Once again, the new old topic pops up; reactions to insulting the prophet of Islam. I think that the violent bloody attack against the weekly “Charlie hebdo” in France and the counterattacks which varied from explicit violence to implicit violence,are nothing but the tip of the iceberg. We are in front of a problematic that has not to be confined to a narrow and superficial scope, calling it a war against the freedom of expression or the war against Islam and Muslims.
Disposable tools
So we had some French young men of the third generation of Algerian immigrants, who came to France within a huge wave of immigrants to earn a living. In the same time France made advantage of them to reconstruct the country and its industrial machine after WW2, but eventually those immigrants were marginalized; they were not integrated into French society (The very few actors and officials from Arab origins do not reflect reality. Obama is Afro-american but Afro-american are subjected to discrimination though).
Those immigrants were abandoned in suburbs, devoured by poverty, ignorance, criminality, drugs and violence, this deliberate abandonment by the French state, and treating them with chauvinism and racism, made a big part of them feeling non-belonging to France, not even to Algeria. Since France is discarding them, most of the components of the French rethory became rejected by them, that’s why in my opinion the immigrants and especially the new generation of them went to look for a new “league”, an identity that represents them and their aspirations to equality and justice, therefore, they excavated in their background, the background due to which they suffer from segregation and racism, hence they found a language and a religion, Arabic and Islam.
The birth of the monster
At this point the problem of segregation and racism interlaces with another problem, which is religion, or rather, for sake of precision: the perception of religion and identification with it. In Islam there is a clear call for freedom, symbiosis, justice, revolution against injustice, but the religious heritage of Islam is not totally religious, a very great deal of it is historical, the books of Hadith (Prophet Mohammad’s sayings and preaches), the Prophet and his companions biographies , the interpretations of Koran and the Fatwas (opinions of Islamic preacher in life issues from their Islamic understanding), had ben written in periods during which the Arab-Islamic empire was had internal conflicts, and each part wanted to present itself as sacred and absolutely righteous, thus the justification of violence, brutalities, blood shedding, machiavellism, disregarding the other, use of violence as a holly way of revenge…etc, have been justified with an Islamic perspective, and these justification have been inserted by political influence into the Islamic cannon.
The accumulation of frustration of feelings of injustice caused rage, the rage found, it rather looked for justifications for violence, in the background, from within the religion, the justification was not ordinary, it was with a stamp from God and his prophet! Though the stamp is counterfeit, the compound of ignorance and injustice make it too hard to discover the counterfeit. This conclusion has been made by many Arab-Muslim young people in Arab countries as well, even if the causes are of different dimensions. Arab countries are agonizing of repression, ignorance injustice, poverty and unemployment caused by the Arab regimes which pretend to be progressist, free, prosperous and democratic, therefore they looked for an alternative and found the counterfeit stamp.
The recycling of the outcome
Another pillar of the problematic is the role of the western capitalist metropolises and its allies and tools on the Arab region which floats on a sea of oil and minerals full of sharp reefs of ignorance and social injustice, in giving birth to the monster of extremism from the uterus of poverty and injustice, to get its interests and to prevent this rich part of the world from becoming really independent. French state did all what it can to topple Bashar Al-Assad, by exporting young people like the attackers of “Charlie hebdo” to fight and kill innocent civilians in Syria, besides, supporting the fanatic terrorists there.
Who endangers freedom of expression
The freedom of expression is endangered by the same states, the same capitalist regimes which colonized and still foster unrests in the Arab world, Africa and central and south America. “Africa 50” a movie by the French film maker Rene Vautier has been banned in France for 40 years, the director who exposed the colonialist French authorities in Algeria spent one year in prison, The French government intervened many times to prevent broadcast about state corruption since 2009. France is not an exception, all the capitalist regimes are so. What endangers the freedom of expression is not the phenomena of Islamic extremism, it’s rather the capitalist regimes which make brain washing every single day, and make people believe false figures about economic growth, not to mention the black out about how these regimes spy on every body and taking every piece of new out of it’s context.
Beyond the mass media 