The US State Department has condemned the UK government’s counter-extremism program, Prevent, after the Telegraph reported last week it has instructed Home Office civil servants to treat “Cultural nationalism” — the belief that “Western culture is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups” — as an “extreme right-wing terrorism” ideology.
Speaking exclusively to Courage Media, an official from the State Department said:
“Western culture is not something to demonize, diminish, or apologize for. Rather, Americans and Europeans should honor our shared heritage of self-government, liberty, and rule of law. Extremism comes not from those who respect our traditions, but from those who seek to erase them. We must continue to uphold these values and cease efforts to censor, marginalize, or stigmatize individuals for their beliefs, while rejecting all violent extremism.”
You can read the full story here, on Substack.
EXCLUSIVE: US State Department condemns UK Home Office for calling “Cultural nationalism” an "extreme right-wing terrorism" ideology
The US State Department has condemned the UK government’s counter-extremism programme, Prevent, after the Telegraph reported last week it has instructed Home Office civil servants to treat "Cultural nationalism" — the belief that "Western culture is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups" — as an…
This follows the State Department expressing concern a week prior over the Belgian police arresting pro-child activist “Billboard” Chris Elston and ADF International communications officer Lois McLatchie Miller, for having conversations with consenting adults in Brussels.
Elston initially called the police because a deranged man was following and intimidating Miller, while calling both a fascist in Flemish. Within minutes, they were encircled by a station’s worth of officers, before being taken to the police station, cautioned, and relieved of their signs, which were forcibly confiscated. More fool Chris for thinking the hi-vis enforcers of the Woke hegemony would side with them.
Miller told me, for Courage Media:
“Chris and I were arrested for stating a simple truth in public: no child is born in the wrong body. I called the police because we were being surrounded and felt threatened. But instead of addressing the aggression of the mob, the police arrested us—two people standing peacefully with signs, open to conversation.
“That this happened in the heart of Europe is deeply troubling. If speaking up for children is now grounds for arrest, then our freedom to speak the truth on any important issue is truly in danger.”
An official at the U.S. State Department, monitoring incursions on freedom of speech and the persecution of Christians in Europe, was troubled by the footage.
In a comment given to the Daily Wire, they said,
“We are aware of these reports and are looking into the matter. The State Department strongly supports the peaceful freedom of expression for all.”
In May, a senior State Department official wrote a post on Substack, citing mass immigration, and the subsequent incursions on free speech under the auspices of multiculturalism, as a security risk for the U.S.’ continued strategic partnership with Europe.
“The suppression of speech, facilitation of mass migration, targeting of religious expression, and undermining of electoral choice threatens the very foundation of the transatlantic partnership. A Europe that replaces its spiritual and cultural roots, that treats traditional values as dangerous relics, and that centralizes power in unaccountable institutions is a Europe less capable of standing firm against external threats and internal decay.”
On February 15, the Vice President cautioned Europe’s politicians against persecuting their citizens for free and lawful speech at the Munich Security Conference.
During the speech, he referenced the case of Adam Smith-Conner, an ADF client convicted at Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court on October 16, 2024, for praying silently within the vicinity of an abortion centre. Smith-Conner was sentenced to a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £9,000 ($11,700) in prosecution costs. In 2022, Bournemouth council imposed a “buffer zone” which censors protesting, speech, or prayer within 150 meters of their BPAS abortion clinic. Failure to comply can result in a £100 fixed penalty notice, or further court action.
American officials and commentators have been alarmed by the rise in arrests for social media posts to over 12,000 a year. Concern has concentrated on the case of Lucy Connolly, a mother imprisoned for 31 months for a deleted tweet, and whose appeal was denied due to her opposition to illegal immigration. A State Department spokesman said, “We can confirm that we are monitoring this matter” and reiterated that the Trump administration “supports freedom of expression at home and abroad, and remains concerned about infringements on freedom of expression”.
There is an increasing sense in Washington, D.C. that American taxpayers are subsidising Europe’s defence through NATO, while governments in Berlin, Brussels, and London turn into police states and tyrannise their populations in the name of “democracy”.
If we are to remain civilizational kin, then it’s time for Europe’s governments to fulfil their side of the bargain, and sustain the inheritance of Athens, Rome, and Bethlehem rather than the ideologies of Versailles, Frankfurt, and Harvard.
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