Je ne suis toujours pas Charlie Sundays grotesque march of the dictators, human rights abusers, war-mongers and hypocrites in Paris was a self-serving attempt to promote the cause of the Western imperialists and their international allies. It had nothing to do with mourning the unjust deaths of 17 people in the two terrorist attacks last week, whatever the wishes and thoughts of the many ordinary people that attended. In a display of imperialist unity Francois Hollande, Merkel, Cameron, the US Attourney General and NATO were joined by their key allies, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, the Gulf States, Egypt, and hangers on like the Western Ukraine government. Between them the regimes they represented have been responsible for millions of deaths, torture, extraordinary rendition, imprisonment without trial and suppression of human rights including that of free speech across the Middle East and North Africa. If the right to free expression is left in their hands then it is lost already. The reality of their vaunted values and is seen in their own systematic terrorism that has been unleashed again and again against populations unwilling to accept subjugation to the behests of the West. In the post-war period the West has intervened repeatedly in primarily Muslim countries from North Africa, the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the far east. In the 1960s France itself was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands Algerians. Today it shares in the responsibility for the horrors that rained on Afghanistan, and still rain on Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza. Similar hypocrisies are also playing out within France. While the security forces are deployed to protect Charlie Hebdo’s right to publish caricatures of Muslims, Muslims themselves are prohibited from wearing the veil. Hollande marches with Netanyahu, but banned demonstrations in support of Gaza during the bombings last summer. Islamophobia has been unleashed in France, fanned by a government that has simply endorsed the blame laid on all Muslims and made no concerted stand for a multicultural France. As a result there have been scores of anti-Muslim incidents across France in just these past few days, including shootings and a Mosque fire, with more than 50 attacks reported outside of the Paris area. Against this backdrop, the Charlie Hebdo edition published today (Wednesday 14 January) resolutely affirms its anti-Muslim campaign with yet another front cover caricature using a deliberately offensive cartoon. Frances Muslim community is under attack and needs solidarity. As the article published on this website put it last week, in the face of this nauseating imperialist led anti-Muslim solidarity and Charlie Hebdo’s continued offence to Muslim sensibilities – and those who oppose racism – there is still no choice but to say Je ne suis pas Charlie.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:38:48 +0000
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