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For European Elites, It’s Still “See No Islamist Evil”
While demonstrators in London celebrated the terrorist attack on a Manchester synagogue,
national leaders warn only of immigration restrictionists.
national leaders warn only of immigration restrictionists.
For European Elites, It’s Still “See No Islamist Evil”
While demonstrators in London celebrated the terrorist attack on a Manchester synagogue, national leaders warn only of immigration restrictionists.
www.city-journal.org
A day after an Islamist rampage against a British synagogue and two days after the indictment in Berlin of three suspected Hamas members for planning terror attacks in Germany, German chancellor Friedrich Merz and French president Emanuel Macron met in Saarbrücken, Germany, and warned of . . . right-wing threats to European democracies. Neither said a word about the Manchester assault or the Berlin indictment.
Instead, Merz announced to the European potentates commemorating the 35th anniversary of German reunification that “our liberal way of life is under attack, from both outside and within.” German broadcaster Deutsche Welle decoded for the clueless: Merz’s enemy “within” was the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Germany’s voice for immigration restrictionism.
Macron connected those external and internal threats: “authoritarian countries” outside Europe are “aligned with the extreme parties” inside Europe, he said. Europe’s “extreme parties” embrace a “new nationalism,” based on “hate of the other,” according to Macron. Unless European democrats fend off the “dark Enlightenment,” the European continent would become “like many others,” filled with “conspiracy theorists, extremes, noise, and fury.”
It required no decoding to pick up the reference to the North American continent.
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier took up the same theme: political forces looking to undermine democratic institutions and poison debate with hatred were gathering strength, especially in Germany’s East—another boilerplate reference to the AfD. “Let’s not allow our democracy to be further damaged,” said Steinmeier.
The Saarbrücken speeches illustrate a key rule of contemporary European power: wheresoever two or more members of the European elite gather together, they will denounce the “far right,” right-wing “extremists,” and “dangerous nationalists.” They will ignore Islamist violence. In Saarbrücken, Merz did not note that attacks on Jews in Germany have been spiraling upward. Merz did not mention Germany’s knifing assaults by first- and second-generation immigrants or the fact that immigrants and their progeny commit a vast disproportion of crime.
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The obsession with the “far right” among European elites has become a psychotic delusion. AfD, Rassemblement National, and Reform U.K. voters are ordinary people, no different from their fellow citizens except in their willingness to oppose the open-borders status quo. Their leaders do not seek to destroy democracy; they only want to participate in it.
Yet populist party members are portrayed as a pathogen within the body politic. British Housing Secretary Steve Reed said on September 28 that the Labor Party is the “disinfectant that is going to clean up the pollution of the Far Right in our politics.” Such concern with purity is ironic in people who rest their moral authority on their allegedly unique opposition to fascism.
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The people will not be disinfected out of their beliefs, however. Across Europe, populist parties are growing in strength (as demonstrated again this weekend in the Czech Republic). They are the last Europeans with the will to conserve European civilization. The establishment cartel will try to hold on as long as possible, through as many anti-democratic gambits as it can cobble together. Which side prevails in that battle will determine the future of the West.
Commentary:
European “elites” have clearly not learned the lessons of history.
While psychotic, it's not delusional.
It's a deliberate, calculated distortion of reality meant to confuse the media illiterate, deflect responsibility for the disaster of importing hordes of migrants into Europe from culturally incompatible civilizations (such as they are), and frame domestic political enemies as perpetrators for the bad acts of those imported migrants.
Put another way: European elites are egregiously lying to and about their own people.
They're not delusional or stupid. They're evil.
As if “Islamophobia” can only be an irrational fear. Like hell it is!
If they admit they imported the terrorists they will have to answer to the people.
Angela Merkle and the "Fourth Reich" have done more damage Europe than the artist with the silly mustache and the "Third Reich".
The Euros need to pray for 10% of the backbone of the Hungarians and force their leaders against the wall. Merz is just Ceauşescu with a funnier accent.