Analysis: The Notre Dame fire ignites the West’s far right
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Without any evidence suggesting arson, some pundits immediately concluded that the blaze must have been the work of Islamists or leftists. Frank Gaffney, a once-fringe anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist, whose views have gained increasing traction within the Trump administration and Republican Party, issued a statement linking the fire at the cathedral to attacks on “Christian houses of worship” in France and a supposedly Muslim-led campaign against Christianity.
Yet for a coterie of conservative thinkers, the fire itself marked a kind of irredeemable collapse. Steyn, speaking on Fox News, wondered what the point of rebuilding the cathedral was since, as he put it, the secular French no longer identify with the “soul” of the place. Others groused over the decades of supposed neglect hanging over the site. “Civilization only ever hangs by a thread,” wrote right-wing British commentator Douglas Murray.
“Judeo-Christian” isn’t a thing. It a) positions Jews & Christians against Muslims, is Islamophobic b) elides Christian oppression & murder of Jews over more than 1000 years & c) ignores Jewish civilization worldwide & facts of key Jewish developments in Middle East & N Africa. Whatever the case, for the French, the cathedral brims with national meaning that transcends its religious origins. And for academics, there’s little immutable about a structure which has gone through myriad transformations since its construction. “Through the centuries, it’s been updated, amended, degraded and defiled,” Witte wrote about Notre Dame.
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