It remains to be seen whether Berlin’s numerous LGBTQ ranks will draw any useful lessons from Abdul Ballout’s attack on an LGBTQ parade on 25 July, which resulted in one woman being killed and 29 people being injured. For once, the police have spoken clearly and unequivocally and called the perpetrator, who was killed following a confrontation with the police the next day, an Islamic terrorist. There is therefore no longer any need to speculate about Ballout’s motive.
As Carl R. Trueman points out in \First Things\, the latest terrorist attack is yet another example of how the identity politics that has been the hallmark of the left for several years must, at some point, collapse under the weight of its own internal contradictions.
The initial reactions to the atrocity do not, however, suggest this. Instead of anger, residents were met with the familiar warning that the attack must not set them against one another – as though it were not the terrorist’s act that created division, but the reactions to it.
Identity politics, however, forbids the condemnation of perpetrators if they belong to a privileged group – and by virtue of being Muslim, people such as Abdul Ballout have long benefited from the exalted victim status with which official Germany has endowed them.
The political class’s response to Muslim atrocities is therefore never that the authority of the state must be asserted and the ideology motivating the terror combated. Instead, it turns against those citizens who have had enough of the ravages of Islam, in the first instance by depriving citizens of a language that allows them to describe the phenomenon at all.
As Trueman observes, postmodern identity politics is a net designed to catch opponents, doubters and critics who refuse to board the Titanic of our age. The identity politicians, with their media and experts, will not debate with such wretched people. They are to be excluded and suppressed by every means. For when politics is reduced to protecting the specially favoured, every consideration for the welfare of the country, popular government, freedom of expression, and equality before the law and in the administration of justice must give way.
The pattern can be seen in country after country: People who advocate the traditional values and the culture that have sustained Western civilisation through generations are relentlessly persecuted.
The question, however, is how long the ruling class’s hitherto successful efforts to divide citizens into irreconcilable groups and set them against one another can continue.
For a while yet, we may perhaps see members of the LGBTQ movement don Muslim head coverings and agitate for Hamas – that is, an organisation that has introduced the death penalty for homosexual acts in Gaza. But one would think that the ideological marriage between the sex activists and the holy warriors must sooner or later end in divorce.
But how did such an ill-chosen alliance come about in the first place? As Trueman points out, it can only be explained by the spirit of negation that has settled like a blanket over the Western world, and which can be traced back to so-called critical theory, which gained a foothold at Western universities many decades ago and from there spread to the media and cultural life. Critical theory sees its task as breaking down what exists, without concerning itself with what is to come afterwards.
What will happen to our society when identity and tribal thinking have replaced every sense of a national community, and more and more people realise that they cannot achieve anything through democratic elections? They can vote as wisely as they know how, but postmodern ideology has such a firm grip on all of society’s institutions and public discourse that democratic resistance is futile.
What will be the consequence of the planned dismantling of society? As more people realise that certain groups enjoy a special status and are protected by the power of the state, regardless of what atrocities they commit or plan, citizens no longer have any choice: They must band together within their own identity segments, because there is no one else who can protect them.
When Pakistani grooming gangs in England have for decades been able to exploit 250,000 white working-class girls while the authorities have merely looked on because they did not want to be called racists, English parents are forced to take measures to protect the children whom the authorities will not protect. And when we now experience Muslim dominance behaviour in Danish schools, Danish parents are forced either to raise their children to resist or to take them out of state schools.
This is the road towards civil war, which is the natural consequence of the politics of negation and the planned dissolution of society that has resulted from the actions of the EU and globalist governments over several decades.
They enthusiastically imported millions of foreigners whose aim was to undermine the West, but have never explained what is to happen when our old culture has disintegrated. But they will come to realise that they may have been able to destroy, but scarcely had sufficient strength to contain the natural consequences.