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After the attack in New Zealand, no resurrection of the fairy-tale demonstrations for tolerance and xenophobia could be expected, but the perplexed reactions to this political terrorist attack, which resembled those of a distant traffic accident, are a bad sign.
In Christchurch, no bus crashed, people of Muslim faith were murdered there for a very specific reason: to send us a message to Europeans. The perpetrator, if you believe his manifesto, has chosen New Zealand only because many in Europe associate this country with the illusion of peace and security from terrorism. It is therefore by no means a local terrorist problem inherent in New Zealand society; the perpetrator acted in an international context. He meant us.
His goal may have been to provoke a revenge on Islamists, to further deepen the division. But more is hardly possible anymore.
Now there is a certain tradition that murders of Muslims, Arabs and Turks in this country cause little empathy. Back in the days of the 1990s, when the asylum shelters and homes of Turkish families burned down, the leading German politicians were struggling with symbolic assistance. If one studies the history of the right-wing murderers of the so-called NSU, one notices that pretty much every theory was considered more plausible than a racist series of murders. For years, people searched for the "Phantom of Heilbronn", although it was made only from contaminated cotton swabs. In between, people were looking for a woman in men's clothes who spends her life breaking into Saarland allotment gardens.
It took years and a confessional film of the culprits until the truth slowly came to light. It has not yet penetrated public awareness.
We know the 1970s as the fall of Germany, the period after September 11, 2001, until the attacks in London and Paris as an epoch of Islamist terror - but that right-wing terror shapes our present day. We come to this idea only very gradually. The right-wing terrorists are more internationally savvy and better informed than the liberal majority society, which is violently repressing and still mourning the folklore of the nation state. In this illusion, every right-wing terrorist is a single offender - and when cliques are caught, we think they are isolated. It is enough to study the deeds in order to recognize that the murderous madness has political method.
Cleavage and prejudice grow
The perpetrator of Christchurch recommended his co-thinker more attacks, in the first place he called the Chancellor. He knew what he wrote. Since her humane attitude in accepting Syrian civil war refugees, she has become a non-person on the right-hand side and into middle-class circles. Today hardly a politician dares to recommend the admission of further refugees or to do something with or for Muslims. Not even to mourn. The joint program of Islamists and right-wing radicals is therefore thriving, and the division and prejudices are growing.
About Muslims and Islam can meanwhile unsolicited claim everything and the opposite. Today, migration policy is discussed under the theme of improved deportation and sanctioned integration - a deeper political wisdom can not be found in it. Anyone who sees Muslims as the others whose murder in a mosque can be seen as a revenge for Islamist terror betrays the values of the West in whose name he speaks. Because what are those values?
Germany, a poor, devastated and discredited country, set itself a rather ambitious law 70 years ago, which was to be the basis for all others. There is no mention of Christ in this text, not even of the European race, for that, it goes on, on the dignity of man. Not of the German man or of the honest taxpayer, simply of man in and of himself, just as he creeps about the country in such varied and defective ways.
On some days one can ask oneself whether such a sentence would still find a majority in Germany today. Surely there would first be a catalog to make real people living here, German than German. Language test, account balance and the school of Loriot. Demands and requirements that enable a subject to apply for human rights in the first place.
More Muslims - a source of fear?
While actively suppressing the threat of right-wing terror, it has managed to discourage public opinion. The idea underlying the manifesto of the perpetrator of an impending population exchange, which will replace the good old white population with evil black people, is familiar even to conservative circles. The keyword is the birth rate, as if children were clones of their parents. Accordingly, the children of Nazis also had to become Nazis, and that's not how it came about. A promise of the West is to give every individual, independently of his family or community, a chance to emancipate, to see the subject in the subject.
More Muslims, this idea has become a source of fear, even though the nostalgically transfigured old Federal Republic was built by people from Muslim-influenced countries. It is the propaganda of the Islamists on the glue that want to make every person from Muslim cultures to their robot. If, on the other hand, you would like to improve living together, even though we already live in a relatively peaceful and beautiful country, then that would be with German-speaking imams, a school lesson in Islamic religion and generally less contact fears and demarcation fantasies. Because that's exactly where our strength lies.
The "Eros of the West" evolves from individual freedom, but also from the universality of human dignity, cohesion and, more generally, an empathic worldview that does not ask refugee aid whether these people are right for us, but how they are treated can best help.
Any empire dominates the techniques of politics of interest, the harassment of minorities, and the real political hearted heartlessness. For the first time in history, however, the values of the West promised something very different: a political order that ignores religion and origin, guarantees freedom, and strives for cohesion and legal equality.
The cold of the right world view
Therefore, the answer to the right-wing threat is not to isolate or limit Muslims as if there were a future separate. Modern Europe was built by people from Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Turkey. At the present time, with a thousand planes a day and digital all-round information, the Mediterranean is no longer parting. The people on the south and east coasts there are our direct neighbors, Europe must develop a common political and economic future with them, and in this regard, the events in Algeria are more important than the internal conflicts of the CSU.
The Spiritus Rector of the author of the Manifesto of Christchurch's perpetrator, the French publicist Renaud Camus, responded to the act with a tweet in which he voiced concern. He worried about the Muslims in Europe, he wrote, better, they retreated to safe countries. It was a threat in the guise of worry: on this continent, a Muslim of his life is no longer safe.
These political forces, which deal with separation, division and aggression under the pretext of defense, are real and determined. Authors like Camus provide the ideology to see in a foreign-looking group, not the people, but the others. This cold characterizes the right world view. That is why the shared grief, the shock of the fate of the victims, whom we personally do not know, is the appropriate answer. This and the normal everyday life in which we are free and vulnerable.
For that, not the cold and harshness of the self-styled right avengers of the Occident, is what constitutes our humanity, the fragilité .