Advertisement“Yesterday there was an attack and a hate crime on our community in Berlin during the Pride Parade,” he told AP. Advertisement“Without borders” are the key words here, because it is precisely this concept — nations should have no borders and everyone, even those from cesspool countries, should be welcome — that led to the Berlin terrorist attack. The evasive, milquetoast reaction of many in the LGBTQ world to the Berlin attack shows that LGBT activists and progressives are still in denial when it comes to Islam. Ballout was even scheduled to meet with the deradicalization staff after the Berlin Pride festival for his third and final evaluation. But progressives there were shocked when the new mayor, a Muslim, and the full Muslim city council, banned the flying of the Pride flag on city property.