I reported on Wednesday about the mujahideen who plotted a massive terror attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. Ripples from the incident are spreading through Western media, especially the German-language outlets.
Below are two articles related to the planned terror attacks by would-be shahids, both translated by Hellequin GB.
The first article, from the online news portal Nius, concerns responses by leftist/feminist women in Austria and Germany, who blame “toxic men” for the cancellation of the concerts of their favorite pop star. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
Islamism? Not at all! The enemies of left-wing Swift fans are “toxic men”
Taylor Swift was once an icon of classic Republican America: she grew up on a Christmas tree farm, sang country pop and embodied a conservative ideal. Then left-wing feminists discovered the singer for themselves — and a pop-cultural liaison full of contradictions began.
The left-wing Swifties form a strange subculture within the Swift universe. Like all Swifties, they are not only good at memorizing song lyrics, screaming their hearts out and stringing pearls, but also have remarkable skills in denial. This is how they manage to celebrate Swift as an icon of feminism while simultaneously reveling in her deeply conservative lyrics, which primarily revolve around two themes: Women want men. Women don’t want men anymore.
Prominent examples of left-wing Swift fans include the Green Party politicians Ricarda Lang and Emilia Fester. [No self-respecting man would want them in any case.]
Lang, who has benefited from the women’s quota within the Green Party all her life, filmed herself singing along to the line “ the patriarchy” while attending a Swift concert. Fester, who is known to a wider public primarily through dance videos in the Bundestag, even felt called upon to write a detailed, culturally critical reflection on Instagram from the perspective of the “former theater maker,” but despite everything, she also came to the conclusion that “ the patriarchy” was the “right approach.”
“How can this be?”
The foiled Islamist attack on Swift concerts in Vienna, which led to the cancellation of three events, now opens up new opportunities for left-wing Swifties to demonstrate their talent for repression.
The political scientist Natascha Strobl, who is otherwise committed to the fight “against the far-right,” set a good example. In a cascade of tweets, she vented her outrage, which was primarily directed against the authorities: “How can that be? How can you not ensure security? Any filthy thing can take place, but Taylor Swift can’t?” She even called for the resignation of Interior Minister Gerhard Karner: “Why couldn’t the police guarantee security for the organizers? What a f***ing scandal. Karner must resign. Really.”
Strobl asked numerous questions — in a commendable, power-critical manner: “Why do you only find out about it one day before a concert and only after being tipped off by foreign services? What is that? Why do other countries manage to host the Olympic Games and Austria cannot arrest potential terrorists in time and on its own?” In fact, the perpetrator was at least arrested in time to prevent anyone from being killed. The concerts had to be cancelled anyway, which not only angered Strobl because she had already made numerous bracelets to exchange, but also made her politically suspicious: “Then no major event can take place at all right now? It was generally said that major events took place. Why can’t Austria manage to get the biggest star in the world to perform?”
Strobl seemed to suspect some kind of conspiracy against Swift and her fans: “Was Taylor Swift or her fans directly targeted or was it some major event and Swifties were just unlucky? If 2: why are other major events still taking place?” Strobl had at least four words for the 19-year-old Islamist: “F*** terrorists. F*** ISIS.”
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