The terrorist attack in the center of Vienna, which claimed four lives as of the morning of November 4, seems strange and unusual.
For a long time - since 1945 - Austria has been represented as a country from which you have been jumping for three years - you cannot reach any state.
In the sense of being disconnected from the passions raging in the big world.
The former Habsburg capital has become more of a museum city, where there are monuments of past greatness - but everything is in the past.
And Pope Paul VI, noting the successes of peace and socialism in the Alpine country, called Austria "the island of the happy."
In other words, unlike the same France, where the gun was hung on the wall, and in the most conspicuous place, and the only question was when it would fire, in Austria - at least for a superficial glance - the gun was not observed at all.
When it did fire, the Austrians were shocked.
There was no rational or even pseudo-rational motive for villainy.
Perhaps only to demonstrate clearly to the Austrian burghers:
"And your canopy is nomadic
In the deserts they were not saved from troubles,
And everywhere fatal passions,
And there is no protection from fate. "
It can be helpful to break the will to resist.
The feeling of general insecurity affects souls strongly.
Especially when the mood of 1529 and 1683, when the Muslim army was stationed near Vienna, but the Austrians managed to crush the enemy with an indestructible wall, with a steel defense, to destroy the enemy, it is long in the past.
Nevertheless, the long modern experience of Austrian peaceful cohabitation with Islam, which ended so badly, leads to sad thoughts.
Moreover, the Austrian Muslims were mainly not from the Maghreb and the Levant, where very simple customs reign, but from the Balkans and from Turkey, where the customs are also not entirely European, but still more polished.
And, as before it seemed, at least amenable to polishing.
Now, when a 20-year-old Austrian citizen with Albanian roots has done such a business, the position of those who believe that the best of the snakes is still a snake, and especially dangerous, because it hides its poison in its tail, will strengthen.
Or, in a more relaxed way, "I love Muslims when they are at home."
However, in the latter case, it is not entirely clear what is considered the home of a Muslim.
Those who say this bon mot believe that the home of a Muslim is somewhere far away, beyond the mountains, over the seas, while Muslims themselves tend to believe that their home is where they now live.
Reconciling such positions is not easy.
On the other hand, to declare any confession of faith in the Prophet as "Islamofascism", to which some bow in their hearts, while others are completely open, is, in any case, rather inconceivable.
It is easy to say: “Begone!”, But it is much more difficult to materialize this wish.
This is not to mention the fact that the very statement that there are no peaceful Muslims in nature, but only in appearance, raises doubts.
In any case, the experience of the Russian Empire, where the principle “Mohammedan, how to lay down the weapon, please in every possible way about religion and other things,” was in effect, cannot be called a failure - rather, rather successful.
How many troubles did the Russian tsars have from the Kazan Tatars?
Here, however, one can argue that we are talking about a peaceful Islam, which is not politicized.
But politicization, unfortunately, comes out of all the cracks, and not only in Islam.
Added to this is the problem of religious discipline.
The mufti of old times, loyal to the state, had a means of influencing the ummah so as not to shebarshila.
In the same way as the Orthodox as well as the Catholic hierarchy.
Today, and in Christian orthodoxy, there are serious problems with this.
A.V.
Kuraev, stripped Sergei Romanov, etc.
they do not at all go to the monastery to repent, but they continue to teach their flock the devil knows what.
Just like Vissarion.
If even in modern orthodoxy the fight against predatory wolves is not very successful, then what do we demand from the Mohammedans?
Therefore, the task facing both secular authorities and loyal Mohammedans is like squaring a circle.
Too much is against them.
But something must be done, and the curse imposed by the Islamic clergy on the righteous shaitans could move the hopeless situation from a dead center.
Whether the muftis have such a will is another question.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.