Badges of Dishonour: The Scouts Go Woke For Islam and Queerness in Britain and America

April 7, 2026

Originally posted by: Daily Sceptic

With war in Iran, Uncle Sam needs as many troops as he can get his hands on at the moment. One traditional human pipeline of future new recruits has long been the Boy Scouts of America, with around 10-16% of military cadets having been introduced to the fine world of outdoor pursuits (as shooting foreigners in the head does tend to be) by scoutmasters as children. But over recent years, recruiting sergeants have begun noticing a distinct decline in the quality of trainees sourced from the Scouts, such fresh cannon-fodder seeming increasingly gay, soft and useless.

The Pentagon has identified the problem as one of wokeness in the Scouting movement itself, with Obama-era DEI schemes having done their intended work of transforming the flower of American youth into a bouquet of total pansies. As a result, Donald Trump’s current War Secretary, Pete Hegseth, has now threatened to cut all US military ties with the organisation. Explaining how “the Boy Scouts lost their way”, Hegseth complained that, under Democrat rule:

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