(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Charlie Hebdo:
Viewpoint of anti-racist activist (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Alternative libertarian activist wanted to express criticism of the killing of treatment
with Charlie Hebdo published in the February issue of Alternative libertarian. ---- After
a statement denouncing the killings in Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Hide, Libertarian
Alternative offers 247 pages 2 and 3 a pertinent analysis of the situation, after the
great carnival of 11 January. He denounces fanaticism, political manipulation recovery
under the banner of hackneyed national unity, the foreseeable consequences against Muslim
working people or supposed to be, the international context, avoiding the pitfall of "
Islamo-leftist "remembering to remember one of the foundations of the libertarian
communist movement against all religions.
But the tour page, landing is painful. The article "Solidarity despite the sacred union"
grist to the mill grinders freedom to regain the majority camp leftists (and less leftist)
for which the mockery of Islam is a racist act because allegedly the religion of the
oppressed.
"United"? But with whom? Not with the newspaper staff anyway. It seems that there is an
urgent need to get out in case of fools readers may have thought that Charlie Hebdo was a
Libertarian Alternative appendix. And recall editorials Philippe Val, her positions at
least questionable support for NATO in Kosovo... His departure would be "allowed to air
the newspaper" a comment that, in addition to brew wind makes it possible to silence the
ignorance of the contents of this newspaper in recent years.
So why spend a third section to distance, to align the references to vicious criticism of
the newspaper if it is better to get the idea that "they would not have stolen"? The
satire of Islam would have "left a bitter taste in antiracist readership": thank you for
all those who have not had the same perception and find themselves branded as racists.
Every religion is oppressive
Yes, the position is not easy to hold in the anti-racist struggle, but do we need a
handkerchief over our anti-religious convictions so far? Criticize shameless caricatures
of Islam which are the origin of the execution of the designers will undoubtedly
incorporate large unit without conflict antiracist movements - crossed themselves by
associations to religiosity thinly veiled (or not, it depends) - but reflects neither
dignity nor courage which are essential to defend a flagship constituent value of our
movement: all religion is oppressive.
To counterbalance this little treacherous history of wanderings of Charlie Hebdo, it is
recalled that "the authors continued to support social struggles". Too bad that the
tribute is less developed than criticism, especially as their commitments precisely on the
defenses of foreigners, with or without papers, with or without a job, with or without a
roof. Their designs were actually looted blithely by many trade publications, political or
associative, and it turns out that, ironically, the criticizers are also often the looters...
Chloe (AL 93) ANSWER: The views expressed here only of the author. The team of Alternative
libertarian does not agree. Anxious pluralism, we nevertheless agreed to publish it.
However, we must deny at least the implication that the offending article suggest that the
deaths of Charlie Hebdo "would have for it". The article on the contrary was made in the
interests of balance, condemning the killing without falling into a circumstance
unanimity. We invite readers to read the article and make up their own minds.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Charlie-Hebdo-Point-de-vue-d-une
