The Freedom to Blaspheme
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"[People in France havethe]freedom to blaspheme." "In France, there's also a freedom to blaspheme that is linked to the freedom of conscience. So, from where I stand, I'm there to protect all those freedoms." "I don't have to comment on a journalist's choice. I just have to say that, in France, one can criticize people who are governing and one can blaspheme." French President Emmanuel Macron
"[The threat of terrorist attacks] remains extremely high in the country." "The risk of terror of Sunni origin is the main threat our country is facing" [32 planned terrorist attacks had been foiled since 2017]." French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin
Nowhere is it stated, but it can be inferred that some of those apprehended atrocities planned for the Republic, and more anticipated, emanate from within France's borders. From its burden of millions of Muslims among whom violence is always simmering, from their unapproachable ghettoes, the banlieues into which police fear to tread and where firefighters risk their lives on entering to fight fires. The banlieues out of which from time to time come demonstrations of discontent when vehicles are torched in a show of defiance against authority.
Tension is high in France with the start of a trial of 14 people linked to the Islamist terrorist attack that took place in January of 2015 when Said and Cherif Kouachi broke into the Paris headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo with the intention of mass slaughter. They succeeded to the extent of their ambition, in killing a dozen people, among them the magazine's cartoonists, when they sprayed the building with automatic gunfire.
That week, a total of 17 people died over a three-day mission undertaken in the name of the Islamic State. Following the horrific attack at the Charlie Hebdo offices -- with France reeling in disbelief at the assaults, the carnage, the deaths, the slaughterhouse that once was a magazine headquarters -- an acquaintance of the Kuachi brothers killed a female police officer and on the following day Amedy Coulibaly attacked a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris, where he killed four Jewish men.
It is a crime punishable by death to commit the unforgivable offence of publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad. And those who did that very thing paid for their casual sin with their lives. For Islam brooks of no insults to its prophet, much less its Koran and Allah, the god of peace. The fourteen accomplices several of whom are being tried in absentia, are charged as accomplices, enablers of the killings.
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No trial is required for the killers; all three were engaged in separate standoffs with Paris police and failed to survive their reckoning as was no likely their intention as martyrs prepared to ascend to Paradise and awaiting virgins. To commemorate the tragedy of the assault and mass death of Charlie Hebdo's writers and cartoonists, and the onset of the trail of the enablers, the magazine has decided to republish the offending cartoons.
It is a glove thrown as an invitation to a duel to the death. A red flag to re-antagonize and prod a beast whose slavering jaws and pounding hooves are prepared to do battle to humble the pride that assaults the prophet of Islam. Just as ten years earlier cartoons published on a dare by a Danish newspaper where in one cartoon Mohammad wears a bomb-shaped turban with a lit fuse, precipitated violent pandemonium all over the world when pious Muslims went on a rampage, destroying, pillaging, killing. Themselves, mostly. Such is the power of sacred outrage.
"[The suspects were not being tried as] little helpers." "It is about individuals who are involved in the logistics, the preparation of the events, who provided means of financing, operational material, weapons, a residence. [Such things were] essential to the terrorist action." National anti-terror prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard
Labels: Chaos, France, ISIS, Islamists, Mass Murder, Mohammad
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, September 03, 2020
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