Over coffee in Budapest recently, a visiting European lawyer told me her son had withdrawn as a student at Sciences Po—the familiar name for the elite Paris Institute of Political Studies—because he no longer felt safe there. The reason? An atmosphere of intimidation around pro-Palestinian activism, and antisemitism. 

The young man is a Christian, but he concluded that the Sciences Po administration had lost control of the situation and had no intention of restoring order. It wasn’t just the 2024 campus protests, which were eventually broken up by the police. It was more a matter of an overall culture of intolerance and bullying within one of France’s top institutions of higher learning.

Get used to it. As Europe moves steadily towards Islamization, this kind of thing will become the norm. 

The French government knows it, too. Last month, someone in the Macron government leaked a confidential intelligence report detailing how the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated French society on many levels. The report, which was intended for the eyes of senior officials only, documents how the Brotherhood, a well-financed international Islamist organization, seeks to turn Western countries into sharia states, not through direct confrontation, but through a soft strategy of transformation from within.