#JesuisCharlie My Ass. Please
pardon my French (ironical, isn’t it), but I have had it enough. 84 school
children died in Pakistan few days ago, I guess I missed the #Jesuisl'enfant
tweets, freedom of life was never discussed defended so vehemently then.
Nothing is an attack on humanity unless it happens in European or American
continent is it? A bomb attack in UK is seen as a threat on the whole world,
while in India cross border firing killing few people every day is seen as a local
issue. Four damn cartoonists and eight others died and a nationwide manhunt
ensured the two shooters die as well. Those shooters believed they avenged
Allah and Mohammad, and French police believed they avenged humanity I am
assuming. What is the difference, both took the same route of revenge? And to
cover up the bitter truth, some self-declared prophets of “Freedom of Speech” applied
their filthy emotionally masturbated verbal cum on the whole issue.
What exactly is freedom of
speech? To say what I wish to say? To not pay heed to the faiths and beliefs of
people? It’s a right, every human being’s right. The rights are very mysterious
in nature, a human being is believed to have them right from the time of birth.
Some pro-life fanatics have even adorned unborn fetus with the same rights. It
tells us, how seriously we take it. While I don’t take such creative stupidity
very seriously, I fail to understand how no one talks about the
responsibilities which come with the fundamental rights as part of the package.
For example, if we look at “Right to live”, and add the accountability and
responsibility to it, the statement would be “Right to live without damaging,
destroying and snatching away right to live of others”. Where is the
responsibility towards society in mocking a religion? Calling people living in
your country outsiders in an era of globalization? Islam was narrow minded, the
so called ‘developed’ people of Europe, where is your broad thinking?
Freedom of speech makes no sense
to me if it is not constructive for the society. Mockery of beliefs, faith and
religion cannot be part of it. I understand fun, I understand satire but I do
not understand mockery. The whole purpose behind coining the term “Freedom of
Speech” is lost when the medium is used for anything other than constructive
development of society. What was Charlie and his team doing? Pointing at the
stupidities of Islam everyday will only make the Islamic people more defensive
towards their beliefs, restricting growth of Islam as a whole. I understand if
you tell me Islam as a religion has issues, but is there a single religion
which is complete in the truest sense. Terrorists are assumed to be muslims,
but ask yourself is that true? From ancient times, in the name of Jesus,
crusaders massacred men women and children, shan't they be counted as
terrorists? Hindus and muslims killed each other during so many riots in past
years, both competed for the throne of barbarism, aren’t they both terrorists?
Why this special attention on a particular sect? An attention which they never
asked for, an attention which is helping them in no way. It is in midst of all this,
we are celebrating Freedom of Speech? By doing what? Exaggerating every single
stupidity which exists in Islam?
I do not know your father, I hope
he is your idol, you believe in him, you have faith in his decisions and
actions and way of life. Well, all that is fine but you know what “Fuck your
Father”. Would you support this freedom of speech? How is it helping the
society by mocking a particular sect, religion? Who will choose what Freedom of
Speech is? It’s our responsibility to choose wisely and choose correctly. Have
we chosen correctly?
If you think about it, freedom of
speech can also be seen as refined form of “Freedom to Express”. Well Charlie
thought of expressing via Cartoons, few fanatics chose to express through Guns.
Both of them were merely expressing, choice of tool differed. Would you accept
that? Don’t pounce upon me with “But killing is wrong?” I don’t deny that, but
since when mocking a soul became correct?
Charlie died, before death he was
just a cartoonist running a magazine which had weak following. After death he
is the symbol of freedom of speech. So ironical I find our way of treating
other humans. Exaggerated martyrs are made out of corpses. I read somewhere
that this month Charlie’s magazine might sell over 10 Million copies, on an
ordinary day it would have sold few thousand at its best, and right there we gave
them a free hand to make mockery of society again and with new rigor. Nothing
hurts until you are the facing it. Islam might not mean anything to most of the
people, but does that allow us to assume it does not mean anything to anyone?
For some people, it’s the only way of life. The one precious life which they
have, they have put faith in Islam and are following it religiously, adapting
the good parts and bad parts. Forgiving the bad parts on account of so many good
thing it preaches. They did not give us the right to judge them on account of
their faith.
Judge a man for what he has done,
not for what he believes, wears or preaches, it’s a personal choice until it
starts being a pain to others. What happened to Charlie was wrong, but not on
account of what Charlie was spreading. It was wrong because his life was taken
without his consent. Can’t we leave the matter to this and stop blaming a whole
sect for it? Are our maturity levels so low that we cannot distinguish an act
committed by few individuals and an act committed by a whole sect?
I say fuck those who assassinated
and fuck Charlie. Both are part of the same stupidity over which we ignore to
consider the society. Social norms have become extinct, everything is about
being individual, being unique, so much that we turned our back to our own
ecosystem, the society. And no, by society I do not mean Facebook or Twitter.
Stop covering everything with hash-tags, it rips apart the joys and sorrows of life, making
them exactly what they are over internet. “Trending Topics”. While we put up
show to fight for humanity we strangle it with our own moral beliefs and
actions.
Don’t look for my religion, for I
have none. Don’t look for my identity, for its not important. Look at the
purpose, and look within yourself. Break the shackles of age old beliefs and words
in fashion. Let’s just be what we really are. Humans.
