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The insurmountable and terrifying difference between the Islamist massacre this morning in Nice and the previous ones, in France and beyond, is that those derived from the meticulous strategies of terrorists entrenched in Afghan caves or in the self-described Prophet’s State, derives from incontinence and From the verbal recklessness of the president of a nation, Turkey, which just a few years ago aspired to join the EU, which still participates in European bodies (including that of human rights protection) and which plays an important role in NATO, the largest international defense organization.
The hasty and frank condemnation of the attack launched yesterday by the Ankara government will not be able to discolor the words of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the beheading of Professor Samuel Paty, guilty of having exhibited in the school the blasphemous cartoons of Charlie Hebdo, and later The vigorous Emmanuel Macron’s demand for freedom of expression as a cornerstone of liberal democracies. Erdogan gave Macron the mentally ill, the new crusader, compared the living conditions of Muslims in Europe with those of Holocaust Jews, invited Islamic countries to boycott French products, and some Islamic squares responded by setting fire to the flag of the République. However, in January 2015, as Cesare Martinetti recalls here, Erdogan sent his prime minister to Paris to parade alongside President François Hollande, as a sign of ideal brotherhood after the Charlie Hebdo carnage. A few years later there is another Turkey, which aspires to be the new center of gravity of the Islamic world, including the extremist, which grabs Europe by the neck threatening to pave the way for Syrian refugees, which is cheerful and unflappable if it He goes to the seas of Cyprus and Greece to look for natural gas, and at home he locks his opponents in jail. And the Europeans, shut up.
The lazy solidarity offered to France yesterday – prefabricated and desolate of those of Rome – travels parallel to the nervousness for the tranquility of Charlie Hebdo, undaunted in his way, including the last and terrible cover on Erdogan lifting a girl’s skirt and looking. reminds him of Mohammed. Then one day we will talk about how much responsibility freedom entails, but today it is as if we have left the ICU’s handling of our core values to the rogue cartoonists of today, and as we boringly follow the clinical report of the collapse, we are shocked by their brutal ways (good to all to defend the right of opinion when opinions are acceptable). Today, almost six years after the massacre, Charlie Hebdo is housed in a bunker where he exercises his right to press, criticism, satire and blasphemy. But it is the bunker in which we all live the one that suffocates the most, we sneak in alone every time we ask ourselves – also we journalists – if using certain terms and re-editing certain cartoons will end up offending someone’s susceptibility. If we finally jeopardize our safety. But a society that cares more about security than the freedom on which it was founded is already a dying society.
In an extraordinary book written during the Nazi occupation of Paris, the philosopher Emil Cioran described France as a country attached to its own skin rather than its own ideas, and thus a lost country. Now all of Europe is like this. He is incapable of defending himself, the reasons for his existence, the inviolable uniqueness of the human being, his ability to move, think, speak, associate, profess the religion he believes. You face enemies external and internal with the force of stuttering. One is displaced, within a worn-out rationalism, pale reflection of the Enlightenment, in the face of the dark and abysmal anxieties of the soul that push fanatics to grab knives and Kalashnikovs. It is a dimension that we no longer recognize. The peace conquered seventy-five years ago, especially thanks to the Americans and Winston Churchill (today treated as a racist among many) seems to us a divine gift, an indisputable fact, and instead peace and democracy are preserved only if we are ready. to pay the consequences, as happened seventy-five years ago.
It is not about invoking war. More simply, it is about giving something up. The submission to China and Turkey speak of a Europe terrified at the idea of losing a contract, a market, a percentage of its already exhausted GDP, having to share it with other migrants. But how will we ever know how to sustain ourselves if we are willing to negotiate the price of the sacred assumptions of our identity? For more than a century, great thinkers, treated as bad luck birds or eccentric and sympathetic wigs, or more often ignored, by Oswald Spengler to Elias Canetti, from José Ortega y Gasset to Johan Huizinga, have analyzed and predicted the decline of the West. I do not want, crying and shaking in front of Covid and Jihad, we end up agreeing with him.
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