Many of my friends have posted long rants on free speech, etc., in the wake of the Paris shootings. I have consistently held that while I dont condone the killings, we cannot ignore the fact that Charlie Hebdo is a racist, vulgar, anti-Islamic newspaper, and so I wouldnt be caught dead saying Je suis Charlie. I wont say that because I AM NOT CHARLIE. I AM NOT A MUSLIM-HATING, RACIST BIGOT. See this article by a Muslim that provides a different world-view from what the mainstream media is being saturated with. I quote, specifically: The elites narrative was simple, a left-wing magazine, had produced ‘satirical cartoons’ about all religions and politicians, some of them about the Prophet of Islam — Only the Muslims took offence (subtext because their backward barbaric religion was alien and intolerant). In 30s America when white people were burning black people on trees, whites could equally have used this argument. After all there were cartoons even about the president! However making insulting cartoons about white people who controlled the power structures was not the same as demonizing black people — a powerless underclass. Imagery of black people being, dumb, violent, lazy, thieves who looked like monkeys — upheld a political reality, the very imagery re-enforced the prejudices of those in power and subjugated blacks. The same with Jews in Nazi Germany — Imagine today’s spurious and conceited argument being used by the Nazi’s — could a German newspaper hide behind the claim it also made fun of white Germans? How unjustified that only the Jews complained so! After all Germans didn’t complain when they were made fun of — those backward Jews and their greedy religion didn’t understand free speech! The Muslims today are a demonized underclass in France. A people vilified and attacked by the power structures. A poor people with little or no power and these vile cartoons made their lives worse and heightened the racist prejudice against them. Even white liberals have acted in the most prejudiced way. It was as if white people had a right to offend Muslims and Muslims had no right to be offended? The difference was, when white people were offended, they had the state, white corporate media and a mob to make their point — Muslims had nothing. https://medium/@asgharbukhari/charlie-hebdo-this-attack-was-nothing-to-do-with-free-speech-it-was-about-war-26aff1c3e998
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 07:46:25 +0000
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