Submitted by Pachamama
The killing of 12 and injury of dozens more at the offices of satirical publication, Charlie Hebdo, in France has to be seen in its proper context. They come on the same day the bodies of over 320 were discovered in Mosul in five mass graves. These were the victims of ISIS, ISIL or DASH. But nobody in the West is crying for these long disappeared. All the tears will be shed for the precious blood of the French 12+. Not the Izadi, Kurdish women, children and old people of Mosul – and others. In the West, we did not even miss them. We did not even know that they were dead but the blood of 12 Frenchmen will be consecrated and made to give impetus to the prolongation of unholy Western, Christian, crusades on the Muslim world.
And this is just an example of the daily murder through war, economic deprivation and greed inflicted upon the peoples of the world by the French, in particular, and the West, more generally. The White supremacist world order of which France has always been central.
Those wars are informed by what Edward Said first called orientalism. They use the sentiment of less than 0.001% to generalize to the entirety of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims. They try to presume that Westerners could call for a reformation of Islam, as if by right. The orientalism of which Said wrote presumes an individual’s right is of more importance that the sanctities of Islam. This was never about individual rights per se, this was always about cultural warfare. A warfare not dissimilar to the activities of France in Africa and more precisely in Algeria. A barbaric, decades long, war against the Algerian peoples. A war they lost like they will these present campaigns.
We are living in a world when such an act, as committed in France, is labelled as terrorism, by the West. Every stops and we are treated to wall to wall coverage on all media. But the definition of terrorism, if we could ever agree on one, must of necessity implicate all Western states as terrorist states and all their present and past leaders as terrorists. Surely the activities in Algeria by France must qualify as terrorism. France the country that is well known for conducting the most brutal colonial campaigns and which to this very day asserts its ‘right’ to hold unto Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana in the western hemisphere. Well, Haiti is a particular case of the colonial terrorism of the French in this part of the world. And some silly Black people dare to associate ostentation or sophistication to France and a false romanticism to the French language. What contradictions!
But these illegal wars on the Muslim world are two edged swords. They are responsible to a large extent for the curtailment of the very individual freedoms the editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, Jean Cubut, asserts for his improper depictions of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). How can it be that a perceived right of an individual could be more important that the collective rights of 25% of the world’s population? What is lost to Westerners by bowing to the fair demands of Muslims or Christians, even as non-believers? We remember a time when we wanted to travel to Japan for business and had to go to a one week seminar to learn how to behave so as not to insult the Japanese. Had to change an entire wardrobe to comply with Japanese business traditions. But when it comes to Muslims the Western warrior mentality dispenses with cultural sensitivities publicly, for political reasons, of course. However, privately, the reverse is true.
France has been, except for the Iraq war, a constant member of the Western coalitions in military adventures in the Muslim world and Africa. In the case of Syria, several voices from the Muslim world warned the French and the other Western powers that they support for DASH would come to bite them – blowback! But they would not listen. They only interests was using any means necessary to topple President Assad. France therefore, made it possible for the worst of the worst to be trained, armed with special weapons, gear and equipment and given safe passage to Syria for the conduct of an unholy war against the Assad regime, on the cheap.
No Islamic scholar, no right thinking personage in the Muslim world could dissuade the French from their dangerous crusades in the global south. And they are running other military adventures either directly or indirectly, using terrorists or supine governments, over the last few years, as members of Western coalitions, in the Central African Republic (CAR), Libya, Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso. France has sent a clear message that she will reassert her role in her former colonies as a way of controlling the resources of those countries. To hell with concepts of territorial integrity! The local gatekeepers are less effective than needed, by France.
But we will be saddened when people we call ‘innocent’ are cut down in a Western capital. White people, primarily! For their blood is too precious in the sight of the Western God of money for us not to be all in mourning! At least as a pretense to achieve more money, other peoples’ things, a French neo-colonial expansionism, justification of more illegal wars.
France, as part of the so-called coalition in the current re-invasion of Iraq has been, up to last week, delivering armament to DASH, ISIS. Jesus Christ! How many times must the West to caught delivering arms to terrorists fighting the government in Iraq which they pretend to be supportive of and they can continue to say, with a straight face, that it was a mistake. This is so comical we couldn’t make it up. There are about 12 documented cases where the so-called coalition against DASH receive parachuted armament from the powers, including France. More importantly we have undeniable evidence that the command centre for the DASH terrorists in inside the United Stated Embassy in Baghdad. We challenge them to deny this! You can fool all the people, all the time, they say!
Will the real terrorists stand up? When will the people of the West wake up to see how their leaders have been taking us for a ride for far too long? How is this war on terrorism, as euphemistically defined, any different than Operation Gladio, for example? Or the misbegotten war on drugs? Or the Islamophobia gaining popularity in Europe? Is the crisis of ‘civilizations’ on the side of Muslims or are we facing an existential survivalist dilemma in the West? What are the connections between the use of Islamic terrorists and Western relationships with neo-Nazi and neo-Fascists elements in others theatres? What does it says, to us, when these so-called respected Western leaders are prepared to go to any lengths to extend privilege, extend empire, grab resources, by any means necessary?
We are well aware that the tenor of our writing will suggest to our detractors that this scribe is too dispassionate, lacks a modicum of care for the victims, and so on. That the blood of the fallen has not yet dried. Well our responses, preemptively, will include the inevitability of the incidence in France. The fair possibility that more is to come. The warnings ignored by Western leaders. A blind man could tell that it was just a matter of time. And all of the Western leaders are sighted, we think, Then we, as social scientists, were forced to conclude that the French attack might have been anticipated by those seeking to curtail the very rights and freedoms the French peoples and we in the West are too slow to see eroding, from within. Why else would a country behave in ways when even a fool could have calculated outcomes. We must assume the French are not all idiots, that there is a larger plot.
In truth, we do not attach any degree of victimology to the innocent people in France than we attach to ALL the innocence of Mosul and the world. For us, there are to be no special victims. All of these people are dead or injured. And their deaths were caused by individual terrorism OR state sponsored terrorism or both. France has long been a sponsorer and conductor of terrorism. That its chickens have come home to roost should represent a moment of reflection on its brutal past.
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