It
is quite ironic that in the land where “liberty, quality and
fraternity” was first raised, that slogan now has been inverted to
justify the suppression of our sacred right to freedom of expression.
Such is the precise observation of Pope Francis who made a statement
when he said that “freedom of expression can’t (be used to) insult
faith.” In saying that, he in fact reiterated the oldest principle of
human civility and respect that distinguished our society from the
animal kingdom.
As the Pope told a friend, one could expect a punch should he start
cursing the mother of the person. As terrorist, Amedy Coulibaly, who
himself was killed at the Kosher supermarket after that carnage at
Charlie Hebdo, wrote through the internet before his death, “those lying
hypocrites had it coming.” That statement came a bit late, but
nonetheless conveyed the same foreboding warning never to make an insult
on one’s religious belief. Of course, the Pope would never condone or
encourage violence to redress an insult and blasphemy, but certainly
nobody can measure the temperament of one whose feelings was deeply
offended by the misguided exercise of freedom for which the only
guarantee is to bear in mind that freedom has its own limitations.
One can never be free to mock, insult, blaspheme or denigrate others
by their race, religion or political beliefs. Once that ethical line in
human conduct is crossed, the violator denies himself that sacred
right. In a statement issued by Bill Donohue, president of the
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in America, he said,
“Muslims are right to be angry.” He accused Charlie Hebdo of
“intolerance…” He explained that “Killing in response to insult, no
matter how gross, must be unequivocally condemned. That is why what
happened in Paris cannot be tolerated.” But neither should we tolerate
the kind of intolerance that provoked this violent reaction,” “Those
who worked at this newspaper have a long and disgusting record of going
beyond the mere lampooning of public figures, and this is especially
true of their depictions of religious figures.”
Now that the hysteria about the massacre has somewhat subsided,
things appear to be getting much clearer about the role and direction
played Charlie Hebdo. Some say, the cartoon-newspaper was racist,
homophobic and Islamophobic. Others believe the paper was in fact
serving as a propaganda cover of the Jews done by the most disgusting
method of slandering Islam. Maybe they were not operatives of Israel’s
dreaded intelligence service, Mossad, but definitely the paper is
serving wittingly or unwittingly to safeguard and advance Israel’s
interest.
Charlie Hebdo might not have openly admitted it, but it believed that
blaspheming Islam will somehow help discredit the cause of the
Palestinians to recover their homeland from Israeli occupation. Making
nasty caricatures of Prophet Mohammad was to them their most effective
way to divide and diminish their influence in Europe that in the 20
has become more accommodating to Muslim immigrants. The consistent
attacks on Prophet Muhammad were most vicious and utterly contemptible.
Although Charlie Hebdo at times make a lampoon on other religions as
when the paper posted as cover retired Pope Benedict XVI in an amorous
embrace with a Vatican guard and an Orthodox Jew kissing a Nazi
soldier, that was rather meant to detract public attention of it as a
rabidly pro-Semitic paper. The late editor of Charlie Hebdo, Stephane
Charbonnier, was once quoted saying “Muhammad isn’t sacred to me. I
don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under
French law. I don’t live under Quranic law.” In fact, in November
2011, the magazine was petrol bombed after it published a special issue
temporarily renaming the paper “Charia Hebdo” and featuring as its
guest editor the “Prophet Mohammad.”
Suspicion of a possible Jewish hand in fomenting terrorism to sow
hatred against Muslims in Europe is no longer a mere speculation, but as
one that is seen as most dreadful. Sensing this, French President
Francois Hollande conveyed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
not to come to Paris to take part in the anti-terror march. As reasoned
out by Hollande’s national security adviser, Jacques Audibert, “Hollande
wanted the event to focus on demonstrating solidarity with France, and
to avoid anything liable to divert attention to other controversial
issues, like Jewish-Muslim relations or the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Nonetheless, Netanyahu came, and that forced France to invite
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Hence, during Netanyahu’s turn at
the Podium during the ceremony, Hollande got up from his seat and made
an early exit.
Notably, the bodies of the four French Jews killed in the Kosher
supermarket were brought to Jerusalem, and there given a heroes burial.
That further heightened the suspicion that Israel is now using Europe
as it pawn to generate anti-Muslim sentiment by instigating extremism to
create a religious and racial backlash against Muslims immigrants
mostly coming from countries in the Middle East and North Africa. In
fact, the mayor of Ankara, Melih Gokcek, now blames Mossad for fanning
the flames of hatred, a view that is shared by Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan when he expressed bewilderment why the French
intelligence services failed to follow the culprit effectively.
Some believe that Israeli is desperate to sway back public opinion to
its favor that in recent years saw its rapid isolation from the
international community by its systematic destruction of the Gaza Strip
and indiscriminately killing civilian population. The barbaric
punishment it inflicted on the Palestinian people treating them like
caged animals saw many traditionally pro-Israeli European countries one
by one extending recognition to Palestine as a new state. Sweden was
the first to recognize it on October 3, 2014, and France becoming the
third, following Belgium on December 2, 2014. But hardly anyone noticed
that soon after France recognized the state of Palestine, Charlie
Hebdo intensified its blasphemous insults on Islam that in the words of
one of the terrorists, they had it coming to them.
Islamophobic outcry and denunciation are now spreading throughout
Europe to Israel’s delight. It only need some crackpots to cause Europe
to tighten its immigration laws against Muslims. They managed to
revive an otherwise disgusting and libelous paper because of the
avalanche of financial support as a result of the attack. Charlie Hebdo
can now continue on its insults and blasphemy against Islam using as
its cover the right to freedom of expression which some our
self-righteous hypocrites readily adopted to show their misguided
sympathy.
In fact, the Zionists have also been exploiting the possibility of
creating a Judeo-Christian religion which many Catholics are opposed for
fear of dividing Islam from Judaism with the Christians as the latter’s
unwitting ally. While there no open contradictions between the Torah
and the Holy Bible, most Christians cannot however go along with the
Zionist political agenda of monopolizing the whole of Palestine. Thus,
the Charlie Hebdo incident is just the beginning of the bloody fight
between Islam and Zionism that has now spilled over to Europe.
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