JE SUIS CHARLIE

AM I CHARLIE ?  Who is Charlie?

French people locked hands to condemn the brutal killing of twelve people, some of whom are not even part of Charlie Hebdo's satirical publishing outfit shouting "God is Great" even as the world questions "Why did not God stop such atrocities from happening?"  

I was attempting a question to myself : "What if we do away with all religion, its commandments, its traditions, and its rituals, will humankind still go after each other's throat?"  Sadly the answer I had so far is not what I had hope to arrive at and humankind will still go after each other's throat.......to settle the intolerance of difference, and also to force on or coerce others into being similar.

Religion has become so contentious, and differences become so wide that in the big ways people go to war, and in smaller ways they sue each other in court.  Breakaway groups sprouted up all over with hyper emphasis on specific doctrines or rituals that are mere part of what the entire religion is founded upon.  Their religious mission becomes fragmented parts instead of a harmonized whole.

But in the first place, religion is supposed to help put order into a continuously populating world, and in a way slows down the pace of self destruction by pursuing good, yet there are people who are against having religion not knowing that by being anti-religion they have invariably created another religion and contributing to the ever increasing differences and dissimilarities. Diversity is not a need but a result to live with yet these days we worship the sacredness of diversity and enshrined upon the alter.

Had not for those working for Charlie Hebdo try to make a mockery of another religion so that theirs can look better and more powerful, their fate could well be different and live to enjoy more.  Had not the killers took religious authority upon their own hands to settle the differences, they would not have invited the world to point their guns at them.

So when the French people proclaims in solidarity JE SUIS CHARLIE, are these people uniting in the religion that Charlie Hebdo is proliferating or is it really something else?  

They just seem too in a hurry to unite, and too eager to let their solidarity be known and JE SUIS CHARLIE is already there and it sounds sexy enough.

As the dust settles, CHARLIE didn't seems quite right.  Those guys are bloody provocateurs and they brought it upon themselves taking along the innocents.  I AM NOT CHARLIE!  Charlie is a rogue that creates problem that others had to bear with them.

Why was there no condemnation for Charlie?  Why is the one that says "Shoot Me" less culpable that the one that answered "OK I shoot you?"

What is that hidden fear that people dare to condemn unbridled freedom of expression?  Is there something more fearful than to have a bullet in the head?

People seems to be supporting and condemning all the wrong things.

They supported those who sow discord and perpetrated hate n their choice of JE SUIS CHARLIE as symbol for solidarity.

By rallying against Muslims, they are perpetuating a conflict that based on misguided understanding, and instead persecuting those who stood for Peace.

I CONDEMN HATE KILLING.

I CONDEMN THOSE WHO SPREAD HATE IN THE NAME OF EXPRESSION FREEDOM!

I CONDEMN THOSE WHO FORCE THEIR BELIEFS UPON OTHERS BY WHATEVER MEANS.

I AM NOT CHARLIE!