we all are one

Good morning to you;

I was reading this text this morning in the French magasine « Marianne » (this magazine is currently helping the survavors of Charlie Hebdo to work by welcoming them in their offices in Paris.

This, in my opinion is a fundamental text.

http://m.marianne.net/Lettre-ouverte-au-monde-musulman_a241765.html

When your child has become a murderer, you do have to question what happened.

You have to, because you were their first role models

You have to to, because if you do not face what does not work well (and here, this is an euphemism !) you can never change it ! And we have to change something there.
In the long term.

In the name of what should we stop our thoughts from

questioning what does not work wth what humans have done with Islam ? !

questioning what is wrong with what humans have done with Catholism ?

questioning what is wrong with what humans have done with Judaism ?

In the name of what should we stop our thoughts from questioning any dogma ? ? ?

By the way, that was right the work of the guys who were working in Charie Hebdo.

I feel those who are afraid of that essential questioning are giving more weapons for the wars to continue.

In the French frame, I do believe we also have to take into account history. The way the political world and also the civilian society manages the Arabic / Barbarian population of North Africa, as much as the way they have for any population from the previous colony give us points of explanation of what happened this week in Paris.

You simply have to read newspapers of  around 1950/1965, check the French social classes pyramid;  talk to French families who have an Arabic origin, those who do nat have an Arabic origin. . .

That will also give you a huge amount of clear explanation.

Do you remember one day when you have been ridiculed, rejected only because you were you ?

The answer that comes from that is hate, anger, revenge …

This is one of multiple explanations as you also have to go deeper into one’s very personal life…

And whatever the explanations, we need to face them and refuse their consequences.

Saying this reality out loud does not mean we have to accept the consequences.

We have to refuse the Talion law or we will go nowhere !

The Talion law to me is the equivalent of those of the little kid : “you did this to me, I’ll do you the same !”

This logics leads absolutely nowhere but more agressivity.

This is you change my muslim sisters and brothers, to express what is right in your religion and what is wrong !

This is your change to show the world the beauty of Islam and                all the richness it can bring to our world.

Take it ! Do not be mislead by your own suffering.

Be free and show us !

We want to know more the true message of your god.

Do that for us all, please.

It is urgent.

Violence and rejection lead to violence

Love and respect lead to love and respect.

PS. I am not a god believer. Religions and their gods are for me a cultural expression of something / someone that is somewhere in us, around us. Something, someone ? how could I know ? that is linking us all. We do all make the balance of our world. Us: animals, plants, cosmos.

I do believe that this Entity does respects us to highly that is allows us to make our mistake and sometimes, understand them and our limits.

We are responsible creatures for what we are creating.

If we knew the answer of a god / something / someone. That would give us THE answer .

That would stop us from developing our spirituality.

And stop us from developing our differences.

What a dry and sterile world we would have to live in !

I am happy I do not know…

And this belief of mine goes with the fact that I do respect those who belive in one or several gods.
One belief can accept others.
those for me are not antagonistic.