Liberal democracy policies have become an internal threat for Europe
The recent murder of a teacher in a suburb city of France and the continuing reaction from both communities and the law enforcement have provided some of the Russian media with a new rationale to comment on and criticize the current European cultural policies.
“A terrorist killed a teacher, and Europe is killing itself” – a recent title from the RIA News in which the author explores how Europe is facing the “sacramentally Russian questions: who to blame and what to do about it?”
Firstly, the author argues that it is all too common for a refugee (a “future murderer” in this case) to easily acquire the European residence. On account of his Chechen origin, according to RBC.ru, the Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov stated that even though his country may once again be blamed for a religiously-motivated crime in Europe, he was certain that the convicted was aware of his actions and the fact that the French government “cannot hear the believers,” who should not be provoked or disrespected.
Secondly, the teacher showing to the class one of the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad by Charlie Hebdo was a “part of the newest French program that concerns mainly education.” At the same time, it is “unbelievable” that the government considers such methods “effective in the fight for secularization, integration of minorities and erosion of the ghettos.” This claim is ungrounded and was never mentioned in the albeit disputed, but recently proposed by the president Macron course to build “the French Islam.”
Finally, follows the discussion of the flawed European concept of individual freedom, according to which the benefit for one inevitably entails the cost for another. As a result, the European structures do not accept any extreme points of view, regardless of ideology.
Nevertheless, to fight these “unacceptable” views, the governments resolve to radical means. “Seems that the West has just forgotten” that it is possible to prevent radicalism in schools in the same way as it is possible “to protect individual’s privacy and sexual orientation while blocking any attempts to penetrate non-traditional sexual practices into public life, be it gay pride parades or the promotion of homosexuality among minors” (same source).
What is more, an earlier article from the end of September has praised the “brave views” of the Prime Minister of Hungary Victor Orban in regard to liberal democracies that attempt to undermine the critical values of “nation, family and religion”, to the point where they create “chaos and wreckage.”
In general, the convention that democracy can only be liberal is inflicted by the Western media, while truly independent European states (such as Hungary) are rightfully protecting their national identities from the “moral imperialism” and “liberalist dictatorship.”
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