Look - when every single time the attackers claim to be Muslims, doing it in the name of their prophet and Islam, then who are we - non-muslims - to tell them they got it wrong? Clearly, they know their religion better than we do? I always find it amusing when the next lily white expert comes on TV and says “this has got nothing to do with religion”. Okay Rebecca, funnily enough the guy says it has got everything to do with their religion.
At one point it’s about time we stop blaming everyone else and start blaming the perpetrators and their ideology.
If their reasoning is that it is a-okay to behead innocent people, because their prophet was depicted in a cartoon, then we have got a big problem at hands that needs to be solved. Not by limiting our freedom to draw this caricature, which our ancestors fought centuries for sacrificing their lives, but by furthermore protecting, supporting and vocally and decisevely defending our liberal Western values.
If someone doesn’t feel at home here, they can leave. Nobody is stopping them. If someone feels offended by a cartoon and feels compelled to murder anyone over it, that person needs mental help or leave to a place where religious zealoutry is the order of the day.
If someone doesn’t like Western freedom and liberties or is selective about them, that someone can leave. Is free to leave. There are 50 nations out there where Islam dominates the culture, politics and laws. They are more than free to leave European soil and move to such a place that suits them better.
Charlie Hebdo mocks every religion, everything that they want and it is their right. It is nobody’s right to murder someone over these liberties.
I will staunchly support these liberties and defend them and no amount of faux-left shaming will stop me from it. Because the Left that aligns themselves with ultra conservative ideology, just because the adherent of it are mostly of a different skin colour, is the worst of people. They are devoid of principles, devoid of intellect and devoid of solutions. They contribute nothing but more destruction and eroding of precious freedoms we have had to built up for centuries.
I want equality for every race, every gender, ever sexual orientation, every creed, every single human being should be equal to one another.