Pride Goeth Before The Fall Of Civilizations
Islamism, mass immigration, and the end of gay liberation
Abdul Rahman Toufic Ballout, a man of Lebanese descent born in Berlin, plowed a vehicle into a crowd outside a Pride event at the Tiergarten on Saturday night. Ballout exited the vehicle, a white Citröen Space Tourer, and stabbed bystanders before fleeing the scene. One woman was reported killed and 29 people injured.
After a 20-hour manhunt, a German SWAT team found and killed Ballout at a community garden complex in the Spandau district. Officers reportedly opened fire on Ballout when he ignored orders to surrender and advanced on them holding a knife.
Ballout was born in Berlin, but he left Germany for Lebanon in May of 2025 intending to volunteer for the Islamic State. When German officials identified Ballout as an Islamist threat, they had him arrested in Lebanon and extradited to Germany on charges of plotting terrorism.
Incredibly, Ballout was convicted for terrorism offenses in May 2026, but the court put Ballout back on the streets. He was ordered to attend a “violence prevention course” that would de-radicalize him.
Instead, Ballout carried out a jihadist attack on a Pride event. Who could have predicted that a young, impulsive, radicalized man might prefer violence, even death, to such torture?
Ballout, 21, fits the profile of the westernized ISIS recruit by having a criminal record of violence, including assault and robbery convictions as a juvenile in 2022. His sentence for threatening violence against the German state was nevertheless reduced in order to release him on probation.
The prosecution was appealing that verdict when Ballout carried out his attack. According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR and WDR, Ballout was subject to wiretapping and surveillance. It was not enough to stop him.
From the instant his name was released by authorities who were looking for Ballout, there was palpable disappointment among the targets of his hate. “I had hoped that the attacker was not a foreigner, but a white Christian person”, said one LGBTQMOUSE activist at a vigil in Berlin on Sunday. Ballout is not right wing enough to make an interesting villain for the politics of Pride.
Muslims have been the totem class of western liberal coexistence politics for a decade, while immigration from majority-Muslim countries has altered the urban progressive voting demographics of Germany and the West. In London and Manchester, in New York City and Los Angeles, in Brussels and Paris, immigrant Muslims have been a fast-growing electoral demographic since 2000.
The politics of the western metropole require Germany to ‘include’ a radical Shi’a jihadi in the social fabric of the nation. He is however a poor fit with Christopher Street Day (CSD), which is named after the site of the Stonewall Inn in New York City where riots against police raids touched off the gay rights movement.
First held in West Berlin in 1979, rather than Communist East Berlin, CSD became the local Pride event — and a good example of how such a social phenomenon can only happen in the liberal West. No Pride event ever takes place in Beirut.
In 2025, Berlin organizers publicly reported a shortfall of about €200,000 in donations as corporate sponsors pulled back their support, leading to calls for increased public support. Try to imagine the governments in Tehran, Cairo, or Riyadh being asked to pay for a Pride parade.
The truth is that, no matter how many Queers For Palestine show up at western Pride events, there will never be a Gaza Pride. Islamists frequently use the left to take power (see: Iran), but they do not adopt the western lifestyle freedoms that the left values, and then Islamists are happy to liquidate leftists once they are in power themselves (see: Iran).
Gay liberation was achieved a generation ago across the western world. It is a wholly western value, however, and incompatible with Islamist values. That dissonance is eroding the hold of leftist politics on homosexuals.
According to a survey by the Romeo dating app, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has the highest support of any German political party among gay users, with the strongest plurality among the youngest voters.
In fact, the numbers exceed the AfD’s contemporaneous national polling, which is now in the high teens to the low 20s across all voting demographics. The AfD’s openly lesbian co-leader Alice Weidel belies the assumption that ‘right wing’ or ‘conservative’ is inherently homophobic.
The phenomenon has been dubbed ‘homonationalism’ or ‘homo-nativism’. It is a response to the outrages of poor immigration control and the erosion of public safety and social trust.
The cultural preservation of gay liberation is prioritized over traditional left-liberal positions, with the enforcement of national boundaries as a key concern for gay rights.
Many homosexuals are already alienated by the focus on gender ideology at Pride; they see it as a distraction from real threats to established rights that the left refuses to recognize.
German media and victim-support organizations have reported a rise in cases of immigrant men who arrange meetings with gay Germans using dating apps only to ambush, rob, assault, and humiliate them while recording their homophobic crimes.
This is all happening amid the broader decline of Pride events worldwide. Berlin CSD is hardly the only Pride event that has struggled to close funding gaps in the last two years as corporations dial back their donations to a cause that is increasingly at odds with the needs of their brands.
Islamist attacks on Pride events will have the effect of increasing the perceived risks in attending, sponsoring, or otherwise associating with Pride events. For political Islam, shutting down the decadent western sinfest is secondary to the goal of disrupting western civil society in general.
For the political left across the West, the project of importing Muslim voters is increasingly at odds with the achievements of gay liberation. The result is a growing partisan dissonance and the gradual unlocking of a small, but indicative voting demographic.
In the United States, Vice President J.D. Vance has said that “I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won, just, the normal gay guy vote, because they just wanted to be left the hell alone.” The alphabetical mafia attacked him, of course, but they were whistling past the graveyard.
‘Islamophobia’ stops being an effective word to use against political opponents once a people begins to fear the effects of mass Muslim immigration. It won’t take many more Abdul Ballouts for an actual majority of gay Germans to figure out they are only ever ‘left the hell alone’ inside of a strong, secure, western civilization.
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