Tuesday, November 17, 2015

ISIS-France terror Attacks

Sometimes, it gets better when we introspect International situations not based on the recent happenings, but root them up from historical perspectives. 


With the ISIS terror attacks on France still afresh, and reiteration by bombings on Syria, the International political front is getting tied up in a vicious stratagem

Is this what humanity deserves, are we not plunging deep into a warp of vengeance? These extremists aren’t simply trying to send a general message to President François Hollande about ending the French campaign against the Islamic State. It is now clear that some of the Nov. 13 attackers had lived in France, or even were French citizens. Now with the manhunt for #AbdelHamid still On, its much clear to have the refugee influx wide across Europe to have an indirect bearing on the terror attacks.

Will this be a reason to tarnish the state of Humanity more? Will France/ other European countries tight-lip their borders? Today a French is killing another French, what time warp are we set in?
With at least 450 victims, 129 of them fatal, people wide across the globe are rallying round the French flag, even pasting it over our Facebook avatars, follows, because an attack on European soil somehow “exports” the war in the Middle East to our front doors.

Did we even get concern for the kilings in Syria that followed soon, or Beirut, Baghdad, Ankara Dhaka and even today when Our braveheart COlonel Santosh Kumar breathed his last fighting at the borders, LOC, Kupwada?

Why are we just concerned and mourn only for Berlin, Madrid, London, and New York. Are the #living species across the other nations, not liable to be mourned, or they belong to some Inferior breed?

Anyways, let Europe not stop its humanitarian sentiments -- the fact that #Terrorist may have hid among refugees is a case for better intelligence, not turning away innocent victims.

On another note, was NOT Paris responsible for the growing anti-Muslim sentiments across itself? There’s something fundamentally disturbing, even more menacing about the responses to terrorist violence in Europe and America. 

  • French and Islamic state of affairs were never rose-laced. As we delve into history, the anti Muslim sentiments dated back to AD 732 when  It was in the Battle of Poitiers (also known as the Battle of Tours) in A.D. 732 that Charles Martel, the Frankish military leader (and Charlemagne’s grandfather) defeated the Umayyad Caliphate and its leader, Abd-ar-Rahman, who ruled the Iberian Peninsula, and part of what today is southern France.
  • This victory permanently halted the expansion of Islam into Europe and began the expulsion of Islam from the continent. This history is still cherished in great zeal and even French Lycee'

---A sense of cultural, military, and political conflict with Islam and a fear of Islamization have never been far from French consciousness, as a result.

  • And then came the French colonization in the Middle East and African settlements which they reeked as near Abroad, resulting in the denouement of theAlgerian sovereignty way back in the 1960's (probably 61/62).
  • Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria also got engaged with the deep-rooted French colonial ties and having a colossal impact on their cultural and economic relationships.
  • France hence hosts the second largest European country with the Muslim populace,  4.7 million — and the largest Muslim share of its national population (7.5 percent) of any western European country. (Some 4.8 million Muslims constitute almost 6 percent of the German population, the 3 million in the United Kingdom about 4.8 percent of the population).

With its vast breed of Muslim populace, it becomes a hot spt for tension, violence, and radicalization ; from the economic isolation of Muslim families; to the episodic upsurge of street confrontations between authorities and young men in Muslim neighborhoods, especially on the north side of Paris; to the legal battles over the veil. And these two entirely diffrerent races hardly intermingle, but its subtle. racism existed in France, which was always camouflaged under its Secular veil, which is now tipping towards a warp of outright distrust, even hostility.

Fear and suspicion are pervasive all across france, its time for the bigheads not to wash their hands off and take the obligatory responsibilities. After the reiterated French response, will the world see another catastrophic Islamic extremist response to drape history once more in blood? 


France has been #NoFriendToMuslims, and until Paris confronts its deep historical legacy of colonialism and prejudice, violence will continue.. (and this is not which I wish for ).
A better understanding of history, International politics, nuanced responses to policies, and a deep seated self-examination is what calls for as the need of the hour.


#Wishpeaceprevails.

References--
1. After Paris Attacks, a Darker Mood Toward Islam Emerges in France
2. Anti-Muslim sentiments on the rise in Europe - Times of India
3. 
euro-islam.info
Euro-Islam: News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America

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