On 25 July, Islamist Abdul Ballout drove a van into a Berlin Pride parade, killing a woman and injuring 29 others. In 2025, he tried to join the Islamic State in Syria. One woman, speaking at the Berlin vigil in a now viral video, said she wished the attacker had been a ‘white Christian’ instead of an Islamist. One of the images from Berlin Pride that spread across social media afterwards showed an Antifa flag lying soaked in blood. Even the Berlin attack itself has been blamed by some on white conservatives spreading ‘hate’, instead of confronting the ideology that put the man behind the wheel.