The brutal beheading of a teacher near Paris caused horror.
Kevin Kühnert, however, hears an "uncomfortable silence" from the left - and draws a bitter conclusion.
Berlin -
France
is suffering
for a long time under Islamic terrorism
- the youngest act was the brutal beheading of a teacher in a Paris suburb.
This time, the debate about terrorism could
spill
over the Rhine to Germany under religious guise:
SPD *
Vice Kevin Kühnert
has
spoken
out with the demand for clear statements - his appeal is addressed to “the political left”.
Kühnert gives bitter testimony to the “political left” in the Islamism debate: “Wrong” and “right” perpetrators?
"In addition to a few voices of honest empathy, there have been a few right-wing extremists in Germany who accuse the left-liberal camp of cuddling with Islamists in secret," writes
Kühnert
in a guest article for
Spiegel Online
.
If the political left
no longer wants to leave
the fight against Islamism
to racists and “amateur Islamic researchers”, “then it must finally deal thoroughly with this ideology as its blind spot,” the outgoing
Juso boss
explained
in his text.
She had to speak out because it was her
proclaimed values
"that are trampled underfoot, stabbed with knives and blown up with explosives in every terrorist attack without exception."
Kevin Kühnert worried about Islamist terror: SPD vice-president reprimands uncomfortably conspicuous silence ”from the left
Kühnert explains
that the “uncomfortably conspicuous silence” of the political left could not be due to the fact that the
report about the crime had
not spread
in France
.
He sees another reason: "I am convinced that many want to supply any unwanted keywords from us the living from the racist resentment political opponents." It could give the impression that if the accusation in
left worldviews
there are "right" and " wrong “victim or perpetrator there is a“ spark of truth in the game ”, admits the 31 year old.
Those who reject terror must target the adherents of the associated ideologies - in the case of the
attack on Conflans-Sainte-Honorine
it is
Islamism
.
"The fight against these people and their thinking must be our own concern," emphasizes Kühnert.
Faith should never be accepted as "a thing that restricts freedom between individual individuals".
Terror in Paris: Kühnert receives applause from the CSU - Özdemir also supports the appeal
The SPD deputy received approval from an unfamiliar source: “Finally, it must also apply to the political left: consistently against any kind of extremism.
Kevin Kühnert is right here! ”Tweeted
CSU *
General Secretary Markus Blume
.
Islamism kills - in the middle of Europe!
The beheading of Samuel #Paty in Paris & the knife attack in Dresden are hideous and barbaric.
Finally, it must also apply to the political left: consistently against any kind of extremism.
@KuehniKev is right here!
https://t.co/JGii5qPX64
- Markus Blume (@MarkusBlume) October 22, 2020
Even
ex-Green leader Cem Özdemir
welcomed the advance.
“Left, liberal, feminist, queer & atheist people with a 'Muslim background' feel left alone for too long,” he explained in the short message service.
“Reforms only come with a clear address to Muslim umbrella organizations, not through hope,” Özdemir continued.
However, he also had to listen to criticism: In
response
to the posting, the
German-Kurdish women's rights activist
Seyran Ates
accused the
Greens
that “a lot of people” in the ranks of the party were “a large part of the problem”.
A
47-year-old teacher
was killed and beheaded last Friday in a Paris suburb.
The alleged
perpetrator with Russian-Chechen roots
was shot.
The motive for the deed is that the teacher showed caricatures of the prophet Mohammed in class.
French
President Emmanuel Macron
spoke of an Islamist terrorist act immediately after the crime.
Just a few days earlier, journalists had also been attacked near the former Charlie Hebdo office.
(
fn / dpa
) *
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