Have the terrorists in Paris achieved the opposite of what they wanted?
Maybe I'm a hopeless optimist, but the reports on the public reaction to the terrible events in France this week make me wonder something. Have the terrorists, now reported as financed by Al Qaeda, not amateur lone wolves, have achieved the exact opposite of their presumed intent?
It sounds to me like most of the people of France, and standing shoulder to shoulder, other Europeans, including the British people, citizens of the US, religious, non-religious, Muslims, Christians and others all over the world united in one thing. The terror world of the Islamists, one mullah's version of Sharia law imposed on women unequally with men at the point of a Kalashnikov will not stand.
We demand freedom. Freedom of thought, expression, religion and none. As long as you do not try to impose your opinions/religion on others through the use of violent force, anything else goes. Please offend me, offend my prophet - the Flying Spaghetti Monster as it happens - ask for the fleas of a thousand camels to infest my mother's armpits. I may vehemently disagree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it by all means available.
The terrorists may just have united a divided and uncertain world in a common cause. The world would be better if the cartoonists and other staff of Charlie Hebdo were still with us, but if I'm right, they have not died in vain, unlike the murderous thugs whose existence ended today.
#JeSuisAhmed
It sounds to me like most of the people of France, and standing shoulder to shoulder, other Europeans, including the British people, citizens of the US, religious, non-religious, Muslims, Christians and others all over the world united in one thing. The terror world of the Islamists, one mullah's version of Sharia law imposed on women unequally with men at the point of a Kalashnikov will not stand.
We demand freedom. Freedom of thought, expression, religion and none. As long as you do not try to impose your opinions/religion on others through the use of violent force, anything else goes. Please offend me, offend my prophet - the Flying Spaghetti Monster as it happens - ask for the fleas of a thousand camels to infest my mother's armpits. I may vehemently disagree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it by all means available.
The terrorists may just have united a divided and uncertain world in a common cause. The world would be better if the cartoonists and other staff of Charlie Hebdo were still with us, but if I'm right, they have not died in vain, unlike the murderous thugs whose existence ended today.
#JeSuisAhmed
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