Lytenburgh wrote:The situation with “anti-Islamic” cartoons is nothing new – there were murdered people after that story about the Danish humorists nearly a decade ago. So this, well, “execution” of the “guilty” cartoonists and everyone else who just happened to be nearby, is Islamists way of directly bringing war to “Enemy’s” homeland. Previously, all these disparate Islamist groups were just that - disparate, but now they have their own state which became a "Beacon” of Islamic radicalism. And here we have a situation of the French cartoonists in the country of maximum tolerance to intolerantly portray them and the Prophet. Obviously, Islamists won’t tolerate this.
This situation is kinda schizophrenic in the fact, that France has fallen victim to an inherent contradiction - on the one hand. the government preaches maximum tolerance in everything - from the race and thought to gender identity and sexual preferences. On the other hand - the freedom of speech gives an opportunity for intolerant statements, which by virtue of tolerant censorship, are considered to be humor, jokes and the like. As a result, Western Europe which prides itself for its tolerance, in fact, produces all new reasons to incite ethnic and religious hatred, including on its own territory, which, as the direct result of the policy of multiculturalism, populates an abundant number of persons professing Islam, including its radical forms. Which is kinda a reverse side of multiculturalism and tolerance. In fact, they themselves have created this purulent wound, with which they do not know what to do, yet continuously poke it with a rusty nail, watching the occasionally pus spurting out in all directions.
Regarding the terrorists (allegedly, from Yemen) who have killed so many "crusader satirists" directly on the French territory, it’s worth reminding that during the period of Arab Spring in Yemen (where it overthrew the local autocrat), the Western press, including French, happily depict the triumphant march of the “Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East”. Well, here the children of this very "Arab Spring" decided to stop and visit local “benefactors” and “humorists” who drew cartoons about them. A meeting of authors with readers, so to speak. The locals were clearly not happy with the outcome, “guest” - on the contrary.
The situation is such, that for the proponents of radical Islam fighting for their only True State (with promises of Paradise and houris), even any innocent attempt to make fun of the Prophet would be seen as an act of war committed by the infidels. Europe, sorta, reacts to this, but, due to the Holy Principle of Freedom of Speech, at the same time, continues to preach about Multiculturalism and Tolerance while also organizing, together with the US, aggression and bombings against the Islamic world. Therefore, it’s hardly surprising that ISIS (or whatever) decided that there would be no other reaction but violence. Attempts to insist on the Holy Right of journalists to throw feces with impunity at everything Islamic fundamentalists consider Holy and Sacred – while simultaneously printing stories about “respect for Islam”, won’t lead to anything but new dead, blood and hatred, and the more Caliphate will develop, the more direct will be its impact not only to the surrounding Middle Eastern autocracies, but also on the "crusaders" country's. France should decide and do something, because the right of freedom of expression directly provokes ethnic and religious hatred. It doesn’t really matter whether some likes or dislikes the very notion of it, but the fact remains that we have already seen more than once that some "witty jokes" might be followed by corpses if witty cartoonists or bearded fanatics, or very random (and totally innocent) people.
By the way, in comparison - in a recent attack of militants on Grozny, there were more numerous and they were armed way too better. Nevertheless, almost all were caught and/or eliminated. Here terrorists have disappeared into an unknown direction while taking car and its driver hostage, leaving a trail of blood in their wake.
Irrespective of whether they would catch these terrorists or not, the result is quite obvious - the position of the right (like Le Pen and even Sarkozy) would be strengthened, as well as nationalist sentiments – as well as increase of the radicalism of local adherents of Islam. If Caliphate and related organizations will become stronger and survive the air-strikes a and bombings rather intact, then they will continue to send their “Holy Warriors” into Western Europe, with the aim to spread here the word of the Prophet with such methods like explosives or 7.62 bullets right in the head. Some of “humorists” after this story, will, obviously be more thoughtful and activate self-censorship (there are lot of things to make fun of amidst the “acceptable targets”, after all), someone, on the contrary, will decide in principle to continue batter humorously Muhammed, which will occasionally result in not humorous consequences. There wouldn’t be any reasonable measures that would fundamentally change something, so there will be bombs, and explosions, and the dead, and humor. After all, the theme of Islamic fanatics, according to some cartoonists, very funny.
P.S.
An “innocent victim of Putin’s regime” (tm), that after his official pardon receives more and more Western funding for “developing of democracy in Russia”, M. Khodorkovsky said his Word:
Khodorkovsky urged the media to publish cartoons of the Prophet MuhammadFormer Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky in his Twitter called on the media to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
At the same time, Khodorkovsky expressed condolences to the families of journalists killed in the terrorist attack in Paris.
Strangely enough, Mr. Khodorkovsky didn’t suggest (in the same spirit of Tolerance and Freedom of Press) to publish cartoons of Holocaust or the Jews.
Russia would must liberate Europe one day again.
