Berlin and the Contradictions of Identity Politics
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24 Articles
A singer lamented that the terrorist had not been a white and Christian man. This is not invented. The phrase seems like a caricature made by an opponent of identity politics.
More and more details become known about the alleged assassin. His father is supposed to live in a same-sex partnership according to a media report.
Even the lawyer could hardly believe it when the later CSD terrorist Abdul Ballout was released from prison.
After the attack on the Berlin CSD, the focus in Germany is on Islamist terror. Experts warn: anyone looking only at Islamists overlooks parallels to right-wing extremism.
Assassin belonged to Salafist group + Two cousins of Abdul Ballout were apparently IS fighters + police finds IS confessor video on the attacker's cell phone + All developments in the newsblog.
Berlin and the Contradictions of Identity Politics
On July 25, twenty-one-year-old Abdul Ballout drove a van into a crowd at Berlin’s Pride festival before stabbing attendees with a machete. One woman was killed and twenty-nine people were injured. German authorities described the incident as a suspected Islamist terrorist attack; Ballout was shot dead in a confrontation with police the following day. The response to the attack is the latest example of how identity politics is beginning to brea…
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