{"id":2501306,"date":"2025-10-21T07:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-real-plunder-of-europes-crown-jewels-wasnt-at-the-louvre\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:53:17","slug":"the-real-plunder-of-europes-crown-jewels-wasnt-at-the-louvre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-real-plunder-of-europes-crown-jewels-wasnt-at-the-louvre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Plunder Of Europe&#8217;s Crown Jewels Wasn&#8217;t At The Louvre"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-real-plunder-of-europes-crown-jewels-wasnt-at-the-louvre%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2501306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the cultural and past heritage of Europe, particularly focusing on recent acts that the author perceives as attacks or degradation of this heritage. While referencing a high-profile theft at the Louvre involving priceless royal artifacts, the main concern is the defacement of Canterbury cathedral with graffiti containing provocative messages about God. This vandalism was reportedly endorsed by some church officials and framed as support for marginalized communities. The piece argues that such acts are symptoms of a broader trend in Europe, where governments and elites allegedly undermine customary Western, Christian values and heritage in favor of accommodating mass immigration and progressive ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>The article highlights increased immigration from Muslim-majority countries into the UK and Europe, attributing social problems and violent incidents to this demographic shift, and criticizing authorities for what is seen as censorship and suppression of dissent. It also references other cultural controversies, such as protests by migrants occupying historic venues in France and the use of art installations and Olympic ceremonies to promote &#8220;woke&#8221; themes, which the author views as disrespectful to European cultural achievements.<\/p>\n<p>the author contends that Europe&#8217;s political and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-era-of-limbaugh\/\" title=\"The Era of Limbaugh\">cultural elites<\/a> are complicit in eroding the continent&#8217;s christian and Western heritage, likening thier actions to an internal theft of Europe&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-to-the-rescue-floridas-created-incentive-packages-with-ports-to-solve-supply-chain-clog\/\" title=\"DeSantis To The Rescue: Florida\u2019s Created \u2018Incentive Packages\u2019 With Ports To Solve Supply Chain Clog\">crown jewels<\/a>,&#8221; far worse than physical robberies like the Louvre heist.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One of Europe&rsquo;s crown jewels, a centuries-old relic of irreplaceable artistic and historical import, has fallen into the hands of vandals intent on abusing it for their own selfish gain. <\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not talking about the <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7326868\/louvre-robbery-museum-crown-jewels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">heist<\/a> at the Louvre over the weekend, in which thieves broke into the most famous art museum in the world and stole nine items from a collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/messis-2022-world-cup-jerseys-fetch-7-8-million-at-auction\/\" title=\"Messi&#039;s World Cup jerseys sell for .8 million at auction\">priceless treasures<\/a> that once belonged to French royals of no less significance than Napoleon Bonaparte. <\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m talking about the plunder of Canterbury Cathedral, in which a church founded by St. Augustine of Canterbury and famed as the site of Thomas Becket&rsquo;s martyrdom was defaced with irreverent graffiti accusing God of being &ldquo;indifferent to suffering&rdquo; and &ldquo;creat[ing] hate.&rdquo; Unlike the Louvre heist, it wasn&rsquo;t done by bandits with angle-grinders. It was done by a man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C8kbAxhM2W-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describes himself<\/a> as an &ldquo;agender goblin-thing,&rdquo; with the enthusiastic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c7094wj0418o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blessing<\/a> of the cathedral&rsquo;s curator, Jacqueline Creswell, and its dean, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canterbury-cathedral.org\/news\/posts\/delight-and-displeasure-art-installation-s-questions-to-god-divide-public-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Monteith<\/a>, because it catered to &ldquo;marginalized communities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Canterbury Cathedral graffiti exhibition asks questions of God.<\/p>\n<p>Graffiti &mdash; of a sort &mdash; is now welcomed at the spiritual home of global Anglicanism in southeast England, to the ire of US Vice President JD Vance<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2or69SGsUB\">https:\/\/t.co\/2or69SGsUB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7UMcD4zkT2\">pic.twitter.com\/7UMcD4zkT2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; AFP News Agency (@AFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/1979092635722625236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The graffiti, which officially debuted on Friday, is only the most recent example of Europe&rsquo;s self-loathing elites plundering the cultural bounty they&rsquo;ve inherited. Over the summer, after patriotic Britons began flying the St. George&rsquo;s Cross and the Union Jack to celebrate their national heritage, local officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15153597\/council-flags-row-far-right-palestinian-london.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tore the flags down<\/a> and maligned them as divisive and racist.<\/p>\n<p>This past Easter, Charles &mdash; the British monarch and nominal head of the Church of England &mdash; couldn&rsquo;t issue a basic missive in recognition of the greatest Christian holiday without a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_ellepurnell\/status\/1912900442696159278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">performative<\/a> shoutout to Islam, which has become the second-most prominent religion in the United Kingdom. Thanks to the mass immigration of people from Muslim countries, the Muslim population of the U.K. more than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom#cite_note-71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doubled<\/a> between 2001 and 2021. Neither the millions of recent Muslim arrivals nor the British government has shown any interest in assimilating these masses of people into British society, and native Britons who object are routinely smeared as racist and often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/in-britain-police-arrest-twitter-and-facebook-users-if-they-make-anti-muslim-statements-2013-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even when these immigration policies turn deadly, as happened when a Syrian-born man literally named Jihad <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/03\/after-embracing-mass-migration-europes-civilizational-collapse-was-inevitable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attacked<\/a> a Manchester synagogue earlier this month, British subjects are not permitted to notice. The same goes for the abuse of young British women by Muslim immigrants, like the grooming and rape of local working-class girls by Pakistani men in industrial British towns like <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/08\/10\/report-british-authorities-still-ignoring-massive-pakistani-led-child-sex-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rotherham<\/a>. British officials <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/10\/u-k-grooming-gangs-scandal-could-happen-in-the-u-s-thanks-to-leftist-justice-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">covered up<\/a> the abuse for decades out of fear that it would reflect poorly on Muslim immigrant populations. <\/p>\n<p>And Britain is far from the only European nation cannibalizing itself to cater to arriving migrants. In 2023, the French government set a new record for the number of &ldquo;first residence permits &hellip; granted to non-European immigrants,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/britain-and-france-are-too-scared-to-tackle-the-migrant-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to the Spectator&rsquo;s Gavin Mortimer. Earlier this year, hundreds of mostly African teens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/world\/europe\/paris-theater-migrants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">squatted<\/a> in the Ga&icirc;t&eacute; Lyrique theater in Paris &mdash; described by The New York Times as &ldquo;a jewel in Paris&rsquo;s glittering cultural scene since the 19th century&rdquo; &mdash; demanding freebies from French taxpayers. It is common knowledge that many of the migrant men hail from cultures that treat women poorly and impose this cultural diversity on Europeans by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/14\/world\/europe\/a-climate-of-fear-widens-divisions-in-europes-migrant-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">harassing and assaulting<\/a> native women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>Even in historically isolated Switzerland, hundreds of foreign-born rioters set the streets of Lausanne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/migrant-riots-have-come-to-switzerland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ablaze<\/a> in August after an Algerian man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/15053860\/switzerland-migrant-riots-lausanne-teen-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crashed<\/a> a stolen scooter and died while running from police.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, European governments target their own citizens with oppressive <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/02\/europes-latest-attacks-on-free-speech-and-free-elections-prove-vances-munich-warning-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censorship<\/a> for offenses such as private prayer and Facebook comments. Self<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >-appointed elites turn traditions<\/a> and works of art that once represented the best of Western civilization into displays of woke debauchery. Look no farther than the Paris Olympics last year, where transgender performers made a blasphemous <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/29\/the-paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-perfectly-captures-the-decay-of-the-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mockery<\/a> of Leonardo da Vinci&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Last Supper&rdquo; during the competition&rsquo;s opening ceremony. Climate activists who throw gibberish accusations like &ldquo;extractive neocolonialism&rdquo; at the West <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/climate-activists-deface-christopher-columbus-painting-on-day-marking-his-arrival-to-americas-1234756823\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">throw paint<\/a> on great European works of art that dare to celebrate great European accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>Europe&rsquo;s ruling class is determined to undermine the continent&rsquo;s Western, Christian heritage, because it cannot peacefully coexist with gay race communism. Neither can the jihadists they&rsquo;re importing &mdash; but for now, both share a common enemy in Christendom.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s the height of irony when Emmanuel Macron <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmmanuelMacron\/status\/1979972585094807626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blasts<\/a> the Louvre heist as an &ldquo;attack on [France&rsquo;s] heritage,&rdquo; because his government has been more prolific than anyone at doing just that. The stolen Napoleonic jewels represent a history that Macron&rsquo;s leftist allies decry as racist, colonialist, and otherwise problematic. I&rsquo;m surprised the French government didn&rsquo;t already give them the same treatment numerous statues across Europe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2020\/06\/10\/watch-statues-under-attack-as-europe-confronts-colonial-past#:~:text=Related,%2C%20or%20erase%20cultural%20heritage.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received<\/a> in 2020 in the name of antiracism.<\/p>\n<p>Europe&rsquo;s biggest crown jewels &mdash; the rich cultural, political, artistic, and religious heritage it owes to its Christian past &mdash; were being plundered long before thieves broke into the Louvre on Sunday. Worse, it was an inside job, pulled off by cowardly government leaders who are missing a few crown jewels themselves.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Elle Purnell is the assignment editor at The Federalist. She has appeared on Fox Business and Newsmax, and her work has been featured by RealClearPolitics, the Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum. She received her B.A. in government with a minor in journalism. 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