Even the tragic and abhorrent murder of Charlie Kirk didn’t stop some leading European media outlets from spewing their ideological contempt for President Donald Trump and those of the American right. They framed Kirk, a deeply committed Christian conservative, as an extremist and a bigot.
UK-based newspaper The Guardian described Kirk as someone “promoting misinformation and conspiracy theories.”
“Kirk expressed openly bigoted views and was an unabashed homophobe and Islamophobe,” the left-wing daily continued.
Another Guardian columnist, Margaret Sullivan, took this opportunity to blame the ‘right.’ According to her, it is “tragic is how partisan, violent and ugly much of the immediate reaction was, mostly on the right.”
Sullivan tried to muddy the waters by pinning the blame on ‘gun violence.’ She claimed that the “gun violence truly is an epidemic in America.”
“America” waw “deeply entrenched in tribal politics,” … “egged on by a president who glories in violent rhetoric,” she complained.
London-based Financial Times took the opportunity to highlight conservative intolerance. “Kirk’s death triggered calls for retribution, with conservatives calling on the Trump administration to crack down on the left,” the business daily wrote.
Another British daily, The Independent, focused on Kirk’s “controversial” stance on “LGTQ+” issues. As a debater, he “lashed out at the gay community, denouncing what he called the “LGBTQ agenda.”
“He also argued against gender-affirming care for transgender people and insisted there are only two genders,” the newspaper noted.
“As an anti-abortion Christian, he routinely debated progressive liberals, Muslims, and the LGBT+ community, resulting in allegations of misogyny, Islamophobia, and homophobia,” The Independent added..
Germany’s state-owned DW TV described Kirk as a “conservative pundit” who “stirred controversy in Europe.”
Leading German weekly Der Spiegel also sought to blame ‘President Trump and his policies’ for the assassination. “The political climate in the U.S. has been heating up for years, and Trump and his policies are heightening this polarization and the divisions between the political camps,” the magazine wrote.
The French newspaper Le Monde was respectful in eulogizing Kirk, describing him as a “[r]ight-wing youth activist and influencer” and “a major ally of President Donald Trump.”
According to Qatar state-run Al Jazeera, “Kirk has …. been accused of holding racist, Islamophobic and misogynistic positions.”
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban was among the first European leaders to condemn the murder in the clearest terms, the DW TV reported.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban claimed that Kirk’s death was “the result of the international hate campaign waged by the progressive-liberal left.”
“This is what led to the attacks on [Slovak Prime Minister] Robert Fico, on [Czech former premier] Andrej Babis, and now on Charlie Kirk,” Orban said.
“We must stop the hatred! We must stop the hate-mongering left!”
Writing on X, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her “condolences to [Kirk’s] family, his loved ones, and the American conservative community.”
“A heinous murder, a profound wound for democracy and for those who believe in freedom,” she added.
Germany’s opposition politician and leader of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Alice Weidel, remembered Kirk as a “fighter for freedom of speech.”
“For that, he was now shot by a fanatic who hates our way of life and discussion. My thoughts are with his family, to whom I express my sincere condolences. It is so terrible,” she said.
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