A Barricade Breached

If Taleb al-Abdulmohsen had been as initially suspected, then there would have been no suggestion that he had "acted alone". But we were still right that he was the sort of person whom our lords and masters were supporting in Syria, much of which is being made Greater Israel. In having attacked a Christian target, as such, al-Abdulmohsen is firmly in the tradition of the church-bombers and church-burners of Gaza and Lebanon, of the West Bank and the Armenian Quarter. In that same tradition are all of the purported liberators of Syria.

Al-Abdulmohsen identifies with the noticeably irreligious Alternative für Deutschland, which does best in some of the most secular places on Earth. Right-wing populists have no interest in answering Islam with a return to structured daily prayer, to the setting aside one day in seven, to fasting, to almsgiving, to pilgrimage, to the global community of faith as the primary focus of personal allegiance and locus of personal identity, to the lesser outward and greater inward struggle, to the need for a comprehensive and coherent critique both of capitalism and of Marxism, to the coherence between faith and reason, and to a consequently integrated view of art and science. On the contrary, their blanket opposition to immigration would prevent the re-Christianisation of the West. If they are social conservatives, then they have an entirely Boomer or Generation X understanding of what they wanted to conserve. And we now see just how dangerous they are.