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The Quebec City Attack: Some Context
Posted By David Rand On 2017-02-05 @ 17:33 In | No Comments
2017-02-05, last modified 2017-02-06
Some context and background about the attack on a mosque in Quebec City on Sunday, January 29th 2017.
Sommaire en français Quelques informations pertinentes pour contextualiser l’attentat contre une mosquée de la ville de Québec, le dimanche 29 janvier 2017.
As you know, on January 29th 2017, a gunman went on a rampage in a Quebec City mosque, killing six and wounding several others. Here are a few details about this horrific attack and events before and after, gleaned from a variety of sources, details which may have gotten lost in the current highly charged political atmosphere.
The underlying problem is the confusion between an ideology, Islamism (a subset of Islam), and human beings of Muslim culture. Those who refuse to allow full criticism of the former by claiming that it offends the latter are contributing to the very confusion which they claim to oppose.
There is an old proverb which states that to understand is to forgive. This may apply to minor faults, but it certainly does not apply here. We may try to understand the motives of the killer, to explain his behaviour; however, no explanation, no motivation, whether political or other, can possibly justify or excuse this horrific act of mass murder. If Bissonnette thought that he was scoring a victory against Islamism, then in addition to being a contemptible mass-murderer he is also extremely stupid, because, by gunning down innocent Muslims, he has given Islamists a major propaganda victory, something they can exploit for their own ends, just as Donald Trump’s draconian U.S. travel ban on Muslims from some countries also played into the Islamists’ hands.
The lone perpetrator is to blame for this massacre; he alone has blood on his hands. However, there are others to whom lesser blame must be assigned, others who are responsible for creating an atmosphere which made such an attack more likely to occur, which facilitated such an atrocity. And there are others who are completely innocent but have been unfairly targeted.
It took a very short time for the unscrupulous to begin exploiting this tragedy for political ends. Slanderous and hateful comments have been made, condemning secularists and the Québécois in general. The antisecular regressive left (i.e. false left) and cultural relativists were already overbearingly arrogant; this tragedy has only emboldened them, making matters even worse. The underlying problem is the confusion between an ideology, Islamism (a subset of Islam), and human beings of Muslim culture. Those who refuse to allow full criticism of the former by claiming that it offends the latter are contributing to the very confusion which they claim to oppose.
By failing to take aim at the tremendous harm which religions cause, the fake left betrays human rights and drives more and more people towards the far right of the political spectrum where such criticism is contaminated with bigotry and anything but rigorous.
Now, more than ever, rigorous criticism of religion, including Islam, is crucial. By failing to take aim at the tremendous harm which religions cause, the fake left betrays human rights and drives more and more people towards the far right of the political spectrum where such criticism is contaminated with bigotry and anything but rigorous.
It does not take telepathic powers to recognize that this massacre was a form of revenge for Islamist terrorist events. By falsely blaming Québécois in general and by remaining complacent with respect to Islamism, our incompetent political leaders have virtually guaranteed that the cycle will continue unbroken. Islamists are now emboldened and will seek revenge, then another anti-Muslim fanatic will seek revenge for that, and so on, and so on. The future looks very bleak indeed.
I will be exploring some of these issues in future blogs. Unfortunately, I have a lot of material at hand.
Next blog: Charles Taylor est-il compromis avec le Prix Templeton ? [13]
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[1] Of Pigs and Prayer: https://blog.davidrand.ca/of-pigs-and-prayer/
[2] Des accusations de terrorisme peu probables selon des experts: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/attentat-a-quebec/201702/01/01-5065366-des-accusations-de-terrorisme-peu-probables-selon-des-experts.php
[3] Interrogatoire du prévenu: le climat politique américain évoqué: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/attentat-a-quebec/201702/01/01-5065130-interrogatoire-du-prevenu-le-climat-politique-americain-evoque.php
[4] 2016 Ouagadougou attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Ouagadougou_attacks
[5] 2012 Montreal shooting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Montreal_shooting
[6] Attentat terroriste de Québec VOIR LES ÉLÉPHANTS DANS LA PIÈCE: http://www.etre.net/attentat-terroriste-de-quebec-voir-les-elephants-dans-la-piece/
[7] Y a-t-il une Viola Desmond dans la salle?: http://www.etre.net/y-a-t-il-une-viola-desmond-dans-la-salle/
[8] La langue Kabyle indésirable à l’hommage aux victimes de l’attentat du Québec: http://kabylie-news.observalgerie.com/actualite/video-scandale-la-langue-kabyle-indesirable-a-lhommage-aux-victimes-de-lattentat-du-quebec/
[9] Le pouvoir colonial algérien exploite les dépouilles des deux Kabyles assassinés à Québec: http://archives.siwel.info/Le-pouvoir-colonial-algerien-exploite-les-depouilles-des-deux-Kabyles-assassines-a-Quebec_a10497.html
[10] Puisqu’il faut un coupable: http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2017/02/03/puisquil-faut--un-coupable
[11] Les musulmans n’ont pas besoin de notre auto-flagellation: http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/francois-doyon/tuerie-de-quebec-attention-aux-amalgames_b_14579242.html
[12] Face au drame, la mise en accusation d’un peuple: http://kabyleuniversel.com/2017/02/04/face-au-drame-la-mise-en-accusation-dun-peuple/
[13] Charles Taylor est-il compromis avec le Prix Templeton ?: https://blog.davidrand.ca/charles-taylor-compromis-templeton/
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