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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Charlie Hebdo: This Attack Was Nothing To Do With Free Speech — It Was About War<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Most white people don’t like to admit it, but those cartoons upheld their prejudice, their racism, their political supremacy, and cut it how you will — images like that upheld a political order built on discrimination.</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In less than an hour of the dreadful shooting of 12 people at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, the politicians had already started to lie to their own public.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>John Kerry, US Secretary of State, <a href="https://activist1.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/france-charlie-hebdo-attack-and-hypocrisy-on-freedom-of-expression/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>declared</span></a> that, “freedom of expression is not able to be killed by this kind of act of terror.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The media lapped it up — the attack was now spun as an attack on ‘Freedom of Speech’. That cherished value that the West holds so dear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The British Government was so in love with it, that they were<a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/_UK_Nannies_Must_Double_As_Spies_To_Prevent_Children_From_Becoming_Terrorists/40550/0/38/38/Y/M.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'> passing laws</span></a> that demanded nursery school teachers <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/5/uk-teachers-counterterrorism.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>spy on Muslim toddlers</span></a> because they had too much of it. Toddlers were ‘free’ to speak their mind as long as it agreed with UK Government policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=800 height=400 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D02EBC.E1AB8CB0" alt="Description: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*8GfEZm2WNIV2Yk_4NdN6pA.jpeg"></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A ‘free speech’ machine. It looks for people who do not have enough free speech and then gives them some<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Still at least it was not as draconian as Western Governments routine harassment of those they thought spoke a bit too freely. Ask Moazzam Beg, the freed Guantanamo Bay Detainee and human rights campaigner, who was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/moazzam-begg-freed-case-collapses" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>falsely accused of terrorism</span></a> and imprisoned for months, after flying back from Syria with damning evidence of Britain’s complicity in torture in the Muslim world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Or for that matter the Al-Jazeera journalist <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/166757/why-president-obama-keeping-journalist-prison-yemen" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>Abdulelah Haider Shaye</span></a> incarcerated in Yemen at the behest of the America for reporting the wrong type of facts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>They loved it so much, they kept <a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/gchq-snowden-tempora-prism-mi5-mi6" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>spying on everyone</span></a>, tapping their phones and arresting them for having the wrong sort of facts, or as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB4Gn0u4DSE" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>Edward Snowden</span></a> found out — having the right sort of facts!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Hypocritically even Charlie Hebdo, the magazine at the centre of the controversy, those ‘champions of free speech’, <a href="http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/152585/charlie-hebdo-fired-cartoonist-for-anti-semitism-in-2009" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>sacked a journalist</span></a> in 2009 for making anti-Semitic <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/4351672/French-cartoonist-Sine-on-trial-on-charges-of-anti-Semitism-over-Sarkozy-jibe.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>comments</span></a> but interestingly never took similar action for anti-Islamic comments, articles or cartoons.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The hypocrisy of French commentators took this absurd lie to new heights. The rapper <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/Monsieur-R/23193" target="_blank"><b><span style='color:blue'>Monsieur R</span></b></a><b> </b>was put on trial for ‘<a href="http://www.nme.com/news/Monsieur-R/23193" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>insulting the French state</span></a>’. Do you remember the Western world’s outrage over that? — me neither. Attack the Prophet of the Muslims, OK — but the French state — NO!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>But its not just the French State you cannot criticize, its their Allies! France that bastion of freedom, became the first country in the world to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2697194/Outrage-France-country-world-ban-pro-Palestine-demos.html" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>ban marching</span></a> in support of those being ethnically cleansed in Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>And as to those reading this and thinking ‘yes but these journalists were killed, its different!’ — let me remind you of Western complicity, in the murder of <a href="http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/08/these-17-journalists-were-killed-by-israel-in-gaza/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>17 journalists</span></a> along with 2500 men, women and children in Gaza, by Israel, less than 12 months ago or the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/23/pressandpublishing.iraq" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>wilful murder</span></a> of Al-Jazeera journalists in Iraq by American forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>One rule for them and another for Muslims. That great overarching cherished Western principle that Muslims just didn’t understand<i>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As usual there was no real depth in any of the analysis in the media. The public were left in shock and anger but without any real answers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The elites’ narrative was simple: a left-wing magazine, had produced ‘satirical cartoons’ about all religions and politicians, some of them about the Prophet of Islam — only Muslims took offence (<i>subtext because their backward barbaric religion was alien and intolerant</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The argument sounded reasonable enough… if you lived in a bubble in the land of middle class white guy — sadly Muslims usually don’t have that luxury.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Let me explain it from a different perspective, one that Muslims see all too clearly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=774 height=999 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D02EBC.E1AB8CB0" alt="Description: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/774/1*ULareD0kutDeUaWM8kzOsg.jpeg"></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>After all its only a joke! They make fun of white people as well!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In thirties America, when white people were burning black people on trees, whites could equally have used this argument. After all there were cartoons even about the president! However making insulting cartoons about white people who controlled the power structures was not the same as demonizing black people — a powerless underclass.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Imagery of black people being, dumb, violent, lazy, thieves who looked like monkeys — upheld a political reality, the very imagery re-enforced the prejudices of those in power and subjugated blacks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The same with Jews in Nazi Germany — imagine today’s spurious and conceited argument being used by the Nazis — could a German newspaper hide behind the claim it also made fun of white Germans? How unjustified that only the Jews complained so! After all Germans don’t complain when they were made fun of — those backward Jews and their greedy religion didn’t understand free speech!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Most white people don’t like to admit it, but those cartoons uphold their prejudice, their racism, their political <a href="https://medium.com/@asgharbukhari/asghar-bukhari-white-supremacy-vs-the-muslims-22f1fe80e76d"><span style='color:blue'>supremacy</span></a>, and cut it how you will — images like that upheld a political order built on discrimination.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Muslims today are a demonized underclass in France. A people vilified and attacked by the power structures. A poor people with little or no power and these vile cartoons not only uphold the narrative of power, but heighten racist prejudice against them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Even white liberals have acted in the most prejudiced way. It was as if white people had a right to offend Muslims and Muslims had no right to be offended? The difference was, when white people were offended, they have the state, white corporate media and the threat of a right wing mob to make their point — Muslims have nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=650 height=825 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D02EBC.E1AB8CB0" alt="Description: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/650/1*t0camcyIxh0tnyRM_LZtjA.jpeg"></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>After the Egyptian dictator seized power and started shooting Muslims who opposed him — the paper ran this headline “The Quran is sh*t it doesnt stop bullets” — Imagine if a Muslim paper did this about them now — still find it funny?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cue</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> some right wing media white dude (or some Zionist) to now accuse me of justifying the murder —After all, if you are Muslim, explaining things is justifying them right! ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The truth is, this awful attack can not be explained in a vacuum, absent of the context around it. It has to be seen through the prism of events that are going on around the world. With eyes firmly fixed on the wars going on from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgaAg5ExgOU" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>Palestine</span></a> to <a href="http://youtu.be/5OvhAFyeGk4" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>Pakistan</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A global view spreading across the Muslim world, is that the West is at war with them (propagandists say this is due to hate preachers <i>— nothing to do with more bombs being dropped on Iraq alone than were <b>used in the whole of the first and second world war</b></i>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This anger sweeping the Muslim world, is solidifying in the <a href="https://medium.com/@asgharbukhari/asghar-bukhari-the-muslim-story-that-could-get-you-killed-ad448c66de01"><span style='color:blue'>consciousness of millions</span></a>, re-enforced by daily bombings, kidnappings and of course wars that the West has initiated and engaged in. These policies have lead to many Muslims abandoning the belief that they could bring any change peacefully — cue the rise of men <a href="https://medium.com/@asgharbukhari/the-begining-of-the-end-why-the-west-can-never-beat-isis-d20d7fe4eef3"><span style='color:blue'>taking up arms</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=690 height=388 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D02EBC.E1AB8CB0" alt="Description: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*DSdSGg8FidSd001_Pb5CdQ.jpeg"></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Killing Muslim children doesnt make Muslims take up arms — its just they hate freedom of speech honest!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>These images then, can be played down as just a ‘bit of fun’ as no doubt the least perceptive of you will try to argue, or it can be seen through the prism of the war on terror — just another front on <a href="https://medium.com/@asgharbukhari/asghar-bukhari-the-muslim-story-that-could-get-you-killed-ad448c66de01"><span style='color:blue'>the war against Islam</span></a> that has claimed so many lives — and the demonology behind it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=800 height=532 id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D02EBC.E1AB8CB0" alt="Description: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*eG4pFeZCt0tp-tutth3NGQ.jpeg"></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Palestine — a people erased due to Western policy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=422 height=550 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D02EBC.E1AB8CB0" alt="Description: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/422/1*6_TWkPMEMeD3G8UYSDqHjA.jpeg"></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Orientalist racist stereotype of the Muslim humourless barbarian — in this image of the Prophet Muhammad PBUH — it says “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>I argue, that <a href="https://medium.com/@asgharbukhari/the-begining-of-the-end-why-the-west-can-never-beat-isis-d20d7fe4eef3"><span style='color:blue'>we are creating </span></a>extremists by the bucket load and have done so exponentially, since we declared this endless war of terror . Our policies are hardening views on all sides.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>To <a href="https://medium.com/@asgharbukhari/asghar-bukhari-the-muslim-story-that-could-get-you-killed-ad448c66de01"><span style='color:blue'>justify its continuation</span></a>, politicians have to keep lying to the public (via the pliant corporate media) saying Muslim violence is due to ‘<i>Islamists, Extremists, Hate Preachers — the evil Muslim fairy,</i> or any other word that makes people think the problem is faith and not the real driver — War.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This false narrative is creating extremism in white communities too, because they now believe, that it is the Muslim religion that makes them act in this way, it is their backward pre-disposition to violence (note the rise of right wing neo-facists across Europe). And of course as the bombs fall like rain — it hardens opinions and creates extremists in the Muslim world. And both these people are expressing themselves in very ugly ways — and that’s exactly what happened here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Twelve people are dead because the world we are creating is utterly polarised.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Our bombs dont leave much room for ‘freedoms’ and now neither do theirs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Extremism leads to extremism — this is just another symptom of the world Bush and Blair gave us and our political classes are determined to keep it going. Read more on this <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/10/18/its-the-occupation-stupid/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>here</span></a> and <a href="http://www.counterfire.org/articles/analysis/17548-a-graphic-account-of-terrorism" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=415 height=300 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D02EBC.E1AB8CB0" alt="Description: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/415/1*paRSv0D5oY3jiKeVXzIuGA.jpeg"></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Drone strike — another dead Muslim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The two sides are set to clash unless we pull the foot off the accelerator — and our elites don’t want to do that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>By the time the dust settles, there will more attacks against Muslims in the streets, mosques burned down, politicians introducing draconian laws against Muslims, media wall-to-wall demonization and France along with the rest of Europe will lurch right — proving true the very thing these Muslims believe — that the West hates them — and they wouldn't be wholly wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Someone, more powerful than you or I reader, in the political elites has to have the sense to change the mood music of war and hate, re-look at our policies and have the courage to say:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>‘Everyone chill out, put the guns down and lets talk’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Even if I am wrong, one thing is for sure — to bring an end to this — we got to do something differently, because what we are doing now — isn’t working.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>