A lesson from Berlin

Last night, a man driving a van deliberately rammed into the crowd at Berlin's "Christopher Street Day" gay pride event, then (after the van crashed into a tree) emerged and began stabbing people.  One person was killed and seventeen injured, some of them very seriously.  German authorities quickly identified the attacker as a known Islamist agitator.  Today German police located him, and shot him to death after he tried to attack them.  A full report is here.

It is fantastically ironic that so many politically-active gay people in the West have chosen the path of hostility to Israel and support for the jihadist "Palestinian" movement, when Islam is implacably hostile to them, while in most of Israel it is possible to be openly gay and lead a reasonably normal life, like in the West.  There has been a growing pattern of violent Muslim attacks on gay people in Europe, where the indigenous population has mostly overcome its homophobia as Christianity has faded away.

The Koran mandates the death penalty for homosexuality.  (So does the Bible, but this is mostly ignored in the watered-down Christianity of today's West -- even among the fundamentalists, actually executing gays is a lunatic-fringe position.)  Several Islamic regimes still have, and actively apply, the death penalty for homosexuality -- among them the Hamas regime in Gaza.  Those "queers for Palestine" waving the Palestinian flag are displaying the banner of an ideology which would literally kill them immediately if it ever got into a position of authority over them.  At least one Islamic cleric has declared that the sufferings of the Palestinians are God's punishment upon them for the mere fact of being supported by Western gays.

Gays actually resemble Jews in being targeted for mandatory persecution according to the tenets of Islam.  In fact, it's worse.  Islam historically tolerates the existence of Jews as long as they are powerless, groveling, and "know their place".  There is no circumstance under which Islamic religious law would allow an actively gay man to remain alive.  The fact that some majority-Muslim countries do not put gay men to death just reflects the fact that their legal systems are somewhat secularized -- largely due to Western influence -- and thus deviate from the dictates of true Islam.

Like many people in the West, I do not hold with what these "gay pride" events have recently evolved into.  We support equal rights for gay people -- no discrimination in housing or employment, an equal right to marry, and suchlike.  We did not sign up for public nudity and displays of sexual fetishism and all of this general grossness.  But nobody who takes that position is advocating violence or backing away from supporting equal rights.  We just want these events to be subject to the same laws and rules of public decency that apply to everyone else.  The Islamist stance is the polar opposite.  We got a little taste of it yesterday in Berlin.