Libert

We have tongues. We have free will. We have minds. We have the ability of judgement.

Yet, we do not use these wisely.

On freedom of speech;

Unum: We have the right to our freedom of speech. We question norms, we question common perceptions, we question beliefs. We are liberals, standing up for the muted voices in a world filled with franchises and wide spread acceptances stemmed from ancient books and invisible forces. Anti capitalism, anti right wing, anti religion, anti government, anarchist. We are here to entice the possibility that what we are taught and molded to live with, via standard society and structured religion, is not the only way.

Unum: You claim to be liberals, but you are not liberating. You are not offering chances and possibilities for sincere discussions or genuine debates. You are not creating opportunities for knowledge. You freedom of speech is utilized to condemn, to criticize, to criminalize the beliefs of other people who are not 'you'. You mock, offend, create sentiments of judgement and discrimination, in the name of this freedom and call it 'liberalism'. You are not only as bad or bigoted as the people you condemn, perhaps worse in the way that you are purposely insinuating and spreading hate through your actions and words.






On the Charlie Hebdo case;

In our quests to propagate our beliefs and ideas, most times, innocent bystanders come to waste.
The Charlie Hebdo incident left me in muted contradiction and exasperation. In microspective, I find both parties to be at fault. The publishers, for their design of insults and publishing of condemnation disguised as journalistic satire. The terrorists, for their narrow minded decision in accepting violence as solutions. In macrospective, the accumulation of hateful events around the world, with its resonating media uproar and mass responses, is fueling up an energy of both division and defiance that will take an era to render at peace.

There are three issues I wish to accord here.

1) The statistics stand, as is widely acknowledged, that only a minute percentage of people in the collective is causing this distress in the name of the general group. Where are the larger percentage of people who are 'mediocre', 'modest', and 'peace loving'? It seems a good time as any, to call to action, the masses to rise up, and project to the world that no magnitude of evil conducted by a selected few can hinder the belief and strength of the larger group of people. Case in point of the Apartheid, and while the affects of black slavery is still apparent in this century, the empowerment that has been given to them by the leaders who have stood up against their oppressors and their haters is priceless. Specifically, it is time for the Muslims to stand up in masses against the terrorists who are not only terrorizing the world with their hateful acts, but terrorizing the name of Islam.

2) The media in control of the world is projecting an image that is either somewhat reflective of the general attitude of the people, sensationalized to a biased degree, or taylored to a story that has been pre determined to suit the needs of the broadcasting agency. It is a fact that people are attracted to news of great disasters and mindless fame, both extremes, and mediocre acts are overlooked. The point I'm projecting is that, no matter what hashtag the Muslim community will choose to utilise, no matter what stories are circulated on virtual media, no matter what soldiers of social network sites type on their weapons of plastic keyboard, it has no impact if it ends as a mere hashtag or a mere digitalised paragraph. It will have no greater impact if it is not accompanied by the endorsement of continuous actions, relentless defense, by large scale media corporations, or by leaders of Islamic countries, who will spread the word that Islam is a peaceful religion.

3) It is a sad state that our lives has come upon, when the question of God and goodwill has to be branded, packaged, and advertised to the world in a manner similar to the works of PR and media control, to obtain some semblance of peace and anti hate.