The heading of this article is basically the same message on most of the national newspapers. But rather than reacting as a prop in another man’s property of the mind, lets just think a bit.
What happened to irony? Here we are ready to say who was wrong, who was right and judge what the world is becoming without first thinking about the interrelationship between two things. I see extremes, but I also see that we are so desperate to fit in that we are willing to compromise our own honest thoughts just to parrot the majority.
What would your headline read? Today the ego weighs in slightly heavier than the total mind. Subconsciously one would, by the media’s moral metre, think that this tragedy is part of the sick Muslim mind that is responsible for our poor world but with some old school impervious thought a different scene is drawn from the conscious mind. Yes, to take the life of a thing, be it animal, plant or other, is never just unless used for direct sustenance. By that I mean you’d better have been hungry and ate every limb.
I’m remembering the law of necessity where, in some cases, a man can be excused for even devouring another man if he is stranded, facing starvation and the man is clearly poorly to the point of deterioration. But to kill out of vengeance, greed, personal gain or to make a headline is…well I wont be ignorant enough to call it wrong but…inappropriate, destructive and mostly karmic.
In today’s world there are two types of people: the numb extremist and the sensitive pacifist (a french word). The numb extremist has an idea about a thing and is so sure that it has the same meaning and benefit for everybody that they must, by any means, force the world to recognise and agree. The sensitive pacifist may have a belief but they may feel it to be a personal one, all they know is it works for them and they will not force the issue because in the forefront of their mind is convenience for all.
With that said, let us now examine the result and cause. Apparently you may agree that there are a majority of religious people who took upon themselves a belief that the champion of their faith and prophet should not be depicted in images. They freely chose to abide by this and are happy with the reasons that they have been given. Right, wrong? Doesn’t matter at this point. However, among these are a minority who believe that if any such beliefs that they have are mocked or contradicted they should resort to violence to protect it.
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You also have a majority of religious and non-religious people who, contrarily, do believe that people of high esteem should be honoured and displayed and they have chosen, in their personal capacity, to depict who and whatever they wish in whatever manner. Not a problem with that. Among those are a minority of people who believe that freedom of speech is essential to the direction they see the world going and feel, regardless of what anybody else feels and who may be offended, they will not only display their channel of consecration but also add a comedic element to it. IN this exaple know that extremism happens when people go to extended lengths to force what they feel they know to be right without a care or thought of the consequences. It’s absolute selfishness but it is not the spawn of religion alone. It’s when the power of influence can be unleashed by an organised body with an agenda that it becomes problematic.
With power, that monster comes to the surface. We may know not why people go to such extremes to get a message out whether by guns or words and we may worry about the mind of the creator of such chaos but one thing we do know is that extremes can hide in the most unsuspecting places, even more so when you have the power to tell the story. I believe that democracy, as a word from the lips, departed from the purity of the mind long ago and has now joined the ranks of other world issues and extremism. One day when people have less fear and more love of self to say what is true, regardless of steak, they will kindly ask democracy to remove his hat and not be at all surprised to see yet another religion.
So before you read the next headline as they become more extreme and targeted, know that there are people who will stop at nothing to get their point across, changing our course and nature and then there’s us, those who say ‘do as you wish just leave us out of it.’
By Angel Lewis
RIP ALL casualties of this pointless unnecessary war of beliefs.
Urban Dandy London 
