As the late, great Paul Harvey used to observe, it's not one world. The formerly great nations of Europe, including the nations of the Anglosphere, have shaped the culture and legal systems of the modern world. But there are other nations in the world, other cultures, and despite what many Ivy League sociology professors might maintain, not all cultures are created equal. Some are arguably worse than others, and some are frankly savage.
Case in point: The majority-Muslim nations are viciously intolerant: Of Christians, of Jews, of anyone who isn't Muslim, of anyone who isn't adhering to the sect of Islam that is in the majority of any given country. And, yes, the way women and girls are treated in the Muslim world is appalling.
This treatment, this savage culture, is being imported into Europe. Italy, now, after a wave of crimes against women, has had to pass a law defining femicide as the murder of a woman or girl because of her sex. And it's not Italian men who have made this necessary.
Italy gave the world Caravaggio, Verdi, and the sort of architecture that makes tourists weep into their gelato. A place of operas, cathedrals, couture, and cuisine. And yet, this week, its parliament passed a law more at home in a nation struggling with social collapse: a statute defining femicide, the intentional killing of a woman or girl because she is female, as a separate crime, punishable by life imprisonment.
The vote was unanimous. Italy’s famously quarrelsome parliament suddenly agreed on something — the political equivalent of a taxi in Naples using a turn signal. Giorgia Meloni welcomed the law, calling it overdue. Few disagreed. Italy recorded 106 femicides in 2024, roughly one every three days. That’s a rhythm no civilized country should ever grow accustomed to. Especially not Italy, a nation that has spent centuries perfecting beauty only to find itself tallying bodies at a pace that would shame much poorer and less stable states.
That's happening, despite Italy having a woman as its leader, who is one of the toughest and most effective leaders in Europe. It's happening because of years of bad policy by Italy, as well as many of the nations of Europe. Italy owns this problem because of its own policies.
One thing is obvious: ordinary Italian men (and women) aren’t suddenly possessed by some murderous mania. The average Italian male is far more interested in football lineups, family lunches, and finding a stretch of sidewalk not colonized by Vespas. And yet the killings continue. That contradiction tells us the violence isn’t rising organically from Italian culture. Something else is colliding with it.
For well over a decade, Italy has absorbed large waves of unchecked immigration, particularly from North Africa and parts of the Middle East — regions where violence against women is a grim routine. Countries like Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, and Libya repeatedly rank high for domestic violence, forced marriage, and gender-based killings. In many of these societies, often shaped by deeply traditional interpretations of Islam, “honor” dictates what women may do and “dishonor” is treated as an offense punishable by the family itself. Femicide there isn’t concealed. It’s treated as part of the moral order, not a violation of it. A daughter speaking to a boy her father disapproves of, a wife seeking divorce, a sister refusing a forced marriage — these are the decisions that can cost a woman her life.
In Italy, these patterns don’t magically vanish at the border.
No. They are transplanted. We've seen it right there, in the United States. We're seeing it in Europe. We'll see it more in Europe. We'll see it more here.
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This is the elephant in the room: Islam and the culture around it. The majority-Muslim world accepts the abuse of women; honor killings can result from the slightest rebellion of a young girl against a culture that brutally oppresses women: Having a boyfriend, being "too Western," showing insufficient zeal towards wearing the hijab, or even the full-body "stealth women" outfits one is starting to see, not in Kabul, but in Copenhagen.
Italy's new law may help, some, after the fact, but it won't prevent many of these crimes. The problem is far, far beyond what the legal system can deal with. More determined action is required. Italy and the other nations of Europe freely accepted these people into their countries. They should have known better. There are people today in these European nations who know the Continent's history, especially the history of the days when places like Algeria and Libya were European colonies. Europe knows what these cultures are like. They've known since the Moorish invasion of Spain in 711 AD, the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 AD, the fall of the Byzantine Empire, and the rise of the Ottomans, who spread across the Mediterranean world and nearly reached Vienna.
Even if nobody in Europe remembers those events, they sure ought to be able to look around Europe today and see what's going on. Now, Italy is having to legislate against barbarity, a barbarity that they allowed in. But the problem remains, and the only lasting solution won't be easy: Expulsion. These people, these "migrants' as the European media euphemistically labels them, will have to be sent back to where they came from. A new Charles Martel has to arise from somewhere: France, Italy, Germany, somewhere. If Europe is to remain European, this is the needful act.
And, sadly, it's probably already too late.
