In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris that have
left scores of people dead and many critically injured, it is important to
understand the chain of events leading to these attacks as well as the
underlying post-modernist ideology. Controlling the narrative and the
definition of these attacks on the people of Paris is tantamount to protecting
the French working-class from the ensuing state attacks on their human rights
and freedoms.
The attack on the people of Paris is the culmination of
years of Post-modern Western involvement in the Middle East. One of such direct
involvements includes the French president hosting the Guadeloupe conference on
Jan 4, 1979, with the US president Jimmy Carter, the British Prime Minister
James Callaghan, and the German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt all in attendance. In
this conference the decision was made to install an Islamic government in Iran
(a large state sponsor of terrorism).
Iran was one of several countries, including Afghanistan with the
Taliban, used in the creation of what is now called the “green belt” around the
former Soviet Union. In recent history France did not take part in the invasion
of Iraq in 2009 under Bush’s “coalition of the willing”. However, in 2011
France joined NATO’s military operations and armed Islamist groups in a proxy
war in Libya against Gaddafi and in Syria against Assad. The men that murdered
129 innocent people in Paris are the Islamists of ISIS, a group born from the
crisis in the Middle East.
The post-modernist categorizing of the world (spearheaded by
Ronald Raegan), that created labels for all the people from the Middle East as
Muslims, and concomitant cultural
relativism ideology, has created a racist and factious identity for the
millions of people in Middle East that are trapped in Islamic states. Further,
the West continues to label Islam as a “religion of peace” and muffle the voice
of the many anti-theists and socialists, which have escaped the Middle East.
The people that are currently prisoners in Islamic States or have fled from
them, have repeatedly cried out for nearly a century: that all religions are
dangerous and Islam is a religion of terror.
This attack will be used by the Western states to increase
surveillance, censor the press, create military tribunals, arrests without
trial and close public spaces in the name of “civil protection”. It will also
mean a greater military involvement in the Middle East and fattening of the
coffers of the warmongers. The intrusion of the state through surveillance of
the private life of citizens will also be used to give the bourgeois an upper
hand in the ongoing class-struggle: using it to spy on social movements and
their leaders.
Islam represents the modern day face of fascism and
despotism. In World War II Fascism was defeated not by labelling it as
“peaceful” or by normalizing it, but it was defeated by confronting it, it was
defeated by rising to arms against it. Just as the attacks on the offices of
Charlie Hebdo called on people to strengthen their stance against the
encroachments on the freedom of speech, this attack in Paris must be used to
stop the propagation of religion in all public institutions, especially in
education and the state. It must be made abundantly clear that Islam has no
place in definition of basic human values and human dignity.
Chia Barsen
WWW.CHIABARSEN.COM
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