Of course, there is a ritual aspect to these kinds of comments, and national leaders have to say something in the wake of a terror event. But Sebastian Kurz ...
“... we must always be aware that this is not a dispute between Christians and Muslims or between Austrians and migrants. This is a struggle between the many people who believe in peace and the few who want war.”
... managed to do so while defending multiracialism, and in Paris le petit Jupiter ...
“We, the French, share the shock and sorrow of the Austrian people struck this evening by an attack in the heart of their capital, Vienna. After France, it is a friendly country that is attacked. This is our Europe. Our enemies must know who they are dealing with. We will not give up.”
... did so while claiming comity with an “idea” (ie, Europe, or perhaps he meant European civilisation). But then Jupitarians rarely reflect on the fate of mortals.
Frau Merkel did slightly better:
We Germans stand by our Austrian friends in sympathy and solidarity. The fight against Islamist terror is our common fight
... actually managing to name the ideology of the terrorists.
Donald Trump at least remembered that there are people ... ordinary people ... whose lives have been ended or changed forever by this attack:
Our prayers are with the people of Vienna after yet another vile act of terrorism in Europe. These evil attacks against innocent people must stop. The U.S. stands with Austria, France, and all of Europe in the fight against terrorists, including radical Islamic terrorists.
Not so Joe Biden ...
“We must all stand united against hate and violence.”
Old friend Anthony Migchels provides an excellent account of how the history of banking, its usury and derived power has driven supremacist imperialism, culminating in the present day.
However, I will offer this criticism: Anthony’s Christianity seems to obstruct his ability to see the central role of the Abrahamic religions, as a whole, in this; i.e., Christianity and Islam are not the most effective weapons against this oppression, but are rather instrumental in suppression and submission to it. Though Israel is not our ally against its Islamic enemies – a disingenuous alliance which has, indeed, created blowback against European peoples, neither is Islam our ally, deserving of a place among our nations. It is imperialist and supremacist as well.
With that comes a lesser criticism, but still important. The reason to criticize Muslims and other non-Europeans is not exactly to be suckered into divide and conquer; rather it is to counteract and work to undo the torrents of spin and cover up of the destructive parts of forced integration with these alien peoples. Not only do the Abrahamic religions impose mixing of the gentiles, but when this sort of conservative (conserving liberalism) takes the line that “we will not be divided from these people”, they are trapped, by the machinations of the elite powers that be, into the ultimate position that their antagonists seek – the withering away of their distinctions and ultimately their dissolution as any sort of autonomous challenge to their power.
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Of course, there is a ritual aspect to these kinds of comments, and national leaders have to say something in the wake of a terror event. But Sebastian Kurz ...
... managed to do so while defending multiracialism, and in Paris le petit Jupiter ...
... did so while claiming comity with an “idea” (ie, Europe, or perhaps he meant European civilisation). But then Jupitarians rarely reflect on the fate of mortals.
Frau Merkel did slightly better:
... actually managing to name the ideology of the terrorists.
Donald Trump at least remembered that there are people ... ordinary people ... whose lives have been ended or changed forever by this attack:
Not so Joe Biden ...
But he probably doesn’t remember Portland anyway.