Attacks in France/President Macron's Islamophobic hysteria
People say I’m a hero but I’m not a hero. I’m Lassana,” he said at the ceremony.
“I’ll stay the same. I would do the same again, because I was following my heart.”
So said Lassana Bathily, the Malinese muslim, who saved
6 customers of a Jewish store, that was also under attack during
the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in 2015
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In october 2020, France was startled by two criminal attacks on civilians,
Austria, too, by one criminal attack, also in october, 2020. [1]
Despite the horroble things you daily read and see in the news, yet I was rather stunned by learning of the bizarre beheading, by an 18 years old Chechen muslim, Abdoullakh Abouyedovich Anzorov [who was killed by the police], of the French middle school teacher Samuel Paty, who taught history, geographics and civics.
Reason:
In a lesson about freedom of opinion, Paty had shown his student
the notorious Charlie Hebdo 2012 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
[2]
And that was not all:
Along came a second attack, possibly still more bizarre:
The stabbing of three people, who died of it, by a 21 Tunesian suspect. [3]
I wrote: '' still more bizarre'', because this happened in a Church in Nice.....[4]
A Church.......
But there was more:
The third attack, in the same month [october] took place in Vienna, where
a gunman opened fire on innocent civilians in the city centre of Vienna. [5]
But there also was another side of the story:
In Vienna, two Turkish migrants who live in Austria saved the lives of
a police officer and two elderly women! [6]
Recep Tayyip Gultekin, one of the saviour Turks, added to his action of courage and
humanity:
''“If the same thing happens tomorrow, I wouldn’t hesitate to save people. I don’t want to see discrimination between Muslims, Jews, or Christians. Terror has no place in these religions. Terror is terror everywhere.” [7]
That is the Spirit of true religion, whether Christianity, Islam, Judaism or any other religion or life philosphy.
REACTION OF THE FRENCH STATE ON THE ATTACKS
So far so good [or rather said: so bad]
And let there is no misunderstanding
Those three attacks on innocent civilians were horrible.
But that doesn't mean that State reactions neglect elementary rights!
And elementary rights are not to be discriminated against, not
impose collective punishment, not to condemn without proof!
And that's exactly what the French government did to
the muslim community in France!
THE STORM/ISLAMOPHOBIA IN EUROPE
Since 11 september 2001, a storm of Islamophobia came
over the Western countries.
In the Netherlands figures like the political fascist PVV leader
G Wilders, as the Islamophobic politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali [8]
In other Western countries the same negative developments took place.
The whole political
climate changed, since every attack from muslim
perpetrators had been reacted negatively on the whole muslim community.
Also Islamophobic provocations went on and on, as the
Muhammed cartoons, published by the Jylands Posten.
And in nearly all cases I stroke back, as in the case of
the Muhammed cartoons publications. [9]
Not to mention the general Islamophobia in Europe! [10]
Under note 11 a report on Islamophobia in France, of 2016 [11]
But there is a lot to read about this subject, alas.
Search for yourself at Google!
BACK TO FRANCE/ISLAMOPHOBIC REACTION AND MEASURES OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT
BACK TO THE FRANCE STATE/ISLAMOPHOBIC MEASURES
In fact, the reaction of the French government was no more or less than a declaration of war against muslims in France and international!
Instead of an appeal for unity, French government polarized by the showing of the offending Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons, hanging from French government buildings [12], thus violating article 1 of the French Constitution, stating equality and respect for everyone regardless descent, race or religion, as respect for all religion. [13]