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Islamist attack in Vienna: "Europe in the heart"

2020-11-03T20:09:16.384Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Vincent Trémolet de Villers.Jihad on a loop. In Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in Nice and now in Austria, in the heart of the capital. The conquering Islam chooses its targets, it does not aim at "values" but at a civilization. Vienna is Europe. The nights and the lights of our history mingle; music, painting and literature intertwine like Klimt's Beethoven Frieze covers the walls of the Secession Palace. The croissant was born


Jihad on a loop.

In Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in Nice and now in Austria, in the heart of the capital.

The conquering Islam chooses its targets, it does not aim at "values" but at a civilization.

Vienna is Europe.

The nights and the lights of our history mingle;

music, painting and literature intertwine like

Klimt's

Beethoven Frieze

covers the walls of the Secession Palace.

The croissant was born there from the victory in 1683 over the Turks.

Amnesiacs to the point of erecting

“substantial emptiness”

and

“radical openness”

(the words are from the German sociologist Ulrich Beck) as fundamental principles of the European Union, we have forgotten our past.

Islamists remember it.

When they shoot Jewish children in the head, when they murder journalists and cartoonists, when they slaughter a priest, when they plant a bomb at a concert in England, when they behead a teacher, when they sow terror

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Source: lefigaro

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