Car Attack on Multicultural Germany

One person was killed and 29 people were injured after an Islamist terrorist drove a van through a crowd in Berlin on Saturday night.

Car rammings have become sadly common in Germany. The media is usually quick to move on—but not this time, because the target was a homosexual pride parade.

[BRIEF]

• At 10 p.m., a white van drove into a crowd near a homosexual celebration near the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Germany’s capital.
• After hitting several people, the driver crashed into a tree, then fled on foot.
• Some reports said he drew a knife or machete and attacked those around him as he fled.
• The next day, the police announced their main suspect was 21-year-old Abdul Ballout.
• Later, police shot Ballout dead as they tried to arrest him.

Ballout had clear links to Islamist terrorism. This is likely to cause fear in Germans that more attacks might be coming and increase anger that the government isn’t doing enough to keep them safe.

• Ballout was born in Germany and holds German citizenship, but his mother is from Lebanon.
• Two years ago, Ballout posted Islamic State propaganda on Instagram.
• In May 2025, he traveled to Lebanon, planning to cross into Syria and join the Islamic State. Instead, he was arrested in Lebanon and sentenced to three months in prison.
• After release, he returned to Germany. He was arrested upon arrival.
• This May, he was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for “preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state.” Yet despite the court clearly recognizing he was a dangerous criminal, the sentence was delayed for six months, setting him free to carry out this attack.

Germany’s first high-profile vehicle attack occurred in 2016, when an Islamist terrorist killed 11 people by driving a truck into a Christmas market. Six were killed and over 200 were injured after a Saudi national drove into a Christmas market in 2024.

The last two similar attacks, in March 2025 and May this year, appear to have been carried out by mentally ill Germans, with no links to Islamist terror. About 10 other Islamic ramming attacks have occurred in France and the United Kingdom since 2007.

“What a heinous act in Berlin,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz posted on X. “This is an attack on our society.”

Will Germany react? These attacks are hard to stop. If someone wants to kill in Germany, they may have a hard time getting a gun or a bomb, but cars are everywhere.

Thus far, German authorities have done little to stop these attacks. Following the 2016 attack, the Trumpet wrote:

Merkel’s failure to react more energetically to the Berlin attack, her failure to recognize the extent of the problem and the part her policies played in creating it, and her failure to take the German public’s concerns seriously are deeply alarming. …

The more disillusioned, frustrated and angry the German people become, the more vulnerable they will be to radical politics and radical leaders with radical solutions.

A decade on, the German elite have continued Merkel’s policy, and the fast-growing, anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland could amass enough votes to govern at least one German state for the first time during elections in the autumn.

Germany cannot ignore the problem of radical Islam forever, and the longer the main parties delay, the more radical the backlash will be.

When your homegrown radical Muslims are attacking your pride parades, you know your tolerant, multicultural society can’t continue. Watch for Germany to bring in a strongman to lead the fight against radical Islam.

320,000 Flee as Wildfires Ravage Spain and France

With no rain in sight, wildfires continue to rage across France and Spain, forcing 320,000 people to evacuate. In France, 220,000 people have been forced to evacuate since a fire broke out in the Gironde region on July 21.

“The fires that are hitting our country have reached a level that has never been seen before.”
—Sebastien Lecornu, prime minister of France

Facing the flames: According to the Gironde prefecture government, efforts to fight the fires involve 2,750 firefighters, 18 aerial firefighting assets, 1,500 soldiers and 1,440 police officers and gendarmes.

“We expect a fight that will be long and very difficult.”
—Laurent Nunez, interior minister

Destruction: The firestorm concentrated around Gironde has burned more than 42,000 hectares and damaged 240 homes.

Changing the weather: “Yesterday evening, we faced another firestorm, the same incredible, unprecedented, unknown phenomenon as the one we saw on Friday, when we realized we were entering a new dimension,” Prefect of Gironde Sophie Broacs said today after a meeting with a group of international experts. She described the situation:

[A] completely unpredictable phenomenon, combining both fire and the storm it itself creates, with lightning strikes sparking new fires and winds fanning the flames. All of this is happening in a department with one of the largest forests in Europe, so there is an abundance of combustible material.

See God: The biblical book of Nahum shows that God “hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet” (Nahum 1:3). Commenting on this verse, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote: “God wants this world to learn that He controls nature. Many natural disasters are anything but natural. Soon, arrogant men will learn this lesson very deeply.”

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Poland’s Anti-German Party Kneecapped

Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party split on Friday. The nation’s main conservative party and currently the main opposition party, Law and Justice governed Poland from 2015 to 2023. But now it appears it could collapse due to infighting.

• Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, along with dozens of other legislators, was kicked out of PiS by party leader Jarosław Kaczyński.
• The exact number of legislators evicted has not been made clear. Kaczyński claimed “around 30-something” of the party’s legislators in the lower house essentially left the party after refusing to sign a declaration of loyalty. Morawiecki claimed 40 legislators left.
• Morawiecki has yet to declare the formation of a new political party, though he said he was starting “a new chapter in Poland’s political history.”
• While Morawiecki was technically prime minister from 2017 to 2023, Kaczyński has been party leader the entire time. Morawiecki has apparently been growing disillusioned with Kaczyński’s domination of the party, considering his leadership out of touch with the next generation.

Kaczyński has been one of the strongest opponents to German dominance in Europe. Germany played a major role in evicting the PiS from Poland’s government in 2015. With the party split, their power may be greatly reduced, handing Germany another victory.

IN OTHER NEWS

The United States paused its strikes on Iran today. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations claimed yesterday that President Donald Trump wants to give negotiations “a little bit of room” while U.S. forces remain “locked and loaded.” President Trump may have paused the strikes in response to the price of oil passing $100 a barrel last week.

Bahrain and Kuwait secretly attacked Iran last month, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The Journal’s sources claimed both countries targeted drone and missile storage sites in July. These would be these nations’ first strikes against Iran.

New contender with familiar name enters Brazil’s presidential election: Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, will challenge incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for the presidency of Brazil in October. His candidacy was confirmed on Saturday, and he has received international endorsements from Argentine President Javier Milei and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Although Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest for resisting the official results of the 2022 election that installed da Silva, Latin America has in recent months shifted dramatically to the right. Flavio Bolsonaro seeks to build on that momentum.