10 Years Since the Hideous Terrorist Attacks on Charlie Hebdo

[Leonardo17]

Today is exactly 10 years after the savage attack of political Islamist terrorists on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. So today’s edition of the Magazine reads “No Way to Put Us Down” / 76 % of French citizens support freedom of expression (even in the form of blasphemy).

Reuters


 
  So I felt the need to say a thing or two on this issue because the main solution to this kind of issue is to keep talking and keep debating our ideas so that radicalization does not happen and becomes a thing of the past. There are so many questions that are there for us to answer. For instance the French are going to create some sort of museum to celebrate the freedom of expression. Yet they do not know if they should or not put the Charlie Hebdo comics (bellow) that were the supposed reasons of these terrorist attacks back in 2015:


 

   I am not really an authority on this issue but I happen to have been raised within a Muslim culture and I am also someone with rather strong spiritual convictions. Spirituality actually says that terrorists are usually people who are 100% devoted to their evil deeds. Spirituality also underlines the fact that there are very powerful negative forces at play in this world. And it also underlines the fact that we are to decide if we want a world in which we want authority to be the truth or a world in which Truth is the only Authority. (Unfortunately: Humanity does not seem to have entirely solved this issue just yet   ).
 
   The way I see it: Cold War Era politicians have decided to see Political Islam as a force that would help them isolate the Soviet Union and prevent it from spreading toward Oil-Rich countries. Imperialist forces may even have seen it as an element that would act against left-wing or nationalist forces that they were trying to fight in places like Algeria in the 1960’s for instance.
 
    Now we are sort of left with the task of trying to fight-off this very destructive political ideology that is (if you ask me) a parasitical type of ideology. It’s like Fascism on steroids or communism based on Holy Scriptures. It feeds on the exclusion of less favored groups of society or economic hardship based on the different levels of development between cultures and culminates all these elements into the hatred of “the other” with a vision of a better world (like a New Reich that will last 1000 years, or a World in which the well-being Proletariat will be the only authority).
 
   Of course, since nobody is stupid enough to be convinced in such nonsense they will serve the dish with ideas on the end of the world. The supposed duties of true Muslims to adhere into this madness and all sorts of superstitious thoughts that are supposed to be “the true nature of Islam”.
 
    And I am going to add one last thing: There are many modern scholars who say that the reason of such widespread errors is due to the gullibility of the so called “believers”. I believe that, no matter which one our confession is, we are all supposed to be a little smarter. And this is true for other faiths as well. As I said in the beginning of the message: Talking is good. Communicating is good. Trying to resolve difference through dialogue is good.
 
And on an individual level: I would go for self-doubt and self-criticism and always remaining open for new ideas.
 
This looks very simple: But too much pride and attachment to this or that conviction is a totally ego-generated attitude. Our True-Self knows the limit of the human part of our identity and is therefore open to discussion and debate about the convictions of our ego or worldly-self.
 
So the guy who doesn’t know that, is way below the average it takes to be even viewed as a spiritually inclined person (let alone a person who could be devoted to God or anything like that).
 
So questioning and debating these issues are good. And people should not be scared to step on some sort of cultural identities with a fear of being seen as a racist or a person who despises other cultures. There is no cultural element inside political Islam. As I said they are our new Japanese Empire of Third Reich if you want. Bu you can’t operate this tumor through surgery. The tumor has already spread everywhere. So the solution will have to come from within us: just like populist leaders like Jair Bolsonaro or Narendra Modi, we will sort of have to figure it out within ourselves.
 

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Disagree. History has countless examples demonstrating that trying to resolve religious differences via dialogue tends to exacerbate religious conflicts. This is because religionists are inherently resistant to reason.

Boru