Recent barbaric-horrific terror
attack to the well-known French magazine Charlie Hebdo warmed up and drew
attention to the ongoing debates on integration, immigration, relations between
the West and the East, Islamaphobia and so on. Firstly and without any doubt,
all human beings must condemn this coward, cruel and outrageous attack. I
firmly condemn the terror and give my condolences to the families of the
deaths.
Many experts, scholars, journalist,
well-known activists has wrote many things after the sobering incident.
Furthermore, one of the biggest marches of recent times has organized by France
and more than 50 head of state attended this unity march which sent a strong
message to the world about consciousness and unity against terrorism. All of these are the important and should be
supported by everyone. However, many strange, unacceptable and pointless
reactions such as Robert Murdoch’s tweet, “Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but
until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be
held responsible.” have seemed aftermath of the incident. Basically
Murdoch’s tweet as reaction to the horrific event was unacceptable and simply
fascistic. I describe it as fascistic in basic terms because of not about being
Muslim but more about being human. As being such a man; well-known, visible,
educated, more or less influential, Robert Murdoch should at least know that
these kinds of comments and arguments only serve to increase hatred towards
Muslim and vice versa.
I would like to tell in advance that recent terrorist attack to the Charlie Hebdo has nothing with Muslims and Islam as many different terror attacks had happened during the history of human being. It is simply because of not religion and there has not yet been any religion, which order to kill or torture, in the world. One may and should ask then; “Why murderers-terrorists -or whatever you call- attacked Charlie Hebdo or terror organizations such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda have been using religion and religious motivation for their existence?”.
Terror has always been using
victimhood and feeling of injustice to recruit and motivate people for the most
barbaric events of the world. Let’s make it simple and take the cornered cat as
an example. If you follow up a cat and cornered, what would be the reaction of
it? First the cat tries to escape and get its freedom back, if not successful
then tries to beat you up by scratching. The cat attempts to scratch which
should be read as using its entire means of power. Otherwise, the only choice
of the cat is to accept being domesticated and follow up the orders of ruler,
owner, governor or whatever it is. Even more the cat started to be dependent on
the ruler-owner in terms of all means as such food, water etc. In this case if
the ruler-owner of the cat is fair, conscientious and wise, there won’t be
necessarily conflict between the owner-ruler and the cat. Needless to tell what
will happen if the conditions are different?
Surely, nothing can justify
violence, killings, torture, and brutality while all these unacceptable events
cannot be perceived as one-sided. One might kill others in the name of
everything as it proofed in the historical books. If the case is organized
crime or terrorism, one also may find many reasons as motivations which lie
behind its barbaric event. However, the most important responsibility of human
being is not to create or prepare the ground for those motivations and not let
people to feel treated unjust. Justice is the key word and comes before everything
even rule of law. Rule of law is one of the principles of democracy but as
human being faced many times in the history, rule of law has not been provided
justice many times.
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