Fast Takes: Name the Islamist threat, suicide of the West and other commentary

“Frankness is essential,” argues Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill after the mayhem at the Berlin Pride Parade, yet despite the attacker being “known for having connections to Islamist circles,” his Muslim identity and terrorist sympathies have been downplayed by the “self-righteous” who are “self-gagging” in the general “muffling of public opinion” that attends every such outrage.When will the “self-hating freaks” of “Queers for Palestine” and the other “suicidal simps” for “the most violent homophobes on Earth” finally “wake up” and recognize that we are fostering “religious extremists who would happily put them to death for their sins of the flesh” along with “networks of ideologues devoted to the violent dismantling of our civilization.”“Berlin-born Abdel Ballout,” shot dead amid an attack on a Pride parade, “was practically escorted to the site by German authorities,” snarks Racket News’ Matt Taibbi.

He “left Germany last year to join the ISIS militia, failed to reach Mauritania, failed to reach Syria, got arrested and sentenced in his family’s home country of Lebanon for ‘incitement to religious and sectarian conflict,’ then successfully returned to Germany to be arrested again.He was convicted for planning a serious act of terrorist violence, but released . . .

and put into ‘deradicalization counseling,’ which was about to report him for being ‘inscrutable,’ evasive, and a threat.” The West has “overcorrected” for its overreaction to 9/11 etc., embracing “a different psychosis,” where it feels “phobic about protecting itself.” “The road to sanity remains long.”As higher education is “going over the long-awaited demographic cliff, with declining enrollments and shrinking endowments,” a recent report by “Vanderbilt and Washington University in St.Louis gives some hope,” note Alex Joffe & Asaf Romirowsky at The Hill.

Scholars examined “the roots of academi...