Saturday, January 10, 2015

Charlie Hebdo

"I reached for the stars but I just kept slippin,
On this life mission never know what's next,
Ancient kings from Egypt up to Julius Caesar,
Had a piece of the globe, every continent"
-Nas


I just watched the video clip of an innocent unarmed person, agonizing on the sidewalk of some avenue in Paris, France, after already having been shot once, being shot again in the head. By a Muslim extremist. In broad day light. Simply for being there, at the wrong place at the wrong time in front of the headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

And I didn't want to watch it.

I never give in to the satisfactional curiosity that comes with the everyday atrocities that plague this planet, in 2015 just as it has in 1715, and 1015, and 33 AD.

Only difference now is that it is all caught on video.

The Revolution, it turns out, will in fact be televised.

No, I don't want to give these clips the time of day. Not back in 2004 when Zarqawi in Iraq was decapitating unfortunate heads, not this past summer when ISIS was doing the same, and not now, for damn sure.

My cousin had sent me the link to watch it, a few days ago, and tonight after a few beers I complied.

What I saw, was plain and simple, casual murder.

The assasination of 12 people at that, 12 people whose job it was to poke fun at hypocrisy, and whether that hypocrisy happened to be carried out by white, black, Christian or Islam, didn't matter. They were the modern day court jesters, professionals who by my own knowledge, had immunity from persecution EVEN back in 1715, 1015, etc. People who were allowed to poke and prod at religion, or the establishment class, or anyone who could and should deserve poking and prodding.

Even in the eras of tyrannical kings, these court jesters got away with it, with using humor to satirize the rulers of the world.

There is but a small fraction of a decimal of people in the world who will kill over or condone the killing of those they are simply offended by.

And nowhere in the Qur'an does THE WORD "blasphemy" even appear.

Nowhere in the Qur'an does it state that showing the image of The Prophet requires a death sentence.

These are extreme views adopted by extreme politicians in Middle Eastern lands where inequality brews like the magma of an undiscovered underground volcano.

It will take a lot to not blame an entire religion for the evils of a select few. In fact, one cannot even be blamed for doing so. In this day and time, a Westerner has almost permission to do so, to wish death upon these evil doers.

But are we not more than that? Are we not better than that? We are all human beings, living miracles. Everyday. If you are reading this, if you even can read, then you are spectacular. We are all made of chemicals and ions and energy from the solar system surrounding us. And each microscopic little cell in our body, and this is no accident, resembles it.

How then, could we ever separate ourselves by sect, by nation, by RELIGION, by flag, by creed, by currency?

Please, know this before you give up the faith...

WE are the 95%. And ISIS, the Charlie Hebdo killers, al-Qaeda, The KKK, Boko Haram, and every other sad sap who can't deal with their problems without coercion, intimidation, and murder...

They are the outliers.

And consensus is the most powerful weapon.




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