Author’s note: Sophia Lösche is now yet another leftist extinguished by the totalitarian entity she worshiped. The 28-year-old “German immigrant activist” was recently murdered by a Muslim migrant. As Robert Spencer has aptly noted, “Lösche no doubt explained to many people who questioned her work with Muslim migrants that the ‘refugees’ were not dangerous.” In light of this latest, but very expected, murder, I have deemed it important to bring attention to this phenomenon of leftists habitually sacrificing not only others’, but also their own, lives in their romance with Jihad and Sharia. I am therefore running, below, my article, How Vittorio Arrigoni Went to Gaza Hoping to Die, from the April 18, 2011 issue of PJ Media, which unveils how and why political pilgrims perpetually shed their own blood in their dalliance with tyranny and terror.
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How Vittorio Arrigoni Went to Gaza Hoping to Die.
By Jamie Glazov
Bit by bit, decorate it, arrange the details, find the ingredients, imagine it, choose it, get advice on it, shape it into a work without spectators, one which exists only for oneself, just for the shortest little moment of life.
—Michel Foucault, describing the pleasure of preparing oneself for suicide.
The Italian cheerleader for Hamas, Vittorio Arrigoni, has died at the hands of the Islamic terrorism that he venerated throughout his life. The fellow traveler journeyed to the Gaza Strip to prostrate himself before his secular deity, Hamas, and to assist its venture of perpetrating genocide against Israelis. Islamic terrorists, who call themselves “Salafists,” showed their gratitude to Arrigoni by kidnapping, mercilessly beating, and executing him.
This episode was, of course, all part of an expected script: even though the media and our higher literary culture never discuss the reasons, the historical record reveals one undeniable fact: like thousands of political pilgrims before him, Vittorio Arrigoni went to Gaza to die. Indeed, consciously or unconsciously, in their unquenchable quest for sacrificing human life on the altar of their utopian ideals, fellow travelers always lust for death, and if not the death of others, then of their own.
It is no coincidence that a short while before “Salafists” killed Arrigoni, Juliano Mer-Khamis, a cheerleader of terrorism in Israel who, like Arrigoni, dedicated his life to praising the Palestinian death cult and working for the annihilation of Israel, was murdered by Islamic terrorists in Jenin. It is no coincidence that Rachel Corrie, the infamous enabler of the International Solidarity Movement, a group that disrupts anti-terrorism activities of the Israel Defense Forces, committed suicide in protecting Hamas terrorists by throwing herself in front of an Israeli bulldozer. And it is no coincidence that female leftist “peace” activists are routinely raped, brutalized, and enslaved by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria that they come to aid and glorify in their Jew-hating odyssey against Israel. And don’t hold your breath, by the way, waiting for leftist feminists to protest this phenomenon; they are faithfully following in the footsteps of American fellow traveler Anna Louise Strong and the Stalinist German writer Bertolt Brecht, two typical leftist believers who were completely undisturbed by the arrests and deaths of their friends in the Stalinist purges — having never even inquired about them after their disappearance.
Beneath the leftist believer’s veneration of the despotic enemy lies one of his most powerful yearnings: to submit his whole being to a totalist entity. This psychological dynamic involves negative identification, whereby a person who has failed to identify positively with his own environment subjugates his individuality to a powerful, authoritarian entity, through which he vicariously experiences a feeling of power and purpose. The historian David Potter has succinctly crystallized this phenomenon:
. . . most of us, if not all of us, fulfill ourselves and realize our own identities as persons through our relations with others; we are, in a sense, what our community, or as some sociologists would say, more precisely, what our reference group, recognizes us as being. If it does not recognize us, or if we do not feel that it does, or if we are confused as to what the recognition is, then we become not only lonely, but even lost, and profoundly unsure of our identity. We are driven by this uncertainty into a somewhat obsessive effort to discover our identity and to make certain of it. If this quest proves too long or too difficult, the need for identity becomes psychically very burdensome and the individual may be driven to escape this need by renouncing his own identity and surrendering himself to some seemingly greater cause outside himself.
This surrender to the totality involves the believer’s craving not only to relinquish his individuality to a greater whole but also, ideally, to sacrifice his life for it. Lusting for his own self-extinction, the believer craves martyrdom for the idea. As Eric Hoffer points out in his classic The True Believer, the opportunity to die for the cause gives meaning to the believer’s desire to shed his inner self: “a substitute embraced in moderation cannot supplant and efface the self we want to forget. We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it.”
Thus, Vittorio Arrigoni, Juliano Mer-Khasin, and Rachel Corrie were simply just faithfully continuing the long suicidal tradition of their political faith. We are well aware, after all, of the dark fate of the believers who journeyed to Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to build communism; we are well versed of what happened to the leftist Iranians who returned to their country after the 1979 Iranian Revolution to aid Khomeini in building the Islamic paradise. Only those who cannot accept the true motivations of utopian believers can still deny what those political pilgrims were searching for in their odyssey to shed themselves of their own unwanted selves.
Does one need to excessively explain why “progressive” feminist Naomi Klein called out for bringing “Najaf to New York” in her infamous 2004 column in The Nation, in which she reached her hand out in solidarity to Muqtada al-Sadr and his Islamofascist Mahdi Army in the Iraqi Shi’ite stronghold of Najaf? Bringing Najaf to New York would mean that the Iraqi Shi’ite stronghold, where Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army at one time ran their torture chambers and sowed their terror, would be replicated on America’s shores. What could Naomi Klein possibly see admirable in the vicious nihilistic terror of the Mahdi Army? Would she remain alive for more than sixty seconds upon contact with it?
Is it possible that Klein’s impulses are related to those of Noam Chomsky, a Jew, who has distinguished himself, among other intriguing ways, by traveling to Lebanon to personally embrace the leaders of Hezbollah, whose stated top priority is to rid the world of Jews?
The murder by Iraqi terrorists of American hostage Tom Fox in March 2006 was a perfect example of this pathological phenomenon. Fox was among four members of the leftist group Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) who were kidnapped by Islamic terrorists in Iraq in November 2005. Aside from voicing support for the terrorists, one of the group’s most powerfully articulated themes entailed the longing for death. In the 1984 speech, “God’s People Reconciling,” for example, which gave rise to the formation of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, Mennonite minister Ron Sider urged his listeners: “We must be prepared to die by the thousands.”
It is not unsurprising that when British and American troops rescued the other three CPT hostages and saved their lives, the freed captives refused to thank their liberators — who had risked their own lives participating in the rescue — or to cooperate in a critical debriefing session with intelligence officers. Doug Pritchard, the co-chairman of CPT, went out of his way to tell the world that the kidnapping itself (and by implication Fox’s murder) was America’s fault, not the kidnappers’ or the executioners’. “The illegal occupation of Iraq by multinational forces,” he affirmed, was the “root cause” of the kidnappings. In other words, the devil made them do it.
The freed captives resented the fact that they had been liberated by the very forces they despised. And the rescuers had robbed the remaining hostages of the idealized fate suffered by Fox. Jan Benvie, an Edinburgh teacher who was getting ready to go to Iraq with the group in the summer of 2006, learned the lesson well. She announced before her departure: “We make clear that if we are kidnapped we do not want there to be force or any form of violence used to release us.”
To the end of his life, the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who supported and adored Khomeini’s killing fields, adamantly defended “everyone’s right to kill himself.” Suicide, he boastfully wrote in a 1979 essay, was “the simplest of pleasures.” Is it a coincidence that Foucault, who had attempted to kill himself several times out of guilt feelings regarding his homosexuality, passionately supported an Islamic death cult that murdered homosexuals?
Gaza terrorists have a long history of kidnapping and abusing, raping and killing those who come to aid and abet them.
Vittorio Arrigoni knew that very well.
In the end, Arrigoni’s story is the story of the Left — a story best summarized by the dictum of Goethe’s devil, which Marx perpetually invoked, as he did in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon: “All that exists deserves to perish.”
Arrigoni is the contemporary poster boy for the political pilgrims who traveled to despotisms to help build the paradises in which they hoped to shed themselves of their own unwanted selves. They paid the ultimate price. And no lesser cost must be paid for the momentous transformation of sterilizing the unclean earth. Such disinfection can be made possible only by the purifying power of human blood — blood which, in the utopian enterprise, must, in the final chapter, become one’s own.
nicu says
She is not the first one and will not be the last one .
I am not sorry for her at all !
Peter WF says
I agree. Natural selection.
BC says
Is it not the same phenomenon we are seeing when the leftists are protesting the fates of ILLEGAL migrants at the Southern border. The ill founded notion that as the US is an ‘immigrant nation’ all immigrants must be allowed in however they arrive, illegally or not. I wonder if they have the same attitude to somebody who breaks into their home to steal things?
I have always held the view that one of the reason the US has some much crime is that so many millions were allowed in without much screening if any in the nineteenth century. The consequences were the various mafias for one example. The same pattern is working to today when the length and breadth of the USA is permeated by foreigners dealing in a very lucrative drug trade, supported of course by the many American people who are so enthusiastic about taking those drugs, thinkiig it is clever and stylish
to put poisons in their bodies
j_not_a says
I can’t stand those naive idiots with their “Nobody is Illegal” signs. They’d probably make excuses for their beloved illegals even if one of them raped one of their kids. “They’ve been through so much”
J D S says
Same old stuff…Try to feed a mad dog and the dog will bite leaving its poison to kill.
Yogi says
Me too , how nice and stupid can You be to get to the truck with Muslim Arab !!, they still don’t learn the lessons, more consequences ahead for this snow flakes generation, , unbelievable.,
Yogi says
How naive
j_not_a says
It’s pathological altruism.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Tom says
Poetic justice that comes with a caveat, support and appease these people at your own risk.
Older Canadian says
Another great article from Jamie.
Yes I feel sorry for her. Her disconnect from the reality of life, her obvious lack of knowledge of human behaviour and historical events, leaves no doubt she had a warm loving heart, and for that she paid the ultimate price.
Julea Bacall says
I tried to look this up online. I could not find it in ANY mainstream USA News. Only the usual right sided news that most people downplay. No main Newspapers. No where. I found Spain, Germany, a French a World news in English but the one USA news that had a slight reference was “not available at this time’. I found this strange. I did not know things were THIS bad. One I found in Spanish from Basque area blamed this on the terrible blight of male Machismo and called for countries to emphasize Human rights values and Respect for women.
Can anyone find this in USA main News or Canadian main news?
j_not_a says
Why can’t these fools with the “kind, loving hearts” help people in their own countries” Go to an old folks home and visit them and read to them. Volunteer at an animal shelter, or a shelter for abused women and kids, or at a food bank, or volunteer at a drop in doing food prep, so many places right here at home to do good. It’s safe for you AND will be appreciated. The saying “charity begins at home” will always be true.
Phil Copson says
” …The fellow traveler journeyed to the Gaza Strip to prostrate himself before his secular deity….”
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Britain’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is another example of this impulse – a career coward who has spent his whole life refusing to see any good in the country that gave him privilege and wealth in exchange for no ability or effort* on his part, for fear that if he did, he may be required to defend it from people he’s frightened of.
*Corbyn’s never had an actual job in his life, and couldn’t even complete a college course at his local Polytechnic…
So much easier for him and his like to go eagerly seeking out tyrants in order to abase themselves.
Warmac9999 says
Her last thought? I didn’t know!
Apathy Rules the World says
Her last thought was “This is nothing to do with islam”
dhans says
Her last thought?
“I’m sorry for Global Warming”
Ever watch the move Grand Torino with Clint Eastwood. I love the ending where he is shot with his arms extended Christ like by the very immigrant group he learns to support. She too was sacrificed on the alter of Political Correctness.
Barguest says
I thought Gran Torino was ok, but evidence that Clint was getting a bit soft in his old age (sadly he was no longer Dirty Harry).
A much more satisfying take on the same theme (angry old man confronting evil in his community) is the British film “Harry Brown”, starring Michael Caine. If you haven’t seen it I’d strongly recommend it.
Lisa Letto says
Her last thought? “I don’t want to die!”
Troybeam says
Ouch.
abad says
No good deed goes unpunished.
“Here is a mysterious contradiction. Those who toil for the good of others often lose the respect of those for whom they sacrifice. As we change, under the stress of helping, others may blame us for the lessening of our strength, health, ability to cope and our charm. Altruism should never be the first thing on your agenda.” – David Seabury
RichardL says
Love for others must always be balanced by another virtue: prudence or self-love. The problem she had was bigger: she wasn’t taught anything about the virtues. She was inducted into an ideology.
Mockingjay says
– Just a – quite essential – correction on this article – maybe it has already been mentioned in the comments under the first article about this case, but I want to state it here again: the man who confessed to killing this young woman was NOT a `migrant` .
– He is a MOROCCAN truckdriver who drove a MOROCCAN truck. They caught him just before he could make it to Gibraltar, to take the ferry back home.
– Of course this doesn´t invalidate ONE BIT the point that Jamie or anyone else here is making about what drives such a pathologically naive woman, as she was clearly out to prove that North African men are just as trustworthy and as good a human being as any German can ever be…
This woman´s friends and family even published a letter on the internet, just the day before her body was finally found.
You really have to read this piece to believe it.
In it, they state no less than THREE times that `speculation about the truckdriver being the perpetrator` was nothing but RACISM, and that Sophia would have NEVER wanted to `be used` for these kind of `racist purposes`.
– It truly shows the depth of german, leftist craziness
For those of you who can read German, here is the letter:
http://www.pi-news.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/lösche-statement.jpg
Mockingjay says
Just read a few – not all 183 – comments under the first article on this case.
– I see the facts have not been set straight there either,
– Sophia Losche WILLINGLY got into a MOROCCAN truck. The guy who killed her was no migrant. He was a truckdriver. And he just thought this blonde kafir woman travelling alone, getting into his truck, surely was
ASKING to be raped.
Sophia obviously wasn´t worried about hitchhiking in the Germany of 2018 as a young woman on her own, and certainly wasn´t going to be suspicious of a north african truckdriver.
(- Sophia also was not just a `refugee-activist`, she was a politician for the SPD – the German socialist party.)
Maybe she did have this unconscious yearning for death as Jamie describes it, but I personally believe that not all leftists are necessarely the same or have the same (unconscious) motivations for their behaviour.
I think many young germans are like Sophia. They just want to prove that the world is as they believe it is. That all people – of all `races` – are good. And they will go to any length to try and prove this. and they have SELF-BLINDED themselves against everything that might contradict their beliefs.
I believe they really can´t be rescued They have thrown all good sense to the wind.
They are blind to any warning signs.
And in a dangerous world, which Europe has now become, DUE TO PEOPLE LIKE SOPHIA – this WILL get you killed.
KJW says
I think Jamie is onto something about the activist groups who side with terrorists and justify such behavior and their ideology due to their plight just as some excuse problems for countries due to colonialism.
If this girl willingly got into his truck that was as stupid as any woman who gets into a truck with a stranger man anywhere. Had she lived we might have heard her reason. I recall one volunteer aid worker who was gang-raped by three Haitian men and made the excuse of their poverty and plight when poverty is no excuse for respecting; wealthy people rape, college students have raped, many terrorists are educated and had jobs, some even with PhDs. Refugees in refugee camps have raped fellow Muslim women, I saw an interview with Muslim women in Jordan’s refugee camp crying because their girls are being raped while so many men have gone off to Europe. South Africa is notoriously one of the highest rape countries. Some of them were honest about why, e.g. the way she was dressed appeared inviting, one said, “I’m ugly and knew she wouldn’t want to [gVe consensual sex] so I raped her.”
Also, white women are prized. I saw an Arabic “advertisement” in North Africa that said regarding going to Europe Money! Blond girls! Perhaps traffickers made those ads. So, Muslims rape Muslim women, but if they now have the option of white women, all the better, and if they have the Islamic history excuse, they can justify if more as three Pakistani men in Pakistan said to three Christian girls that “We can rape Christian women” when the girls refused the men’s advances.
Some pro-immigration women working in immigrant centers have come to their senses because of the Muslim migrants doing sexual things to them and one worker said, “I’ve come to the conclusion these men are never going to change.” Do such women think because they are helping the migrants that they won’t do anything to them? How naive.
One of the Pakistani sex trafficking guys in England had said that he sees Infidel women as trash and only good for fking, but Muslim women do get raped in Muslim countries and harassed even when they’re dressed from head to toe.
The excuses some leftist women of simply do-goody women are nuts and both Haitian and Muslim women would think so too. This perpetuated Western guilt trip is ludicrous.
Then there’s the actual desire to have sex with a foreigner or simply engaging with them thinking they’ll just have nice conversation and prove they are not racist, Islamophobic or that all are not like this. That’s possible or she’s just stupid and naive. Did she need a ride somewhere? I wonder what transpired. She also may have looked like the easy type.
Another question is why have some of the Muslim migrant rapes ended up with murder and/or physically beating them to the point of their faces being almost unrecognizable? Is the former not to get caught? Why the latter? This happens anywhere but what’s the psychology behind that?
Again, you can’t always blame the way western women dress since Muslim women do get raped but you can attribute the option part-white women vs Muslim women or the same race. Darker Muslim women are well aware that white women, and especially the rarer blue-eyed one’s are prized. ISIS reiterated this and the history of taking the lighter northern Spanish girls and putting them in harems. From movies like Cleopatra we had gotten the impression that harems were comprised of black-haired women. Not true. An ISIS guy said of the Yazidi sex slavery business they’ve done, I want the blond blue-eyed one.” Thus there is no doubt that Islamic history filters into that. Aisha was also described as light-skinned and “ruddy” faced. If Muhammad liked that, well, do as Mu did.
I saw a guy on a Muslim forum say that his favorite meal was beef but now since he found out Muhammad’s favorite was lamb that’s now his favorite-he was serious. (I may have the meats backwards.)
What’s terrible is that leftist women in Sweden have been dismissive of the rapes and that is unconscionable. It is very evident that Europe should not be taking in more migrants and the EU and UN’s (no less US and Canadian politicians) have a death wish too but for different reasons. Their anti-Israel stance and coddling the Arabs has little to do with humanatrianism since they are not consistent nor very caring of their own citizens and the dramatic rise in crime in Europe, no less desrructive and in humanitarian Islam. They themselves appear to be too arrogant about their own lives. Are they willing to sacrifice themselves too?
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
+1
Not only will they get themselves killed – they put the rest us at risk.
Julea Bacall says
I still think that if any of these people anywhere raised with freedom actually read the Qur’an, They would have to see it for what it is. Why don’t people tell them to read it before making any statements or ’causes’. Don’t you think if anyone took the time to tediously read that book, and maybe a little history around that time, they would See? It should be required for every politician.
elee says
This bastard played on some nuance of women’s psychology, manipulated her, killed her. Yes, he, being a Muslim, is also a victim of this evil cult, but so what? I guess that’s how evil works.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Your idea that only women are dhimmis is mistaken, elee.
Veracious-one says
the next time we rescue some idiots held captive by the terrorists and they refuse to thank us, we should immediately return them back to their captors…..
willford says
STUPID is as STUPID DOES
Valkyrie Ziege says
; She is another winner of the “Darwin Award”.
No Muzzies Here says
Having delusions about the true nature of Islam can get you killed.
Troybeam says
Why a “Refugees Welcome” Activist Was Murdered by a Muslim Migrant: IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY GO HAND IN HAND, it’s hard to feel sympathy for a person who is both the above mentioned and sadly enough her death will not make others think twice before making the same mistake and error in judgment.
David says
A very clear example of irony!
Michael says
We have westerners who do the same thing.Bring back the death penalty for rape and murder when no doubt of guilt and life in prison for rape when no doubt of guilt.
Ade Fegan says
too bad ..
don’t say we didn’t warn you ..
let’s hope some of your dumb ass friends learn something from this
(they won’t !)
infidel says
And we have our own such mad lefties who go by the name of Arundhati Roy… Oh… she cheers for all the Islamic terrorists who terrorize and mass murder Hindus…SHE LOVES THEM…TO DEATH!!