europe coming out of Al-Azhar.

Al-Azhar University is one of the oldest classical schools of Islamic learning.

And if you know what they teach, you would think that there is a huge problem with getting any of them

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