JE SUIS CHARLIE

JE SUIS CHARLIE

The attack on satire magazine Charlie Hebdo headquarters in France demands a response, but how do you write to enlighten people,who, if they read it WILL try to kill you.

But we must try, too many of us were quiet and stood idly by when the “Fatwa” was issued against Salman Rushdie for his “Satanic Verses” , I am of age, I have a means of communication, I write therefore I am, with my favourite verse of Lord Macaulay’s Horatius at the Bridge singing in my head

“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods,
“And for the tender mother
Who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses
His baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens
Who feed the eternal flame,—
To save them from false Sextus
That wrought the deed of shame?

I sail forth with my opinion, my stand, my message to the extremists who seek to tear our way of life down, to terrorize us into accepting their way , their version of how life should be lived.

Dear Believer,

I feel compelled to share my truth with you, it seems despite your label and strong bold actions, you have very little actual belief in your god and his prophet, no all powerful god needs servants to make attacks and run away, to needlessly sacrifice their life and that of others to satisfy him, GOD cannot want you to act for him, is your faith so little you trust your judgement is better than his? Are you really his servant or are you destined for his pit of hell for your hubris? 

Western society and its norms offend you, but you leave your ancestral homes to seek shelter in it, you live in another man’s land and defile his hospitality in a most vile manner, no GOD demands this of you, no religion asks or condones such behaviour, when you feel the anger, the hate, the humiliation building against those that offer you shelter, it is time to go peacefully back home.

The violent actions by the few of you who perpetrate them brings much shame to your religion, it can make no all powerful GOD happy to know his followers , his believers, think him so weak and impotent that they take action for him, you defile the very GOD you seek to avenge, SHAME ON YOU.

Then there are the silent supporters of your actions, they too must do some soul searching and examine if they really do believe and if life in the west is their best path to inner peace and true happiness.

We in the western world have gone through this phase of acting on behalf of GOD many centuries ago, we view your actions as ancient, barbaric and outdated, if you cannot adapt to life in western civilization, you are not wanted here, go back to your ancestral homes peacefully, that action will make the world a better place and that must make your GOD happy.

Go In peace from this maddening place my brother, Assalamu alaikum.