Woke Linke: Advanced Denial of Reality

It’s around 1 a.m. when Zanier M. shows up with a sports bag in front of the “Per pa Hjørnet” bar. He pulls out a gun, shoots two people, moves on to the “London Bar”, Oslo’s oldest gay club, where the guests get in the mood for the next day’s Pride parade. There he shoots again. At the end of his act of terrorism, Zanier M. killed a family man and a 60-year-old homosexual and injured 21 people, 10 of them seriously.

What happened on the night of June 25th to 26th this year has now almost been forgotten. Fatal attacks on homosexuals and queer people are no longer isolated cases in Europe. Not only the willingness to use violence is frightening, but also the reactions to such acts. They show how far parts of the supposedly enlightened left have withdrawn into a parallel world in which certain facts no longer play a role.

In their world, terror always comes from the right

This is not about cranks who think contrails are poisonous chemtrails and have identified Bill Gates as the head of a secret world government. It’s about people who sit in parliaments, head parties, teach at universities, are media-savvy – and consider themselves “woke”, i.e. vigilant and progressive. In the case of Oslo, the German member of the Bundestag and Green Party leader Ricarda Lang said on Twitter that the act of terrorism was to be assigned to the “global right”.

Similar thoughts drove the Swiss SP national councilor Tamara Funiciello, who belongs to the radical left wing in her party. In her column in the “Sonntags-Zeitung” she interpreted the assassination as an expression of a worldwide “shift to the right”, a “discourse shift” to the disadvantage of women and minorities. Her conclusion: “Every time someone shouts ‘woke’ and thus devalues ​​the fight for the rights of minorities, the ground is prepared for an attack like that in Oslo.”

Funiciello suggests that anyone who criticizes the “Woke” movement she supports is fueling terror – as if anyone who gets upset about gender asterisks is a mental rampage. What Ricarda Lang and Tamara Funiciello based their accusations of guilt on, which are presented like court judgments, remains open.

“Emma” is to blame if a martial arts thug kills

Funiciello’s column only appeared on July 3rd. At that time, the media and police authorities had already reported a lot about the alleged murderer’s political and social background. Zanier M. is a Norwegian of Iranian origin who had long been known to the secret service as an Islamist sympathizer. He had previous convictions for assault and illegal possession of a firearm. A friend of his posted a picture of a burning rainbow flag a few days before the terrorist attack, and he called for the killing of homosexuals.

It has long been known that homosexuals are despised by Islamists and some Muslim youths as well as by right-wing extremists and certain football ultras. But it doesn’t matter to some politicians. Like Lang and Funiciello, they prefer to spread fake news and conspiracy theories about alleged masterminds in the background.

When a passerby recently insulted lesbian women in Münster and beat the trans man Malte C. to death, woke leftists reacted in the same way: they announced that “transphobic” feminists like the “Emma” founder Alice Schwarzer or biologist Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, who would create a climate of hate (Schwarzer and Vollbrecht, among others, deny that the penis is a potentially female sex organ, which activists see as hate speech). Democrats were thus quickly turned into murderous accomplices.

Radical left-wing activists determine what is on the right

The originators of these allegations were, among others, an employee of the ARD “Tagesschau”, the author and green ideologist Katja Diehl and the queer federal spokesman for the party Die Linke: This demanded unspecified “consequences” for the women mentioned. Even after this crime, it quickly became clear that the allegations were only intended to defame political opponents. The perpetrator is a martial arts thug with a relevant criminal record who comes from Chechnya – a country where homosexuals are persecuted and killed. A connection between this fact and the murder of Malte C. is at least more obvious than a radicalization due to obsessive reading of “Emma”.

For woke ideologues, however, this denial of reality is only logical. In their world view there are collectives of oppressors and oppressed, which can be divided according to skin color and religion. Oppressors are therefore white, right-wing, Christian or Jewish. The woken activists themselves define what is white and what is right. Anyone who criticizes them is right-wing and fascist, prepares the ground for terror like in Oslo and has thus forfeited their rights.

From the point of view of the Woken, western societies, including Israeli ones, are structurally so sexist and racist that their “system” must be destroyed. In order to preserve this worldview, the arts of slander and suppression are needed, which are absurd for outsiders but necessary for those in the know. This is shown by the way in which homophobic acts of violence are dealt with by Islamists and men from Islamic cultures. Because allegedly all Muslims are oppressed, this violence must be ignored, played down or reinterpreted from Woker’s point of view. It goes so far that after acts of terrorism, left-wing and queer activists join forces with Muslim Brotherhood officials to protest against “hate”. Some even believe that an LGBTQ+ paradise will be created in a Palestine “liberated” by Israel – and march, as recently in Berlin, alongside Palestine activists who have neither a problem with anti-Semitism nor with Hamas’ homophobia.

The culprit? “A man”

This ignorance is encouraged, among other things, by scientists who downplay even the most misogynist and homophobic Islamic intellectuals as moderate conservatives. The University of Zurich, for example, published an article on its website about the Egyptian scholar Yusuf al-Karadawi, a pioneer of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose books and videos reach an audience of millions.* Al-Karadawi, the article explains, “sees the place of the woman in the family and strictly rejects homosexuality (sic!) – ideas that are quite familiar to us from certain parties in this country”.

In reality, al-Karadawi represents views that cannot be found in any Swiss party program. In his writings, the scholar advocates the punishment of disobedient women, and he ponders whether homosexuals should only be whipped or executed straight away, as is customary in Islamic countries like Iran. But the question of whether there could be a connection between such religious writings and those migrants who attack homosexuals in big cities is obviously less important for many Western politicians than the concern for maintaining their own fantasy world.

That is why they are dissolving working groups that deal with Islamism, as the German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser recently arranged for. Or they complain about a shift to the right, shifts in discourse and “society” that is partly responsible for all the hatred. In the Malte C. case, the public prosecutor initially did not want to reveal anything about the origin of the racket. She doesn’t matter. In media reports, for example on ARD, there was initially only talk of a “man”. The “TAZ” reported in detail in an article about hatred against trans people in Germany, but said not a word about Islamism.

These vague hints and appeals to society are entirely in the spirit of radical activists, because the ideological background of the perpetrator remains obscure. When the “Bild” newspaper revealed the identity of the perpetrator, it was immediately accused of inciting hatred and Islamophobia. Instead of uncovering and naming, the media and authorities should cover up and distract. Effective prevention work is thus thwarted and suspected of racism.

However, recent acts of violence appear to have triggered at least some learning curve. The Green Ricarda Lang, who initially reflexively classified the terrorist act in Oslo as right-wing, later wrote: “Islamism kills – #Oslo has shown that again in the most painful way. Hatred of LGBTIQ is an integral part of Islamism.” The “Sonntags-Zeitung”, on the other hand, has so far neither classified nor corrected Tamara Funiciello’s claims.

*Editor’s note: The University of Zurich has meanwhile removed the article about Al-Karadawi from its website in response to a request from the NZZ.