Isis, the barbarism in the name of Islam and the complicity of a part of Western intellectualism
The tafazzism of many maitre-à-pensers, of many students and professors, of many keyboardists of the Western web on Isis, Hamas and beyond. Battista Falconi's italics
The attack in Moscow takes us back to a past of barbarism from which, given the international crisis situation, we no longer feel as distant as in the past. And the inquisitorial response, as some would call it, given by Moscow with the confessions extracted through beatings, torture and mutilations, seems perfectly contemporary to us. Having made the obvious profession of Western moralism, however, some side reflection says that things are not so adamantine.
On a geopolitical level, bringing up the USA and England as instigators or accomplices of the massacres together with Kiev is a low Putin blow but not too dangerous. The real risk of NATO entering the Russian-Ukrainian camp is less imminent and real than people say, as is the risk feared following the violations of Polish airspace. Fortunately, we are still in logomachy, a war of announcements and threats.
On a geocultural level, however, the situation is more worrying. The massacre at Crocus City Hall is just the latest confirmation of what the most violent Muslim fundamentalism can do. It will be said that even many very wasteful Americans have the habit of entering schools and supermarkets shooting wildly but, in fact, we relegate them to "other", to "outside": in our heads and in our idea of civilization. The link between the jihad led to massacres of innocents, the ISIS and Houthi military actions, the incarcerations, sentences and executions imposed by Ayatollah and other Mohammedan political-religious leaders, however, is very clear.
That there is an Islam that collides head-on, violently, belligerently against our very criticizable way of life is equally clear and it is not a question of some possessed and isolated radical fringe, but of the extreme tip of an iceberg called Umma, the almost always silent community of the faithful and very rarely the protagonist of stentorian sentences. Generally, when the voice is heard, it is a faint distinction.
But the real problem is not this, the problem is us.
That Israel is a state on the limits of liberal democracy, that Netanyahu is keeping the front warm with Hamas also to stabilize his shaky position, that some Palestinian rights have been denied for decades, that the use of Tel Aviv's reaction is disproportionate, It is true. Having said that, long live Israel and down with Hamas, which is neither a sovereign state nor just a terrorist group, but a sort of explosive hybrid of both. We know very little about how people live in and around Gaza, or rather we only know the miserable material conditions of its inhabitants, made known by the understandable humanitarianism of our observers and commentators. However, whether that people are largely conscious accomplices of their belligerent leaders or whether they are victims because they are subject to the dictatorship, it is not really clear.
In the meantime, people are protesting against the Israeli retaliation, calling for peace, but not clearly and irrevocably condemning October 7, the day on which Hamas decided to violate other people's territory, just as the barbaric Vladimir Putin did, and to kill unarmed and peaceful civilians, as the barbaric murderers of March 22 did. Two barbarities in one. With the blessing of many maitre-à-pensers, of many students and professors, of many keyboardists of the Western web.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/isis-barbarie-complicita-intellettuali-occidentali/ on Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:42:40 +0000.