the good thing to come of this is increased cooperation between us anglo/euro/ru etc. to destroy isis which i think its fair to say is one of the worst movements in human history if not the very worst
daily stonings/crucifixions/murder, slavery etc. all based on a 7th century agricultural murder manual
its also important to recognize that they are actually doing these things right now. most of the west seems to willfully dissociated behind its own hyper-mediatized haze to recognize this and when it does its usually far right racists calling attention to it.
anyway, badiou wrote
this about charlie hebdo and it applies to this latest one too
which is pretty good in that it goes further than the majority of left sentiment
but also makes the glaring gaps in this thinking obvious
because anti racism plus universalism is not a strategy capable of ending either war or jihadization
it doesn't do that much but allow the bourgeoisie of the arms dealing war waging countries to manage their own peace by dampening down the worst excesses of their own right wing dipshits
also badiou does the whole "these poor poor people we shouldnt offend all that they hold precious cos they clean our toilets, lets feel or project a little dose of guilt about that" which is condescending and exclusionary of those people. also he comes close to devaluing the staff of charlie hebdo almost as if they deserved it more than poor syrians might.
this is why im a nihilist.
also can i point out to some in this thread that one of the attackers was a syrian refugee
also, i even accept the argument of right wing racists when they say that enough 3rd world migration would cause collapse to our services/civilization because its true. and not just because these racists would do everything in their power to stop communities integrating.
altho if you read the more articulate among the far right they explicitly want to destroy western civ in the name of defeating some abstract definition of liberalism and some even explicitly promote anti immigrantion policies as a way of regressing us back to the 19th century nation state form and destroying modernity and quite literally making us retrain as basketweavers. like this is what they actually explicitly want to happen. thats their ideal.
its the far right of islam and of the 1st world that's teaming up against basic liberal values and the economy and peace they maintain, which is worrying. ideally we would just sit back and let these two fight each other and they mostly do but when they allign against liberalism its bad news.