A terrible attack took place this week in Germany in the course of a public event, perpetrated by a Muslim fanatic. A German expert on radicalism published a caustic article in which he condemned the public talk in the country and demanded a stop to calling events in general terms of 'extremists' or 'violence' and, rather, insisted that the public come out and term such occurrences by name: Islamism.
"Enough. Enough of cliches. Enough of empty reactions, evasions and general terminology where the same verbiage is used repeatedly instead of calling things by their true label," he wrote. "Come - let's call it by its name: this is Islamism. Not radicalism in a vacuum, not 'violence' without a real address or an act by an 'isolated and befuddled terrorist'; this is an ideology which has a name, a list of enemies with a shut world-view which sanctifies murder."
He maintains that the selfsame 'list of enemies' includes Jews, Christians, liberal Moslems, atheists..." He believes that Europe finds itself, now for the past three years, in the throes of a wave of radicalism, and that the Middle East conflict is serving, in his opinion, as a central catalyst for the process.
He determines that the emotional charger through which people in the street are being 'mobilized, maneuvered and moved', is through the Internet and the mosques. Therefore, he advises, it is not enough to focus upon the attacks themselves by on the bases behind them. "It is not only the criminals upon whom the spotlight should be focused, but upon the men and women active in the process behind the scenes, and in the name of tolerance, one can achieve, and unhindered, mobilize people to death."
He adds, "We must be honest regarding the question of why this is taking place particularly here and now. Islamists feel very comfortable in Europe and in Germany as well. They decry our law and order and at the same time, take advantage of the liberty granted to them in order to disseminate their idealism. They rely on the freedom of religion in order to specifically undermine the very society that provides them with this freedom. An end must be put to this."
He goes on to write that the freedom of religion is designed to protect faith but not to be utilized as a "shield for a political ideology which propagates its venom in the name of religion."
It is too little, and apparently, too late for Europeans to discover that the venomous snake which they raised and nurtured by their own hands, is about to bite them to death.
