Free Speech will prevail

2 min read

Deviation Actions

Aristodes's avatar
By
Published:
446 Views
The Paris attacks are yet another in a long line of stupid, cowardly, and ultimately futile attacks. New York, Arlington, London, Madrid, Amsterdam, Mumbai, Ottawa, Brussels, Sydney, and now Paris.

Nothing they can do will make the West give in. Nothing will stop the satire, or cartoons of Mohammed, or anything else they have trouble with. Truthfully, Islam is going in reverse while the West goes forward. All the terrorist attacks ever will do nothing to slow, halt, or reverse this trend.

The attackers did this not because they or their views are winning, but because they are losing. Winners don't resort to underhanded tactics. Losers do. It's like sports: those who can win fairly would not think to cheat, but losers think they can win by cheating. Attacking civilians who didn't do anything illegal or even really wrong don't deserve this.

Seriously, if someone takes offense at a stupid cartoon, they should speak out against it. If that doesn't work, they have to live with it. If anything, this attack was counterproductive. Before, no one outside of France had heard of that magazine, now everyone does. All this did was to anger a lot of people in really powerful, rich countries. France in particular has a good track record of intervening in Islamic countries recently. Just look at the successful French intervention in Mali not too long ago. For once, angering France was a big mistake.

Bottom line is, there is no scenario in which the terrorists can win. At best for them, the West will do nothing and nothing will change for us. At worst, we will intervene in Yemen, Syria, possibly Iraq again, this time with the blessings of the UN.

P.S. Seriously, this is getting absurd. Cartoonists murdered for silly little drawings, girls kidnapped and enslaved, attempted genocide against religious minorities... and these terrorists act like they are the victims of wrongdoing?!
© 2015 - 2024 Aristodes
Comments23
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
namezong's avatar
"Winners don't resort to underhanded tactics. Losers do."
Now that's a piece of satire right there. US must have been loosing when they nuked 2 jap civilian cities.