During a Ramadan Iftar ceremony held at Westminster Hall on March 3rd, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to his growing Muslim community as the leader of a liberal democracy once defined by Christian values and Western Civilisation. There was no ambiguity or attempt to mitigate the gravity of what he was about to say. In a clear steady voice, he said to those gathered in the Hall, “Muslims are the face of modern Britain.” That statement reverberated throughout Europe, especially in Rome, where it was met with both derision and pushback from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
For conservatives in Italy, this was more than just an expression of suicidal empathy from the leader of an unpopular Left-wing European government. The Italian Right believes that UK Prime Minister Starmer decided to unconditionally surrender to a demographic time bomb that could turn the UK into an Islamic defined nation in the not-so-distant future. It is a fate that Italy is determined to avoid.
Other major European nations like Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain are also struggling with mass migration from the Muslim and underdeveloped world that could turn Western and Southern Europe into unrecognisable, non-European countries by the end of this century.
Meloni, an influential leader of the European Right, has never been shy expressing her concerns about mass immigration into Europe. She views unregulated migration as a genuine and immediate threat to Europe’s democratic values, and has warned other European nations to change their current immigration policies to preserve Europe’s cultural identity, Christian faith, and to protect the European way of life.
In London, one of the most important and influential historic cities in Europe and the world, an explosion in non-European mass migration has resulted in 46 percent of Londoners identifying as non-White British citizens. Around 41 percent of London’s population was born outside of the UK, and about 15 percent of people living in greater London are Muslim. The name ‘Muhammad’ is now the most popular boys’ name in both England and Wales, and because of high community birth rates and continued mass migration from Muslim majority countries, that number is expected to dramatically rise by the end of this century.
The cultural displacement of native-born British citizens in their own capital city has already resulted in increased social tension, cultural division, and at times violent confrontations between different racial, ethnic, and religious groups. The response by the London police is often to side with migrant communities, out of fear of being branded racist or Islamophobic, resulting in White British born citizens feeling marginalised in their own country.
Newly arrived immigrants from Pakistan, predominantly young men, often join Muslim ‘grooming gangs’ in towns and cities across the UK, in places like Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford. They are organized gangs that engage in child sexual exploitation and rape, often targeting the most vulnerable young girls and women.
The UK Labour government has repeatedly rejected calls and proposed legislation by the Conservative opposition to investigate these crimes. In fact, the Labour Party refuses to even debate the scale and scope of these violent sexual crimes against their own citizens, fearing that the party will lose support in the Muslim community, which has been their most dependable voting bloc in recent UK elections.
In contrast to the UK Labour Party’s support of mass migration from the Muslim and underdeveloped world, Italy’s conservative Fratelli d’Italia Party, headed by Prime Minister Meloni, refuses to surrender to the European Left’s vision of a diverse non-European majority continent. PM Meloni’s Party motto is clear and unapologetic, “Dio, patria, famiglia,” meaning God, fatherland, and family. She has publicly stated that Italy has a fundamental right and duty to remain fully and uncompromisingly Christian, European, and Italian.
The question is, what vision of Europe’s future will prevail? Will it be the conservative view, represented by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who seems determined to preserve and protect Europe’s foundational institutions, Christian values, and expansive free speech and individual rights?
Or will it be the far-Left’s agenda, represented by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who seems equally as determined to continue importing migrants from the Muslim and underdeveloped world to replace Western culture and European identity in the name of diversity, equity, and empathy? A cynical decision designed to win elections by embracing policies that native-born Europeans do not support.
When first elected, Meloni’s government primarily focused on preventing illegal migration through maritime blockades, and she proposed banning full-face coverings like the burqa and niqab in public places; framing this as a fight against Islamic separatism. Now, she has expanded that conversation to reinforce the idea that Muslim values are simply not compatible with liberal Western democracies.
Under Meloni’s leadership, the Italian government has introduced some of the most restrictive immigration laws in Europe, often resulting in angry rebukes from Left-wing European politicians and EU bureaucrats in Brussels. Meloni has significantly reduced migration to Italy by working closely with North African nations to keep migrants in their host country — and has restricted NGO rescue vessels from entering Italian waters. In 2023, Italy signed agreements with Tunisia and Libya to strengthen their coastguards to prevent boat departures from those two nations — and in 2024 signed a landmark deal which mandates that migrants intercepted at sea be taken to processing centres in Albania rather than Italy.
Meloni has had the courage to say publicly what many other European leaders have expressed in private: mass migration from the Muslim and underdeveloped world into Europe has resulted in generational displacement and despair among many native-born Europeans. The explosion in welfare spending wed to an increase in violent crime, the sexual exploitation of women, and social divisions due to mass migration — all in the name of diversity — is a failed social experiment that has made Europeans poorer, less safe, and often strangers in their own countries.
Frank Di Fulvio is a writer and independent journalist based in Northern Virginia and Rome.
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Meloni is no LePen (and definitely not a female Lowe). I rest my case.
In an article entitled: Decades in the Planning, the Islamic Republic of Britain (5 March, 2026) on the UK Reloaded site, we read the following:
“In a recent speech given in the House of Lords to the Cambridge University Conservative Association, Dr Gavin Ashenden, for ten years a chaplain to the Queen, spoke of a ‘respected’ imam with whom he had worked ‘for quite a long time’ while running inter-faith seminars at the university where he was employed.
At the conclusion of one of these events, Dr Ashenden relates, this man confided in him as follows: ‘I’ve been doing this for an awfully long time, but my task is complete. I arrived in the 1970s with the aim of inaugurating an Islamic republic of Great Britain, and I’ve done it. This country is going to be an Islamic republic or, at least, a partitioned portion of it, in the time of my grandchildren.’
In fact, he continued, things were going so well that it could happen even within the lifetime of his children.” End of Extract.
I think this imam confirms what Keir Starmer said recently – that Muslims are, in fact, the face of modern Britain. That, and other examples such as the Muslim mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, being forced to distance himself from a claim on his website that a picture of a young white family “does not represent real Londoners”; the fact that, it seems, halal food is the norm in schools and restaurants (certainly in Scotland), just about says it all.
The Islamic Republic of Great Britain is more or less here, already, in my considered opinion.
Don’t think that being a Chaplain to Royalty carries any real weight, it doesn’t, and in the case stated I’m not surprised that this Imam’s confession (or boast) came as a surprise to one who has dabbled (not the right word as I don’t want to be rude or question the faith and beliefs of sincere Christians) with both CofE and (R)C. The true nature and aims of Islam are perfectly clear to anyone who bothers to look, only self-serving politicians and the ultra naive fail to see they are being used as the useful idiots. Inter Faith initiative and event participants are in for a very rude awakening.