You can no longer hear them, the appeasement formulas and condolences of the other European politicians after the terrorist attacks.

The only statesman who sets a different tone is the liberal Emmanuel Macron, who, even before the latest attacks and attacks, accepted the fight that the often defamed intellectual Alain Finkielkraut had been invoking since September 11: We, the enlightened Europeans, against an unenlightened Islamism that has become toxic in the bitterness of its own failure.

There may be many reasons why it hits Vienna: