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Inciting From Within

Journalists and news media sources indignantly, righteously and with just cause, deplore the deeply abiding hatred that led to the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday. They will not be intimidated, they will continue to press for freedom of expression. It is their right in the world of the Western democracies to speak truth as they see it, to question what puzzles them, to mock what begs to be laughed at, to be frank and open to any kind of discussion about anything at all.


Discussion: not slaughter, in reprisal for perceived insults against a venerated symbol of a religion. Everyone everywhere is repulsed, indignant, determined. So much so that many major news outlets have decided to be discreet about their anger with the violence directed at the impulsive creators of caricatures of personalities, ideologies, politics, celebrities that deserve to be punctured by their wit and their scorn.

In the greater public interests, they say, they have no wish to offend anyone's sensitivities and sensibilities; particularly such a large majority as the Islamic ummah, most particularly that segment of the greater whole that resides where their news is circulated. And so, they have chosen not to republish, standing in solidarity with the battered and bloodied and very dead journalists, cartoonists, police and others in printing the offending cartoons.



The BBC CNN, ABC News, The Daily Telegraph, The Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, CBC English-language operation, and others stand on being attuned delicately to what is otherwise named as political correctness. There are, needless to say, many others who will take up the slack and had no hesitation whatever in publishing, in print and on line, the offending cartoons. To show to readers how inoffensive in character they are in very fact.

Little more than perky prods, pinpricks of derision. But as such immensely, staggeringly, blasphemous. One man's saintly prophet of the 'one true religion' is another man's figure of questionable theological value. But while the latter is forbidden to display any measure of doubt regarding that figure's status, the former feels quite free to himself caricature the 'false' and superseded symbols of other, earlier religions, in the most disgusting of denigrating terms.

Fifteen hostages were rescued by security forces after they stormed a kosher grocery store on the eastern edge of Paris. (Francois Mori/Associated Press)

Like oil and water the two don't mix very well. Perhaps the solution to that is simply to keep them separated. But while the West rarely settles in the East, the East has a penchant to settle in the West. Across Europe Islam has made its imprint. The centre of Europe's cities and towns are weighted with migrants from Muslim-majority countries. And the strains between the indigenous peoples of Europe and the Muslim migrants are becoming increasingly problematical.

France's Muslim demographic is the largest in Europe, and France has more Islamists travelling to war zones in the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa than any other country in Europe. There is greater 'unrest' in France than almost anywhere else, but Sweden, Denmark, Germany and other welcoming places in Europe are moving up the scale, too.

Matthew Fisher of PostMedia news points out that cities like Malmo which has absorbed refugees from Iraq and Syria have a growing disconnect; Paris and Birmingham "have become so riven with Islamic radicalism in recent years that parts of them have almost become no-go zones for the authorities. Disputes over Islamic clothing, Shariah courts and what should be taught in schools have become commonplace."

Young Muslims, first-, second- and third-generation are ripe for recruiting into jihad; others while not committing to jihad feel sympathetic to its idealization. They find support for their adoption of jihad as a goal and a fundamental obligation of the faithful in messages delivered by Islamist clerics at some mosques, at community centres, among ample online social media sites, and of course, for those who spend time in prisons, there in particular.

There are many who condemn Islamofascism but who are swift to declare that the jihadists don't, after all, represent Islam. Muslims themselves keep insisting that the terrorists don't speak for them. But on the other hand, they rebuke the Western ideal of free speech, taking offense at the freedom to criticize a religion its faithful insist is one of peace and good fellowship, but which has many incendiary passages inciting to violence, and many more adherents happy to comply.

The global incidents of Islamofascistic violence are overwhelming in their frequency, ferocity, and aimless butchery. This is the Islam that manifests itself on the world stage. This is the Islam that spreads terror with one unspeakable atrocity after another in such large scale events that create millions of refugees through sectarian Islamist and tribal hatreds that it is a completely legitimate question to ask what other Islam is there?

Labels: Atrocities, France, Immigration, Islamism, Terrorists

posted by Pieface @ Friday, January 09, 2015