Yesterday,
Wednesday 7th January, 2015 in Paris the New Year came to an abrupt and brutal
end for 12 innocent people who were simply carrying out their lawful quotidian
jobs as journalists, cartoonists and policemen at the offices of Charlie Hebdo.
The terrorist killings were carried out by a terrible gang of Islamists,
proclaiming the Islamic tenet, "God is great!" and that their
gruesome act was to revenge the satirical depictions of their Prophet by the
controversial news magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
The
whole world is shocked and outraged by these murders, they fit into the bizarre
and terrifying patterns of beheadings, crucifixions, and mass murders of
Al-Qaeda and its affiliates, especially, the so-called Islamic State, Boko
Haram, Al-shabbab and other violent jihadist organisations. We mourn the loss
of innocent lives by hoodlums, hijacking Islam to crush democratic values,
enslave people and entrench a religious political system bathed in the worst
forms of barbarity and rapacity, in the name of Allah.
We
stand shoulder to shoulder with the overwhelming majority of Muslims and people
of other faiths, people of no faith - well-meaning, decent, civilised human
beings for whom Islamism is a scourge that must be defeated, an ideology that
must be driven into the ground, and a warped form of religion that must be
destroyed. Let's get out there with counter arguments, with acts of love and
mercy, with daring bravery in the sight of brutal threats - proclaiming our
collective humanity, our cherished democratic values and our belief and
determination that Islamism is dead wrong, dead futile, and will never achieve
any of its goals through mindless violence. Support Charlie Hebdo, support
France: we need one another in these sad and tragic times!
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