{"id":7160,"date":"2020-10-16T19:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2020-10-16T19:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:50:26","slug":"violence-is-unacceptable-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/violence-is-unacceptable-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence is unacceptable, period!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The other day, in Nova Scotia, we saw images of a van (of\nNS\u2019 Mikmaw fishermen) being burnt by another group of fishermen. This was SHOCKING\nto watch. Luckily, no one was injured!! We also heard about someone peeing in another\nperson\u2019s car. How sad. How insulting. Yak! https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/mi-kmaw-lobster-fishery-unrest-1.5761468<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi will not enter into the details about this\nconflict, as this is not the topic of this post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She just knows that there is a good Lebanese saying that\ngoes like that: When we resort to violence, we lose our right (assuming we were\nright or mostly right). So, clearly NO to violence!! After condemning it, of\ncourse, the conflict needs to be wisely and properly addressed (not with a\ntemporary band-aid). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Baalbeck, Lebanon, a personal dispute degenerated\ninto shelling. Yes, shelling! The Lebanese Army had to intervene to calm the\nsituation. Who of us uses shelling in his personal disputes? Do you do that\nyourself? Bambi does not, she can assure you of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.lorientlejour.com\/article\/1236824<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without minimizing the violence described above, perhaps\nthe # 1 of senseless and barbaric violence came from Paris today (no, not Lebanon;\nthe terrorist in question was not even of Lebanese origins, thank Goodness\u2026 he\nwas from Chechnya, it seems). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the story about? A school teacher was decapitated\nby a man because he showed kids cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a course on\nfree expression or something:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/france\/20201016-france-opens-terror-probe-after-fatal-stabbing-in-paris-suburb<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly, this man is an Islamist and clearly a terrorist.\nCleary, France has a serious issue with domestic Islamist terrorism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Macron was recently right when calling a spade a spade.\nIs the Muslim religion the problem? NO. Does the Muslim religion have a problem?\nYES, big time.  Does France have a\nproblem with Islamism? Of course, it does. Is it just France\u2019s problem for not having\nsucceeded in integrating its youth from the suburbs? No, not only. Not mainly. Immigrants\nand their children have a responsibility toward their country too. This is\nsomething that is often forgotten in Canada by social justice activists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, things are more complex than that when, in addition\nto adversity, there is criminality involved. Add to this a blind religiosity and\nsomeone feeling rejected by society, the person will become an easy target for\nIslamist radicalism\/criminality (like cult members).   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone knows that Mr. Macron was right. It is not\nbecause Mr. Erdogan (Turkey) is intimidating France that Islam is not \u201cin\ncrisis\u201d. Sadly, Mr. Erdogan instrumentalizes radicalized people or groups. He\nuses them without any respect or love. Eventually, he will get rid of them in one\nway or another. For now, they serve his megalomania (as neo-Sultan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To come back to the tragedy in Paris? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Bambi\u2019s sarcastic spouse used to say: \u201cParis has\nbecome the Beirut of Europe\u201d<\/em> (in contrast with \u201cBeirut that was the\nParis of the Middle East<\/em>\u201d). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many French people have immigrated to Canada because\nof terror attacks in their beautiful country. Bambi recalls a chat about this sad\ntopic with a young traveller on a flight from London to Canada where there has\nbeen a false alarm of an attack (perhaps 2-3 years ago).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jewish French people have been terrorized over the\npast years. Many have immigrated even to the Middle East, imagine. Whom are\nthey terrorized by, do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This being said, Muslims do not like to see Prophet Mohammed (bless his name) drawn. It is not part of their religion. Freedom of expression is perceived as being an intimidation instead of and expression of freedom of thoughts or arts, etc. In Judaism, the word G-d is written instead of God because the name of God should not be written (out of respect). Perhaps this is the same idea as in Islam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the problem of those French terrorists is INTOLERANCE.\nYou do not like taking a look at those cartoons. Fine, do not. You cannot impose\non others (who may not even believe in God) not to resort to drawing or arts or\neven cartoons. You may sue the person. You may yell at the person\u2026.but to cut\nhis\/her throat?!! Come on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story is traumatizing to the kids, to witnesses, to\nthe police officers, to the family of the victim and the one of the criminal\nwho was shot, and to the whole Parisian\/French population… and by proxy all\nof us. Many friends of Bambi have relatives in Paris. Bambi herself has two\nrelatives. We all worry about violence in Paris. We refuse it too, like French\nauthorities and population. We do not want to worry about our loved ones there\ntoo, in addition to the Middle East. Leave Europe safe please. Enough is enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi knows what she is talking about in this post.\nWhen someone in Denmark drew the Prophet Mohamed once, a group of criminals went\ncrazy in Beirut and intimidated innocent people. They even burned the Danish embassy\nat the corner of her sister\u2019s place. She was with her on the phone (from\nToronto, if she recalls well) whilst they were hiding from the shooting in the\nair down their balcony. These people who came from God knows where even destroyed\nreligious (Christian) symbols and cars of people. Why do innocent Beirutis have\nto suffer because a certain Danish cartoonist drew the Prophet Mohamed? How is\nthat their problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To conclude this post, when Bambi escaped to Canada with her family, she brought with her 5 books (when they rushed fast from the Canadian embassy in Cyprus to Beirut to pack fast and fly out\u2026). One of these books was the bible (a gift from the priest of the Saint-George church). Another book was the Quran (Muslim holy book her parents brought to her from Cairo). The other was a book that was considered controversial then to someone who believes in Jesus; we can perhaps draw an analogy with the cartoons of the Prophet that could bother Muslims? It is the French translation of the Greek The last Temptation of Christ<\/em> of Mr. Nikos Kazantzakis. The two other books are irrelevant for this post but now that memories are coming back to her mind, she will say that one was her dad\u2019s German grammar book (he was her first teacher before she went to the Goethe Institute). The last one may make her childhood friends smile. It is called \u201cBen est amoureux d\u2019Anna\u201d<\/em>. No clue why she brought that book and not another one\u2026 perhaps because it was about love ? and she was 17 or\u2026 to be more practical, it was small\/thin and fits in her luggage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a more serious note, violence\ngoes both ways and all ways\u2026. Violence breeds violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take for example what happened in Toronto lately, we do not know the facts about the why and the how, etc. However, why did an innocent man have to be killed in front of his mosque the other day? Why should Ms. Bebe Zafis be mourning the loss of her dad now?! What a heart-breaking story \u2639 (as per the below article\/interview).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nViolence is tragic and unacceptable, regardless of the country.   \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
‘The hate needs to stop’: Daughter of man killed outside Toronto mosque speaks out<\/a><\/blockquote>