Je ne suis pas Charlie Published by Max Musson on 2015/01/08 By Max Musson: As the dust begins to settle around the offices of Parisian satirical magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’, on Rue Nicholas Appert, and the French police continue their search for the perpetrators of yesterday’s blood-bath, it seems as though the whole media have gone into overdrive in an effort to convince us of two things: That we should mourn those slaughtered as ‘champions of free speech’ and all values quintessentially French; and that we should not in any way associate the presence of the gunmen in France with the policies of the French and other EU establishment leaders, of facilitating the growth of frequently hostile alien communities within our nations’ borders. The truth is that ‘Charlie Hebdo’ is a liberal/left-wing magazine whose late editor Stéphane Charbonnier, one of those murdered yesterday, was as life-long supporter of the French Communist Party. It is a weekly magazine which has relentlessly satirised and ridiculed not just Islam, but traditional French values, the Christian Church and in particular Jean-Marie Le Pen and the Front National. It is ironic that the pluralistic, multi-cultural, pro-Gay rights society that ‘Charlie Hebdo’ has striven to champion has proven to be both the seed of the antagonism that exists between the magazine and the Muslim community, and the source of the Arab gunmen that slaughtered their staff. As a weekly magazine, ‘Charlie Hebdo’ will have struggled to find new material far more than a less frequently published periodical and this may have been why they chose to court controversy with Islam by so often publishing material that Muslims would have regarded as highly inflammatory. To support the liberal/left-wing political tradition which has encouraged and facilitated the settlement in France of so many Muslims, it then seems the height of stupidity to have relentlessly baited them in a way that we know they will not tolerate. If you go out of your way to continually enrage a certain group of people, you must expect that sooner or later they will strike out at you, and given the record of extreme violence by Islamic groups elsewhere, it was wholly predictable that extreme violence would eventually be visited upon ‘Charlie Hebdo’. Perhaps Georges Wolinski, the Jewish cartoonist who so mercilessly caricatured Jean-Marie Le Pen; Jean Cabut, the father of AIDS ridden Gay punk rock icon, Mano Solo; and lifelong Communist Charbonnier, would have made different choices in their lives, had they the benefit of foresight? Certainly however, we who have witnessed their deaths must now not fall into the trap of compounding their folly by perpetuating and worsening the conditions that have brought about this tragic situation. Liberal commentators in the media have been busily lionising the work of those murdered yesterday and today’s newspapers are full of images of people foolishly asserting ‘Je suis Charlie’, proclaiming their solidarity with these men who have spent their lives undermining everything that sane people hold dear and who have now become literally the authors of their own misfortune. In a tragic irony, Charbonnier’s last cartoon predicted his own death. The latest edition of the weekly magazine shows a gun-toting Islamic terrorist saying: “Still no attacks in France? Wait – we’ve still got until the end of January to present our best wishes.” Charlie Hebdo 1The liberal press attempt to fool us into thinking that there are only two alternatives open to us: that we must maintain the status quo as an act of defiance demonstrating that ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ and in tribute to these ‘heroic’ souls who ‘gave their lives’ for freedom of speech; or that we will be forced to subject ourselves to even greater and even more draconian police state measures in the hope of preventing further terrorist atrocities. What they ignore quite deliberately is the third alternative, which represents a marked divergence from the liberalism that has been responsible for our current malaise, and this is why they refuse to contemplate it. They would sooner live their entire lives with the threat of terrorism than abandon the folly of their liberal beliefs. It is undeniable that the overwhelming majority of terrorist outrages committed both in Western countries and throughout the world over the last twenty years have been committed by so called ‘Islamic extremists’. Barely a week goes by now, without news of a bombing outrage, or a beheading or a massacre, or of hostages being taken or of a fatwah being declared, so much so, that far from signifying ‘religion of peace’, the word ‘Islam’ has almost become synonymous in most Western people’s minds with the word ‘terrorism’. The term ‘Islamic extremist’ is bandied about as if to suggest that within Muslim communities there are significant numbers of ‘moderate’ Muslims who do not either support the motives of, or at least sympathise with the terrorists within our midst and while such people must exist in sizeable numbers, their numbers and/or influence within their communities are both woefully lacking. When there is scarcely a single Muslim country in the world that is not racked by Jihad, terrorism or some form of sectarian insurgency it should be obvious to any objective observer that Islam as a religious teaching is so intolerant of dissent that it is incompatible with democracy, freedom of beliefs and freedom of speech. I say this not with the intention of denigrating Islam, but merely as a statement of fact. While some individual Muslims may be more tolerant, Islam and Islamic communities as a whole do not tolerate dissent and if we want peace to prevail, we must ensure that Islamic communities are not situated within the same political jurisdictions as communities that wish to exercise freedom of belief and freedom of speech, who wish to express scepticism and/or dissent where religious matters are concerned, or who simply reject Islam. Anything else is simply asking for trouble. Western governments must ‘grasp the nettle’ now, before it is too late and take concerted action to persuade Muslim minorities to relocate to countries that are Islamic by tradition and whose mode of government and whose social mores are in keeping with their beliefs. If not, we can look forward to many more days like yesterday in which deluded liberals reap the fruits of their foolishness, especially those who think it funny and clever to relentlessly denigrate and ridicule the passionately held beliefs of others.....Source westernspring.co.uk/je-ne-suis-pas-charlie/
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