I'm neither Francophone nor Francofile...
but I've noticed something.
Some terrorists are scared of girls with books and stop busses to shoot them in the head, or kidnap them and rape them and wait on the Western penchant for distraction to let them go forgotten.
Some are scared of cartoons, as though the idea of smiling at the image of a deity will somehow bring about the end of the world and condemn every soul on it to an unimaginable torment.
And I find myself wondering what it will take for my neighbors and countrymen to realize that the religion of the terrorist doesn't matter, that the color of their skin or the style of their dress does not indicate the twisted, necrotic soul required for such acts.
What will it take, having seen people in London and Paris and all over the Middle-east suffer what we did on 11th September 2001, to realize that *the religion* is not to blame? That, like our own Right Wingnuts, every religion, every culture, has within its confines a scattered few sociopaths that, when united by their madness, will destroy both their perceived enemies and the reputations of their brothers and sisters who are not such joyful participants in infamy.
No one deserves to die for a cartoon. Or a book. Or a headwrap.
We as a human species do not deserve the gift of life on this planet if we cannot afford to give it to each member of it.
Some terrorists are scared of girls with books and stop busses to shoot them in the head, or kidnap them and rape them and wait on the Western penchant for distraction to let them go forgotten.
Some are scared of cartoons, as though the idea of smiling at the image of a deity will somehow bring about the end of the world and condemn every soul on it to an unimaginable torment.
And I find myself wondering what it will take for my neighbors and countrymen to realize that the religion of the terrorist doesn't matter, that the color of their skin or the style of their dress does not indicate the twisted, necrotic soul required for such acts.
What will it take, having seen people in London and Paris and all over the Middle-east suffer what we did on 11th September 2001, to realize that *the religion* is not to blame? That, like our own Right Wingnuts, every religion, every culture, has within its confines a scattered few sociopaths that, when united by their madness, will destroy both their perceived enemies and the reputations of their brothers and sisters who are not such joyful participants in infamy.
No one deserves to die for a cartoon. Or a book. Or a headwrap.
We as a human species do not deserve the gift of life on this planet if we cannot afford to give it to each member of it.