Japan… I can’t stop crying… 😭🔥⛩️
We’re only eight months into 2026.
And already,
19 temples and shrines in Japan have been lost to fires.
One of them, Seianji Temple, is said to have been founded in 931 and had nearly 1,100 years of history.
It was a place of prayer that local people had protected for generations.
And then,
it was lost in just a few hours.
The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.
Was it arson, or was it an accident?
I want the cause of this fire to be thoroughly investigated.
Even so,
it feels like fires at historic shrines and temples are happening far too often this year.
Buildings and cultural heritage that have been passed down for hundreds, even thousands of years can never be brought back in exactly the same form once they are lost.
Once again,
it feels like another small piece of Japanese history has disappeared into the flames.
And that makes me incredibly sad. 🇯🇵😭
@realMaalouf I used to think that Islam was a religion. Not anymore, Islam is a political movement that consumes whatever is in its way. It must be banned in the West or we are doomed.
@realMaalouf Thirteen of our shrines gone, just like that, this year alone. They had been standing peacefully for centuries. It fills me with deep sorrow.
A bit strange, don’t you think?
As soon as Muslims started moving to Japan, its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples started burning down, just like the churches in Europe.
I had to read this three times before I could believe it was real.
Rotherham. A small town in northern England.
For sixteen years, at least 1,400 children — some as young as eleven — were raped, gang-raped, and trafficked between cities by organized groups of men.
Eleven years old.
Petrol was poured on them so they would stay quiet.
Their families were threatened with death.
Photos were taken and used as blackmail.
The police knew.
The council knew.
The social workers knew.
For sixteen years, not one of them moved.
Why?
Because officers were afraid of being called racist if they acted on what they were seeing.
That was the whole reason.
While children were being sold, adults were protecting their own reputations.
That is the moment something in you breaks.
And here is the part that makes it worse.
The TV networks did not report it. The papers did not chase it.
When the journalist Andrew Norfolk finally broke the story, even he thought maybe 150 girls had been hurt.
The real number was 1,400.
He was staggered.
This should have been the biggest story of the decade. It was not.
The networks looked away. The advertisers preferred safer topics.
The cover-up did not end when the report was published — it continued in the silence of every newsroom that refused to chase it.
Then Elon Musk bought X.
The advertisers fled.
The press declared the platform finished.
X almost did not survive.
But it did.
And on X, the names of those towns started trending.
Rotherham.
Telford.
Rochdale.
Oldham.
Towns the country had been told to forget.
Britain understands itself differently today.
Not because the politicians confessed.
Not because the broadcasters apologized.
Because one platform refused to let it stay buried.
X almost did not survive.
1,400 children almost stayed forgotten.
That is worth saying out loud.